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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 122 79
Rank change year-on-year -15 -43 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 975 1,316 1,689
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.26% 2.15% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 2.60% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 714 807 1,309
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,895 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,063 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 37,902 50,690 45,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 87.92% 82.96% 93.89%
Number of salaries quoted 22,665 26,866 34,917
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 29 October 2025.

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 29 October 2025. 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 +10 466 £85,000 -5.56% 470
North of England -37 173 £70,000 +16.67% 141
South East +20 132 £77,500 +31.08% 373
North West -33 78 £65,000 +4.00% 85
Yorkshire -7 75 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Midlands +13 68 £65,000 -1.52% 43
South West -46 55 £70,000 - 82
West Midlands +8 47 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East of England +27 37 £65,000 -10.34% 25
East Midlands +16 21 £65,000 +51.76% 13
North East +1 20 £72,500 +44.28% 20
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 47 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 35 (3.59%) Apache
3 33 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.15%) Confluence
5 19 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (1.23%) nginx
7 11 (1.13%) Appian
7 11 (1.13%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.41%) Traefik
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.41%) Sketch
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 608 (62.36%) AWS
2 584 (59.90%) Azure
3 201 (20.62%) GCP
4 197 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
5 175 (17.95%) GitHub
6 146 (14.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 138 (14.15%) Serverless
8 109 (11.18%) SaaS
9 96 (9.85%) Amazon S3
10 94 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
12 87 (8.92%) PaaS
13 74 (7.59%) Amazon EC2
14 65 (6.67%) Entra ID
15 61 (6.26%) IaaS
16 58 (5.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 56 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
17 56 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
17 56 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
18 55 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 111 (11.38%) Firewall
2 88 (9.03%) DNS
3 73 (7.49%) VPN
3 73 (7.49%) WAN
4 44 (4.51%) LAN
5 41 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 36 (3.69%) Network Security
7 34 (3.49%) SD-WAN
8 25 (2.56%) DHCP
9 23 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (1.33%) BGP
11 12 (1.23%) SAN
11 12 (1.23%) VoIP
12 11 (1.13%) VLAN
13 10 (1.03%) Internet
14 8 (0.82%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.82%) OSPF
14 8 (0.82%) Wireless
14 8 (0.82%) Wireshark
15 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
1 52 (5.33%) Data Lake
2 48 (4.92%) NoSQL
2 48 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 42 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.00%) DynamoDB
5 34 (3.49%) MySQL
6 31 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (3.08%) Big Data
8 29 (2.97%) Power BI
9 21 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (2.05%) Redis
11 19 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.74%) MongoDB
13 16 (1.64%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (1.33%) Relational Database
16 12 (1.23%) Apache Iceberg
17 10 (1.03%) Hadoop
18 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 147 (15.08%) Git
2 136 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 110 (11.28%) GitLab
4 38 (3.90%) JIRA
5 29 (2.97%) Selenium
6 24 (2.46%) Robot Framework
7 22 (2.26%) Snyk
8 20 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 17 (1.74%) CircleCI
10 15 (1.54%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.44%) Cucumber
12 13 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
13 12 (1.23%) Artifactory
14 11 (1.13%) Bitbucket
15 10 (1.03%) MLflow
16 9 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (0.92%) Spinnaker
17 8 (0.82%) JMeter
17 8 (0.82%) JUnit
18 6 (0.62%) Mockito
General
1 275 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 249 (25.54%) Finance
3 107 (10.97%) Law
4 96 (9.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
6 80 (8.21%) Banking
7 43 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 35 (3.59%) Retail
9 31 (3.18%) Marketing
10 30 (3.08%) Legal
11 25 (2.56%) Financial Institution
12 22 (2.26%) Back Office
13 21 (2.15%) Games
14 19 (1.95%) Telecoms
15 14 (1.44%) Advertising
15 14 (1.44%) Automotive
16 12 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
17 10 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 8 (0.82%) Billing
18 8 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 191 (19.59%) Senior
2 134 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (13.74%) Lead
3 123 (12.62%) Cloud Engineer
4 115 (11.79%) Architect
5 91 (9.33%) Developer
6 85 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
7 64 (6.56%) Software Engineer
8 59 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (5.74%) AWS Engineer
10 54 (5.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
12 38 (3.90%) Data Engineer
13 35 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (3.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 31 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.87%) Python Engineer
16 28 (2.87%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 27 (2.77%) Python Developer
18 25 (2.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (10.77%) .NET
2 82 (8.41%) React
3 69 (7.08%) Kafka
4 42 (4.31%) YAML
5 38 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
5 38 (3.90%) RESTful
6 37 (3.79%) REST
7 36 (3.69%) Spring
8 35 (3.59%) ARM Templates
9 33 (3.38%) Django
10 32 (3.28%) Node.js
11 30 (3.08%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.87%) .NET Framework
13 25 (2.56%) .NET Core
14 21 (2.15%) CSS
14 21 (2.15%) Flask
15 20 (2.05%) AWS CDK
15 20 (2.05%) HTML
15 20 (2.05%) Vue
16 18 (1.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 242 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 85 (8.72%) Public Cloud
3 67 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 66 (6.77%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (3.49%) Management Information System
8 28 (2.87%) Product Ownership
9 24 (2.46%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
11 19 (1.95%) Private Cloud
12 17 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.64%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.54%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.54%) NHS
15 13 (1.33%) PKI
16 12 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 186 (19.08%) Linux
2 110 (11.28%) Windows
3 48 (4.92%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.28%) Unix
5 22 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.54%) Debian
8 11 (1.13%) VMS
9 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.41%) CentOS
10 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.31%) AIX
11 3 (0.31%) Android
11 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.21%) Solaris
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (69.33%) CI/CD
2 635 (65.13%) DevOps
3 334 (34.26%) Agile
4 246 (25.23%) Containerisation
5 203 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
6 189 (19.38%) Software Engineering
7 167 (17.13%) Mentoring
8 163 (16.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 154 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
10 142 (14.56%) AI
11 141 (14.46%) Observability
12 139 (14.26%) Test Automation
13 125 (12.82%) Microservices
14 114 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 106 (10.87%) Analytics
16 103 (10.56%) Cloud Security
17 100 (10.26%) Roadmaps
18 96 (9.85%) Technical Leadership
19 94 (9.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 93 (9.54%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 416 (42.67%) Python
2 175 (17.95%) PowerShell
3 166 (17.03%) SQL
4 146 (14.97%) Bash
5 98 (10.05%) Java
6 94 (9.64%) Bicep
7 83 (8.51%) C#
8 82 (8.41%) JavaScript
9 79 (8.10%) Go
10 62 (6.36%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.23%) C++
13 11 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.62%) Ruby
15 4 (0.41%) PHP
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
15 4 (0.41%) Scala
16 3 (0.31%) C
16 3 (0.31%) Perl
16 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 114 (11.69%) Azure Certification
3 94 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 92 (9.44%) SC Cleared
5 90 (9.23%) Degree
6 58 (5.95%) DV Cleared
7 51 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.18%) Master's Degree
10 28 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 23 (2.36%) CCNP
13 16 (1.64%) DBS Check
14 10 (1.03%) CISSP
15 9 (0.92%) CCNA
16 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
17 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
17 7 (0.72%) PMP
18 6 (0.62%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.33%) GDPR
1 52 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (4.51%) QA
3 29 (2.97%) NIST
4 18 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.64%) SOC 2
6 13 (1.33%) SLA
7 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (0.82%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.51%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.31%) GRC
14 2 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 281 (28.82%) Docker
2 66 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 35 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.85%) vSphere
6 15 (1.54%) NFS
7 9 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.82%) Firmware
8 8 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.62%) KVM
9 6 (0.62%) vCloud
10 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.51%) XenApp
10 5 (0.51%) XenDesktop
10 5 (0.51%) zsh
11 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.21%) Xen
12 1 (0.10%) HDFS
12 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 641 (65.74%) Terraform
2 400 (41.03%) Kubernetes
3 259 (26.56%) Ansible
4 111 (11.38%) Grafana
5 104 (10.67%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 27 (2.77%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.85%) SCCM
9 15 (1.54%) Argo
9 15 (1.54%) Puppet
10 12 (1.23%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (1.03%) SCOM
13 6 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
13 6 (0.62%) HAProxy
14 5 (0.51%) MaaS360
14 5 (0.51%) Rancher
14 5 (0.51%) Salt
14 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 205 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.33%) VMware
3 79 (8.10%) Google
4 65 (6.67%) Cisco
5 53 (5.44%) Databricks
6 36 (3.69%) Splunk
7 32 (3.28%) Red Hat
8 28 (2.87%) Palo Alto
9 22 (2.26%) Black Duck
10 21 (2.15%) Meraki
10 21 (2.15%) SolarWinds
11 17 (1.74%) Commvault
11 17 (1.74%) Coverity
11 17 (1.74%) Oracle
12 16 (1.64%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.23%) Siebel
14 11 (1.13%) Aruba
14 11 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
14 11 (1.13%) UiPath
15 10 (1.03%) Mellanox