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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 156 121
Rank change year-on-year +80 -35 -35
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,200 900 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.12% 2.08% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.33% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,457 658 868
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,063 £43,295
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £106,625 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 76,540 38,554 54,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.61% 89.02% 82.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53,822 21,790 29,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,750 £36,250 £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,785 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +30 957 £90,000 +5.88% 1,611
North of England +101 489 £69,305 -0.99% 419
North West +99 266 £70,950 +13.52% 253
South West +53 250 £75,000 +7.14% 222
South East +54 249 £67,500 -16.92% 314
Midlands +39 152 £75,000 +15.38% 156
North East +23 128 £60,000 -17.24% 66
Yorkshire +3 104 £67,750 -3.21% 103
West Midlands +5 97 £80,000 +24.03% 94
East of England -12 59 £75,000 +15.38% 113
East Midlands +6 55 £65,000 - 62
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 61 (2.77%) Apache
2 58 (2.64%) Apache Spark
3 47 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.14%) Confluence
6 17 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 13 (0.59%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.45%) CMS
8 10 (0.45%) nginx
9 8 (0.36%) IIS
9 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.23%) Camunda
10 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.045%) Documentum
13 1 (0.045%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.045%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (0.95%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.091%) Lightworks
5 1 (0.045%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.045%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.045%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.045%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.045%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.045%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,236 (56.18%) AWS
2 1,164 (52.91%) Azure
3 440 (20.00%) GCP
4 399 (18.14%) GitHub
5 356 (16.18%) Serverless
6 344 (15.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (13.23%) Azure DevOps
8 213 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
9 178 (8.09%) Amazon S3
10 175 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (7.64%) PaaS
12 136 (6.18%) Azure AKS
13 132 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
14 131 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
15 129 (5.86%) SaaS
16 127 (5.77%) Entra ID
17 123 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 122 (5.55%) Amazon ECS
19 120 (5.45%) IaaS
20 105 (4.77%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 166 (7.55%) Firewall
2 139 (6.32%) VPN
3 131 (5.95%) DNS
4 105 (4.77%) Network Security
5 56 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 54 (2.45%) WAN
7 53 (2.41%) BGP
8 49 (2.23%) DHCP
9 39 (1.77%) Broadband
10 37 (1.68%) Internet
11 36 (1.64%) OSPF
12 31 (1.41%) VLAN
13 28 (1.27%) LAN
14 27 (1.23%) VXLAN
15 25 (1.14%) Software-Defined Networking
16 21 (0.95%) SD-WAN
17 17 (0.77%) SAN
18 15 (0.68%) Wireless
19 14 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
20 12 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
2 149 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 98 (4.45%) Amazon RDS
4 92 (4.18%) MongoDB
5 83 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 73 (3.32%) DynamoDB
7 66 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.50%) Data Lake
9 53 (2.41%) MySQL
10 50 (2.27%) Metadata
11 43 (1.95%) Redis
11 43 (1.95%) Relational Database
12 33 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
13 30 (1.36%) Big Data
14 29 (1.32%) Delta Lake
14 29 (1.32%) Power BI
15 28 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
16 27 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
17 23 (1.05%) Data Vault
18 20 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 320 (14.55%) Git
2 291 (13.23%) GitLab
3 239 (10.86%) Jenkins
4 49 (2.23%) Cucumber
4 49 (2.23%) JIRA
5 34 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 30 (1.36%) TeamCity
7 24 (1.09%) Claude Code
8 21 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 17 (0.77%) Selenium
10 12 (0.55%) Snyk
10 12 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 11 (0.50%) Subversion
12 10 (0.45%) Maven
13 9 (0.41%) CircleCI
13 9 (0.41%) MLflow
13 9 (0.41%) MSI
13 9 (0.41%) NUnit
13 9 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 576 (26.18%) Social Skills
2 458 (20.82%) Finance
3 237 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 201 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
5 134 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.18%) Banking
7 80 (3.64%) Law
8 57 (2.59%) Aerospace
9 56 (2.55%) Retail
10 33 (1.50%) Marketing
11 32 (1.45%) Games
12 31 (1.41%) Legal
13 25 (1.14%) Financial Institution
14 23 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 21 (0.95%) Telecoms
16 17 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
18 14 (0.64%) Aviation
18 14 (0.64%) Military
19 13 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 535 (24.32%) Senior
2 424 (19.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 279 (12.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 278 (12.64%) Lead
5 264 (12.00%) Architect
6 235 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
7 190 (8.64%) Azure Engineer
8 178 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 172 (7.82%) Developer
10 151 (6.86%) Software Engineer
11 132 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
12 124 (5.64%) Principal Engineer
13 110 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 104 (4.73%) Data Engineer
15 90 (4.09%) Security Engineer
16 83 (3.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 75 (3.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
18 73 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
19 72 (3.27%) Senior Developer
20 70 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,487 (67.59%) Terraform
2 179 (8.14%) React
3 177 (8.05%) .NET
4 168 (7.64%) Kafka
5 137 (6.23%) Spring
6 133 (6.05%) REST
6 133 (6.05%) Spring Boot
7 128 (5.82%) Node.js
7 128 (5.82%) RESTful
8 66 (3.00%) PySpark
9 62 (2.82%) ARM Templates
10 61 (2.77%) AWS CDK
11 56 (2.55%) AngularJS
12 52 (2.36%) YAML
13 50 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
14 47 (2.14%) Next.js
15 44 (2.00%) FastAPI
15 44 (2.00%) LangChain
16 41 (1.86%) OAuth
17 38 (1.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 676 (30.73%) Cloud Native
2 240 (10.91%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 127 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 123 (5.59%) Public Cloud
6 91 (4.14%) Data Centre
7 71 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
8 66 (3.00%) Security Posture
9 58 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 55 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 50 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 50 (2.27%) Product Ownership
12 48 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
13 47 (2.14%) AI Agents
14 46 (2.09%) e-Learning
15 43 (1.95%) Management Information System
16 40 (1.82%) Private Cloud
17 39 (1.77%) PKI
18 35 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
18 35 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 414 (18.82%) Linux
2 219 (9.95%) Windows
3 95 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.64%) CentOS
5 49 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (1.64%) Unix
7 34 (1.55%) Ubuntu
8 21 (0.95%) VMS
9 8 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.32%) Debian
11 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.14%) Rocky
13 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.091%) Solaris
14 1 (0.045%) Android
14 1 (0.045%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.045%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.045%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.045%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,587 (72.14%) CI/CD
2 1,225 (55.68%) DevOps
3 644 (29.27%) Agile
4 611 (27.77%) Containerisation
5 581 (26.41%) Platform Engineering
6 572 (26.00%) Observability
7 518 (23.55%) AI
8 490 (22.27%) Mentoring
9 486 (22.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 437 (19.86%) Software Engineering
11 401 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
12 395 (17.95%) Microservices
13 394 (17.91%) Cloud Security
14 372 (16.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 371 (16.86%) Test Automation
16 359 (16.32%) Technical Leadership
17 278 (12.64%) Roadmaps
18 276 (12.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 251 (11.41%) DevSecOps
20 250 (11.36%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 960 (43.64%) Python
2 363 (16.50%) Bash
3 350 (15.91%) SQL
4 329 (14.95%) Java
5 324 (14.73%) PowerShell
6 223 (10.14%) Bicep
7 195 (8.86%) TypeScript
8 185 (8.41%) C#
9 153 (6.95%) Go
10 150 (6.82%) JavaScript
11 48 (2.18%) Shell Script
12 40 (1.82%) Scala
13 34 (1.55%) PHP
14 31 (1.41%) Groovy
15 30 (1.36%) Rust
16 26 (1.18%) Ruby
17 23 (1.05%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.73%) Perl
19 15 (0.68%) C++
20 12 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 600 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 390 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 210 (9.55%) DV Cleared
4 200 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 165 (7.50%) Degree
6 154 (7.00%) Azure Certification
7 85 (3.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 83 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 57 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
10 56 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 30 (1.36%) CCNP
12 30 (1.36%) CISSP
13 27 (1.23%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
15 20 (0.91%) CCNA
16 17 (0.77%) SnowPro
17 12 (0.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 12 (0.55%) OSCP
18 10 (0.45%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.23%) Data Quality
2 82 (3.73%) QA
3 65 (2.95%) GDPR
4 60 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (1.82%) NIST
6 32 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.18%) SOC 2
9 24 (1.09%) NCSC
10 23 (1.05%) SLA
11 15 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.55%) GRC
13 11 (0.50%) WCAG
14 6 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 2 (0.091%) IFRS
17 2 (0.091%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.091%) RMADS
17 2 (0.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 599 (27.23%) Docker
2 133 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 127 (5.77%) Active Directory
4 49 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 46 (2.09%) vSphere
6 29 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (1.05%) VMware NSX
8 18 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.41%) KVM
10 8 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
11 7 (0.32%) Squid
12 5 (0.23%) Firmware
13 4 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.091%) Lustre
14 2 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.045%) iptables
Systems Management
1 816 (37.09%) Kubernetes
2 476 (21.64%) Ansible
3 209 (9.50%) Grafana
4 144 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 75 (3.41%) Puppet
6 72 (3.27%) Argo
7 49 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.55%) Istio
9 34 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.18%) vCenter Server
11 24 (1.09%) FortiGate
11 24 (1.09%) Packer
11 24 (1.09%) Rancher
12 15 (0.68%) Cilium
13 14 (0.64%) Kustomize
14 13 (0.59%) Nagios
14 13 (0.59%) Podman
15 12 (0.55%) linkerd
16 11 (0.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 514 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 164 (7.45%) VMware
3 163 (7.41%) Google
4 100 (4.55%) Databricks
5 72 (3.27%) Red Hat
6 67 (3.05%) Cisco
7 64 (2.91%) Splunk
8 57 (2.59%) Oracle
9 47 (2.14%) Dynatrace
10 37 (1.68%) Fortinet
10 37 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 35 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 33 (1.50%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.14%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.68%) F5
15 14 (0.64%) SAP
15 14 (0.64%) SolarWinds
16 13 (0.59%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.59%) Mistral
16 13 (0.59%) New Relic