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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 157 166
Rank change year-on-year +75 +9 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,673 887 1,513
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.04% 2.26% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.43% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,146 584 1,183
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,625 £48,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 59,697 36,481 76,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.91% 92.81% 82.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,672 19,839 55,609
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +32 824 £87,500 -2.78% 238
North of England +72 328 £67,500 -3.57% 115
South East +55 196 £70,000 -6.67% 148
North West +72 192 £75,000 +3.45% 68
Midlands +43 116 £70,079 +7.81% 38
South West +14 112 £72,500 +3.57% 63
Yorkshire -1 94 £65,576 -4.96% 23
West Midlands +18 69 £75,000 +7.14% 24
East of England +16 47 £60,100 -7.54% 26
East Midlands +8 47 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -10 42 £55,000 -15.38% 24
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 50 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.09%) Apache
3 33 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.20%) Confluence
6 13 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.72%) IIS
8 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.060%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.060%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (0.84%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.060%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.060%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.060%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.060%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 978 (58.46%) AWS
2 901 (53.86%) Azure
3 308 (18.41%) Serverless
4 306 (18.29%) GitHub
5 295 (17.63%) GCP
6 278 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
7 260 (15.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (10.16%) AWS Lambda
10 166 (9.92%) Amazon S3
11 135 (8.07%) PaaS
12 114 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
13 113 (6.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
14 112 (6.69%) Entra ID
15 106 (6.34%) SaaS
16 103 (6.16%) IaaS
17 98 (5.86%) Azure AKS
18 87 (5.20%) Azure Monitor
18 87 (5.20%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 170 (10.16%) Firewall
2 92 (5.50%) DNS
3 81 (4.84%) VPN
4 69 (4.12%) Broadband
5 62 (3.71%) TCP/IP
6 55 (3.29%) Network Security
7 48 (2.87%) WAN
8 38 (2.27%) BGP
9 31 (1.85%) DHCP
10 27 (1.61%) LAN
10 27 (1.61%) VLAN
11 23 (1.37%) HTTP
12 19 (1.14%) OSPF
12 19 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
13 18 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 17 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (0.84%) VXLAN
16 13 (0.78%) DSL
17 10 (0.60%) IPv4
18 9 (0.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 123 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
4 80 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 61 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 52 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 43 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.21%) Metadata
11 30 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.37%) Power BI
14 22 (1.32%) MySQL
15 20 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.20%) RDBMS
16 19 (1.14%) Delta Lake
17 18 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.02%) Big Data
19 16 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 240 (14.35%) GitLab
2 216 (12.91%) Jenkins
3 208 (12.43%) Git
4 34 (2.03%) Bitbucket
4 34 (2.03%) Cucumber
5 33 (1.97%) CircleCI
5 33 (1.97%) JIRA
6 20 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 18 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 13 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 13 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 11 (0.66%) MLflow
10 10 (0.60%) Selenium
11 9 (0.54%) Maven
12 8 (0.48%) JMeter
12 8 (0.48%) Subversion
13 7 (0.42%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.42%) Storybook
13 7 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 402 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 317 (18.95%) Finance
3 125 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.98%) Banking
6 60 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (3.59%) Retail
7 49 (2.93%) Law
8 43 (2.57%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.39%) Games
10 28 (1.67%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.49%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.08%) Advertising
13 18 (1.08%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.96%) Billing
15 15 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.90%) Legal
16 14 (0.84%) Marketing
17 12 (0.72%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 380 (22.71%) Senior
2 277 (16.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 264 (15.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 226 (13.51%) Lead
5 174 (10.40%) Azure Engineer
6 172 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
7 149 (8.91%) Architect
8 141 (8.43%) Developer
9 124 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
10 107 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 92 (5.50%) Data Engineer
11 92 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 82 (4.90%) Security Engineer
13 78 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 74 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 65 (3.89%) Principal Engineer
16 61 (3.65%) Senior DevOps
17 57 (3.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 54 (3.23%) Senior Developer
19 51 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.95%) React
2 119 (7.11%) Kafka
3 114 (6.81%) .NET
4 105 (6.28%) Node.js
5 103 (6.16%) REST
6 93 (5.56%) RESTful
7 79 (4.72%) Spring
7 79 (4.72%) YAML
8 71 (4.24%) Spring Boot
9 67 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
10 62 (3.71%) AWS CDK
11 59 (3.53%) ARM Templates
12 57 (3.41%) PySpark
13 51 (3.05%) OAuth
14 44 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
15 38 (2.27%) ASP.NET
16 37 (2.21%) JSON
17 36 (2.15%) ASP.NET Core
18 35 (2.09%) Next.js
19 33 (1.97%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 425 (25.40%) Cloud Native
2 148 (8.85%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 62 (3.71%) Data Centre
6 53 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 50 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 45 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
10 39 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 30 (1.79%) Low-Code
12 26 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
13 25 (1.49%) PKI
14 24 (1.43%) Blockchain
15 22 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.32%) Web3
16 21 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
16 21 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.20%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 318 (19.01%) Linux
2 157 (9.38%) Windows
3 83 (4.96%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.69%) Ubuntu
4 45 (2.69%) Unix
5 35 (2.09%) CentOS
6 27 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (1.49%) VMS
8 11 (0.66%) Android
9 10 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.42%) Debian
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.060%) Rocky
14 1 (0.060%) SUSE
14 1 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (69.52%) CI/CD
2 951 (56.84%) DevOps
3 447 (26.72%) Containerisation
4 441 (26.36%) Agile
5 425 (25.40%) Observability
6 359 (21.46%) Platform Engineering
7 337 (20.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 336 (20.08%) Mentoring
9 329 (19.67%) AI
10 293 (17.51%) Test Automation
11 266 (15.90%) Microservices
12 265 (15.84%) Software Engineering
13 243 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
14 221 (13.21%) Cloud Security
15 212 (12.67%) Technical Leadership
16 210 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 194 (11.60%) Analytics
18 176 (10.52%) High Availability
19 168 (10.04%) DevSecOps
20 165 (9.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 759 (45.37%) Python
2 307 (18.35%) Bash
3 274 (16.38%) PowerShell
3 274 (16.38%) SQL
4 214 (12.79%) Java
5 178 (10.64%) Go
6 148 (8.85%) TypeScript
7 140 (8.37%) Bicep
7 140 (8.37%) JavaScript
8 117 (6.99%) C#
9 30 (1.79%) Rust
10 22 (1.32%) Scala
11 21 (1.26%) C++
12 19 (1.14%) PHP
13 18 (1.08%) Groovy
14 16 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.72%) C
16 9 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.48%) Ruby
18 7 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 313 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 209 (12.49%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.73%) Degree
4 126 (7.53%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 92 (5.50%) DV Cleared
7 58 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 35 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.67%) OSCP
12 22 (1.32%) CISSP
13 19 (1.14%) CCNP
14 15 (0.90%) CCNA
14 15 (0.90%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.72%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.54%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.60%) QA
2 67 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.47%) GDPR
4 47 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.75%) SOC 2
6 34 (2.03%) NIST
7 30 (1.79%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.66%) WCAG
10 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.48%) GRC
12 6 (0.36%) SLA
13 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.24%) NCSC
15 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.12%) IFRS
16 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.060%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 444 (26.54%) Docker
2 108 (6.46%) Active Directory
3 93 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (2.09%) vSphere
6 22 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.08%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.48%) Squid
9 7 (0.42%) iptables
9 7 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.24%) Firmware
12 4 (0.24%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,169 (69.87%) Terraform
2 647 (38.67%) Kubernetes
3 357 (21.34%) Ansible
4 199 (11.89%) Grafana
5 194 (11.60%) Prometheus
6 63 (3.77%) Argo
7 37 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.09%) Puppet
9 25 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 24 (1.43%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.14%) Packer
12 18 (1.08%) Istio
12 18 (1.08%) Nagios
13 17 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 13 (0.78%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.78%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.72%) Rancher
16 11 (0.66%) Cilium
17 10 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 313 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 130 (7.77%) VMware
3 96 (5.74%) Google
4 72 (4.30%) Databricks
4 72 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 55 (3.29%) Cisco
6 53 (3.17%) Splunk
7 46 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 28 (1.67%) Oracle
9 25 (1.49%) Fortinet
9 25 (1.49%) Zscaler
10 23 (1.37%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.02%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
14 13 (0.78%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.72%) F5
16 11 (0.66%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.66%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.60%) SolarWinds