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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 159 123
Rank change year-on-year +79 -36 -29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,071 921 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.07% 2.13% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.40% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,390 658 929
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £44,738
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £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 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 73,171 38,378 55,859
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.08% 88.74% 81.34%
Number of salaries quoted 52,052 22,031 32,570
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,485 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.93%
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 14 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 14 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 +32 904 £90,000 +2.86% 1,784
North of England +87 453 £70,239 +0.34% 502
North West +95 252 £72,500 +11.54% 279
South East +58 244 £67,500 -18.18% 301
South West +35 228 £75,000 - 241
Midlands +26 144 £77,500 +19.23% 183
Yorkshire +9 101 £75,000 +7.14% 145
North East +20 100 £59,000 -18.62% 78
West Midlands +10 87 £85,000 +31.78% 110
East Midlands +7 57 £67,500 +3.85% 73
East of England -6 54 £62,500 -3.85% 118
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 (2.37%) Apache
1 49 (2.37%) Apache Spark
2 46 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.30%) Confluence
5 13 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
8 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.048%) Documentum
13 1 (0.048%) JBoss
13 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.097%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.097%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,182 (57.07%) AWS
2 1,085 (52.39%) Azure
3 391 (18.88%) GCP
4 361 (17.43%) GitHub
5 341 (16.47%) Serverless
6 320 (15.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 279 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
8 198 (9.56%) GitHub Actions
9 180 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 178 (8.59%) Amazon S3
11 150 (7.24%) PaaS
12 133 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
13 129 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
13 129 (6.23%) Azure AKS
14 121 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
15 120 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 112 (5.41%) SaaS
17 110 (5.31%) IaaS
18 107 (5.17%) Entra ID
19 95 (4.59%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 157 (7.58%) Firewall
2 116 (5.60%) DNS
2 116 (5.60%) VPN
3 99 (4.78%) Network Security
4 59 (2.85%) WAN
5 55 (2.66%) TCP/IP
6 53 (2.56%) BGP
7 47 (2.27%) DHCP
8 43 (2.08%) Broadband
9 38 (1.83%) LAN
9 38 (1.83%) OSPF
10 32 (1.55%) VLAN
11 27 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 27 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
11 27 (1.30%) VXLAN
12 18 (0.87%) Wireless
13 15 (0.72%) HTTP
14 14 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
14 14 (0.68%) SAN
15 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
2 142 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 91 (4.39%) MongoDB
5 77 (3.72%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.62%) DynamoDB
7 58 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 50 (2.41%) MySQL
10 49 (2.37%) Metadata
11 43 (2.08%) Relational Database
12 39 (1.88%) Redis
13 38 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
14 29 (1.40%) Big Data
14 29 (1.40%) Delta Lake
15 26 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (1.06%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.06%) Data Vault
18 20 (0.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 283 (13.66%) Git
2 260 (12.55%) GitLab
3 229 (11.06%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.66%) JIRA
5 48 (2.32%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.21%) TeamCity
8 22 (1.06%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.06%) Selenium
9 19 (0.92%) Claude Code
10 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.63%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.58%) Maven
12 12 (0.58%) NUnit
13 10 (0.48%) Snyk
13 10 (0.48%) Subversion
14 9 (0.43%) MLflow
14 9 (0.43%) MSI
15 8 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 537 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 434 (20.96%) Finance
3 187 (9.03%) Public Sector
4 153 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.50%) Banking
7 79 (3.81%) Law
8 60 (2.90%) Retail
9 56 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 40 (1.93%) Games
11 34 (1.64%) Marketing
12 30 (1.45%) Legal
12 30 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.16%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.92%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.72%) Aviation
17 14 (0.68%) Advertising
17 14 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 497 (24.00%) Senior
2 363 (17.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 274 (13.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 272 (13.13%) Lead
5 235 (11.35%) Architect
6 225 (10.86%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
8 171 (8.26%) Developer
9 146 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 139 (6.71%) Software Engineer
11 131 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
12 113 (5.46%) Principal Engineer
13 109 (5.26%) Data Engineer
14 104 (5.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 84 (4.06%) Security Engineer
16 83 (4.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 70 (3.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 69 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.33%) Senior Developer
19 68 (3.28%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,439 (69.48%) Terraform
2 166 (8.02%) .NET
3 165 (7.97%) Kafka
3 165 (7.97%) React
4 134 (6.47%) REST
5 128 (6.18%) RESTful
5 128 (6.18%) Spring
6 124 (5.99%) Node.js
7 121 (5.84%) Spring Boot
8 68 (3.28%) PySpark
9 63 (3.04%) ARM Templates
10 60 (2.90%) YAML
11 59 (2.85%) AWS CDK
12 52 (2.51%) AngularJS
13 51 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
14 42 (2.03%) OAuth
15 41 (1.98%) ASP.NET
15 41 (1.98%) Next.js
15 41 (1.98%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (1.93%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 634 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 230 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 121 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 112 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.49%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 55 (2.66%) Product Ownership
9 54 (2.61%) Security Posture
10 49 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
12 38 (1.83%) e-Learning
12 38 (1.83%) Private Cloud
12 38 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
13 37 (1.79%) PKI
14 36 (1.74%) AI Agents
15 33 (1.59%) Low-Code
15 33 (1.59%) Virtual Team
16 30 (1.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 354 (17.09%) Linux
2 197 (9.51%) Windows
3 91 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 56 (2.70%) CentOS
5 43 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.11%) Unix
8 22 (1.06%) VMS
9 6 (0.29%) 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 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.097%) Solaris
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.048%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,476 (71.27%) CI/CD
2 1,122 (54.18%) DevOps
3 583 (28.15%) Agile
4 564 (27.23%) Containerisation
5 550 (26.56%) Observability
6 515 (24.87%) Platform Engineering
7 482 (23.27%) AI
8 448 (21.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 433 (20.91%) Mentoring
10 416 (20.09%) Software Engineering
11 369 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
12 363 (17.53%) Microservices
13 353 (17.04%) Test Automation
14 334 (16.13%) Cloud Security
15 330 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
16 298 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 254 (12.26%) Roadmaps
18 236 (11.40%) Event-Driven
19 231 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 223 (10.77%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 930 (44.91%) Python
2 347 (16.76%) SQL
3 344 (16.61%) Bash
4 313 (15.11%) PowerShell
5 307 (14.82%) Java
6 205 (9.90%) Bicep
7 187 (9.03%) TypeScript
8 176 (8.50%) C#
9 153 (7.39%) JavaScript
10 148 (7.15%) Go
11 41 (1.98%) Scala
12 34 (1.64%) PHP
13 30 (1.45%) Groovy
14 28 (1.35%) Rust
15 26 (1.26%) Ruby
16 23 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
17 20 (0.97%) Perl
18 18 (0.87%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.77%) C++
20 12 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 531 (25.64%) Security Cleared
2 338 (16.32%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.98%) DV Cleared
4 183 (8.84%) AWS Certification
5 169 (8.16%) Degree
6 140 (6.76%) Azure Certification
7 83 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 60 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.69%) CCNP
12 33 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.35%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.06%) CISSP
15 21 (1.01%) CCNA
16 18 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.82%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.68%) CCIE
19 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 12 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.68%) QA
2 92 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.85%) GDPR
4 53 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.45%) NIST
7 29 (1.40%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.16%) SLA
9 23 (1.11%) NCSC
10 20 (0.97%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.63%) GRC
11 13 (0.63%) WCAG
12 9 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.097%) IFRS
15 2 (0.097%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.097%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 544 (26.27%) Docker
2 131 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (6.18%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.17%) vSphere
5 39 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.87%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.39%) Squid
12 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.29%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.097%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 784 (37.86%) Kubernetes
2 442 (21.34%) Ansible
3 196 (9.46%) Grafana
4 136 (6.57%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.14%) Argo
6 58 (2.80%) Puppet
7 38 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 38 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.69%) Istio
9 32 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.26%) Packer
11 22 (1.06%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.92%) Rancher
13 18 (0.87%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.68%) Cilium
14 14 (0.68%) Nagios
15 13 (0.63%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.58%) Podman
16 12 (0.58%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 443 (21.39%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.77%) VMware
3 119 (5.75%) Google
4 95 (4.59%) Databricks
5 75 (3.62%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.52%) Cisco
7 67 (3.24%) Splunk
8 57 (2.75%) Oracle
9 41 (1.98%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.93%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 35 (1.69%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.35%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.26%) Zscaler
15 14 (0.68%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
15 14 (0.68%) SAP
16 13 (0.63%) New Relic
17 12 (0.58%) F5
17 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic