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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 154 165
Rank change year-on-year +64 +11 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,646 871 1,503
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.99% 2.24% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.40% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,129 583 1,190
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £48,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £96,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 60,861 36,283 74,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.62% 93.20% 83.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,095 19,492 54,995
10th Percentile £30,250 £29,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,491 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +34 810 £87,500 -2.78% 373
North of England +59 321 £67,500 -3.57% 153
South East +45 194 £70,000 -6.67% 156
North West +66 186 £74,651 +2.97% 89
South West +6 114 £72,500 +1.75% 79
Midlands +20 109 £70,079 +7.81% 43
Yorkshire -5 93 £65,576 -3.57% 33
West Midlands 0 63 £77,500 +10.71% 30
East Midlands +7 46 £67,500 +3.85% 13
East of England -2 46 £60,100 -7.54% 32
North East -3 42 £55,000 -15.38% 31
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 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (2.13%) Apache
3 33 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (1.22%) Confluence
6 13 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.73%) IIS
8 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) CMS
10 4 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.79%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.24%) Weka
3 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.061%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.061%) Maya
Business Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.061%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 964 (58.57%) AWS
2 888 (53.95%) Azure
3 307 (18.65%) Serverless
4 305 (18.53%) GitHub
5 292 (17.74%) GCP
6 277 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
7 258 (15.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 199 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
9 171 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
10 164 (9.96%) Amazon S3
11 130 (7.90%) PaaS
12 112 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 112 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
12 112 (6.80%) Entra ID
13 109 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
14 105 (6.38%) SaaS
15 101 (6.14%) IaaS
16 96 (5.83%) Azure AKS
17 88 (5.35%) Datadog
18 86 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 167 (10.15%) Firewall
2 94 (5.71%) DNS
3 79 (4.80%) VPN
4 64 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 63 (3.83%) Broadband
6 51 (3.10%) Network Security
7 46 (2.79%) WAN
8 36 (2.19%) BGP
9 33 (2.00%) DHCP
10 26 (1.58%) LAN
11 24 (1.46%) VLAN
12 23 (1.40%) HTTP
13 18 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
14 17 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (1.03%) OSPF
14 17 (1.03%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.79%) DSL
15 13 (0.79%) VXLAN
16 10 (0.61%) IPv4
17 9 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.72%) NoSQL
2 115 (6.99%) PostgreSQL
3 83 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
4 74 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 68 (4.13%) DynamoDB
6 62 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 51 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 50 (3.04%) Data Lake
9 42 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (2.25%) Metadata
11 30 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.40%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.34%) MySQL
14 21 (1.28%) Power BI
15 20 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 19 (1.15%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.09%) Delta Lake
18 17 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (1.03%) Big Data
19 16 (0.97%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 242 (14.70%) GitLab
2 218 (13.24%) Jenkins
3 208 (12.64%) Git
4 35 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.07%) CircleCI
5 34 (2.07%) Cucumber
6 32 (1.94%) JIRA
7 20 (1.22%) Jaeger
8 18 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 13 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 13 (0.79%) SonarQube
10 11 (0.67%) Selenium
11 9 (0.55%) Maven
11 9 (0.55%) MLflow
12 8 (0.49%) JMeter
12 8 (0.49%) Subversion
13 7 (0.43%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
13 7 (0.43%) Storybook
13 7 (0.43%) Vite
General
1 400 (24.30%) Social Skills
2 315 (19.14%) Finance
3 125 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (6.50%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.08%) Banking
6 60 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 60 (3.65%) Retail
7 49 (2.98%) Law
8 45 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.07%) Games
10 29 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.46%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.09%) Advertising
13 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.97%) Billing
14 16 (0.97%) Marketing
15 15 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
16 14 (0.85%) Legal
17 12 (0.73%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 372 (22.60%) Senior
2 275 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 255 (15.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 224 (13.61%) Lead
5 173 (10.51%) Azure Engineer
6 167 (10.15%) Platform Engineer
7 145 (8.81%) Architect
8 139 (8.44%) Developer
9 122 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
10 109 (6.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 92 (5.59%) Software Engineer
12 90 (5.47%) Data Engineer
13 81 (4.92%) Security Engineer
14 78 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 74 (4.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 65 (3.95%) Principal Engineer
17 61 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
18 57 (3.46%) Senior Platform Engineer
19 51 (3.10%) Senior Developer
19 51 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (8.02%) React
2 118 (7.17%) Kafka
3 114 (6.93%) .NET
4 107 (6.50%) Node.js
5 103 (6.26%) REST
6 88 (5.35%) RESTful
7 79 (4.80%) Spring
8 77 (4.68%) YAML
9 71 (4.31%) Spring Boot
10 67 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
11 63 (3.83%) AWS CDK
12 58 (3.52%) ARM Templates
13 56 (3.40%) PySpark
14 51 (3.10%) OAuth
15 43 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
16 39 (2.37%) ASP.NET
17 37 (2.25%) ASP.NET Core
17 37 (2.25%) JSON
18 35 (2.13%) Next.js
19 31 (1.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 415 (25.21%) Cloud Native
2 139 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (5.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 75 (4.56%) Public Cloud
5 60 (3.65%) Data Centre
6 50 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (3.04%) Security Posture
7 49 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 39 (2.37%) Video\Live Streaming
9 38 (2.31%) Onboarding
10 26 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.52%) Low-Code
11 25 (1.52%) PKI
12 24 (1.46%) Blockchain
12 24 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
13 22 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
13 22 (1.34%) Web3
14 21 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
14 21 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (1.22%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 318 (19.32%) Linux
2 158 (9.60%) Windows
3 82 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.73%) Ubuntu
4 45 (2.73%) Unix
5 35 (2.13%) CentOS
6 27 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (1.52%) VMS
8 11 (0.67%) Android
9 10 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.43%) Debian
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.061%) Rocky
14 1 (0.061%) SUSE
14 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (69.56%) CI/CD
2 945 (57.41%) DevOps
3 444 (26.97%) Containerisation
4 442 (26.85%) Agile
5 412 (25.03%) Observability
6 348 (21.14%) Platform Engineering
7 334 (20.29%) Mentoring
8 330 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 315 (19.14%) AI
10 289 (17.56%) Test Automation
11 264 (16.04%) Microservices
12 253 (15.37%) Software Engineering
13 241 (14.64%) Problem-Solving
14 219 (13.30%) Cloud Security
15 208 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 207 (12.58%) Technical Leadership
17 191 (11.60%) Analytics
18 172 (10.45%) High Availability
19 170 (10.33%) DevSecOps
20 163 (9.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 744 (45.20%) Python
2 306 (18.59%) Bash
3 274 (16.65%) PowerShell
4 269 (16.34%) SQL
5 213 (12.94%) Java
6 171 (10.39%) Go
7 148 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 141 (8.57%) JavaScript
9 140 (8.51%) Bicep
10 116 (7.05%) C#
11 30 (1.82%) Rust
12 21 (1.28%) C++
12 21 (1.28%) Scala
13 18 (1.09%) PHP
14 17 (1.03%) Groovy
15 15 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
16 12 (0.73%) C
17 9 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 8 (0.49%) Ruby
19 7 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 314 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 209 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 146 (8.87%) Degree
4 126 (7.65%) AWS Certification
5 93 (5.65%) Azure Certification
5 93 (5.65%) DV Cleared
6 58 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 28 (1.70%) OSCP
11 20 (1.22%) CISSP
12 17 (1.03%) CCNP
13 15 (0.91%) CCNA
13 15 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.73%) RHCSA
16 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.55%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.68%) QA
2 65 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.34%) GDPR
4 46 (2.79%) SOC 2
5 45 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.07%) NIST
7 30 (1.82%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.67%) WCAG
10 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.49%) GRC
11 6 (0.36%) SLA
12 5 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS
15 2 (0.12%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.12%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.061%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 444 (26.97%) Docker
2 108 (6.56%) Active Directory
3 92 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 37 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 35 (2.13%) vSphere
6 22 (1.34%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.09%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.49%) Squid
9 7 (0.43%) iptables
9 7 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.24%) Firmware
12 4 (0.24%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1,150 (69.87%) Terraform
2 642 (39.00%) Kubernetes
3 355 (21.57%) Ansible
4 199 (12.09%) Grafana
5 193 (11.73%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.71%) Argo
7 37 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
7 37 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (2.13%) Puppet
9 25 (1.52%) Progress Chef
10 24 (1.46%) Kustomize
11 19 (1.15%) Packer
12 18 (1.09%) Nagios
13 17 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (1.03%) Istio
14 13 (0.79%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.79%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.73%) Rancher
16 10 (0.61%) Cilium
16 10 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 307 (18.65%) Microsoft
2 126 (7.65%) VMware
3 96 (5.83%) Google
4 72 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 70 (4.25%) Databricks
6 54 (3.28%) Cisco
7 52 (3.16%) Splunk
8 44 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 29 (1.76%) Oracle
10 24 (1.46%) Zscaler
11 23 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 19 (1.15%) Dynatrace
12 19 (1.15%) Salesforce
13 16 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
14 12 (0.73%) CheckPoint
14 12 (0.73%) F5
15 11 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 11 (0.67%) ServiceNow
16 10 (0.61%) SolarWinds