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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 141 160
Rank change year-on-year +35 +19 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,375 848 1,482
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 2.26% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.43% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 931 619 1,198
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £91,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 58,792 34,849 70,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.40% 92.99% 85.78%
Number of salaries quoted 37,008 20,692 53,458
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +45 685 £85,000 -5.56% 306
North of England -1 267 £67,500 -0.37% 167
South East -4 143 £72,500 -3.33% 118
North West +7 135 £72,500 - 95
South West -13 105 £65,000 -9.71% 78
Yorkshire -19 99 £65,000 +8.33% 33
Midlands -9 83 £67,500 -3.57% 44
East Midlands -14 43 £67,750 +4.23% 10
East of England -4 38 £60,100 -10.96% 39
West Midlands -21 38 £67,500 -3.57% 34
North East -21 33 £48,445 -15.01% 39
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 43 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (2.40%) Apache
3 24 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.16%) Confluence
5 16 (1.16%) IIS
6 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.29%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.073%) Camunda
10 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.073%) nginx
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (0.51%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 844 (61.38%) AWS
2 747 (54.33%) Azure
3 286 (20.80%) GCP
4 283 (20.58%) GitHub
5 267 (19.42%) Serverless
6 256 (18.62%) Azure DevOps
7 225 (16.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
9 150 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
10 130 (9.45%) Amazon S3
11 107 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
12 104 (7.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 104 (7.56%) PaaS
13 100 (7.27%) Entra ID
14 99 (7.20%) Datadog
15 93 (6.76%) SaaS
16 83 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
17 77 (5.60%) IaaS
18 71 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
19 70 (5.09%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 168 (12.22%) Firewall
2 88 (6.40%) DNS
3 75 (5.45%) VPN
4 71 (5.16%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.49%) WAN
6 39 (2.84%) Network Security
7 38 (2.76%) Broadband
8 33 (2.40%) DHCP
9 28 (2.04%) LAN
10 26 (1.89%) HTTP
11 23 (1.67%) BGP
12 16 (1.16%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.16%) VLAN
13 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.95%) DSL
15 12 (0.87%) Internet
16 11 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.58%) Wireless
18 6 (0.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (8.36%) NoSQL
2 97 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.65%) DynamoDB
5 61 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 47 (3.42%) MongoDB
7 43 (3.13%) Relational Database
8 38 (2.76%) Data Lake
9 33 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
11 27 (1.96%) MySQL
12 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.67%) Power BI
14 22 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.60%) Metadata
15 19 (1.38%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.31%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.31%) Redis
17 15 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 12 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 202 (14.69%) Jenkins
2 189 (13.75%) GitLab
3 185 (13.45%) Git
4 35 (2.55%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.47%) JIRA
6 33 (2.40%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.53%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.31%) Selenium
10 13 (0.95%) MLflow
10 13 (0.95%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 12 (0.87%) JMeter
11 12 (0.87%) Robot Framework
11 12 (0.87%) TeamCity
12 10 (0.73%) Subversion
13 9 (0.65%) Locust
13 9 (0.65%) Vite
14 8 (0.58%) Storybook
15 7 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 369 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 288 (20.95%) Finance
3 117 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (6.55%) Banking
5 81 (5.89%) Public Sector
6 62 (4.51%) Retail
7 57 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 57 (4.15%) Law
7 57 (4.15%) Telecoms
8 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 22 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.60%) Marketing
10 21 (1.53%) Advertising
10 21 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 21 (1.53%) Billing
10 21 (1.53%) Games
11 17 (1.24%) Back Office
12 15 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.09%) Electronics
13 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 306 (22.25%) Senior
2 221 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 218 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 188 (13.67%) Lead
5 133 (9.67%) Azure Engineer
6 125 (9.09%) Developer
7 119 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
8 113 (8.22%) Architect
9 107 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
9 107 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 74 (5.38%) Software Engineer
11 69 (5.02%) Data Engineer
12 67 (4.87%) Security Engineer
13 58 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
14 55 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 48 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 48 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 47 (3.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 42 (3.05%) Python Engineer
18 38 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (9.45%) React
2 97 (7.05%) Node.js
3 90 (6.55%) .NET
4 83 (6.04%) Kafka
5 81 (5.89%) RESTful
6 77 (5.60%) REST
7 73 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
8 65 (4.73%) AWS CDK
9 62 (4.51%) Spring
10 60 (4.36%) YAML
11 54 (3.93%) Spring Boot
12 49 (3.56%) ARM Templates
13 44 (3.20%) OAuth
14 43 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
15 37 (2.69%) PySpark
16 36 (2.62%) FastAPI
17 32 (2.33%) Django
17 32 (2.33%) Next.js
18 31 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
19 30 (2.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 317 (23.05%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 55 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 55 (4.00%) Security Posture
5 48 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 43 (3.13%) Data Centre
7 39 (2.84%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 29 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.67%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.60%) Blockchain
12 21 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.45%) Web3
14 18 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.31%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.24%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 294 (21.38%) Linux
2 150 (10.91%) Windows
3 64 (4.65%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.36%) Unix
5 32 (2.33%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.11%) VMS
7 23 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 22 (1.60%) CentOS
9 13 (0.95%) Android
10 12 (0.87%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.51%) Debian
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.29%) SUSE
14 2 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.073%) Rocky
15 1 (0.073%) Solaris
15 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 925 (67.27%) CI/CD
2 836 (60.80%) DevOps
3 402 (29.24%) Containerisation
4 372 (27.05%) Agile
5 347 (25.24%) Observability
6 295 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 259 (18.84%) Mentoring
8 241 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
9 238 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
10 221 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 215 (15.64%) AI
12 207 (15.05%) Microservices
13 202 (14.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 202 (14.69%) Software Engineering
14 188 (13.67%) Cloud Security
15 165 (12.00%) Analytics
16 157 (11.42%) High Availability
17 152 (11.05%) DevSecOps
18 143 (10.40%) Technical Leadership
19 141 (10.25%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 634 (46.11%) Python
2 275 (20.00%) Bash
3 229 (16.65%) SQL
4 227 (16.51%) PowerShell
5 183 (13.31%) Java
6 154 (11.20%) Go
7 125 (9.09%) Bicep
8 123 (8.95%) JavaScript
9 120 (8.73%) TypeScript
10 79 (5.75%) C#
11 22 (1.60%) Rust
12 21 (1.53%) C++
13 20 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (1.38%) Scala
15 13 (0.95%) C
16 9 (0.65%) Ruby
17 8 (0.58%) Groovy
17 8 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.58%) PHP
17 8 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 236 (17.16%) Security Cleared
2 149 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 136 (9.89%) Degree
4 109 (7.93%) AWS Certification
5 83 (6.04%) DV Cleared
6 74 (5.38%) Azure Certification
7 59 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.18%) OSCP
9 28 (2.04%) CISSP
9 28 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 22 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (1.02%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.95%) CCNP
15 12 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 11 (0.80%) CCNA
16 11 (0.80%) CCSK
17 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.80%) QA
2 56 (4.07%) GDPR
3 53 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (3.78%) Data Quality
5 51 (3.71%) SOC 2
6 39 (2.84%) NIST
7 36 (2.62%) PCI DSS
8 28 (2.04%) Accessibility
9 13 (0.95%) WCAG
10 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.51%) GRC
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
12 6 (0.44%) SLA
13 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.15%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 428 (31.13%) Docker
2 96 (6.98%) Active Directory
3 70 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.82%) vSphere
6 19 (1.38%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.31%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.65%) Firmware
9 6 (0.44%) iptables
10 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.29%) KVM
12 3 (0.22%) Squid
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.073%) vCloud
14 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 960 (69.82%) Terraform
2 565 (41.09%) Kubernetes
3 323 (23.49%) Ansible
4 191 (13.89%) Grafana
5 188 (13.67%) Prometheus
6 55 (4.00%) Argo
7 34 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.89%) Puppet
10 23 (1.67%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.24%) Rancher
12 16 (1.16%) Progress Chef
13 14 (1.02%) Istio
13 14 (1.02%) Nagios
14 11 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.80%) Packer
15 8 (0.58%) logstash
15 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
15 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 240 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.71%) VMware
3 102 (7.42%) Google
4 59 (4.29%) Red Hat
5 57 (4.15%) Databricks
6 51 (3.71%) Cisco
7 46 (3.35%) Splunk
8 38 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 22 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 21 (1.53%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.31%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 15 (1.09%) Oracle
14 14 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 14 (1.02%) Juniper
15 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
16 12 (0.87%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.73%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.73%) SAP