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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 151 170
Rank change year-on-year +75 +19 -68
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,843 936 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 2.27% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.48% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,273 633 1,206
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,750 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 63,156 37,707 76,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.63% 91.52% 82.29%
Number of salaries quoted 44,618 21,070 54,965
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,490
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +34 880 £89,000 -1.11% 300
North of England +69 355 £67,500 -3.57% 122
North West +73 214 £72,500 - 72
South East +44 214 £70,000 -9.68% 154
South West +32 163 £75,000 +3.45% 89
Midlands +28 126 £74,250 +14.23% 47
Yorkshire +1 91 £65,576 -6.32% 32
West Midlands +6 73 £80,000 +23.08% 33
East Midlands +9 53 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +8 52 £60,100 -7.54% 18
North East -11 50 £55,000 -14.06% 19
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 51 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (2.12%) Apache
2 39 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.36%) Confluence
5 12 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.54%) IIS
7 9 (0.49%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.16%) WordPress
11 2 (0.11%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.054%) Documentum
12 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.054%) nginx
12 1 (0.054%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.054%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (1.03%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.22%) Weka
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.054%) Maya
5 1 (0.054%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.054%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.054%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.054%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.054%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (57.73%) AWS
2 997 (54.10%) Azure
3 334 (18.12%) GitHub
4 332 (18.01%) Serverless
5 309 (16.77%) GCP
6 302 (16.39%) Azure DevOps
7 285 (15.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (11.01%) GitHub Actions
9 179 (9.71%) Amazon S3
10 177 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (8.57%) PaaS
12 128 (6.95%) Amazon EC2
13 122 (6.62%) IaaS
14 121 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
15 118 (6.40%) Entra ID
16 117 (6.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 110 (5.97%) SaaS
18 108 (5.86%) Azure AKS
19 94 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
20 88 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 177 (9.60%) Firewall
2 107 (5.81%) VPN
3 103 (5.59%) DNS
4 77 (4.18%) Network Security
5 68 (3.69%) Broadband
6 66 (3.58%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.77%) WAN
8 42 (2.28%) BGP
9 35 (1.90%) VLAN
10 34 (1.84%) DHCP
11 29 (1.57%) LAN
12 24 (1.30%) OSPF
13 23 (1.25%) HTTP
14 21 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
15 20 (1.09%) SD-WAN
16 19 (1.03%) VXLAN
17 15 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
18 11 (0.60%) DSL
18 11 (0.60%) SAN
19 10 (0.54%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (7.16%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
4 84 (4.56%) MongoDB
5 71 (3.85%) DynamoDB
6 67 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 57 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 49 (2.66%) Relational Database
9 48 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 45 (2.44%) Metadata
11 31 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
12 29 (1.57%) MySQL
13 25 (1.36%) BigQuery
13 25 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 25 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
14 24 (1.30%) Power BI
15 22 (1.19%) Redis
16 21 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.09%) Big Data
18 19 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 259 (14.05%) GitLab
2 238 (12.91%) Git
3 232 (12.59%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.12%) JIRA
5 38 (2.06%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.84%) Bitbucket
6 34 (1.84%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.30%) TeamCity
8 17 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 15 (0.81%) SonarQube
10 14 (0.76%) Jaeger
11 12 (0.65%) Selenium
12 11 (0.60%) Claude Code
12 11 (0.60%) MLflow
13 10 (0.54%) Maven
13 10 (0.54%) Subversion
14 9 (0.49%) Vite
15 8 (0.43%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.43%) JMeter
15 8 (0.43%) NUnit
General
1 448 (24.31%) Social Skills
2 367 (19.91%) Finance
3 134 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.37%) Banking
6 75 (4.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 59 (3.20%) Law
8 57 (3.09%) Retail
9 44 (2.39%) Games
10 40 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 31 (1.68%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.87%) Advertising
15 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.87%) Legal
16 12 (0.65%) Billing
16 12 (0.65%) Marketing
17 10 (0.54%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 438 (23.77%) Senior
2 315 (17.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 276 (14.98%) Cloud Engineer
4 239 (12.97%) Lead
5 200 (10.85%) Platform Engineer
6 188 (10.20%) Azure Engineer
7 185 (10.04%) Architect
8 154 (8.36%) Developer
9 130 (7.05%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 100 (5.43%) Software Engineer
12 97 (5.26%) Data Engineer
13 88 (4.77%) Security Engineer
14 87 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 81 (4.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 78 (4.23%) Principal Engineer
17 70 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
19 59 (3.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 59 (3.20%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (7.49%) React
2 128 (6.95%) .NET
3 124 (6.73%) Kafka
4 114 (6.19%) REST
5 106 (5.75%) Node.js
6 105 (5.70%) RESTful
7 86 (4.67%) Spring
8 80 (4.34%) YAML
9 79 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 73 (3.96%) Elastic Stack
11 67 (3.64%) ARM Templates
12 64 (3.47%) PySpark
13 62 (3.36%) AWS CDK
14 49 (2.66%) OAuth
15 46 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
16 43 (2.33%) Next.js
17 40 (2.17%) AngularJS
18 39 (2.12%) JSON
19 38 (2.06%) FastAPI
20 36 (1.95%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 502 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 169 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (5.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 93 (5.05%) Public Cloud
5 73 (3.96%) Data Centre
6 67 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 64 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 59 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
9 55 (2.98%) Product Ownership
10 48 (2.60%) Video\Live Streaming
11 36 (1.95%) Enterprise Cloud
11 36 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.84%) Low-Code
13 29 (1.57%) PKI
14 27 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
15 26 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
16 23 (1.25%) Blockchain
16 23 (1.25%) e-Learning
17 22 (1.19%) Private Cloud
18 21 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 345 (18.72%) Linux
2 188 (10.20%) Windows
3 86 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 43 (2.33%) CentOS
6 37 (2.01%) Unix
7 32 (1.74%) VMS
8 31 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.49%) Android
10 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.43%) Debian
10 8 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Rocky
13 1 (0.054%) SUSE
13 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,282 (69.56%) CI/CD
2 1,043 (56.59%) DevOps
3 500 (27.13%) Agile
4 494 (26.80%) Containerisation
5 472 (25.61%) Observability
6 417 (22.63%) Platform Engineering
7 384 (20.84%) AI
8 381 (20.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 380 (20.62%) Mentoring
10 319 (17.31%) Test Automation
11 304 (16.49%) Microservices
12 301 (16.33%) Software Engineering
13 280 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
14 266 (14.43%) Cloud Security
15 248 (13.46%) Technical Leadership
16 231 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 224 (12.15%) Analytics
18 199 (10.80%) Roadmaps
19 196 (10.63%) DevSecOps
20 177 (9.60%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 836 (45.36%) Python
2 340 (18.45%) Bash
3 308 (16.71%) PowerShell
4 306 (16.60%) SQL
5 235 (12.75%) Java
6 187 (10.15%) Bicep
7 176 (9.55%) Go
8 165 (8.95%) TypeScript
9 150 (8.14%) JavaScript
10 142 (7.70%) C#
11 30 (1.63%) Rust
12 27 (1.47%) PHP
13 26 (1.41%) Scala
14 25 (1.36%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.14%) C++
16 20 (1.09%) Groovy
17 16 (0.87%) Ruby
18 12 (0.65%) Perl
19 10 (0.54%) Shell Script
20 8 (0.43%) C
Qualifications
1 382 (20.73%) Security Cleared
2 242 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 161 (8.74%) Degree
4 134 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 114 (6.19%) DV Cleared
6 113 (6.13%) Azure Certification
7 66 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 56 (3.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 39 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (1.41%) OSCP
12 24 (1.30%) CCNP
13 21 (1.14%) CISSP
13 21 (1.14%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.98%) CCNA
15 14 (0.76%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.76%) RHCSA
16 13 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 9 (0.49%) CCIE
17 9 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (4.56%) QA
2 78 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.42%) GDPR
4 50 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.44%) SOC 2
6 34 (1.84%) PCI DSS
7 33 (1.79%) NIST
8 25 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.81%) WCAG
10 11 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.54%) GRC
12 9 (0.49%) NCSC
13 8 (0.43%) SLA
14 5 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS
16 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
16 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
17 1 (0.054%) GxP
17 1 (0.054%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 472 (25.61%) Docker
2 126 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 118 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (2.50%) vSphere
5 38 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 21 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.03%) Hyper-V
8 15 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
9 11 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.43%) Squid
11 7 (0.38%) iptables
12 6 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.27%) KVM
14 4 (0.22%) Firmware
15 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
16 1 (0.054%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,294 (70.21%) Terraform
2 717 (38.90%) Kubernetes
3 392 (21.27%) Ansible
4 209 (11.34%) Grafana
5 190 (10.31%) Prometheus
6 67 (3.64%) Argo
7 44 (2.39%) Puppet
8 39 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (1.57%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.30%) Packer
12 21 (1.14%) Istio
13 19 (1.03%) Kustomize
13 19 (1.03%) Nagios
14 15 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (0.81%) vCenter Server
14 15 (0.81%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.76%) Rancher
16 12 (0.65%) Cilium
17 11 (0.60%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 358 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 153 (8.30%) VMware
3 88 (4.77%) Google
4 76 (4.12%) Databricks
4 76 (4.12%) Red Hat
5 61 (3.31%) Splunk
6 60 (3.26%) Cisco
7 49 (2.66%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.06%) Oracle
9 31 (1.68%) Fortinet
9 31 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 25 (1.36%) Zscaler
11 22 (1.19%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
13 14 (0.76%) Salesforce
14 12 (0.65%) F5
14 12 (0.65%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (0.60%) CheckPoint
15 11 (0.60%) ServiceNow
15 11 (0.60%) SolarWinds