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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 124 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 -25 -4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 933 1,146 1,420
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.79% 2.32% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.57% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 699 717 1,158
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 42,739 44,524 41,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.01% 90.25% 91.28%
Number of salaries quoted 25,502 22,147 32,376
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,295
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +2 435 £81,500 -9.44% 311
North of England -7 190 £70,000 +15.77% 98
South East -1 107 £75,000 +15.38% 162
Yorkshire -11 89 £70,000 +27.27% 30
North West +3 76 £70,000 +3.70% 50
South West -24 66 £62,500 -10.71% 66
Midlands +12 61 £67,250 +1.89% 29
West Midlands +7 39 £65,500 -1.87% 19
East of England +30 27 £67,500 -6.90% 23
North East -2 25 £67,539 +35.08% 19
East Midlands -7 20 £67,500 +3.85% 10
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 45 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.54%) Apache
3 18 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.93%) Confluence
4 17 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.86%) IIS
5 8 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.64%) Appian
7 4 (0.43%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 584 (62.59%) AWS
2 567 (60.77%) Azure
3 220 (23.58%) GitHub
4 217 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
5 204 (21.86%) GCP
6 157 (16.83%) Serverless
7 147 (15.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
9 106 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (10.40%) Amazon S3
11 94 (10.08%) SaaS
12 75 (8.04%) PaaS
13 71 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
16 52 (5.57%) Amazon EKS
17 50 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
17 50 (5.36%) Entra ID
18 48 (5.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (11.36%) Firewall
2 69 (7.40%) DNS
3 62 (6.65%) VPN
4 51 (5.47%) WAN
5 48 (5.14%) TCP/IP
6 32 (3.43%) LAN
6 32 (3.43%) Network Security
7 28 (3.00%) DHCP
8 26 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (1.50%) BGP
9 14 (1.50%) Internet
9 14 (1.50%) SD-WAN
10 12 (1.29%) VLAN
11 11 (1.18%) VoIP
12 10 (1.07%) Broadband
12 10 (1.07%) Wireless
13 9 (0.96%) SAN
14 7 (0.75%) OSPF
14 7 (0.75%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (6.43%) NoSQL
3 52 (5.57%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 41 (4.39%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 28 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 25 (2.68%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.36%) MySQL
10 21 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (1.93%) Redis
12 17 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.71%) Relational Database
14 15 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (1.50%) Power BI
16 12 (1.29%) Big Data
17 10 (1.07%) Delta Lake
18 9 (0.96%) Pinecone
19 8 (0.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 159 (17.04%) Jenkins
2 140 (15.01%) Git
3 108 (11.58%) GitLab
4 33 (3.54%) JIRA
5 27 (2.89%) Selenium
6 25 (2.68%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.25%) Snyk
8 17 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.82%) MLflow
9 14 (1.50%) CircleCI
9 14 (1.50%) TeamCity
10 11 (1.18%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.07%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.96%) Jaeger
13 7 (0.75%) Cucumber
13 7 (0.75%) JMeter
14 6 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.54%) git-flow
15 5 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 273 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 203 (21.76%) Finance
3 85 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (6.22%) Banking
5 55 (5.89%) Law
6 46 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 36 (3.86%) Retail
9 30 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.89%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.57%) Games
12 19 (2.04%) Legal
12 19 (2.04%) Marketing
13 18 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.82%) Billing
15 14 (1.50%) Advertising
15 14 (1.50%) Back Office
16 13 (1.39%) Electronics
17 11 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
18 10 (1.07%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 183 (19.61%) Senior
2 152 (16.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 138 (14.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 106 (11.36%) Lead
5 99 (10.61%) Developer
6 91 (9.75%) Architect
6 91 (9.75%) Platform Engineer
7 78 (8.36%) Azure Engineer
8 59 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 56 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 37 (3.97%) Software Engineer
11 34 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
11 34 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
12 32 (3.43%) Security Engineer
12 32 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.11%) Support Engineer
14 25 (2.68%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 25 (2.68%) GCP Engineer
15 23 (2.47%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (9.97%) React
2 78 (8.36%) .NET
3 52 (5.57%) Node.js
4 50 (5.36%) RESTful
5 45 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (4.72%) Kafka
7 42 (4.50%) ARM Templates
8 38 (4.07%) YAML
9 34 (3.64%) AWS CDK
10 31 (3.32%) Spring
11 30 (3.22%) .NET Core
11 30 (3.22%) Django
12 29 (3.11%) REST
13 28 (3.00%) FastAPI
13 28 (3.00%) Spring Boot
14 26 (2.79%) CSS
15 25 (2.68%) HTML
16 18 (1.93%) Flask
16 18 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 230 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.79%) Data Centre
4 49 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 32 (3.43%) Security Posture
6 29 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.79%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.47%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.04%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.07%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 9 (0.96%) Hedge funds
17 9 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 209 (22.40%) Linux
2 108 (11.58%) Windows
3 46 (4.93%) Unix
4 38 (4.07%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.14%) VMS
7 14 (1.50%) Debian
8 7 (0.75%) CentOS
9 5 (0.54%) Android
9 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.32%) Solaris
11 3 (0.32%) SUSE
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (67.74%) CI/CD
2 616 (66.02%) DevOps
3 280 (30.01%) Agile
4 260 (27.87%) Containerisation
5 184 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 182 (19.51%) Observability
7 148 (15.86%) Mentoring
8 142 (15.22%) Platform Engineering
9 137 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 132 (14.15%) AI
11 131 (14.04%) Cloud Security
12 122 (13.08%) Software Engineering
13 109 (11.68%) Analytics
14 108 (11.58%) Microservices
14 108 (11.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 107 (11.47%) DevSecOps
16 99 (10.61%) Incident Response
16 99 (10.61%) Test Automation
17 92 (9.86%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 405 (43.41%) Python
2 170 (18.22%) Bash
3 160 (17.15%) PowerShell
4 147 (15.76%) SQL
5 114 (12.22%) Bicep
6 89 (9.54%) Java
7 79 (8.47%) JavaScript
8 76 (8.15%) TypeScript
9 69 (7.40%) Go
10 63 (6.75%) C#
11 12 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.07%) C++
13 10 (1.07%) Scala
14 8 (0.86%) C
15 5 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.43%) Ruby
16 4 (0.43%) Rust
16 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 78 (8.36%) Degree
5 77 (8.25%) DV Cleared
6 70 (7.50%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (2.68%) CISSP
10 24 (2.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (2.04%) CCNP
12 19 (2.04%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.39%) OSCP
14 7 (0.75%) CISM
14 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.75%) PMP
15 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.82%) GDPR
3 35 (3.75%) NIST
4 31 (3.32%) QA
5 28 (3.00%) SOC 2
6 27 (2.89%) Data Quality
7 20 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.07%) SLA
12 6 (0.64%) GRC
13 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.54%) NCSC
13 5 (0.54%) WCAG
14 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 325 (34.83%) Docker
2 60 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 60 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.36%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.71%) vSphere
5 11 (1.18%) Firmware
5 11 (1.18%) NFS
6 8 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.54%) KVM
9 5 (0.54%) vCloud
10 4 (0.43%) XenApp
10 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.21%) GPFS
11 2 (0.21%) Lustre
11 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 676 (72.45%) Terraform
2 378 (40.51%) Kubernetes
3 264 (28.30%) Ansible
4 123 (13.18%) Prometheus
5 117 (12.54%) Grafana
6 26 (2.79%) Argo
6 26 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.04%) SCCM
8 13 (1.39%) Rancher
9 12 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.18%) Puppet
11 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.96%) SCOM
13 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.54%) MaaS360
16 4 (0.43%) Istio
16 4 (0.43%) linkerd
16 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 184 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.75%) VMware
3 75 (8.04%) Google
4 48 (5.14%) Cisco
5 39 (4.18%) Databricks
6 36 (3.86%) Splunk
7 33 (3.54%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.79%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.25%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.14%) Coverity
11 16 (1.71%) Zscaler
12 15 (1.61%) Oracle
13 13 (1.39%) SAP
14 12 (1.29%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.18%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.18%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.07%) Commvault
16 10 (1.07%) Juniper
16 10 (1.07%) New Relic