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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 157 164
Rank change year-on-year +65 +7 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,610 843 1,496
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.94% 2.22% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.38% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 573 1,201
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £106,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 61,348 35,444 72,599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.96% 93.35% 84.02%
Number of salaries quoted 40,742 18,936 54,252
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +35 795 £87,500 -2.78% 288
North of England +63 306 £67,249 -3.93% 147
South East +52 187 £70,000 -6.67% 130
North West +54 178 £73,401 +1.24% 80
South West -6 112 £72,500 +3.57% 66
Midlands +32 111 £67,750 -3.21% 39
Yorkshire -5 90 £65,576 -1.39% 32
West Midlands -3 60 £72,500 +3.57% 26
East Midlands +4 51 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England -3 46 £60,100 -7.54% 24
North East -9 38 £52,500 -20.48% 35
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 46 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.11%) Apache
3 28 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.24%) Confluence
6 14 (0.87%) IIS
7 13 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.062%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.062%) nginx
12 1 (0.062%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (0.75%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.25%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.062%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.062%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.062%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.062%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.062%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.062%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 952 (59.13%) AWS
2 874 (54.29%) Azure
3 307 (19.07%) GitHub
4 299 (18.57%) Serverless
5 292 (18.14%) GCP
6 275 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
7 255 (15.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 203 (12.61%) GitHub Actions
9 168 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
10 158 (9.81%) Amazon S3
11 124 (7.70%) PaaS
12 112 (6.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 112 (6.96%) Entra ID
13 110 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
14 107 (6.65%) Amazon EKS
15 100 (6.21%) SaaS
16 99 (6.15%) IaaS
17 92 (5.71%) Azure AKS
17 92 (5.71%) Datadog
18 86 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 169 (10.50%) Firewall
2 96 (5.96%) DNS
3 75 (4.66%) VPN
4 64 (3.98%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.60%) Broadband
6 50 (3.11%) Network Security
7 45 (2.80%) WAN
8 36 (2.24%) DHCP
9 32 (1.99%) BGP
10 26 (1.61%) LAN
11 23 (1.43%) HTTP
12 21 (1.30%) VLAN
13 18 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.06%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (1.06%) SD-WAN
15 14 (0.87%) OSPF
16 13 (0.81%) DSL
17 11 (0.68%) VXLAN
18 9 (0.56%) Internet
18 9 (0.56%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (7.83%) NoSQL
2 113 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
3 86 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (4.53%) MongoDB
5 70 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 64 (3.98%) SQL Server
7 50 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (1.99%) Metadata
11 31 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.49%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.43%) MySQL
14 21 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 20 (1.24%) Power BI
16 18 (1.12%) Delta Lake
16 18 (1.12%) RDBMS
17 16 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 16 (0.99%) Spark SQL
18 15 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 232 (14.41%) GitLab
2 221 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 217 (13.48%) Git
4 37 (2.30%) CircleCI
5 36 (2.24%) Bitbucket
6 32 (1.99%) JIRA
7 31 (1.93%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.24%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.06%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.87%) Selenium
10 14 (0.87%) SonarQube
11 12 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (0.56%) JMeter
12 9 (0.56%) Maven
12 9 (0.56%) MLflow
12 9 (0.56%) Subversion
13 8 (0.50%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.50%) Storybook
14 7 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 398 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 312 (19.38%) Finance
3 115 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (6.46%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.15%) Banking
6 60 (3.73%) Retail
7 56 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (2.92%) Telecoms
9 46 (2.86%) Law
10 36 (2.24%) Games
11 31 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.49%) Aerospace
13 19 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.12%) Advertising
14 18 (1.12%) Billing
14 18 (1.12%) Marketing
15 17 (1.06%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.75%) Electronics
17 12 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 362 (22.48%) Senior
2 267 (16.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 258 (16.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 220 (13.66%) Lead
5 165 (10.25%) Azure Engineer
6 160 (9.94%) Platform Engineer
7 140 (8.70%) Architect
7 140 (8.70%) Developer
8 122 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
9 113 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 90 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 86 (5.34%) Data Engineer
12 80 (4.97%) Security Engineer
13 73 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 68 (4.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 64 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
16 59 (3.66%) Principal Engineer
17 54 (3.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 50 (3.11%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (8.26%) React
2 115 (7.14%) .NET
3 113 (7.02%) Kafka
4 108 (6.71%) Node.js
5 100 (6.21%) REST
6 92 (5.71%) RESTful
7 77 (4.78%) YAML
8 76 (4.72%) Spring
9 68 (4.22%) Spring Boot
10 67 (4.16%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.91%) AWS CDK
12 55 (3.42%) ARM Templates
13 52 (3.23%) PySpark
14 51 (3.17%) OAuth
15 44 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (2.42%) ASP.NET
17 37 (2.30%) ASP.NET Core
17 37 (2.30%) JSON
18 32 (1.99%) Next.js
19 30 (1.86%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 391 (24.29%) Cloud Native
2 130 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 72 (4.47%) Public Cloud
5 58 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 49 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 47 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
10 28 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 26 (1.61%) Low-Code
12 25 (1.55%) Blockchain
12 25 (1.55%) PKI
13 23 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
13 23 (1.43%) Web3
14 21 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 19 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 327 (20.31%) Linux
2 161 (10.00%) Windows
3 81 (5.03%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.98%) Unix
5 43 (2.67%) Ubuntu
6 33 (2.05%) CentOS
7 26 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.55%) VMS
9 11 (0.68%) Android
10 10 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.43%) Debian
11 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.12%) SUSE
14 1 (0.062%) Rocky
14 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,115 (69.25%) CI/CD
2 936 (58.14%) DevOps
3 440 (27.33%) Containerisation
4 431 (26.77%) Agile
5 405 (25.16%) Observability
6 336 (20.87%) Platform Engineering
7 323 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 319 (19.81%) Mentoring
9 303 (18.82%) AI
10 283 (17.58%) Test Automation
11 260 (16.15%) Microservices
12 246 (15.28%) Software Engineering
13 240 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
14 221 (13.73%) Cloud Security
15 211 (13.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 199 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
17 187 (11.61%) Analytics
18 176 (10.93%) High Availability
19 174 (10.81%) DevSecOps
20 156 (9.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 731 (45.40%) Python
2 306 (19.01%) Bash
3 271 (16.83%) PowerShell
4 255 (15.84%) SQL
5 210 (13.04%) Java
6 171 (10.62%) Go
7 144 (8.94%) TypeScript
8 142 (8.82%) JavaScript
9 133 (8.26%) Bicep
10 113 (7.02%) C#
11 30 (1.86%) Rust
12 22 (1.37%) C++
12 22 (1.37%) Scala
13 16 (0.99%) PHP
14 15 (0.93%) Groovy
14 15 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.81%) C
16 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 300 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 198 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 151 (9.38%) Degree
4 125 (7.76%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.78%) DV Cleared
6 87 (5.40%) Azure Certification
7 61 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (1.80%) OSCP
11 22 (1.37%) CISSP
12 16 (0.99%) CCNP
13 15 (0.93%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.87%) CCNA
14 14 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 11 (0.68%) AWS Certified Developer
16 11 (0.68%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.72%) QA
2 63 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.29%) GDPR
4 47 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (2.92%) SOC 2
5 34 (2.11%) NIST
6 30 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 25 (1.55%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.68%) WCAG
9 8 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.50%) GRC
10 5 (0.31%) SLA
11 4 (0.25%) NCSC
11 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS
13 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.062%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 447 (27.76%) Docker
2 107 (6.65%) Active Directory
3 87 (5.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 32 (1.99%) vSphere
6 22 (1.37%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.43%) iptables
8 7 (0.43%) Squid
8 7 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (0.37%) Firmware
9 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.25%) KVM
11 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,134 (70.43%) Terraform
2 639 (39.69%) Kubernetes
3 356 (22.11%) Ansible
4 202 (12.55%) Grafana
5 197 (12.24%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.85%) Argo
7 39 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 36 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (2.17%) Puppet
10 23 (1.43%) Progress Chef
11 22 (1.37%) Kustomize
12 18 (1.12%) Nagios
13 17 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.06%) Istio
13 17 (1.06%) Packer
14 15 (0.93%) Rancher
15 12 (0.75%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.68%) ZABBIX
17 10 (0.62%) Cilium
17 10 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 296 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 122 (7.58%) VMware
3 97 (6.02%) Google
4 69 (4.29%) Databricks
5 67 (4.16%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.42%) Cisco
7 51 (3.17%) Splunk
8 45 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 27 (1.68%) Oracle
10 23 (1.43%) Zscaler
11 22 (1.37%) OpenAI
12 21 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 21 (1.30%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 19 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.75%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.75%) F5
16 11 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.68%) Juniper
17 10 (0.62%) SolarWinds