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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 152 147
Rank change year-on-year +76 -5 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,003 979 1,305
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.18% 2.24% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.50% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,383 676 980
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,313 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £108,750 £102,500
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 67,880 39,178 58,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.83% 89.60% 81.29%
Number of salaries quoted 47,922 22,754 39,478
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +26 896 £90,000 - 632
North of England +93 412 £70,400 +0.57% 236
South East +62 247 £67,500 -12.90% 155
North West +90 236 £75,000 +7.14% 131
South West +39 206 £75,000 -2.48% 142
Midlands +44 145 £75,000 +15.38% 56
Yorkshire +1 95 £75,000 +7.14% 66
West Midlands +12 89 £80,000 +23.08% 42
North East +14 81 £56,500 -16.30% 39
East Midlands +17 56 £67,500 +3.85% 14
East of England -6 50 £67,500 +8.00% 25
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 57 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 46 (2.30%) Apache
4 32 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 28 (1.40%) Confluence
6 12 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 10 (0.50%) IIS
8 9 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.15%) Camunda
10 3 (0.15%) nginx
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WordPress
11 2 (0.100%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.100%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.050%) Documentum
12 1 (0.050%) JBoss
12 1 (0.050%) NServiceBus
12 1 (0.050%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.100%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.100%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.050%) Maya
6 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.15%) Summit
2 2 (0.100%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.050%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.050%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,161 (57.96%) AWS
2 1,081 (53.97%) Azure
3 364 (18.17%) GCP
4 347 (17.32%) GitHub
5 345 (17.22%) Serverless
6 314 (15.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 288 (14.38%) Azure DevOps
8 195 (9.74%) GitHub Actions
9 182 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 177 (8.84%) AWS Lambda
11 158 (7.89%) PaaS
12 136 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
13 122 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
14 120 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (5.79%) SaaS
16 113 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
17 111 (5.54%) IaaS
18 107 (5.34%) Azure AKS
18 107 (5.34%) Entra ID
19 94 (4.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 166 (8.29%) Firewall
2 105 (5.24%) DNS
3 104 (5.19%) VPN
4 99 (4.94%) Network Security
5 67 (3.34%) TCP/IP
6 60 (3.00%) WAN
7 51 (2.55%) Broadband
8 49 (2.45%) BGP
9 40 (2.00%) LAN
10 36 (1.80%) DHCP
11 35 (1.75%) VLAN
12 34 (1.70%) OSPF
13 26 (1.30%) VXLAN
14 24 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
15 23 (1.15%) SD-WAN
16 20 (1.00%) HTTP
17 14 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
17 14 (0.70%) Wireless
18 13 (0.65%) SAN
19 12 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
2 132 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 90 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
4 86 (4.29%) MongoDB
5 76 (3.79%) DynamoDB
6 70 (3.49%) SQL Server
7 54 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 52 (2.60%) Data Lake
9 47 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.30%) Metadata
11 45 (2.25%) MySQL
12 38 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (1.35%) Redis
14 26 (1.30%) Delta Lake
14 26 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 25 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
15 25 (1.25%) Big Data
16 24 (1.20%) Power BI
17 23 (1.15%) BigQuery
18 21 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 275 (13.73%) GitLab
2 270 (13.48%) Git
3 229 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 48 (2.40%) JIRA
5 41 (2.05%) Cucumber
6 31 (1.55%) Bitbucket
7 29 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 27 (1.35%) TeamCity
9 24 (1.20%) CircleCI
10 20 (1.00%) Selenium
11 19 (0.95%) Claude Code
12 16 (0.80%) SonarQube
13 14 (0.70%) NUnit
14 11 (0.55%) Cypress.io
15 10 (0.50%) Maven
15 10 (0.50%) MLflow
16 9 (0.45%) MSI
16 9 (0.45%) Subversion
17 8 (0.40%) JMeter
17 8 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 521 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 399 (19.92%) Finance
3 159 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 101 (5.04%) Banking
5 94 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 68 (3.39%) Law
7 60 (3.00%) Retail
8 45 (2.25%) Games
9 41 (2.05%) Aerospace
10 36 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.45%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.40%) Marketing
13 22 (1.10%) Legal
14 21 (1.05%) Advertising
15 20 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.70%) Aviation
17 14 (0.70%) Financial Institution
18 13 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 475 (23.71%) Senior
2 362 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 273 (13.63%) Lead
4 261 (13.03%) Cloud Engineer
5 214 (10.68%) Architect
6 203 (10.13%) Platform Engineer
7 175 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
8 172 (8.59%) Developer
9 124 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
10 117 (5.84%) Software Engineer
11 115 (5.74%) Data Engineer
12 110 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 99 (4.94%) Principal Engineer
14 90 (4.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 82 (4.09%) Security Engineer
16 75 (3.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 71 (3.54%) Senior Platform Engineer
18 68 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
19 63 (3.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 63 (3.15%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (7.79%) .NET
2 155 (7.74%) React
3 148 (7.39%) Kafka
4 132 (6.59%) REST
5 116 (5.79%) RESTful
6 115 (5.74%) Node.js
6 115 (5.74%) Spring
7 108 (5.39%) Spring Boot
8 74 (3.69%) YAML
9 72 (3.59%) ARM Templates
10 71 (3.54%) PySpark
11 64 (3.20%) AWS CDK
12 56 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
13 46 (2.30%) AngularJS
13 46 (2.30%) OAuth
14 45 (2.25%) Next.js
15 43 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
16 41 (2.05%) ASP.NET
17 38 (1.90%) ASP.NET Core
17 38 (1.90%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 572 (28.56%) Cloud Native
2 207 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 104 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 96 (4.79%) Public Cloud
6 84 (4.19%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.95%) Product Ownership
8 57 (2.85%) Security Posture
9 53 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
10 49 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
12 45 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
13 42 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
14 36 (1.80%) Low-Code
15 31 (1.55%) Private Cloud
16 30 (1.50%) PKI
17 28 (1.40%) e-Learning
18 27 (1.35%) Virtual Team
19 24 (1.20%) Data Structures
20 23 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 352 (17.57%) Linux
2 196 (9.79%) Windows
3 90 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 54 (2.70%) CentOS
5 41 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 28 (1.40%) Unix
8 23 (1.15%) VMS
9 8 (0.40%) Android
10 7 (0.35%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.25%) Debian
12 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.100%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.050%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.050%) Rocky
14 1 (0.050%) Solaris
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE
14 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,426 (71.19%) CI/CD
2 1,131 (56.47%) DevOps
3 559 (27.91%) Agile
4 554 (27.66%) Containerisation
5 531 (26.51%) Observability
6 472 (23.56%) Platform Engineering
7 439 (21.92%) AI
7 439 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 420 (20.97%) Mentoring
9 370 (18.47%) Software Engineering
10 346 (17.27%) Test Automation
11 343 (17.12%) Microservices
12 337 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
13 304 (15.18%) Technical Leadership
14 293 (14.63%) Cloud Security
15 251 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 240 (11.98%) Roadmaps
17 225 (11.23%) Analytics
18 222 (11.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 213 (10.63%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 902 (45.03%) Python
2 338 (16.87%) SQL
3 330 (16.48%) Bash
4 305 (15.23%) PowerShell
5 280 (13.98%) Java
6 201 (10.03%) Bicep
7 176 (8.79%) TypeScript
8 167 (8.34%) C#
9 161 (8.04%) Go
10 155 (7.74%) JavaScript
11 37 (1.85%) PHP
12 32 (1.60%) Scala
13 26 (1.30%) Rust
14 24 (1.20%) Ruby
15 22 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
16 21 (1.05%) Perl
17 20 (1.00%) Groovy
18 17 (0.85%) C++
19 12 (0.60%) Shell Script
20 9 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 474 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 300 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 180 (8.99%) Degree
4 163 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 153 (7.64%) AWS Certification
6 130 (6.49%) Azure Certification
7 79 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 70 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 50 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 49 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 33 (1.65%) CCNP
12 27 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.05%) CISSP
13 21 (1.05%) OSCP
14 18 (0.90%) CCNA
15 17 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (0.70%) RHCSA
16 14 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
17 13 (0.65%) CCIE
18 12 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (4.94%) QA
2 92 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.10%) GDPR
4 51 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.80%) NIST
5 36 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 31 (1.55%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 17 (0.85%) WCAG
9 16 (0.80%) NCSC
10 13 (0.65%) GRC
10 13 (0.65%) SLA
11 9 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.100%) IFRS
13 2 (0.100%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.100%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.050%) GxP
14 1 (0.050%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 536 (26.76%) Docker
2 124 (6.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (5.99%) Active Directory
4 44 (2.20%) vSphere
5 32 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 15 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.70%) VMware NSX
9 13 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.45%) KVM
11 8 (0.40%) Squid
12 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.30%) Firmware
14 5 (0.25%) iptables
15 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
16 3 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1,389 (69.35%) Terraform
2 776 (38.74%) Kubernetes
3 424 (21.17%) Ansible
4 214 (10.68%) Grafana
5 160 (7.99%) Prometheus
6 61 (3.05%) Argo
7 45 (2.25%) Puppet
8 36 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 32 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 28 (1.40%) Istio
12 25 (1.25%) Packer
13 21 (1.05%) Nagios
14 16 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 12 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 12 (0.60%) Cilium
15 12 (0.60%) Rancher
15 12 (0.60%) vCenter Server
15 12 (0.60%) ZABBIX
16 11 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 403 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 151 (7.54%) VMware
3 100 (4.99%) Google
4 89 (4.44%) Databricks
5 83 (4.14%) Red Hat
6 73 (3.64%) Splunk
7 68 (3.39%) Cisco
8 51 (2.55%) Palo Alto
9 48 (2.40%) Oracle
10 39 (1.95%) Fortinet
11 34 (1.70%) OpenAI
12 30 (1.50%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.30%) Zscaler
14 18 (0.90%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.75%) F5
16 13 (0.65%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
17 12 (0.60%) Salesforce
17 12 (0.60%) SAP
17 12 (0.60%) ScienceLogic