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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 152 165
Rank change year-on-year +63 +13 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,631 872 1,509
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.96% 2.23% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.39% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 590 1,196
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,155 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +11.65% -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 61,648 36,515 73,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.00% 93.30% 83.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41,084 19,671 54,793
10th Percentile £30,052 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 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 1 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 +32 806 £87,500 -2.78% 448
North of England +58 316 £67,500 -3.57% 167
South East +49 188 £70,000 -6.67% 197
North West +63 186 £74,651 +2.97% 90
South West +6 114 £72,500 +1.75% 99
Midlands +28 108 £70,000 - 47
Yorkshire -20 89 £65,576 -3.57% 37
West Midlands +5 61 £73,750 +5.36% 32
East of England +6 48 £60,100 -7.54% 58
East Midlands -2 47 £67,500 +3.85% 15
North East -11 41 £55,000 -15.38% 40
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 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.15%) Apache
3 33 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.29%) Confluence
6 13 (0.80%) IIS
6 13 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.061%) nginx
12 1 (0.061%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (0.74%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.061%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 961 (58.92%) AWS
2 875 (53.65%) Azure
3 303 (18.58%) Serverless
4 301 (18.45%) GitHub
5 289 (17.72%) GCP
6 273 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
7 254 (15.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 197 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
9 172 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (10.06%) Amazon S3
11 125 (7.66%) PaaS
12 114 (6.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 114 (6.99%) Amazon EC2
13 112 (6.87%) Entra ID
14 111 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
15 103 (6.32%) SaaS
16 99 (6.07%) IaaS
17 94 (5.76%) Azure AKS
18 90 (5.52%) Datadog
19 86 (5.27%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.30%) Firewall
2 96 (5.89%) DNS
3 77 (4.72%) VPN
4 65 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 63 (3.86%) Broadband
6 52 (3.19%) Network Security
7 46 (2.82%) WAN
8 35 (2.15%) BGP
9 34 (2.08%) DHCP
10 26 (1.59%) LAN
11 24 (1.47%) VLAN
12 23 (1.41%) HTTP
13 18 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (1.04%) OSPF
14 17 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.80%) DSL
15 13 (0.80%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.61%) IPv4
17 9 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 113 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.40%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 69 (4.23%) DynamoDB
6 62 (3.80%) SQL Server
7 52 (3.19%) Data Lake
8 51 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 40 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.21%) Metadata
11 31 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.35%) MySQL
14 20 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.23%) Power BI
15 19 (1.16%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.10%) Big Data
16 18 (1.10%) Delta Lake
17 17 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 237 (14.53%) GitLab
2 216 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 212 (13.00%) Git
4 36 (2.21%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.15%) CircleCI
6 33 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 33 (2.02%) JIRA
7 20 (1.23%) Jaeger
8 17 (1.04%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (0.80%) Selenium
9 13 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.55%) Maven
10 9 (0.55%) MLflow
11 8 (0.49%) JMeter
11 8 (0.49%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.49%) Storybook
11 8 (0.49%) Subversion
12 7 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
12 7 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 397 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 317 (19.44%) Finance
3 123 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.07%) Banking
6 60 (3.68%) Retail
7 57 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (2.82%) Law
8 46 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.08%) Games
10 30 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.47%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.10%) Advertising
13 18 (1.10%) Billing
13 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.04%) Marketing
15 14 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.80%) Legal
17 12 (0.74%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 368 (22.56%) Senior
2 272 (16.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 259 (15.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 224 (13.73%) Lead
5 166 (10.18%) Azure Engineer
6 164 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
7 143 (8.77%) Architect
8 138 (8.46%) Developer
9 125 (7.66%) AWS Engineer
10 109 (6.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 92 (5.64%) Software Engineer
12 90 (5.52%) Data Engineer
13 82 (5.03%) Security Engineer
14 75 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 70 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 63 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
17 62 (3.80%) Principal Engineer
18 54 (3.31%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 53 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 51 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.09%) React
2 116 (7.11%) Kafka
3 114 (6.99%) .NET
4 109 (6.68%) Node.js
5 100 (6.13%) REST
6 88 (5.40%) RESTful
7 78 (4.78%) Spring
7 78 (4.78%) YAML
8 70 (4.29%) Spring Boot
9 66 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
10 62 (3.80%) AWS CDK
11 56 (3.43%) PySpark
12 55 (3.37%) ARM Templates
13 52 (3.19%) OAuth
14 44 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
15 38 (2.33%) ASP.NET
16 37 (2.27%) JSON
17 36 (2.21%) ASP.NET Core
18 33 (2.02%) Next.js
19 30 (1.84%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 403 (24.71%) Cloud Native
2 136 (8.34%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.52%) Hybrid Cloud
4 71 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.68%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.07%) Product Ownership
7 49 (3.00%) Security Posture
8 48 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (2.39%) Video\Live Streaming
10 38 (2.33%) Onboarding
11 26 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 25 (1.53%) Blockchain
12 25 (1.53%) Low-Code
12 25 (1.53%) PKI
13 23 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
13 23 (1.41%) Web3
14 21 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 320 (19.62%) Linux
2 156 (9.56%) Windows
3 80 (4.90%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.82%) Unix
5 43 (2.64%) Ubuntu
6 33 (2.02%) CentOS
7 26 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.41%) VMS
9 11 (0.67%) Android
10 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.43%) Debian
11 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) SUSE
14 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,132 (69.41%) CI/CD
2 942 (57.76%) DevOps
3 443 (27.16%) Containerisation
4 434 (26.61%) Agile
5 408 (25.02%) Observability
6 341 (20.91%) Platform Engineering
7 332 (20.36%) Mentoring
8 326 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 312 (19.13%) AI
10 289 (17.72%) Test Automation
11 261 (16.00%) Microservices
12 252 (15.45%) Software Engineering
13 237 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
14 218 (13.37%) Cloud Security
15 206 (12.63%) Technical Leadership
16 205 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 192 (11.77%) Analytics
18 178 (10.91%) High Availability
19 171 (10.48%) DevSecOps
20 161 (9.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 741 (45.43%) Python
2 307 (18.82%) Bash
3 270 (16.55%) PowerShell
4 264 (16.19%) SQL
5 212 (13.00%) Java
6 171 (10.48%) Go
7 146 (8.95%) TypeScript
8 142 (8.71%) JavaScript
9 134 (8.22%) Bicep
10 116 (7.11%) C#
11 30 (1.84%) Rust
12 22 (1.35%) Scala
13 21 (1.29%) C++
14 17 (1.04%) PHP
15 15 (0.92%) Groovy
16 14 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
17 12 (0.74%) C
18 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
19 8 (0.49%) Ruby
20 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 309 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 204 (12.51%) SC Cleared
3 150 (9.20%) Degree
4 126 (7.73%) AWS Certification
5 95 (5.82%) DV Cleared
6 89 (5.46%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 39 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.72%) OSCP
12 21 (1.29%) CISSP
13 17 (1.04%) CCNP
14 15 (0.92%) CCNA
14 15 (0.92%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.74%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 9 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.60%) QA
2 66 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.31%) GDPR
4 47 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 46 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.08%) NIST
7 30 (1.84%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.67%) WCAG
10 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.49%) GRC
11 6 (0.37%) SLA
12 4 (0.25%) NCSC
12 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.061%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 442 (27.10%) Docker
2 106 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 88 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.96%) vSphere
6 22 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.49%) Squid
9 7 (0.43%) iptables
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.25%) Firmware
11 4 (0.25%) KVM
12 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,141 (69.96%) Terraform
2 637 (39.06%) Kubernetes
3 356 (21.83%) Ansible
4 199 (12.20%) Grafana
5 194 (11.89%) Prometheus
6 58 (3.56%) Argo
7 37 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (2.15%) Puppet
10 23 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.35%) Kustomize
12 18 (1.10%) Packer
13 17 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.04%) Nagios
14 16 (0.98%) Istio
15 13 (0.80%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.74%) Rancher
16 12 (0.74%) vCenter Server
17 10 (0.61%) Cilium
18 9 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 301 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 121 (7.42%) VMware
3 97 (5.95%) Google
4 70 (4.29%) Databricks
5 69 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 53 (3.25%) Cisco
7 51 (3.13%) Splunk
8 45 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.78%) Oracle
10 25 (1.53%) Zscaler
11 23 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 20 (1.23%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 17 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (0.74%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.74%) CheckPoint
16 12 (0.74%) F5
17 10 (0.61%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.61%) SolarWinds