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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 152 154
Rank change year-on-year +75 +2 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,893 960 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.13% 2.22% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.46% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 654 1,108
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £109,625 £105,000
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 65,539 39,008 67,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.79% 90.04% 82.05%
Number of salaries quoted 46,429 22,397 46,860
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,280
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 22 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 22 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 +25 875 £90,000 - 495
North of England +88 374 £70,000 - 197
South East +54 230 £67,500 -12.90% 143
North West +86 226 £72,500 +3.57% 109
South West +30 178 £75,000 - 86
Midlands +39 132 £77,500 +19.23% 61
Yorkshire -5 90 £68,750 -1.79% 58
West Midlands +19 79 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East -2 58 £55,000 -18.52% 30
East Midlands +10 53 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +14 51 £62,500 - 16
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 51 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (2.06%) Apache
3 38 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.32%) Confluence
6 10 (0.53%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.48%) IIS
7 9 (0.48%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
9 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.053%) Documentum
12 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.053%) nginx
12 1 (0.053%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.053%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.053%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.06%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Summit
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,077 (56.89%) AWS
2 1,027 (54.25%) Azure
3 334 (17.64%) Serverless
4 332 (17.54%) GitHub
5 324 (17.12%) GCP
6 289 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
7 287 (15.16%) AWS CloudFormation
8 192 (10.14%) GitHub Actions
9 176 (9.30%) Amazon S3
10 172 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (8.35%) PaaS
12 130 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
13 122 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
14 115 (6.08%) IaaS
15 114 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 114 (6.02%) SaaS
16 113 (5.97%) Entra ID
17 108 (5.71%) Azure AKS
18 101 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
19 86 (4.54%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 171 (9.03%) Firewall
2 111 (5.86%) VPN
3 105 (5.55%) DNS
4 94 (4.97%) Network Security
5 66 (3.49%) TCP/IP
6 59 (3.12%) WAN
7 55 (2.91%) Broadband
8 50 (2.64%) BGP
9 36 (1.90%) LAN
9 36 (1.90%) VLAN
10 32 (1.69%) DHCP
11 31 (1.64%) OSPF
12 25 (1.32%) VXLAN
13 23 (1.22%) SD-WAN
14 22 (1.16%) HTTP
14 22 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
15 13 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
16 12 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
17 11 (0.58%) Wireless
18 10 (0.53%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (7.40%) PostgreSQL
2 130 (6.87%) NoSQL
3 86 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 70 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 53 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 48 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.48%) Metadata
10 42 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 36 (1.90%) MySQL
12 32 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
13 26 (1.37%) Redis
14 25 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.27%) Delta Lake
16 23 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
17 21 (1.11%) Big Data
17 21 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.11%) Power BI
18 18 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 272 (14.37%) GitLab
2 250 (13.21%) Git
3 227 (11.99%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.22%) Cucumber
5 41 (2.17%) JIRA
6 31 (1.64%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.53%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 24 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.85%) Claude Code
11 15 (0.79%) Selenium
12 14 (0.74%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.48%) Maven
13 9 (0.48%) MLflow
13 9 (0.48%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.42%) JMeter
14 8 (0.42%) NUnit
14 8 (0.42%) Vite
15 7 (0.37%) MSI
General
1 469 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 379 (20.02%) Finance
3 146 (7.71%) Public Sector
4 144 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (5.34%) Banking
6 74 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.28%) Retail
8 60 (3.17%) Law
9 43 (2.27%) Games
10 36 (1.90%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.69%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 21 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.00%) Advertising
15 18 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 18 (0.95%) Marketing
16 16 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (0.85%) Legal
17 11 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 449 (23.72%) Senior
2 342 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 261 (13.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 248 (13.10%) Lead
5 201 (10.62%) Architect
6 200 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
7 186 (9.83%) Azure Engineer
8 160 (8.45%) Developer
9 124 (6.55%) AWS Engineer
10 115 (6.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 103 (5.44%) Software Engineer
12 101 (5.34%) Data Engineer
13 91 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
14 89 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 83 (4.38%) Security Engineer
16 79 (4.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
19 63 (3.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 60 (3.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.40%) React
2 137 (7.24%) .NET
3 135 (7.13%) Kafka
4 116 (6.13%) REST
5 111 (5.86%) RESTful
6 106 (5.60%) Spring
7 104 (5.49%) Node.js
8 100 (5.28%) Spring Boot
9 77 (4.07%) YAML
10 71 (3.75%) ARM Templates
11 64 (3.38%) PySpark
12 60 (3.17%) AWS CDK
13 59 (3.12%) Elastic Stack
14 44 (2.32%) OAuth
15 42 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (2.17%) Next.js
17 38 (2.01%) AngularJS
17 38 (2.01%) FastAPI
17 38 (2.01%) JSON
18 35 (1.85%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 531 (28.05%) Cloud Native
2 192 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 95 (5.02%) Public Cloud
5 90 (4.75%) Onboarding
6 78 (4.12%) Data Centre
7 61 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 60 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (3.01%) Security Posture
10 49 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 45 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.95%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
14 33 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.58%) PKI
16 28 (1.48%) e-Learning
17 23 (1.22%) Private Cloud
17 23 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (1.16%) Data Structures
18 22 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 333 (17.59%) Linux
2 189 (9.98%) Windows
3 83 (4.38%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.64%) CentOS
5 42 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 37 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 27 (1.43%) VMS
8 23 (1.22%) Unix
9 8 (0.42%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.32%) Debian
11 6 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Rocky
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,334 (70.47%) CI/CD
2 1,062 (56.10%) DevOps
3 518 (27.36%) Containerisation
4 513 (27.10%) Agile
5 489 (25.83%) Observability
6 439 (23.19%) Platform Engineering
7 408 (21.55%) AI
8 399 (21.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 393 (20.76%) Mentoring
10 332 (17.54%) Test Automation
11 328 (17.33%) Software Engineering
12 321 (16.96%) Microservices
13 301 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
14 275 (14.53%) Cloud Security
15 274 (14.47%) Technical Leadership
16 248 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 219 (11.57%) Analytics
18 211 (11.15%) Roadmaps
19 205 (10.83%) DevSecOps
20 199 (10.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 859 (45.38%) Python
2 335 (17.70%) Bash
3 317 (16.75%) SQL
4 303 (16.01%) PowerShell
5 257 (13.58%) Java
6 197 (10.41%) Bicep
7 163 (8.61%) TypeScript
8 159 (8.40%) Go
9 153 (8.08%) C#
10 142 (7.50%) JavaScript
11 38 (2.01%) PHP
12 28 (1.48%) Rust
13 25 (1.32%) Scala
14 23 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
14 23 (1.22%) Ruby
15 20 (1.06%) C++
15 20 (1.06%) Groovy
15 20 (1.06%) Perl
16 10 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.48%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 418 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 256 (13.52%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.72%) Degree
4 139 (7.34%) DV Cleared
5 129 (6.81%) AWS Certification
6 117 (6.18%) Azure Certification
7 69 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 68 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
11 31 (1.64%) CCNP
12 25 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.22%) CISSP
13 23 (1.22%) OSCP
14 18 (0.95%) CCNA
15 14 (0.74%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.69%) CCIE
17 11 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.53%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (4.81%) QA
2 84 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.22%) GDPR
4 47 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (2.22%) SOC 2
6 37 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 31 (1.64%) NIST
8 26 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.85%) WCAG
10 13 (0.69%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) NCSC
12 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.42%) SLA
14 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS
15 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.053%) GxP
16 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 485 (25.62%) Docker
2 121 (6.39%) Active Directory
3 118 (6.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 43 (2.27%) vSphere
5 33 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.42%) Squid
10 6 (0.32%) iptables
10 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.26%) Firmware
11 5 (0.26%) KVM
12 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,317 (69.57%) Terraform
2 731 (38.62%) Kubernetes
3 399 (21.08%) Ansible
4 210 (11.09%) Grafana
5 168 (8.87%) Prometheus
6 60 (3.17%) Argo
7 40 (2.11%) Puppet
8 39 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.37%) Istio
10 26 (1.37%) Packer
10 26 (1.37%) Progress Chef
11 20 (1.06%) Nagios
12 15 (0.79%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.69%) vCenter Server
14 12 (0.63%) Cilium
14 12 (0.63%) Rancher
15 11 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
15 11 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 376 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 146 (7.71%) VMware
3 85 (4.49%) Google
4 75 (3.96%) Databricks
5 74 (3.91%) Red Hat
6 66 (3.49%) Splunk
7 65 (3.43%) Cisco
8 52 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 40 (2.11%) Oracle
10 36 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 31 (1.64%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.48%) Zscaler
13 24 (1.27%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.74%) F5
16 13 (0.69%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.63%) ScienceLogic
17 12 (0.63%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.53%) Atlassian
18 10 (0.53%) Rapid7