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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 155 159
Rank change year-on-year +58 +4 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,464 837 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.80% 2.15% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.31% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 987 610 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 £91,875 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,750 £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 60,661 36,230 71,357
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.64% 93.14% 85.49%
Number of salaries quoted 38,592 20,612 53,719
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £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 £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +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 6 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 6 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 +40 742 £87,500 -2.78% 284
North of England +13 266 £67,500 -3.57% 158
South East +23 155 £70,000 -6.67% 145
North West +15 145 £74,651 +2.97% 74
South West -10 105 £65,000 -9.71% 74
Midlands +15 97 £70,000 - 43
Yorkshire -21 88 £72,500 +16.97% 38
West Midlands -3 50 £70,000 - 29
East Midlands -7 45 £67,750 +4.23% 14
East of England +16 43 £60,100 -10.96% 31
North East -6 33 £48,445 -19.59% 46
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 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.12%) Apache
3 27 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.09%) Confluence
6 15 (1.02%) IIS
7 11 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.068%) Camunda
12 1 (0.068%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.068%) nginx
12 1 (0.068%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.068%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (0.61%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.27%) Weka
3 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.068%) Maya
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.068%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 875 (59.77%) AWS
2 812 (55.46%) Azure
3 295 (20.15%) GCP
4 286 (19.54%) GitHub
5 266 (18.17%) Serverless
6 265 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
7 234 (15.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 206 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
9 147 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
10 130 (8.88%) Amazon S3
11 107 (7.31%) PaaS
12 106 (7.24%) Entra ID
13 105 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
14 104 (7.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 94 (6.42%) Datadog
16 89 (6.08%) SaaS
17 88 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
18 85 (5.81%) IaaS
19 78 (5.33%) Azure AKS
20 76 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 167 (11.41%) Firewall
2 91 (6.22%) DNS
3 75 (5.12%) VPN
4 66 (4.51%) TCP/IP
5 47 (3.21%) Broadband
6 46 (3.14%) WAN
7 43 (2.94%) Network Security
8 35 (2.39%) DHCP
9 26 (1.78%) HTTP
9 26 (1.78%) LAN
10 24 (1.64%) BGP
11 16 (1.09%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (1.09%) SD-WAN
11 16 (1.09%) VLAN
12 13 (0.89%) DSL
12 13 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
13 11 (0.75%) Internet
14 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
15 7 (0.48%) SAN
15 7 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (8.20%) NoSQL
2 100 (6.83%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (4.30%) DynamoDB
5 62 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 55 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 44 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 44 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 37 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
9 33 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 30 (2.05%) Metadata
11 27 (1.84%) BigQuery
12 26 (1.78%) MySQL
13 22 (1.50%) Power BI
14 20 (1.37%) Delta Lake
15 19 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.30%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (1.02%) Big Data
17 15 (1.02%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 215 (14.69%) Jenkins
2 207 (14.14%) GitLab
3 188 (12.84%) Git
4 39 (2.66%) Bitbucket
5 35 (2.39%) CircleCI
6 34 (2.32%) JIRA
7 24 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.43%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.09%) Selenium
10 15 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 13 (0.89%) MLflow
12 12 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.82%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.68%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.68%) Subversion
14 9 (0.61%) Maven
14 9 (0.61%) Vite
15 8 (0.55%) JMeter
15 8 (0.55%) Storybook
16 7 (0.48%) Artifactory
General
1 375 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 299 (20.42%) Finance
3 113 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (6.01%) Banking
4 88 (6.01%) Public Sector
5 59 (4.03%) Retail
6 58 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 53 (3.62%) Law
9 27 (1.84%) Games
9 27 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 22 (1.50%) Marketing
11 21 (1.43%) Advertising
12 20 (1.37%) Billing
13 19 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.23%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.09%) Electronics
16 15 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 325 (22.20%) Senior
2 243 (16.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 233 (15.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 204 (13.93%) Lead
5 149 (10.18%) Azure Engineer
6 137 (9.36%) Platform Engineer
7 129 (8.81%) Architect
8 124 (8.47%) Developer
9 116 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
10 110 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 82 (5.60%) Data Engineer
12 74 (5.05%) Software Engineer
13 71 (4.85%) Security Engineer
14 63 (4.30%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 60 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
16 55 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 50 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.28%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 45 (3.07%) Python Engineer
20 40 (2.73%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (8.27%) React
2 96 (6.56%) .NET
2 96 (6.56%) Node.js
3 95 (6.49%) Kafka
4 85 (5.81%) REST
4 85 (5.81%) RESTful
5 73 (4.99%) Elastic Stack
6 63 (4.30%) AWS CDK
6 63 (4.30%) Spring
7 62 (4.23%) YAML
8 56 (3.83%) Spring Boot
9 53 (3.62%) ARM Templates
10 47 (3.21%) OAuth
11 44 (3.01%) PySpark
11 44 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
12 32 (2.19%) Next.js
13 30 (2.05%) OpenTelemetry
14 29 (1.98%) FastAPI
15 28 (1.91%) ASP.NET
16 27 (1.84%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 344 (23.50%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 88 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 65 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.83%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.35%) Product Ownership
7 48 (3.28%) Data Centre
8 43 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
9 34 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 30 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.64%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
13 22 (1.50%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.50%) Web3
14 19 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
14 19 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.30%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 309 (21.11%) Linux
2 153 (10.45%) Windows
3 67 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 52 (3.55%) Unix
5 36 (2.46%) Ubuntu
6 28 (1.91%) VMS
7 27 (1.84%) CentOS
8 26 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.75%) Android
10 10 (0.68%) Apple iOS
11 7 (0.48%) Debian
12 6 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.27%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
15 2 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.068%) Rocky
16 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 987 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 876 (59.84%) DevOps
3 417 (28.48%) Containerisation
4 380 (25.96%) Agile
5 369 (25.20%) Observability
6 307 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 273 (18.65%) Platform Engineering
8 268 (18.31%) Mentoring
9 243 (16.60%) AI
10 242 (16.53%) Test Automation
11 236 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
12 222 (15.16%) Microservices
13 209 (14.28%) Software Engineering
14 202 (13.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 198 (13.52%) Cloud Security
16 181 (12.36%) Analytics
17 168 (11.48%) High Availability
18 165 (11.27%) DevSecOps
19 158 (10.79%) Technical Leadership
20 140 (9.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 673 (45.97%) Python
2 295 (20.15%) Bash
3 241 (16.46%) PowerShell
4 240 (16.39%) SQL
5 188 (12.84%) Java
6 162 (11.07%) Go
7 130 (8.88%) Bicep
8 121 (8.27%) JavaScript
8 121 (8.27%) TypeScript
9 93 (6.35%) C#
10 26 (1.78%) Rust
11 22 (1.50%) Scala
12 21 (1.43%) C++
13 20 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.89%) C
14 13 (0.89%) Groovy
15 9 (0.61%) PHP
16 8 (0.55%) Ruby
16 8 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.48%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 259 (17.69%) Security Cleared
2 165 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 145 (9.90%) Degree
4 113 (7.72%) AWS Certification
5 87 (5.94%) DV Cleared
6 82 (5.60%) Azure Certification
7 60 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (2.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.98%) OSCP
11 27 (1.84%) CISSP
12 24 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.96%) CCNP
13 14 (0.96%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
14 13 (0.89%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.82%) CCNA
16 11 (0.75%) CCSK
17 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.71%) QA
2 60 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 59 (4.03%) GDPR
4 49 (3.35%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.46%) NIST
7 32 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.68%) WCAG
10 7 (0.48%) NCSC
11 6 (0.41%) GRC
12 5 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.27%) 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 (29.51%) Docker
2 101 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 77 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.84%) vSphere
6 18 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.23%) 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 (0.27%) Squid
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) GPFS
12 2 (0.14%) Lustre
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.068%) vCloud
13 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,024 (69.95%) Terraform
2 599 (40.92%) Kubernetes
3 341 (23.29%) Ansible
4 195 (13.32%) Grafana
4 195 (13.32%) Prometheus
5 55 (3.76%) Argo
6 34 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 34 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
7 32 (2.19%) Puppet
8 23 (1.57%) Kustomize
9 21 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 18 (1.23%) Rancher
11 17 (1.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 16 (1.09%) Nagios
13 14 (0.96%) Istio
14 12 (0.82%) Packer
15 11 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
16 9 (0.61%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.55%) logstash
17 8 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 259 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 115 (7.86%) VMware
3 101 (6.90%) Google
4 66 (4.51%) Databricks
5 62 (4.23%) Red Hat
6 52 (3.55%) Cisco
7 47 (3.21%) Splunk
8 40 (2.73%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.57%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
10 22 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.30%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.09%) Oracle
14 15 (1.02%) Fortinet
15 14 (0.96%) SAP
16 13 (0.89%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.89%) Juniper
17 11 (0.75%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.68%) CheckPoint