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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 142 163
Rank change year-on-year +39 +21 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,412 838 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 2.21% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.38% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 945 604 1,202
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £96,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 59,784 35,266 71,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 74.90% 93.00% 85.60%
Number of salaries quoted 37,838 20,560 53,783
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,792 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +47 715 £86,250 -4.17% 259
North of England -1 263 £67,374 -0.92% 131
South East +5 145 £70,000 -6.67% 153
North West +2 139 £73,401 +1.24% 67
South West -5 104 £65,000 -9.71% 78
Yorkshire -30 93 £65,000 +7.92% 27
Midlands +12 91 £69,000 -1.43% 36
East Midlands -13 45 £67,500 +3.85% 13
West Midlands -10 44 £70,000 - 23
East of England +2 41 £60,100 -10.96% 34
North East -11 31 £48,445 -19.59% 37
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 43 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (2.20%) Apache
3 26 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.06%) Confluence
5 15 (1.06%) IIS
6 10 (0.71%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 4 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.071%) Camunda
11 1 (0.071%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.071%) nginx
11 1 (0.071%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (0.57%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.28%) Weka
3 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.071%) Maya
4 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.071%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.071%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.071%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 852 (60.34%) AWS
2 777 (55.03%) Azure
3 283 (20.04%) GCP
4 282 (19.97%) GitHub
5 263 (18.63%) Serverless
6 258 (18.27%) Azure DevOps
7 229 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 199 (14.09%) GitHub Actions
9 146 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
10 129 (9.14%) Amazon S3
11 105 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 105 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
12 103 (7.29%) Entra ID
13 102 (7.22%) PaaS
14 95 (6.73%) Datadog
15 85 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
15 85 (6.02%) SaaS
16 81 (5.74%) IaaS
17 75 (5.31%) Azure AKS
18 74 (5.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 168 (11.90%) Firewall
2 90 (6.37%) DNS
3 77 (5.45%) VPN
4 66 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 48 (3.40%) WAN
6 43 (3.05%) Broadband
7 42 (2.97%) Network Security
8 35 (2.48%) DHCP
9 27 (1.91%) LAN
10 26 (1.84%) HTTP
11 24 (1.70%) BGP
12 16 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
12 16 (1.13%) VLAN
13 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.92%) DSL
15 12 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
16 11 (0.78%) Internet
17 10 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
18 7 (0.50%) SAN
18 7 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (8.29%) NoSQL
2 95 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
3 80 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
4 61 (4.32%) DynamoDB
5 57 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 50 (3.54%) MongoDB
7 44 (3.12%) Data Lake
8 42 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 35 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 33 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (1.84%) Metadata
11 26 (1.84%) MySQL
12 25 (1.77%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.56%) Power BI
14 19 (1.35%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.35%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
17 14 (0.99%) Big Data
18 13 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 210 (14.87%) Jenkins
2 197 (13.95%) GitLab
3 180 (12.75%) Git
4 37 (2.62%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.41%) CircleCI
6 33 (2.34%) JIRA
7 23 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 21 (1.49%) Jaeger
9 16 (1.13%) Selenium
10 14 (0.99%) MLflow
11 13 (0.92%) SonarQube
12 12 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 12 (0.85%) TeamCity
13 10 (0.71%) Robot Framework
13 10 (0.71%) Subversion
14 9 (0.64%) Vite
15 8 (0.57%) JMeter
15 8 (0.57%) Maven
15 8 (0.57%) Storybook
16 7 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 368 (26.06%) Social Skills
2 292 (20.68%) Finance
3 116 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.95%) Banking
6 58 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (4.11%) Retail
7 57 (4.04%) Telecoms
8 55 (3.90%) Law
9 26 (1.84%) Manufacturing
10 25 (1.77%) Games
11 22 (1.56%) Aerospace
11 22 (1.56%) Marketing
12 21 (1.49%) Advertising
13 20 (1.42%) Billing
14 17 (1.20%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (1.13%) Electronics
16 15 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 313 (22.17%) Senior
2 236 (16.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 228 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
4 199 (14.09%) Lead
5 140 (9.92%) Azure Engineer
6 126 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
7 124 (8.78%) Architect
7 124 (8.78%) Developer
8 107 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
8 107 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 77 (5.45%) Data Engineer
10 70 (4.96%) Software Engineer
11 69 (4.89%) Security Engineer
12 60 (4.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (3.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 49 (3.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.40%) Cloud Security Engineer
17 43 (3.05%) Python Engineer
18 40 (2.83%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (8.78%) React
2 96 (6.80%) Node.js
3 90 (6.37%) .NET
4 89 (6.30%) Kafka
5 81 (5.74%) RESTful
6 80 (5.67%) REST
7 73 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
8 63 (4.46%) AWS CDK
9 62 (4.39%) Spring
10 59 (4.18%) YAML
11 55 (3.90%) Spring Boot
12 49 (3.47%) ARM Templates
13 45 (3.19%) OAuth
14 42 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
15 41 (2.90%) PySpark
16 32 (2.27%) Next.js
17 31 (2.20%) FastAPI
17 31 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
18 28 (1.98%) .NET Core
19 25 (1.77%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 328 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 60 (4.25%) Public Cloud
5 56 (3.97%) Security Posture
6 49 (3.47%) Product Ownership
7 44 (3.12%) Data Centre
8 42 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (2.34%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.63%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.56%) Management Information System
13 22 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
14 21 (1.49%) Web3
15 19 (1.35%) Cloud Security Posture
15 19 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
16 18 (1.27%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 298 (21.10%) Linux
2 148 (10.48%) Windows
3 64 (4.53%) Windows Server
4 54 (3.82%) Unix
5 32 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 27 (1.91%) VMS
7 24 (1.70%) CentOS
7 24 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.78%) Android
9 10 (0.71%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.50%) Debian
11 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.28%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.071%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.071%) Rocky
14 1 (0.071%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (66.86%) CI/CD
2 851 (60.27%) DevOps
3 405 (28.68%) Containerisation
4 373 (26.42%) Agile
5 351 (24.86%) Observability
6 296 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 268 (18.98%) Mentoring
8 253 (17.92%) Platform Engineering
9 237 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
10 231 (16.36%) AI
10 231 (16.36%) Test Automation
11 211 (14.94%) Microservices
12 203 (14.38%) Software Engineering
13 196 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 193 (13.67%) Cloud Security
15 173 (12.25%) Analytics
16 162 (11.47%) High Availability
17 156 (11.05%) DevSecOps
18 153 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
19 142 (10.06%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 649 (45.96%) Python
2 285 (20.18%) Bash
3 235 (16.64%) SQL
4 230 (16.29%) PowerShell
5 182 (12.89%) Java
6 159 (11.26%) Go
7 127 (8.99%) Bicep
8 121 (8.57%) JavaScript
9 117 (8.29%) TypeScript
10 83 (5.88%) C#
11 22 (1.56%) C++
11 22 (1.56%) Rust
12 21 (1.49%) Scala
13 20 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.92%) C
15 11 (0.78%) Groovy
16 8 (0.57%) PHP
16 8 (0.57%) Ruby
16 8 (0.57%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 245 (17.35%) Security Cleared
2 156 (11.05%) SC Cleared
3 141 (9.99%) Degree
4 112 (7.93%) AWS Certification
5 83 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 78 (5.52%) Azure Certification
7 59 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.05%) OSCP
10 28 (1.98%) CISSP
11 23 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (0.99%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.92%) CCNP
13 13 (0.92%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 12 (0.85%) CCNA
15 11 (0.78%) CCSK
16 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.53%) QA
2 58 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 57 (4.04%) GDPR
4 49 (3.47%) SOC 2
5 46 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.62%) NIST
7 33 (2.34%) PCI DSS
8 25 (1.77%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
9 10 (0.71%) WCAG
10 7 (0.50%) NCSC
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.28%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 422 (29.89%) Docker
2 99 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 76 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (1.84%) vSphere
6 19 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 18 (1.27%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.57%) Firmware
9 7 (0.50%) iptables
10 5 (0.35%) KVM
10 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.28%) Squid
12 3 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.14%) GPFS
13 2 (0.14%) Lustre
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.071%) vCloud
14 1 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 984 (69.69%) Terraform
2 581 (41.15%) Kubernetes
3 324 (22.95%) Ansible
4 190 (13.46%) Grafana
5 189 (13.39%) Prometheus
6 56 (3.97%) Argo
7 33 (2.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 28 (1.98%) Puppet
9 23 (1.63%) Kustomize
10 19 (1.35%) Progress Chef
11 18 (1.27%) Rancher
12 17 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 15 (1.06%) Nagios
14 14 (0.99%) Istio
15 12 (0.85%) Packer
16 10 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
17 8 (0.57%) logstash
17 8 (0.57%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 249 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.93%) VMware
3 100 (7.08%) Google
4 63 (4.46%) Databricks
5 60 (4.25%) Red Hat
6 50 (3.54%) Cisco
7 47 (3.33%) Splunk
8 39 (2.76%) Palo Alto
9 23 (1.63%) Zscaler
10 22 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.49%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 18 (1.27%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.13%) Oracle
14 14 (0.99%) Fortinet
14 14 (0.99%) SAP
15 13 (0.92%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.92%) Juniper
16 11 (0.78%) SolarWinds
17 10 (0.71%) CyberArk