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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 155 134
Rank change year-on-year +80 -21 -40
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,103 948 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.16% 2.16% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.43% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,439 677 929
10th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £45,400
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £107,500 £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 71,357 38,940 57,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.80% 81.14%
Number of salaries quoted 50,719 22,637 35,999
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 +31 922 £90,000 +2.86% 802
North of England +87 454 £70,000 - 253
South East +62 252 £67,500 -12.90% 190
North West +84 249 £72,500 +3.57% 129
South West +48 228 £75,000 - 160
Midlands +39 148 £75,000 +15.38% 82
Yorkshire +4 106 £72,500 +3.57% 85
North East +20 99 £59,000 -18.62% 40
West Midlands +16 89 £85,000 +30.77% 43
East Midlands +13 59 £67,500 +3.85% 39
East of England +6 58 £70,000 +7.69% 44
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 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 50 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 49 (2.33%) Apache
3 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.28%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.48%) IIS
6 10 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.29%) CMS
8 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.14%) WordPress
11 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.048%) Documentum
12 1 (0.048%) JBoss
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.095%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.048%) Maya
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,204 (57.25%) AWS
2 1,110 (52.78%) Azure
3 395 (18.78%) GCP
4 364 (17.31%) GitHub
5 346 (16.45%) Serverless
6 334 (15.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 289 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
8 200 (9.51%) GitHub Actions
9 185 (8.80%) Amazon S3
10 183 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
11 154 (7.32%) PaaS
12 140 (6.66%) Amazon EC2
13 126 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
14 125 (5.94%) Azure AKS
15 122 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 122 (5.80%) Amazon ECS
16 114 (5.42%) SaaS
17 110 (5.23%) IaaS
18 109 (5.18%) Entra ID
19 101 (4.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 165 (7.85%) Firewall
2 115 (5.47%) DNS
3 114 (5.42%) VPN
4 99 (4.71%) Network Security
5 60 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 56 (2.66%) WAN
7 53 (2.52%) BGP
8 46 (2.19%) Broadband
9 44 (2.09%) DHCP
10 38 (1.81%) LAN
11 37 (1.76%) OSPF
12 32 (1.52%) VLAN
13 27 (1.28%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
15 25 (1.19%) SD-WAN
16 17 (0.81%) Wireless
17 15 (0.71%) HTTP
18 14 (0.67%) SAN
19 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
20 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 137 (6.51%) NoSQL
3 92 (4.37%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.23%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.81%) Data Lake
8 57 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 51 (2.43%) MySQL
10 50 (2.38%) Metadata
11 47 (2.23%) Relational Database
12 42 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.52%) Delta Lake
14 30 (1.43%) Redis
15 28 (1.33%) Big Data
15 28 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 24 (1.14%) Power BI
18 23 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
19 22 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 284 (13.50%) Git
2 266 (12.65%) GitLab
3 228 (10.84%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.47%) JIRA
5 45 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 27 (1.28%) Bitbucket
8 26 (1.24%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.00%) Selenium
10 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.81%) CircleCI
11 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.71%) NUnit
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.52%) Maven
14 11 (0.52%) MLflow
15 10 (0.48%) Snyk
16 9 (0.43%) MSI
17 8 (0.38%) Subversion
17 8 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 536 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 433 (20.59%) Finance
3 183 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 117 (5.56%) Banking
6 109 (5.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 78 (3.71%) Law
8 57 (2.71%) Retail
9 50 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 46 (2.19%) Games
11 35 (1.66%) Marketing
12 31 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.43%) Legal
14 28 (1.33%) Telecoms
15 19 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (0.81%) Aviation
16 17 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.71%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 499 (23.73%) Senior
2 368 (17.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 279 (13.27%) Lead
4 277 (13.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 236 (11.22%) Architect
6 224 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
7 184 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (8.32%) Developer
9 135 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 133 (6.32%) Software Engineer
11 131 (6.23%) AWS Engineer
12 116 (5.52%) Data Engineer
13 111 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
14 99 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (4.09%) Security Engineer
16 79 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 72 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.28%) Senior Developer
19 67 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
20 63 (3.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,462 (69.52%) Terraform
2 173 (8.23%) .NET
3 162 (7.70%) React
4 158 (7.51%) Kafka
5 141 (6.70%) REST
6 128 (6.09%) RESTful
7 122 (5.80%) Node.js
8 121 (5.75%) Spring
9 113 (5.37%) Spring Boot
10 74 (3.52%) PySpark
11 67 (3.19%) ARM Templates
11 67 (3.19%) YAML
12 63 (3.00%) AWS CDK
13 51 (2.43%) AngularJS
14 49 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (2.14%) OAuth
16 44 (2.09%) ASP.NET
17 43 (2.04%) Next.js
18 42 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
19 41 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 629 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 225 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 118 (5.61%) Onboarding
5 114 (5.42%) Public Cloud
6 92 (4.37%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 56 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
9 56 (2.66%) Security Posture
10 51 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
11 45 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
13 36 (1.71%) Low-Code
13 36 (1.71%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.62%) e-Learning
14 34 (1.62%) PKI
15 32 (1.52%) Virtual Team
16 31 (1.47%) AI Agents
17 28 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 359 (17.07%) Linux
2 207 (9.84%) Windows
3 95 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.71%) CentOS
5 40 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.24%) Unix
8 22 (1.05%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Android
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.095%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,492 (70.95%) CI/CD
2 1,152 (54.78%) DevOps
3 585 (27.82%) Containerisation
4 573 (27.25%) Agile
5 554 (26.34%) Observability
6 517 (24.58%) Platform Engineering
7 462 (21.97%) AI
7 462 (21.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 442 (21.02%) Mentoring
9 412 (19.59%) Software Engineering
10 366 (17.40%) Microservices
11 365 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (16.88%) Test Automation
13 330 (15.69%) Cloud Security
13 330 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
14 288 (13.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 254 (12.08%) Roadmaps
16 238 (11.32%) Analytics
17 237 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 230 (10.94%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 938 (44.60%) Python
2 350 (16.64%) SQL
3 347 (16.50%) Bash
4 321 (15.26%) PowerShell
5 299 (14.22%) Java
6 215 (10.22%) Bicep
7 185 (8.80%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.46%) C#
9 152 (7.23%) Go
9 152 (7.23%) JavaScript
10 42 (2.00%) Scala
11 36 (1.71%) PHP
12 27 (1.28%) Rust
13 26 (1.24%) Ruby
14 25 (1.19%) Groovy
15 23 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (1.00%) Perl
17 15 (0.71%) C++
18 14 (0.67%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 521 (24.77%) Security Cleared
2 331 (15.74%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 182 (8.65%) Degree
5 176 (8.37%) AWS Certification
6 145 (6.89%) Azure Certification
7 88 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 73 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 55 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
9 55 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 36 (1.71%) CCNP
11 31 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.95%) CISSP
14 19 (0.90%) CCNA
15 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
16 17 (0.81%) SnowPro
17 16 (0.76%) OSCP
18 14 (0.67%) CCIE
19 13 (0.62%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.71%) Data Quality
1 99 (4.71%) QA
2 64 (3.04%) GDPR
3 56 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (1.52%) NIST
4 32 (1.52%) SOC 2
5 31 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 24 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.05%) SLA
8 20 (0.95%) NCSC
9 14 (0.67%) WCAG
10 13 (0.62%) GRC
11 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.095%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 550 (26.15%) Docker
2 132 (6.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (6.18%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.04%) vSphere
5 37 (1.76%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.09%) Hyper-V
6 23 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.43%) KVM
10 8 (0.38%) Squid
11 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
12 5 (0.24%) Firmware
12 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (0.19%) iptables
14 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.095%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 800 (38.04%) Kubernetes
2 452 (21.49%) Ansible
3 203 (9.65%) Grafana
4 138 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 62 (2.95%) Argo
6 54 (2.57%) Puppet
7 36 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 35 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
9 31 (1.47%) Istio
9 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.19%) Packer
11 18 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 17 (0.81%) Nagios
12 17 (0.81%) vCenter Server
13 14 (0.67%) Cilium
14 12 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
14 12 (0.57%) Rancher
14 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
15 10 (0.48%) Kibana
Vendors
1 443 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.66%) VMware
3 119 (5.66%) Google
4 99 (4.71%) Databricks
5 77 (3.66%) Red Hat
6 72 (3.42%) Cisco
7 70 (3.33%) Splunk
8 54 (2.57%) Oracle
9 45 (2.14%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.90%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.76%) OpenAI
12 36 (1.71%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.71%) SAP
15 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.62%) F5
17 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.52%) New Relic