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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 155 165
Rank change year-on-year +66 +10 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,636 862 1,511
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.97% 2.22% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.38% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 585 1,198
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
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 £110,750 £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 61,529 36,213 74,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.94% 93.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 40,990 19,458 55,070
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 3 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 3 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 +34 808 £87,500 -2.78% 364
North of England +55 317 £67,500 -3.57% 163
South East +52 191 £70,000 -6.67% 151
North West +64 186 £74,651 +2.97% 93
South West 0 114 £72,500 +1.75% 84
Midlands +29 108 £70,079 +7.81% 48
Yorkshire -12 90 £65,576 -3.57% 36
West Midlands -3 63 £77,500 +10.71% 34
East of England +5 47 £60,100 -7.54% 31
East Midlands +15 45 £67,500 +3.85% 14
North East -14 41 £55,000 -15.38% 34
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 50 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.14%) Apache
3 33 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.22%) Confluence
6 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.73%) IIS
8 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.31%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.79%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.061%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 958 (58.56%) AWS
2 882 (53.91%) Azure
3 303 (18.52%) Serverless
4 300 (18.34%) GitHub
5 291 (17.79%) GCP
6 276 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
7 254 (15.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 195 (11.92%) GitHub Actions
9 170 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
10 163 (9.96%) Amazon S3
11 129 (7.89%) PaaS
12 113 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 112 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
14 111 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
14 111 (6.78%) Entra ID
15 104 (6.36%) SaaS
16 101 (6.17%) IaaS
17 94 (5.75%) Azure AKS
18 88 (5.38%) Datadog
19 86 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 167 (10.21%) Firewall
2 94 (5.75%) DNS
3 78 (4.77%) VPN
4 64 (3.91%) TCP/IP
5 63 (3.85%) Broadband
6 51 (3.12%) Network Security
7 45 (2.75%) WAN
8 35 (2.14%) BGP
9 33 (2.02%) DHCP
10 26 (1.59%) LAN
11 24 (1.47%) VLAN
12 23 (1.41%) HTTP
13 18 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (1.04%) OSPF
14 17 (1.04%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.79%) DSL
15 13 (0.79%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.61%) IPv4
17 9 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (7.64%) NoSQL
2 115 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 85 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
4 73 (4.46%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.16%) DynamoDB
6 61 (3.73%) SQL Server
7 51 (3.12%) Relational Database
8 49 (3.00%) Data Lake
9 42 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (2.20%) Metadata
11 30 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.34%) MySQL
14 21 (1.28%) Power BI
15 20 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.16%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.04%) Big Data
17 17 (1.04%) Delta Lake
18 16 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (0.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 239 (14.61%) GitLab
2 216 (13.20%) Jenkins
3 208 (12.71%) Git
4 36 (2.20%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.08%) CircleCI
6 33 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 32 (1.96%) JIRA
8 20 (1.22%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 13 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (0.79%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.67%) Selenium
12 9 (0.55%) Maven
12 9 (0.55%) MLflow
13 8 (0.49%) JMeter
13 8 (0.49%) Storybook
13 8 (0.49%) Subversion
14 7 (0.43%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
14 7 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 399 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 313 (19.13%) Finance
3 123 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (6.48%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.05%) Banking
6 60 (3.67%) Retail
7 59 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.00%) Law
9 45 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.08%) Games
11 29 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.47%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.10%) Advertising
14 18 (1.10%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.98%) Billing
15 16 (0.98%) Marketing
16 15 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.86%) Legal
18 12 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 370 (22.62%) Senior
2 276 (16.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 256 (15.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 223 (13.63%) Lead
5 172 (10.51%) Azure Engineer
6 164 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 143 (8.74%) Architect
8 137 (8.37%) Developer
9 125 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
10 109 (6.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 92 (5.62%) Software Engineer
12 89 (5.44%) Data Engineer
13 82 (5.01%) Security Engineer
14 77 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 74 (4.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 64 (3.91%) Principal Engineer
17 62 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
18 55 (3.36%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 52 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 51 (3.12%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.01%) React
2 116 (7.09%) Kafka
3 113 (6.91%) .NET
4 107 (6.54%) Node.js
5 101 (6.17%) REST
6 87 (5.32%) RESTful
7 78 (4.77%) Spring
8 77 (4.71%) YAML
9 70 (4.28%) Spring Boot
10 67 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
11 62 (3.79%) AWS CDK
12 57 (3.48%) ARM Templates
13 55 (3.36%) PySpark
14 51 (3.12%) OAuth
15 43 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
16 38 (2.32%) ASP.NET
17 37 (2.26%) JSON
18 36 (2.20%) ASP.NET Core
19 33 (2.02%) Next.js
20 31 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 407 (24.88%) Cloud Native
2 137 (8.37%) Distributed Systems
3 90 (5.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 73 (4.46%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.67%) Data Centre
6 51 (3.12%) Security Posture
7 48 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (2.93%) Product Ownership
8 39 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
9 38 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.53%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.53%) PKI
12 24 (1.47%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
13 22 (1.34%) Web3
14 21 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 19 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 319 (19.50%) Linux
2 158 (9.66%) Windows
3 82 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.81%) Unix
5 45 (2.75%) Ubuntu
6 35 (2.14%) CentOS
7 27 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 25 (1.53%) VMS
9 11 (0.67%) Android
10 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.43%) Debian
13 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.061%) Rocky
15 1 (0.061%) SUSE
15 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,136 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 942 (57.58%) DevOps
3 442 (27.02%) Containerisation
4 435 (26.59%) Agile
5 410 (25.06%) Observability
6 344 (21.03%) Platform Engineering
7 333 (20.35%) Mentoring
8 326 (19.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 315 (19.25%) AI
10 285 (17.42%) Test Automation
11 260 (15.89%) Microservices
12 252 (15.40%) Software Engineering
13 237 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
14 220 (13.45%) Cloud Security
15 207 (12.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 205 (12.53%) Technical Leadership
17 190 (11.61%) Analytics
18 174 (10.64%) High Availability
19 170 (10.39%) DevSecOps
20 164 (10.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 742 (45.35%) Python
2 309 (18.89%) Bash
3 274 (16.75%) PowerShell
4 266 (16.26%) SQL
5 212 (12.96%) Java
6 170 (10.39%) Go
7 145 (8.86%) TypeScript
8 140 (8.56%) JavaScript
9 138 (8.44%) Bicep
10 115 (7.03%) C#
11 30 (1.83%) Rust
12 21 (1.28%) C++
13 20 (1.22%) Scala
14 18 (1.10%) PHP
15 15 (0.92%) Groovy
15 15 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.73%) C
17 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.49%) Ruby
19 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 309 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 204 (12.47%) SC Cleared
3 149 (9.11%) Degree
4 125 (7.64%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.68%) DV Cleared
6 91 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 59 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 38 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 34 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.71%) OSCP
12 21 (1.28%) CISSP
13 17 (1.04%) CCNP
14 15 (0.92%) CCNA
14 15 (0.92%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.86%) Master's Degree
16 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.73%) RHCSA
17 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 9 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (4.65%) QA
2 64 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.30%) GDPR
4 46 (2.81%) SOC 2
5 45 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.08%) NIST
7 30 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.67%) WCAG
10 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.49%) GRC
11 6 (0.37%) SLA
12 5 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.061%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 442 (27.02%) Docker
2 107 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 92 (5.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (2.14%) vSphere
6 22 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.49%) Squid
9 7 (0.43%) iptables
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.24%) Firmware
12 4 (0.24%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,142 (69.80%) Terraform
2 639 (39.06%) Kubernetes
3 354 (21.64%) Ansible
4 201 (12.29%) Grafana
5 195 (11.92%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.73%) Argo
7 37 (2.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.14%) Puppet
9 24 (1.47%) Kustomize
10 23 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 19 (1.16%) Packer
12 18 (1.10%) Nagios
13 17 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.04%) Istio
14 13 (0.79%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.73%) Rancher
16 10 (0.61%) Cilium
16 10 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 303 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 126 (7.70%) VMware
3 97 (5.93%) Google
4 72 (4.40%) Red Hat
5 69 (4.22%) Databricks
6 54 (3.30%) Cisco
7 52 (3.18%) Splunk
8 44 (2.69%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.77%) Oracle
10 24 (1.47%) Zscaler
11 23 (1.41%) Fortinet
12 22 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 19 (1.16%) Salesforce
14 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
15 16 (0.98%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (0.73%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.73%) CheckPoint
16 12 (0.73%) F5
17 11 (0.67%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.61%) SolarWinds