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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 128 135
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 -36
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,147 1,030 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.42% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.60% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 806 668 1,227
10th Percentile £46,348 £47,350 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -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 48,733 39,572 59,217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.83% 93.09% 88.20%
Number of salaries quoted 29,924 20,111 46,771
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,200 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,351 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +27 577 £85,000 -5.56% 230
North of England -5 211 £65,000 +0.78% 131
South East -2 127 £72,500 +3.57% 122
Yorkshire -7 90 £62,500 +13.64% 38
North West -16 90 £73,801 +9.33% 76
South West -15 83 £62,500 -10.71% 65
Midlands +3 66 £67,250 +3.46% 30
West Midlands -8 33 £65,000 - 23
East Midlands -3 31 £67,750 +4.23% 7
North East -4 31 £48,445 -13.10% 17
East of England +23 29 £62,500 -13.79% 15
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 52 (4.53%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (3.49%) Apache
3 25 (2.18%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.22%) Confluence
6 13 (1.13%) IIS
7 10 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.26%) Appian
9 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.17%) CMS
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.087%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.35%) Weka
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.087%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.087%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.087%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 733 (63.91%) AWS
2 631 (55.01%) Azure
3 258 (22.49%) GCP
4 256 (22.32%) GitHub
5 238 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (18.57%) Serverless
7 197 (17.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 176 (15.34%) GitHub Actions
9 134 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (10.37%) Amazon S3
11 107 (9.33%) PaaS
12 100 (8.72%) SaaS
13 90 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 89 (7.76%) Entra ID
15 87 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
16 73 (6.36%) Datadog
17 71 (6.19%) IaaS
18 67 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
18 67 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
19 61 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 144 (12.55%) Firewall
2 81 (7.06%) DNS
3 76 (6.63%) VPN
4 60 (5.23%) TCP/IP
5 42 (3.66%) WAN
6 32 (2.79%) Broadband
7 31 (2.70%) DHCP
8 29 (2.53%) Network Security
9 18 (1.57%) VLAN
10 17 (1.48%) BGP
10 17 (1.48%) HTTP
10 17 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.31%) Internet
11 15 (1.31%) LAN
12 11 (0.96%) DSL
13 9 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.70%) SAN
15 6 (0.52%) Wireless
16 5 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (8.28%) NoSQL
2 78 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
4 51 (4.45%) DynamoDB
5 50 (4.36%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.31%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 33 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.18%) MySQL
9 25 (2.18%) Redis
10 24 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.92%) BigQuery
13 20 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.74%) Metadata
14 19 (1.66%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.57%) Power BI
16 17 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.31%) Big Data
18 13 (1.13%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 187 (16.30%) Jenkins
2 149 (12.99%) Git
3 143 (12.47%) GitLab
4 30 (2.62%) JIRA
5 27 (2.35%) CircleCI
6 26 (2.27%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.18%) Selenium
8 24 (2.09%) Robot Framework
9 23 (2.01%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.57%) Snyk
11 16 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 16 (1.39%) MLflow
12 13 (1.13%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 10 (0.87%) JMeter
15 8 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.70%) Subversion
16 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 331 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 256 (22.32%) Finance
3 118 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (7.15%) Banking
5 70 (6.10%) Public Sector
6 67 (5.84%) Law
7 56 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (4.45%) Telecoms
9 50 (4.36%) Retail
10 34 (2.96%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.01%) Billing
12 22 (1.92%) Marketing
13 21 (1.83%) Back Office
14 18 (1.57%) Games
14 18 (1.57%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.39%) Advertising
15 16 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.31%) Legal
17 14 (1.22%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.96%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 238 (20.75%) Senior
2 187 (16.30%) Cloud Engineer
3 179 (15.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 141 (12.29%) Lead
5 110 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
6 106 (9.24%) Developer
7 105 (9.15%) Architect
7 105 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
8 88 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
9 87 (7.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 61 (5.32%) Software Engineer
11 51 (4.45%) Data Engineer
12 48 (4.18%) Security Engineer
13 44 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
14 38 (3.31%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 38 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.79%) Lead DevOps
18 30 (2.62%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.76%) React
2 73 (6.36%) Node.js
3 72 (6.28%) .NET
4 68 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
5 67 (5.84%) RESTful
6 66 (5.75%) Kafka
7 58 (5.06%) AWS CDK
8 54 (4.71%) Spring
9 50 (4.36%) Spring Boot
10 43 (3.75%) YAML
11 38 (3.31%) REST
12 35 (3.05%) Django
13 33 (2.88%) FastAPI
14 32 (2.79%) ARM Templates
15 31 (2.70%) CSS
16 30 (2.62%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (2.35%) HTML
18 26 (2.27%) .NET Core
19 25 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
20 24 (2.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 268 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (4.62%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.45%) Security Posture
5 44 (3.84%) Data Centre
5 44 (3.84%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (3.05%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
8 28 (2.44%) Product Ownership
9 27 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.09%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
14 17 (1.48%) Hedge funds
15 15 (1.31%) Blog
15 15 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
15 15 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
16 14 (1.22%) Mobile App
17 13 (1.13%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 252 (21.97%) Linux
2 120 (10.46%) Windows
3 67 (5.84%) Unix
4 44 (3.84%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.70%) VMS
6 24 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.31%) CentOS
9 10 (0.87%) Android
9 10 (0.87%) Debian
10 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.17%) Solaris
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.087%) AIX
15 1 (0.087%) Rocky
15 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (68.44%) CI/CD
2 716 (62.42%) DevOps
3 333 (29.03%) Agile
4 325 (28.33%) Containerisation
5 255 (22.23%) Observability
6 235 (20.49%) Continuous Improvement
7 231 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (17.79%) Mentoring
9 176 (15.34%) AI
10 175 (15.26%) Platform Engineering
11 169 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 163 (14.21%) Software Engineering
13 158 (13.78%) Cloud Security
14 153 (13.34%) Microservices
15 147 (12.82%) Test Automation
16 134 (11.68%) Analytics
16 134 (11.68%) DevSecOps
17 129 (11.25%) High Availability
18 123 (10.72%) Incident Response
19 115 (10.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 517 (45.07%) Python
2 225 (19.62%) Bash
3 178 (15.52%) PowerShell
4 174 (15.17%) SQL
5 152 (13.25%) Java
6 130 (11.33%) Go
7 106 (9.24%) Bicep
7 106 (9.24%) JavaScript
8 93 (8.11%) TypeScript
9 60 (5.23%) C#
10 17 (1.48%) Rust
11 16 (1.39%) C++
11 16 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.31%) Scala
13 10 (0.87%) C
14 8 (0.70%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.52%) Ruby
16 5 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 123 (10.72%) SC Cleared
3 104 (9.07%) Degree
4 98 (8.54%) AWS Certification
5 88 (7.67%) DV Cleared
6 66 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 42 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.62%) CISSP
9 28 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.09%) OSCP
12 14 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.13%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.96%) CCSK
15 9 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 7 (0.61%) CCNP
17 7 (0.61%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (4.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.18%) GDPR
3 44 (3.84%) QA
3 44 (3.84%) SOC 2
4 40 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.40%) NIST
6 35 (3.05%) PCI DSS
7 22 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.78%) SLA
9 9 (0.78%) WCAG
10 8 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.52%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
System Software
1 388 (33.83%) Docker
2 84 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 59 (5.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.92%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.57%) vSphere
7 14 (1.22%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.13%) Firmware
9 6 (0.52%) KVM
10 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.26%) iptables
12 3 (0.26%) vCloud
12 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.17%) GPFS
13 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.17%) NFS
13 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.17%) XenApp
13 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 805 (70.18%) Terraform
2 460 (40.10%) Kubernetes
3 297 (25.89%) Ansible
4 171 (14.91%) Prometheus
5 159 (13.86%) Grafana
6 47 (4.10%) Argo
7 32 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (2.09%) Puppet
9 21 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.66%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.39%) Rancher
12 13 (1.13%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.05%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.05%) SCCM
14 10 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.87%) Nagios
15 9 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
16 7 (0.61%) Istio
17 6 (0.52%) SCOM
17 6 (0.52%) yum
Vendors
1 187 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 104 (9.07%) Google
3 95 (8.28%) VMware
4 41 (3.57%) Databricks
5 39 (3.40%) Cisco
6 38 (3.31%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.23%) Splunk
8 34 (2.96%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.57%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.57%) Coverity
11 14 (1.22%) Oracle
11 14 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 13 (1.13%) Juniper
13 11 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.96%) New Relic
13 11 (0.96%) SAP
14 10 (0.87%) CyberArk