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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 154 121
Rank change year-on-year +75 -33 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,186 917 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.12% 2.13% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.40% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,446 664 910
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £44,738
25th Percentile £61,269 £61,250 £56,250
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,375 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 75,707 38,228 55,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.45% 88.79% 81.96%
Number of salaries quoted 53,452 21,986 30,884
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,298
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.66% -6.72%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
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 24 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 24 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 +27 948 £90,000 +5.88% 1,500
North of England +96 486 £70,000 - 389
North West +103 269 £72,500 +16.00% 227
South East +39 249 £67,500 -18.18% 263
South West +43 246 £75,000 +3.45% 218
Midlands +31 156 £75,000 +15.83% 146
North East +17 113 £59,000 -18.62% 61
Yorkshire 0 107 £72,500 +3.57% 102
West Midlands +6 96 £84,387 +35.56% 88
East Midlands +14 60 £67,500 +3.85% 58
East of England -10 56 £65,000 - 93
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 53 (2.42%) Apache
2 51 (2.33%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.28%) Confluence
6 14 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.37%) CMS
8 8 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.27%) nginx
11 4 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.091%) 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 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.091%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.091%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.091%) 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 1,237 (56.59%) AWS
2 1,162 (53.16%) Azure
3 434 (19.85%) GCP
4 392 (17.93%) GitHub
5 354 (16.19%) Serverless
6 337 (15.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 296 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
8 214 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
9 182 (8.33%) Amazon S3
9 182 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
10 160 (7.32%) PaaS
11 137 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
12 134 (6.13%) Amazon EKS
12 134 (6.13%) Azure AKS
13 125 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 125 (5.72%) Entra ID
14 122 (5.58%) SaaS
15 120 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
16 117 (5.35%) IaaS
17 103 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 167 (7.64%) Firewall
2 128 (5.86%) VPN
3 125 (5.72%) DNS
4 100 (4.57%) Network Security
5 58 (2.65%) WAN
6 54 (2.47%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.33%) BGP
8 50 (2.29%) DHCP
9 39 (1.78%) Broadband
10 37 (1.69%) OSPF
11 33 (1.51%) Internet
11 33 (1.51%) LAN
12 32 (1.46%) VLAN
13 27 (1.24%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.10%) SD-WAN
16 15 (0.69%) SAN
16 15 (0.69%) Wireless
17 14 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
17 14 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (6.63%) NoSQL
3 97 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.07%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 76 (3.48%) DynamoDB
7 67 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 53 (2.42%) MySQL
10 51 (2.33%) Metadata
11 45 (2.06%) Relational Database
12 44 (2.01%) Redis
13 35 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.37%) Big Data
15 29 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 27 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
17 25 (1.14%) Power BI
18 24 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (1.05%) BigQuery
19 23 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 325 (14.87%) Git
2 279 (12.76%) GitLab
3 245 (11.21%) Jenkins
4 57 (2.61%) JIRA
5 51 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.96%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.87%) Selenium
11 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.55%) Maven
12 12 (0.55%) Snyk
13 11 (0.50%) NUnit
13 11 (0.50%) Subversion
14 10 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.41%) MLflow
15 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 570 (26.08%) Social Skills
2 456 (20.86%) Finance
3 218 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 186 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 130 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 116 (5.31%) Banking
7 82 (3.75%) Law
8 63 (2.88%) Retail
9 59 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 35 (1.60%) Games
11 34 (1.56%) Marketing
12 31 (1.42%) Legal
13 28 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.64%) Aviation
18 14 (0.64%) Military
18 14 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 522 (23.88%) Senior
2 413 (18.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 282 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 278 (12.72%) Lead
5 257 (11.76%) Architect
6 233 (10.66%) Platform Engineer
7 190 (8.69%) Azure Engineer
8 176 (8.05%) Developer
9 159 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 143 (6.54%) Software Engineer
11 137 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
12 123 (5.63%) Principal Engineer
13 110 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 108 (4.94%) Data Engineer
15 88 (4.03%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 73 (3.34%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 73 (3.34%) Senior Developer
18 68 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 68 (3.11%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,496 (68.44%) Terraform
2 173 (7.91%) React
3 172 (7.87%) .NET
4 168 (7.69%) Kafka
5 137 (6.27%) REST
6 136 (6.22%) Spring
7 130 (5.95%) RESTful
7 130 (5.95%) Spring Boot
8 129 (5.90%) Node.js
9 68 (3.11%) PySpark
10 63 (2.88%) ARM Templates
11 60 (2.74%) AWS CDK
12 56 (2.56%) AngularJS
12 56 (2.56%) YAML
13 55 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
14 46 (2.10%) Next.js
15 43 (1.97%) OAuth
16 41 (1.88%) FastAPI
17 40 (1.83%) ASP.NET
17 40 (1.83%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 666 (30.47%) Cloud Native
2 244 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 125 (5.72%) Onboarding
5 118 (5.40%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.16%) Data Centre
7 71 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
8 60 (2.74%) Security Posture
9 57 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 52 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
11 51 (2.33%) Product Ownership
12 50 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
14 42 (1.92%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.83%) AI Agents
15 40 (1.83%) Private Cloud
16 39 (1.78%) Management Information System
17 38 (1.74%) PKI
18 36 (1.65%) Virtual Team
19 35 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 403 (18.44%) Linux
2 206 (9.42%) Windows
3 95 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.70%) CentOS
5 48 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 31 (1.42%) Unix
8 22 (1.01%) VMS
9 7 (0.32%) Debian
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.14%) Android
11 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.091%) Rocky
12 2 (0.091%) Solaris
13 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,574 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 1,211 (55.40%) DevOps
3 619 (28.32%) Agile
4 616 (28.18%) Containerisation
5 573 (26.21%) Observability
6 566 (25.89%) Platform Engineering
7 508 (23.24%) AI
8 476 (21.77%) Mentoring
9 472 (21.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 429 (19.62%) Software Engineering
11 385 (17.61%) Microservices
12 384 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
13 379 (17.34%) Cloud Security
14 359 (16.42%) Test Automation
15 349 (15.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 342 (15.65%) Technical Leadership
17 275 (12.58%) Roadmaps
18 274 (12.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 250 (11.44%) Event-Driven
20 243 (11.12%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 964 (44.10%) Python
2 361 (16.51%) Bash
3 358 (16.38%) SQL
4 328 (15.00%) Java
5 326 (14.91%) PowerShell
6 224 (10.25%) Bicep
7 189 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 180 (8.23%) C#
9 154 (7.04%) JavaScript
10 150 (6.86%) Go
11 47 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 41 (1.88%) Scala
13 36 (1.65%) Groovy
14 34 (1.56%) PHP
15 29 (1.33%) Rust
16 25 (1.14%) Ruby
17 23 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.91%) Perl
19 16 (0.73%) C++
20 13 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 582 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 371 (16.97%) SC Cleared
3 210 (9.61%) DV Cleared
4 192 (8.78%) AWS Certification
5 169 (7.73%) Degree
6 151 (6.91%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 80 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 56 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
9 56 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.37%) CCNP
12 27 (1.24%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.10%) CISSP
14 22 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 21 (0.96%) CCNA
16 17 (0.78%) SnowPro
17 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 13 (0.59%) OSCP
18 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.30%) Data Quality
2 89 (4.07%) QA
3 59 (2.70%) GDPR
4 55 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.51%) NIST
6 32 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.24%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.10%) NCSC
8 24 (1.10%) SLA
9 21 (0.96%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.59%) GRC
11 12 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.55%) WCAG
12 5 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.091%) IFRS
14 2 (0.091%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.091%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.046%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 594 (27.17%) Docker
2 133 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 131 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
4 44 (2.01%) vSphere
5 27 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 20 (0.91%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.41%) KVM
8 9 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 5 (0.23%) Firmware
11 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.14%) iptables
12 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.091%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 823 (37.65%) Kubernetes
2 466 (21.32%) Ansible
3 208 (9.52%) Grafana
4 144 (6.59%) Prometheus
5 68 (3.11%) Argo
6 67 (3.06%) Puppet
7 44 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.60%) Istio
9 35 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
10 27 (1.24%) Packer
11 24 (1.10%) Rancher
12 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
13 22 (1.01%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.64%) Cilium
15 13 (0.59%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.59%) Nagios
16 12 (0.55%) linkerd
16 12 (0.55%) Podman
16 12 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 511 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.46%) VMware
3 157 (7.18%) Google
4 98 (4.48%) Databricks
5 73 (3.34%) Red Hat
6 69 (3.16%) Cisco
7 66 (3.02%) Splunk
8 59 (2.70%) Oracle
9 45 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 37 (1.69%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 36 (1.65%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.64%) SAP
15 13 (0.59%) F5
15 13 (0.59%) New Relic
16 12 (0.55%) ScienceLogic
16 12 (0.55%) SolarWinds