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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 128 132
Rank change year-on-year +18 +4 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,135 1,064 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.87% 2.44% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.63% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 799 679 1,241
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,100 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £112,500
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 48,128 40,388 58,996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.10% 92.71% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 29,549 20,191 46,643
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £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 22 February 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 February 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 +24 563 £85,000 -5.56% 241
North of England -14 215 £66,500 +3.91% 129
South East +3 126 £75,000 +7.14% 125
Yorkshire -8 93 £62,500 +13.64% 42
North West -19 90 £72,000 +6.67% 69
South West -25 82 £62,500 -13.18% 49
Midlands +5 65 £67,000 +3.08% 34
West Midlands -7 32 £65,000 -3.70% 28
North East -8 32 £48,445 -14.26% 18
East Midlands +2 31 £67,750 +4.23% 6
East of England +27 30 £62,500 -13.79% 9
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 52 (4.58%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.35%) Apache
3 24 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.15%) Confluence
5 13 (1.15%) IIS
6 10 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.26%) Appian
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.088%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Weka
2 3 (0.26%) PlantUML
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.088%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.088%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.088%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 727 (64.05%) AWS
2 629 (55.42%) Azure
3 257 (22.64%) GCP
4 254 (22.38%) GitHub
5 240 (21.15%) Azure DevOps
6 204 (17.97%) Serverless
7 201 (17.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 175 (15.42%) GitHub Actions
9 130 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
10 115 (10.13%) Amazon S3
11 102 (8.99%) PaaS
12 101 (8.90%) SaaS
13 89 (7.84%) Entra ID
14 88 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 84 (7.40%) Amazon EKS
16 70 (6.17%) IaaS
17 69 (6.08%) Datadog
18 67 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
19 65 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
20 62 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (12.51%) Firewall
2 79 (6.96%) DNS
3 77 (6.78%) VPN
4 59 (5.20%) TCP/IP
5 41 (3.61%) WAN
6 31 (2.73%) Broadband
7 30 (2.64%) DHCP
8 29 (2.56%) Network Security
9 18 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (1.50%) BGP
10 17 (1.50%) HTTP
10 17 (1.50%) VLAN
11 15 (1.32%) Internet
11 15 (1.32%) LAN
12 10 (0.88%) DSL
12 10 (0.88%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.70%) SAN
14 6 (0.53%) Wireless
15 5 (0.44%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (8.19%) NoSQL
2 74 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (4.23%) DynamoDB
4 48 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 37 (3.26%) Data Lake
6 33 (2.91%) MongoDB
7 32 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 26 (2.29%) MySQL
9 24 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 24 (2.11%) BigQuery
9 24 (2.11%) Redis
10 23 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
12 19 (1.67%) Metadata
12 19 (1.67%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.50%) Power BI
14 16 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 16 (1.41%) Big Data
15 13 (1.15%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 188 (16.56%) Jenkins
2 144 (12.69%) Git
3 137 (12.07%) GitLab
4 28 (2.47%) JIRA
5 26 (2.29%) CircleCI
6 25 (2.20%) Selenium
7 24 (2.11%) Robot Framework
8 23 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 23 (2.03%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.59%) Snyk
10 17 (1.50%) MLflow
11 14 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.06%) TeamCity
13 11 (0.97%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.70%) JMeter
14 8 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 8 (0.70%) Subversion
15 7 (0.62%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.62%) Storybook
General
1 323 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 252 (22.20%) Finance
3 114 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (6.96%) Banking
5 69 (6.08%) Law
6 67 (5.90%) Public Sector
7 53 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 49 (4.32%) Retail
10 35 (3.08%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.03%) Billing
12 21 (1.85%) Back Office
12 21 (1.85%) Marketing
13 19 (1.67%) Games
14 18 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.50%) Legal
16 16 (1.41%) Advertising
17 15 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (1.23%) Aerospace
19 11 (0.97%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 227 (20.00%) Senior
2 190 (16.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 178 (15.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 140 (12.33%) Lead
5 110 (9.69%) Platform Engineer
6 105 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
7 104 (9.16%) Architect
7 104 (9.16%) Developer
8 87 (7.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 84 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (5.02%) Software Engineer
11 49 (4.32%) Data Engineer
11 49 (4.32%) Security Engineer
12 43 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 39 (3.44%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 37 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 35 (3.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 33 (2.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 31 (2.73%) GCP Engineer
17 31 (2.73%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (9.78%) React
2 73 (6.43%) .NET
3 71 (6.26%) Node.js
4 68 (5.99%) Elastic Stack
5 65 (5.73%) RESTful
6 63 (5.55%) Kafka
7 57 (5.02%) AWS CDK
8 48 (4.23%) Spring
9 44 (3.88%) Spring Boot
10 42 (3.70%) YAML
11 38 (3.35%) REST
12 34 (3.00%) Django
13 33 (2.91%) ARM Templates
14 31 (2.73%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.56%) CSS
16 26 (2.29%) .NET Core
16 26 (2.29%) HTML
16 26 (2.29%) RabbitMQ
17 25 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
18 22 (1.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 266 (23.44%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (4.93%) Public Cloud
4 50 (4.41%) Security Posture
5 47 (4.14%) Data Centre
6 43 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 28 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 25 (2.20%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 21 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.50%) Hedge funds
14 15 (1.32%) Blog
14 15 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
15 14 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
16 13 (1.15%) Data Structures
16 13 (1.15%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 252 (22.20%) Linux
2 117 (10.31%) Windows
3 66 (5.81%) Unix
4 41 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.73%) VMS
6 25 (2.20%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.23%) CentOS
9 12 (1.06%) Debian
10 9 (0.79%) Android
10 9 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) Solaris
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.088%) AIX
15 1 (0.088%) Rocky
15 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (68.11%) CI/CD
2 707 (62.29%) DevOps
3 324 (28.55%) Agile
4 321 (28.28%) Containerisation
5 244 (21.50%) Observability
6 227 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 224 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
8 202 (17.80%) Mentoring
9 175 (15.42%) AI
10 173 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
11 167 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 161 (14.19%) Software Engineering
13 160 (14.10%) Cloud Security
14 146 (12.86%) Microservices
15 137 (12.07%) Test Automation
16 136 (11.98%) DevSecOps
17 134 (11.81%) Analytics
18 128 (11.28%) High Availability
19 118 (10.40%) Incident Response
20 114 (10.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 509 (44.85%) Python
2 223 (19.65%) Bash
3 175 (15.42%) PowerShell
4 169 (14.89%) SQL
5 144 (12.69%) Java
6 130 (11.45%) Go
7 108 (9.52%) Bicep
8 107 (9.43%) JavaScript
9 92 (8.11%) TypeScript
10 60 (5.29%) C#
11 16 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 16 (1.41%) Rust
11 16 (1.41%) Scala
12 14 (1.23%) C++
13 9 (0.79%) C
14 8 (0.70%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.53%) Ruby
17 4 (0.35%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 200 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 118 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 103 (9.07%) AWS Certification
3 103 (9.07%) Degree
4 86 (7.58%) DV Cleared
5 67 (5.90%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 31 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.56%) CISSP
9 27 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.94%) OSCP
11 15 (1.32%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (0.97%) CCSK
14 10 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 8 (0.70%) CCNP
16 8 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.62%) CISM
17 7 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (4.32%) GDPR
3 44 (3.88%) SOC 2
4 39 (3.44%) NIST
4 39 (3.44%) QA
5 38 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 34 (3.00%) PCI DSS
7 20 (1.76%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (0.79%) SLA
10 7 (0.62%) WCAG
11 6 (0.53%) GRC
12 5 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
System Software
1 372 (32.78%) Docker
2 83 (7.31%) Active Directory
3 59 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.94%) Hyper-V
6 17 (1.50%) vSphere
7 14 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.06%) Firmware
9 6 (0.53%) KVM
10 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.26%) iptables
11 3 (0.26%) NFS
11 3 (0.26%) vCloud
11 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.18%) GPFS
12 2 (0.18%) Lustre
12 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.18%) XenApp
12 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 798 (70.31%) Terraform
2 450 (39.65%) Kubernetes
3 299 (26.34%) Ansible
4 168 (14.80%) Prometheus
5 153 (13.48%) Grafana
6 46 (4.05%) Argo
7 32 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (2.11%) Puppet
9 21 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.67%) Kustomize
11 16 (1.41%) Rancher
12 14 (1.23%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.06%) SCCM
14 11 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
17 8 (0.70%) Nagios
18 7 (0.62%) Istio
19 6 (0.53%) Proxmox
19 6 (0.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 192 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 105 (9.25%) Google
3 93 (8.19%) VMware
4 42 (3.70%) Databricks
5 39 (3.44%) Cisco
6 36 (3.17%) Red Hat
6 36 (3.17%) Splunk
7 34 (3.00%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.94%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.59%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.59%) Coverity
10 14 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.15%) Juniper
11 13 (1.15%) Oracle
12 11 (0.97%) New Relic
12 11 (0.97%) SAP
13 10 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 10 (0.88%) SolarWinds