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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 132 156
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,219 899 1,431
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 2.37% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.53% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 845 656 1,184
10th Percentile £46,750 £47,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,901 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.47% +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 52,598 35,514 66,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.69% 93.57% 86.78%
Number of salaries quoted 32,587 20,343 51,251
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £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% -11.29%

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 22 March 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 22 March 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 +36 611 £85,000 -5.56% 280
North of England -23 219 £65,000 -3.70% 149
South East +4 139 £70,000 -3.45% 131
North West -23 102 £72,250 -0.34% 79
South West -10 90 £62,500 -10.71% 88
Yorkshire -10 87 £62,500 +13.64% 46
Midlands -17 69 £67,500 +3.85% 42
East of England +3 35 £65,000 -10.34% 33
East Midlands -14 34 £67,500 +3.85% 4
West Midlands -12 33 £66,500 -5.00% 37
North East -15 30 £48,445 -15.75% 24
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 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (2.95%) Apache
3 24 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.31%) IIS
6 12 (0.98%) Confluence
7 10 (0.82%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.082%) Camunda
11 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.33%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.082%) Maya
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.082%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 779 (63.90%) AWS
2 666 (54.63%) Azure
3 277 (22.72%) GCP
4 266 (21.82%) GitHub
5 242 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
6 232 (19.03%) Serverless
7 215 (17.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 184 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
9 139 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
10 126 (10.34%) Amazon S3
11 101 (8.29%) PaaS
11 101 (8.29%) SaaS
12 96 (7.88%) Amazon EKS
13 93 (7.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 88 (7.22%) Entra ID
15 87 (7.14%) Datadog
16 74 (6.07%) Amazon EC2
17 71 (5.82%) Microsoft 365
18 67 (5.50%) IaaS
19 65 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 155 (12.72%) Firewall
2 82 (6.73%) DNS
3 69 (5.66%) VPN
4 68 (5.58%) TCP/IP
5 38 (3.12%) Broadband
6 37 (3.04%) WAN
7 35 (2.87%) Network Security
8 28 (2.30%) DHCP
9 20 (1.64%) HTTP
10 19 (1.56%) BGP
11 17 (1.39%) LAN
12 16 (1.31%) VLAN
13 15 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
13 15 (1.23%) Internet
14 13 (1.07%) DSL
15 11 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
16 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
17 7 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
17 7 (0.57%) Wireless
18 5 (0.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (8.70%) NoSQL
2 88 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
3 79 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 54 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 42 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 38 (3.12%) Data Lake
7 38 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.30%) MySQL
9 27 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (1.97%) Redis
12 23 (1.89%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.72%) Power BI
14 19 (1.56%) Metadata
14 19 (1.56%) RDBMS
15 15 (1.23%) Delta Lake
16 14 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 189 (15.50%) Jenkins
2 166 (13.62%) GitLab
3 159 (13.04%) Git
4 32 (2.63%) CircleCI
5 30 (2.46%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.30%) JIRA
7 26 (2.13%) Selenium
8 24 (1.97%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.72%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.39%) Snyk
12 14 (1.15%) MLflow
13 13 (1.07%) TeamCity
14 12 (0.98%) JMeter
15 9 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.66%) Locust
16 8 (0.66%) SonarQube
16 8 (0.66%) Storybook
16 8 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 344 (28.22%) Social Skills
2 266 (21.82%) Finance
3 126 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (7.63%) Banking
5 74 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.25%) Law
7 59 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (4.68%) Telecoms
9 54 (4.43%) Retail
10 31 (2.54%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.97%) Marketing
12 23 (1.89%) Games
13 20 (1.64%) Back Office
13 20 (1.64%) Billing
13 20 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.48%) Advertising
15 16 (1.31%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.07%) Electronics
17 12 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (21.49%) Senior
2 198 (16.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 189 (15.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 156 (12.80%) Lead
5 111 (9.11%) Developer
5 111 (9.11%) Platform Engineer
6 108 (8.86%) Architect
7 104 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
8 95 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (7.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 63 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 57 (4.68%) Data Engineer
12 53 (4.35%) Security Engineer
13 50 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 43 (3.53%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 42 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 41 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
17 36 (2.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 36 (2.95%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (9.52%) React
2 81 (6.64%) .NET
2 81 (6.64%) Node.js
3 73 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
4 72 (5.91%) RESTful
5 71 (5.82%) Kafka
6 63 (5.17%) AWS CDK
7 58 (4.76%) REST
7 58 (4.76%) Spring
8 53 (4.35%) Spring Boot
9 50 (4.10%) YAML
10 38 (3.12%) RabbitMQ
11 37 (3.04%) ARM Templates
11 37 (3.04%) Django
12 34 (2.79%) CSS
12 34 (2.79%) FastAPI
13 30 (2.46%) .NET Core
14 29 (2.38%) HTML
15 28 (2.30%) OAuth
15 28 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 284 (23.30%) Cloud Native
2 77 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 50 (4.10%) Public Cloud
5 46 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
6 42 (3.45%) Data Centre
7 41 (3.36%) Product Ownership
8 32 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
12 23 (1.89%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.48%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.39%) Blockchain
15 17 (1.39%) Video\Live Streaming
16 16 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.31%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 280 (22.97%) Linux
2 143 (11.73%) Windows
3 68 (5.58%) Unix
4 54 (4.43%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.54%) VMS
6 27 (2.21%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.64%) CentOS
7 20 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.90%) Android
9 10 (0.82%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.66%) Debian
11 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.33%) SUSE
13 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.082%) Rocky
14 1 (0.082%) Solaris
14 1 (0.082%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (67.92%) CI/CD
2 755 (61.94%) DevOps
3 351 (28.79%) Agile
3 351 (28.79%) Containerisation
4 291 (23.87%) Observability
5 269 (22.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 230 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (18.79%) Mentoring
8 198 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
9 187 (15.34%) AI
10 184 (15.09%) Test Automation
11 181 (14.85%) Software Engineering
12 173 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 170 (13.95%) Cloud Security
14 168 (13.78%) Microservices
15 149 (12.22%) DevSecOps
16 144 (11.81%) Analytics
17 142 (11.65%) High Availability
17 142 (11.65%) Incident Response
18 127 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 559 (45.86%) Python
2 248 (20.34%) Bash
3 195 (16.00%) PowerShell
4 191 (15.67%) SQL
5 158 (12.96%) Java
6 142 (11.65%) Go
7 110 (9.02%) JavaScript
8 107 (8.78%) Bicep
9 93 (7.63%) TypeScript
10 61 (5.00%) C#
11 19 (1.56%) Rust
12 18 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.31%) C++
13 16 (1.31%) Scala
14 11 (0.90%) C
15 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.66%) Ruby
17 7 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.41%) PHP
18 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 124 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.19%) Degree
4 98 (8.04%) AWS Certification
5 97 (7.96%) DV Cleared
6 62 (5.09%) Azure Certification
7 47 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.38%) CISSP
9 28 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.30%) OSCP
10 27 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (0.90%) CCSK
12 11 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.82%) DBS Check
14 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 8 (0.66%) CCNP
16 7 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.00%) QA
2 55 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.43%) GDPR
4 50 (4.10%) SOC 2
5 43 (3.53%) Data Quality
6 40 (3.28%) PCI DSS
7 39 (3.20%) NIST
8 25 (2.05%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (0.90%) WCAG
10 9 (0.74%) SLA
11 6 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.49%) GRC
11 6 (0.49%) NCSC
12 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 401 (32.90%) Docker
2 78 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 59 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.80%) vSphere
6 19 (1.56%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.90%) Firmware
9 6 (0.49%) KVM
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.25%) vCloud
12 2 (0.16%) GPFS
12 2 (0.16%) Lustre
12 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.082%) QEMU
13 1 (0.082%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 853 (69.98%) Terraform
2 493 (40.44%) Kubernetes
3 306 (25.10%) Ansible
4 182 (14.93%) Prometheus
5 177 (14.52%) Grafana
6 46 (3.77%) Argo
7 34 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.89%) Puppet
9 22 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 14 (1.15%) Nagios
11 14 (1.15%) Rancher
12 13 (1.07%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.82%) SCCM
16 9 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
17 8 (0.66%) Istio
18 7 (0.57%) Proxmox
18 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 192 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.86%) Google
3 94 (7.71%) VMware
4 46 (3.77%) Databricks
5 45 (3.69%) Red Hat
6 44 (3.61%) Cisco
6 44 (3.61%) Splunk
7 39 (3.20%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.64%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.39%) Black Duck
9 17 (1.39%) Coverity
9 17 (1.39%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
10 16 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.31%) Juniper
11 13 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 12 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.98%) Oracle
12 12 (0.98%) SAP
13 11 (0.90%) Fortinet