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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 129 153
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,317 864 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.36% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.54% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 894 637 1,204
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 56,082 34,068 68,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 76.26% 93.20% 86.14%
Number of salaries quoted 35,346 20,472 52,516
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 +39 653 £85,000 -5.56% 278
North of England -16 257 £70,000 +3.70% 159
South East +8 149 £70,000 -6.67% 123
North West -16 127 £73,801 +1.79% 84
South West -14 98 £62,500 -13.18% 88
Yorkshire -14 96 £65,000 +13.04% 47
Midlands -10 79 £67,500 +3.85% 47
East Midlands -25 40 £67,500 +3.85% 6
West Midlands -4 37 £65,500 -6.43% 41
North East -7 34 £48,445 -15.75% 28
East of England -20 33 £62,500 -10.71% 35
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 46 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.51%) Apache
3 24 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.21%) IIS
6 15 (1.14%) Confluence
7 9 (0.68%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.076%) Appian
10 1 (0.076%) Camunda
10 1 (0.076%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.076%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.076%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (0.38%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.30%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.076%) Maya
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.076%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.076%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.076%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.076%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.076%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 827 (62.79%) AWS
2 719 (54.59%) Azure
3 291 (22.10%) GCP
4 282 (21.41%) GitHub
5 256 (19.44%) Serverless
6 248 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
7 222 (16.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 195 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
9 146 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
10 133 (10.10%) Amazon S3
11 105 (7.97%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (7.82%) PaaS
13 100 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 97 (7.37%) SaaS
15 95 (7.21%) Datadog
15 95 (7.21%) Entra ID
16 81 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (5.16%) Amazon ECS
17 68 (5.16%) IaaS
17 68 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (12.76%) Firewall
2 84 (6.38%) DNS
3 73 (5.54%) VPN
4 72 (5.47%) TCP/IP
5 42 (3.19%) WAN
6 38 (2.89%) Broadband
6 38 (2.89%) Network Security
7 29 (2.20%) DHCP
8 22 (1.67%) HTTP
8 22 (1.67%) LAN
9 21 (1.59%) BGP
10 17 (1.29%) VLAN
11 16 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (0.99%) DSL
13 12 (0.91%) Internet
13 12 (0.91%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
14 9 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.61%) Wireless
16 6 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (8.50%) NoSQL
2 94 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 57 (4.33%) DynamoDB
6 43 (3.26%) MongoDB
7 41 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 40 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
12 26 (1.97%) MySQL
12 26 (1.97%) Redis
13 24 (1.82%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.67%) Power BI
15 20 (1.52%) Metadata
16 19 (1.44%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (1.21%) Delta Lake
19 12 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 206 (15.64%) Jenkins
2 181 (13.74%) GitLab
3 178 (13.52%) Git
4 34 (2.58%) JIRA
5 33 (2.51%) Bitbucket
6 32 (2.43%) CircleCI
7 25 (1.90%) Selenium
8 24 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 21 (1.59%) Jaeger
10 20 (1.52%) Robot Framework
11 14 (1.06%) MLflow
11 14 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.06%) TeamCity
12 13 (0.99%) JMeter
13 12 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (0.91%) Snyk
14 9 (0.68%) Locust
15 8 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
15 8 (0.61%) Storybook
15 8 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 361 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 283 (21.49%) Finance
3 124 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.52%) Banking
5 78 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 63 (4.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 63 (4.78%) Law
6 63 (4.78%) Retail
7 60 (4.56%) Telecoms
8 30 (2.28%) Financial Institution
9 26 (1.97%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.82%) Marketing
11 23 (1.75%) Games
12 22 (1.67%) Billing
13 21 (1.59%) Back Office
14 20 (1.52%) Aerospace
15 19 (1.44%) Advertising
16 15 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.14%) Electronics
17 12 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (21.79%) Senior
2 217 (16.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 177 (13.44%) Lead
5 120 (9.11%) Developer
6 119 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
7 115 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
8 109 (8.28%) Architect
9 104 (7.90%) AWS Engineer
10 98 (7.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 67 (5.09%) Software Engineer
12 65 (4.94%) Data Engineer
13 59 (4.48%) Security Engineer
14 55 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
15 48 (3.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 46 (3.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 46 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 42 (3.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 40 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
18 40 (3.04%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.34%) React
2 89 (6.76%) .NET
3 87 (6.61%) Node.js
4 77 (5.85%) Kafka
4 77 (5.85%) RESTful
5 74 (5.62%) Elastic Stack
5 74 (5.62%) REST
6 63 (4.78%) Spring
7 60 (4.56%) AWS CDK
8 55 (4.18%) Spring Boot
8 55 (4.18%) YAML
9 44 (3.34%) ARM Templates
10 42 (3.19%) Django
11 41 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
12 38 (2.89%) FastAPI
13 37 (2.81%) OAuth
14 36 (2.73%) CSS
15 33 (2.51%) PySpark
16 32 (2.43%) HTML
17 30 (2.28%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 301 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 84 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (5.01%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.33%) Security Posture
5 56 (4.25%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.49%) Data Centre
7 42 (3.19%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 24 (1.82%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.59%) Blockchain
15 19 (1.44%) Web3
16 18 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
16 18 (1.37%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.29%) Data Structures
17 17 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 299 (22.70%) Linux
2 149 (11.31%) Windows
3 67 (5.09%) Unix
4 59 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.20%) VMS
7 24 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (1.75%) CentOS
9 12 (0.91%) Android
10 11 (0.84%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.61%) Debian
12 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.30%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.076%) Rocky
15 1 (0.076%) Solaris
15 1 (0.076%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (67.35%) CI/CD
2 804 (61.05%) DevOps
3 374 (28.40%) Containerisation
4 368 (27.94%) Agile
5 322 (24.45%) Observability
6 289 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 243 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
8 241 (18.30%) Mentoring
9 209 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
10 207 (15.72%) Test Automation
11 200 (15.19%) AI
12 191 (14.50%) Software Engineering
13 186 (14.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 184 (13.97%) Cloud Security
15 182 (13.82%) Microservices
16 156 (11.85%) Analytics
17 151 (11.47%) DevSecOps
18 149 (11.31%) High Availability
19 142 (10.78%) Incident Response
20 131 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 614 (46.62%) Python
2 266 (20.20%) Bash
3 221 (16.78%) SQL
4 217 (16.48%) PowerShell
5 175 (13.29%) Java
6 149 (11.31%) Go
7 121 (9.19%) JavaScript
8 119 (9.04%) Bicep
9 105 (7.97%) TypeScript
10 69 (5.24%) C#
11 20 (1.52%) C++
11 20 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 20 (1.52%) Rust
12 16 (1.21%) Scala
13 11 (0.84%) C
14 10 (0.76%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.68%) Ruby
16 7 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.53%) Perl
17 6 (0.46%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 232 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 141 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.49%) Degree
4 106 (8.05%) AWS Certification
5 94 (7.14%) DV Cleared
6 72 (5.47%) Azure Certification
7 55 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.20%) OSCP
9 28 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.05%) CISSP
11 15 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
11 15 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.91%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 11 (0.84%) CCSK
14 10 (0.76%) CCNP
14 10 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 7 (0.53%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.86%) QA
2 55 (4.18%) GDPR
3 54 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.10%) SOC 2
4 48 (3.64%) Data Quality
5 41 (3.11%) NIST
5 41 (3.11%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.90%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.84%) WCAG
8 9 (0.68%) SLA
9 7 (0.53%) GRC
10 6 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.46%) NCSC
11 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.30%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
12 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 426 (32.35%) Docker
2 87 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 66 (5.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.82%) vSphere
6 19 (1.44%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.21%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.68%) Firmware
9 6 (0.46%) iptables
9 6 (0.46%) KVM
10 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.15%) GPFS
11 2 (0.15%) Lustre
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.076%) QEMU
12 1 (0.076%) Squid
12 1 (0.076%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 938 (71.22%) Terraform
2 536 (40.70%) Kubernetes
3 325 (24.68%) Ansible
4 186 (14.12%) Grafana
5 184 (13.97%) Prometheus
6 49 (3.72%) Argo
7 33 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
9 22 (1.67%) Puppet
10 19 (1.44%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (1.06%) Nagios
12 14 (1.06%) Rancher
13 13 (0.99%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.76%) Istio
16 9 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
17 8 (0.61%) Packer
17 8 (0.61%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.20%) Google
3 103 (7.82%) VMware
4 53 (4.02%) Red Hat
5 52 (3.95%) Databricks
6 48 (3.64%) Cisco
7 46 (3.49%) Splunk
8 40 (3.04%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.75%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.44%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.21%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.21%) OpenAI
13 15 (1.14%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.14%) Oracle
14 14 (1.06%) Fortinet
14 14 (1.06%) Juniper
15 12 (0.91%) Black Duck
15 12 (0.91%) Coverity
15 12 (0.91%) SAP