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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 127 97
Rank change year-on-year -5 -30 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 931 1,153 1,416
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.33% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.58% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 699 723 1,154
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

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 42,728 44,744 41,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.15% 90.24% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 25,461 22,347 32,089
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 -2 432 £81,500 -9.44% 311
North of England -7 189 £70,000 +13.85% 135
South East +1 109 £75,000 +15.38% 184
Yorkshire -10 89 £70,000 +27.27% 45
North West -5 75 £68,750 +1.85% 70
South West -31 66 £62,500 -10.71% 75
Midlands +11 61 £67,500 +2.27% 48
West Midlands -1 39 £67,500 +1.12% 28
East of England +26 27 £67,500 -6.90% 26
North East 0 25 £67,539 +35.08% 21
East Midlands +1 20 £67,500 +3.85% 20
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 44 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.54%) Apache
3 19 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.93%) Confluence
5 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.86%) IIS
6 8 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.64%) Appian
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 582 (62.51%) AWS
2 569 (61.12%) Azure
3 221 (23.74%) GitHub
4 216 (23.20%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (21.91%) GCP
6 154 (16.54%) Serverless
7 146 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
9 104 (11.17%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (10.42%) Amazon S3
11 94 (10.10%) SaaS
12 75 (8.06%) PaaS
13 70 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
16 52 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
17 50 (5.37%) Amazon EKS
17 50 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
17 50 (5.37%) Entra ID
18 48 (5.16%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (11.39%) Firewall
2 69 (7.41%) DNS
3 62 (6.66%) VPN
4 51 (5.48%) WAN
5 48 (5.16%) TCP/IP
6 32 (3.44%) LAN
6 32 (3.44%) Network Security
7 28 (3.01%) DHCP
8 26 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (1.50%) BGP
9 14 (1.50%) SD-WAN
10 13 (1.40%) Internet
11 12 (1.29%) VLAN
12 11 (1.18%) VoIP
13 10 (1.07%) Broadband
13 10 (1.07%) Wireless
14 9 (0.97%) SAN
15 7 (0.75%) OSPF
15 7 (0.75%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.44%) NoSQL
3 51 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.40%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 27 (2.90%) MongoDB
8 24 (2.58%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (2.36%) MySQL
10 18 (1.93%) Redis
11 17 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.72%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.50%) Power BI
14 12 (1.29%) Big Data
15 10 (1.07%) Delta Lake
16 9 (0.97%) Pinecone
17 8 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 158 (16.97%) Jenkins
2 139 (14.93%) Git
3 108 (11.60%) GitLab
4 33 (3.54%) JIRA
5 27 (2.90%) Selenium
6 25 (2.69%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.26%) Snyk
8 17 (1.83%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.72%) MLflow
10 14 (1.50%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.07%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.97%) Jaeger
14 7 (0.75%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.75%) JMeter
15 6 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
16 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.54%) git-flow
16 5 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 275 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 202 (21.70%) Finance
3 86 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.23%) Banking
5 55 (5.91%) Law
6 46 (4.94%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.30%) Telecoms
8 37 (3.97%) Retail
9 30 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.90%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.58%) Games
12 19 (2.04%) Legal
12 19 (2.04%) Marketing
13 18 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.83%) Billing
15 14 (1.50%) Advertising
15 14 (1.50%) Back Office
16 13 (1.40%) Electronics
17 11 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (19.66%) Senior
2 149 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 136 (14.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 106 (11.39%) Lead
5 99 (10.63%) Developer
6 92 (9.88%) Architect
7 91 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
8 78 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 55 (5.91%) AWS Engineer
11 38 (4.08%) Data Engineer
12 37 (3.97%) Software Engineer
13 35 (3.76%) Lead DevOps
14 33 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
15 32 (3.44%) Security Engineer
16 31 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.11%) Support Engineer
18 25 (2.69%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 24 (2.58%) GCP Engineer
20 23 (2.47%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (9.99%) React
2 77 (8.27%) .NET
3 52 (5.59%) Node.js
4 50 (5.37%) RESTful
5 45 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (4.73%) Kafka
7 42 (4.51%) ARM Templates
8 38 (4.08%) YAML
9 32 (3.44%) AWS CDK
10 31 (3.33%) Spring
11 30 (3.22%) Django
12 29 (3.11%) .NET Core
12 29 (3.11%) REST
13 28 (3.01%) FastAPI
13 28 (3.01%) Spring Boot
14 26 (2.79%) CSS
15 25 (2.69%) HTML
16 18 (1.93%) Flask
16 18 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 229 (24.60%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.80%) Data Centre
4 49 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 32 (3.44%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.07%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 9 (0.97%) PKI
17 9 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 207 (22.23%) Linux
2 108 (11.60%) Windows
3 46 (4.94%) Unix
4 38 (4.08%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.15%) VMS
7 14 (1.50%) Debian
8 7 (0.75%) CentOS
9 5 (0.54%) Android
9 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.32%) Solaris
11 3 (0.32%) SUSE
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (67.88%) CI/CD
2 616 (66.17%) DevOps
3 282 (30.29%) Agile
4 261 (28.03%) Containerisation
5 185 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 183 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 181 (19.44%) Observability
8 147 (15.79%) Mentoring
9 141 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
10 137 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 132 (14.18%) AI
12 131 (14.07%) Cloud Security
13 121 (13.00%) Software Engineering
14 109 (11.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 108 (11.60%) Analytics
16 107 (11.49%) DevSecOps
16 107 (11.49%) Microservices
17 99 (10.63%) Incident Response
18 98 (10.53%) Test Automation
19 90 (9.67%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 405 (43.50%) Python
2 169 (18.15%) Bash
3 160 (17.19%) PowerShell
4 149 (16.00%) SQL
5 113 (12.14%) Bicep
6 89 (9.56%) Java
7 79 (8.49%) JavaScript
8 75 (8.06%) TypeScript
9 68 (7.30%) Go
10 63 (6.77%) C#
11 12 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.18%) Scala
13 10 (1.07%) C++
14 7 (0.75%) C
15 5 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.43%) Ruby
16 4 (0.43%) Rust
16 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 159 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 100 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.38%) AWS Certification
3 78 (8.38%) Degree
3 78 (8.38%) DV Cleared
4 69 (7.41%) Azure Certification
5 32 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (2.69%) CISSP
8 24 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (2.04%) CCNP
10 19 (2.04%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
11 13 (1.40%) OSCP
12 7 (0.75%) CISM
12 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.75%) PMP
13 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.83%) GDPR
3 35 (3.76%) NIST
4 31 (3.33%) QA
5 28 (3.01%) SOC 2
6 27 (2.90%) Data Quality
7 20 (2.15%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.07%) SLA
12 6 (0.64%) GRC
13 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.54%) NCSC
13 5 (0.54%) WCAG
14 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 323 (34.69%) Docker
2 60 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 60 (6.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.72%) vSphere
5 11 (1.18%) Firmware
5 11 (1.18%) NFS
6 8 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.54%) KVM
9 5 (0.54%) vCloud
10 4 (0.43%) XenApp
10 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.21%) GPFS
11 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 672 (72.18%) Terraform
2 376 (40.39%) Kubernetes
3 263 (28.25%) Ansible
4 121 (13.00%) Prometheus
5 116 (12.46%) Grafana
6 26 (2.79%) Argo
6 26 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.04%) SCCM
8 13 (1.40%) Rancher
9 12 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.18%) Puppet
11 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.97%) SCOM
13 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.54%) MaaS360
16 4 (0.43%) Istio
16 4 (0.43%) linkerd
16 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 184 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.77%) VMware
3 74 (7.95%) Google
4 48 (5.16%) Cisco
5 40 (4.30%) Databricks
6 36 (3.87%) Splunk
7 33 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.79%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.26%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.15%) Coverity
11 16 (1.72%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.61%) Oracle
13 13 (1.40%) SAP
14 12 (1.29%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.18%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.18%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.07%) Commvault
16 10 (1.07%) Juniper
16 10 (1.07%) New Relic