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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 132 151
Rank change year-on-year +22 +19 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,215 906 1,446
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.84% 2.35% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.51% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 849 660 1,188
10th Percentile £46,446 £47,450 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,597
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,250 £115,000 £110,375
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -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 51,528 36,093 64,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 77.90% 93.54% 87.05%
Number of salaries quoted 31,904 20,307 50,751
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +32 609 £85,000 -5.56% 277
North of England -9 219 £65,000 -3.04% 146
South East +13 137 £70,000 -3.45% 144
North West -16 97 £73,801 +2.15% 73
Yorkshire -10 90 £62,500 +19.05% 48
South West -7 87 £62,500 -10.71% 81
Midlands -3 70 £67,500 +3.85% 42
East of England +5 35 £65,000 -10.34% 42
West Midlands -1 35 £66,500 -5.00% 29
East Midlands -8 33 £67,500 +3.85% 13
North East -10 32 £48,445 -15.75% 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 50 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (3.21%) Apache
3 27 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.23%) IIS
6 12 (0.99%) Confluence
7 11 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.25%) CMS
9 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) Appian
10 2 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.082%) Camunda
11 1 (0.082%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.082%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) PlantUML
1 4 (0.33%) Weka
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.082%) Maya
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.082%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.082%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.082%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 771 (63.46%) AWS
2 663 (54.57%) Azure
3 272 (22.39%) GitHub
4 270 (22.22%) GCP
5 243 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 232 (19.09%) Serverless
7 213 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 188 (15.47%) GitHub Actions
9 142 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
10 126 (10.37%) Amazon S3
11 106 (8.72%) PaaS
12 103 (8.48%) SaaS
13 92 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
14 91 (7.49%) Entra ID
15 90 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 84 (6.91%) Datadog
17 72 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (5.93%) IaaS
18 71 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
19 63 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 156 (12.84%) Firewall
2 86 (7.08%) DNS
3 75 (6.17%) VPN
4 65 (5.35%) TCP/IP
5 37 (3.05%) Broadband
6 36 (2.96%) WAN
7 34 (2.80%) Network Security
8 30 (2.47%) DHCP
9 19 (1.56%) HTTP
10 17 (1.40%) BGP
10 17 (1.40%) VLAN
11 15 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
11 15 (1.23%) Internet
12 14 (1.15%) LAN
13 13 (1.07%) DSL
14 12 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.49%) SAN
15 6 (0.49%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.41%) AMQP
16 5 (0.41%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (8.48%) NoSQL
2 87 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (6.34%) Amazon RDS
4 57 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 53 (4.36%) DynamoDB
6 41 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 41 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 37 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 29 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (2.22%) MySQL
10 26 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (2.06%) Redis
12 24 (1.98%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
13 22 (1.81%) Power BI
14 19 (1.56%) Metadata
14 19 (1.56%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.32%) Delta Lake
17 13 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 189 (15.56%) Jenkins
2 162 (13.33%) GitLab
3 158 (13.00%) Git
4 31 (2.55%) Bitbucket
5 30 (2.47%) CircleCI
6 28 (2.30%) JIRA
7 26 (2.14%) Selenium
8 24 (1.98%) Robot Framework
9 21 (1.73%) Jaeger
10 17 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 17 (1.40%) Snyk
11 14 (1.15%) MLflow
11 14 (1.15%) TeamCity
12 11 (0.91%) JMeter
13 9 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.74%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.66%) Locust
14 8 (0.66%) Storybook
14 8 (0.66%) Subversion
General
1 345 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 266 (21.89%) Finance
3 131 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (7.57%) Banking
5 74 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.35%) Law
7 59 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 58 (4.77%) Telecoms
9 54 (4.44%) Retail
10 33 (2.72%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.98%) Marketing
12 22 (1.81%) Games
13 20 (1.65%) Back Office
13 20 (1.65%) Billing
14 19 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.48%) Advertising
16 15 (1.23%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (0.99%) Electronics
19 11 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (21.23%) Senior
2 194 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 188 (15.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 153 (12.59%) Lead
5 111 (9.14%) Platform Engineer
6 109 (8.97%) Developer
7 108 (8.89%) Architect
8 107 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
9 93 (7.65%) AWS Engineer
10 91 (7.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 63 (5.19%) Software Engineer
12 61 (5.02%) Data Engineer
13 53 (4.36%) Security Engineer
14 48 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
15 43 (3.54%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 40 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 35 (2.88%) Lead DevOps
19 32 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (9.55%) React
2 80 (6.58%) .NET
2 80 (6.58%) Node.js
3 73 (6.01%) Elastic Stack
4 70 (5.76%) RESTful
5 69 (5.68%) Kafka
6 63 (5.19%) AWS CDK
7 55 (4.53%) REST
7 55 (4.53%) Spring
8 50 (4.12%) Spring Boot
9 48 (3.95%) YAML
10 37 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
11 36 (2.96%) Django
12 35 (2.88%) ARM Templates
13 34 (2.80%) CSS
14 33 (2.72%) FastAPI
15 29 (2.39%) .NET Core
15 29 (2.39%) HTML
16 28 (2.30%) OAuth
17 27 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 284 (23.37%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 57 (4.69%) Security Posture
4 52 (4.28%) Public Cloud
5 45 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
6 41 (3.37%) Data Centre
7 39 (3.21%) Product Ownership
8 36 (2.96%) Onboarding
9 31 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
13 22 (1.81%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (1.48%) Cloud Security Posture
15 18 (1.48%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
16 16 (1.32%) Video\Live Streaming
17 15 (1.23%) Blockchain
17 15 (1.23%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 274 (22.55%) Linux
2 138 (11.36%) Windows
3 68 (5.60%) Unix
4 53 (4.36%) Windows Server
5 31 (2.55%) VMS
6 26 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 19 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (1.48%) CentOS
9 11 (0.91%) Android
10 10 (0.82%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.66%) Debian
12 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.33%) SUSE
14 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.082%) Rocky
15 1 (0.082%) Solaris
15 1 (0.082%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.082%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (67.98%) CI/CD
2 755 (62.14%) DevOps
3 346 (28.48%) Agile
4 345 (28.40%) Containerisation
5 287 (23.62%) Observability
6 266 (21.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 235 (19.34%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (18.68%) Mentoring
9 194 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
10 185 (15.23%) AI
11 179 (14.73%) Software Engineering
12 174 (14.32%) Test Automation
13 172 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 170 (13.99%) Cloud Security
15 163 (13.42%) Microservices
16 152 (12.51%) Analytics
17 145 (11.93%) DevSecOps
18 142 (11.69%) Incident Response
19 138 (11.36%) High Availability
20 127 (10.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 556 (45.76%) Python
2 244 (20.08%) Bash
3 198 (16.30%) PowerShell
4 194 (15.97%) SQL
5 159 (13.09%) Java
6 139 (11.44%) Go
7 112 (9.22%) Bicep
8 110 (9.05%) JavaScript
9 95 (7.82%) TypeScript
10 62 (5.10%) C#
11 19 (1.56%) Rust
12 18 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
13 16 (1.32%) C++
13 16 (1.32%) Scala
14 10 (0.82%) C
15 9 (0.74%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.66%) Ruby
17 7 (0.58%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.41%) PHP
18 5 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 216 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 126 (10.37%) SC Cleared
3 116 (9.55%) Degree
4 97 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 95 (7.82%) AWS Certification
6 66 (5.43%) Azure Certification
7 48 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (2.30%) CISSP
10 28 (2.30%) OSCP
11 15 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 11 (0.91%) CCSK
14 10 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 10 (0.82%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 7 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 7 (0.58%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.69%) QA
2 56 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (4.44%) GDPR
4 49 (4.03%) SOC 2
5 47 (3.87%) Data Quality
6 40 (3.29%) NIST
7 39 (3.21%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.98%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.82%) WCAG
11 9 (0.74%) SLA
12 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.49%) GRC
13 6 (0.49%) NCSC
14 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.33%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.16%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.16%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 394 (32.43%) Docker
2 82 (6.75%) Active Directory
3 64 (5.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 22 (1.81%) vSphere
7 15 (1.23%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.99%) Firmware
9 6 (0.49%) KVM
10 4 (0.33%) iptables
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.25%) vCloud
12 2 (0.16%) GPFS
12 2 (0.16%) Lustre
12 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.082%) QEMU
13 1 (0.082%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 851 (70.04%) Terraform
2 484 (39.84%) Kubernetes
3 305 (25.10%) Ansible
4 182 (14.98%) Prometheus
5 175 (14.40%) Grafana
6 46 (3.79%) Argo
7 35 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.89%) Puppet
9 21 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 14 (1.15%) Rancher
12 13 (1.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.07%) Nagios
12 13 (1.07%) Progress Chef
13 12 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
14 11 (0.91%) SCCM
15 9 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
16 7 (0.58%) Istio
16 7 (0.58%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 202 (16.63%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.97%) Google
3 100 (8.23%) VMware
4 47 (3.87%) Databricks
5 44 (3.62%) Red Hat
6 42 (3.46%) Cisco
6 42 (3.46%) Splunk
7 37 (3.05%) Palo Alto
8 22 (1.81%) Zscaler
9 17 (1.40%) Black Duck
9 17 (1.40%) Coverity
9 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.32%) Dynatrace
10 16 (1.32%) Juniper
11 14 (1.15%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
12 12 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 12 (0.99%) Oracle
12 12 (0.99%) SAP
13 11 (0.91%) New Relic