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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 153 161
Rank change year-on-year +60 +8 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,545 849 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.88% 2.21% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 2.37% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,044 586 1,211
10th Percentile £49,125 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,625 £107,500
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 60,779 35,855 71,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.78% 93.41% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,146 19,238 53,727
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £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 £73,288
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.59% +8.45% -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 22 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 22 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 +35 773 £87,500 -2.78% 343
North of England +46 290 £67,374 -3.75% 166
South East +30 174 £70,000 -6.67% 175
North West +50 166 £72,500 - 89
South West -10 109 £72,500 +3.57% 89
Midlands +18 105 £68,000 -2.86% 33
Yorkshire -12 88 £65,576 +0.89% 37
West Midlands +1 57 £71,289 +1.84% 19
East Midlands -3 48 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +4 42 £60,100 -7.54% 44
North East -7 36 £50,000 -24.26% 40
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 45 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (2.07%) Apache
3 27 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.23%) Confluence
6 15 (0.97%) IIS
7 12 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.32%) CMS
9 4 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.065%) Camunda
12 1 (0.065%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.065%) nginx
12 1 (0.065%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.065%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.26%) Weka
3 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) Maya
5 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.065%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.065%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 913 (59.09%) AWS
2 843 (54.56%) Azure
3 297 (19.22%) GitHub
4 289 (18.71%) Serverless
5 285 (18.45%) GCP
6 266 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
7 243 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 200 (12.94%) GitHub Actions
9 160 (10.36%) AWS Lambda
10 145 (9.39%) Amazon S3
11 116 (7.51%) PaaS
12 111 (7.18%) Entra ID
13 104 (6.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 104 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
14 101 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
15 94 (6.08%) Datadog
15 94 (6.08%) SaaS
16 92 (5.95%) IaaS
17 87 (5.63%) Azure AKS
18 83 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 168 (10.87%) Firewall
2 95 (6.15%) DNS
3 73 (4.72%) VPN
4 64 (4.14%) TCP/IP
5 58 (3.75%) Broadband
6 50 (3.24%) Network Security
7 46 (2.98%) WAN
8 36 (2.33%) DHCP
9 32 (2.07%) BGP
10 26 (1.68%) LAN
11 22 (1.42%) HTTP
12 18 (1.17%) SD-WAN
12 18 (1.17%) VLAN
13 17 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
14 14 (0.91%) OSPF
15 13 (0.84%) DSL
16 10 (0.65%) VXLAN
17 9 (0.58%) Internet
18 8 (0.52%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (7.90%) NoSQL
2 109 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
3 84 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
4 71 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.40%) DynamoDB
6 62 (4.01%) SQL Server
7 49 (3.17%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 38 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (2.01%) Metadata
11 25 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
12 21 (1.36%) MySQL
13 20 (1.29%) Power BI
14 18 (1.17%) Delta Lake
14 18 (1.17%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (1.04%) Spark SQL
16 15 (0.97%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 221 (14.30%) GitLab
2 213 (13.79%) Jenkins
3 205 (13.27%) Git
4 37 (2.39%) CircleCI
5 35 (2.27%) Bitbucket
6 31 (2.01%) JIRA
7 29 (1.88%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.29%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.04%) TeamCity
10 14 (0.91%) Selenium
10 14 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.65%) MLflow
12 9 (0.58%) Maven
12 9 (0.58%) Subversion
13 8 (0.52%) JMeter
13 8 (0.52%) Robot Framework
13 8 (0.52%) Storybook
14 7 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.45%) Vite
General
1 389 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 301 (19.48%) Finance
3 110 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.21%) Banking
4 96 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 60 (3.88%) Retail
6 57 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 47 (3.04%) Law
7 47 (3.04%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.33%) Games
9 30 (1.94%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.49%) Aerospace
11 18 (1.17%) Marketing
12 17 (1.10%) Advertising
12 17 (1.10%) Billing
12 17 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.78%) Electronics
14 12 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 346 (22.39%) Senior
2 247 (15.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 245 (15.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 212 (13.72%) Lead
5 156 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
6 154 (9.97%) Platform Engineer
7 138 (8.93%) Architect
8 135 (8.74%) Developer
9 114 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
10 108 (6.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 85 (5.50%) Data Engineer
11 85 (5.50%) Software Engineer
12 75 (4.85%) Security Engineer
13 67 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 66 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 60 (3.88%) Senior DevOps
16 54 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
17 50 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 50 (3.24%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 48 (3.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.28%) React
2 110 (7.12%) Kafka
3 108 (6.99%) .NET
4 103 (6.67%) Node.js
5 93 (6.02%) REST
6 91 (5.89%) RESTful
7 73 (4.72%) YAML
8 69 (4.47%) Spring
9 65 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
10 62 (4.01%) AWS CDK
10 62 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 52 (3.37%) ARM Templates
12 50 (3.24%) PySpark
13 48 (3.11%) OAuth
14 44 (2.85%) RabbitMQ
15 38 (2.46%) ASP.NET
16 36 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
17 33 (2.14%) JSON
18 31 (2.01%) Next.js
19 30 (1.94%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 370 (23.95%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 85 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 49 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 49 (3.17%) Security Posture
7 47 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
8 35 (2.27%) Video\Live Streaming
9 34 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (1.75%) Low-Code
12 25 (1.62%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.55%) PKI
14 23 (1.49%) Web3
15 22 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
16 21 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
17 20 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
17 20 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
18 19 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 314 (20.32%) Linux
2 155 (10.03%) Windows
3 76 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 48 (3.11%) Unix
5 40 (2.59%) Ubuntu
6 29 (1.88%) CentOS
7 25 (1.62%) VMS
8 24 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.71%) Android
10 10 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.45%) Debian
11 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.13%) SUSE
14 1 (0.065%) Rocky
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,064 (68.87%) CI/CD
2 899 (58.19%) DevOps
3 414 (26.80%) Containerisation
4 409 (26.47%) Agile
5 387 (25.05%) Observability
6 315 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 314 (20.32%) Platform Engineering
8 307 (19.87%) Mentoring
9 284 (18.38%) AI
10 275 (17.80%) Test Automation
11 248 (16.05%) Microservices
12 237 (15.34%) Software Engineering
13 229 (14.82%) Problem-Solving
14 209 (13.53%) Cloud Security
15 202 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 188 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
17 182 (11.78%) Analytics
18 175 (11.33%) High Availability
19 165 (10.68%) DevSecOps
20 147 (9.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 703 (45.50%) Python
2 289 (18.71%) Bash
3 252 (16.31%) PowerShell
4 245 (15.86%) SQL
5 199 (12.88%) Java
6 169 (10.94%) Go
7 137 (8.87%) TypeScript
8 135 (8.74%) JavaScript
9 125 (8.09%) Bicep
10 108 (6.99%) C#
11 29 (1.88%) Rust
12 22 (1.42%) C++
12 22 (1.42%) Scala
13 15 (0.97%) Groovy
13 15 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 14 (0.91%) PHP
15 13 (0.84%) C
16 9 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.52%) Ruby
18 7 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 276 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 182 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.64%) Degree
4 123 (7.96%) AWS Certification
5 85 (5.50%) Azure Certification
6 82 (5.31%) DV Cleared
7 60 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.81%) OSCP
11 21 (1.36%) CISSP
12 16 (1.04%) CCNP
13 15 (0.97%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 13 (0.84%) CCNA
16 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
18 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 10 (0.65%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (4.85%) QA
2 59 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.56%) GDPR
4 49 (3.17%) SOC 2
5 48 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 32 (2.07%) NIST
7 30 (1.94%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.62%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.71%) WCAG
10 8 (0.52%) GRC
11 7 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.32%) SLA
13 4 (0.26%) NCSC
13 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS
14 2 (0.13%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.13%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.065%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 428 (27.70%) Docker
2 104 (6.73%) Active Directory
3 82 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (1.94%) vSphere
6 20 (1.29%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.45%) iptables
9 6 (0.39%) Firmware
9 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 6 (0.39%) Squid
9 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.26%) KVM
11 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,081 (69.97%) Terraform
2 610 (39.48%) Kubernetes
3 342 (22.14%) Ansible
4 193 (12.49%) Grafana
5 189 (12.23%) Prometheus
6 56 (3.62%) Argo
7 37 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (2.20%) Puppet
8 34 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 22 (1.42%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.10%) Nagios
12 15 (0.97%) Istio
12 15 (0.97%) Packer
12 15 (0.97%) Rancher
13 10 (0.65%) Cilium
13 10 (0.65%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.65%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 117 (7.57%) VMware
3 95 (6.15%) Google
4 70 (4.53%) Databricks
5 65 (4.21%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.56%) Cisco
7 46 (2.98%) Palo Alto
7 46 (2.98%) Splunk
8 24 (1.55%) Zscaler
9 22 (1.42%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 21 (1.36%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 20 (1.29%) Oracle
12 19 (1.23%) CrowdStrike
13 12 (0.78%) CheckPoint
13 12 (0.78%) F5
14 11 (0.71%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.71%) Juniper
15 10 (0.65%) SolarWinds