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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 152 143
Rank change year-on-year +74 -9 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,063 964 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.20% 2.21% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.47% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 680 962
10th Percentile £49,188 £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 £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £103,625
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 69,225 39,040 59,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.69% 89.39% 81.41%
Number of salaries quoted 48,876 22,555 38,883
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £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 £76,840 £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% - -8.84%

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 12 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 12 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 +26 921 £90,000 - 1,292
North of England +86 430 £70,400 +0.57% 317
South East +65 253 £67,500 -12.90% 227
North West +88 243 £74,651 +6.64% 177
South West +47 214 £75,000 - 193
Midlands +51 147 £75,000 +15.38% 105
Yorkshire +11 99 £75,000 +7.14% 86
West Midlands +23 90 £80,000 +23.08% 60
North East +16 88 £56,500 -19.29% 54
East Midlands +19 57 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England -8 56 £70,000 +7.69% 65
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 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 51 (2.47%) Apache Spark
3 49 (2.38%) Apache
4 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.36%) Confluence
6 12 (0.58%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.48%) IIS
8 9 (0.44%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) CMS
9 4 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WordPress
11 2 (0.097%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.097%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.048%) Documentum
12 1 (0.048%) JBoss
12 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (1.07%) PlantUML
2 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.097%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.097%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.048%) Maya
5 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.097%) 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 1,195 (57.93%) AWS
2 1,109 (53.76%) Azure
3 384 (18.61%) GCP
4 357 (17.30%) GitHub
5 346 (16.77%) Serverless
6 328 (15.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 288 (13.96%) Azure DevOps
8 197 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
9 181 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 177 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (7.80%) PaaS
12 136 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
13 118 (5.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 118 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (5.67%) SaaS
15 116 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
16 112 (5.43%) IaaS
17 109 (5.28%) Azure AKS
18 106 (5.14%) Entra ID
19 97 (4.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 166 (8.05%) Firewall
2 111 (5.38%) DNS
3 105 (5.09%) VPN
4 98 (4.75%) Network Security
5 68 (3.30%) TCP/IP
6 61 (2.96%) WAN
7 52 (2.52%) BGP
8 51 (2.47%) Broadband
9 41 (1.99%) LAN
10 40 (1.94%) DHCP
11 36 (1.75%) OSPF
12 34 (1.65%) VLAN
13 27 (1.31%) VXLAN
14 25 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
15 24 (1.16%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.87%) HTTP
17 15 (0.73%) Wireless
18 13 (0.63%) Cisco ASA
18 13 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
18 13 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 88 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 88 (4.27%) MongoDB
4 76 (3.68%) DynamoDB
4 76 (3.68%) SQL Server
5 56 (2.71%) Data Lake
6 54 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 50 (2.42%) Metadata
8 47 (2.28%) Relational Database
9 46 (2.23%) MySQL
10 40 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 32 (1.55%) Redis
12 28 (1.36%) Delta Lake
13 27 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (1.26%) Big Data
15 25 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.21%) Power BI
16 24 (1.16%) BigQuery
17 21 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 275 (13.33%) Git
2 267 (12.94%) GitLab
3 227 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 52 (2.52%) JIRA
5 44 (2.13%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.31%) TeamCity
9 21 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 20 (0.97%) Selenium
11 18 (0.87%) Claude Code
12 15 (0.73%) NUnit
12 15 (0.73%) SonarQube
13 11 (0.53%) Cypress.io
13 11 (0.53%) Maven
13 11 (0.53%) MLflow
14 9 (0.44%) MSI
14 9 (0.44%) Snyk
15 8 (0.39%) JMeter
15 8 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 526 (25.50%) Social Skills
2 421 (20.41%) Finance
3 167 (8.10%) Public Sector
4 161 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (5.14%) Banking
5 106 (5.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (3.54%) Law
7 60 (2.91%) Retail
8 46 (2.23%) Aerospace
9 45 (2.18%) Games
10 35 (1.70%) Marketing
11 34 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.41%) Manufacturing
13 28 (1.36%) Legal
14 19 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (0.82%) Aviation
17 16 (0.78%) Advertising
17 16 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 14 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 484 (23.46%) Senior
2 358 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 283 (13.72%) Lead
4 270 (13.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 226 (10.95%) Architect
6 212 (10.28%) Platform Engineer
7 177 (8.58%) Azure Engineer
7 177 (8.58%) Developer
8 126 (6.11%) Software Engineer
9 123 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 116 (5.62%) Data Engineer
11 114 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 103 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
13 93 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 84 (4.07%) Security Engineer
15 73 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 73 (3.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 68 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
17 65 (3.15%) Senior Developer
18 64 (3.10%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (8.00%) .NET
2 161 (7.80%) React
3 152 (7.37%) Kafka
4 135 (6.54%) REST
5 121 (5.87%) RESTful
6 119 (5.77%) Spring
7 118 (5.72%) Node.js
8 111 (5.38%) Spring Boot
9 73 (3.54%) YAML
10 71 (3.44%) PySpark
11 69 (3.34%) ARM Templates
12 67 (3.25%) AWS CDK
13 53 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
14 50 (2.42%) AngularJS
15 45 (2.18%) Next.js
15 45 (2.18%) OAuth
16 44 (2.13%) ASP.NET
17 43 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.99%) ASP.NET Core
19 40 (1.94%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 601 (29.13%) Cloud Native
2 216 (10.47%) Distributed Systems
3 115 (5.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 114 (5.53%) Onboarding
5 102 (4.94%) Public Cloud
6 88 (4.27%) Data Centre
7 60 (2.91%) Security Posture
8 59 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 55 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
10 52 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
11 51 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.18%) Video\Live Streaming
13 44 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.75%) Low-Code
15 33 (1.60%) Private Cloud
16 31 (1.50%) e-Learning
17 30 (1.45%) PKI
17 30 (1.45%) Virtual Team
18 26 (1.26%) AI Agents
18 26 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 357 (17.30%) Linux
2 203 (9.84%) Windows
3 92 (4.46%) Windows Server
4 52 (2.52%) CentOS
5 41 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 38 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 27 (1.31%) Unix
8 22 (1.07%) VMS
9 7 (0.34%) Android
10 6 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.19%) Debian
12 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.097%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.097%) Solaris
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.048%) Rocky
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,465 (71.01%) CI/CD
2 1,142 (55.36%) DevOps
3 573 (27.78%) Agile
4 567 (27.48%) Containerisation
5 537 (26.03%) Observability
6 488 (23.65%) Platform Engineering
7 452 (21.91%) AI
8 448 (21.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 437 (21.18%) Mentoring
10 393 (19.05%) Software Engineering
11 357 (17.30%) Microservices
12 348 (16.87%) Test Automation
13 346 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
14 326 (15.80%) Technical Leadership
15 313 (15.17%) Cloud Security
16 260 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 250 (12.12%) Roadmaps
18 233 (11.29%) Analytics
19 228 (11.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 223 (10.81%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 920 (44.60%) Python
2 344 (16.67%) SQL
3 333 (16.14%) Bash
4 312 (15.12%) PowerShell
5 298 (14.44%) Java
6 204 (9.89%) Bicep
7 179 (8.68%) TypeScript
8 174 (8.43%) C#
9 158 (7.66%) Go
10 153 (7.42%) JavaScript
11 39 (1.89%) Scala
12 37 (1.79%) PHP
13 26 (1.26%) Ruby
14 25 (1.21%) Rust
15 23 (1.11%) Groovy
15 23 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (1.02%) Perl
17 16 (0.78%) C++
18 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.53%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 500 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 320 (15.51%) SC Cleared
3 186 (9.02%) Degree
4 173 (8.39%) DV Cleared
5 163 (7.90%) AWS Certification
6 137 (6.64%) Azure Certification
7 85 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 68 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 52 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 50 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.75%) CCNP
12 28 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 26 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
14 20 (0.97%) CISSP
14 20 (0.97%) OSCP
15 18 (0.87%) CCNA
16 17 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
17 14 (0.68%) CCIE
17 14 (0.68%) RHCSA
17 14 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (4.85%) QA
2 98 (4.75%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.15%) GDPR
4 54 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.75%) NIST
6 33 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 33 (1.60%) SOC 2
7 26 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.87%) NCSC
9 16 (0.78%) SLA
9 16 (0.78%) WCAG
10 13 (0.63%) GRC
11 9 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.097%) IFRS
13 2 (0.097%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.097%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.097%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.048%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 547 (26.51%) Docker
2 131 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 124 (6.01%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.18%) vSphere
5 33 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 13 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 9 (0.44%) KVM
10 8 (0.39%) Squid
10 8 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 6 (0.29%) Firmware
13 4 (0.19%) iptables
14 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.048%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 1,417 (68.69%) Terraform
2 792 (38.39%) Kubernetes
3 432 (20.94%) Ansible
4 207 (10.03%) Grafana
5 150 (7.27%) Prometheus
6 60 (2.91%) Argo
7 51 (2.47%) Puppet
8 33 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (1.60%) Progress Chef
8 33 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.31%) Istio
10 26 (1.26%) Packer
11 19 (0.92%) Nagios
12 16 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 16 (0.78%) vCenter Server
13 13 (0.63%) Cilium
14 12 (0.58%) ZABBIX
15 11 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (0.53%) Kustomize
15 11 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 417 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 159 (7.71%) VMware
3 112 (5.43%) Google
4 96 (4.65%) Databricks
5 85 (4.12%) Red Hat
6 72 (3.49%) Splunk
7 71 (3.44%) Cisco
8 52 (2.52%) Oracle
9 49 (2.38%) Palo Alto
10 39 (1.89%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.79%) OpenAI
12 32 (1.55%) Dynatrace
13 25 (1.21%) Zscaler
14 23 (1.11%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.73%) SAP
16 14 (0.68%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.68%) F5
17 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.53%) Salesforce