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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 155 161
Rank change year-on-year +59 +6 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,489 855 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.19% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.34% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,008 609 1,207
10th Percentile £49,625 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,297 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 59,545 36,509 71,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.99% 93.39% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 39,042 20,550 53,849
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £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 £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -9.84%

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 12 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 12 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 +40 758 £87,500 -2.78% 300
North of England +25 273 £66,412 -5.13% 157
South East +39 160 £70,000 -6.67% 169
North West +38 153 £72,500 - 75
South West -7 103 £67,950 -5.61% 80
Midlands +20 100 £69,000 -1.43% 44
Yorkshire -27 85 £65,000 +1.96% 44
West Midlands -4 53 £70,000 - 25
East Midlands 0 45 £67,500 +3.85% 19
East of England +7 40 £60,100 -10.96% 43
North East -11 35 £49,222 -18.30% 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 45 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
2 29 (1.95%) Apache
3 25 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.21%) Confluence
5 15 (1.01%) IIS
6 12 (0.81%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.34%) CMS
8 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.067%) Camunda
11 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.067%) nginx
11 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.60%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 889 (59.70%) AWS
2 821 (55.14%) Azure
3 289 (19.41%) GitHub
4 286 (19.21%) GCP
5 273 (18.33%) Serverless
6 265 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
7 235 (15.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (13.50%) GitHub Actions
9 152 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
10 134 (9.00%) Amazon S3
11 108 (7.25%) PaaS
12 106 (7.12%) Entra ID
13 103 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 102 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
15 93 (6.25%) Datadog
16 91 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
17 87 (5.84%) SaaS
18 86 (5.78%) IaaS
19 82 (5.51%) Azure AKS
20 79 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (11.28%) Firewall
2 91 (6.11%) DNS
3 72 (4.84%) VPN
4 66 (4.43%) TCP/IP
5 54 (3.63%) Broadband
6 46 (3.09%) WAN
7 43 (2.89%) Network Security
8 36 (2.42%) DHCP
9 26 (1.75%) LAN
10 25 (1.68%) BGP
10 25 (1.68%) HTTP
11 17 (1.14%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 17 (1.14%) VLAN
12 15 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
13 13 (0.87%) DSL
14 11 (0.74%) Internet
15 8 (0.54%) OSPF
15 8 (0.54%) SAN
15 8 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
4 70 (4.70%) MongoDB
5 63 (4.23%) DynamoDB
5 63 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 49 (3.29%) Data Lake
7 48 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 39 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (1.95%) Metadata
11 26 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.54%) MySQL
13 21 (1.41%) Power BI
14 20 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.28%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.21%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.01%) Spark SQL
19 14 (0.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 220 (14.78%) Jenkins
2 214 (14.37%) GitLab
3 200 (13.43%) Git
4 36 (2.42%) Bitbucket
4 36 (2.42%) CircleCI
5 33 (2.22%) JIRA
6 26 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 20 (1.34%) Jaeger
8 14 (0.94%) Selenium
8 14 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (0.74%) MLflow
10 11 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 10 (0.67%) Subversion
12 9 (0.60%) Maven
12 9 (0.60%) Vite
13 8 (0.54%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.54%) Storybook
14 7 (0.47%) JMeter
14 7 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 374 (25.12%) Social Skills
2 296 (19.88%) Finance
3 107 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.84%) Banking
6 57 (3.83%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 54 (3.63%) Retail
9 49 (3.29%) Law
10 36 (2.42%) Games
11 29 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.34%) Marketing
14 19 (1.28%) Billing
15 18 (1.21%) Advertising
15 18 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.14%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.01%) Electronics
17 15 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
18 12 (0.81%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 337 (22.63%) Senior
2 243 (16.32%) DevOps Engineer
3 233 (15.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 203 (13.63%) Lead
5 150 (10.07%) Azure Engineer
6 146 (9.81%) Platform Engineer
7 133 (8.93%) Architect
8 129 (8.66%) Developer
9 112 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
9 112 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 84 (5.64%) Data Engineer
11 76 (5.10%) Software Engineer
12 71 (4.77%) Security Engineer
13 64 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 60 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 58 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
16 48 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 46 (3.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 45 (3.02%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 45 (3.02%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.33%) React
2 102 (6.85%) .NET
3 101 (6.78%) Kafka
4 95 (6.38%) Node.js
5 91 (6.11%) RESTful
6 85 (5.71%) REST
7 70 (4.70%) Elastic Stack
8 65 (4.37%) Spring
8 65 (4.37%) YAML
9 63 (4.23%) AWS CDK
10 58 (3.90%) Spring Boot
11 49 (3.29%) ARM Templates
12 46 (3.09%) PySpark
13 45 (3.02%) OAuth
14 43 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
15 34 (2.28%) ASP.NET
16 32 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
17 31 (2.08%) Next.js
18 29 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
19 28 (1.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 354 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 107 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (4.43%) Public Cloud
5 54 (3.63%) Security Posture
6 50 (3.36%) Data Centre
7 48 (3.22%) Product Ownership
8 45 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.22%) Onboarding
10 31 (2.08%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (1.88%) Low-Code
12 27 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.61%) Blockchain
14 22 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 22 (1.48%) Web3
15 21 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 20 (1.34%) Management Information System
17 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
18 18 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
18 18 (1.21%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 313 (21.02%) Linux
2 158 (10.61%) Windows
3 71 (4.77%) Windows Server
4 51 (3.43%) Unix
5 34 (2.28%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.81%) VMS
7 25 (1.68%) CentOS
7 25 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.74%) Android
9 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.40%) Debian
10 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.27%) SUSE
12 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.067%) Rocky
14 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,013 (68.03%) CI/CD
2 878 (58.97%) DevOps
3 412 (27.67%) Containerisation
4 391 (26.26%) Agile
5 374 (25.12%) Observability
6 316 (21.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 285 (19.14%) Platform Engineering
8 278 (18.67%) Mentoring
9 267 (17.93%) AI
10 260 (17.46%) Test Automation
11 228 (15.31%) Problem-Solving
12 224 (15.04%) Microservices
13 216 (14.51%) Software Engineering
14 203 (13.63%) Cloud Security
15 200 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 180 (12.09%) Analytics
17 169 (11.35%) High Availability
18 166 (11.15%) DevSecOps
19 163 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
20 142 (9.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 689 (46.27%) Python
2 293 (19.68%) Bash
3 247 (16.59%) PowerShell
4 239 (16.05%) SQL
5 193 (12.96%) Java
6 166 (11.15%) Go
7 129 (8.66%) Bicep
8 125 (8.39%) JavaScript
9 124 (8.33%) TypeScript
10 100 (6.72%) C#
11 27 (1.81%) Rust
12 23 (1.54%) Scala
13 22 (1.48%) C++
14 18 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.87%) C
15 13 (0.87%) Groovy
16 10 (0.67%) PHP
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
18 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 266 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 172 (11.55%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.74%) Degree
4 115 (7.72%) AWS Certification
5 84 (5.64%) DV Cleared
6 83 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 60 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.95%) OSCP
10 26 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (1.75%) CISSP
11 15 (1.01%) CCNP
12 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.81%) CCNA
15 10 (0.67%) CCSK
15 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.63%) QA
2 59 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.76%) GDPR
4 46 (3.09%) SOC 2
5 44 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.35%) NIST
7 30 (2.01%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.67%) WCAG
10 9 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.27%) GRC
12 4 (0.27%) SLA
13 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.13%) IFRS
13 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 428 (28.74%) Docker
2 101 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 78 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.88%) vSphere
6 19 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.21%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.47%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) iptables
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.34%) Squid
11 4 (0.27%) KVM
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.13%) GPFS
13 2 (0.13%) Lustre
13 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.067%) vCloud
14 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,037 (69.64%) Terraform
2 600 (40.30%) Kubernetes
3 340 (22.83%) Ansible
4 199 (13.36%) Grafana
5 195 (13.10%) Prometheus
6 54 (3.63%) Argo
7 37 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.15%) Puppet
10 22 (1.48%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.41%) Progress Chef
12 18 (1.21%) Rancher
13 17 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.07%) Nagios
15 14 (0.94%) Istio
16 13 (0.87%) Packer
17 11 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.60%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.60%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 270 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.86%) VMware
3 97 (6.51%) Google
4 70 (4.70%) Databricks
5 63 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.63%) Cisco
7 47 (3.16%) Splunk
8 42 (2.82%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.54%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
14 16 (1.07%) Oracle
15 13 (0.87%) Juniper
15 13 (0.87%) SAP
16 12 (0.81%) Atlassian
17 11 (0.74%) CheckPoint
18 10 (0.67%) CyberArk