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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 161 146
Rank change year-on-year +86 -15 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,105 942 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.21% 2.15% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 2.41% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,438 666 942
10th Percentile £49,813 £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 £92,188 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £108,125 £102,500
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 69,952 39,107 58,576
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.57% 89.26% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 49,460 22,554 38,208
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 August 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 August 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 +33 928 £90,000 +2.86% 685
North of England +100 450 £70,000 - 237
South East +76 253 £67,500 -12.90% 185
North West +98 250 £72,500 +3.57% 138
South West +52 226 £75,000 - 125
Midlands +43 147 £77,500 +19.23% 72
Yorkshire +16 106 £72,500 +3.57% 58
North East +16 94 £57,000 -21.38% 41
West Midlands +18 90 £81,887 +25.98% 41
East of England -4 58 £65,000 - 45
East Midlands +16 57 £67,500 +3.85% 31
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 55 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.42%) Apache
2 51 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (1.33%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.43%) IIS
6 9 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.29%) CMS
8 4 (0.19%) Camunda
8 4 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.14%) WordPress
10 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.048%) Documentum
11 1 (0.048%) JBoss
11 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (1.05%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.095%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.048%) Maya
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (57.58%) AWS
2 1,122 (53.30%) Azure
3 393 (18.67%) GCP
4 366 (17.39%) GitHub
5 351 (16.67%) Serverless
6 332 (15.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 289 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
8 200 (9.50%) GitHub Actions
9 184 (8.74%) Amazon S3
10 182 (8.65%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (7.55%) PaaS
12 138 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
13 125 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
14 121 (5.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (5.70%) Azure AKS
16 119 (5.65%) Amazon ECS
17 118 (5.61%) SaaS
18 112 (5.32%) IaaS
19 109 (5.18%) Entra ID
20 102 (4.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.89%) Firewall
2 112 (5.32%) DNS
3 107 (5.08%) VPN
4 98 (4.66%) Network Security
5 66 (3.14%) TCP/IP
6 59 (2.80%) WAN
7 52 (2.47%) BGP
8 47 (2.23%) Broadband
9 43 (2.04%) DHCP
10 40 (1.90%) LAN
11 36 (1.71%) OSPF
12 33 (1.57%) VLAN
13 27 (1.28%) VXLAN
14 26 (1.24%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.14%) SD-WAN
16 16 (0.76%) HTTP
17 15 (0.71%) Wireless
18 14 (0.67%) SAN
19 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
20 11 (0.52%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.42%) MongoDB
4 88 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
5 78 (3.71%) DynamoDB
5 78 (3.71%) SQL Server
6 59 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 55 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 50 (2.38%) MySQL
9 49 (2.33%) Metadata
10 47 (2.23%) Relational Database
11 43 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (1.43%) Redis
13 29 (1.38%) Delta Lake
14 28 (1.33%) Big Data
14 28 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.19%) BigQuery
16 24 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
16 24 (1.14%) Power BI
17 22 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 283 (13.44%) Git
2 271 (12.87%) GitLab
3 232 (11.02%) Jenkins
4 51 (2.42%) JIRA
5 45 (2.14%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 31 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 27 (1.28%) TeamCity
9 20 (0.95%) CircleCI
9 20 (0.95%) Selenium
10 18 (0.86%) Claude Code
11 16 (0.76%) SonarQube
12 15 (0.71%) NUnit
13 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.52%) Maven
14 11 (0.52%) MLflow
15 9 (0.43%) MSI
15 9 (0.43%) Snyk
16 8 (0.38%) JMeter
16 8 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 538 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 433 (20.57%) Finance
3 184 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 166 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
5 112 (5.32%) Banking
6 107 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.56%) Law
8 57 (2.71%) Retail
9 50 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 47 (2.23%) Games
11 36 (1.71%) Marketing
12 30 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.38%) Legal
13 29 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 19 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (0.81%) Aviation
15 17 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (0.76%) Advertising
16 16 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 15 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 501 (23.80%) Senior
2 372 (17.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 286 (13.59%) Lead
4 274 (13.02%) Cloud Engineer
5 233 (11.07%) Architect
6 215 (10.21%) Platform Engineer
7 182 (8.65%) Azure Engineer
8 177 (8.41%) Developer
9 135 (6.41%) Software Engineer
10 130 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
11 126 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 117 (5.56%) Data Engineer
13 111 (5.27%) Principal Engineer
14 95 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 86 (4.09%) Security Engineer
16 73 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 73 (3.47%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
18 68 (3.23%) Senior Developer
19 65 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (8.03%) .NET
2 162 (7.70%) React
3 156 (7.41%) Kafka
4 139 (6.60%) REST
5 127 (6.03%) RESTful
6 126 (5.99%) Spring
7 123 (5.84%) Node.js
8 118 (5.61%) Spring Boot
9 72 (3.42%) PySpark
10 71 (3.37%) YAML
11 68 (3.23%) ARM Templates
12 64 (3.04%) AWS CDK
13 52 (2.47%) AngularJS
14 51 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
15 45 (2.14%) Next.js
15 45 (2.14%) OAuth
16 44 (2.09%) ASP.NET
16 44 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
17 41 (1.95%) ASP.NET Core
18 40 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 617 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 221 (10.50%) Distributed Systems
3 122 (5.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 117 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 112 (5.32%) Public Cloud
6 88 (4.18%) Data Centre
7 61 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 59 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 56 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
10 53 (2.52%) Enterprise Cloud
11 51 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
12 44 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
13 41 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
14 36 (1.71%) Low-Code
15 35 (1.66%) Private Cloud
16 32 (1.52%) e-Learning
17 31 (1.47%) PKI
17 31 (1.47%) Virtual Team
18 29 (1.38%) AI Agents
19 28 (1.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 370 (17.58%) Linux
2 210 (9.98%) Windows
3 98 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.71%) CentOS
5 45 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.43%) Unix
8 22 (1.05%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Android
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.095%) Solaris
12 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.048%) Rocky
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE
12 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,496 (71.07%) CI/CD
2 1,166 (55.39%) DevOps
3 588 (27.93%) Containerisation
4 578 (27.46%) Agile
5 549 (26.08%) Observability
6 503 (23.90%) Platform Engineering
7 470 (22.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 456 (21.66%) AI
9 444 (21.09%) Mentoring
10 404 (19.19%) Software Engineering
11 370 (17.58%) Microservices
12 366 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 357 (16.96%) Test Automation
14 337 (16.01%) Technical Leadership
15 324 (15.39%) Cloud Security
16 280 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 249 (11.83%) Roadmaps
18 237 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 234 (11.12%) Analytics
20 227 (10.78%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 940 (44.66%) Python
2 349 (16.58%) SQL
3 348 (16.53%) Bash
4 320 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 305 (14.49%) Java
6 211 (10.02%) Bicep
7 183 (8.69%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.46%) C#
9 155 (7.36%) Go
10 154 (7.32%) JavaScript
11 39 (1.85%) Scala
12 36 (1.71%) PHP
13 26 (1.24%) Ruby
13 26 (1.24%) Rust
14 23 (1.09%) Groovy
14 23 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
15 21 (1.00%) Perl
16 17 (0.81%) C++
17 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.52%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 516 (24.51%) Security Cleared
2 328 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 187 (8.88%) Degree
5 169 (8.03%) AWS Certification
6 142 (6.75%) Azure Certification
7 88 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 71 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
10 51 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.71%) CCNP
12 29 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 29 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.05%) CISSP
14 20 (0.95%) OSCP
15 18 (0.86%) CCNA
16 17 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
17 15 (0.71%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.67%) CCIE
18 14 (0.67%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.89%) QA
2 99 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.09%) GDPR
4 54 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.66%) NIST
6 34 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 33 (1.57%) SOC 2
8 26 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 19 (0.90%) NCSC
9 19 (0.90%) SLA
10 16 (0.76%) WCAG
11 13 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
13 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.095%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.095%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 563 (26.75%) Docker
2 134 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 130 (6.18%) Active Directory
4 44 (2.09%) vSphere
5 35 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 22 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
11 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 5 (0.24%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) iptables
15 3 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.095%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,458 (69.26%) Terraform
2 814 (38.67%) Kubernetes
3 455 (21.62%) Ansible
4 209 (9.93%) Grafana
5 148 (7.03%) Prometheus
6 64 (3.04%) Argo
7 53 (2.52%) Puppet
8 35 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.57%) Progress Chef
10 32 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
11 30 (1.43%) Istio
12 25 (1.19%) Packer
13 19 (0.90%) Nagios
14 16 (0.76%) FortiGate
14 16 (0.76%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.67%) Cilium
16 12 (0.57%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 11 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 437 (20.76%) Microsoft
2 163 (7.74%) VMware
3 116 (5.51%) Google
4 97 (4.61%) Databricks
5 84 (3.99%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.47%) Splunk
7 71 (3.37%) Cisco
8 54 (2.57%) Oracle
9 47 (2.23%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.85%) Fortinet
11 38 (1.81%) OpenAI
12 34 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.09%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
15 15 (0.71%) SAP
16 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.62%) F5
18 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
19 11 (0.52%) New Relic