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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 125 96
Rank change year-on-year -11 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 928 1,154 1,412
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 2.32% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.57% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 696 723 1,151
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,651 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 42,784 44,895 41,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.28% 90.18% 91.26%
Number of salaries quoted 25,500 22,481 31,965
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +3 428 £82,500 -8.33% 507
North of England -13 189 £70,000 +15.77% 154
South East +8 109 £75,000 +15.38% 139
Yorkshire -9 89 £70,000 +27.27% 41
North West -2 75 £68,750 +1.85% 89
South West -28 66 £62,500 -10.71% 63
Midlands +18 62 £67,500 +2.27% 38
West Midlands +11 40 £66,500 -0.37% 26
East of England +25 27 £67,500 -6.90% 24
North East 0 25 £67,539 +35.08% 25
East Midlands +1 20 £67,500 +3.85% 12
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 44 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.56%) Apache
3 19 (2.05%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.05%) Confluence
4 18 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.86%) IIS
5 8 (0.86%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.65%) Appian
7 4 (0.43%) nginx
7 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) SAS
8 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 578 (62.28%) AWS
2 565 (60.88%) Azure
3 220 (23.71%) GitHub
4 214 (23.06%) Azure DevOps
5 201 (21.66%) GCP
6 154 (16.59%) Serverless
7 146 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (14.66%) GitHub Actions
9 104 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (10.45%) Amazon S3
11 93 (10.02%) SaaS
12 74 (7.97%) PaaS
13 70 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
14 57 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
15 52 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.50%) Entra ID
17 50 (5.39%) Amazon EKS
18 49 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
19 47 (5.06%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 107 (11.53%) Firewall
2 68 (7.33%) DNS
3 62 (6.68%) VPN
4 52 (5.60%) WAN
5 48 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 33 (3.56%) LAN
7 32 (3.45%) Network Security
8 27 (2.91%) DHCP
9 26 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.51%) BGP
10 14 (1.51%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.40%) Internet
12 12 (1.29%) VLAN
12 12 (1.29%) VoIP
13 10 (1.08%) Broadband
13 10 (1.08%) Wireless
14 9 (0.97%) SAN
15 7 (0.75%) OSPF
15 7 (0.75%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.36%) NoSQL
1 59 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 41 (4.42%) DynamoDB
5 37 (3.99%) Data Lake
6 25 (2.69%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.59%) BigQuery
8 22 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.37%) MySQL
9 18 (1.94%) Redis
10 17 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.72%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.62%) Power BI
13 12 (1.29%) Big Data
14 9 (0.97%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.86%) Metadata
15 8 (0.86%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 157 (16.92%) Jenkins
2 139 (14.98%) Git
3 107 (11.53%) GitLab
4 34 (3.66%) JIRA
5 27 (2.91%) Selenium
6 25 (2.69%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.26%) Snyk
8 17 (1.83%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.72%) MLflow
10 14 (1.51%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.51%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.19%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.08%) Artifactory
13 9 (0.97%) Jaeger
14 8 (0.86%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.75%) JMeter
16 6 (0.65%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.54%) git-flow
17 5 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 272 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 203 (21.88%) Finance
3 86 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (6.36%) Banking
5 55 (5.93%) Law
6 43 (4.63%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.31%) Telecoms
8 38 (4.09%) Retail
9 30 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.91%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.59%) Games
12 19 (2.05%) Legal
12 19 (2.05%) Marketing
13 18 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 17 (1.83%) Billing
15 14 (1.51%) Advertising
15 14 (1.51%) Back Office
16 13 (1.40%) Electronics
17 11 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (19.61%) Senior
2 148 (15.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (14.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 105 (11.31%) Lead
5 97 (10.45%) Developer
6 93 (10.02%) Architect
7 90 (9.70%) Platform Engineer
8 77 (8.30%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 54 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (3.99%) Data Engineer
12 35 (3.77%) Lead DevOps
12 35 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (3.34%) Security Engineer
15 30 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.13%) Support Engineer
17 24 (2.59%) Cloud Security Engineer
18 23 (2.48%) GCP Engineer
18 23 (2.48%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (9.81%) React
2 77 (8.30%) .NET
3 52 (5.60%) Node.js
4 50 (5.39%) RESTful
5 45 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (4.74%) Kafka
7 42 (4.53%) ARM Templates
8 39 (4.20%) YAML
9 32 (3.45%) AWS CDK
10 30 (3.23%) Django
11 29 (3.13%) .NET Core
11 29 (3.13%) REST
12 28 (3.02%) Spring
13 27 (2.91%) FastAPI
14 25 (2.69%) CSS
14 25 (2.69%) Spring Boot
15 24 (2.59%) HTML
16 18 (1.94%) Flask
16 18 (1.94%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (1.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 229 (24.68%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.82%) Data Centre
4 49 (5.28%) Public Cloud
5 31 (3.34%) Security Posture
6 30 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.69%) Management Information System
9 23 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.16%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.62%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.40%) Data Structures
15 11 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.08%) PKI
16 10 (1.08%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 9 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 209 (22.52%) Linux
2 108 (11.64%) Windows
3 46 (4.96%) Unix
4 37 (3.99%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.26%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.16%) VMS
7 14 (1.51%) Debian
8 7 (0.75%) CentOS
9 5 (0.54%) Android
9 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.32%) Solaris
11 3 (0.32%) SUSE
12 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) AIX
13 1 (0.11%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 628 (67.67%) CI/CD
2 613 (66.06%) DevOps
3 280 (30.17%) Agile
4 257 (27.69%) Containerisation
5 186 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
6 182 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 181 (19.50%) Observability
8 145 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 141 (15.19%) Platform Engineering
10 137 (14.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 130 (14.01%) Cloud Security
12 129 (13.90%) AI
13 119 (12.82%) Software Engineering
14 109 (11.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 107 (11.53%) Analytics
15 107 (11.53%) DevSecOps
16 104 (11.21%) Microservices
17 99 (10.67%) Incident Response
18 97 (10.45%) Test Automation
19 89 (9.59%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 403 (43.43%) Python
2 169 (18.21%) Bash
3 162 (17.46%) PowerShell
4 147 (15.84%) SQL
5 112 (12.07%) Bicep
6 87 (9.38%) Java
7 79 (8.51%) JavaScript
8 73 (7.87%) TypeScript
9 68 (7.33%) Go
10 63 (6.79%) C#
11 12 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.08%) C++
12 10 (1.08%) Scala
13 7 (0.75%) C
14 5 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.43%) Ruby
15 4 (0.43%) Rust
15 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.41%) AWS Certification
3 78 (8.41%) DV Cleared
4 77 (8.30%) Degree
5 69 (7.44%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 25 (2.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.59%) CISSP
10 22 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (2.05%) CCNP
11 19 (2.05%) Master's Degree
12 13 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (1.40%) OSCP
13 7 (0.75%) CISM
13 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
13 7 (0.75%) PMP
14 6 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.65%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.85%) GDPR
3 35 (3.77%) NIST
4 32 (3.45%) QA
5 28 (3.02%) SOC 2
6 26 (2.80%) Data Quality
7 20 (2.16%) PCI DSS
8 15 (1.62%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 10 (1.08%) SLA
12 6 (0.65%) GRC
13 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.54%) NCSC
13 5 (0.54%) WCAG
14 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
15 2 (0.22%) Def Stans
15 2 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.22%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 319 (34.38%) Docker
2 60 (6.47%) Active Directory
2 60 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (2.37%) Hyper-V
3 22 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.72%) vSphere
5 11 (1.19%) Firmware
5 11 (1.19%) NFS
6 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.65%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.54%) KVM
8 5 (0.54%) vCloud
8 5 (0.54%) XenApp
8 5 (0.54%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.22%) GPFS
9 2 (0.22%) Lustre
9 2 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 667 (71.88%) Terraform
2 371 (39.98%) Kubernetes
3 264 (28.45%) Ansible
4 120 (12.93%) Prometheus
5 115 (12.39%) Grafana
6 26 (2.80%) Argo
6 26 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.05%) SCCM
8 13 (1.40%) Rancher
9 12 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.19%) Puppet
10 11 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.97%) SCOM
12 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.54%) MaaS360
15 4 (0.43%) Istio
15 4 (0.43%) linkerd
15 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 185 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.70%) VMware
3 73 (7.87%) Google
4 48 (5.17%) Cisco
5 40 (4.31%) Databricks
6 36 (3.88%) Splunk
7 34 (3.66%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.26%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.16%) Coverity
11 16 (1.72%) Oracle
12 15 (1.62%) Zscaler
13 13 (1.40%) SAP
14 12 (1.29%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.19%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.19%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.08%) Commvault
16 10 (1.08%) Juniper
16 10 (1.08%) New Relic