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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 128 154
Rank change year-on-year +20 +26 -53
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,212 933 1,453
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 2.37% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.53% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 846 669 1,191
10th Percentile £46,446 £47,400 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
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 £110,625 £115,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 51,317 36,830 64,787
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.99% 93.60% 87.18%
Number of salaries quoted 31,878 20,405 50,590
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,110 £29,000
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% -12.00%

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 15 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 15 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 +31 605 £85,000 -5.56% 256
North of England -20 220 £65,000 -1.03% 158
South East +17 138 £70,000 -2.10% 140
North West -6 97 £73,801 +5.43% 79
Yorkshire -12 91 £62,500 +19.05% 54
South West -7 87 £62,500 -10.71% 83
Midlands -3 69 £67,500 +3.85% 40
East of England +18 35 £65,000 -10.34% 39
West Midlands -7 35 £66,500 -5.00% 28
North East 0 32 £48,445 -15.75% 25
East Midlands -15 32 £67,500 +3.85% 12
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 50 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.14%) Apache
3 27 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.16%) IIS
6 12 (0.99%) Confluence
7 11 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.17%) Appian
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.083%) Camunda
11 1 (0.083%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.083%) nginx
11 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.083%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.33%) Weka
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.083%) Maya
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.083%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.083%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.083%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 767 (63.28%) AWS
2 662 (54.62%) Azure
3 270 (22.28%) GCP
3 270 (22.28%) GitHub
4 242 (19.97%) Azure DevOps
5 231 (19.06%) Serverless
6 211 (17.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 188 (15.51%) GitHub Actions
8 142 (11.72%) AWS Lambda
9 126 (10.40%) Amazon S3
10 106 (8.75%) PaaS
11 102 (8.42%) SaaS
12 92 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
12 92 (7.59%) Entra ID
13 91 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 83 (6.85%) Datadog
15 72 (5.94%) Amazon EC2
15 72 (5.94%) IaaS
16 69 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
17 63 (5.20%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 155 (12.79%) Firewall
2 86 (7.10%) DNS
3 76 (6.27%) VPN
4 66 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 37 (3.05%) Broadband
5 37 (3.05%) WAN
6 32 (2.64%) Network Security
7 30 (2.48%) DHCP
8 19 (1.57%) HTTP
9 17 (1.40%) BGP
9 17 (1.40%) VLAN
10 15 (1.24%) Internet
11 14 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (1.07%) DSL
12 13 (1.07%) LAN
13 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.50%) SAN
15 5 (0.41%) AMQP
15 5 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 88 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
4 56 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 53 (4.37%) DynamoDB
6 42 (3.47%) Data Lake
6 42 (3.47%) MongoDB
7 37 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 28 (2.31%) MySQL
9 27 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (1.98%) BigQuery
11 24 (1.98%) Redis
12 23 (1.90%) Power BI
13 22 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.65%) Metadata
15 19 (1.57%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (1.32%) Delta Lake
18 13 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 192 (15.84%) Jenkins
2 161 (13.28%) GitLab
3 157 (12.95%) Git
4 31 (2.56%) Bitbucket
5 30 (2.48%) CircleCI
6 28 (2.31%) JIRA
7 25 (2.06%) Selenium
8 24 (1.98%) Robot Framework
9 22 (1.82%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.40%) Snyk
11 15 (1.24%) MLflow
12 14 (1.16%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.91%) JMeter
14 9 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
15 8 (0.66%) Locust
15 8 (0.66%) Storybook
15 8 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 346 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 266 (21.95%) Finance
3 128 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.43%) Banking
5 73 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.36%) Law
7 58 (4.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 57 (4.70%) Telecoms
9 53 (4.37%) Retail
10 33 (2.72%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.90%) Marketing
12 22 (1.82%) Games
13 21 (1.73%) Billing
14 20 (1.65%) Back Office
15 18 (1.49%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.40%) Advertising
17 15 (1.24%) Aerospace
18 14 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
19 12 (0.99%) Electronics
20 11 (0.91%) Legal
Job Titles
1 258 (21.29%) Senior
2 194 (16.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 189 (15.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 154 (12.71%) Lead
5 113 (9.32%) Platform Engineer
6 109 (8.99%) Developer
7 108 (8.91%) Architect
8 106 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (7.67%) AWS Engineer
10 90 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 62 (5.12%) Software Engineer
12 57 (4.70%) Data Engineer
13 54 (4.46%) Security Engineer
14 49 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
15 43 (3.55%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 41 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 35 (2.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.89%) Lead DevOps
19 32 (2.64%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (9.41%) React
2 79 (6.52%) Node.js
3 78 (6.44%) .NET
4 73 (6.02%) Elastic Stack
5 70 (5.78%) RESTful
6 68 (5.61%) Kafka
7 63 (5.20%) AWS CDK
8 54 (4.46%) REST
8 54 (4.46%) Spring
9 49 (4.04%) Spring Boot
10 47 (3.88%) YAML
11 36 (2.97%) Django
12 35 (2.89%) ARM Templates
12 35 (2.89%) RabbitMQ
13 34 (2.81%) CSS
13 34 (2.81%) FastAPI
14 29 (2.39%) .NET Core
14 29 (2.39%) HTML
15 26 (2.15%) OAuth
15 26 (2.15%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 282 (23.27%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (4.79%) Security Posture
4 52 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (3.38%) Data Centre
7 38 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 35 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 31 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
13 22 (1.82%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.49%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
17 15 (1.24%) Blockchain
17 15 (1.24%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 269 (22.19%) Linux
2 136 (11.22%) Windows
3 68 (5.61%) Unix
4 51 (4.21%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.56%) VMS
6 26 (2.15%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (1.49%) CentOS
9 11 (0.91%) Android
10 10 (0.83%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.66%) Debian
12 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.33%) SUSE
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.083%) Rocky
15 1 (0.083%) Solaris
15 1 (0.083%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (68.15%) CI/CD
2 755 (62.29%) DevOps
3 343 (28.30%) Agile
3 343 (28.30%) Containerisation
4 286 (23.60%) Observability
5 264 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
6 233 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (18.73%) Mentoring
8 195 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
9 185 (15.26%) AI
10 177 (14.60%) Software Engineering
11 172 (14.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 170 (14.03%) Cloud Security
12 170 (14.03%) Test Automation
13 162 (13.37%) Microservices
14 149 (12.29%) Analytics
15 143 (11.80%) DevSecOps
15 143 (11.80%) Incident Response
16 138 (11.39%) High Availability
17 127 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 553 (45.63%) Python
2 242 (19.97%) Bash
3 194 (16.01%) PowerShell
4 191 (15.76%) SQL
5 156 (12.87%) Java
6 139 (11.47%) Go
7 112 (9.24%) Bicep
8 110 (9.08%) JavaScript
9 93 (7.67%) TypeScript
10 61 (5.03%) C#
11 19 (1.57%) Rust
12 17 (1.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.32%) C++
13 16 (1.32%) Scala
14 10 (0.83%) C
15 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.58%) Ruby
17 6 (0.50%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.41%) PHP
18 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 128 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 115 (9.49%) Degree
4 97 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 96 (7.92%) AWS Certification
6 68 (5.61%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.39%) CISSP
10 28 (2.31%) OSCP
11 15 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.91%) CCSK
14 10 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.83%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 56 (4.62%) QA
3 54 (4.46%) GDPR
4 48 (3.96%) SOC 2
5 47 (3.88%) Data Quality
6 41 (3.38%) NIST
7 39 (3.22%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.98%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.83%) WCAG
11 9 (0.74%) SLA
12 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.50%) GRC
13 6 (0.50%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 397 (32.76%) Docker
2 81 (6.68%) Active Directory
3 62 (5.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 21 (1.73%) vSphere
7 15 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.99%) Firmware
9 6 (0.50%) KVM
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.25%) vCloud
11 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.17%) GPFS
12 2 (0.17%) Lustre
12 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.083%) QEMU
13 1 (0.083%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 850 (70.13%) Terraform
2 486 (40.10%) Kubernetes
3 308 (25.41%) Ansible
4 182 (15.02%) Prometheus
5 174 (14.36%) Grafana
6 47 (3.88%) Argo
7 33 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.98%) Puppet
9 20 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.57%) Kustomize
11 14 (1.16%) Rancher
12 13 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.07%) Nagios
12 13 (1.07%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.91%) SCCM
15 9 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
16 7 (0.58%) Istio
16 7 (0.58%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 201 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.99%) Google
3 98 (8.09%) VMware
4 46 (3.80%) Databricks
5 44 (3.63%) Red Hat
6 43 (3.55%) Cisco
7 41 (3.38%) Splunk
8 36 (2.97%) Palo Alto
9 21 (1.73%) Zscaler
10 17 (1.40%) Black Duck
10 17 (1.40%) Coverity
11 16 (1.32%) Juniper
11 16 (1.32%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.16%) Atlassian
12 14 (1.16%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.99%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (0.99%) OpenAI
13 12 (0.99%) Oracle
13 12 (0.99%) SAP
14 11 (0.91%) New Relic