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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 134 157
Rank change year-on-year +30 +23 -51
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,358 861 1,507
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 2.32% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.49% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 914 630 1,222
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,635 £61,262 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,938 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 57,594 34,512 70,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.67% 93.12% 85.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36,194 20,484 53,623
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,867
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,450 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.54%

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 April 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 April 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 +41 679 £85,000 -5.56% 236
North of England -2 261 £67,500 - 125
South East -3 147 £70,000 -6.67% 106
North West +1 134 £73,801 +1.79% 66
South West -23 103 £63,225 -12.18% 65
Yorkshire -13 95 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Midlands -3 83 £67,500 -3.57% 38
East Midlands -19 42 £67,500 +3.85% 12
West Midlands -8 39 £67,500 -3.57% 26
East of England -10 34 £61,300 -10.84% 34
North East -14 32 £48,445 -15.75% 24
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 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.50%) Apache
3 26 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.25%) Confluence
6 16 (1.18%) IIS
7 10 (0.74%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.074%) Camunda
10 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.44%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.29%) Weka
3 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.074%) Maya
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.074%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.074%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.074%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.074%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.074%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 840 (61.86%) AWS
2 747 (55.01%) Azure
3 297 (21.87%) GCP
4 280 (20.62%) GitHub
5 263 (19.37%) Serverless
6 256 (18.85%) Azure DevOps
7 226 (16.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 196 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
9 150 (11.05%) AWS Lambda
10 132 (9.72%) Amazon S3
11 109 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
12 102 (7.51%) PaaS
13 100 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 100 (7.36%) Entra ID
14 99 (7.29%) SaaS
15 96 (7.07%) Datadog
16 82 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.45%) IaaS
18 70 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (4.93%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 173 (12.74%) Firewall
2 86 (6.33%) DNS
3 74 (5.45%) VPN
4 71 (5.23%) TCP/IP
5 45 (3.31%) WAN
6 42 (3.09%) Network Security
7 38 (2.80%) Broadband
8 32 (2.36%) DHCP
9 25 (1.84%) LAN
10 22 (1.62%) BGP
10 22 (1.62%) HTTP
11 16 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.18%) VLAN
12 13 (0.96%) DSL
12 13 (0.96%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.88%) Internet
14 10 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
14 10 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (0.59%) Wireless
16 6 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.32%) NoSQL
2 94 (6.92%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (6.04%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.57%) SQL Server
5 60 (4.42%) DynamoDB
6 47 (3.46%) MongoDB
7 41 (3.02%) Data Lake
7 41 (3.02%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (1.99%) MySQL
11 24 (1.77%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (1.69%) Power BI
13 22 (1.62%) Metadata
14 19 (1.40%) RDBMS
14 19 (1.40%) Redis
15 18 (1.33%) Delta Lake
16 17 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.96%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 203 (14.95%) Jenkins
2 188 (13.84%) GitLab
3 186 (13.70%) Git
4 35 (2.58%) Bitbucket
4 35 (2.58%) JIRA
5 32 (2.36%) CircleCI
6 25 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 22 (1.62%) Selenium
8 21 (1.55%) Jaeger
9 17 (1.25%) Robot Framework
10 15 (1.10%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.03%) MLflow
11 14 (1.03%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.96%) JMeter
13 12 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.74%) Subversion
15 9 (0.66%) Locust
15 9 (0.66%) Vite
16 8 (0.59%) Snyk
16 8 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 370 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 293 (21.58%) Finance
3 121 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (7.29%) Banking
5 78 (5.74%) Public Sector
6 69 (5.08%) Retail
7 64 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (4.57%) Law
9 57 (4.20%) Telecoms
10 30 (2.21%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.69%) Aerospace
13 22 (1.62%) Back Office
13 22 (1.62%) Billing
13 22 (1.62%) Marketing
14 21 (1.55%) Games
15 19 (1.40%) Advertising
16 15 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (1.03%) Electronics
17 14 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 298 (21.94%) Senior
2 221 (16.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 216 (15.91%) Cloud Engineer
4 188 (13.84%) Lead
5 130 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
6 118 (8.69%) Developer
7 113 (8.32%) Platform Engineer
8 111 (8.17%) Architect
9 106 (7.81%) AWS Engineer
10 105 (7.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 70 (5.15%) Software Engineer
12 67 (4.93%) Data Engineer
13 64 (4.71%) Security Engineer
14 57 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
15 53 (3.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 49 (3.61%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 48 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 45 (3.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 41 (3.02%) Python Engineer
20 39 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (9.06%) React
2 91 (6.70%) Node.js
3 90 (6.63%) .NET
4 79 (5.82%) Kafka
5 78 (5.74%) RESTful
6 75 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
6 75 (5.52%) REST
7 64 (4.71%) Spring
8 61 (4.49%) AWS CDK
9 58 (4.27%) YAML
10 56 (4.12%) Spring Boot
11 47 (3.46%) ARM Templates
12 42 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
13 40 (2.95%) OAuth
14 36 (2.65%) FastAPI
15 35 (2.58%) PySpark
16 34 (2.50%) Django
17 32 (2.36%) CSS
18 30 (2.21%) .NET Core
18 30 (2.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 318 (23.42%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 71 (5.23%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.20%) Public Cloud
4 57 (4.20%) Security Posture
5 47 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 45 (3.31%) Data Centre
7 36 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (2.28%) Onboarding
9 28 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.55%) Blockchain
12 20 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.40%) Web3
14 18 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.33%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
15 17 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 302 (22.24%) Linux
2 153 (11.27%) Windows
3 62 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 61 (4.49%) Unix
5 35 (2.58%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.14%) VMS
7 24 (1.77%) CentOS
7 24 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.96%) Android
9 12 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.66%) Debian
11 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.074%) Rocky
14 1 (0.074%) Solaris
14 1 (0.074%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 910 (67.01%) CI/CD
2 826 (60.82%) DevOps
3 392 (28.87%) Containerisation
4 375 (27.61%) Agile
5 337 (24.82%) Observability
6 293 (21.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 252 (18.56%) Mentoring
8 242 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
9 223 (16.42%) Platform Engineering
10 214 (15.76%) Test Automation
11 208 (15.32%) AI
12 201 (14.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 197 (14.51%) Microservices
14 195 (14.36%) Software Engineering
15 189 (13.92%) Cloud Security
16 165 (12.15%) Analytics
17 154 (11.34%) High Availability
18 152 (11.19%) DevSecOps
19 143 (10.53%) Incident Response
20 138 (10.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 625 (46.02%) Python
2 273 (20.10%) Bash
3 224 (16.49%) SQL
4 222 (16.35%) PowerShell
5 185 (13.62%) Java
6 155 (11.41%) Go
7 126 (9.28%) Bicep
8 124 (9.13%) JavaScript
9 110 (8.10%) TypeScript
10 71 (5.23%) C#
11 22 (1.62%) C++
12 21 (1.55%) Rust
13 20 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 17 (1.25%) Scala
15 12 (0.88%) C
16 11 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.66%) Ruby
18 8 (0.59%) Shell Script
19 7 (0.52%) Apex Code
19 7 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 239 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 145 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.57%) Degree
4 114 (8.39%) AWS Certification
5 92 (6.77%) DV Cleared
6 77 (5.67%) Azure Certification
7 55 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.28%) OSCP
9 29 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.99%) CISSP
12 18 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
14 12 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.88%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.88%) Master's Degree
15 11 (0.81%) CCNP
15 11 (0.81%) CCSK
16 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.66%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.86%) QA
2 57 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.12%) GDPR
4 55 (4.05%) SOC 2
5 51 (3.76%) Data Quality
6 41 (3.02%) NIST
6 41 (3.02%) PCI DSS
7 26 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.88%) WCAG
9 11 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.66%) GRC
11 8 (0.59%) SLA
12 6 (0.44%) NCSC
13 5 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 424 (31.22%) Docker
2 92 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 70 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.65%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.77%) vSphere
6 19 (1.40%) Hyper-V
7 16 (1.18%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 7 (0.52%) KVM
10 6 (0.44%) iptables
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.15%) GPFS
13 2 (0.15%) Lustre
13 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.15%) Squid
14 1 (0.074%) QEMU
14 1 (0.074%) vCloud
14 1 (0.074%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 961 (70.77%) Terraform
2 562 (41.38%) Kubernetes
3 328 (24.15%) Ansible
4 191 (14.06%) Grafana
5 186 (13.70%) Prometheus
6 53 (3.90%) Argo
7 34 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.99%) Puppet
10 21 (1.55%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.25%) Rancher
12 14 (1.03%) Nagios
12 14 (1.03%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.88%) Istio
14 11 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
15 9 (0.66%) Cilium
15 9 (0.66%) Packer
16 8 (0.59%) Proxmox
16 8 (0.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 234 (17.23%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.81%) VMware
3 104 (7.66%) Google
4 59 (4.34%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.12%) Databricks
6 48 (3.53%) Cisco
7 44 (3.24%) Splunk
8 39 (2.87%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.69%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.40%) CrowdStrike
11 18 (1.33%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 16 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 15 (1.10%) Atlassian
13 15 (1.10%) Oracle
14 14 (1.03%) Juniper
15 13 (0.96%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.81%) New Relic
17 10 (0.74%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.74%) SolarWinds