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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 154 152
Rank change year-on-year +76 -2 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,929 968 1,387
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.16% 2.24% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.49% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,338 662 1,054
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,625 £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 65,989 38,936 64,231
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.88% 89.93% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 46,599 22,465 44,364
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 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 25 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 +27 880 £90,000 - 479
North of England +94 384 £70,000 - 206
South East +43 235 £67,500 -12.90% 141
North West +80 226 £74,301 +6.14% 109
South West +38 189 £75,000 - 87
Midlands +35 141 £75,000 +15.38% 54
Yorkshire -2 90 £72,500 +3.57% 55
West Midlands +15 85 £80,000 +23.08% 39
North East +9 68 £55,000 -18.52% 42
East Midlands +7 56 £67,500 +3.85% 15
East of England +8 50 £63,750 +2.00% 17
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 53 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 43 (2.23%) Apache
2 43 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 34 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (1.35%) Confluence
5 11 (0.57%) IIS
5 11 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.47%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.10%) Camunda
10 2 (0.10%) nginx
10 2 (0.10%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.052%) Documentum
11 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.052%) JBoss
11 1 (0.052%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.052%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.04%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.10%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.10%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.052%) Maya
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.052%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Summit
2 2 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.052%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.052%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,102 (57.13%) AWS
2 1,053 (54.59%) Azure
3 344 (17.83%) GCP
4 339 (17.57%) Serverless
5 335 (17.37%) GitHub
6 293 (15.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
8 193 (10.01%) GitHub Actions
9 179 (9.28%) Amazon S3
10 176 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (8.24%) PaaS
12 133 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
13 121 (6.27%) Amazon EKS
14 118 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 115 (5.96%) IaaS
16 114 (5.91%) SaaS
17 108 (5.60%) Azure AKS
18 107 (5.55%) Entra ID
19 104 (5.39%) Amazon ECS
20 89 (4.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 167 (8.66%) Firewall
2 108 (5.60%) DNS
3 107 (5.55%) VPN
4 97 (5.03%) Network Security
5 65 (3.37%) TCP/IP
6 60 (3.11%) WAN
7 55 (2.85%) Broadband
8 50 (2.59%) BGP
9 38 (1.97%) LAN
10 36 (1.87%) DHCP
11 35 (1.81%) VLAN
12 33 (1.71%) OSPF
13 26 (1.35%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.24%) SD-WAN
15 22 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
16 21 (1.09%) HTTP
17 13 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (0.67%) Wireless
18 12 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
19 11 (0.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (7.36%) PostgreSQL
2 131 (6.79%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.56%) Amazon RDS
4 85 (4.41%) MongoDB
5 74 (3.84%) DynamoDB
6 69 (3.58%) SQL Server
7 53 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 51 (2.64%) Data Lake
9 48 (2.49%) Metadata
10 43 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 40 (2.07%) MySQL
12 36 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (1.40%) Redis
14 25 (1.30%) Delta Lake
14 25 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.19%) Big Data
16 23 (1.19%) Power BI
17 22 (1.14%) BigQuery
18 20 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 269 (13.95%) GitLab
2 257 (13.32%) Git
3 226 (11.72%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.18%) JIRA
5 40 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.66%) Bitbucket
7 28 (1.45%) CircleCI
8 27 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (1.35%) TeamCity
10 18 (0.93%) Selenium
11 17 (0.88%) Claude Code
12 14 (0.73%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.57%) NUnit
14 10 (0.52%) Maven
14 10 (0.52%) MLflow
15 9 (0.47%) Cypress.io
15 9 (0.47%) Subversion
16 8 (0.41%) JMeter
16 8 (0.41%) MSI
16 8 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 483 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 386 (20.01%) Finance
3 154 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (7.52%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.03%) Banking
6 84 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 62 (3.21%) Law
8 57 (2.95%) Retail
9 44 (2.28%) Games
10 36 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 33 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.19%) Marketing
14 21 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.04%) Advertising
15 20 (1.04%) Legal
16 16 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.73%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (0.52%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 460 (23.85%) Senior
2 342 (17.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 261 (13.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 260 (13.48%) Lead
5 207 (10.73%) Architect
6 199 (10.32%) Platform Engineer
7 183 (9.49%) Azure Engineer
8 165 (8.55%) Developer
9 121 (6.27%) AWS Engineer
10 110 (5.70%) Software Engineer
11 108 (5.60%) Data Engineer
11 108 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 91 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
13 88 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 82 (4.25%) Security Engineer
15 78 (4.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 70 (3.63%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 66 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
18 64 (3.32%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 61 (3.16%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (7.72%) .NET
2 146 (7.57%) React
3 142 (7.36%) Kafka
4 122 (6.32%) REST
5 113 (5.86%) RESTful
6 108 (5.60%) Node.js
6 108 (5.60%) Spring
7 102 (5.29%) Spring Boot
8 76 (3.94%) YAML
9 71 (3.68%) ARM Templates
10 67 (3.47%) PySpark
11 59 (3.06%) AWS CDK
12 56 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 46 (2.38%) OAuth
14 43 (2.23%) RabbitMQ
15 42 (2.18%) AngularJS
15 42 (2.18%) Next.js
16 39 (2.02%) JSON
17 38 (1.97%) FastAPI
18 37 (1.92%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 547 (28.36%) Cloud Native
2 202 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (5.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 96 (4.98%) Public Cloud
5 94 (4.87%) Onboarding
6 80 (4.15%) Data Centre
7 59 (3.06%) Product Ownership
7 59 (3.06%) Security Posture
8 53 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 49 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
10 45 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 40 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 37 (1.92%) Low-Code
13 30 (1.56%) PKI
14 27 (1.40%) e-Learning
15 25 (1.30%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 23 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
17 22 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 337 (17.47%) Linux
2 196 (10.16%) Windows
3 89 (4.61%) Windows Server
4 50 (2.59%) CentOS
5 41 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (1.35%) VMS
8 25 (1.30%) Unix
9 8 (0.41%) Android
10 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.31%) Debian
12 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.052%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.052%) Rocky
14 1 (0.052%) Solaris
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,368 (70.92%) CI/CD
2 1,084 (56.19%) DevOps
3 531 (27.53%) Agile
4 529 (27.42%) Containerisation
5 503 (26.08%) Observability
6 441 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
7 426 (22.08%) AI
8 413 (21.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 402 (20.84%) Mentoring
10 344 (17.83%) Software Engineering
11 343 (17.78%) Test Automation
12 331 (17.16%) Microservices
13 309 (16.02%) Problem-Solving
14 285 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
15 282 (14.62%) Cloud Security
16 241 (12.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 222 (11.51%) Analytics
17 222 (11.51%) Roadmaps
18 209 (10.83%) DevSecOps
19 207 (10.73%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 876 (45.41%) Python
2 329 (17.06%) Bash
3 324 (16.80%) SQL
4 303 (15.71%) PowerShell
5 264 (13.69%) Java
6 200 (10.37%) Bicep
7 167 (8.66%) TypeScript
8 161 (8.35%) C#
9 160 (8.29%) Go
10 148 (7.67%) JavaScript
11 38 (1.97%) PHP
12 29 (1.50%) Scala
13 26 (1.35%) Rust
14 22 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
14 22 (1.14%) Ruby
15 20 (1.04%) Groovy
15 20 (1.04%) Perl
16 18 (0.93%) C++
17 10 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 434 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 270 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.92%) Degree
4 141 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 139 (7.21%) AWS Certification
6 125 (6.48%) Azure Certification
7 74 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (3.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 51 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.71%) CCNP
12 26 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.24%) CISSP
14 22 (1.14%) OSCP
15 18 (0.93%) CCNA
16 14 (0.73%) RHCSA
17 13 (0.67%) CCIE
18 11 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 11 (0.57%) DBS Check
18 11 (0.57%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.92%) QA
2 89 (4.61%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.16%) GDPR
4 49 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.87%) SOC 2
6 33 (1.71%) NIST
7 31 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.45%) Accessibility
9 17 (0.88%) WCAG
10 13 (0.67%) GRC
10 13 (0.67%) NCSC
11 9 (0.47%) SLA
12 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS
14 2 (0.10%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.052%) GxP
15 1 (0.052%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 502 (26.02%) Docker
2 121 (6.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (6.12%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.23%) vSphere
5 33 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.98%) Hyper-V
7 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.41%) Squid
10 6 (0.31%) Firmware
10 6 (0.31%) iptables
10 6 (0.31%) KVM
10 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,332 (69.05%) Terraform
2 747 (38.72%) Kubernetes
3 402 (20.84%) Ansible
4 211 (10.94%) Grafana
5 165 (8.55%) Prometheus
6 60 (3.11%) Argo
7 43 (2.23%) Puppet
8 37 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 34 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.50%) Progress Chef
11 26 (1.35%) Istio
11 26 (1.35%) Packer
12 20 (1.04%) Nagios
13 16 (0.83%) FortiGate
14 13 (0.67%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.62%) Cilium
15 12 (0.62%) Rancher
16 11 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
16 11 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 392 (20.32%) Microsoft
2 148 (7.67%) VMware
3 90 (4.67%) Google
4 82 (4.25%) Databricks
5 77 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 68 (3.53%) Splunk
7 67 (3.47%) Cisco
8 52 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 41 (2.13%) Oracle
10 38 (1.97%) Fortinet
11 32 (1.66%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.45%) Zscaler
13 26 (1.35%) Dynatrace
14 15 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.78%) F5
15 14 (0.73%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.67%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.62%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.57%) Atlassian
19 10 (0.52%) SolarWinds