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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 129 111
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 986 1,104 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 2.31% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.54% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 722 687 1,176
10th Percentile £47,706 £46,250 £49,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,184 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,250 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.03% - -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 43,328 43,506 47,260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.78% 91.02% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 26,008 21,252 36,787
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £78,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.51% -7.26%

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 19 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 19 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 +11 459 £84,250 -6.39% 261
North of England -10 201 £70,000 +12.00% 198
South East +11 108 £75,000 +15.38% 271
Yorkshire -18 88 £70,000 +30.23% 85
North West -3 87 £70,000 +1.82% 84
South West -14 81 £62,500 -13.18% 135
Midlands +11 58 £67,000 +1.52% 99
West Midlands +6 35 £65,000 -2.62% 39
East of England +31 27 £75,000 +3.45% 99
North East 0 26 £65,000 +39.78% 30
East Midlands +3 21 £67,750 +4.23% 57
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 45 (4.56%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (3.55%) Apache
3 20 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 16 (1.62%) Confluence
4 16 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.91%) IIS
6 7 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.30%) Appian
7 3 (0.30%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Weka
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 622 (63.08%) AWS
2 568 (57.61%) Azure
3 232 (23.53%) GitHub
4 226 (22.92%) Azure DevOps
5 215 (21.81%) GCP
6 176 (17.85%) Serverless
7 163 (16.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 149 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
9 118 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
10 103 (10.45%) Amazon S3
11 92 (9.33%) SaaS
12 80 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 76 (7.71%) PaaS
14 63 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
15 62 (6.29%) Amazon EC2
16 61 (6.19%) Entra ID
17 57 (5.78%) Azure Monitor
18 56 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
19 55 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
20 50 (5.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (11.97%) Firewall
2 68 (6.90%) DNS
2 68 (6.90%) VPN
3 47 (4.77%) WAN
4 45 (4.56%) TCP/IP
5 30 (3.04%) Network Security
6 28 (2.84%) DHCP
7 25 (2.54%) LAN
8 24 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (1.62%) BGP
9 16 (1.62%) Broadband
9 16 (1.62%) Internet
10 13 (1.32%) SD-WAN
11 12 (1.22%) VLAN
12 9 (0.91%) SAN
12 9 (0.91%) VoIP
12 9 (0.91%) Wireless
13 8 (0.81%) AMQP
14 7 (0.71%) HTTP
14 7 (0.71%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.71%) NoSQL
2 67 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (6.09%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 44 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 38 (3.85%) Data Lake
7 35 (3.55%) MongoDB
8 26 (2.64%) BigQuery
9 25 (2.54%) MySQL
10 22 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 21 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.83%) Redis
14 17 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.52%) Big Data
17 14 (1.42%) Power BI
18 13 (1.32%) RDBMS
19 12 (1.22%) Delta Lake
20 11 (1.12%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 174 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 149 (15.11%) Git
3 108 (10.95%) GitLab
4 30 (3.04%) JIRA
5 25 (2.54%) Selenium
6 24 (2.43%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.13%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.83%) Snyk
9 17 (1.72%) MLflow
10 15 (1.52%) Jaeger
11 14 (1.42%) CircleCI
11 14 (1.42%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.91%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.81%) Artifactory
14 8 (0.81%) JMeter
15 7 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.71%) Subversion
15 7 (0.71%) Vite
16 5 (0.51%) Locust
General
1 287 (29.11%) Social Skills
2 214 (21.70%) Finance
3 86 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (6.19%) Banking
5 55 (5.58%) Law
6 50 (5.07%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.65%) Retail
9 34 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (2.84%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.43%) Games
12 20 (2.03%) Marketing
13 19 (1.93%) Billing
14 18 (1.83%) Legal
15 17 (1.72%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.42%) Back Office
17 13 (1.32%) Advertising
18 12 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 12 (1.22%) Electronics
19 11 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (19.68%) Senior
2 160 (16.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 152 (15.42%) Cloud Engineer
4 116 (11.76%) Lead
5 104 (10.55%) Developer
6 98 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
7 91 (9.23%) Architect
8 81 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
9 63 (6.39%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (4.36%) Software Engineer
12 42 (4.26%) Data Engineer
13 38 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.55%) Security Engineer
14 35 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.25%) Lead DevOps
16 29 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
17 28 (2.84%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 27 (2.74%) Support Engineer
19 25 (2.54%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.24%) React
2 82 (8.32%) .NET
3 60 (6.09%) Node.js
4 59 (5.98%) RESTful
5 55 (5.58%) Elastic Stack
6 46 (4.67%) Kafka
7 41 (4.16%) AWS CDK
8 39 (3.96%) Spring
9 37 (3.75%) YAML
10 36 (3.65%) ARM Templates
11 35 (3.55%) REST
12 34 (3.45%) Spring Boot
13 31 (3.14%) .NET Core
13 31 (3.14%) Django
13 31 (3.14%) FastAPI
14 28 (2.84%) CSS
15 27 (2.74%) HTML
16 23 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (2.03%) OpenTelemetry
18 19 (1.93%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 240 (24.34%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.38%) Public Cloud
4 50 (5.07%) Data Centre
5 37 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 31 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 28 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.03%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.32%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.32%) Hedge funds
14 12 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.22%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 232 (23.53%) Linux
2 109 (11.05%) Windows
3 51 (5.17%) Unix
4 36 (3.65%) Windows Server
5 25 (2.54%) Ubuntu
5 25 (2.54%) VMS
6 20 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (1.52%) Debian
8 11 (1.12%) CentOS
9 6 (0.61%) Android
9 6 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.30%) SUSE
11 3 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) AIX
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (68.05%) CI/CD
2 638 (64.71%) DevOps
3 290 (29.41%) Agile
4 276 (27.99%) Containerisation
5 198 (20.08%) Observability
5 198 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (19.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 161 (16.33%) Mentoring
8 152 (15.42%) Platform Engineering
9 138 (14.00%) Cloud Security
10 136 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 134 (13.59%) AI
12 131 (13.29%) Software Engineering
13 122 (12.37%) Microservices
14 116 (11.76%) Analytics
15 111 (11.26%) DevSecOps
16 109 (11.05%) High Availability
17 108 (10.95%) Test Automation
18 107 (10.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 101 (10.24%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 431 (43.71%) Python
2 184 (18.66%) Bash
3 160 (16.23%) PowerShell
4 149 (15.11%) SQL
5 114 (11.56%) Bicep
6 110 (11.16%) Java
7 94 (9.53%) JavaScript
8 89 (9.03%) Go
9 83 (8.42%) TypeScript
10 67 (6.80%) C#
11 14 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.22%) Scala
12 12 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.12%) C++
14 9 (0.91%) C
15 7 (0.71%) Rust
16 6 (0.61%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.30%) Ruby
19 2 (0.20%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 174 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.24%) SC Cleared
3 93 (9.43%) AWS Certification
4 85 (8.62%) Degree
5 84 (8.52%) DV Cleared
6 66 (6.69%) Azure Certification
7 35 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 24 (2.43%) CISSP
10 23 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.72%) CCNP
14 14 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 14 (1.42%) OSCP
15 7 (0.71%) CCSK
15 7 (0.71%) CISM
16 6 (0.61%) MCP
16 6 (0.61%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 43 (4.36%) GDPR
3 34 (3.45%) NIST
3 34 (3.45%) QA
4 30 (3.04%) Data Quality
4 30 (3.04%) SOC 2
5 21 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 16 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.91%) SLA
10 6 (0.61%) GRC
11 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.51%) NCSC
11 5 (0.51%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 343 (34.79%) Docker
2 67 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.62%) vSphere
7 11 (1.12%) Firmware
7 11 (1.12%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.91%) NFS
9 8 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.61%) KVM
10 6 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.41%) vCloud
12 3 (0.30%) XenApp
12 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.20%) GPFS
13 2 (0.20%) iptables
13 2 (0.20%) Lustre
13 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 708 (71.81%) Terraform
2 407 (41.28%) Kubernetes
3 276 (27.99%) Ansible
4 141 (14.30%) Prometheus
5 129 (13.08%) Grafana
6 36 (3.65%) Argo
7 25 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (1.83%) Puppet
9 17 (1.72%) Rancher
10 16 (1.62%) SCCM
11 13 (1.32%) Kustomize
11 13 (1.32%) Progress Chef
12 12 (1.22%) Docker Swarm
13 11 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.91%) SCOM
15 6 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
15 6 (0.61%) ZABBIX
16 5 (0.51%) Nagios
16 5 (0.51%) yum
Vendors
1 180 (18.26%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.03%) VMware
3 87 (8.82%) Google
4 46 (4.67%) Cisco
5 38 (3.85%) Databricks
6 36 (3.65%) Splunk
7 34 (3.45%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 19 (1.93%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.83%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.83%) Coverity
11 16 (1.62%) Oracle
12 13 (1.32%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.22%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (1.22%) Salesforce
13 12 (1.22%) SAP
14 11 (1.12%) Juniper
14 11 (1.12%) SolarWinds
15 10 (1.01%) New Relic
16 9 (0.91%) OpenAI