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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 148 162
Rank change year-on-year +53 +14 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,476 847 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 2.17% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.32% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 989 615 1,206
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 60,747 36,431 71,585
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.63% 93.15% 85.51%
Number of salaries quoted 38,643 20,635 53,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,773 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +9.09% -10.57%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +43 753 £87,500 -2.78% 277
North of England +14 268 £67,500 -3.57% 162
South East +24 157 £70,000 -6.67% 154
North West +25 147 £74,651 +2.97% 79
South West -18 102 £66,250 -7.97% 74
Midlands +26 97 £70,000 - 41
Yorkshire -27 88 £69,038 +11.38% 45
West Midlands -4 50 £70,000 - 24
East Midlands +1 45 £67,750 +4.23% 17
East of England +11 43 £60,100 -10.96% 34
North East -4 33 £48,445 -19.59% 38
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 (3.12%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.10%) Apache
3 27 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.08%) Confluence
6 15 (1.02%) IIS
7 11 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) Camunda
12 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.068%) nginx
12 1 (0.068%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 884 (59.89%) AWS
2 816 (55.28%) Azure
3 294 (19.92%) GCP
4 283 (19.17%) GitHub
5 265 (17.95%) Serverless
6 264 (17.89%) Azure DevOps
7 235 (15.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 202 (13.69%) GitHub Actions
9 146 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
10 129 (8.74%) Amazon S3
11 109 (7.38%) PaaS
12 105 (7.11%) Entra ID
13 103 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 103 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (6.37%) Datadog
15 89 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
15 89 (6.03%) SaaS
16 87 (5.89%) IaaS
17 79 (5.35%) Azure AKS
18 77 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 169 (11.45%) Firewall
2 92 (6.23%) DNS
3 75 (5.08%) VPN
4 66 (4.47%) TCP/IP
5 52 (3.52%) Broadband
6 46 (3.12%) WAN
7 43 (2.91%) Network Security
8 36 (2.44%) DHCP
9 26 (1.76%) HTTP
9 26 (1.76%) LAN
10 24 (1.63%) BGP
11 16 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.08%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.08%) VLAN
12 13 (0.88%) DSL
12 13 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.75%) Internet
14 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.47%) SAN
15 7 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 105 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.34%) SQL Server
5 62 (4.20%) MongoDB
6 61 (4.13%) DynamoDB
7 45 (3.05%) Data Lake
7 45 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (2.03%) Metadata
11 26 (1.76%) BigQuery
11 26 (1.76%) MySQL
12 22 (1.49%) Power BI
13 20 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.29%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.02%) Big Data
16 15 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 216 (14.63%) Jenkins
2 209 (14.16%) GitLab
3 189 (12.80%) Git
4 39 (2.64%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.37%) CircleCI
6 34 (2.30%) JIRA
7 25 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.42%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.08%) Selenium
10 15 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.88%) MLflow
12 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.81%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.68%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.68%) Subversion
14 9 (0.61%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) Vite
15 8 (0.54%) JMeter
15 8 (0.54%) Storybook
16 7 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 375 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 299 (20.26%) Finance
3 111 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (5.96%) Banking
4 88 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 58 (3.93%) Retail
6 57 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 57 (3.86%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.59%) Law
8 32 (2.17%) Games
9 27 (1.83%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 21 (1.42%) Marketing
12 20 (1.36%) Billing
13 19 (1.29%) Advertising
13 19 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.22%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.02%) Electronics
15 15 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.95%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 331 (22.43%) Senior
2 242 (16.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 234 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 206 (13.96%) Lead
5 151 (10.23%) Azure Engineer
6 141 (9.55%) Platform Engineer
7 131 (8.88%) Architect
8 125 (8.47%) Developer
9 114 (7.72%) AWS Engineer
10 111 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 83 (5.62%) Data Engineer
12 74 (5.01%) Software Engineer
13 72 (4.88%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 60 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
16 57 (3.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 50 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.25%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 46 (3.12%) Python Engineer
20 42 (2.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.20%) React
2 97 (6.57%) .NET
2 97 (6.57%) Kafka
3 93 (6.30%) Node.js
4 89 (6.03%) RESTful
5 84 (5.69%) REST
6 73 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
7 64 (4.34%) Spring
8 63 (4.27%) AWS CDK
9 62 (4.20%) YAML
10 57 (3.86%) Spring Boot
11 52 (3.52%) ARM Templates
12 45 (3.05%) OAuth
12 45 (3.05%) PySpark
13 44 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
14 32 (2.17%) Next.js
15 30 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (1.96%) ASP.NET
16 29 (1.96%) FastAPI
17 27 (1.83%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 349 (23.64%) Cloud Native
2 100 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (4.54%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.79%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.32%) Product Ownership
7 48 (3.25%) Data Centre
8 44 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (1.96%) Video\Live Streaming
12 25 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.63%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.63%) Low-Code
14 23 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.49%) Management Information System
15 22 (1.49%) Web3
16 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
16 19 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
16 19 (1.29%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 311 (21.07%) Linux
2 155 (10.50%) Windows
3 67 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.52%) Unix
5 36 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.96%) VMS
7 27 (1.83%) CentOS
8 26 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.75%) Android
10 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.47%) Debian
12 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.068%) Rocky
16 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 999 (67.68%) CI/CD
2 878 (59.49%) DevOps
3 414 (28.05%) Containerisation
4 384 (26.02%) Agile
5 372 (25.20%) Observability
6 314 (21.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 276 (18.70%) Platform Engineering
8 271 (18.36%) Mentoring
9 251 (17.01%) Test Automation
10 250 (16.94%) AI
11 236 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
12 220 (14.91%) Microservices
13 214 (14.50%) Software Engineering
14 201 (13.62%) Cloud Security
15 200 (13.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 181 (12.26%) Analytics
17 168 (11.38%) High Availability
18 165 (11.18%) DevSecOps
19 160 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
20 142 (9.62%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 681 (46.14%) Python
2 297 (20.12%) Bash
3 246 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 243 (16.46%) SQL
5 190 (12.87%) Java
6 167 (11.31%) Go
7 129 (8.74%) Bicep
8 122 (8.27%) JavaScript
9 120 (8.13%) TypeScript
10 94 (6.37%) C#
11 26 (1.76%) Rust
12 22 (1.49%) Scala
13 21 (1.42%) C++
14 20 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.88%) C
15 13 (0.88%) Groovy
16 9 (0.61%) PHP
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
17 8 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 261 (17.68%) Security Cleared
2 166 (11.25%) SC Cleared
3 146 (9.89%) Degree
4 114 (7.72%) AWS Certification
5 88 (5.96%) DV Cleared
6 82 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 61 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.96%) OSCP
11 27 (1.83%) CISSP
12 24 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.95%) CCNP
13 14 (0.95%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.81%) CCNA
16 11 (0.75%) CCSK
17 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.74%) QA
2 60 (4.07%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.00%) GDPR
4 50 (3.39%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.44%) NIST
7 32 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.69%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.68%) WCAG
10 7 (0.47%) NCSC
11 6 (0.41%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
14 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 428 (29.00%) Docker
2 101 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 79 (5.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.83%) vSphere
6 19 (1.29%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.54%) Firmware
9 7 (0.47%) iptables
10 5 (0.34%) KVM
10 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.27%) Squid
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.14%) GPFS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.068%) vCloud
14 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,028 (69.65%) Terraform
2 596 (40.38%) Kubernetes
3 341 (23.10%) Ansible
4 197 (13.35%) Grafana
5 196 (13.28%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.73%) Argo
7 35 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.17%) Puppet
10 23 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.42%) Progress Chef
12 18 (1.22%) Rancher
13 17 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.08%) Nagios
15 14 (0.95%) Istio
16 12 (0.81%) Packer
17 11 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.61%) vCenter Server
19 8 (0.54%) logstash
19 8 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 264 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.93%) VMware
3 100 (6.78%) Google
4 68 (4.61%) Databricks
5 62 (4.20%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.52%) Cisco
7 47 (3.18%) Splunk
8 40 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.56%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.29%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.08%) Oracle
14 15 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 13 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.88%) Juniper
15 13 (0.88%) SAP
16 10 (0.68%) CheckPoint
16 10 (0.68%) SolarWinds