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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 153 123
Rank change year-on-year +76 -30 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,139 933 1,471
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.10% 2.16% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.43% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,430 672 943
10th Percentile £49,313 £51,350 £44,790
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 74,604 38,365 56,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.40% 88.79% 81.71%
Number of salaries quoted 52,829 22,080 32,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,233 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +27 933 £90,000 +5.88% 1,424
North of England +80 475 £70,000 - 401
North West +99 262 £72,500 +11.54% 232
South East +55 245 £67,500 -18.18% 270
South West +34 237 £75,000 - 203
Midlands +32 148 £75,000 +15.83% 155
North East +14 111 £59,500 -17.93% 60
Yorkshire -9 105 £72,500 +3.57% 110
West Midlands +5 92 £85,000 +36.55% 95
East Midlands -5 56 £67,500 +3.85% 60
East of England -7 56 £65,000 - 82
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 (2.48%) Apache
2 51 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 27 (1.26%) Confluence
6 14 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 11 (0.51%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.37%) IIS
9 7 (0.33%) CMS
9 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.28%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.094%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.094%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.047%) JBoss
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.98%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.094%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.094%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (56.76%) AWS
2 1,132 (52.92%) Azure
3 412 (19.26%) GCP
4 382 (17.86%) GitHub
5 346 (16.18%) Serverless
6 334 (15.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 287 (13.42%) Azure DevOps
8 211 (9.86%) GitHub Actions
9 180 (8.42%) Amazon S3
9 180 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
10 153 (7.15%) PaaS
11 137 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
12 134 (6.26%) Azure AKS
13 131 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
14 126 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 123 (5.75%) Amazon ECS
16 115 (5.38%) Entra ID
17 114 (5.33%) SaaS
18 112 (5.24%) IaaS
19 97 (4.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 162 (7.57%) Firewall
2 125 (5.84%) DNS
3 124 (5.80%) VPN
4 96 (4.49%) Network Security
5 58 (2.71%) WAN
6 57 (2.66%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.48%) BGP
8 50 (2.34%) DHCP
9 40 (1.87%) Broadband
10 38 (1.78%) OSPF
11 35 (1.64%) LAN
12 32 (1.50%) VLAN
13 27 (1.26%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.22%) SD-WAN
14 26 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
15 16 (0.75%) Wireless
16 15 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
16 15 (0.70%) HTTP
16 15 (0.70%) SAN
17 11 (0.51%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
2 143 (6.69%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 90 (4.21%) MongoDB
5 80 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 75 (3.51%) DynamoDB
7 64 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 52 (2.43%) MySQL
9 49 (2.29%) Metadata
10 43 (2.01%) Relational Database
11 41 (1.92%) Redis
12 36 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (1.40%) Big Data
14 29 (1.36%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (1.08%) BigQuery
17 22 (1.03%) Data Vault
17 22 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 295 (13.79%) Git
2 275 (12.86%) GitLab
3 239 (11.17%) Jenkins
4 56 (2.62%) JIRA
5 50 (2.34%) Cucumber
6 34 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 21 (0.98%) Claude Code
9 21 (0.98%) Selenium
10 18 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.56%) Maven
12 12 (0.56%) NUnit
12 12 (0.56%) Snyk
13 10 (0.47%) CircleCI
13 10 (0.47%) Subversion
14 9 (0.42%) MLflow
14 9 (0.42%) MSI
14 9 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 560 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 448 (20.94%) Finance
3 205 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 163 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 123 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 115 (5.38%) Banking
7 80 (3.74%) Law
8 61 (2.85%) Retail
9 58 (2.71%) Aerospace
10 37 (1.73%) Games
11 34 (1.59%) Marketing
12 31 (1.45%) Legal
13 29 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 20 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.65%) Aviation
18 14 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 507 (23.70%) Senior
2 386 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 283 (13.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 277 (12.95%) Lead
5 243 (11.36%) Architect
6 230 (10.75%) Platform Engineer
7 189 (8.84%) Azure Engineer
8 176 (8.23%) Developer
9 154 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 141 (6.59%) Software Engineer
11 137 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
12 118 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
13 107 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 107 (5.00%) Data Engineer
14 87 (4.07%) Security Engineer
15 82 (3.83%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 71 (3.32%) Azure Platform Engineer
16 71 (3.32%) Senior Developer
17 68 (3.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 68 (3.18%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,480 (69.19%) Terraform
2 173 (8.09%) .NET
3 172 (8.04%) React
4 164 (7.67%) Kafka
5 134 (6.26%) REST
6 131 (6.12%) RESTful
7 130 (6.08%) Spring
8 129 (6.03%) Node.js
9 123 (5.75%) Spring Boot
10 67 (3.13%) PySpark
11 66 (3.09%) ARM Templates
12 60 (2.81%) AWS CDK
13 58 (2.71%) YAML
14 56 (2.62%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
16 45 (2.10%) Next.js
17 44 (2.06%) OAuth
18 42 (1.96%) CSS
19 41 (1.92%) ASP.NET
20 40 (1.87%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 652 (30.48%) Cloud Native
2 237 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 129 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 124 (5.80%) Onboarding
5 117 (5.47%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.35%) Data Centre
7 63 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.66%) Security Posture
9 56 (2.62%) Enterprise Cloud
10 53 (2.48%) Product Ownership
11 48 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
12 46 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.87%) AI Agents
13 40 (1.87%) e-Learning
14 39 (1.82%) Private Cloud
15 38 (1.78%) PKI
16 36 (1.68%) Virtual Team
17 35 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
18 32 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
19 30 (1.40%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 376 (17.58%) Linux
2 205 (9.58%) Windows
3 96 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 59 (2.76%) CentOS
5 48 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 39 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.36%) Unix
8 22 (1.03%) VMS
9 7 (0.33%) Debian
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.14%) Android
11 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.094%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Rocky
12 2 (0.094%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,531 (71.58%) CI/CD
2 1,172 (54.79%) DevOps
3 606 (28.33%) Agile
4 587 (27.44%) Containerisation
5 569 (26.60%) Observability
6 539 (25.20%) Platform Engineering
7 499 (23.33%) AI
8 461 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 449 (20.99%) Mentoring
10 419 (19.59%) Software Engineering
11 384 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
12 375 (17.53%) Microservices
13 357 (16.69%) Test Automation
14 347 (16.22%) Cloud Security
15 339 (15.85%) Technical Leadership
16 319 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 260 (12.16%) Roadmaps
18 249 (11.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 242 (11.31%) Event-Driven
20 226 (10.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 955 (44.65%) Python
2 354 (16.55%) Bash
2 354 (16.55%) SQL
3 324 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 313 (14.63%) Java
5 216 (10.10%) Bicep
6 191 (8.93%) TypeScript
7 182 (8.51%) C#
8 158 (7.39%) JavaScript
9 149 (6.97%) Go
10 41 (1.92%) Scala
11 34 (1.59%) PHP
12 33 (1.54%) Groovy
13 29 (1.36%) Rust
14 25 (1.17%) Ruby
14 25 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 23 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
16 20 (0.94%) Perl
17 16 (0.75%) C++
18 13 (0.61%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 558 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 356 (16.64%) SC Cleared
3 199 (9.30%) DV Cleared
4 192 (8.98%) AWS Certification
5 171 (7.99%) Degree
6 145 (6.78%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 78 (3.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 57 (2.66%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 34 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (1.54%) CCNP
13 28 (1.31%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.03%) CISSP
15 21 (0.98%) CCNA
16 18 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.79%) SnowPro
18 13 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 12 (0.56%) CCIE
19 12 (0.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 92 (4.30%) QA
3 59 (2.76%) GDPR
4 53 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.40%) NIST
7 26 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.12%) NCSC
8 24 (1.12%) SLA
9 19 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.61%) GRC
10 13 (0.61%) WCAG
11 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.094%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.094%) IFRS
14 2 (0.094%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.094%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 564 (26.37%) Docker
2 132 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 131 (6.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 45 (2.10%) vSphere
5 43 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.98%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.79%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.42%) KVM
9 9 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.37%) Squid
10 8 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 6 (0.28%) Firmware
12 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.14%) iptables
13 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.094%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 805 (37.63%) Kubernetes
2 457 (21.37%) Ansible
3 198 (9.26%) Grafana
4 139 (6.50%) Prometheus
5 68 (3.18%) Argo
6 62 (2.90%) Puppet
7 43 (2.01%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 36 (1.68%) Istio
10 34 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
11 26 (1.22%) Packer
12 22 (1.03%) FortiGate
13 20 (0.94%) Rancher
14 19 (0.89%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.65%) Cilium
15 14 (0.65%) Nagios
16 13 (0.61%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.56%) linkerd
17 12 (0.56%) Podman
17 12 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 471 (22.02%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.62%) VMware
3 134 (6.26%) Google
4 96 (4.49%) Databricks
5 76 (3.55%) Red Hat
6 71 (3.32%) Cisco
7 67 (3.13%) Splunk
8 58 (2.71%) Oracle
9 38 (1.78%) Fortinet
9 38 (1.78%) Palo Alto
10 36 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 35 (1.64%) Dynatrace
12 30 (1.40%) ServiceNow
13 26 (1.22%) Zscaler
14 14 (0.65%) Atlassian
14 14 (0.65%) SAP
15 13 (0.61%) New Relic
15 13 (0.61%) SolarWinds
16 12 (0.56%) F5
16 12 (0.56%) ScienceLogic