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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 128 122
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,022 1,094 1,517
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.31% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.53% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 739 675 1,259
10th Percentile £47,594 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,494 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -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 44,287 43,288 53,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.30% 91.33% 88.70%
Number of salaries quoted 26,703 20,981 41,972
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,481 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,250 £96,539
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +13 495 £84,625 -5.97% 303
North of England -4 206 £68,000 +8.80% 227
South East +11 109 £75,000 +15.38% 357
Yorkshire -5 92 £65,000 +23.81% 100
North West +9 87 £70,039 +1.88% 95
South West -20 76 £62,500 -13.18% 183
Midlands +8 58 £67,000 +0.37% 130
West Midlands +7 35 £65,000 -7.14% 42
East of England +19 28 £75,000 +3.45% 138
North East -6 27 £65,000 +33.33% 33
East Midlands -2 21 £67,750 +4.23% 82
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 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (3.52%) Apache
3 20 (1.96%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.86%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.57%) Confluence
6 10 (0.98%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.88%) IIS
8 3 (0.29%) Appian
8 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 1 (0.098%) CMS
10 1 (0.098%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.098%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.098%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.098%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.098%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 646 (63.21%) AWS
2 586 (57.34%) Azure
3 236 (23.09%) GitHub
4 231 (22.60%) Azure DevOps
5 225 (22.02%) GCP
6 181 (17.71%) Serverless
7 172 (16.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 155 (15.17%) GitHub Actions
9 120 (11.74%) AWS Lambda
10 102 (9.98%) Amazon S3
11 95 (9.30%) SaaS
12 81 (7.93%) PaaS
13 76 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (7.34%) Entra ID
15 70 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
16 59 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
16 59 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
16 59 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
17 57 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
17 57 (5.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (12.23%) Firewall
2 73 (7.14%) VPN
3 70 (6.85%) DNS
4 47 (4.60%) TCP/IP
5 45 (4.40%) WAN
6 28 (2.74%) DHCP
7 27 (2.64%) Network Security
8 23 (2.25%) Broadband
9 22 (2.15%) LAN
9 22 (2.15%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.57%) BGP
10 16 (1.57%) Internet
11 15 (1.47%) VLAN
12 12 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.88%) HTTP
13 9 (0.88%) SAN
14 8 (0.78%) VoIP
14 8 (0.78%) Wireless
15 7 (0.68%) AMQP
16 6 (0.59%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.41%) NoSQL
2 69 (6.75%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (5.87%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (4.60%) DynamoDB
4 47 (4.60%) SQL Server
5 40 (3.91%) Data Lake
6 35 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.84%) BigQuery
8 28 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.45%) MySQL
10 20 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.86%) RDBMS
11 19 (1.86%) Redis
12 16 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.57%) Big Data
12 16 (1.57%) Power BI
13 13 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 11 (1.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 176 (17.22%) Jenkins
2 146 (14.29%) Git
3 111 (10.86%) GitLab
4 30 (2.94%) JIRA
5 25 (2.45%) Selenium
6 24 (2.35%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.05%) Jaeger
8 20 (1.96%) Bitbucket
9 18 (1.76%) Snyk
10 17 (1.66%) MLflow
11 16 (1.57%) CircleCI
12 14 (1.37%) TeamCity
13 11 (1.08%) Cucumber
14 10 (0.98%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.78%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.78%) JMeter
16 7 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
16 7 (0.68%) Subversion
16 7 (0.68%) Vite
17 5 (0.49%) git-flow
General
1 291 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 225 (22.02%) Finance
3 86 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.46%) Banking
5 58 (5.68%) Law
6 57 (5.58%) Public Sector
7 45 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (4.11%) Retail
8 42 (4.11%) Telecoms
9 32 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 23 (2.25%) Games
11 21 (2.05%) Billing
12 20 (1.96%) Legal
12 20 (1.96%) Marketing
13 18 (1.76%) Back Office
14 17 (1.66%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.27%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.17%) Advertising
16 12 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.17%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 199 (19.47%) Senior
2 165 (16.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 158 (15.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 118 (11.55%) Lead
5 103 (10.08%) Developer
5 103 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
6 93 (9.10%) Architect
7 90 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 67 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (4.70%) Software Engineer
11 44 (4.31%) Data Engineer
12 39 (3.82%) Security Engineer
13 38 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
14 34 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 30 (2.94%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 30 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
15 30 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
16 28 (2.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 28 (2.74%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (10.08%) React
2 80 (7.83%) .NET
3 65 (6.36%) Node.js
4 62 (6.07%) Elastic Stack
5 61 (5.97%) RESTful
6 48 (4.70%) Kafka
7 47 (4.60%) AWS CDK
8 38 (3.72%) Spring
9 37 (3.62%) REST
9 37 (3.62%) YAML
10 35 (3.42%) ARM Templates
11 34 (3.33%) Spring Boot
12 31 (3.03%) Django
12 31 (3.03%) FastAPI
13 29 (2.84%) .NET Core
14 28 (2.74%) CSS
15 27 (2.64%) HTML
16 26 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (2.25%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 246 (24.07%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.19%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.99%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.72%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.84%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.25%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.15%) Product Ownership
11 21 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.27%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.27%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.17%) Blog
14 12 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.17%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 232 (22.70%) Linux
2 109 (10.67%) Windows
3 56 (5.48%) Unix
4 38 (3.72%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.74%) VMS
6 25 (2.45%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.37%) Debian
9 11 (1.08%) CentOS
10 6 (0.59%) Android
10 6 (0.59%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.29%) SUSE
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.098%) AIX
14 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (67.12%) CI/CD
2 647 (63.31%) DevOps
3 295 (28.86%) Agile
4 283 (27.69%) Containerisation
5 206 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
6 203 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 203 (19.86%) Observability
7 172 (16.83%) Mentoring
8 165 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
9 152 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 143 (13.99%) Software Engineering
11 141 (13.80%) AI
11 141 (13.80%) Cloud Security
12 126 (12.33%) Microservices
13 125 (12.23%) Analytics
14 120 (11.74%) High Availability
15 116 (11.35%) DevSecOps
16 115 (11.25%) Test Automation
17 103 (10.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 100 (9.78%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 450 (44.03%) Python
2 201 (19.67%) Bash
3 170 (16.63%) PowerShell
4 157 (15.36%) SQL
5 123 (12.04%) Java
6 114 (11.15%) Bicep
7 105 (10.27%) Go
8 102 (9.98%) JavaScript
9 88 (8.61%) TypeScript
10 67 (6.56%) C#
11 15 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.37%) Scala
13 12 (1.17%) C++
14 10 (0.98%) Rust
14 10 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.88%) C
16 7 (0.68%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.39%) Ruby
17 4 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 178 (17.42%) Security Cleared
2 102 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 100 (9.78%) AWS Certification
4 85 (8.32%) Degree
4 85 (8.32%) DV Cleared
5 68 (6.65%) Azure Certification
6 36 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 24 (2.35%) CISSP
9 23 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (1.76%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.57%) OSCP
13 14 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (1.37%) CCNP
14 7 (0.68%) CCSK
14 7 (0.68%) CISM
15 6 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 6 (0.59%) MCP
15 6 (0.59%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.40%) GDPR
3 36 (3.52%) NIST
3 36 (3.52%) SOC 2
4 33 (3.23%) QA
5 32 (3.13%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.74%) PCI DSS
7 18 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 9 (0.88%) SLA
11 6 (0.59%) GRC
12 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.49%) NCSC
12 5 (0.49%) WCAG
13 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 348 (34.05%) Docker
2 78 (7.63%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.96%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.57%) vSphere
7 13 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.08%) Firmware
9 8 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.68%) NFS
10 7 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.59%) KVM
12 3 (0.29%) vCloud
12 3 (0.29%) XenApp
12 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.20%) GPFS
13 2 (0.20%) Lustre
13 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.098%) iptables
14 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 739 (72.31%) Terraform
2 417 (40.80%) Kubernetes
3 280 (27.40%) Ansible
4 149 (14.58%) Prometheus
5 128 (12.52%) Grafana
6 41 (4.01%) Argo
7 27 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (1.86%) Kustomize
8 19 (1.86%) Puppet
9 17 (1.66%) Rancher
9 17 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (1.47%) SCCM
11 12 (1.17%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
13 8 (0.78%) SCOM
14 7 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.68%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
15 6 (0.59%) Nagios
16 5 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 182 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.69%) Google
3 91 (8.90%) VMware
4 41 (4.01%) Cisco
4 41 (4.01%) Databricks
5 34 (3.33%) Splunk
6 32 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 29 (2.84%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.96%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.76%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.76%) Coverity
10 14 (1.37%) Oracle
11 13 (1.27%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (1.17%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.17%) SAP
13 11 (1.08%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.98%) Juniper
14 10 (0.98%) New Relic
15 9 (0.88%) OpenAI