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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 158 120
Rank change year-on-year +81 -38 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,192 906 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.11% 2.10% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.36% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,451 666 860
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,438 £43,379
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 76,488 38,338 53,847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.64% 88.97% 82.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,556 21,844 28,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +27 945 £90,000 +5.88% 1,646
North of England +100 486 £69,305 -0.99% 421
North West +101 261 £70,400 +8.31% 237
South West +56 253 £75,000 +7.14% 203
South East +49 253 £67,500 -16.92% 259
Midlands +33 152 £75,000 +15.38% 152
North East +17 129 £60,000 -17.24% 69
Yorkshire +3 105 £68,000 -2.86% 118
West Midlands +5 99 £80,000 +23.55% 85
East of England -15 59 £75,000 +15.38% 110
East Midlands -1 53 £63,750 -1.92% 67
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 64 (2.92%) Apache
2 58 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 48 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.14%) Confluence
6 17 (0.78%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.55%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.50%) nginx
9 10 (0.46%) CMS
10 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.32%) IIS
12 5 (0.23%) Camunda
12 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.14%) WordPress
14 2 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
15 1 (0.046%) Documentum
15 1 (0.046%) JBoss
15 1 (0.046%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 20 (0.91%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.091%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.046%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.046%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.046%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.046%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,232 (56.20%) AWS
2 1,150 (52.46%) Azure
3 438 (19.98%) GCP
4 403 (18.39%) GitHub
5 352 (16.06%) Serverless
6 335 (15.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 286 (13.05%) Azure DevOps
8 215 (9.81%) GitHub Actions
9 181 (8.26%) Amazon S3
10 175 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
11 164 (7.48%) PaaS
12 133 (6.07%) SaaS
13 132 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
14 129 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
14 129 (5.89%) Azure AKS
15 128 (5.84%) Entra ID
16 122 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 119 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
18 115 (5.25%) IaaS
19 102 (4.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 169 (7.71%) Firewall
2 141 (6.43%) VPN
3 128 (5.84%) DNS
4 109 (4.97%) Network Security
5 57 (2.60%) TCP/IP
6 56 (2.55%) BGP
7 54 (2.46%) WAN
8 47 (2.14%) DHCP
9 39 (1.78%) Broadband
10 37 (1.69%) Internet
10 37 (1.69%) OSPF
11 34 (1.55%) VLAN
12 28 (1.28%) LAN
12 28 (1.28%) VXLAN
13 25 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
14 21 (0.96%) SD-WAN
15 16 (0.73%) SAN
16 15 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
16 15 (0.68%) Wireless
17 12 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
2 146 (6.66%) NoSQL
3 102 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 90 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 82 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 71 (3.24%) DynamoDB
7 66 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 54 (2.46%) Data Lake
9 53 (2.42%) MySQL
10 50 (2.28%) Metadata
11 43 (1.96%) Relational Database
12 42 (1.92%) Redis
13 32 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
13 32 (1.46%) Power BI
14 30 (1.37%) Big Data
15 29 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.23%) Delta Lake
17 26 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
18 23 (1.05%) Data Vault
19 20 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 318 (14.51%) Git
2 292 (13.32%) GitLab
3 240 (10.95%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.24%) Cucumber
5 48 (2.19%) JIRA
6 34 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 33 (1.51%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.09%) Claude Code
9 19 (0.87%) Bitbucket
10 17 (0.78%) Selenium
11 13 (0.59%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.55%) Cypress.io
12 12 (0.55%) Snyk
13 10 (0.46%) Subversion
14 9 (0.41%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.41%) Maven
14 9 (0.41%) MSI
14 9 (0.41%) NUnit
14 9 (0.41%) Terragrunt
14 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 572 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 458 (20.89%) Finance
3 244 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 199 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
5 136 (6.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.20%) Banking
7 81 (3.70%) Law
8 56 (2.55%) Aerospace
8 56 (2.55%) Retail
9 34 (1.55%) Marketing
10 33 (1.51%) Legal
11 32 (1.46%) Games
12 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
13 23 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Military
17 14 (0.64%) Aviation
18 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 532 (24.27%) Senior
2 428 (19.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 276 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 275 (12.55%) Lead
5 260 (11.86%) Architect
6 232 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
7 184 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
8 175 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 172 (7.85%) Developer
10 156 (7.12%) Software Engineer
11 132 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
12 125 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
13 108 (4.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 106 (4.84%) Data Engineer
15 93 (4.24%) Security Engineer
16 81 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 78 (3.56%) Senior DevOps
18 75 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 73 (3.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
20 72 (3.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,481 (67.56%) Terraform
2 175 (7.98%) .NET
2 175 (7.98%) React
3 165 (7.53%) Kafka
4 136 (6.20%) Spring
5 132 (6.02%) REST
5 132 (6.02%) Spring Boot
6 129 (5.89%) RESTful
7 124 (5.66%) Node.js
8 63 (2.87%) PySpark
9 60 (2.74%) AWS CDK
10 59 (2.69%) ARM Templates
11 57 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 52 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
13 48 (2.19%) YAML
14 46 (2.10%) Next.js
15 45 (2.05%) FastAPI
16 44 (2.01%) LangChain
17 39 (1.78%) CSS
18 37 (1.69%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 673 (30.70%) Cloud Native
2 240 (10.95%) Distributed Systems
3 131 (5.98%) Onboarding
4 129 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 118 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 92 (4.20%) Data Centre
7 70 (3.19%) Security Posture
8 68 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
9 59 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 56 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
11 50 (2.28%) Product Ownership
12 49 (2.24%) AI Agents
12 49 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
13 46 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
13 46 (2.10%) Management Information System
14 45 (2.05%) e-Learning
15 40 (1.82%) Private Cloud
16 38 (1.73%) PKI
17 35 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
18 33 (1.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 420 (19.16%) Linux
2 216 (9.85%) Windows
3 92 (4.20%) Windows Server
4 61 (2.78%) CentOS
5 49 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.69%) Unix
7 34 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.96%) VMS
9 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.32%) Debian
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.18%) Rocky
13 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.091%) Solaris
14 1 (0.046%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.046%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.046%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.046%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,584 (72.26%) CI/CD
2 1,215 (55.43%) DevOps
3 641 (29.24%) Agile
4 605 (27.60%) Containerisation
5 584 (26.64%) Platform Engineering
6 559 (25.50%) Observability
7 526 (24.00%) AI
8 482 (21.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 482 (21.99%) Mentoring
9 443 (20.21%) Software Engineering
10 402 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
11 393 (17.93%) Cloud Security
12 392 (17.88%) Microservices
13 372 (16.97%) Test Automation
14 371 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 359 (16.38%) Technical Leadership
16 272 (12.41%) Roadmaps
17 271 (12.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 253 (11.54%) DevSecOps
19 242 (11.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 961 (43.84%) Python
2 368 (16.79%) Bash
3 348 (15.88%) SQL
4 330 (15.05%) Java
5 321 (14.64%) PowerShell
6 218 (9.95%) Bicep
7 191 (8.71%) TypeScript
8 183 (8.35%) C#
9 154 (7.03%) Go
10 149 (6.80%) JavaScript
11 50 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 39 (1.78%) Scala
13 34 (1.55%) PHP
14 31 (1.41%) Groovy
15 29 (1.32%) Rust
16 25 (1.14%) Ruby
17 21 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.73%) Perl
19 13 (0.59%) C++
20 12 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 605 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 388 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 216 (9.85%) DV Cleared
4 199 (9.08%) AWS Certification
5 161 (7.34%) Degree
6 148 (6.75%) Azure Certification
7 84 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 79 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
10 55 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 37 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 34 (1.55%) CISSP
13 30 (1.37%) CCNP
14 27 (1.23%) Master's Degree
15 24 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
16 19 (0.87%) CCNA
17 17 (0.78%) SnowPro
18 12 (0.55%) CISM
18 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 12 (0.55%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.33%) Data Quality
2 81 (3.70%) QA
3 63 (2.87%) GDPR
4 62 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (1.96%) NIST
6 34 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.32%) PCI DSS
8 28 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 25 (1.14%) NCSC
10 23 (1.05%) SLA
11 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.55%) GRC
13 11 (0.50%) WCAG
14 7 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.091%) IFRS
17 2 (0.091%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.091%) RMADS
17 2 (0.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 596 (27.19%) Docker
2 134 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (5.70%) Active Directory
4 48 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 47 (2.14%) vSphere
6 28 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
9 18 (0.82%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.41%) KVM
10 9 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.32%) Squid
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.091%) Lustre
16 1 (0.046%) iptables
16 1 (0.046%) LXC
Systems Management
1 814 (37.14%) Kubernetes
2 476 (21.72%) Ansible
3 213 (9.72%) Grafana
4 142 (6.48%) Prometheus
5 77 (3.51%) Puppet
6 70 (3.19%) Argo
7 50 (2.28%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 35 (1.60%) Istio
10 34 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 28 (1.28%) vCenter Server
12 23 (1.05%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.05%) Packer
13 22 (1.00%) Rancher
14 17 (0.78%) Cilium
15 15 (0.68%) Kustomize
16 13 (0.59%) Kibana
16 13 (0.59%) Nagios
16 13 (0.59%) Podman
17 12 (0.55%) linkerd
Vendors
1 515 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.57%) VMware
3 164 (7.48%) Google
4 99 (4.52%) Databricks
5 76 (3.47%) Red Hat
6 70 (3.19%) Cisco
7 65 (2.97%) Splunk
8 56 (2.55%) Oracle
9 46 (2.10%) Dynatrace
10 38 (1.73%) Fortinet
11 36 (1.64%) OpenAI
11 36 (1.64%) Palo Alto
12 32 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 24 (1.09%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.68%) F5
15 14 (0.64%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.64%) SAP
16 13 (0.59%) Mistral
16 13 (0.59%) New Relic
16 13 (0.59%) SolarWinds