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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 156 119
Rank change year-on-year +77 -37 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,183 906 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.10% 2.09% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% 2.34% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 663 880
10th Percentile £49,875 £51,250 £44,639
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,250 £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 76,505 38,659 54,681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.54% 89.11% 82.42%
Number of salaries quoted 53,771 21,904 29,620
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,816 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +31 951 £90,000 +5.88% 1,653
North of England +100 487 £69,305 -0.99% 572
North West +106 267 £71,500 +10.00% 327
South East +50 247 £67,500 -18.18% 385
South West +55 244 £75,000 +7.14% 309
Midlands +34 150 £75,000 +15.38% 272
North East +22 125 £60,000 -17.24% 104
Yorkshire -7 104 £67,750 -3.21% 148
West Midlands +7 94 £84,387 +30.83% 150
East of England -12 58 £75,000 +15.38% 179
East Midlands -8 56 £66,250 +1.92% 122
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 59 (2.70%) Apache
2 57 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.19%) Confluence
6 16 (0.73%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) IIS
9 8 (0.37%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.23%) Camunda
11 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
14 1 (0.046%) Documentum
14 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.046%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.96%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.092%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,233 (56.48%) AWS
2 1,164 (53.32%) Azure
3 437 (20.02%) GCP
4 395 (18.09%) GitHub
5 350 (16.03%) Serverless
6 340 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 211 (9.67%) GitHub Actions
9 179 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 175 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
11 165 (7.56%) PaaS
12 133 (6.09%) Azure AKS
13 132 (6.05%) Amazon EC2
14 130 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
15 126 (5.77%) Entra ID
16 123 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 123 (5.63%) SaaS
17 122 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
18 120 (5.50%) IaaS
19 101 (4.63%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.60%) Firewall
2 137 (6.28%) VPN
3 129 (5.91%) DNS
4 103 (4.72%) Network Security
5 55 (2.52%) TCP/IP
6 54 (2.47%) WAN
7 53 (2.43%) BGP
8 50 (2.29%) DHCP
9 39 (1.79%) Broadband
10 37 (1.69%) Internet
11 36 (1.65%) OSPF
12 31 (1.42%) VLAN
13 28 (1.28%) LAN
14 27 (1.24%) VXLAN
15 26 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
16 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
17 18 (0.82%) SAN
18 15 (0.69%) Wireless
19 14 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (6.64%) NoSQL
3 99 (4.54%) Amazon RDS
4 92 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 73 (3.34%) DynamoDB
7 68 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 56 (2.57%) Data Lake
9 54 (2.47%) MySQL
10 50 (2.29%) Metadata
11 44 (2.02%) Relational Database
12 43 (1.97%) Redis
13 32 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.37%) Big Data
15 29 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 29 (1.33%) Power BI
16 27 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 26 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
18 23 (1.05%) Data Vault
19 20 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 321 (14.70%) Git
2 286 (13.10%) GitLab
3 239 (10.95%) Jenkins
4 50 (2.29%) JIRA
5 47 (2.15%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (1.37%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.10%) Claude Code
9 22 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.78%) Selenium
11 12 (0.55%) Snyk
11 12 (0.55%) SonarQube
12 11 (0.50%) Cypress.io
12 11 (0.50%) Maven
12 11 (0.50%) Subversion
13 9 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.41%) MLflow
13 9 (0.41%) MSI
13 9 (0.41%) NUnit
13 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 568 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 455 (20.84%) Finance
3 233 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 199 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 133 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (5.18%) Banking
7 80 (3.66%) Law
8 58 (2.66%) Aerospace
9 57 (2.61%) Retail
10 33 (1.51%) Games
10 33 (1.51%) Marketing
11 32 (1.47%) Legal
12 25 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 21 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.64%) Aviation
16 14 (0.64%) Military
17 13 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 527 (24.14%) Senior
2 420 (19.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 282 (12.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 275 (12.60%) Lead
5 264 (12.09%) Architect
6 233 (10.67%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
8 171 (7.83%) Developer
9 166 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 149 (6.83%) Software Engineer
11 133 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
12 122 (5.59%) Principal Engineer
13 110 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 101 (4.63%) Data Engineer
15 89 (4.08%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 74 (3.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 72 (3.30%) Senior Developer
19 71 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
20 68 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,479 (67.75%) Terraform
2 179 (8.20%) React
3 175 (8.02%) .NET
4 166 (7.60%) Kafka
5 136 (6.23%) Spring
6 132 (6.05%) Spring Boot
7 130 (5.96%) REST
8 129 (5.91%) RESTful
9 127 (5.82%) Node.js
10 65 (2.98%) PySpark
11 63 (2.89%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.75%) AWS CDK
13 55 (2.52%) AngularJS
14 52 (2.38%) YAML
15 50 (2.29%) Elastic Stack
16 47 (2.15%) Next.js
17 44 (2.02%) FastAPI
17 44 (2.02%) LangChain
18 39 (1.79%) CSS
18 39 (1.79%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 666 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 237 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (6.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 126 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 120 (5.50%) Public Cloud
6 89 (4.08%) Data Centre
7 68 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 65 (2.98%) Security Posture
9 58 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 56 (2.57%) Linux Command Line
11 50 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
12 49 (2.24%) Product Ownership
13 48 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
14 46 (2.11%) AI Agents
15 44 (2.02%) e-Learning
16 41 (1.88%) Management Information System
17 40 (1.83%) Private Cloud
18 39 (1.79%) PKI
19 35 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
19 35 (1.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 406 (18.60%) Linux
2 212 (9.71%) Windows
3 96 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.66%) CentOS
5 49 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.65%) Unix
7 35 (1.60%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.96%) VMS
9 8 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.32%) Debian
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.14%) Rocky
13 2 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.092%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) Android
14 1 (0.046%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,582 (72.47%) CI/CD
2 1,217 (55.75%) DevOps
3 630 (28.86%) Agile
4 608 (27.85%) Containerisation
5 576 (26.39%) Platform Engineering
6 566 (25.93%) Observability
7 515 (23.59%) AI
8 488 (22.35%) Mentoring
9 477 (21.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 430 (19.70%) Software Engineering
11 403 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
12 391 (17.91%) Microservices
13 390 (17.87%) Cloud Security
14 363 (16.63%) Test Automation
15 361 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 349 (15.99%) Technical Leadership
17 274 (12.55%) Roadmaps
17 274 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 249 (11.41%) DevSecOps
19 246 (11.27%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 955 (43.75%) Python
2 362 (16.58%) Bash
3 349 (15.99%) SQL
4 324 (14.84%) Java
4 324 (14.84%) PowerShell
5 222 (10.17%) Bicep
6 192 (8.80%) TypeScript
7 182 (8.34%) C#
8 152 (6.96%) Go
9 150 (6.87%) JavaScript
10 48 (2.20%) Shell Script
11 40 (1.83%) Scala
12 34 (1.56%) PHP
13 31 (1.42%) Groovy
14 29 (1.33%) Rust
15 26 (1.19%) Ruby
16 23 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
17 16 (0.73%) Perl
18 15 (0.69%) C++
19 12 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 586 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 381 (17.45%) SC Cleared
3 205 (9.39%) DV Cleared
4 198 (9.07%) AWS Certification
5 161 (7.38%) Degree
6 151 (6.92%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 82 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 58 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.37%) CCNP
12 30 (1.37%) CISSP
13 26 (1.19%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.96%) CCNA
16 17 (0.78%) SnowPro
17 13 (0.60%) OSCP
18 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 10 (0.46%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.21%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.76%) QA
3 63 (2.89%) GDPR
4 59 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (1.79%) NIST
6 32 (1.47%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.19%) SOC 2
9 24 (1.10%) NCSC
10 23 (1.05%) SLA
11 15 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.55%) GRC
13 11 (0.50%) WCAG
14 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.092%) IFRS
17 2 (0.092%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.092%) RMADS
17 2 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 600 (27.49%) Docker
2 130 (5.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 129 (5.91%) Active Directory
4 47 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
4 47 (2.15%) vSphere
5 29 (1.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.92%) VMware NSX
7 18 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 14 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.41%) KVM
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.23%) Firmware
12 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.092%) iptables
13 2 (0.092%) Lustre
13 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 811 (37.15%) Kubernetes
2 466 (21.35%) Ansible
3 207 (9.48%) Grafana
4 143 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 71 (3.25%) Puppet
6 70 (3.21%) Argo
7 49 (2.24%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 33 (1.51%) Istio
11 24 (1.10%) FortiGate
11 24 (1.10%) Packer
11 24 (1.10%) Rancher
12 22 (1.01%) vCenter Server
13 15 (0.69%) Cilium
14 13 (0.60%) Kustomize
14 13 (0.60%) Nagios
14 13 (0.60%) Podman
15 12 (0.55%) linkerd
15 12 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 511 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 162 (7.42%) Google
3 161 (7.38%) VMware
4 101 (4.63%) Databricks
5 72 (3.30%) Red Hat
6 67 (3.07%) Cisco
7 64 (2.93%) Splunk
8 59 (2.70%) Oracle
9 45 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 38 (1.74%) OpenAI
11 37 (1.69%) Fortinet
12 35 (1.60%) Palo Alto
13 33 (1.51%) ServiceNow
14 25 (1.15%) Zscaler
15 14 (0.64%) F5
15 14 (0.64%) SAP
15 14 (0.64%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.60%) Mistral
16 13 (0.60%) New Relic
17 12 (0.55%) ScienceLogic