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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 158 123
Rank change year-on-year +78 -35 -30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,082 927 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.08% 2.14% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.41% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 663 929
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £44,948
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,250 £108,750 £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 73,237 38,492 56,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.14% 88.72% 81.33%
Number of salaries quoted 52,109 22,148 32,740
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,863
25th Percentile £42,215 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 +30 911 £90,000 +2.86% 1,150
North of England +88 454 £70,400 +0.57% 283
North West +88 253 £72,500 +11.54% 155
South East +63 245 £67,500 -18.18% 226
South West +43 229 £75,000 - 148
Midlands +22 145 £75,000 +15.38% 102
Yorkshire -3 101 £75,000 +7.14% 82
North East +21 100 £59,000 -18.62% 47
West Midlands +8 88 £85,000 +31.78% 66
East Midlands +5 57 £67,500 +3.85% 36
East of England -10 54 £62,500 -3.85% 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 49 (2.35%) Apache
1 49 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 47 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.30%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.48%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
8 7 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.29%) CMS
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Camunda
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
13 1 (0.048%) Documentum
13 1 (0.048%) JBoss
13 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.048%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) PlantUML
2 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.096%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.096%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.048%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.048%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.048%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,191 (57.20%) AWS
2 1,091 (52.40%) Azure
3 393 (18.88%) GCP
4 360 (17.29%) GitHub
5 340 (16.33%) Serverless
6 324 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 280 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
8 197 (9.46%) GitHub Actions
9 181 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
10 178 (8.55%) Amazon S3
11 150 (7.20%) PaaS
12 133 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
14 129 (6.20%) Azure AKS
15 122 (5.86%) Amazon ECS
16 120 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 112 (5.38%) SaaS
18 110 (5.28%) IaaS
19 108 (5.19%) Entra ID
20 95 (4.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 159 (7.64%) Firewall
2 118 (5.67%) DNS
3 116 (5.57%) VPN
4 99 (4.76%) Network Security
5 59 (2.83%) WAN
6 56 (2.69%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.55%) BGP
8 47 (2.26%) DHCP
9 45 (2.16%) Broadband
10 38 (1.83%) LAN
10 38 (1.83%) OSPF
11 32 (1.54%) VLAN
12 27 (1.30%) SD-WAN
12 27 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
12 27 (1.30%) VXLAN
13 18 (0.86%) Wireless
14 15 (0.72%) HTTP
15 14 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
15 14 (0.67%) SAN
16 10 (0.48%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (6.77%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 93 (4.47%) MongoDB
4 77 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 76 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 58 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 52 (2.50%) Data Lake
8 50 (2.40%) MySQL
9 49 (2.35%) Metadata
10 43 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 39 (1.87%) Redis
12 38 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
13 29 (1.39%) Big Data
13 29 (1.39%) Delta Lake
14 27 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
16 22 (1.06%) BigQuery
16 22 (1.06%) Data Vault
17 20 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 285 (13.69%) Git
2 260 (12.49%) GitLab
3 230 (11.05%) Jenkins
4 55 (2.64%) JIRA
5 48 (2.31%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 25 (1.20%) TeamCity
8 23 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 22 (1.06%) Selenium
10 19 (0.91%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 13 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
13 12 (0.58%) Maven
13 12 (0.58%) NUnit
14 10 (0.48%) Snyk
14 10 (0.48%) Subversion
15 9 (0.43%) MLflow
15 9 (0.43%) MSI
16 8 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 539 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 434 (20.85%) Finance
3 187 (8.98%) Public Sector
4 153 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 114 (5.48%) Banking
7 79 (3.79%) Law
8 60 (2.88%) Retail
9 56 (2.69%) Aerospace
10 43 (2.07%) Games
11 34 (1.63%) Marketing
12 30 (1.44%) Legal
12 30 (1.44%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.15%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.91%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.72%) Aviation
17 14 (0.67%) Advertising
17 14 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
17 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 499 (23.97%) Senior
2 363 (17.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 276 (13.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 276 (13.26%) Lead
4 237 (11.38%) Architect
5 224 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
6 187 (8.98%) Azure Engineer
7 172 (8.26%) Developer
8 146 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 138 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 132 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
11 113 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
12 109 (5.24%) Data Engineer
13 104 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 85 (4.08%) Security Engineer
15 83 (3.99%) Senior Platform Engineer
16 70 (3.36%) Azure Platform Engineer
17 69 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 69 (3.31%) Senior Developer
18 68 (3.27%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,444 (69.36%) Terraform
2 165 (7.93%) .NET
2 165 (7.93%) Kafka
3 164 (7.88%) React
4 136 (6.53%) REST
5 128 (6.15%) Spring
6 127 (6.10%) RESTful
7 124 (5.96%) Node.js
8 121 (5.81%) Spring Boot
9 68 (3.27%) PySpark
10 65 (3.12%) ARM Templates
11 60 (2.88%) YAML
12 59 (2.83%) AWS CDK
13 51 (2.45%) AngularJS
13 51 (2.45%) Elastic Stack
14 42 (2.02%) OAuth
15 41 (1.97%) ASP.NET
15 41 (1.97%) Next.js
15 41 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
16 40 (1.92%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 634 (30.45%) Cloud Native
2 229 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (5.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 121 (5.81%) Onboarding
5 112 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 93 (4.47%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 55 (2.64%) Enterprise Cloud
10 54 (2.59%) Security Posture
11 49 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (2.16%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
14 38 (1.83%) e-Learning
14 38 (1.83%) Private Cloud
15 37 (1.78%) PKI
16 35 (1.68%) Low-Code
17 34 (1.63%) AI Agents
18 33 (1.59%) Virtual Team
19 31 (1.49%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 357 (17.15%) Linux
2 198 (9.51%) Windows
3 92 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 57 (2.74%) CentOS
5 44 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.78%) Ubuntu
7 23 (1.10%) Unix
8 22 (1.06%) VMS
9 6 (0.29%) Debian
10 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.14%) Android
12 3 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.096%) Solaris
14 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.048%) Rocky
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,480 (71.09%) CI/CD
2 1,125 (54.03%) DevOps
3 582 (27.95%) Agile
4 568 (27.28%) Containerisation
5 551 (26.46%) Observability
6 517 (24.83%) Platform Engineering
7 484 (23.25%) AI
8 449 (21.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 435 (20.89%) Mentoring
10 417 (20.03%) Software Engineering
11 370 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
12 361 (17.34%) Microservices
13 355 (17.05%) Test Automation
14 336 (16.14%) Cloud Security
15 329 (15.80%) Technical Leadership
16 297 (14.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 255 (12.25%) Roadmaps
18 235 (11.29%) Event-Driven
19 231 (11.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 224 (10.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 935 (44.91%) Python
2 348 (16.71%) SQL
3 346 (16.62%) Bash
4 315 (15.13%) PowerShell
5 307 (14.75%) Java
6 207 (9.94%) Bicep
7 186 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 175 (8.41%) C#
9 153 (7.35%) JavaScript
10 150 (7.20%) Go
11 41 (1.97%) Scala
12 34 (1.63%) PHP
13 30 (1.44%) Groovy
14 28 (1.34%) Rust
15 26 (1.25%) Ruby
16 23 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (1.01%) Perl
18 18 (0.86%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.77%) C++
20 12 (0.58%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 534 (25.65%) Security Cleared
2 341 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.98%) DV Cleared
4 183 (8.79%) AWS Certification
5 170 (8.17%) Degree
6 142 (6.82%) Azure Certification
7 83 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 61 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 35 (1.68%) CCNP
12 33 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.34%) Master's Degree
14 23 (1.10%) CISSP
15 21 (1.01%) CCNA
16 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.82%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.67%) CCIE
19 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
20 12 (0.58%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.76%) QA
2 92 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 59 (2.83%) GDPR
4 53 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.44%) NIST
7 29 (1.39%) SOC 2
8 24 (1.15%) SLA
9 23 (1.10%) NCSC
10 20 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.62%) GRC
11 13 (0.62%) WCAG
12 9 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 2 (0.096%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.096%) IFRS
15 2 (0.096%) IFRS 17
15 2 (0.096%) Solvency II
16 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 547 (26.27%) Docker
2 131 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (6.15%) Active Directory
4 45 (2.16%) vSphere
5 39 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 18 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
12 7 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.29%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.096%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 789 (37.90%) Kubernetes
2 444 (21.33%) Ansible
3 196 (9.41%) Grafana
4 136 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 66 (3.17%) Argo
6 58 (2.79%) Puppet
7 38 (1.83%) Progress Chef
7 38 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 35 (1.68%) Istio
9 32 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 26 (1.25%) Packer
11 22 (1.06%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.91%) Rancher
13 18 (0.86%) vCenter Server
14 14 (0.67%) Cilium
14 14 (0.67%) Nagios
15 13 (0.62%) Kustomize
16 12 (0.58%) Podman
16 12 (0.58%) ZABBIX
17 11 (0.53%) linkerd
Vendors
1 445 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 161 (7.73%) VMware
3 120 (5.76%) Google
4 96 (4.61%) Databricks
5 75 (3.60%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.51%) Cisco
7 67 (3.22%) Splunk
8 57 (2.74%) Oracle
9 41 (1.97%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.92%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.78%) Dynatrace
12 36 (1.73%) OpenAI
13 28 (1.34%) ServiceNow
14 26 (1.25%) Zscaler
15 15 (0.72%) SAP
16 14 (0.67%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
17 13 (0.62%) New Relic
18 12 (0.58%) F5
18 12 (0.58%) ScienceLogic