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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 157 129
Rank change year-on-year +83 -28 -38
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,109 919 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.15% 2.13% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 2.40% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,429 659 923
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £45,100
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 £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% -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 71,905 38,217 56,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 73.27% 88.53% 80.99%
Number of salaries quoted 51,202 22,024 33,984
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £37,397 £41,750
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 £76,250
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 5 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 5 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 +33 919 £90,000 +2.86% 1,052
North of England +92 460 £70,000 - 257
North West +94 258 £72,500 +7.41% 141
South East +64 251 £67,500 -14.29% 202
South West +45 232 £75,000 - 176
Midlands +42 146 £75,000 +15.38% 94
Yorkshire -10 103 £73,750 +5.36% 82
North East +14 99 £59,000 -18.62% 34
West Midlands +8 88 £85,000 +31.78% 49
East Midlands +9 58 £67,500 +3.85% 45
East of England -14 57 £70,000 +7.69% 67
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 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (2.28%) Apache
2 48 (2.28%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.28%) Confluence
5 13 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.52%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.43%) IIS
8 7 (0.33%) CMS
9 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) nginx
11 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) WordPress
12 2 (0.095%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.095%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.047%) Documentum
13 1 (0.047%) NServiceBus
13 1 (0.047%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (1.00%) PlantUML
2 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.095%) Lightworks
6 1 (0.047%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.047%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.14%) Summit
2 2 (0.095%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.047%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.047%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,213 (57.52%) AWS
2 1,110 (52.63%) Azure
3 396 (18.78%) GCP
4 366 (17.35%) GitHub
5 347 (16.45%) Serverless
6 335 (15.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 291 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
8 201 (9.53%) GitHub Actions
9 186 (8.82%) Amazon S3
10 184 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (7.06%) PaaS
12 139 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
13 130 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
14 129 (6.12%) Azure AKS
15 122 (5.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 122 (5.78%) Amazon ECS
16 114 (5.41%) SaaS
17 108 (5.12%) Entra ID
18 106 (5.03%) IaaS
19 101 (4.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 161 (7.63%) Firewall
2 117 (5.55%) DNS
2 117 (5.55%) VPN
3 99 (4.69%) Network Security
4 56 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 56 (2.66%) WAN
5 53 (2.51%) BGP
6 46 (2.18%) DHCP
7 45 (2.13%) Broadband
8 38 (1.80%) LAN
8 38 (1.80%) OSPF
9 31 (1.47%) VLAN
10 27 (1.28%) VXLAN
11 26 (1.23%) SD-WAN
11 26 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
12 18 (0.85%) Wireless
13 14 (0.66%) SAN
14 13 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
14 13 (0.62%) HTTP
15 10 (0.47%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
2 138 (6.54%) NoSQL
3 93 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 91 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 81 (3.84%) SQL Server
6 77 (3.65%) DynamoDB
7 59 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 55 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.47%) MySQL
10 49 (2.32%) Metadata
11 46 (2.18%) Relational Database
12 40 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (1.56%) Redis
14 30 (1.42%) Delta Lake
15 28 (1.33%) Big Data
15 28 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
16 25 (1.19%) BigQuery
17 23 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
18 22 (1.04%) Data Vault
18 22 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 288 (13.66%) Git
2 273 (12.94%) GitLab
3 232 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 53 (2.51%) JIRA
5 47 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 33 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 26 (1.23%) TeamCity
8 25 (1.19%) Bitbucket
9 22 (1.04%) Selenium
10 19 (0.90%) Claude Code
11 17 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 16 (0.76%) CircleCI
13 15 (0.71%) NUnit
14 14 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 12 (0.57%) Maven
16 10 (0.47%) MLflow
16 10 (0.47%) Snyk
17 9 (0.43%) MSI
17 9 (0.43%) Subversion
18 8 (0.38%) Artifactory
General
1 545 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 437 (20.72%) Finance
3 184 (8.72%) Public Sector
4 159 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (5.60%) Banking
6 114 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 75 (3.56%) Law
8 55 (2.61%) Retail
9 51 (2.42%) Aerospace
10 44 (2.09%) Games
11 34 (1.61%) Marketing
12 31 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.42%) Legal
14 24 (1.14%) Telecoms
15 18 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.81%) Aviation
16 17 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 15 (0.71%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 500 (23.71%) Senior
2 368 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 284 (13.47%) Lead
4 277 (13.13%) Cloud Engineer
5 237 (11.24%) Architect
6 226 (10.72%) Platform Engineer
7 184 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
8 174 (8.25%) Developer
9 142 (6.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 137 (6.50%) Software Engineer
11 130 (6.16%) AWS Engineer
12 114 (5.41%) Data Engineer
13 112 (5.31%) Principal Engineer
14 101 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 84 (3.98%) Security Engineer
16 81 (3.84%) Senior Platform Engineer
17 71 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (3.27%) Senior Developer
19 66 (3.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
19 66 (3.13%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,466 (69.51%) Terraform
2 173 (8.20%) .NET
3 165 (7.82%) React
4 162 (7.68%) Kafka
5 141 (6.69%) REST
6 130 (6.16%) RESTful
7 126 (5.97%) Spring
8 124 (5.88%) Node.js
9 118 (5.60%) Spring Boot
10 72 (3.41%) PySpark
11 66 (3.13%) ARM Templates
12 65 (3.08%) YAML
13 62 (2.94%) AWS CDK
14 52 (2.47%) AngularJS
15 50 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
16 44 (2.09%) ASP.NET
16 44 (2.09%) Next.js
16 44 (2.09%) OAuth
17 42 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
18 41 (1.94%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 635 (30.11%) Cloud Native
2 229 (10.86%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 120 (5.69%) Onboarding
5 114 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 92 (4.36%) Data Centre
7 59 (2.80%) Product Ownership
8 58 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
9 57 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
10 55 (2.61%) Security Posture
11 48 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
12 45 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
13 40 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
14 37 (1.75%) Private Cloud
15 36 (1.71%) e-Learning
16 35 (1.66%) Low-Code
16 35 (1.66%) PKI
17 33 (1.56%) AI Agents
18 32 (1.52%) Virtual Team
19 29 (1.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 358 (16.97%) Linux
2 203 (9.63%) Windows
3 92 (4.36%) Windows Server
4 58 (2.75%) CentOS
5 40 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 37 (1.75%) Ubuntu
7 26 (1.23%) Unix
8 22 (1.04%) VMS
9 5 (0.24%) Debian
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.19%) Android
10 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.095%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.095%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.047%) Rocky
12 1 (0.047%) SUSE
12 1 (0.047%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,505 (71.36%) CI/CD
2 1,147 (54.39%) DevOps
3 584 (27.69%) Agile
4 581 (27.55%) Containerisation
5 566 (26.84%) Observability
6 525 (24.89%) Platform Engineering
7 474 (22.48%) AI
8 463 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 439 (20.82%) Mentoring
10 418 (19.82%) Software Engineering
11 372 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
12 367 (17.40%) Microservices
13 363 (17.21%) Test Automation
14 333 (15.79%) Cloud Security
15 331 (15.69%) Technical Leadership
16 294 (13.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 256 (12.14%) Roadmaps
18 237 (11.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 236 (11.19%) Analytics
20 231 (10.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 942 (44.67%) Python
2 353 (16.74%) SQL
3 346 (16.41%) Bash
4 317 (15.03%) PowerShell
5 306 (14.51%) Java
6 210 (9.96%) Bicep
7 188 (8.91%) TypeScript
8 178 (8.44%) C#
9 155 (7.35%) JavaScript
10 149 (7.06%) Go
11 41 (1.94%) Scala
12 36 (1.71%) PHP
13 29 (1.38%) Rust
14 27 (1.28%) Groovy
15 26 (1.23%) Ruby
16 22 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
17 21 (1.00%) Perl
18 15 (0.71%) C++
19 14 (0.66%) Shell Script
20 12 (0.57%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 530 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 335 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 188 (8.91%) DV Cleared
4 180 (8.53%) AWS Certification
5 175 (8.30%) Degree
6 143 (6.78%) Azure Certification
7 85 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
8 74 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 58 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
10 54 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 36 (1.71%) CCNP
12 32 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 28 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 22 (1.04%) CISSP
15 19 (0.90%) CCNA
16 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
17 17 (0.81%) SnowPro
18 14 (0.66%) CCIE
18 14 (0.66%) OSCP
19 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (4.88%) QA
2 96 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 62 (2.94%) GDPR
4 55 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 31 (1.47%) SOC 2
6 30 (1.42%) NIST
7 23 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.09%) SLA
8 20 (0.95%) NCSC
9 14 (0.66%) WCAG
10 13 (0.62%) GRC
11 10 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.14%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS
14 2 (0.095%) IFRS 17
14 2 (0.095%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.047%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 555 (26.32%) Docker
2 130 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 128 (6.07%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.04%) vSphere
5 38 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 23 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.81%) VMware NSX
9 10 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.43%) KVM
11 8 (0.38%) Squid
12 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
13 6 (0.28%) Firmware
14 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.19%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 3 (0.14%) iptables
16 2 (0.095%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 805 (38.17%) Kubernetes
2 451 (21.38%) Ansible
3 203 (9.63%) Grafana
4 138 (6.54%) Prometheus
5 65 (3.08%) Argo
6 55 (2.61%) Puppet
7 37 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 36 (1.71%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.61%) Istio
10 33 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
11 25 (1.19%) Packer
12 19 (0.90%) FortiGate
12 19 (0.90%) vCenter Server
13 16 (0.76%) Nagios
14 15 (0.71%) Rancher
15 14 (0.66%) Cilium
16 13 (0.62%) Kustomize
17 12 (0.57%) ZABBIX
18 11 (0.52%) Kibana
18 11 (0.52%) linkerd
Vendors
1 447 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 160 (7.59%) VMware
3 121 (5.74%) Google
4 97 (4.60%) Databricks
5 77 (3.65%) Red Hat
6 72 (3.41%) Cisco
7 69 (3.27%) Splunk
8 55 (2.61%) Oracle
9 43 (2.04%) Palo Alto
10 41 (1.94%) Fortinet
11 37 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 37 (1.75%) OpenAI
12 28 (1.33%) ServiceNow
13 25 (1.19%) Zscaler
14 15 (0.71%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.71%) SAP
15 14 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
16 13 (0.62%) F5
17 12 (0.57%) ScienceLogic
18 11 (0.52%) New Relic