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

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 123 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 -40 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 998 1,257 1,623
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.17% 2.09% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.49% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 737 766 1,254
10th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £51,075
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £108,125 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 39,473 50,431 43,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.87% 83.90% 93.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 26,092 33,423
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £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% - -1.64%
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 19 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 19 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 +9 472 £85,000 -5.56% 669
North of England +6 191 £70,000 +16.67% 185
South East +20 125 £76,250 +24.49% 180
North West -6 84 £65,250 +4.40% 128
Yorkshire +1 82 £70,000 +27.27% 43
Midlands +24 67 £65,000 -1.52% 65
South West -43 58 £62,500 -10.71% 102
West Midlands +14 47 £65,000 -5.80% 39
East of England +22 32 £67,500 -6.90% 36
North East -5 25 £71,289 +42.58% 14
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +56.63% 26
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 53 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (3.61%) Apache
3 32 (3.21%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.00%) Confluence
5 19 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.10%) Appian
6 11 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 10 (1.00%) nginx
8 4 (0.40%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.40%) Traefik
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.40%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.40%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 621 (62.22%) AWS
2 605 (60.62%) Azure
3 215 (21.54%) GCP
4 203 (20.34%) GitHub
5 192 (19.24%) Azure DevOps
6 146 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 143 (14.33%) Serverless
8 114 (11.42%) GitHub Actions
9 101 (10.12%) SaaS
10 99 (9.92%) Amazon S3
11 94 (9.42%) AWS Lambda
12 77 (7.72%) PaaS
13 63 (6.31%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (5.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
15 55 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
16 52 (5.21%) Entra ID
17 50 (5.01%) IaaS
18 43 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 110 (11.02%) Firewall
2 75 (7.52%) DNS
3 66 (6.61%) VPN
4 58 (5.81%) WAN
5 46 (4.61%) TCP/IP
6 43 (4.31%) LAN
7 42 (4.21%) Network Security
8 25 (2.51%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (2.40%) DHCP
10 17 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.40%) BGP
12 13 (1.30%) VLAN
13 12 (1.20%) VoIP
14 11 (1.10%) Internet
14 11 (1.10%) SAN
15 10 (1.00%) Wireless
16 8 (0.80%) Kerberos
16 8 (0.80%) OSPF
17 7 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
17 7 (0.70%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.11%) NoSQL
1 51 (5.11%) SQL Server
2 50 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (4.31%) DynamoDB
5 37 (3.71%) Data Lake
6 29 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (2.71%) Big Data
8 22 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.10%) Redis
10 20 (2.00%) MySQL
11 19 (1.90%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (1.80%) BigQuery
13 17 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.50%) Power BI
15 14 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (1.40%) Relational Database
16 13 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
17 9 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 8 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 145 (14.53%) Jenkins
2 137 (13.73%) Git
3 106 (10.62%) GitLab
4 43 (4.31%) JIRA
5 31 (3.11%) Selenium
6 27 (2.71%) Robot Framework
7 23 (2.30%) Snyk
8 20 (2.00%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.60%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.60%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.40%) CircleCI
11 13 (1.30%) Artifactory
11 13 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.30%) MLflow
12 12 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.90%) JMeter
13 9 (0.90%) Spinnaker
14 7 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.50%) JUnit
General
1 297 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 251 (25.15%) Finance
3 109 (10.92%) Law
4 103 (10.32%) Analytical Skills
5 89 (8.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 86 (8.62%) Banking
7 44 (4.41%) Public Sector
8 42 (4.21%) Retail
9 36 (3.61%) Marketing
10 32 (3.21%) Legal
11 31 (3.11%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.81%) Financial Institution
13 21 (2.10%) Games
14 18 (1.80%) Back Office
15 17 (1.70%) Advertising
16 14 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.20%) Manufacturing
18 11 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.00%) Automotive
19 10 (1.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 199 (19.94%) Senior
2 141 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
3 137 (13.73%) Lead
4 133 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 104 (10.42%) Architect
6 94 (9.42%) Developer
7 88 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (6.71%) Software Engineer
9 62 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 51 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
12 43 (4.31%) Data Engineer
13 33 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.21%) Cloud Architect
14 32 (3.21%) Security Engineer
15 31 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.91%) Lead DevOps
17 28 (2.81%) Python Developer
18 27 (2.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 27 (2.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (9.52%) .NET
2 89 (8.92%) React
3 67 (6.71%) Kafka
4 43 (4.31%) Elastic Stack
4 43 (4.31%) RESTful
5 42 (4.21%) YAML
6 40 (4.01%) Django
7 39 (3.91%) ARM Templates
8 38 (3.81%) Spring
9 37 (3.71%) Node.js
10 35 (3.51%) REST
11 34 (3.41%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.81%) .NET Core
12 28 (2.81%) CSS
12 28 (2.81%) Flask
13 27 (2.71%) HTML
14 25 (2.51%) FastAPI
15 23 (2.30%) Vue
16 22 (2.20%) .NET Framework
17 20 (2.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 256 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 83 (8.32%) Public Cloud
3 69 (6.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.31%) Data Centre
5 40 (4.01%) Distributed Systems
6 39 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 28 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.61%) Product Ownership
10 22 (2.20%) Data Structures
11 21 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
12 19 (1.90%) Private Cloud
12 19 (1.90%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.70%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.30%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (1.30%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 195 (19.54%) Linux
2 114 (11.42%) Windows
3 45 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 32 (3.21%) Unix
5 25 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (2.00%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.50%) Debian
8 14 (1.40%) VMS
9 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.50%) CentOS
11 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.30%) AIX
12 3 (0.30%) Android
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) SUSE
14 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (68.14%) CI/CD
2 641 (64.23%) DevOps
3 319 (31.96%) Agile
4 268 (26.85%) Containerisation
5 222 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (18.84%) Software Engineering
7 187 (18.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (17.43%) Mentoring
9 161 (16.13%) Observability
10 151 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
11 134 (13.43%) AI
12 127 (12.73%) Test Automation
13 125 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 124 (12.42%) Microservices
15 109 (10.92%) Cloud Security
16 103 (10.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 98 (9.82%) Technical Leadership
18 94 (9.42%) Analytics
19 93 (9.32%) DevSecOps
20 88 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 440 (44.09%) Python
2 169 (16.93%) PowerShell
3 162 (16.23%) Bash
4 159 (15.93%) SQL
5 99 (9.92%) Bicep
6 97 (9.72%) Java
7 80 (8.02%) C#
7 80 (8.02%) Go
8 78 (7.82%) JavaScript
9 65 (6.51%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.10%) C++
11 11 (1.10%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.50%) Ruby
12 5 (0.50%) Scala
13 4 (0.40%) Rust
14 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 156 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.22%) SC Cleared
3 94 (9.42%) Azure Certification
4 91 (9.12%) Degree
5 89 (8.92%) AWS Certification
6 70 (7.01%) DV Cleared
7 49 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.61%) Master's Degree
11 25 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.20%) CCNP
13 13 (1.30%) CISSP
14 9 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.90%) OSCP
15 8 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.80%) CCNA
16 7 (0.70%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.70%) PMP
17 5 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (5.01%) GDPR
3 41 (4.11%) QA
4 36 (3.61%) NIST
5 23 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.00%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.20%) SLA
9 11 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.60%) GRC
12 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.50%) WCAG
13 4 (0.40%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.40%) NCSC
14 3 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 306 (30.66%) Docker
2 70 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (6.11%) Active Directory
4 23 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (2.10%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.90%) vSphere
7 15 (1.50%) NFS
8 9 (0.90%) Firmware
8 9 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.70%) vCloud
11 5 (0.50%) KVM
11 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.50%) XenApp
11 5 (0.50%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.50%) zsh
12 2 (0.20%) GPFS
12 2 (0.20%) Lustre
12 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 678 (67.94%) Terraform
2 405 (40.58%) Kubernetes
3 269 (26.95%) Ansible
4 111 (11.12%) Grafana
5 102 (10.22%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.80%) SCCM
8 15 (1.50%) Puppet
9 14 (1.40%) Argo
10 13 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
10 13 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.00%) SCOM
12 9 (0.90%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.70%) Rancher
14 6 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.50%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.50%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.50%) Salt
15 5 (0.50%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.40%) Control-M
Vendors
1 218 (21.84%) Microsoft
2 98 (9.82%) VMware
3 76 (7.62%) Google
4 59 (5.91%) Cisco
5 42 (4.21%) Databricks
6 40 (4.01%) Splunk
7 36 (3.61%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 23 (2.30%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.00%) SolarWinds
11 18 (1.80%) Coverity
12 17 (1.70%) Commvault
12 17 (1.70%) Oracle
13 11 (1.10%) BiZZdesign
13 11 (1.10%) UiPath
14 10 (1.00%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.00%) Pure Storage
15 9 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.80%) Citrix
16 8 (0.80%) Juniper