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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 153 117
Rank change year-on-year +74 -36 -27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,157 916 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 2.13% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.40% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 661 937
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 75,111 38,102 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.37% 88.73% 81.79%
Number of salaries quoted 53,062 21,909 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,250 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 +27 935 £90,000 +5.88% 1,839
North of England +93 481 £70,000 - 459
North West +92 264 £72,500 +11.54% 264
South East +48 247 £67,500 -20.59% 291
South West +47 240 £75,000 - 252
Midlands +33 153 £75,000 +15.83% 185
North East +22 112 £59,000 -18.62% 67
Yorkshire +1 108 £73,750 +5.36% 129
West Midlands +2 94 £85,000 +36.55% 105
East Midlands +8 59 £67,500 +3.85% 80
East of England -14 56 £65,000 - 110
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 (2.46%) Apache
2 51 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.25%) Confluence
6 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.37%) CMS
8 8 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.28%) nginx
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.093%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.046%) Documentum
14 1 (0.046%) JBoss
14 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.97%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.093%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.093%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.093%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.046%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.046%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,223 (56.70%) AWS
2 1,143 (52.99%) Azure
3 420 (19.47%) GCP
4 384 (17.80%) GitHub
5 350 (16.23%) Serverless
6 333 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 289 (13.40%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (9.83%) GitHub Actions
9 183 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
10 182 (8.44%) Amazon S3
11 154 (7.14%) PaaS
12 138 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
13 135 (6.26%) Azure AKS
14 134 (6.21%) Amazon EKS
15 125 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 121 (5.61%) Amazon ECS
17 117 (5.42%) Entra ID
18 114 (5.29%) IaaS
18 114 (5.29%) SaaS
19 97 (4.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 164 (7.60%) Firewall
2 125 (5.80%) DNS
3 124 (5.75%) VPN
4 97 (4.50%) Network Security
5 58 (2.69%) WAN
6 55 (2.55%) TCP/IP
7 52 (2.41%) BGP
8 49 (2.27%) DHCP
9 39 (1.81%) Broadband
10 37 (1.72%) OSPF
11 33 (1.53%) LAN
12 32 (1.48%) VLAN
13 27 (1.25%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.11%) Internet
15 24 (1.11%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
16 15 (0.70%) SAN
16 15 (0.70%) Wireless
17 14 (0.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (7.42%) PostgreSQL
2 144 (6.68%) NoSQL
3 98 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.48%) DynamoDB
7 66 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.41%) MySQL
10 49 (2.27%) Metadata
11 44 (2.04%) Redis
12 43 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 36 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.39%) Big Data
15 29 (1.34%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
17 24 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (1.07%) BigQuery
18 23 (1.07%) Power BI
19 22 (1.02%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 312 (14.46%) Git
2 275 (12.75%) GitLab
3 243 (11.27%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.55%) JIRA
5 49 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.97%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.97%) Selenium
10 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.56%) Cypress.io
11 12 (0.56%) Maven
11 12 (0.56%) NUnit
11 12 (0.56%) Snyk
12 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
12 10 (0.46%) Subversion
13 9 (0.42%) MLflow
13 9 (0.42%) MSI
13 9 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 558 (25.87%) Social Skills
2 449 (20.82%) Finance
3 208 (9.64%) Public Sector
4 177 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
5 127 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.29%) Banking
7 80 (3.71%) Law
8 61 (2.83%) Retail
9 59 (2.74%) Aerospace
10 35 (1.62%) Games
11 34 (1.58%) Marketing
12 31 (1.44%) Legal
13 29 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.93%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.65%) Aviation
17 14 (0.65%) Military
17 14 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 508 (23.55%) Senior
2 404 (18.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 281 (13.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 277 (12.84%) Lead
5 246 (11.40%) Architect
6 231 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
7 191 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.11%) Developer
9 153 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 143 (6.63%) Software Engineer
11 138 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
12 122 (5.66%) Principal Engineer
13 108 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 108 (5.01%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.03%) Security Engineer
15 82 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 72 (3.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 71 (3.29%) Senior Developer
18 68 (3.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 68 (3.15%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,487 (68.94%) Terraform
2 174 (8.07%) .NET
3 173 (8.02%) React
4 168 (7.79%) Kafka
5 134 (6.21%) REST
5 134 (6.21%) Spring
6 131 (6.07%) RESTful
7 130 (6.03%) Node.js
8 127 (5.89%) Spring Boot
9 67 (3.11%) PySpark
10 65 (3.01%) ARM Templates
11 60 (2.78%) AWS CDK
12 58 (2.69%) YAML
13 56 (2.60%) AngularJS
14 53 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
15 46 (2.13%) Next.js
16 44 (2.04%) OAuth
17 42 (1.95%) CSS
18 41 (1.90%) ASP.NET
19 40 (1.85%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 655 (30.37%) Cloud Native
2 237 (10.99%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 124 (5.75%) Onboarding
5 116 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 92 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 63 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
9 56 (2.60%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 48 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
13 45 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
14 40 (1.85%) AI Agents
14 40 (1.85%) e-Learning
15 39 (1.81%) PKI
15 39 (1.81%) Private Cloud
16 36 (1.67%) Virtual Team
17 34 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
18 30 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 388 (17.99%) Linux
2 202 (9.36%) Windows
3 94 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.74%) CentOS
5 49 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.34%) Unix
8 22 (1.02%) VMS
9 7 (0.32%) Debian
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.14%) Android
11 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.093%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.093%) Rocky
12 2 (0.093%) Solaris
13 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,551 (71.91%) CI/CD
2 1,191 (55.22%) DevOps
3 610 (28.28%) Agile
4 600 (27.82%) Containerisation
5 570 (26.43%) Observability
6 556 (25.78%) Platform Engineering
7 497 (23.04%) AI
8 464 (21.51%) Mentoring
9 463 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 419 (19.43%) Software Engineering
11 384 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
12 379 (17.57%) Microservices
13 359 (16.64%) Cloud Security
13 359 (16.64%) Test Automation
14 340 (15.76%) Technical Leadership
15 331 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 267 (12.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 264 (12.24%) Roadmaps
18 244 (11.31%) Event-Driven
19 233 (10.80%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 959 (44.46%) Python
2 356 (16.50%) Bash
2 356 (16.50%) SQL
3 323 (14.97%) PowerShell
4 317 (14.70%) Java
5 217 (10.06%) Bicep
6 192 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 183 (8.48%) C#
8 158 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 148 (6.86%) Go
10 41 (1.90%) Scala
11 38 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 36 (1.67%) Groovy
13 34 (1.58%) PHP
14 29 (1.34%) Rust
15 25 (1.16%) Ruby
16 23 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.93%) Perl
18 16 (0.74%) C++
19 13 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 566 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 361 (16.74%) SC Cleared
3 204 (9.46%) DV Cleared
4 190 (8.81%) AWS Certification
5 170 (7.88%) Degree
6 146 (6.77%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 78 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 32 (1.48%) CCNP
13 28 (1.30%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.07%) CISSP
15 22 (1.02%) CCNA
16 18 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.79%) SnowPro
18 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.56%) OSCP
20 11 (0.51%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 89 (4.13%) QA
3 58 (2.69%) GDPR
4 53 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.44%) NIST
6 26 (1.21%) SOC 2
7 24 (1.11%) NCSC
7 24 (1.11%) SLA
8 19 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.60%) GRC
10 12 (0.56%) WCAG
11 10 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.093%) IFRS
14 2 (0.093%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.093%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.046%) GxP
System Software
1 586 (27.17%) Docker
2 131 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 129 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (2.09%) vSphere
5 42 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.93%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.79%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.42%) KVM
9 9 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.14%) iptables
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.093%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 812 (37.64%) Kubernetes
2 461 (21.37%) Ansible
3 200 (9.27%) Grafana
4 143 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 67 (3.11%) Argo
6 62 (2.87%) Puppet
7 43 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.67%) Istio
10 34 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (1.21%) Packer
12 23 (1.07%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.07%) Rancher
13 19 (0.88%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.65%) Cilium
15 13 (0.60%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.60%) Nagios
16 12 (0.56%) linkerd
16 12 (0.56%) Podman
16 12 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 487 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.46%) VMware
3 147 (6.82%) Google
4 98 (4.54%) Databricks
5 75 (3.48%) Red Hat
6 70 (3.25%) Cisco
7 66 (3.06%) Splunk
8 58 (2.69%) Oracle
9 38 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 38 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 37 (1.72%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.67%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.53%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.21%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.65%) SAP
15 13 (0.60%) F5
15 13 (0.60%) New Relic
16 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.56%) SolarWinds