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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 129 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,157 991 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.82% 2.41% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.58% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 814 667 1,213
10th Percentile £46,309 £47,300 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £91,184 £95,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £114,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

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 49,845 38,393 60,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.58% 93.42% 87.63%
Number of salaries quoted 30,636 19,938 47,774
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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 +29 583 £85,000 -5.56% 247
North of England -15 211 £65,500 +0.77% 160
South East -3 131 £72,500 +3.57% 136
Yorkshire -13 91 £62,500 +16.28% 50
North West -25 89 £74,051 +7.71% 88
South West -15 83 £62,500 -11.97% 82
Midlands +6 67 £67,500 +3.85% 39
West Midlands -15 33 £65,000 - 28
East Midlands +1 32 £67,500 +3.85% 11
North East -10 31 £48,445 -13.10% 22
East of England +19 28 £61,300 -15.45% 30
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 52 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 42 (3.63%) Apache
3 26 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.21%) Confluence
5 14 (1.21%) IIS
6 10 (0.86%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.26%) Appian
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.17%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.35%) Weka
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.086%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.086%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.086%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 734 (63.44%) AWS
2 637 (55.06%) Azure
3 259 (22.39%) GCP
4 258 (22.30%) GitHub
5 238 (20.57%) Azure DevOps
6 215 (18.58%) Serverless
7 199 (17.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 179 (15.47%) GitHub Actions
9 135 (11.67%) AWS Lambda
10 119 (10.29%) Amazon S3
11 108 (9.33%) PaaS
12 103 (8.90%) SaaS
13 92 (7.95%) Entra ID
14 90 (7.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 86 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
16 75 (6.48%) Datadog
17 72 (6.22%) IaaS
18 69 (5.96%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
20 61 (5.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 145 (12.53%) Firewall
2 80 (6.91%) DNS
3 77 (6.66%) VPN
4 61 (5.27%) TCP/IP
5 42 (3.63%) WAN
6 32 (2.77%) Broadband
7 31 (2.68%) DHCP
8 29 (2.51%) Network Security
9 18 (1.56%) BGP
9 18 (1.56%) VLAN
10 17 (1.47%) HTTP
10 17 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (1.30%) Internet
11 15 (1.30%) LAN
12 12 (1.04%) DSL
13 10 (0.86%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.69%) SAN
16 6 (0.52%) Wireless
17 5 (0.43%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (8.47%) NoSQL
2 79 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.49%) DynamoDB
5 51 (4.41%) SQL Server
6 38 (3.28%) MongoDB
7 37 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 34 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 25 (2.16%) MySQL
9 25 (2.16%) Redis
10 24 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 24 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
11 22 (1.90%) BigQuery
12 21 (1.82%) Metadata
13 20 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.73%) Power BI
14 19 (1.64%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.30%) Big Data
17 14 (1.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 188 (16.25%) Jenkins
2 151 (13.05%) Git
3 146 (12.62%) GitLab
4 30 (2.59%) JIRA
5 28 (2.42%) CircleCI
6 26 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 25 (2.16%) Selenium
8 24 (2.07%) Robot Framework
9 23 (1.99%) Jaeger
10 18 (1.56%) Snyk
11 16 (1.38%) Cucumber
12 15 (1.30%) MLflow
13 13 (1.12%) TeamCity
14 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 10 (0.86%) JMeter
16 8 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 8 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
16 8 (0.69%) Subversion
17 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
17 7 (0.61%) Locust
General
1 334 (28.87%) Social Skills
2 256 (22.13%) Finance
3 118 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (7.26%) Banking
5 72 (6.22%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.62%) Law
7 56 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 52 (4.49%) Telecoms
9 51 (4.41%) Retail
10 34 (2.94%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.99%) Billing
11 23 (1.99%) Marketing
12 21 (1.82%) Back Office
13 19 (1.64%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.47%) Games
15 16 (1.38%) Advertising
15 16 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.21%) Aerospace
17 13 (1.12%) Legal
18 11 (0.95%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 244 (21.09%) Senior
2 189 (16.34%) Cloud Engineer
3 181 (15.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 142 (12.27%) Lead
5 109 (9.42%) Platform Engineer
6 107 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
7 105 (9.08%) Architect
7 105 (9.08%) Developer
8 90 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
9 87 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 60 (5.19%) Software Engineer
11 53 (4.58%) Data Engineer
12 49 (4.24%) Security Engineer
13 45 (3.89%) Senior DevOps
14 39 (3.37%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 39 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 36 (3.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 34 (2.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.77%) Lead DevOps
18 31 (2.68%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (9.68%) React
2 74 (6.40%) .NET
2 74 (6.40%) Node.js
3 69 (5.96%) Elastic Stack
4 68 (5.88%) Kafka
5 67 (5.79%) RESTful
6 59 (5.10%) AWS CDK
7 54 (4.67%) Spring
8 50 (4.32%) Spring Boot
9 44 (3.80%) YAML
10 40 (3.46%) REST
11 35 (3.03%) Django
12 33 (2.85%) FastAPI
13 32 (2.77%) CSS
14 31 (2.68%) ARM Templates
14 31 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (2.42%) .NET Core
16 27 (2.33%) HTML
17 25 (2.16%) OAuth
17 25 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 273 (23.60%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (4.67%) Security Posture
4 53 (4.58%) Public Cloud
5 44 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 43 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
7 34 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 32 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.42%) Product Ownership
10 27 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.99%) Management Information System
12 22 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
15 17 (1.47%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
17 15 (1.30%) Blog
17 15 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
18 14 (1.21%) Mobile App
19 13 (1.12%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 253 (21.87%) Linux
2 124 (10.72%) Windows
3 66 (5.70%) Unix
4 47 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.68%) VMS
6 25 (2.16%) Ubuntu
7 18 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (1.30%) CentOS
9 10 (0.86%) Android
10 9 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.78%) Debian
11 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.35%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) SUSE
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.086%) Rocky
15 1 (0.086%) Solaris
15 1 (0.086%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (68.54%) CI/CD
2 726 (62.75%) DevOps
3 331 (28.61%) Agile
4 328 (28.35%) Containerisation
5 258 (22.30%) Observability
6 238 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 230 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
8 208 (17.98%) Mentoring
9 178 (15.38%) AI
10 175 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
11 168 (14.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 161 (13.92%) Cloud Security
12 161 (13.92%) Software Engineering
13 156 (13.48%) Microservices
14 149 (12.88%) Test Automation
15 137 (11.84%) Analytics
16 136 (11.75%) DevSecOps
17 130 (11.24%) High Availability
18 126 (10.89%) Incident Response
19 115 (9.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 522 (45.12%) Python
2 228 (19.71%) Bash
3 183 (15.82%) PowerShell
4 178 (15.38%) SQL
5 153 (13.22%) Java
6 131 (11.32%) Go
7 108 (9.33%) Bicep
8 107 (9.25%) JavaScript
9 93 (8.04%) TypeScript
10 62 (5.36%) C#
11 18 (1.56%) Rust
12 16 (1.38%) C++
12 16 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 16 (1.38%) Scala
13 10 (0.86%) C
14 8 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.52%) Ruby
17 5 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 207 (17.89%) Security Cleared
2 123 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 107 (9.25%) Degree
4 96 (8.30%) AWS Certification
5 88 (7.61%) DV Cleared
6 66 (5.70%) Azure Certification
7 43 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.51%) CISSP
9 28 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (2.16%) OSCP
12 14 (1.21%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (1.04%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.95%) CCSK
15 10 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 8 (0.69%) CCNP
17 8 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (4.24%) GDPR
3 45 (3.89%) SOC 2
4 44 (3.80%) QA
5 42 (3.63%) Data Quality
6 40 (3.46%) NIST
7 36 (3.11%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.90%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.78%) SLA
10 9 (0.78%) WCAG
11 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.52%) GRC
12 6 (0.52%) NCSC
13 5 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.35%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.17%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
System Software
1 392 (33.88%) Docker
2 84 (7.26%) Active Directory
3 60 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.64%) vSphere
7 15 (1.30%) VMware NSX
8 13 (1.12%) Firmware
9 5 (0.43%) KVM
9 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.26%) iptables
11 3 (0.26%) vCloud
11 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.17%) GPFS
12 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.17%) NFS
12 2 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.17%) XenApp
12 2 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 810 (70.01%) Terraform
2 465 (40.19%) Kubernetes
3 297 (25.67%) Ansible
4 173 (14.95%) Prometheus
5 161 (13.92%) Grafana
6 47 (4.06%) Argo
7 33 (2.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.99%) Puppet
9 22 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.64%) Kustomize
11 15 (1.30%) Rancher
12 12 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 12 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
12 12 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 12 (1.04%) SCCM
13 11 (0.95%) Nagios
14 9 (0.78%) AWS Copilot
15 7 (0.61%) Istio
16 6 (0.52%) linkerd
16 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 191 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 104 (8.99%) Google
3 96 (8.30%) VMware
4 42 (3.63%) Databricks
5 41 (3.54%) Cisco
6 38 (3.28%) Red Hat
6 38 (3.28%) Splunk
7 34 (2.94%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.90%) Zscaler
9 18 (1.56%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.56%) Coverity
10 14 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
10 14 (1.21%) Oracle
10 14 (1.21%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.12%) Atlassian
11 13 (1.12%) Juniper
12 12 (1.04%) Dynatrace
13 11 (0.95%) New Relic
13 11 (0.95%) SAP
14 10 (0.86%) SolarWinds