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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 151 165
Rank change year-on-year +71 +14 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,706 906 1,554
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.06% 2.29% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.47% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 594 1,204
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,000 £96,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £109,800 £110,875 £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 60,527 36,659 77,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 72.97% 92.71% 82.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42,554 19,995 56,288
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £29,290
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +33 833 £87,500 -2.78% 387
North of England +67 330 £67,500 -3.57% 128
South East +58 200 £70,000 -9.68% 171
North West +71 198 £72,500 - 78
South West +8 124 £72,500 +3.57% 82
Midlands +39 118 £70,079 +7.81% 57
Yorkshire -1 87 £65,576 -2.49% 24
West Midlands +20 69 £77,500 +14.81% 40
East Midlands +13 49 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East of England +3 49 £60,100 -7.54% 29
North East -11 45 £55,000 -15.38% 26
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 49 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 37 (2.17%) Apache
3 35 (2.05%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.23%) Confluence
6 13 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.70%) IIS
8 8 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.23%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.12%) WordPress
13 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.059%) nginx
13 1 (0.059%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (0.88%) PlantUML
2 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.23%) Weka
4 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.059%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.059%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.059%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.059%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 997 (58.44%) AWS
2 921 (53.99%) Azure
3 315 (18.46%) GitHub
4 310 (18.17%) Serverless
5 298 (17.47%) GCP
6 283 (16.59%) Azure DevOps
7 261 (15.30%) AWS CloudFormation
8 201 (11.78%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (10.02%) AWS Lambda
10 168 (9.85%) Amazon S3
11 139 (8.15%) PaaS
12 120 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
13 116 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
14 112 (6.57%) Entra ID
15 107 (6.27%) SaaS
16 106 (6.21%) IaaS
17 100 (5.86%) Azure AKS
18 89 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
19 88 (5.16%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 172 (10.08%) Firewall
2 95 (5.57%) DNS
3 86 (5.04%) VPN
4 73 (4.28%) Broadband
5 63 (3.69%) TCP/IP
6 60 (3.52%) Network Security
7 50 (2.93%) WAN
8 41 (2.40%) BGP
9 31 (1.82%) DHCP
10 30 (1.76%) VLAN
11 27 (1.58%) LAN
12 23 (1.35%) HTTP
13 21 (1.23%) OSPF
14 20 (1.17%) SD-WAN
14 20 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
15 17 (1.00%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (0.94%) VXLAN
17 13 (0.76%) DSL
18 10 (0.59%) IPv4
19 9 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (7.56%) NoSQL
2 127 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 88 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
4 83 (4.87%) MongoDB
5 65 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 61 (3.58%) SQL Server
7 53 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 50 (2.93%) Data Lake
9 46 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 39 (2.29%) Metadata
11 30 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
12 24 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 24 (1.41%) MySQL
12 24 (1.41%) Power BI
13 21 (1.23%) Delta Lake
13 21 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (1.23%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.11%) Redis
15 18 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.06%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 249 (14.60%) GitLab
2 222 (13.01%) Jenkins
3 216 (12.66%) Git
4 35 (2.05%) Cucumber
5 34 (1.99%) JIRA
6 33 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 33 (1.93%) CircleCI
7 22 (1.29%) TeamCity
8 20 (1.17%) Jaeger
9 13 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (0.76%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.64%) Selenium
11 10 (0.59%) MLflow
12 9 (0.53%) Maven
12 9 (0.53%) Vite
13 8 (0.47%) JMeter
14 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 7 (0.41%) NUnit
14 7 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 408 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 323 (18.93%) Finance
3 127 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (6.04%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.92%) Banking
6 65 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.52%) Retail
8 50 (2.93%) Law
9 43 (2.52%) Games
10 42 (2.46%) Telecoms
11 27 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.06%) Advertising
15 17 (1.00%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.94%) Legal
17 15 (0.88%) Billing
17 15 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 13 (0.76%) Marketing
19 11 (0.64%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 390 (22.86%) Senior
2 288 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 264 (15.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 229 (13.42%) Lead
5 182 (10.67%) Platform Engineer
6 177 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
7 158 (9.26%) Architect
8 145 (8.50%) Developer
9 126 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 107 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 95 (5.57%) Data Engineer
12 93 (5.45%) Software Engineer
13 83 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 83 (4.87%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 67 (3.93%) Principal Engineer
16 61 (3.58%) Senior DevOps
17 59 (3.46%) Senior Developer
17 59 (3.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 52 (3.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (7.85%) React
2 121 (7.09%) Kafka
3 115 (6.74%) .NET
4 104 (6.10%) REST
5 103 (6.04%) Node.js
6 93 (5.45%) RESTful
7 82 (4.81%) YAML
8 80 (4.69%) Spring
9 73 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
10 72 (4.22%) Spring Boot
11 60 (3.52%) ARM Templates
11 60 (3.52%) PySpark
12 59 (3.46%) AWS CDK
13 50 (2.93%) OAuth
14 44 (2.58%) RabbitMQ
15 40 (2.34%) Next.js
16 37 (2.17%) JSON
17 36 (2.11%) ASP.NET
18 35 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
19 34 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 451 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 153 (8.97%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 78 (4.57%) Public Cloud
5 64 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 55 (3.22%) Security Posture
7 53 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
8 51 (2.99%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.81%) Video\Live Streaming
10 44 (2.58%) Onboarding
11 33 (1.93%) Low-Code
12 29 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
13 26 (1.52%) PKI
14 24 (1.41%) Blockchain
15 22 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 22 (1.29%) Web3
16 21 (1.23%) e-Learning
16 21 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 326 (19.11%) Linux
2 164 (9.61%) Windows
3 82 (4.81%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.64%) Ubuntu
5 42 (2.46%) Unix
6 37 (2.17%) CentOS
7 26 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 26 (1.52%) VMS
8 11 (0.64%) Android
9 10 (0.59%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.41%) Debian
12 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.059%) Rocky
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (69.75%) CI/CD
2 970 (56.86%) DevOps
3 457 (26.79%) Containerisation
4 456 (26.73%) Agile
5 444 (26.03%) Observability
6 375 (21.98%) Platform Engineering
7 349 (20.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 343 (20.11%) Mentoring
9 341 (19.99%) AI
10 295 (17.29%) Test Automation
11 275 (16.12%) Software Engineering
12 272 (15.94%) Microservices
13 249 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
14 229 (13.42%) Cloud Security
15 221 (12.95%) Technical Leadership
16 210 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 203 (11.90%) Analytics
18 177 (10.38%) High Availability
19 175 (10.26%) Roadmaps
20 173 (10.14%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 776 (45.49%) Python
2 318 (18.64%) Bash
3 283 (16.59%) PowerShell
4 279 (16.35%) SQL
5 215 (12.60%) Java
6 180 (10.55%) Go
7 153 (8.97%) Bicep
8 151 (8.85%) TypeScript
9 143 (8.38%) JavaScript
10 124 (7.27%) C#
11 32 (1.88%) Rust
12 24 (1.41%) Scala
13 21 (1.23%) C++
14 19 (1.11%) PHP
15 18 (1.06%) Groovy
16 17 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
17 10 (0.59%) C
18 9 (0.53%) Ruby
18 9 (0.53%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 328 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 221 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 149 (8.73%) Degree
4 124 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 98 (5.74%) Azure Certification
6 94 (5.51%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 40 (2.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.64%) OSCP
11 20 (1.17%) CCNP
12 19 (1.11%) CISSP
13 15 (0.88%) CCNA
13 15 (0.88%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.88%) Master's Degree
14 13 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 13 (0.76%) RHCSA
15 9 (0.53%) CCIE
15 9 (0.53%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.51%) QA
2 70 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.34%) GDPR
4 48 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.64%) SOC 2
6 32 (1.88%) NIST
7 30 (1.76%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.47%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.70%) WCAG
10 9 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.53%) GRC
11 6 (0.35%) NCSC
11 6 (0.35%) SLA
12 5 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS
14 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.059%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 452 (26.49%) Docker
2 111 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 97 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.17%) vSphere
5 22 (1.29%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
8 8 (0.47%) Squid
9 7 (0.41%) iptables
9 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 4 (0.23%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) KVM
12 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,191 (69.81%) Terraform
2 663 (38.86%) Kubernetes
3 363 (21.28%) Ansible
4 205 (12.02%) Grafana
5 199 (11.66%) Prometheus
6 69 (4.04%) Argo
7 37 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
8 36 (2.11%) Puppet
9 26 (1.52%) Progress Chef
10 25 (1.47%) Kustomize
11 23 (1.35%) Packer
12 20 (1.17%) Istio
13 19 (1.11%) Nagios
14 17 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (0.82%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.82%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.70%) Cilium
17 10 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
17 10 (0.59%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 324 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.80%) VMware
3 95 (5.57%) Google
4 73 (4.28%) Red Hat
5 71 (4.16%) Databricks
6 56 (3.28%) Cisco
6 56 (3.28%) Splunk
7 47 (2.75%) Palo Alto
8 29 (1.70%) Oracle
9 27 (1.58%) Fortinet
9 27 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 26 (1.52%) Zscaler
11 19 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 16 (0.94%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.88%) Salesforce
14 13 (0.76%) CheckPoint
15 12 (0.70%) F5
16 11 (0.64%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.64%) ServiceNow
17 10 (0.59%) SolarWinds