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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 138 158
Rank change year-on-year +32 +20 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,363 861 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 2.32% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.49% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 916 631 1,219
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

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 58,111 34,588 70,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.51% 93.07% 85.92%
Number of salaries quoted 36,574 20,539 53,747
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.51%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +45 685 £85,000 -5.56% 280
North of England -3 261 £67,500 - 146
South East -5 143 £70,000 -6.67% 121
North West +2 133 £74,051 +2.14% 78
South West -13 104 £63,950 -11.17% 83
Yorkshire -29 96 £65,000 +8.33% 42
Midlands +4 83 £67,500 -3.57% 45
East Midlands -16 42 £67,750 +4.23% 12
West Midlands -17 39 £67,500 -3.57% 33
East of England -13 35 £62,500 -9.09% 39
North East -12 32 £48,445 -15.75% 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 46 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.49%) Apache
3 26 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.17%) Confluence
5 16 (1.17%) IIS
6 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.073%) Camunda
9 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 846 (62.07%) AWS
2 744 (54.59%) Azure
3 295 (21.64%) GCP
4 279 (20.47%) GitHub
5 264 (19.37%) Serverless
6 255 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (16.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (14.38%) GitHub Actions
9 151 (11.08%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (9.61%) Amazon S3
11 109 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (7.56%) PaaS
13 101 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 100 (7.34%) Entra ID
15 98 (7.19%) Datadog
15 98 (7.19%) SaaS
16 82 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.43%) IaaS
18 70 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (4.92%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 171 (12.55%) Firewall
2 88 (6.46%) DNS
3 75 (5.50%) VPN
4 72 (5.28%) TCP/IP
5 45 (3.30%) WAN
6 42 (3.08%) Network Security
7 38 (2.79%) Broadband
8 33 (2.42%) DHCP
9 26 (1.91%) LAN
10 25 (1.83%) HTTP
11 23 (1.69%) BGP
12 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.17%) VLAN
13 14 (1.03%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.95%) DSL
15 12 (0.88%) Internet
16 11 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.59%) Wireless
18 6 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.29%) NoSQL
2 94 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 61 (4.48%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.52%) MongoDB
7 41 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 41 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (1.91%) MySQL
11 24 (1.76%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.69%) Metadata
12 23 (1.69%) Power BI
13 22 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.39%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.32%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.32%) Redis
16 17 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 203 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 188 (13.79%) GitLab
3 184 (13.50%) Git
4 36 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.49%) JIRA
6 32 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.76%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.54%) Jaeger
8 21 (1.54%) Selenium
9 16 (1.17%) Robot Framework
10 15 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.03%) MLflow
11 14 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.95%) JMeter
13 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.73%) Subversion
15 9 (0.66%) Locust
15 9 (0.66%) Vite
16 8 (0.59%) Storybook
17 7 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 371 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 291 (21.35%) Finance
3 120 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.12%) Banking
5 79 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 69 (5.06%) Retail
7 64 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (4.55%) Law
9 57 (4.18%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.13%) Financial Institution
11 25 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.61%) Back Office
13 22 (1.61%) Marketing
14 21 (1.54%) Billing
14 21 (1.54%) Games
15 20 (1.47%) Advertising
16 15 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.10%) Electronics
17 14 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 300 (22.01%) Senior
2 220 (16.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 216 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 190 (13.94%) Lead
5 130 (9.54%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (8.80%) Developer
7 112 (8.22%) Architect
7 112 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
8 107 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
9 106 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 71 (5.21%) Software Engineer
11 68 (4.99%) Data Engineer
12 65 (4.77%) Security Engineer
13 57 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 54 (3.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 49 (3.60%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 48 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 45 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 41 (3.01%) Python Engineer
19 39 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (9.32%) React
2 94 (6.90%) Node.js
3 89 (6.53%) .NET
4 80 (5.87%) Kafka
4 80 (5.87%) RESTful
5 76 (5.58%) REST
6 75 (5.50%) Elastic Stack
7 63 (4.62%) Spring
8 62 (4.55%) AWS CDK
9 58 (4.26%) YAML
10 55 (4.04%) Spring Boot
11 48 (3.52%) ARM Templates
12 42 (3.08%) OAuth
13 41 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (2.64%) FastAPI
14 36 (2.64%) PySpark
15 33 (2.42%) Django
16 31 (2.27%) CSS
16 31 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (2.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 318 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 73 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.18%) Security Posture
5 56 (4.11%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.30%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.27%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.69%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.54%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.39%) Web3
14 18 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 299 (21.94%) Linux
2 155 (11.37%) Windows
3 63 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.40%) Unix
5 34 (2.49%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.13%) VMS
7 24 (1.76%) CentOS
7 24 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.95%) Android
9 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.59%) Debian
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.073%) Rocky
14 1 (0.073%) Solaris
14 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (66.91%) CI/CD
2 825 (60.53%) DevOps
3 396 (29.05%) Containerisation
4 372 (27.29%) Agile
5 338 (24.80%) Observability
6 294 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 254 (18.64%) Mentoring
8 244 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
9 225 (16.51%) Platform Engineering
10 216 (15.85%) Test Automation
11 213 (15.63%) AI
12 203 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 200 (14.67%) Microservices
14 199 (14.60%) Software Engineering
15 189 (13.87%) Cloud Security
16 165 (12.11%) Analytics
17 153 (11.23%) DevSecOps
17 153 (11.23%) High Availability
18 141 (10.34%) Incident Response
19 140 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 629 (46.15%) Python
2 274 (20.10%) Bash
3 226 (16.58%) SQL
4 223 (16.36%) PowerShell
5 187 (13.72%) Java
6 155 (11.37%) Go
7 126 (9.24%) Bicep
7 126 (9.24%) JavaScript
8 116 (8.51%) TypeScript
9 74 (5.43%) C#
10 22 (1.61%) C++
11 21 (1.54%) Rust
12 20 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
13 18 (1.32%) Scala
14 12 (0.88%) C
15 11 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.66%) Ruby
17 8 (0.59%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 239 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 146 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 131 (9.61%) Degree
4 115 (8.44%) AWS Certification
5 90 (6.60%) DV Cleared
6 76 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 56 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.35%) OSCP
9 29 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.05%) CISSP
11 20 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.95%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.88%) DBS Check
15 11 (0.81%) CCNP
15 11 (0.81%) CCSK
16 10 (0.73%) CCNA
16 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.84%) QA
2 58 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.11%) GDPR
3 56 (4.11%) SOC 2
4 52 (3.82%) Data Quality
5 42 (3.08%) NIST
6 41 (3.01%) PCI DSS
7 27 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.88%) WCAG
9 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.66%) GRC
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 427 (31.33%) Docker
2 94 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 70 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.76%) vSphere
6 19 (1.39%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.25%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 6 (0.44%) iptables
9 6 (0.44%) KVM
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) Squid
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.15%) GPFS
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
12 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.073%) vCloud
13 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 963 (70.65%) Terraform
2 564 (41.38%) Kubernetes
3 328 (24.06%) Ansible
4 191 (14.01%) Grafana
5 186 (13.65%) Prometheus
6 53 (3.89%) Argo
7 35 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.98%) Puppet
10 21 (1.54%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.25%) Rancher
12 14 (1.03%) Nagios
12 14 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.88%) Istio
14 11 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.73%) Packer
16 9 (0.66%) Cilium
17 8 (0.59%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 234 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.78%) VMware
3 104 (7.63%) Google
4 59 (4.33%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.11%) Databricks
6 49 (3.60%) Cisco
7 46 (3.37%) Splunk
8 38 (2.79%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.69%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.39%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.25%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.17%) Oracle
14 15 (1.10%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.03%) Juniper
16 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
17 11 (0.81%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.73%) New Relic
18 10 (0.73%) SAP