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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 128 121
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 -23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,028 1,098 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.86% 2.31% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.53% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 745 678 1,251
10th Percentile £47,547 £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.27% +3.10% -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 44,347 43,406 52,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 80.38% 91.29% 88.76%
Number of salaries quoted 26,763 21,088 41,504
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £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 £102,500 £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 25 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 25 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 +15 495 £84,625 -5.97% 293
North of England -5 208 £67,500 +8.00% 221
South East +10 110 £75,000 +15.38% 337
Yorkshire -10 93 £63,750 +21.43% 99
North West -3 88 £70,000 +1.82% 91
South West -21 78 £62,500 -13.18% 179
Midlands +2 58 £67,000 +0.37% 129
West Midlands +4 35 £65,000 -7.14% 44
East of England +24 28 £75,000 +3.45% 130
North East -4 27 £65,000 +33.33% 32
East Midlands +7 21 £67,750 +4.23% 81
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 47 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.70%) Apache
3 21 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.56%) Confluence
6 10 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.88%) IIS
8 3 (0.29%) Appian
8 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 1 (0.097%) CMS
10 1 (0.097%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.39%) Weka
2 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.097%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.097%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.097%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 650 (63.23%) AWS
2 588 (57.20%) Azure
3 238 (23.15%) GitHub
4 232 (22.57%) Azure DevOps
5 225 (21.89%) GCP
6 183 (17.80%) Serverless
7 174 (16.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 156 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
9 122 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
10 104 (10.12%) Amazon S3
11 95 (9.24%) SaaS
12 81 (7.88%) PaaS
13 78 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 75 (7.30%) Entra ID
15 70 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
16 61 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
17 60 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
18 59 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
19 58 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
20 57 (5.54%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 125 (12.16%) Firewall
2 73 (7.10%) VPN
3 71 (6.91%) DNS
4 48 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 45 (4.38%) WAN
6 29 (2.82%) DHCP
7 28 (2.72%) Network Security
8 23 (2.24%) Broadband
9 22 (2.14%) LAN
9 22 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (1.56%) BGP
10 16 (1.56%) Internet
11 15 (1.46%) 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 (0.58%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (8.37%) NoSQL
2 69 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (4.57%) DynamoDB
4 47 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 41 (3.99%) Data Lake
6 35 (3.40%) MongoDB
7 29 (2.82%) BigQuery
8 28 (2.72%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.43%) MySQL
10 21 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 19 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.85%) RDBMS
12 19 (1.85%) Redis
13 17 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.56%) Big Data
14 16 (1.56%) Power BI
15 13 (1.26%) Delta Lake
16 11 (1.07%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 178 (17.32%) Jenkins
2 146 (14.20%) Git
3 112 (10.89%) GitLab
4 30 (2.92%) JIRA
5 25 (2.43%) Selenium
6 24 (2.33%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 21 (2.04%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.75%) Snyk
9 17 (1.65%) CircleCI
9 17 (1.65%) MLflow
10 14 (1.36%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.07%) Cucumber
12 10 (0.97%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.78%) JMeter
14 7 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.68%) Subversion
14 7 (0.68%) Vite
15 5 (0.49%) Locust
General
1 293 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 226 (21.98%) Finance
3 87 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.42%) Banking
5 58 (5.64%) Law
5 58 (5.64%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.09%) Retail
7 42 (4.09%) Telecoms
8 32 (3.11%) Financial Institution
9 24 (2.33%) Games
10 21 (2.04%) Billing
11 20 (1.95%) Legal
11 20 (1.95%) Marketing
12 18 (1.75%) Back Office
13 17 (1.65%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.26%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.17%) Advertising
15 12 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.17%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 201 (19.55%) Senior
2 165 (16.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 160 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 119 (11.58%) Lead
5 104 (10.12%) Developer
5 104 (10.12%) Platform Engineer
6 93 (9.05%) Architect
7 90 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
8 73 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 67 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 45 (4.38%) Data Engineer
12 39 (3.79%) Security Engineer
12 39 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 35 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.02%) Lead DevOps
15 30 (2.92%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 30 (2.92%) GCP Engineer
16 28 (2.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 28 (2.72%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (10.02%) React
2 80 (7.78%) .NET
3 65 (6.32%) Node.js
4 63 (6.13%) Elastic Stack
5 62 (6.03%) RESTful
6 49 (4.77%) Kafka
7 47 (4.57%) AWS CDK
8 39 (3.79%) Spring
9 37 (3.60%) REST
9 37 (3.60%) YAML
10 35 (3.40%) ARM Templates
10 35 (3.40%) Spring Boot
11 31 (3.02%) Django
11 31 (3.02%) FastAPI
12 29 (2.82%) .NET Core
13 28 (2.72%) CSS
14 27 (2.63%) HTML
15 26 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
16 23 (2.24%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 247 (24.03%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 53 (5.16%) Public Cloud
4 51 (4.96%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 33 (3.21%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 23 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 22 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
10 22 (2.14%) Product Ownership
11 21 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.26%) Hedge funds
13 13 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.17%) Blog
14 12 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
14 12 (1.17%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 234 (22.76%) Linux
2 110 (10.70%) Windows
3 56 (5.45%) Unix
4 38 (3.70%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.72%) VMS
6 26 (2.53%) Ubuntu
7 17 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.46%) Debian
9 11 (1.07%) CentOS
10 6 (0.58%) Android
10 6 (0.58%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.29%) SUSE
12 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.19%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.097%) AIX
14 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (67.22%) CI/CD
2 653 (63.52%) DevOps
3 296 (28.79%) Agile
4 287 (27.92%) Containerisation
5 207 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (19.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 203 (19.75%) Observability
8 174 (16.93%) Mentoring
9 166 (16.15%) Platform Engineering
10 152 (14.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 143 (13.91%) Software Engineering
12 141 (13.72%) AI
12 141 (13.72%) Cloud Security
13 127 (12.35%) Microservices
14 125 (12.16%) Analytics
15 120 (11.67%) High Availability
16 116 (11.28%) DevSecOps
17 115 (11.19%) Test Automation
18 103 (10.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 100 (9.73%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 455 (44.26%) Python
2 203 (19.75%) Bash
3 173 (16.83%) PowerShell
4 158 (15.37%) SQL
5 124 (12.06%) Java
6 116 (11.28%) Bicep
7 105 (10.21%) Go
8 102 (9.92%) JavaScript
9 88 (8.56%) TypeScript
10 67 (6.52%) C#
11 15 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 14 (1.36%) Scala
13 12 (1.17%) C++
14 10 (0.97%) Rust
14 10 (0.97%) 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 (0.19%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 178 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 102 (9.92%) AWS Certification
2 102 (9.92%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.27%) Degree
3 85 (8.27%) DV Cleared
4 69 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 36 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 24 (2.33%) CISSP
7 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.56%) OSCP
11 14 (1.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 14 (1.36%) CCNP
12 7 (0.68%) CCSK
12 7 (0.68%) CISM
13 6 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 6 (0.58%) MCP
13 6 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.38%) GDPR
3 36 (3.50%) NIST
3 36 (3.50%) SOC 2
4 33 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.21%) QA
5 28 (2.72%) PCI DSS
6 18 (1.75%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.88%) SLA
10 6 (0.58%) GRC
11 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.49%) NCSC
11 5 (0.49%) WCAG
12 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.19%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 353 (34.34%) Docker
2 79 (7.68%) Active Directory
3 57 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.95%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.56%) vSphere
7 13 (1.26%) VMware NSX
8 11 (1.07%) Firmware
9 8 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.68%) NFS
10 7 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.58%) KVM
12 3 (0.29%) vCloud
12 3 (0.29%) XenApp
12 3 (0.29%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.19%) GPFS
13 2 (0.19%) iptables
13 2 (0.19%) Lustre
13 2 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 742 (72.18%) Terraform
2 420 (40.86%) Kubernetes
3 282 (27.43%) Ansible
4 151 (14.69%) Prometheus
5 130 (12.65%) Grafana
6 41 (3.99%) Argo
7 28 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (1.95%) Puppet
9 19 (1.85%) Kustomize
10 17 (1.65%) Rancher
10 17 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (1.56%) SCCM
12 13 (1.26%) Progress Chef
13 11 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.78%) SCOM
15 7 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 7 (0.68%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.58%) AWS Copilot
16 6 (0.58%) Nagios
17 5 (0.49%) yum
Vendors
1 184 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 99 (9.63%) Google
3 91 (8.85%) VMware
4 41 (3.99%) Cisco
4 41 (3.99%) Databricks
5 35 (3.40%) Splunk
6 32 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 29 (2.82%) Palo Alto
8 20 (1.95%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.75%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.75%) Coverity
10 14 (1.36%) Oracle
11 13 (1.26%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (1.17%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.17%) SAP
13 11 (1.07%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.97%) Juniper
14 10 (0.97%) New Relic
15 9 (0.88%) OpenAI