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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 120 92
Rank change year-on-year -36 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 929 1,472 1,763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.15% 2.13% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 2.61% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 668 943 1,326
10th Percentile £52,425 £45,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £57,948
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -3.33%

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 38,364 56,336 50,848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 88.77% 81.63% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 22,058 32,210 38,175
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £96,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +26 471 £86,000 -4.44% 329
North of England -66 150 £70,000 +16.67% 146
South East -3 115 £80,000 +33.33% 207
North West -47 76 £65,000 -3.70% 75
Yorkshire -23 63 £70,000 +27.27% 46
Midlands -30 60 £65,000 -1.52% 50
South West -24 59 £75,000 +3.45% 59
West Midlands -14 41 £64,500 -7.86% 24
East of England -7 34 £65,000 -10.34% 38
East Midlands +6 19 £65,000 +13.04% 25
North East 0 11 £72,500 +45.00% 25
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (3.44%) Apache Spark
3 30 (3.23%) Apache
4 23 (2.48%) Confluence
5 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.51%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.29%) nginx
7 9 (0.97%) Appian
8 4 (0.43%) Traefik
9 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.43%) Sketch
3 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.22%) Simulink
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 569 (61.25%) Azure
2 530 (57.05%) AWS
3 191 (20.56%) GCP
4 185 (19.91%) Azure DevOps
5 152 (16.36%) GitHub
6 124 (13.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 118 (12.70%) Serverless
8 90 (9.69%) SaaS
9 87 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (8.50%) GitHub Actions
11 78 (8.40%) Amazon S3
12 77 (8.29%) PaaS
13 68 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
13 68 (7.32%) Entra ID
14 63 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
15 60 (6.46%) IaaS
16 56 (6.03%) Power Platform
17 54 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
18 52 (5.60%) Microsoft 365
19 50 (5.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 102 (10.98%) Firewall
2 77 (8.29%) WAN
3 72 (7.75%) VPN
4 71 (7.64%) DNS
5 44 (4.74%) LAN
6 38 (4.09%) Network Security
7 35 (3.77%) SD-WAN
8 26 (2.80%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.94%) DHCP
10 17 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (1.40%) SAN
12 11 (1.18%) BGP
12 11 (1.18%) VLAN
12 11 (1.18%) VoIP
13 10 (1.08%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
15 8 (0.86%) OSPF
16 7 (0.75%) Internet
16 7 (0.75%) Wireless
16 7 (0.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.71%) Data Lake
2 47 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 45 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 40 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (3.77%) Big Data
6 34 (3.66%) DynamoDB
7 31 (3.34%) Power BI
8 27 (2.91%) MySQL
9 25 (2.69%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (2.05%) Amazon Athena
12 17 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 14 (1.51%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.29%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (1.08%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 8 (0.86%) Tableau
18 7 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 134 (14.42%) Git
1 134 (14.42%) Jenkins
2 109 (11.73%) GitLab
3 35 (3.77%) JIRA
4 25 (2.69%) SonarQube
5 20 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.94%) CircleCI
6 18 (1.94%) JUnit
7 17 (1.83%) TeamCity
8 14 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
8 14 (1.51%) Selenium
9 13 (1.40%) Maven
10 11 (1.18%) Bitbucket
10 11 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.08%) Artifactory
12 9 (0.97%) Mockito
12 9 (0.97%) Robot Framework
12 9 (0.97%) Snyk
12 9 (0.97%) Spinnaker
13 7 (0.75%) MLflow
General
1 251 (27.02%) Social Skills
2 247 (26.59%) Finance
3 98 (10.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 98 (10.55%) Law
4 72 (7.75%) Banking
5 66 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
6 34 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 28 (3.01%) Marketing
8 27 (2.91%) Legal
9 24 (2.58%) Retail
10 18 (1.94%) Back Office
11 17 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.72%) Advertising
13 15 (1.61%) Games
14 14 (1.51%) Automotive
15 10 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.08%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.75%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (20.24%) Senior
2 136 (14.64%) Cloud Engineer
2 136 (14.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 135 (14.53%) Lead
4 106 (11.41%) Architect
5 78 (8.40%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (7.97%) Software Engineer
7 73 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
8 69 (7.43%) Developer
9 57 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (5.27%) Cloud Architect
11 48 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (4.52%) Data Engineer
13 39 (4.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 39 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.34%) Python Engineer
16 27 (2.91%) AWS DevOps
16 27 (2.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 24 (2.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.66%) .NET
2 64 (6.89%) React
3 63 (6.78%) Kafka
4 44 (4.74%) ARM Templates
5 43 (4.63%) REST
6 39 (4.20%) Spring
7 38 (4.09%) YAML
8 36 (3.88%) Elastic Stack
9 34 (3.66%) RESTful
10 33 (3.55%) Spring Boot
11 31 (3.34%) .NET Framework
12 29 (3.12%) .NET Core
13 28 (3.01%) Node.js
14 17 (1.83%) OAuth
15 14 (1.51%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.51%) Hibernate
15 14 (1.51%) Loki
15 14 (1.51%) SAML
16 13 (1.40%) GraphQL
16 13 (1.40%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 202 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 82 (8.83%) Public Cloud
3 60 (6.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 58 (6.24%) Data Centre
5 42 (4.52%) Management Information System
6 32 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (3.44%) Legacy Systems
7 25 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 19 (2.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 18 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.72%) NHS
13 15 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.51%) PKI
15 13 (1.40%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.40%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 183 (19.70%) Linux
2 99 (10.66%) Windows
3 55 (5.92%) Windows Server
4 29 (3.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (2.58%) Unix
6 16 (1.72%) Debian
6 16 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.97%) Windows Server 2019
8 7 (0.75%) VMS
9 5 (0.54%) CentOS
10 3 (0.32%) AIX
10 3 (0.32%) Android
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.22%) Solaris
11 2 (0.22%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (67.28%) CI/CD
2 614 (66.09%) DevOps
3 296 (31.86%) Agile
4 246 (26.48%) Containerisation
5 190 (20.45%) Software Engineering
6 175 (18.84%) Problem-Solving
7 162 (17.44%) Mentoring
8 140 (15.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 138 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (14.32%) Microservices
11 119 (12.81%) Analytics
11 119 (12.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 118 (12.70%) Test Automation
13 99 (10.66%) Cloud Security
14 98 (10.55%) Observability
15 95 (10.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 95 (10.23%) Roadmaps
16 93 (10.01%) Migration
17 89 (9.58%) High Availability
18 88 (9.47%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 395 (42.52%) Python
2 185 (19.91%) PowerShell
3 162 (17.44%) SQL
4 145 (15.61%) Bash
5 102 (10.98%) Java
6 87 (9.36%) Go
7 85 (9.15%) Bicep
8 80 (8.61%) C#
9 77 (8.29%) JavaScript
10 50 (5.38%) TypeScript
11 19 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.29%) C++
13 9 (0.97%) Scala
14 8 (0.86%) R
14 8 (0.86%) Rust
15 6 (0.65%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.65%) Ruby
16 5 (0.54%) PHP
17 4 (0.43%) C
17 4 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 114 (12.27%) Azure Certification
2 111 (11.95%) Security Cleared
3 102 (10.98%) Degree
4 91 (9.80%) AWS Certification
5 80 (8.61%) SC Cleared
6 58 (6.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (3.98%) DV Cleared
8 35 (3.77%) Master's Degree
9 27 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (2.37%) CCNP
12 15 (1.61%) DBS Check
13 11 (1.18%) CISSP
14 9 (0.97%) CCNA
15 8 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.65%) PMI Certification
16 6 (0.65%) PMP
17 5 (0.54%) CISM
18 4 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.71%) GDPR
2 36 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.66%) QA
4 25 (2.69%) NIST
5 15 (1.61%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 10 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.65%) SLA
11 3 (0.32%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 264 (28.42%) Docker
2 68 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (6.03%) Active Directory
4 43 (4.63%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (2.26%) Hyper-V
6 16 (1.72%) vSphere
7 15 (1.61%) NFS
8 12 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.54%) zsh
11 4 (0.43%) vCloud
11 4 (0.43%) XenApp
11 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.32%) Firmware
12 3 (0.32%) KVM
13 2 (0.22%) Terminal Server
13 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.22%) Xen
14 1 (0.11%) HDFS
14 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 611 (65.77%) Terraform
2 398 (42.84%) Kubernetes
3 254 (27.34%) Ansible
4 111 (11.95%) Grafana
5 101 (10.87%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.83%) Puppet
9 16 (1.72%) SCCM
10 15 (1.61%) Argo
10 15 (1.61%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
11 10 (1.08%) SCOM
12 9 (0.97%) Istio
13 7 (0.75%) Salt
14 6 (0.65%) HAProxy
15 5 (0.54%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.54%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
16 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 202 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.80%) VMware
3 69 (7.43%) Google
4 64 (6.89%) Cisco
5 60 (6.46%) Databricks
6 35 (3.77%) Red Hat
6 35 (3.77%) Splunk
7 29 (3.12%) Palo Alto
8 23 (2.48%) SolarWinds
9 19 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 19 (2.05%) Meraki
10 17 (1.83%) Commvault
11 16 (1.72%) Siebel
12 14 (1.51%) Aruba
13 13 (1.40%) Mellanox
13 13 (1.40%) NVIDIA
13 13 (1.40%) Oracle
14 11 (1.18%) Citrix
14 11 (1.18%) Pure Storage
15 9 (0.97%) Salesforce