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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 153 162
Rank change year-on-year +58 +9 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,482 844 1,490
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 2.17% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.32% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 991 612 1,199
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,275 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,875 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,788
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.48% -5.62%

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 60,225 36,390 71,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.59% 93.48% 85.33%
Number of salaries quoted 38,460 20,470 53,767
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,372 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 May 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 May 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 +41 760 £87,500 -2.78% 269
North of England +13 267 £67,500 -3.57% 157
South East +13 156 £70,000 -6.67% 143
North West +22 150 £74,301 +2.48% 76
South West -10 104 £65,000 -9.71% 65
Midlands +26 97 £70,000 - 39
Yorkshire -20 85 £65,576 +5.80% 45
West Midlands -3 51 £70,000 - 23
East Midlands +3 44 £67,750 +4.23% 16
East of England +11 42 £60,100 -10.96% 28
North East -12 32 £48,445 -19.59% 36
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 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.09%) Apache
3 27 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.21%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) IIS
7 11 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.067%) Camunda
12 1 (0.067%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.067%) nginx
12 1 (0.067%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.067%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.067%) Maya
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.067%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.067%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.067%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 890 (60.05%) AWS
2 815 (54.99%) Azure
3 292 (19.70%) GCP
4 285 (19.23%) GitHub
5 270 (18.22%) Serverless
6 261 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
7 235 (15.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
9 149 (10.05%) AWS Lambda
10 132 (8.91%) Amazon S3
11 108 (7.29%) PaaS
12 106 (7.15%) Entra ID
13 103 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 103 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
14 94 (6.34%) Datadog
15 91 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
16 86 (5.80%) IaaS
16 86 (5.80%) SaaS
17 81 (5.47%) Azure AKS
18 77 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 171 (11.54%) Firewall
2 93 (6.28%) DNS
3 77 (5.20%) VPN
4 67 (4.52%) TCP/IP
5 56 (3.78%) Broadband
6 49 (3.31%) WAN
7 45 (3.04%) Network Security
8 36 (2.43%) DHCP
9 28 (1.89%) LAN
10 26 (1.75%) BGP
10 26 (1.75%) HTTP
11 18 (1.21%) VLAN
12 17 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 15 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
14 13 (0.88%) DSL
15 11 (0.74%) Internet
16 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.54%) OSPF
17 8 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (8.23%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
4 66 (4.45%) MongoDB
5 63 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 61 (4.12%) DynamoDB
7 46 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 45 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 39 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (2.02%) Metadata
12 26 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 26 (1.75%) MySQL
13 22 (1.48%) Power BI
14 20 (1.35%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.28%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.01%) Big Data
17 15 (1.01%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 218 (14.71%) Jenkins
2 211 (14.24%) GitLab
3 193 (13.02%) Git
4 38 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 36 (2.43%) CircleCI
5 36 (2.43%) JIRA
6 25 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 21 (1.42%) Jaeger
8 16 (1.08%) Selenium
9 14 (0.94%) SonarQube
10 13 (0.88%) MLflow
11 12 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.81%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.67%) Robot Framework
12 10 (0.67%) Subversion
13 9 (0.61%) Maven
13 9 (0.61%) Vite
14 8 (0.54%) JMeter
14 8 (0.54%) Storybook
15 7 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 377 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 296 (19.97%) Finance
3 111 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.94%) Banking
6 58 (3.91%) Retail
7 57 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 53 (3.58%) Law
9 36 (2.43%) Games
10 27 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 21 (1.42%) Marketing
13 20 (1.35%) Billing
14 19 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.21%) Advertising
15 18 (1.21%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.01%) Electronics
16 15 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.94%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 334 (22.54%) Senior
2 240 (16.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 234 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 202 (13.63%) Lead
5 152 (10.26%) Azure Engineer
6 143 (9.65%) Platform Engineer
7 131 (8.84%) Architect
8 129 (8.70%) Developer
9 113 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
10 111 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 84 (5.67%) Data Engineer
12 74 (4.99%) Software Engineer
13 71 (4.79%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 58 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 58 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
16 48 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.17%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 46 (3.10%) Python Engineer
19 43 (2.90%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (8.10%) React
2 98 (6.61%) Kafka
3 96 (6.48%) .NET
4 93 (6.28%) Node.js
4 93 (6.28%) RESTful
5 84 (5.67%) REST
6 73 (4.93%) Elastic Stack
7 65 (4.39%) Spring
8 63 (4.25%) AWS CDK
8 63 (4.25%) YAML
9 58 (3.91%) Spring Boot
10 51 (3.44%) ARM Templates
11 46 (3.10%) PySpark
12 45 (3.04%) OAuth
13 44 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
14 32 (2.16%) Next.js
15 30 (2.02%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (1.96%) ASP.NET
17 28 (1.89%) FastAPI
18 27 (1.82%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 352 (23.75%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (4.39%) Public Cloud
5 55 (3.71%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.31%) Data Centre
6 49 (3.31%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.29%) Onboarding
9 33 (2.23%) Video\Live Streaming
10 30 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.89%) Low-Code
12 24 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.62%) Blockchain
13 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
14 22 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 22 (1.48%) Web3
15 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.28%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 313 (21.12%) Linux
2 156 (10.53%) Windows
3 69 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.58%) Unix
5 36 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.96%) VMS
7 27 (1.82%) CentOS
8 26 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.74%) Android
10 10 (0.67%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.47%) Debian
12 6 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.067%) Rocky
16 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (67.88%) CI/CD
2 873 (58.91%) DevOps
3 417 (28.14%) Containerisation
4 388 (26.18%) Agile
5 374 (25.24%) Observability
6 316 (21.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 280 (18.89%) Platform Engineering
8 271 (18.29%) Mentoring
9 256 (17.27%) Test Automation
10 254 (17.14%) AI
11 235 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
12 220 (14.84%) Microservices
13 218 (14.71%) Software Engineering
14 201 (13.56%) Cloud Security
14 201 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 182 (12.28%) Analytics
16 169 (11.40%) High Availability
17 166 (11.20%) DevSecOps
18 160 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
19 139 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 691 (46.63%) Python
2 298 (20.11%) Bash
3 247 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 242 (16.33%) SQL
5 192 (12.96%) Java
6 171 (11.54%) Go
7 126 (8.50%) Bicep
8 122 (8.23%) JavaScript
9 120 (8.10%) TypeScript
10 94 (6.34%) C#
11 26 (1.75%) Rust
12 22 (1.48%) Scala
13 21 (1.42%) C++
14 19 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.88%) C
15 13 (0.88%) Groovy
16 9 (0.61%) PHP
17 8 (0.54%) Ruby
17 8 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 265 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 170 (11.47%) SC Cleared
3 147 (9.92%) Degree
4 117 (7.89%) AWS Certification
5 88 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 85 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 61 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (2.02%) OSCP
11 27 (1.82%) CISSP
12 26 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (1.01%) CCNP
14 14 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
15 13 (0.88%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.81%) CCNA
17 11 (0.74%) CCSK
18 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (4.72%) QA
2 60 (4.05%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.91%) GDPR
4 49 (3.31%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.36%) NIST
7 32 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.69%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.67%) WCAG
10 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.47%) NCSC
12 5 (0.34%) GRC
13 4 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) SLA
14 2 (0.13%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 428 (28.88%) Docker
2 102 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 80 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 28 (1.89%) vSphere
6 19 (1.28%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.28%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.54%) Firmware
8 7 (0.47%) iptables
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.34%) KVM
10 5 (0.34%) Squid
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.13%) GPFS
12 2 (0.13%) Lustre
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.067%) vCloud
13 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,030 (69.50%) Terraform
2 601 (40.55%) Kubernetes
3 343 (23.14%) Ansible
4 197 (13.29%) Grafana
5 195 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 55 (3.71%) Argo
7 35 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
9 32 (2.16%) Puppet
10 23 (1.55%) Kustomize
11 21 (1.42%) Progress Chef
12 18 (1.21%) Rancher
13 17 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.08%) Nagios
15 14 (0.94%) Istio
16 13 (0.88%) Packer
17 11 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
18 9 (0.61%) vCenter Server
18 9 (0.61%) ZABBIX
19 8 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 265 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 118 (7.96%) VMware
3 98 (6.61%) Google
4 68 (4.59%) Databricks
5 64 (4.32%) Red Hat
6 54 (3.64%) Cisco
7 48 (3.24%) Splunk
8 43 (2.90%) Palo Alto
9 24 (1.62%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.42%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 18 (1.21%) Fortinet
14 17 (1.15%) Oracle
15 13 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.88%) Juniper
15 13 (0.88%) SAP
16 11 (0.74%) CheckPoint
17 10 (0.67%) SolarWinds