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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 147 153
Rank change year-on-year +69 +6 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,980 961 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.17% 2.21% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% 2.46% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,373 658 1,022
10th Percentile £48,750 £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 £91,250 £95,938 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 67,388 39,043 61,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.82% 89.74% 81.57%
Number of salaries quoted 47,625 22,552 42,071
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,920 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +1.67% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +26 897 £90,000 - 550
North of England +92 401 £70,400 +0.57% 218
South East +54 245 £67,500 -12.90% 140
North West +92 232 £74,651 +6.64% 118
South West +46 199 £75,000 - 97
Midlands +30 141 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire +7 95 £73,750 +5.36% 61
West Midlands +20 86 £80,000 +23.08% 35
North East +12 74 £55,750 -17.41% 39
East Midlands +13 55 £67,500 +3.85% 15
East of England 0 50 £63,750 +2.00% 26
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 55 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (2.27%) Apache
2 45 (2.27%) Apache Spark
3 32 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.36%) Confluence
5 11 (0.56%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.45%) IIS
6 9 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.20%) CMS
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) Camunda
8 3 (0.15%) nginx
8 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (0.15%) WordPress
9 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.051%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.051%) Documentum
10 1 (0.051%) JBoss
10 1 (0.051%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.051%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.01%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.10%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.051%) Maya
6 1 (0.051%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.051%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.051%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.051%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,141 (57.63%) AWS
2 1,071 (54.09%) Azure
3 352 (17.78%) GCP
4 346 (17.47%) GitHub
4 346 (17.47%) Serverless
5 307 (15.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 292 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
7 195 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
8 182 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 180 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (8.23%) PaaS
11 134 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
12 121 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 120 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (5.91%) SaaS
15 113 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
15 113 (5.71%) IaaS
16 107 (5.40%) Azure AKS
16 107 (5.40%) Entra ID
17 90 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.43%) Firewall
2 104 (5.25%) VPN
3 103 (5.20%) DNS
4 99 (5.00%) Network Security
5 64 (3.23%) TCP/IP
6 60 (3.03%) WAN
7 51 (2.58%) Broadband
8 50 (2.53%) BGP
9 40 (2.02%) LAN
10 35 (1.77%) VLAN
11 34 (1.72%) DHCP
11 34 (1.72%) OSPF
12 26 (1.31%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 23 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
14 19 (0.96%) HTTP
15 14 (0.71%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.71%) Wireless
16 12 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
16 12 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 89 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 86 (4.34%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.48%) SQL Server
7 54 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.32%) Metadata
9 46 (2.32%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.12%) MySQL
11 36 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 27 (1.36%) Redis
13 26 (1.31%) Delta Lake
13 26 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (1.21%) Big Data
15 23 (1.16%) Power BI
16 22 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 20 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 273 (13.79%) GitLab
2 266 (13.43%) Git
3 228 (11.52%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.32%) JIRA
5 41 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 24 (1.21%) CircleCI
10 18 (0.91%) Claude Code
10 18 (0.91%) Selenium
11 14 (0.71%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.56%) NUnit
13 10 (0.51%) Maven
13 10 (0.51%) MLflow
14 9 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.45%) Subversion
15 8 (0.40%) JMeter
15 8 (0.40%) MSI
15 8 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 508 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 396 (20.00%) Finance
3 157 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.10%) Banking
6 87 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (3.28%) Law
8 58 (2.93%) Retail
9 45 (2.27%) Games
10 37 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 35 (1.77%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.31%) Marketing
14 21 (1.06%) Advertising
14 21 (1.06%) Legal
15 20 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.71%) Financial Institution
17 14 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (0.61%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 466 (23.54%) Senior
2 357 (18.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 269 (13.59%) Lead
4 264 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 213 (10.76%) Architect
6 203 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 180 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 169 (8.54%) Developer
9 126 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
10 113 (5.71%) Software Engineer
11 112 (5.66%) Data Engineer
12 109 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 98 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
14 90 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 83 (4.19%) Security Engineer
16 76 (3.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 67 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
19 62 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 61 (3.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (7.78%) React
2 153 (7.73%) .NET
3 144 (7.27%) Kafka
4 129 (6.52%) REST
5 115 (5.81%) Spring
6 113 (5.71%) Node.js
6 113 (5.71%) RESTful
7 108 (5.45%) Spring Boot
8 74 (3.74%) YAML
9 71 (3.59%) ARM Templates
10 69 (3.48%) PySpark
11 65 (3.28%) AWS CDK
12 54 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
13 45 (2.27%) Next.js
13 45 (2.27%) OAuth
14 44 (2.22%) AngularJS
15 43 (2.17%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (2.02%) ASP.NET
17 38 (1.92%) FastAPI
17 38 (1.92%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 564 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 206 (10.40%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 96 (4.85%) Public Cloud
5 83 (4.19%) Data Centre
6 60 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 58 (2.93%) Security Posture
8 53 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
9 46 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 45 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
11 44 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 40 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (1.82%) Low-Code
14 30 (1.52%) PKI
15 29 (1.46%) Private Cloud
16 28 (1.41%) e-Learning
17 26 (1.31%) Virtual Team
18 24 (1.21%) AI Agents
19 23 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 345 (17.42%) Linux
2 193 (9.75%) Windows
3 89 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.73%) CentOS
5 41 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.02%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.36%) Unix
8 23 (1.16%) VMS
9 8 (0.40%) Android
10 7 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.25%) Debian
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.051%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.051%) Rocky
14 1 (0.051%) Solaris
14 1 (0.051%) SUSE
14 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,405 (70.96%) CI/CD
2 1,118 (56.46%) DevOps
3 548 (27.68%) Agile
4 544 (27.47%) Containerisation
5 519 (26.21%) Observability
6 464 (23.43%) Platform Engineering
7 435 (21.97%) AI
8 428 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 411 (20.76%) Mentoring
10 359 (18.13%) Software Engineering
11 341 (17.22%) Test Automation
12 339 (17.12%) Microservices
13 328 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
14 298 (15.05%) Technical Leadership
15 294 (14.85%) Cloud Security
16 248 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 235 (11.87%) Roadmaps
18 223 (11.26%) Analytics
19 217 (10.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 212 (10.71%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 893 (45.10%) Python
2 335 (16.92%) SQL
3 328 (16.57%) Bash
4 304 (15.35%) PowerShell
5 276 (13.94%) Java
6 202 (10.20%) Bicep
7 175 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 167 (8.43%) C#
9 157 (7.93%) Go
10 153 (7.73%) JavaScript
11 37 (1.87%) PHP
12 31 (1.57%) Scala
13 26 (1.31%) Rust
14 24 (1.21%) Ruby
15 21 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.06%) Perl
16 20 (1.01%) Groovy
17 17 (0.86%) C++
18 11 (0.56%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 455 (22.98%) Security Cleared
2 285 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.79%) Degree
4 158 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 144 (7.27%) AWS Certification
6 125 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 76 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (3.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.67%) CCNP
12 27 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.11%) CISSP
13 22 (1.11%) OSCP
14 18 (0.91%) CCNA
15 14 (0.71%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.66%) CCIE
17 12 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (4.95%) QA
2 90 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.13%) GDPR
4 50 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.77%) SOC 2
6 34 (1.72%) NIST
7 29 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.41%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.81%) WCAG
10 13 (0.66%) GRC
10 13 (0.66%) NCSC
11 12 (0.61%) SLA
12 9 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.051%) GxP
15 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 528 (26.67%) Docker
2 123 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (5.91%) Active Directory
4 44 (2.22%) vSphere
5 32 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.71%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.40%) KVM
10 8 (0.40%) Squid
11 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.30%) Firmware
13 5 (0.25%) iptables
14 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
15 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,379 (69.65%) Terraform
2 764 (38.59%) Kubernetes
3 418 (21.11%) Ansible
4 211 (10.66%) Grafana
5 158 (7.98%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.08%) Argo
7 43 (2.17%) Puppet
8 36 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 27 (1.36%) Istio
12 25 (1.26%) Packer
13 21 (1.06%) Nagios
14 16 (0.81%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.61%) Cilium
15 12 (0.61%) Rancher
15 12 (0.61%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 401 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 150 (7.58%) VMware
3 96 (4.85%) Google
4 86 (4.34%) Databricks
5 79 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 71 (3.59%) Splunk
7 69 (3.48%) Cisco
8 52 (2.63%) Palo Alto
9 44 (2.22%) Oracle
10 40 (2.02%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.72%) OpenAI
12 30 (1.52%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.31%) Zscaler
14 17 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.76%) F5
16 13 (0.66%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
17 12 (0.61%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.61%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.56%) SAP