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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 159 121
Rank change year-on-year +81 -38 -37
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,180 899 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 2.09% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.35% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 653 902
10th Percentile £49,313 £51,250 £44,764
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £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 £87,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

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 75,980 38,286 55,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.46% 88.94% 82.21%
Number of salaries quoted 53,569 21,806 30,376
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £36,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.56% -4.03%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 28 September 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 September 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 +30 944 £90,000 +5.88% 1,275
North of England +102 489 £70,000 - 375
North West +104 270 £72,245 +15.59% 223
South East +48 249 £67,500 -14.29% 187
South West +48 245 £75,000 +7.14% 199
Midlands +32 152 £75,000 +15.83% 144
North East +22 118 £60,000 -17.24% 60
Yorkshire +9 107 £68,250 -2.50% 95
West Midlands +10 94 £85,000 +36.55% 89
East Midlands +3 58 £65,000 - 55
East of England -6 56 £65,000 - 79
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 55 (2.52%) Apache
2 53 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 48 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.15%) Confluence
6 15 (0.69%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.60%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
9 8 (0.37%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) nginx
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.18%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.092%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.046%) Documentum
15 1 (0.046%) JBoss
15 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 21 (0.96%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.092%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.046%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.092%) Distributed Ledger
2 2 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.046%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,242 (56.97%) AWS
2 1,156 (53.03%) Azure
3 437 (20.05%) GCP
4 391 (17.94%) GitHub
5 354 (16.24%) Serverless
6 340 (15.60%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (13.35%) Azure DevOps
8 212 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 187 (8.58%) Amazon S3
10 183 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
11 160 (7.34%) PaaS
12 141 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
13 137 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
14 134 (6.15%) Azure AKS
15 127 (5.83%) Entra ID
16 124 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 123 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
18 117 (5.37%) IaaS
18 117 (5.37%) SaaS
19 102 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.61%) Firewall
2 130 (5.96%) VPN
3 127 (5.83%) DNS
4 102 (4.68%) Network Security
5 57 (2.61%) WAN
6 55 (2.52%) TCP/IP
7 52 (2.39%) BGP
8 50 (2.29%) DHCP
9 39 (1.79%) Broadband
10 37 (1.70%) Internet
10 37 (1.70%) OSPF
11 32 (1.47%) LAN
12 31 (1.42%) VLAN
13 27 (1.24%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.06%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.73%) SAN
17 15 (0.69%) Wireless
18 14 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
18 14 (0.64%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 145 (6.65%) NoSQL
3 98 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 89 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.44%) DynamoDB
7 69 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.52%) Data Lake
9 53 (2.43%) MySQL
10 51 (2.34%) Metadata
11 44 (2.02%) Redis
12 43 (1.97%) Relational Database
13 36 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
14 30 (1.38%) Big Data
15 29 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 28 (1.28%) Power BI
17 27 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
18 25 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (1.06%) BigQuery
19 23 (1.06%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 324 (14.86%) Git
2 285 (13.07%) GitLab
3 243 (11.15%) Jenkins
4 54 (2.48%) JIRA
5 50 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 35 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 22 (1.01%) Claude Code
10 19 (0.87%) Selenium
11 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.55%) Maven
12 12 (0.55%) Snyk
13 11 (0.50%) NUnit
13 11 (0.50%) Subversion
14 10 (0.46%) Artifactory
14 10 (0.46%) CircleCI
15 9 (0.41%) MLflow
15 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 568 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 450 (20.64%) Finance
3 227 (10.41%) Public Sector
4 191 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 132 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (5.37%) Banking
7 82 (3.76%) Law
8 61 (2.80%) Retail
9 59 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 34 (1.56%) Games
11 33 (1.51%) Marketing
12 31 (1.42%) Legal
13 26 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 21 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.64%) Aviation
18 14 (0.64%) Military
19 13 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 522 (23.94%) Senior
2 416 (19.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 282 (12.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 279 (12.80%) Lead
5 262 (12.02%) Architect
6 230 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (8.58%) Azure Engineer
8 173 (7.94%) Developer
9 159 (7.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 144 (6.61%) Software Engineer
11 139 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.69%) Principal Engineer
13 110 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 108 (4.95%) Data Engineer
15 90 (4.13%) Security Engineer
16 82 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 73 (3.35%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 72 (3.30%) Senior Developer
19 68 (3.12%) Java Engineer
19 68 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,487 (68.21%) Terraform
2 173 (7.94%) React
3 172 (7.89%) .NET
4 169 (7.75%) Kafka
5 137 (6.28%) Spring
6 136 (6.24%) REST
7 132 (6.06%) RESTful
8 131 (6.01%) Spring Boot
9 128 (5.87%) Node.js
10 68 (3.12%) PySpark
11 63 (2.89%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.75%) AWS CDK
13 56 (2.57%) AngularJS
13 56 (2.57%) YAML
14 55 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
15 47 (2.16%) Next.js
16 42 (1.93%) OAuth
17 41 (1.88%) LangChain
18 40 (1.83%) ASP.NET
19 39 (1.79%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 665 (30.50%) Cloud Native
2 237 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 126 (5.78%) Onboarding
5 117 (5.37%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 71 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
8 61 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 57 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 55 (2.52%) Linux Command Line
11 50 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 50 (2.29%) Product Ownership
12 46 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
13 42 (1.93%) e-Learning
14 40 (1.83%) AI Agents
14 40 (1.83%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.83%) PKI
15 39 (1.79%) Private Cloud
16 35 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
16 35 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 406 (18.62%) Linux
2 209 (9.59%) Windows
3 97 (4.45%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.71%) CentOS
5 49 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 32 (1.47%) Unix
8 21 (0.96%) VMS
9 7 (0.32%) Debian
10 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.14%) Android
12 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.092%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.092%) Rocky
13 2 (0.092%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (72.25%) CI/CD
2 1,211 (55.55%) DevOps
3 623 (28.58%) Agile
4 617 (28.30%) Containerisation
5 567 (26.01%) Platform Engineering
6 566 (25.96%) Observability
7 504 (23.12%) AI
8 477 (21.88%) Mentoring
9 472 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 427 (19.59%) Software Engineering
11 389 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
12 387 (17.75%) Microservices
13 384 (17.61%) Cloud Security
14 359 (16.47%) Test Automation
15 350 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 345 (15.83%) Technical Leadership
17 275 (12.61%) Roadmaps
17 275 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 250 (11.47%) DevSecOps
19 248 (11.38%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 958 (43.94%) Python
2 359 (16.47%) Bash
3 356 (16.33%) SQL
4 327 (15.00%) Java
5 323 (14.82%) PowerShell
6 221 (10.14%) Bicep
7 188 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 180 (8.26%) C#
9 152 (6.97%) JavaScript
10 150 (6.88%) Go
11 50 (2.29%) Shell Script
12 41 (1.88%) Scala
13 36 (1.65%) Groovy
14 34 (1.56%) PHP
15 29 (1.33%) Rust
16 26 (1.19%) Ruby
17 23 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
18 20 (0.92%) Perl
19 16 (0.73%) C++
20 13 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 586 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 375 (17.20%) SC Cleared
3 208 (9.54%) DV Cleared
4 199 (9.13%) AWS Certification
5 165 (7.57%) Degree
6 152 (6.97%) Azure Certification
7 81 (3.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 81 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
8 56 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 30 (1.38%) CCNP
11 27 (1.24%) CISSP
11 27 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (0.96%) CCNA
14 17 (0.78%) SnowPro
15 13 (0.60%) OSCP
16 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 11 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 87 (3.99%) QA
3 62 (2.84%) GDPR
4 58 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.61%) NIST
6 31 (1.42%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.19%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.10%) NCSC
9 23 (1.06%) SLA
10 22 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.60%) GRC
13 11 (0.50%) WCAG
14 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.092%) IFRS
17 2 (0.092%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.092%) RMADS
17 2 (0.092%) Solvency II
System Software
1 598 (27.43%) Docker
2 132 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 129 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
5 44 (2.02%) vSphere
6 27 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (0.92%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.83%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.41%) KVM
11 8 (0.37%) Squid
11 8 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.14%) iptables
15 2 (0.092%) Lustre
15 2 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 821 (37.66%) Kubernetes
2 466 (21.38%) Ansible
3 206 (9.45%) Grafana
4 143 (6.56%) Prometheus
5 69 (3.17%) Argo
6 68 (3.12%) Puppet
7 45 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 42 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.61%) Istio
10 34 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 27 (1.24%) Packer
12 24 (1.10%) FortiGate
12 24 (1.10%) Rancher
13 22 (1.01%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.64%) Cilium
15 13 (0.60%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.60%) Nagios
16 12 (0.55%) linkerd
16 12 (0.55%) Podman
16 12 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 509 (23.35%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.48%) VMware
3 160 (7.34%) Google
4 99 (4.54%) Databricks
5 73 (3.35%) Red Hat
6 69 (3.17%) Cisco
7 65 (2.98%) Splunk
8 60 (2.75%) Oracle
9 45 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 36 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 35 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 35 (1.61%) OpenAI
12 33 (1.51%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.64%) F5
14 14 (0.64%) SAP
15 13 (0.60%) New Relic
15 13 (0.60%) SolarWinds
16 12 (0.55%) ScienceLogic