Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in England

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 156 158
Rank change year-on-year +62 +2 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,538 862 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 2.20% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.35% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 609 1,209
10th Percentile £48,750 £49,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,622 36,670 71,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.76% 93.39% 84.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,997 20,119 53,763
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,410
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -10.10%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in England

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in England

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 770 £87,500 -2.78% 330
North of England +45 287 £67,249 -3.93% 158
South East +40 173 £70,000 -9.68% 179
North West +59 163 £72,250 -0.34% 84
South West -6 109 £70,000 - 84
Midlands +26 106 £69,000 -1.43% 31
Yorkshire -11 88 £65,576 +1.67% 39
West Midlands -17 56 £72,500 +3.57% 17
East Midlands +11 48 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +6 42 £60,100 -7.54% 44
North East -14 36 £50,000 -20.63% 35
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (2.93%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (2.08%) Apache
3 27 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.24%) Confluence
6 15 (0.98%) IIS
7 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.065%) Camunda
12 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.065%) nginx
12 1 (0.065%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.72%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 907 (58.97%) AWS
2 841 (54.68%) Azure
3 295 (19.18%) GitHub
4 289 (18.79%) Serverless
5 282 (18.34%) GCP
6 269 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
7 243 (15.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (13.00%) GitHub Actions
9 161 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (9.43%) Amazon S3
11 115 (7.48%) PaaS
12 111 (7.22%) Entra ID
13 106 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 104 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
15 100 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
16 94 (6.11%) Datadog
16 94 (6.11%) SaaS
17 91 (5.92%) IaaS
18 87 (5.66%) Azure AKS
19 83 (5.40%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.92%) Firewall
2 95 (6.18%) DNS
3 73 (4.75%) VPN
4 64 (4.16%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.77%) Broadband
6 48 (3.12%) Network Security
7 46 (2.99%) WAN
8 36 (2.34%) DHCP
9 32 (2.08%) BGP
10 26 (1.69%) LAN
11 22 (1.43%) HTTP
12 18 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.17%) VLAN
13 17 (1.11%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
14 14 (0.91%) OSPF
15 13 (0.85%) DSL
16 10 (0.65%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.59%) Internet
18 8 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.00%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (4.62%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.49%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.03%) SQL Server
7 48 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 48 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (2.02%) Metadata
10 25 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 21 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
11 21 (1.37%) MySQL
12 20 (1.30%) Power BI
13 18 (1.17%) Delta Lake
13 18 (1.17%) RDBMS
14 16 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.04%) Spark SQL
15 15 (0.98%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 221 (14.37%) GitLab
2 215 (13.98%) Jenkins
3 205 (13.33%) Git
4 37 (2.41%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.28%) Bitbucket
6 31 (2.02%) JIRA
7 29 (1.89%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.30%) Jaeger
9 14 (0.91%) Selenium
9 14 (0.91%) SonarQube
9 14 (0.91%) TeamCity
10 10 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (0.65%) MLflow
11 9 (0.59%) Maven
11 9 (0.59%) Subversion
12 8 (0.52%) JMeter
12 8 (0.52%) Robot Framework
12 8 (0.52%) Storybook
13 7 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 389 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 299 (19.44%) Finance
3 110 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (6.18%) Public Sector
5 93 (6.05%) Banking
6 58 (3.77%) Retail
7 57 (3.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (3.06%) Law
8 47 (3.06%) Telecoms
9 36 (2.34%) Games
10 30 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.50%) Aerospace
12 18 (1.17%) Advertising
12 18 (1.17%) Billing
12 18 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (1.17%) Marketing
13 17 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.04%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.78%) Electronics
15 12 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 344 (22.37%) Senior
2 247 (16.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 240 (15.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 210 (13.65%) Lead
5 154 (10.01%) Azure Engineer
5 154 (10.01%) Platform Engineer
6 139 (9.04%) Architect
7 135 (8.78%) Developer
8 113 (7.35%) AWS Engineer
9 109 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 85 (5.53%) Data Engineer
10 85 (5.53%) Software Engineer
11 72 (4.68%) Security Engineer
12 67 (4.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 65 (4.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 59 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
15 54 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
16 49 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.19%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 47 (3.06%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (8.39%) React
2 110 (7.15%) Kafka
3 109 (7.09%) .NET
4 102 (6.63%) Node.js
5 92 (5.98%) REST
5 92 (5.98%) RESTful
6 73 (4.75%) YAML
7 69 (4.49%) Spring
8 65 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
9 63 (4.10%) AWS CDK
10 62 (4.03%) Spring Boot
11 53 (3.45%) ARM Templates
12 50 (3.25%) PySpark
13 47 (3.06%) OAuth
14 44 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (2.54%) ASP.NET
16 37 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
17 33 (2.15%) JSON
18 31 (2.02%) Next.js
19 30 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 367 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.25%) Security Posture
7 49 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 47 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (2.28%) Video\Live Streaming
10 33 (2.15%) Onboarding
11 28 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (1.76%) Low-Code
13 25 (1.63%) Blockchain
14 23 (1.50%) Web3
15 22 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
15 22 (1.43%) PKI
16 21 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
18 19 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.24%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 315 (20.48%) Linux
2 155 (10.08%) Windows
3 76 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.12%) Unix
5 40 (2.60%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.89%) CentOS
7 25 (1.63%) VMS
8 24 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.72%) Android
10 10 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.46%) Debian
11 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE
14 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.065%) Rocky
15 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,059 (68.86%) CI/CD
2 897 (58.32%) DevOps
3 414 (26.92%) Containerisation
4 410 (26.66%) Agile
5 388 (25.23%) Observability
6 316 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 312 (20.29%) Platform Engineering
8 305 (19.83%) Mentoring
9 283 (18.40%) AI
10 275 (17.88%) Test Automation
11 246 (15.99%) Microservices
12 233 (15.15%) Software Engineering
13 229 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
14 204 (13.26%) Cloud Security
15 203 (13.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 186 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
17 181 (11.77%) Analytics
18 175 (11.38%) High Availability
19 164 (10.66%) DevSecOps
20 145 (9.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 704 (45.77%) Python
2 289 (18.79%) Bash
3 252 (16.38%) PowerShell
4 246 (15.99%) SQL
5 199 (12.94%) Java
6 167 (10.86%) Go
7 137 (8.91%) TypeScript
8 135 (8.78%) JavaScript
9 125 (8.13%) Bicep
10 107 (6.96%) C#
11 29 (1.89%) Rust
12 22 (1.43%) C++
12 22 (1.43%) Scala
13 15 (0.98%) Groovy
13 15 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.91%) PHP
15 13 (0.85%) C
16 9 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.52%) Ruby
18 7 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 278 (18.08%) Security Cleared
2 184 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.69%) Degree
4 122 (7.93%) AWS Certification
5 86 (5.59%) Azure Certification
6 82 (5.33%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.82%) OSCP
11 21 (1.37%) CISSP
12 16 (1.04%) CCNP
13 15 (0.98%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.85%) CCNA
16 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
17 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.88%) QA
2 59 (3.84%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.58%) GDPR
4 47 (3.06%) SOC 2
5 46 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.08%) NIST
7 30 (1.95%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.50%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.72%) WCAG
10 7 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 5 (0.33%) SLA
13 4 (0.26%) NCSC
13 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 430 (27.96%) Docker
2 104 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 81 (5.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (1.95%) vSphere
6 20 (1.30%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.46%) iptables
9 6 (0.39%) Firmware
9 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.39%) Squid
9 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.26%) KVM
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,076 (69.96%) Terraform
2 607 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 341 (22.17%) Ansible
4 194 (12.61%) Grafana
5 190 (12.35%) Prometheus
6 57 (3.71%) Argo
7 37 (2.41%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.21%) Puppet
8 34 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.50%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.43%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.11%) Nagios
12 16 (1.04%) Rancher
13 15 (0.98%) Istio
13 15 (0.98%) Packer
14 10 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.65%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.65%) ZABBIX
15 8 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 283 (18.40%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.61%) VMware
3 94 (6.11%) Google
4 70 (4.55%) Databricks
5 65 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.58%) Cisco
7 46 (2.99%) Palo Alto
7 46 (2.99%) Splunk
8 24 (1.56%) Zscaler
9 22 (1.43%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.37%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 19 (1.24%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (1.24%) Oracle
13 12 (0.78%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.78%) F5
14 11 (0.72%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.72%) Juniper
15 10 (0.65%) SolarWinds