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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 140 158
Rank change year-on-year +34 +18 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,372 855 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 2.29% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.46% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 920 626 1,210
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £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 £96,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,750 £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 58,442 34,771 70,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 75.43% 93.07% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 36,878 20,602 53,608
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
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 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 20 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 20 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 +46 688 £85,000 -5.56% 295
North of England 0 264 £67,500 -0.74% 156
South East -6 144 £71,250 -5.00% 112
North West +2 135 £74,051 +2.14% 89
South West -11 105 £64,475 -10.44% 78
Yorkshire -22 96 £65,000 +8.33% 39
Midlands +2 83 £67,500 -3.57% 40
East Midlands -20 42 £67,750 +4.23% 9
West Midlands -25 39 £67,500 -3.57% 31
East of England -12 36 £62,500 -7.41% 34
North East -18 33 £48,445 -15.75% 28
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 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (2.48%) Apache
3 26 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.17%) Confluence
5 16 (1.17%) IIS
6 10 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 2 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.073%) Camunda
9 1 (0.073%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.073%) 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 (0.073%) Maya
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.073%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.073%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.073%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.073%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 849 (61.88%) AWS
2 752 (54.81%) Azure
3 295 (21.50%) GCP
4 280 (20.41%) GitHub
5 263 (19.17%) Serverless
6 257 (18.73%) Azure DevOps
7 228 (16.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 197 (14.36%) GitHub Actions
9 150 (10.93%) AWS Lambda
10 130 (9.48%) Amazon S3
11 109 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (7.51%) PaaS
13 101 (7.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 100 (7.29%) Entra ID
15 98 (7.14%) Datadog
15 98 (7.14%) SaaS
16 81 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
17 74 (5.39%) IaaS
18 71 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
19 67 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 172 (12.54%) Firewall
2 89 (6.49%) DNS
3 76 (5.54%) VPN
4 73 (5.32%) TCP/IP
5 46 (3.35%) WAN
6 42 (3.06%) Network Security
7 38 (2.77%) Broadband
8 34 (2.48%) DHCP
9 27 (1.97%) LAN
10 25 (1.82%) HTTP
11 23 (1.68%) BGP
12 16 (1.17%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.17%) VLAN
13 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.95%) DSL
15 12 (0.87%) Internet
16 11 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (0.58%) Wireless
18 6 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.24%) NoSQL
2 94 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (5.98%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 61 (4.45%) DynamoDB
6 48 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 41 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 41 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 33 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
10 26 (1.90%) MySQL
11 24 (1.75%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.68%) Metadata
12 23 (1.68%) Power BI
13 22 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
14 19 (1.38%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.31%) Delta Lake
15 18 (1.31%) Redis
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.95%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 202 (14.72%) Jenkins
2 188 (13.70%) GitLab
3 185 (13.48%) Git
4 36 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.48%) JIRA
6 32 (2.33%) CircleCI
7 24 (1.75%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.53%) Jaeger
8 21 (1.53%) Selenium
9 16 (1.17%) Robot Framework
10 15 (1.09%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.02%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.95%) JMeter
12 13 (0.95%) MLflow
13 12 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (0.73%) Subversion
15 9 (0.66%) Locust
15 9 (0.66%) Vite
16 8 (0.58%) Storybook
17 7 (0.51%) Snyk
General
1 373 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 291 (21.21%) Finance
3 120 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.07%) Banking
5 79 (5.76%) Public Sector
6 69 (5.03%) Retail
7 64 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 62 (4.52%) Law
9 57 (4.15%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.11%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 24 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.60%) Back Office
12 22 (1.60%) Marketing
13 21 (1.53%) Billing
13 21 (1.53%) Games
14 20 (1.46%) Advertising
15 15 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.09%) Electronics
16 14 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 303 (22.08%) Senior
2 220 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 219 (15.96%) Cloud Engineer
4 190 (13.85%) Lead
5 130 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (8.75%) Developer
7 113 (8.24%) Architect
7 113 (8.24%) Platform Engineer
8 107 (7.80%) AWS Engineer
8 107 (7.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 73 (5.32%) Software Engineer
10 69 (5.03%) Data Engineer
11 65 (4.74%) Security Engineer
12 57 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
13 54 (3.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 49 (3.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
15 48 (3.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 45 (3.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 41 (2.99%) Python Engineer
18 39 (2.84%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (9.33%) React
2 95 (6.92%) Node.js
3 92 (6.71%) .NET
4 80 (5.83%) Kafka
4 80 (5.83%) RESTful
5 76 (5.54%) REST
6 75 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
7 63 (4.59%) Spring
8 62 (4.52%) AWS CDK
9 59 (4.30%) YAML
10 55 (4.01%) Spring Boot
11 50 (3.64%) ARM Templates
12 42 (3.06%) OAuth
13 41 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
14 36 (2.62%) FastAPI
14 36 (2.62%) PySpark
15 33 (2.41%) Django
16 31 (2.26%) CSS
16 31 (2.26%) OpenTelemetry
17 30 (2.19%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 320 (23.32%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 74 (5.39%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (4.15%) Security Posture
5 56 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 47 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 45 (3.28%) Data Centre
8 37 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 31 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.68%) Management Information System
11 23 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.53%) Blockchain
13 19 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.38%) Web3
14 18 (1.31%) Cloud Security Posture
14 18 (1.31%) Hedge funds
14 18 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
14 18 (1.31%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 298 (21.72%) Linux
2 156 (11.37%) Windows
3 64 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.37%) Unix
5 34 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 29 (2.11%) VMS
7 24 (1.75%) CentOS
7 24 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.95%) Android
9 12 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.58%) Debian
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.29%) SUSE
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.073%) Rocky
14 1 (0.073%) Solaris
14 1 (0.073%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 920 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 831 (60.57%) DevOps
3 398 (29.01%) Containerisation
4 374 (27.26%) Agile
5 342 (24.93%) Observability
6 296 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 257 (18.73%) Mentoring
8 248 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
9 228 (16.62%) Platform Engineering
10 218 (15.89%) Test Automation
11 215 (15.67%) AI
12 204 (14.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 201 (14.65%) Microservices
13 201 (14.65%) Software Engineering
14 190 (13.85%) Cloud Security
15 166 (12.10%) Analytics
16 154 (11.22%) DevSecOps
16 154 (11.22%) High Availability
17 141 (10.28%) Incident Response
17 141 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 631 (45.99%) Python
2 276 (20.12%) Bash
3 226 (16.47%) PowerShell
3 226 (16.47%) SQL
4 187 (13.63%) Java
5 155 (11.30%) Go
6 127 (9.26%) Bicep
7 126 (9.18%) JavaScript
8 116 (8.45%) TypeScript
9 77 (5.61%) C#
10 22 (1.60%) C++
10 22 (1.60%) Rust
11 20 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 18 (1.31%) Scala
13 13 (0.95%) C
14 11 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.66%) Ruby
16 8 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 240 (17.49%) Security Cleared
2 147 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 130 (9.48%) Degree
4 115 (8.38%) AWS Certification
5 90 (6.56%) DV Cleared
6 76 (5.54%) Azure Certification
7 56 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.33%) OSCP
9 29 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.04%) CISSP
11 21 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.17%) AWS Certified Developer
13 12 (0.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 12 (0.87%) CCNP
13 12 (0.87%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 11 (0.80%) CCNA
14 11 (0.80%) CCSK
15 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.81%) QA
2 59 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 57 (4.15%) GDPR
4 56 (4.08%) SOC 2
5 52 (3.79%) Data Quality
6 42 (3.06%) NIST
7 41 (2.99%) PCI DSS
8 27 (1.97%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.87%) WCAG
10 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.66%) GRC
12 8 (0.58%) SLA
13 6 (0.44%) NCSC
14 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.29%) EU AI Act
16 2 (0.15%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.15%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.15%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 428 (31.20%) Docker
2 95 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 70 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.75%) vSphere
6 19 (1.38%) Hyper-V
7 17 (1.24%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.66%) Firmware
9 6 (0.44%) iptables
9 6 (0.44%) KVM
10 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) Squid
11 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.15%) GPFS
12 2 (0.15%) Lustre
12 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.073%) vCloud
13 1 (0.073%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 970 (70.70%) Terraform
2 566 (41.25%) Kubernetes
3 327 (23.83%) Ansible
4 191 (13.92%) Grafana
5 186 (13.56%) Prometheus
6 53 (3.86%) Argo
7 35 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
8 30 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (1.97%) Puppet
10 21 (1.53%) Kustomize
11 17 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 17 (1.24%) Rancher
12 14 (1.02%) Nagios
12 14 (1.02%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.87%) Istio
14 11 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
15 10 (0.73%) Packer
16 9 (0.66%) Cilium
17 8 (0.58%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 239 (17.42%) Microsoft
2 106 (7.73%) VMware
3 104 (7.58%) Google
4 59 (4.30%) Red Hat
5 56 (4.08%) Databricks
6 49 (3.57%) Cisco
7 46 (3.35%) Splunk
8 38 (2.77%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.68%) Zscaler
10 19 (1.38%) CrowdStrike
10 19 (1.38%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.31%) Salesforce
12 17 (1.24%) Dynatrace
13 16 (1.17%) Oracle
14 15 (1.09%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.02%) Juniper
16 13 (0.95%) Fortinet
17 12 (0.87%) SolarWinds
18 10 (0.73%) New Relic
18 10 (0.73%) SAP