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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 128 87
Rank change year-on-year -1 -41 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 975 1,265 1,560
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.07% 2.13% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 2.49% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 729 790 1,241
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,489 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,948
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -4.01% -
75th Percentile £90,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.71% -4.01% -

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 39,773 50,774 42,841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.63% 85.55% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 24,866 26,512 32,958
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,500 £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% - -3.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 29 November 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 November 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 +17 452 £82,500 -8.33% 247
North of England 0 193 £70,000 +16.67% 91
South East +26 121 £78,000 +20.00% 194
North West +14 84 £65,250 +0.38% 58
Yorkshire -6 83 £70,000 +27.27% 22
Midlands +29 69 £65,000 - 44
South West -43 61 £62,500 -10.71% 69
West Midlands +25 47 £65,000 -4.41% 20
East of England +34 30 £66,500 -8.28% 16
North East +4 26 £67,539 +35.08% 11
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +54.76% 22
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 32 (3.28%) Apache
3 24 (2.46%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.05%) Confluence
5 17 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.82%) nginx
6 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.62%) Appian
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.31%) Traefik
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.31%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 605 (62.05%) AWS
2 604 (61.95%) Azure
3 217 (22.26%) GCP
4 208 (21.33%) GitHub
5 197 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
6 141 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (14.26%) Serverless
8 124 (12.72%) GitHub Actions
9 102 (10.46%) SaaS
10 91 (9.33%) Amazon S3
11 90 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
12 77 (7.90%) PaaS
13 60 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 59 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
17 52 (5.33%) Entra ID
18 50 (5.13%) Amazon EKS
19 49 (5.03%) IaaS
20 42 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 108 (11.08%) Firewall
2 72 (7.38%) DNS
3 64 (6.56%) VPN
4 56 (5.74%) WAN
5 46 (4.72%) TCP/IP
6 41 (4.21%) LAN
7 40 (4.10%) Network Security
8 27 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (2.67%) DHCP
10 16 (1.64%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.33%) BGP
11 13 (1.33%) VLAN
12 12 (1.23%) VoIP
13 11 (1.13%) Internet
13 11 (1.13%) SAN
13 11 (1.13%) Wireless
14 7 (0.72%) Kerberos
14 7 (0.72%) OSPF
14 7 (0.72%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.23%) SQL Server
2 50 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 44 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
5 40 (4.10%) DynamoDB
6 34 (3.49%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.26%) Big Data
8 22 (2.26%) BigQuery
8 22 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 20 (2.05%) MySQL
9 20 (2.05%) Redis
10 15 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (1.54%) Power BI
11 14 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
12 13 (1.33%) Relational Database
13 10 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 8 (0.82%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 158 (16.21%) Jenkins
2 136 (13.95%) Git
3 108 (11.08%) GitLab
4 42 (4.31%) JIRA
5 27 (2.77%) Selenium
6 22 (2.26%) Robot Framework
7 18 (1.85%) Snyk
7 18 (1.85%) TeamCity
8 16 (1.64%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.64%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.54%) MLflow
10 13 (1.33%) Artifactory
10 13 (1.33%) CircleCI
10 13 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.03%) JMeter
11 10 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
12 8 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.72%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.51%) git-flow
General
1 278 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 234 (24.00%) Finance
3 100 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (9.54%) Law
5 77 (7.90%) Banking
6 69 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.31%) Retail
8 40 (4.10%) Public Sector
9 34 (3.49%) Telecoms
10 31 (3.18%) Marketing
11 29 (2.97%) Legal
12 27 (2.77%) Financial Institution
13 23 (2.36%) Games
14 17 (1.74%) Advertising
15 15 (1.54%) Back Office
16 14 (1.44%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.13%) Billing
18 11 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
19 9 (0.92%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 192 (19.69%) Senior
2 144 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 127 (13.03%) Lead
4 126 (12.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 105 (10.77%) Architect
6 92 (9.44%) Developer
7 90 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
8 68 (6.97%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (5.74%) Software Engineer
10 55 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (4.51%) Data Engineer
12 34 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
13 31 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (3.08%) Lead DevOps
14 30 (3.08%) Security Engineer
15 29 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.87%) Support Engineer
17 24 (2.46%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.36%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (9.33%) .NET
2 85 (8.72%) React
3 54 (5.54%) Kafka
4 45 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 44 (4.51%) RESTful
6 43 (4.41%) ARM Templates
7 41 (4.21%) YAML
8 38 (3.90%) Django
8 38 (3.90%) Node.js
9 34 (3.49%) Spring
10 30 (3.08%) Spring Boot
11 29 (2.97%) .NET Core
11 29 (2.97%) REST
12 26 (2.67%) Flask
13 25 (2.56%) CSS
13 25 (2.56%) FastAPI
14 24 (2.46%) HTML
15 21 (2.15%) AWS CDK
16 20 (2.05%) .NET Framework
16 20 (2.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 250 (25.64%) Cloud Native
2 80 (8.21%) Public Cloud
3 71 (7.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.44%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (3.59%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (3.18%) Onboarding
8 26 (2.67%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.46%) Product Ownership
10 22 (2.26%) Security Posture
11 20 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.95%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.85%) Private Cloud
14 16 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
15 15 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.33%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.33%) PKI
17 11 (1.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 201 (20.62%) Linux
2 116 (11.90%) Windows
3 44 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.69%) Unix
5 22 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (2.05%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.64%) VMS
8 15 (1.54%) Debian
9 7 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.51%) CentOS
11 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.31%) AIX
12 3 (0.31%) Android
12 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.31%) Solaris
12 3 (0.31%) SUSE
13 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (68.82%) CI/CD
2 627 (64.31%) DevOps
3 312 (32.00%) Agile
4 260 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 216 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (16.82%) Observability
8 161 (16.51%) Mentoring
8 161 (16.51%) Software Engineering
9 144 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 131 (13.44%) AI
12 117 (12.00%) Cloud Security
13 113 (11.59%) Test Automation
14 111 (11.38%) Microservices
15 103 (10.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 93 (9.54%) Analytics
17 90 (9.23%) DevSecOps
18 86 (8.82%) Roadmaps
18 86 (8.82%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 429 (44.00%) Python
2 178 (18.26%) PowerShell
3 168 (17.23%) Bash
4 155 (15.90%) SQL
5 105 (10.77%) Bicep
6 93 (9.54%) Java
7 75 (7.69%) C#
7 75 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 72 (7.38%) Go
9 63 (6.46%) TypeScript
10 19 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.03%) C++
11 10 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.51%) Ruby
13 5 (0.51%) Scala
14 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.31%) Perl
15 3 (0.31%) Rust
16 2 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 157 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 90 (9.23%) Azure Certification
4 87 (8.92%) Degree
5 84 (8.62%) AWS Certification
6 72 (7.38%) DV Cleared
7 43 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 32 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.26%) CCNP
10 22 (2.26%) Master's Degree
11 16 (1.64%) CISSP
12 10 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
13 9 (0.92%) OSCP
14 8 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.72%) PMP
16 6 (0.62%) CCNA
17 5 (0.51%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.92%) GDPR
3 40 (4.10%) QA
4 36 (3.69%) NIST
5 23 (2.36%) Data Quality
6 22 (2.26%) SOC 2
7 20 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.23%) SLA
9 10 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.62%) GRC
11 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.51%) NCSC
11 5 (0.51%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 315 (32.31%) Docker
2 64 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (6.36%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.95%) vSphere
7 13 (1.33%) NFS
8 11 (1.13%) Firmware
9 9 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.72%) vCloud
12 5 (0.51%) KVM
12 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.51%) XenApp
12 5 (0.51%) XenDesktop
13 4 (0.41%) zsh
14 2 (0.21%) GPFS
14 2 (0.21%) Lustre
14 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 669 (68.62%) Terraform
2 395 (40.51%) Kubernetes
3 265 (27.18%) Ansible
4 112 (11.49%) Grafana
5 108 (11.08%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.05%) SCCM
8 18 (1.85%) Argo
9 14 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
9 14 (1.44%) Puppet
10 11 (1.13%) Rancher
10 11 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.03%) SCOM
12 6 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.51%) MaaS360
13 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.41%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.41%) Rundeck
14 4 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 212 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.54%) VMware
3 74 (7.59%) Google
4 53 (5.44%) Cisco
5 42 (4.31%) Databricks
6 41 (4.21%) Splunk
7 38 (3.90%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.67%) Palo Alto
9 18 (1.85%) Black Duck
9 18 (1.85%) Oracle
9 18 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 17 (1.74%) Coverity
11 13 (1.33%) Commvault
12 10 (1.03%) Juniper
13 9 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 9 (0.92%) New Relic
13 9 (0.92%) SAP
13 9 (0.92%) Zscaler
14 8 (0.82%) CrowdStrike
14 8 (0.82%) Pure Storage