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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 155 160
Rank change year-on-year +59 +5 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,453 835 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.17% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.33% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 979 607 1,199
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £49,850
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 60,455 35,779 71,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.68% 93.09% 85.50%
Number of salaries quoted 38,411 20,632 53,699
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -10.57%

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 May 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 May 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 +47 734 £87,500 -2.78% 324
North of England +6 266 £67,500 -2.17% 152
South East +16 155 £70,000 -6.67% 166
North West +12 145 £74,651 +2.97% 72
South West -8 104 £65,000 -9.71% 91
Midlands +15 95 £70,000 - 53
Yorkshire -30 90 £65,576 +8.45% 40
West Midlands -8 48 £70,000 - 30
East Midlands -8 45 £67,750 +4.23% 23
East of England +14 42 £60,100 -10.96% 58
North East -10 31 £48,445 -19.59% 40
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 46 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.13%) Apache
3 27 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.10%) Confluence
6 15 (1.03%) IIS
7 10 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.069%) Camunda
12 1 (0.069%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.069%) nginx
12 1 (0.069%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.069%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.55%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.28%) Weka
3 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.069%) Maya
5 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.069%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.069%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.069%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 875 (60.22%) AWS
2 804 (55.33%) Azure
3 292 (20.10%) GCP
4 284 (19.55%) GitHub
5 265 (18.24%) Serverless
6 262 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
7 235 (16.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 205 (14.11%) GitHub Actions
9 148 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (9.02%) Amazon S3
11 106 (7.30%) Entra ID
12 105 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 105 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
13 104 (7.16%) PaaS
14 95 (6.54%) Datadog
15 88 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
15 88 (6.06%) SaaS
16 81 (5.57%) IaaS
17 76 (5.23%) Azure AKS
18 75 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (11.56%) Firewall
2 90 (6.19%) DNS
3 76 (5.23%) VPN
4 66 (4.54%) TCP/IP
5 47 (3.23%) Broadband
5 47 (3.23%) WAN
6 44 (3.03%) Network Security
7 35 (2.41%) DHCP
8 26 (1.79%) HTTP
8 26 (1.79%) LAN
9 24 (1.65%) BGP
10 16 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
10 16 (1.10%) SD-WAN
10 16 (1.10%) VLAN
11 13 (0.89%) DSL
11 13 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
12 11 (0.76%) Internet
13 9 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.48%) SAN
14 7 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 99 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 64 (4.40%) DynamoDB
5 61 (4.20%) SQL Server
6 54 (3.72%) MongoDB
7 44 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 43 (2.96%) Relational Database
9 37 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 32 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
11 30 (2.06%) Metadata
12 27 (1.86%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.79%) MySQL
14 22 (1.51%) Power BI
15 20 (1.38%) Delta Lake
16 19 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.31%) RDBMS
17 16 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (1.03%) Big Data
19 14 (0.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 215 (14.80%) Jenkins
2 205 (14.11%) GitLab
3 186 (12.80%) Git
4 39 (2.68%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 34 (2.34%) JIRA
7 24 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.45%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.10%) Selenium
10 15 (1.03%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.89%) MLflow
12 12 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.83%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.69%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.69%) Subversion
14 9 (0.62%) Maven
14 9 (0.62%) Vite
15 8 (0.55%) JMeter
15 8 (0.55%) Storybook
16 7 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 372 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 300 (20.65%) Finance
3 113 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (6.13%) Banking
5 88 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 59 (4.06%) Retail
7 58 (3.99%) Telecoms
8 57 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (3.79%) Law
10 27 (1.86%) Games
11 26 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.51%) Aerospace
12 22 (1.51%) Marketing
13 21 (1.45%) Advertising
14 20 (1.38%) Billing
15 18 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (1.24%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.10%) Electronics
17 15 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 321 (22.09%) Senior
2 241 (16.59%) DevOps Engineer
3 234 (16.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 203 (13.97%) Lead
5 145 (9.98%) Azure Engineer
6 133 (9.15%) Platform Engineer
7 128 (8.81%) Architect
8 124 (8.53%) Developer
9 116 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
10 110 (7.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 83 (5.71%) Data Engineer
12 73 (5.02%) Software Engineer
13 71 (4.89%) Security Engineer
14 62 (4.27%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 59 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
16 53 (3.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 49 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.30%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 45 (3.10%) Python Engineer
20 40 (2.75%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.33%) React
2 95 (6.54%) .NET
2 95 (6.54%) Kafka
2 95 (6.54%) Node.js
3 86 (5.92%) RESTful
4 82 (5.64%) REST
5 73 (5.02%) Elastic Stack
6 64 (4.40%) AWS CDK
7 63 (4.34%) Spring
8 61 (4.20%) YAML
9 56 (3.85%) Spring Boot
10 50 (3.44%) ARM Templates
11 45 (3.10%) OAuth
12 44 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
13 43 (2.96%) PySpark
14 32 (2.20%) Next.js
15 31 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (2.00%) ASP.NET
17 28 (1.93%) .NET Core
17 28 (1.93%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 346 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 87 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 64 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.85%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.37%) Product Ownership
7 47 (3.23%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.65%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
13 22 (1.51%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.51%) Web3
14 19 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 19 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.31%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 308 (21.20%) Linux
2 152 (10.46%) Windows
3 66 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.58%) Unix
5 36 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.86%) CentOS
6 27 (1.86%) VMS
7 26 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.76%) Android
9 10 (0.69%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.48%) Debian
11 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) SUSE
13 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.069%) Rocky
15 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (67.38%) CI/CD
2 869 (59.81%) DevOps
3 416 (28.63%) Containerisation
4 382 (26.29%) Agile
5 365 (25.12%) Observability
6 304 (20.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 269 (18.51%) Mentoring
8 267 (18.38%) Platform Engineering
9 240 (16.52%) Test Automation
10 239 (16.45%) AI
11 235 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
12 222 (15.28%) Microservices
13 208 (14.32%) Software Engineering
14 199 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 197 (13.56%) Cloud Security
16 182 (12.53%) Analytics
17 167 (11.49%) High Availability
18 164 (11.29%) DevSecOps
19 159 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
20 141 (9.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 670 (46.11%) Python
2 294 (20.23%) Bash
3 240 (16.52%) SQL
4 235 (16.17%) PowerShell
5 188 (12.94%) Java
6 162 (11.15%) Go
7 128 (8.81%) Bicep
8 120 (8.26%) JavaScript
9 118 (8.12%) TypeScript
10 91 (6.26%) C#
11 26 (1.79%) Rust
12 22 (1.51%) Scala
13 21 (1.45%) C++
14 20 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 13 (0.89%) C
15 13 (0.89%) Groovy
16 9 (0.62%) PHP
17 8 (0.55%) Ruby
17 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 256 (17.62%) Security Cleared
2 164 (11.29%) SC Cleared
3 144 (9.91%) Degree
4 114 (7.85%) AWS Certification
5 85 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 81 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 60 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (2.00%) OSCP
11 27 (1.86%) CISSP
12 24 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
13 14 (0.96%) CCNP
13 14 (0.96%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.83%) CCNA
16 11 (0.76%) CCSK
17 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.75%) QA
2 60 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.92%) GDPR
4 49 (3.37%) SOC 2
5 45 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.41%) NIST
7 32 (2.20%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.72%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.69%) WCAG
10 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 6 (0.41%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
14 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 432 (29.73%) Docker
2 100 (6.88%) Active Directory
3 76 (5.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.86%) vSphere
6 18 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.24%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.55%) Firmware
8 7 (0.48%) iptables
9 5 (0.34%) KVM
9 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.28%) Squid
11 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.069%) vCloud
13 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,013 (69.72%) Terraform
2 596 (41.02%) Kubernetes
3 333 (22.92%) Ansible
4 195 (13.42%) Grafana
4 195 (13.42%) Prometheus
5 56 (3.85%) Argo
6 34 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.20%) Puppet
8 23 (1.58%) Kustomize
9 21 (1.45%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.24%) Rancher
11 17 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (1.10%) Nagios
13 14 (0.96%) Istio
14 12 (0.83%) Packer
15 11 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.62%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.55%) logstash
17 8 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 256 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 113 (7.78%) VMware
3 101 (6.95%) Google
4 67 (4.61%) Databricks
5 62 (4.27%) Red Hat
6 51 (3.51%) Cisco
7 47 (3.23%) Splunk
8 40 (2.75%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.58%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.51%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.31%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.24%) Dynatrace
14 16 (1.10%) Oracle
15 15 (1.03%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.96%) SAP
17 13 (0.89%) Atlassian
17 13 (0.89%) Juniper
18 11 (0.76%) SolarWinds
19 10 (0.69%) CheckPoint