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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 152 117
Rank change year-on-year +75 -35 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,219 903 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.13% 2.11% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 2.38% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,466 663 841
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,050 £43,421
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 76,889 38,006 52,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.85% 88.89% 82.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,783 21,806 28,108
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +30 955 £90,000 +5.88% 1,366
North of England +101 495 £69,305 -0.99% 378
North West +94 266 £70,400 +8.31% 208
South West +56 256 £75,000 +7.14% 167
South East +60 254 £67,500 -14.29% 243
Midlands +25 154 £75,000 +15.38% 130
North East +19 132 £60,000 -17.24% 69
Yorkshire +1 106 £67,750 -3.21% 104
West Midlands +13 101 £80,000 +23.55% 74
East of England -13 61 £75,000 +15.38% 102
East Midlands +2 53 £63,750 -1.92% 56
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 65 (2.93%) Apache
2 58 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 49 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.08%) Confluence
6 17 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.54%) nginx
7 12 (0.54%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
9 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
11 5 (0.23%) Camunda
11 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) WordPress
13 2 (0.090%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.090%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.090%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.045%) Documentum
14 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
14 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (0.90%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.090%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,243 (56.02%) AWS
2 1,157 (52.14%) Azure
3 443 (19.96%) GCP
4 409 (18.43%) GitHub
5 355 (16.00%) Serverless
6 340 (15.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 288 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
8 216 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 177 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 166 (7.48%) PaaS
12 136 (6.13%) SaaS
13 133 (5.99%) Amazon EC2
13 133 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
14 131 (5.90%) Azure AKS
15 128 (5.77%) Entra ID
16 123 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 121 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
18 115 (5.18%) IaaS
19 104 (4.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 171 (7.71%) Firewall
2 144 (6.49%) VPN
3 129 (5.81%) DNS
4 110 (4.96%) Network Security
5 59 (2.66%) TCP/IP
6 58 (2.61%) BGP
7 54 (2.43%) WAN
8 48 (2.16%) DHCP
9 39 (1.76%) Broadband
10 37 (1.67%) Internet
10 37 (1.67%) OSPF
11 34 (1.53%) VLAN
12 28 (1.26%) LAN
12 28 (1.26%) VXLAN
13 24 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
14 21 (0.95%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.72%) SAN
16 15 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
16 15 (0.68%) Wireless
17 12 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (8.07%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.71%) NoSQL
3 106 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
4 93 (4.19%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 71 (3.20%) DynamoDB
7 66 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 54 (2.43%) MySQL
9 51 (2.30%) Metadata
10 43 (1.94%) Relational Database
11 42 (1.89%) Redis
12 34 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.49%) Power BI
14 30 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.35%) Big Data
15 27 (1.22%) Delta Lake
15 27 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 23 (1.04%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 320 (14.42%) Git
2 296 (13.34%) GitLab
3 245 (11.04%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.21%) Cucumber
5 47 (2.12%) JIRA
6 37 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 34 (1.53%) TeamCity
8 26 (1.17%) Claude Code
9 18 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.77%) Selenium
11 13 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.54%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.54%) Snyk
13 10 (0.45%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.45%) Subversion
14 9 (0.41%) Maven
14 9 (0.41%) MSI
14 9 (0.41%) NUnit
14 9 (0.41%) Terragrunt
15 8 (0.36%) MLflow
General
1 580 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 461 (20.78%) Finance
3 254 (11.45%) Public Sector
4 201 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 137 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 113 (5.09%) Banking
7 82 (3.70%) Law
8 55 (2.48%) Aerospace
9 54 (2.43%) Retail
10 34 (1.53%) Marketing
11 33 (1.49%) Legal
12 32 (1.44%) Games
13 30 (1.35%) Financial Institution
14 22 (0.99%) Manufacturing
14 22 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Military
17 14 (0.63%) Aviation
18 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 540 (24.34%) Senior
2 448 (20.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 278 (12.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 276 (12.44%) Lead
5 259 (11.67%) Architect
6 233 (10.50%) Platform Engineer
7 186 (8.38%) Azure Engineer
8 179 (8.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 172 (7.75%) Developer
10 156 (7.03%) Software Engineer
11 134 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
12 131 (5.90%) Principal Engineer
13 108 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 108 (4.87%) Data Engineer
14 94 (4.24%) Security Engineer
15 84 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
16 81 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 80 (3.61%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 73 (3.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 72 (3.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,505 (67.82%) Terraform
2 176 (7.93%) .NET
2 176 (7.93%) React
3 165 (7.44%) Kafka
4 142 (6.40%) Spring
5 138 (6.22%) Spring Boot
6 135 (6.08%) REST
7 130 (5.86%) RESTful
8 127 (5.72%) Node.js
9 65 (2.93%) PySpark
10 61 (2.75%) AWS CDK
11 58 (2.61%) ARM Templates
12 56 (2.52%) AngularJS
13 53 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
14 48 (2.16%) YAML
15 45 (2.03%) Next.js
16 44 (1.98%) FastAPI
17 43 (1.94%) LangChain
18 41 (1.85%) CSS
19 37 (1.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 680 (30.64%) Cloud Native
2 242 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.90%) Onboarding
4 129 (5.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 119 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.10%) Data Centre
7 72 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 68 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
9 61 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 56 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
11 49 (2.21%) AI Agents
11 49 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
12 48 (2.16%) Management Information System
12 48 (2.16%) Product Ownership
13 47 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
14 45 (2.03%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.80%) Private Cloud
16 36 (1.62%) PKI
17 35 (1.58%) Video\Live Streaming
18 33 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 431 (19.42%) Linux
2 219 (9.87%) Windows
3 92 (4.15%) Windows Server
4 64 (2.88%) CentOS
5 52 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.67%) Unix
7 35 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 22 (0.99%) VMS
9 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.32%) Debian
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.18%) Rocky
13 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.090%) Solaris
14 1 (0.045%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.045%) macOS
14 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,602 (72.19%) CI/CD
2 1,235 (55.66%) DevOps
3 644 (29.02%) Agile
4 612 (27.58%) Containerisation
5 597 (26.90%) Platform Engineering
6 562 (25.33%) Observability
7 529 (23.84%) AI
8 484 (21.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 484 (21.81%) Mentoring
9 443 (19.96%) Software Engineering
10 406 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
11 399 (17.98%) Microservices
12 396 (17.85%) Cloud Security
13 377 (16.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 374 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
15 373 (16.81%) Test Automation
16 279 (12.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 275 (12.39%) Roadmaps
18 254 (11.45%) DevSecOps
19 243 (10.95%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 975 (43.94%) Python
2 372 (16.76%) Bash
3 355 (16.00%) SQL
4 341 (15.37%) Java
5 322 (14.51%) PowerShell
6 219 (9.87%) Bicep
7 193 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 184 (8.29%) C#
9 156 (7.03%) Go
10 151 (6.80%) JavaScript
11 50 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 39 (1.76%) Scala
13 34 (1.53%) PHP
14 31 (1.40%) Groovy
15 29 (1.31%) Rust
16 25 (1.13%) Ruby
17 21 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.72%) Perl
19 14 (0.63%) Kotlin
20 12 (0.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 623 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 398 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 228 (10.27%) DV Cleared
4 198 (8.92%) AWS Certification
5 163 (7.35%) Degree
6 150 (6.76%) Azure Certification
7 84 (3.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 79 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 61 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 38 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
12 36 (1.62%) CISSP
13 30 (1.35%) CCNP
14 28 (1.26%) Master's Degree
15 24 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
16 18 (0.81%) CCNA
17 17 (0.77%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.63%) CISM
19 13 (0.59%) CCSP
20 12 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 81 (3.65%) QA
3 64 (2.88%) GDPR
4 63 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.03%) NIST
6 34 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 31 (1.40%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.31%) SOC 2
9 25 (1.13%) NCSC
10 23 (1.04%) SLA
11 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.50%) GRC
13 10 (0.45%) WCAG
14 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.090%) IFRS
17 2 (0.090%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.090%) RMADS
17 2 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 609 (27.44%) Docker
2 137 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (5.63%) Active Directory
4 48 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (2.12%) vSphere
6 28 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 26 (1.17%) VMware NSX
8 23 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
9 19 (0.86%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.41%) KVM
10 9 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.27%) Squid
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.090%) Lustre
16 1 (0.045%) iptables
16 1 (0.045%) LXC
Systems Management
1 830 (37.40%) Kubernetes
2 490 (22.08%) Ansible
3 220 (9.91%) Grafana
4 146 (6.58%) Prometheus
5 80 (3.61%) Puppet
6 72 (3.24%) Argo
7 50 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.62%) Istio
10 35 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
11 31 (1.40%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.04%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.04%) Packer
13 22 (0.99%) Rancher
14 18 (0.81%) Cilium
15 16 (0.72%) Kustomize
16 14 (0.63%) Kibana
17 13 (0.59%) Nagios
17 13 (0.59%) Podman
18 12 (0.54%) linkerd
Vendors
1 520 (23.43%) Microsoft
2 168 (7.57%) VMware
3 167 (7.53%) Google
4 99 (4.46%) Databricks
5 76 (3.42%) Red Hat
6 70 (3.15%) Cisco
7 65 (2.93%) Splunk
8 55 (2.48%) Oracle
9 46 (2.07%) Dynatrace
10 38 (1.71%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.62%) Palo Alto
12 35 (1.58%) OpenAI
13 33 (1.49%) ServiceNow
14 24 (1.08%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.68%) F5
16 14 (0.63%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.63%) SAP
17 13 (0.59%) New Relic
17 13 (0.59%) SolarWinds
18 12 (0.54%) ScienceLogic