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 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 159 142
Rank change year-on-year +82 -17 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,092 944 1,328
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.20% 2.16% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 2.42% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 666 941
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,875 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,125 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 70,019 38,976 58,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.51% 89.20% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 49,558 22,475 37,906
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 August 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 August 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 +28 917 £90,000 +2.86% 214
North of England +99 451 £70,000 - 156
South East +67 252 £67,500 -12.90% 148
North West +83 250 £72,500 +3.57% 86
South West +44 225 £75,000 - 94
Midlands +36 147 £75,000 +15.38% 42
Yorkshire +7 105 £72,500 +3.57% 42
North East +18 96 £58,250 -19.66% 29
West Midlands +9 90 £81,887 +26.47% 24
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 18
East of England +6 57 £67,500 +3.85% 14
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 53 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.44%) Apache
2 51 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.34%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.43%) IIS
6 9 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.29%) CMS
8 4 (0.19%) Camunda
8 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.048%) Documentum
11 1 (0.048%) JBoss
11 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.096%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.048%) Maya
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,203 (57.50%) AWS
2 1,106 (52.87%) Azure
3 390 (18.64%) GCP
4 362 (17.30%) GitHub
5 348 (16.63%) Serverless
6 329 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 286 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
8 197 (9.42%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (8.84%) Amazon S3
10 181 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
11 157 (7.50%) PaaS
12 138 (6.60%) Amazon EC2
13 125 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
14 122 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (5.74%) Azure AKS
16 119 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
17 117 (5.59%) SaaS
18 110 (5.26%) IaaS
19 108 (5.16%) Entra ID
20 102 (4.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 164 (7.84%) Firewall
2 111 (5.31%) DNS
3 108 (5.16%) VPN
4 98 (4.68%) Network Security
5 61 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 58 (2.77%) WAN
7 52 (2.49%) BGP
8 47 (2.25%) Broadband
9 45 (2.15%) DHCP
10 39 (1.86%) LAN
11 36 (1.72%) OSPF
12 33 (1.58%) VLAN
13 27 (1.29%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.72%) Wireless
17 14 (0.67%) HTTP
17 14 (0.67%) SAN
18 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
19 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (6.55%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.45%) MongoDB
4 89 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
5 78 (3.73%) DynamoDB
5 78 (3.73%) SQL Server
6 59 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 55 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.39%) MySQL
9 49 (2.34%) Metadata
10 47 (2.25%) Relational Database
11 42 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (1.39%) Delta Lake
12 29 (1.39%) Redis
13 28 (1.34%) Big Data
13 28 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.15%) Power BI
16 22 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 285 (13.62%) Git
2 270 (12.91%) GitLab
3 227 (10.85%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.53%) JIRA
5 45 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.43%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.96%) Selenium
10 19 (0.91%) CircleCI
11 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
12 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
13 15 (0.72%) NUnit
14 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.53%) Maven
15 11 (0.53%) MLflow
16 9 (0.43%) MSI
16 9 (0.43%) Snyk
17 8 (0.38%) JMeter
17 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 540 (25.81%) Social Skills
2 432 (20.65%) Finance
3 184 (8.80%) Public Sector
4 164 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 115 (5.50%) Banking
6 108 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.59%) Law
8 57 (2.72%) Retail
9 50 (2.39%) Aerospace
10 47 (2.25%) Games
11 36 (1.72%) Marketing
12 30 (1.43%) Legal
12 30 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.29%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.81%) Aviation
15 17 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.76%) Advertising
16 16 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 501 (23.95%) Senior
2 368 (17.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 279 (13.34%) Lead
4 273 (13.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 231 (11.04%) Architect
6 218 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
7 180 (8.60%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.37%) Developer
9 135 (6.45%) Software Engineer
10 129 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
11 128 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 118 (5.64%) Data Engineer
13 110 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
14 96 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 84 (4.02%) Security Engineer
16 75 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
19 68 (3.25%) Senior Developer
20 65 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,452 (69.41%) Terraform
2 169 (8.08%) .NET
3 162 (7.74%) React
4 155 (7.41%) Kafka
5 138 (6.60%) REST
6 127 (6.07%) RESTful
7 125 (5.98%) Spring
8 123 (5.88%) Node.js
9 117 (5.59%) Spring Boot
10 72 (3.44%) PySpark
11 69 (3.30%) YAML
12 68 (3.25%) ARM Templates
13 62 (2.96%) AWS CDK
14 52 (2.49%) AngularJS
15 48 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (2.15%) OAuth
17 44 (2.10%) ASP.NET
17 44 (2.10%) Next.js
17 44 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.96%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 617 (29.49%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 121 (5.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 111 (5.31%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.82%) Product Ownership
8 56 (2.68%) Security Posture
9 55 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
12 43 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
14 36 (1.72%) Low-Code
14 36 (1.72%) Private Cloud
15 32 (1.53%) e-Learning
15 32 (1.53%) PKI
15 32 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.43%) AI Agents
17 27 (1.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 360 (17.21%) Linux
2 209 (9.99%) Windows
3 97 (4.64%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.72%) CentOS
5 42 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.29%) Unix
8 22 (1.05%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Android
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,487 (71.08%) CI/CD
2 1,156 (55.26%) DevOps
3 586 (28.01%) Containerisation
4 576 (27.53%) Agile
5 547 (26.15%) Observability
6 507 (24.24%) Platform Engineering
7 465 (22.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 456 (21.80%) AI
9 442 (21.13%) Mentoring
10 404 (19.31%) Software Engineering
11 367 (17.54%) Microservices
12 365 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
13 356 (17.02%) Test Automation
14 332 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
15 320 (15.30%) Cloud Security
16 283 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 248 (11.85%) Roadmaps
18 236 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 234 (11.19%) Analytics
20 229 (10.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 938 (44.84%) Python
2 348 (16.63%) SQL
3 344 (16.44%) Bash
4 319 (15.25%) PowerShell
5 306 (14.63%) Java
6 210 (10.04%) Bicep
7 184 (8.80%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.51%) C#
9 152 (7.27%) JavaScript
10 151 (7.22%) Go
11 40 (1.91%) Scala
12 36 (1.72%) PHP
13 26 (1.24%) Ruby
13 26 (1.24%) Rust
14 23 (1.10%) Groovy
14 23 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.00%) Perl
16 17 (0.81%) C++
17 12 (0.57%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 517 (24.71%) Security Cleared
2 328 (15.68%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.94%) Degree
3 187 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 170 (8.13%) AWS Certification
5 141 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 89 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 71 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 53 (2.53%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (1.67%) CCNP
11 29 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 29 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.00%) CISSP
13 19 (0.91%) CCNA
14 18 (0.86%) OSCP
15 17 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
16 15 (0.72%) SnowPro
17 14 (0.67%) CCIE
18 13 (0.62%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.92%) QA
2 99 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.11%) GDPR
4 54 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.63%) NIST
6 33 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 32 (1.53%) SOC 2
8 25 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.00%) SLA
10 19 (0.91%) NCSC
11 16 (0.76%) WCAG
12 13 (0.62%) GRC
13 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.096%) IFRS
16 2 (0.096%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.096%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 560 (26.77%) Docker
2 132 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (6.17%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.15%) vSphere
5 37 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 22 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
11 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.24%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.096%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 806 (38.53%) Kubernetes
2 452 (21.61%) Ansible
3 206 (9.85%) Grafana
4 142 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 64 (3.06%) Argo
6 55 (2.63%) Puppet
7 35 (1.67%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
10 30 (1.43%) Istio
11 25 (1.20%) Packer
12 19 (0.91%) Nagios
13 18 (0.86%) FortiGate
14 17 (0.81%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.67%) Cilium
16 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.53%) Rancher
18 10 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 434 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.70%) VMware
3 116 (5.54%) Google
4 97 (4.64%) Databricks
5 80 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.49%) Splunk
7 71 (3.39%) Cisco
8 55 (2.63%) Oracle
9 46 (2.20%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.86%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.82%) OpenAI
12 35 (1.67%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.20%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.10%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.72%) SAP
16 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.57%) F5
17 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.53%) New Relic