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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 126 130
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,083 1,085 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.42% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.62% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 771 674 1,258
10th Percentile £46,446 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,119 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,375 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.27% +3.10% -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 46,773 41,385 57,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.76% 92.14% 88.11%
Number of salaries quoted 28,477 20,477 45,736
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,702
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 £82,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £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 12 February 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 February 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 +19 527 £85,000 -5.56% 246
North of England -10 209 £65,250 +3.57% 107
South East +8 120 £75,000 +9.09% 128
Yorkshire -19 93 £62,500 +13.64% 31
North West -6 87 £70,079 +3.82% 64
South West -18 81 £62,500 -13.18% 66
Midlands -8 62 £65,500 +0.77% 35
West Midlands -7 34 £62,500 -7.41% 29
East of England +21 29 £71,250 -1.72% 11
North East -2 29 £55,000 +12.82% 12
East Midlands +3 26 £67,500 +3.85% 7
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 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.51%) Apache
3 21 (1.94%) Apache Spark
3 21 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.29%) Confluence
5 12 (1.11%) IIS
6 11 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.28%) Appian
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.092%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Weka
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.092%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.092%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.092%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.092%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.092%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 687 (63.43%) AWS
2 610 (56.33%) Azure
3 246 (22.71%) GitHub
4 244 (22.53%) Azure DevOps
5 243 (22.44%) GCP
6 195 (18.01%) Serverless
7 187 (17.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 167 (15.42%) GitHub Actions
9 125 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
10 110 (10.16%) Amazon S3
11 103 (9.51%) SaaS
12 96 (8.86%) PaaS
13 87 (8.03%) Entra ID
14 86 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 80 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
16 68 (6.28%) IaaS
17 66 (6.09%) Datadog
18 63 (5.82%) Amazon EC2
19 62 (5.72%) Microsoft 365
20 59 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 134 (12.37%) Firewall
2 77 (7.11%) VPN
3 74 (6.83%) DNS
4 49 (4.52%) TCP/IP
5 40 (3.69%) WAN
6 30 (2.77%) DHCP
7 29 (2.68%) Network Security
8 27 (2.49%) Broadband
9 19 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (1.66%) BGP
11 17 (1.57%) VLAN
12 16 (1.48%) Internet
13 14 (1.29%) LAN
14 13 (1.20%) HTTP
15 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.74%) DSL
16 8 (0.74%) SAN
17 6 (0.55%) OSPF
17 6 (0.55%) Wireless
18 5 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (8.49%) NoSQL
2 71 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
4 52 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 48 (4.43%) DynamoDB
6 38 (3.51%) Data Lake
7 34 (3.14%) MongoDB
8 28 (2.59%) Relational Database
9 27 (2.49%) MySQL
10 26 (2.40%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.75%) RDBMS
13 19 (1.75%) Redis
14 17 (1.57%) Power BI
15 16 (1.48%) Big Data
16 15 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (1.39%) Metadata
17 13 (1.20%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 185 (17.08%) Jenkins
2 146 (13.48%) Git
3 128 (11.82%) GitLab
4 28 (2.59%) JIRA
5 25 (2.31%) Selenium
6 24 (2.22%) CircleCI
6 24 (2.22%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.03%) Bitbucket
8 21 (1.94%) Jaeger
9 18 (1.66%) Snyk
10 17 (1.57%) MLflow
11 13 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.20%) TeamCity
12 11 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.74%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.74%) JMeter
13 8 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.74%) Subversion
14 7 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 311 (28.72%) Social Skills
2 240 (22.16%) Finance
3 104 (9.60%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (7.02%) Banking
5 63 (5.82%) Law
6 60 (5.54%) Public Sector
7 49 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 46 (4.25%) Retail
9 44 (4.06%) Telecoms
10 34 (3.14%) Financial Institution
11 23 (2.12%) Billing
12 20 (1.85%) Back Office
12 20 (1.85%) Games
12 20 (1.85%) Marketing
13 18 (1.66%) Legal
13 18 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.48%) Advertising
15 15 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.29%) Aerospace
17 11 (1.02%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 212 (19.58%) Senior
2 183 (16.90%) Cloud Engineer
3 172 (15.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 124 (11.45%) Lead
5 109 (10.06%) Platform Engineer
6 103 (9.51%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (9.51%) Developer
7 98 (9.05%) Architect
8 84 (7.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 80 (7.39%) AWS Engineer
10 53 (4.89%) Software Engineer
11 48 (4.43%) Data Engineer
12 44 (4.06%) Security Engineer
13 41 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
14 35 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.23%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 35 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 31 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (2.77%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (9.97%) React
2 81 (7.48%) .NET
3 70 (6.46%) Node.js
4 67 (6.19%) RESTful
5 64 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
6 58 (5.36%) Kafka
7 49 (4.52%) AWS CDK
8 44 (4.06%) Spring
9 41 (3.79%) YAML
10 40 (3.69%) Spring Boot
11 39 (3.60%) REST
12 34 (3.14%) ARM Templates
13 32 (2.95%) FastAPI
14 31 (2.86%) Django
15 30 (2.77%) .NET Core
15 30 (2.77%) CSS
16 28 (2.59%) HTML
17 25 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
18 24 (2.22%) RabbitMQ
19 21 (1.94%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 260 (24.01%) Cloud Native
2 71 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 56 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 50 (4.62%) Data Centre
5 45 (4.16%) Security Posture
6 41 (3.79%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (2.22%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.22%) Product Ownership
10 21 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.48%) Hedge funds
12 16 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 15 (1.39%) Blog
14 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 239 (22.07%) Linux
2 112 (10.34%) Windows
3 59 (5.45%) Unix
4 38 (3.51%) Windows Server
5 32 (2.95%) VMS
6 26 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (1.29%) Debian
9 13 (1.20%) CentOS
10 7 (0.65%) Android
10 7 (0.65%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.37%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.28%) SUSE
14 2 (0.18%) Solaris
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.092%) Rocky
15 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (67.77%) CI/CD
2 681 (62.88%) DevOps
3 310 (28.62%) Agile
4 305 (28.16%) Containerisation
5 222 (20.50%) Observability
6 217 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
7 214 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (16.81%) Mentoring
9 173 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
10 167 (15.42%) AI
11 165 (15.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 153 (14.13%) Software Engineering
13 152 (14.04%) Cloud Security
14 137 (12.65%) Microservices
15 131 (12.10%) Analytics
15 131 (12.10%) Test Automation
16 125 (11.54%) DevSecOps
16 125 (11.54%) High Availability
17 107 (9.88%) Incident Response
18 106 (9.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 486 (44.88%) Python
2 217 (20.04%) Bash
3 175 (16.16%) PowerShell
4 166 (15.33%) SQL
5 132 (12.19%) Java
6 121 (11.17%) Go
7 114 (10.53%) Bicep
8 107 (9.88%) JavaScript
9 90 (8.31%) TypeScript
10 69 (6.37%) C#
11 16 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 15 (1.39%) Scala
13 14 (1.29%) C++
13 14 (1.29%) Rust
14 9 (0.83%) C
15 8 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.65%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.46%) Ruby
18 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 185 (17.08%) Security Cleared
2 109 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 102 (9.42%) AWS Certification
4 98 (9.05%) Degree
5 81 (7.48%) DV Cleared
6 69 (6.37%) Azure Certification
7 42 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.59%) CISSP
10 26 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (1.66%) OSCP
12 17 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.92%) CCSK
16 9 (0.83%) CCNP
16 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 7 (0.65%) CISM
17 7 (0.65%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (4.62%) GDPR
3 43 (3.97%) SOC 2
4 40 (3.69%) QA
5 37 (3.42%) NIST
6 36 (3.32%) Data Quality
7 35 (3.23%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.83%) SLA
12 7 (0.65%) WCAG
13 6 (0.55%) GRC
14 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.46%) NCSC
15 4 (0.37%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.18%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
17 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
System Software
1 359 (33.15%) Docker
2 81 (7.48%) Active Directory
3 56 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 34 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.39%) vSphere
7 14 (1.29%) VMware NSX
8 12 (1.11%) Firmware
9 6 (0.55%) KVM
9 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.37%) NFS
10 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.28%) iptables
11 3 (0.28%) vCloud
12 2 (0.18%) GPFS
12 2 (0.18%) Lustre
12 2 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.18%) XenApp
12 2 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.092%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 774 (71.47%) Terraform
2 432 (39.89%) Kubernetes
3 289 (26.69%) Ansible
4 160 (14.77%) Prometheus
5 145 (13.39%) Grafana
6 46 (4.25%) Argo
7 29 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (2.12%) Puppet
9 20 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.75%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.57%) Rancher
12 13 (1.20%) Progress Chef
13 12 (1.11%) SCCM
14 11 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.74%) Nagios
17 7 (0.65%) Istio
18 6 (0.55%) AWS Copilot
18 6 (0.55%) Mesos
18 6 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 189 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 100 (9.23%) Google
3 88 (8.13%) VMware
4 41 (3.79%) Databricks
5 37 (3.42%) Cisco
6 35 (3.23%) Splunk
7 33 (3.05%) Palo Alto
8 32 (2.95%) Red Hat
9 23 (2.12%) Zscaler
10 18 (1.66%) Black Duck
10 18 (1.66%) Coverity
11 15 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
12 14 (1.29%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 13 (1.20%) Oracle
14 12 (1.11%) SolarWinds
15 11 (1.02%) Juniper
15 11 (1.02%) New Relic
15 11 (1.02%) SAP
16 10 (0.92%) CyberArk