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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 157 126
Rank change year-on-year +78 -31 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,117 931 1,430
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 2.14% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 2.42% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1,424 662 929
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,100
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,563 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.92%

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 73,420 38,536 56,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.29% 88.67% 81.27%
Number of salaries quoted 52,272 22,193 32,991
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
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 11 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 11 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 +31 925 £90,000 +2.86% 1,015
North of England +93 460 £70,079 +0.11% 282
North West +90 259 £72,500 +11.54% 146
South East +58 250 £67,500 -15.63% 228
South West +40 232 £75,000 - 158
Midlands +30 146 £75,000 +15.38% 110
Yorkshire -7 102 £75,000 +7.14% 87
North East +24 99 £59,000 -18.62% 50
West Midlands +14 88 £85,000 +31.78% 64
East of England -4 59 £70,000 +7.69% 72
East Midlands +7 58 £67,500 +3.85% 46
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 49 (2.31%) Apache
1 49 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 48 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.28%) Confluence
5 13 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
8 7 (0.33%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.094%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.047%) Documentum
12 1 (0.047%) JBoss
12 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.99%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.094%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,210 (57.16%) AWS
2 1,114 (52.62%) Azure
3 397 (18.75%) GCP
4 368 (17.38%) GitHub
5 346 (16.34%) Serverless
6 332 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
8 202 (9.54%) GitHub Actions
9 183 (8.64%) Amazon S3
9 183 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
10 150 (7.09%) PaaS
11 137 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
12 131 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
12 131 (6.19%) Azure AKS
13 123 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
14 121 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (5.34%) SaaS
16 109 (5.15%) Entra ID
16 109 (5.15%) IaaS
17 97 (4.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 165 (7.79%) Firewall
2 120 (5.67%) DNS
3 118 (5.57%) VPN
4 101 (4.77%) Network Security
5 59 (2.79%) WAN
6 57 (2.69%) TCP/IP
7 54 (2.55%) BGP
8 47 (2.22%) DHCP
9 45 (2.13%) Broadband
10 38 (1.79%) LAN
10 38 (1.79%) OSPF
11 32 (1.51%) VLAN
12 27 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 27 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
12 27 (1.28%) VXLAN
13 18 (0.85%) Wireless
14 15 (0.71%) HTTP
15 14 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
15 14 (0.66%) SAN
16 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (6.71%) NoSQL
3 95 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.59%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 53 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.46%) MySQL
10 49 (2.31%) Metadata
11 44 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 39 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (1.84%) Redis
13 29 (1.37%) Big Data
13 29 (1.37%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
15 24 (1.13%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.04%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 286 (13.51%) Git
2 269 (12.71%) GitLab
3 232 (10.96%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.60%) JIRA
5 48 (2.27%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 25 (1.18%) TeamCity
8 23 (1.09%) Selenium
9 19 (0.90%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 14 (0.66%) NUnit
12 13 (0.61%) CircleCI
12 13 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.57%) Maven
14 10 (0.47%) Snyk
14 10 (0.47%) Subversion
15 9 (0.43%) MLflow
15 9 (0.43%) MSI
16 8 (0.38%) Artifactory
General
1 547 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 441 (20.83%) Finance
3 187 (8.83%) Public Sector
4 157 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 120 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (5.48%) Banking
7 77 (3.64%) Law
8 59 (2.79%) Retail
9 55 (2.60%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.03%) Games
11 34 (1.61%) Marketing
12 30 (1.42%) Legal
12 30 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 26 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.80%) Aviation
15 17 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.71%) Advertising
17 14 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 505 (23.85%) Senior
2 372 (17.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 281 (13.27%) Lead
4 279 (13.18%) Cloud Engineer
5 239 (11.29%) Architect
6 224 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.27%) Developer
9 146 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 140 (6.61%) Software Engineer
11 134 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
12 114 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
13 112 (5.29%) Data Engineer
14 103 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (4.06%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.87%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 70 (3.31%) Senior Developer
19 69 (3.26%) Java Engineer
20 68 (3.21%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,470 (69.44%) Terraform
2 170 (8.03%) .NET
3 168 (7.94%) Kafka
3 168 (7.94%) React
4 141 (6.66%) REST
5 130 (6.14%) RESTful
5 130 (6.14%) Spring
6 127 (6.00%) Node.js
7 122 (5.76%) Spring Boot
8 69 (3.26%) PySpark
9 66 (3.12%) ARM Templates
10 64 (3.02%) YAML
11 60 (2.83%) AWS CDK
12 53 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
13 52 (2.46%) AngularJS
14 43 (2.03%) ASP.NET
14 43 (2.03%) Next.js
15 42 (1.98%) CSS
15 42 (1.98%) OAuth
15 42 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 638 (30.14%) Cloud Native
2 231 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 125 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 121 (5.72%) Onboarding
5 115 (5.43%) Public Cloud
6 95 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 60 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.74%) Enterprise Cloud
8 58 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 56 (2.65%) Security Posture
10 49 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 40 (1.89%) Video\Live Streaming
13 38 (1.79%) e-Learning
14 37 (1.75%) PKI
14 37 (1.75%) Private Cloud
15 35 (1.65%) AI Agents
15 35 (1.65%) Low-Code
16 33 (1.56%) Virtual Team
17 31 (1.46%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 363 (17.15%) Linux
2 202 (9.54%) Windows
3 92 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.69%) CentOS
5 43 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.23%) Unix
8 22 (1.04%) VMS
9 6 (0.28%) Debian
10 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.14%) Android
12 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.094%) Solaris
14 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.047%) Rocky
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,509 (71.28%) CI/CD
2 1,150 (54.32%) DevOps
3 591 (27.92%) Agile
4 575 (27.16%) Containerisation
5 564 (26.64%) Observability
6 524 (24.75%) Platform Engineering
7 484 (22.86%) AI
8 458 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 441 (20.83%) Mentoring
10 423 (19.98%) Software Engineering
11 370 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
12 369 (17.43%) Microservices
13 363 (17.15%) Test Automation
14 339 (16.01%) Cloud Security
15 332 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
16 298 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 259 (12.23%) Roadmaps
18 239 (11.29%) Event-Driven
19 237 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 229 (10.82%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 944 (44.59%) Python
2 353 (16.67%) SQL
3 349 (16.49%) Bash
4 318 (15.02%) PowerShell
5 310 (14.64%) Java
6 212 (10.01%) Bicep
7 189 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 179 (8.46%) C#
9 157 (7.42%) JavaScript
10 149 (7.04%) Go
11 41 (1.94%) Scala
12 35 (1.65%) PHP
13 30 (1.42%) Groovy
14 28 (1.32%) Rust
15 26 (1.23%) Ruby
16 23 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (0.99%) Perl
18 17 (0.80%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.76%) C++
20 12 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 540 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 344 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 192 (9.07%) DV Cleared
4 182 (8.60%) AWS Certification
5 174 (8.22%) Degree
6 142 (6.71%) Azure Certification
7 84 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 62 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 55 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.70%) CCNP
12 32 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 29 (1.37%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.09%) CISSP
15 22 (1.04%) CCNA
16 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.80%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.66%) CCIE
19 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 13 (0.61%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (4.82%) QA
2 93 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 63 (2.98%) GDPR
4 56 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.46%) SOC 2
6 29 (1.37%) NIST
7 25 (1.18%) SLA
8 22 (1.04%) NCSC
8 22 (1.04%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.61%) GRC
9 13 (0.61%) WCAG
10 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.094%) IFRS
13 2 (0.094%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.094%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 554 (26.17%) Docker
2 132 (6.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (6.05%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.13%) vSphere
5 39 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.80%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
12 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.28%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.094%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 796 (37.60%) Kubernetes
2 449 (21.21%) Ansible
3 199 (9.40%) Grafana
4 138 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 66 (3.12%) Argo
6 58 (2.74%) Puppet
7 38 (1.79%) Progress Chef
7 38 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.65%) Istio
9 32 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.23%) Packer
11 22 (1.04%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.90%) Rancher
13 18 (0.85%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.66%) Cilium
14 14 (0.66%) Nagios
15 13 (0.61%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.57%) Podman
16 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 453 (21.40%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.65%) VMware
3 123 (5.81%) Google
4 96 (4.53%) Databricks
5 77 (3.64%) Cisco
6 76 (3.59%) Red Hat
7 67 (3.16%) Splunk
8 57 (2.69%) Oracle
9 44 (2.08%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 36 (1.70%) OpenAI
13 30 (1.42%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.23%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.71%) SAP
16 14 (0.66%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.66%) F5
17 13 (0.61%) New Relic
18 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic