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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 154 160
Rank change year-on-year +76 +6 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,887 955 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 2.20% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.44% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,308 653 1,170
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,144
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £110,000 £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 64,729 39,091 72,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.90% 90.22% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 45,730 22,350 51,838
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,771 £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 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +31 890 £87,500 -2.78% 305
North of England +88 363 £70,000 - 134
South East +65 224 £70,000 -9.68% 124
North West +81 218 £72,500 - 82
South West +37 174 £75,000 +7.14% 72
Midlands +42 131 £75,000 +15.38% 50
Yorkshire 0 91 £67,500 -3.57% 32
West Midlands +4 78 £80,000 +23.08% 36
North East -8 54 £55,000 -15.38% 20
East Midlands 0 53 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England +8 51 £62,500 - 10
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 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (2.01%) Apache
3 36 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 36 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.32%) Confluence
5 10 (0.53%) Jupyter
5 10 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.48%) IIS
7 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) WordPress
10 2 (0.11%) Camunda
10 2 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.053%) Documentum
11 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.053%) nginx
11 1 (0.053%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.053%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.06%) PlantUML
2 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
5 1 (0.053%) Maya
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.053%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.16%) Summit
2 2 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.053%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.053%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (56.86%) AWS
2 1,024 (54.27%) Azure
3 335 (17.75%) Serverless
4 334 (17.70%) GitHub
5 317 (16.80%) GCP
6 294 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
7 287 (15.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 197 (10.44%) GitHub Actions
9 174 (9.22%) Amazon S3
10 173 (9.17%) AWS Lambda
11 156 (8.27%) PaaS
12 127 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
13 124 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
14 118 (6.25%) IaaS
15 116 (6.15%) Entra ID
16 112 (5.94%) SaaS
17 110 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 107 (5.67%) Azure AKS
19 94 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
20 88 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 172 (9.11%) Firewall
2 111 (5.88%) VPN
3 107 (5.67%) DNS
4 91 (4.82%) Network Security
5 66 (3.50%) TCP/IP
6 62 (3.29%) Broadband
7 57 (3.02%) WAN
8 47 (2.49%) BGP
9 37 (1.96%) VLAN
10 33 (1.75%) DHCP
10 33 (1.75%) LAN
11 28 (1.48%) OSPF
12 23 (1.22%) SD-WAN
13 22 (1.17%) Software-Defined Networking
13 22 (1.17%) VXLAN
14 21 (1.11%) HTTP
15 13 (0.69%) Cisco ASA
16 11 (0.58%) Wireless
17 10 (0.53%) IPv4
17 10 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
2 134 (7.10%) NoSQL
3 83 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
3 83 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 71 (3.76%) DynamoDB
5 67 (3.55%) SQL Server
6 55 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 49 (2.60%) Data Lake
7 49 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 46 (2.44%) Metadata
9 33 (1.75%) MySQL
10 32 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
11 25 (1.32%) Redis
12 24 (1.27%) Delta Lake
13 23 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
13 23 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
13 23 (1.22%) Power BI
14 22 (1.17%) BigQuery
15 20 (1.06%) Big Data
16 19 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 267 (14.15%) GitLab
2 245 (12.98%) Git
3 225 (11.92%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.23%) Cucumber
5 41 (2.17%) JIRA
6 32 (1.70%) Bitbucket
7 31 (1.64%) CircleCI
8 25 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 24 (1.27%) TeamCity
10 16 (0.85%) Claude Code
11 14 (0.74%) Selenium
11 14 (0.74%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.53%) Maven
13 9 (0.48%) MLflow
13 9 (0.48%) Subversion
14 8 (0.42%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.42%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.42%) JMeter
14 8 (0.42%) NUnit
14 8 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 462 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 374 (19.82%) Finance
3 143 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 140 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (5.25%) Banking
6 79 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.18%) Retail
8 59 (3.13%) Law
9 43 (2.28%) Games
10 36 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.70%) Aerospace
12 28 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 22 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (0.95%) Advertising
15 17 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 17 (0.90%) Legal
16 16 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
16 16 (0.85%) Marketing
17 10 (0.53%) Automotive
17 10 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 455 (24.11%) Senior
2 327 (17.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 263 (13.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 243 (12.88%) Lead
5 200 (10.60%) Architect
6 199 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
7 187 (9.91%) Azure Engineer
8 159 (8.43%) Developer
9 122 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 105 (5.56%) Software Engineer
12 102 (5.41%) Data Engineer
13 88 (4.66%) Principal Engineer
14 86 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 85 (4.50%) Security Engineer
16 80 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 69 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
19 63 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
20 60 (3.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.47%) React
2 139 (7.37%) .NET
3 133 (7.05%) Kafka
4 116 (6.15%) REST
5 113 (5.99%) RESTful
6 108 (5.72%) Node.js
7 101 (5.35%) Spring
8 94 (4.98%) Spring Boot
9 78 (4.13%) YAML
10 70 (3.71%) ARM Templates
11 65 (3.44%) Elastic Stack
12 64 (3.39%) PySpark
13 63 (3.34%) AWS CDK
14 46 (2.44%) OAuth
15 44 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
16 42 (2.23%) Next.js
17 39 (2.07%) AngularJS
17 39 (2.07%) JSON
18 37 (1.96%) FastAPI
19 36 (1.91%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 520 (27.56%) Cloud Native
2 186 (9.86%) Distributed Systems
3 105 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 95 (5.03%) Public Cloud
5 90 (4.77%) Onboarding
6 76 (4.03%) Data Centre
7 63 (3.34%) Product Ownership
8 61 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
9 60 (3.18%) Security Posture
10 48 (2.54%) Video\Live Streaming
11 45 (2.38%) Enterprise Cloud
12 37 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
13 36 (1.91%) Low-Code
14 31 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
15 30 (1.59%) PKI
16 27 (1.43%) e-Learning
17 25 (1.32%) Private Cloud
18 24 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
19 22 (1.17%) Data Structures
20 21 (1.11%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 333 (17.65%) Linux
2 191 (10.12%) Windows
3 85 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 46 (2.44%) CentOS
5 42 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 35 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (1.54%) VMS
8 28 (1.48%) Unix
9 9 (0.48%) Android
10 8 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.32%) Debian
13 5 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.053%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.053%) Rocky
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE
15 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,320 (69.95%) CI/CD
2 1,054 (55.86%) DevOps
3 515 (27.29%) Agile
4 510 (27.03%) Containerisation
5 483 (25.60%) Observability
6 432 (22.89%) Platform Engineering
7 405 (21.46%) AI
8 397 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 394 (20.88%) Mentoring
10 330 (17.49%) Test Automation
11 322 (17.06%) Software Engineering
12 317 (16.80%) Microservices
13 293 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
14 275 (14.57%) Cloud Security
15 265 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
16 245 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 222 (11.76%) Analytics
18 213 (11.29%) Roadmaps
19 202 (10.70%) DevSecOps
20 194 (10.28%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 859 (45.52%) Python
2 338 (17.91%) Bash
3 318 (16.85%) SQL
4 308 (16.32%) PowerShell
5 259 (13.73%) Java
6 195 (10.33%) Bicep
7 167 (8.85%) Go
8 163 (8.64%) TypeScript
9 155 (8.21%) C#
10 151 (8.00%) JavaScript
11 37 (1.96%) PHP
12 29 (1.54%) Rust
13 25 (1.32%) Scala
14 24 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 24 (1.27%) Ruby
15 20 (1.06%) C++
15 20 (1.06%) Groovy
15 20 (1.06%) Perl
16 9 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 414 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 256 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 166 (8.80%) Degree
4 135 (7.15%) AWS Certification
5 132 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 117 (6.20%) Azure Certification
7 70 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 68 (3.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 45 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.48%) CCNP
12 25 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.27%) OSCP
14 23 (1.22%) CISSP
15 18 (0.95%) CCNA
16 14 (0.74%) RHCSA
17 11 (0.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 11 (0.58%) CCIE
17 11 (0.58%) DBS Check
18 10 (0.53%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (4.77%) QA
2 84 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.23%) GDPR
4 49 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (2.28%) SOC 2
6 36 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 34 (1.80%) NIST
8 27 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.85%) WCAG
10 12 (0.64%) GRC
11 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.53%) NCSC
12 8 (0.42%) SLA
13 5 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS
14 2 (0.11%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.11%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.053%) GxP
15 1 (0.053%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 481 (25.49%) Docker
2 125 (6.62%) Active Directory
3 120 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 44 (2.33%) vSphere
5 36 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
6 20 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.85%) VMware NSX
8 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.42%) Squid
11 6 (0.32%) iptables
11 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (0.26%) Firmware
12 5 (0.26%) KVM
13 3 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,317 (69.79%) Terraform
2 731 (38.74%) Kubernetes
3 398 (21.09%) Ansible
4 209 (11.08%) Grafana
5 175 (9.27%) Prometheus
6 65 (3.44%) Argo
7 41 (2.17%) Puppet
8 39 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.38%) Packer
10 26 (1.38%) Progress Chef
11 24 (1.27%) Istio
12 18 (0.95%) Nagios
13 15 (0.79%) Kustomize
14 14 (0.74%) FortiGate
14 14 (0.74%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.69%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 12 (0.64%) Cilium
16 12 (0.64%) Rancher
Vendors
1 375 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 152 (8.06%) VMware
3 88 (4.66%) Google
4 76 (4.03%) Databricks
5 72 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 63 (3.34%) Cisco
6 63 (3.34%) Splunk
7 52 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 38 (2.01%) Oracle
9 35 (1.85%) Fortinet
10 31 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 28 (1.48%) Zscaler
12 24 (1.27%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.74%) F5
14 14 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.64%) ScienceLogic
15 12 (0.64%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.53%) SolarWinds
17 9 (0.48%) Atlassian