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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 128 125
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,053 1,088 1,557
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.35% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 2.56% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 757 665 1,298
10th Percentile £46,650 £46,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -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 45,261 42,544 57,779
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.07% 91.82% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 27,393 20,509 45,841
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £41,227
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +9.82% -10.40%
75th Percentile £77,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +17 514 £85,000 -5.56% 320
North of England -19 207 £67,500 +7.14% 116
South East +15 114 £75,000 +13.21% 164
Yorkshire -7 91 £62,500 +13.64% 41
North West -6 87 £70,039 +3.76% 68
South West -16 77 £62,500 -13.18% 92
Midlands +3 58 £66,250 +0.38% 39
West Midlands -1 32 £65,000 -5.45% 25
East of England +26 30 £76,250 +5.17% 33
North East -7 29 £62,500 +28.21% 7
East Midlands +14 24 £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 47 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (3.42%) Apache
3 19 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.42%) Confluence
6 11 (1.04%) IIS
6 11 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.095%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Weka
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.095%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.095%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.095%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 664 (63.06%) AWS
2 599 (56.89%) Azure
3 243 (23.08%) GitHub
4 240 (22.79%) Azure DevOps
5 234 (22.22%) GCP
6 190 (18.04%) Serverless
7 178 (16.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 161 (15.29%) GitHub Actions
9 124 (11.78%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (10.16%) Amazon S3
11 102 (9.69%) SaaS
12 90 (8.55%) PaaS
13 82 (7.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (7.60%) Entra ID
15 74 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
16 63 (5.98%) IaaS
17 62 (5.89%) Amazon EC2
18 60 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
18 60 (5.70%) Azure Monitor
19 59 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 128 (12.16%) Firewall
2 76 (7.22%) VPN
3 73 (6.93%) DNS
4 50 (4.75%) TCP/IP
5 43 (4.08%) WAN
6 30 (2.85%) DHCP
7 29 (2.75%) Network Security
8 27 (2.56%) Broadband
9 21 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (1.71%) LAN
11 17 (1.61%) BGP
12 16 (1.52%) Internet
12 16 (1.52%) VLAN
13 12 (1.14%) SD-WAN
14 11 (1.04%) HTTP
15 7 (0.66%) DSL
15 7 (0.66%) SAN
15 7 (0.66%) Wireless
16 6 (0.57%) OSPF
16 6 (0.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (8.64%) NoSQL
2 71 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.84%) SQL Server
5 48 (4.56%) DynamoDB
6 40 (3.80%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.32%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.66%) BigQuery
9 27 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 26 (2.47%) MySQL
11 21 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.80%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.80%) Redis
14 16 (1.52%) Power BI
15 15 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (1.42%) Big Data
16 14 (1.33%) Metadata
17 13 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 184 (17.47%) Jenkins
2 144 (13.68%) Git
3 117 (11.11%) GitLab
4 29 (2.75%) JIRA
5 25 (2.37%) Selenium
6 24 (2.28%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.09%) Bitbucket
8 21 (1.99%) Jaeger
9 20 (1.90%) CircleCI
10 18 (1.71%) Snyk
11 17 (1.61%) MLflow
12 14 (1.33%) TeamCity
13 12 (1.14%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.76%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.76%) JMeter
16 7 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.66%) Subversion
16 7 (0.66%) Vite
General
1 298 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 231 (21.94%) Finance
3 95 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (6.55%) Banking
5 61 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.60%) Law
7 47 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (4.18%) Retail
9 43 (4.08%) Telecoms
10 33 (3.13%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.18%) Billing
12 21 (1.99%) Games
12 21 (1.99%) Marketing
13 19 (1.80%) Back Office
14 18 (1.71%) Legal
15 17 (1.61%) Manufacturing
16 13 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.14%) Advertising
17 12 (1.14%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 205 (19.47%) Senior
2 178 (16.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 166 (15.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 121 (11.49%) Lead
5 106 (10.07%) Platform Engineer
6 105 (9.97%) Developer
7 99 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
8 94 (8.93%) Architect
9 78 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 73 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (4.84%) Software Engineer
12 42 (3.99%) Data Engineer
12 42 (3.99%) Security Engineer
12 42 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
13 37 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 33 (3.13%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 32 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 31 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 29 (2.75%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (10.07%) React
2 83 (7.88%) .NET
3 67 (6.36%) Node.js
4 65 (6.17%) RESTful
5 64 (6.08%) Elastic Stack
6 51 (4.84%) Kafka
7 48 (4.56%) AWS CDK
8 42 (3.99%) Spring
9 40 (3.80%) YAML
10 38 (3.61%) Spring Boot
11 36 (3.42%) REST
12 33 (3.13%) ARM Templates
13 31 (2.94%) .NET Core
13 31 (2.94%) Django
13 31 (2.94%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.75%) CSS
15 28 (2.66%) HTML
16 27 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 256 (24.31%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 50 (4.75%) Data Centre
5 43 (4.08%) Security Posture
6 37 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
7 32 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.04%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (2.18%) Management Information System
8 23 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.42%) Hedge funds
12 14 (1.33%) Blog
12 14 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 12 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 235 (22.32%) Linux
2 111 (10.54%) Windows
3 57 (5.41%) Unix
4 37 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.94%) VMS
6 25 (2.37%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.33%) Debian
9 11 (1.04%) CentOS
10 6 (0.57%) Android
10 6 (0.57%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) SUSE
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.095%) AIX
14 1 (0.095%) Rocky
14 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (68.09%) CI/CD
2 667 (63.34%) DevOps
3 303 (28.77%) Agile
4 294 (27.92%) Containerisation
5 211 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 208 (19.75%) Observability
7 183 (17.38%) Mentoring
8 167 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
9 157 (14.91%) AI
9 157 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 149 (14.15%) Cloud Security
10 149 (14.15%) Software Engineering
11 131 (12.44%) Microservices
12 127 (12.06%) Analytics
13 123 (11.68%) DevSecOps
13 123 (11.68%) High Availability
14 122 (11.59%) Test Automation
15 102 (9.69%) Incident Response
15 102 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 469 (44.54%) Python
2 213 (20.23%) Bash
3 171 (16.24%) PowerShell
4 159 (15.10%) SQL
5 129 (12.25%) Java
6 113 (10.73%) Bicep
6 113 (10.73%) Go
7 104 (9.88%) JavaScript
8 89 (8.45%) TypeScript
9 70 (6.65%) C#
10 16 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 15 (1.42%) Scala
12 13 (1.23%) C++
13 12 (1.14%) Rust
14 9 (0.85%) C
14 9 (0.85%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.66%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.38%) Ruby
16 4 (0.38%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 104 (9.88%) SC Cleared
3 101 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 90 (8.55%) Degree
5 84 (7.98%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 37 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.56%) CISSP
10 25 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.61%) OSCP
12 14 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.14%) CCNP
14 9 (0.85%) CCSK
14 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.66%) CISM
16 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 6 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.56%) GDPR
3 39 (3.70%) SOC 2
4 36 (3.42%) NIST
5 35 (3.32%) QA
6 33 (3.13%) Data Quality
7 31 (2.94%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.80%) Accessibility
9 16 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.85%) SLA
12 6 (0.57%) GRC
12 6 (0.57%) WCAG
13 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.47%) NCSC
14 4 (0.38%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
System Software
1 353 (33.52%) Docker
2 78 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.80%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.42%) vSphere
7 13 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.04%) Firmware
9 6 (0.57%) KVM
9 6 (0.57%) NFS
9 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.28%) vCloud
11 2 (0.19%) GPFS
11 2 (0.19%) iptables
11 2 (0.19%) Lustre
11 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.19%) XenApp
11 2 (0.19%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 753 (71.51%) Terraform
2 423 (40.17%) Kubernetes
3 283 (26.88%) Ansible
4 153 (14.53%) Prometheus
5 133 (12.63%) Grafana
6 41 (3.89%) Argo
7 27 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.90%) Puppet
9 19 (1.80%) Kustomize
9 19 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 16 (1.52%) Rancher
11 13 (1.23%) Progress Chef
11 13 (1.23%) SCCM
12 10 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.66%) SCOM
15 6 (0.57%) AWS Copilot
15 6 (0.57%) Nagios
15 6 (0.57%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.47%) yum
Vendors
1 185 (17.57%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.50%) Google
3 87 (8.26%) VMware
4 41 (3.89%) Databricks
5 39 (3.70%) Cisco
6 33 (3.13%) Splunk
7 31 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 30 (2.85%) Red Hat
9 22 (2.09%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.71%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.71%) Coverity
11 15 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.23%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.23%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.14%) Oracle
13 12 (1.14%) SAP
14 11 (1.04%) SolarWinds
15 10 (0.95%) Juniper
15 10 (0.95%) New Relic
16 9 (0.85%) CyberArk