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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 124 93
Rank change year-on-year -6 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 941 1,192 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.81% 2.36% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 2.63% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 712 757 1,156
10th Percentile £47,617 £45,000 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £71,250 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.72% - -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 43,046 45,375 40,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.74% 89.99% 92.72%
Number of salaries quoted 25,692 22,952 31,219
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £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 24 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 24 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 -3 423 £83,375 -6.11% 406
North of England -16 198 £70,000 +15.77% 264
South East +15 110 £75,000 +15.38% 330
Yorkshire -11 88 £70,000 +27.27% 109
North West -3 83 £70,000 +3.70% 118
Midlands +18 67 £65,250 +0.38% 169
South West -35 66 £62,500 -10.71% 152
West Midlands +26 45 £65,000 -1.52% 95
East of England +27 29 £66,500 -8.28% 117
North East 0 27 £65,000 +30.00% 38
East Midlands +2 20 £67,500 +24.81% 65
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 45 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.51%) Apache
3 19 (2.02%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.02%) Confluence
4 18 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.85%) IIS
5 8 (0.85%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.64%) 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 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 588 (62.49%) AWS
2 579 (61.53%) Azure
3 220 (23.38%) GitHub
4 217 (23.06%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (21.47%) GCP
6 153 (16.26%) Serverless
7 148 (15.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 134 (14.24%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (11.16%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (10.31%) Amazon S3
11 92 (9.78%) SaaS
12 72 (7.65%) PaaS
13 68 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 60 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
15 55 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
17 51 (5.42%) Entra ID
18 49 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
19 48 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
20 45 (4.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 109 (11.58%) Firewall
2 67 (7.12%) DNS
3 63 (6.70%) VPN
4 53 (5.63%) WAN
5 48 (5.10%) TCP/IP
6 35 (3.72%) LAN
7 33 (3.51%) Network Security
8 27 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (2.76%) DHCP
10 16 (1.70%) SD-WAN
11 14 (1.49%) BGP
12 12 (1.28%) Internet
12 12 (1.28%) VLAN
12 12 (1.28%) VoIP
13 11 (1.17%) Wireless
14 10 (1.06%) Broadband
14 10 (1.06%) SAN
15 7 (0.74%) OSPF
15 7 (0.74%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.74%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.27%) NoSQL
2 58 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.57%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.93%) Data Lake
7 24 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 23 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 22 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (2.34%) MySQL
10 18 (1.91%) Redis
11 17 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (1.70%) Relational Database
13 14 (1.49%) Power BI
14 12 (1.28%) Big Data
15 8 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.85%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.85%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 157 (16.68%) Jenkins
2 140 (14.88%) Git
3 108 (11.48%) GitLab
4 36 (3.83%) JIRA
5 30 (3.19%) Selenium
6 25 (2.66%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.23%) Snyk
8 18 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 17 (1.81%) MLflow
10 15 (1.59%) TeamCity
11 13 (1.38%) CircleCI
12 12 (1.28%) SonarQube
13 11 (1.17%) Artifactory
13 11 (1.17%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.06%) JMeter
15 9 (0.96%) Jaeger
16 8 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.53%) git-flow
17 5 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 275 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 204 (21.68%) Finance
3 88 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.38%) Banking
5 59 (6.27%) Law
6 43 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.25%) Retail
7 40 (4.25%) Telecoms
8 33 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (2.87%) Financial Institution
10 24 (2.55%) Games
11 22 (2.34%) Legal
12 19 (2.02%) Marketing
13 18 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.59%) Billing
15 14 (1.49%) Advertising
15 14 (1.49%) Back Office
16 13 (1.38%) Electronics
16 13 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (19.45%) Senior
2 146 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (13.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (11.37%) Lead
5 98 (10.41%) Architect
6 96 (10.20%) Developer
7 87 (9.25%) Platform Engineer
8 74 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
9 61 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
11 35 (3.72%) Data Engineer
11 35 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
11 35 (3.72%) Software Engineer
12 30 (3.19%) Security Engineer
12 30 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (3.08%) Support Engineer
14 28 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 23 (2.44%) Cloud Security Engineer
16 22 (2.34%) Cloud Architect
16 22 (2.34%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (9.99%) React
2 85 (9.03%) .NET
3 52 (5.53%) Node.js
4 49 (5.21%) RESTful
5 46 (4.89%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (4.68%) Kafka
7 43 (4.57%) ARM Templates
8 40 (4.25%) YAML
9 32 (3.40%) AWS CDK
10 30 (3.19%) Django
10 30 (3.19%) REST
11 29 (3.08%) .NET Core
12 28 (2.98%) Spring
13 27 (2.87%) FastAPI
14 25 (2.66%) CSS
15 24 (2.55%) HTML
15 24 (2.55%) Spring Boot
16 18 (1.91%) ASP.NET
16 18 (1.91%) Flask
16 18 (1.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 232 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 67 (7.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 55 (5.84%) Data Centre
4 50 (5.31%) Public Cloud
5 35 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.08%) Security Posture
7 28 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (2.76%) Onboarding
9 24 (2.55%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.13%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.59%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 13 (1.38%) PKI
15 12 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
16 10 (1.06%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.06%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 211 (22.42%) Linux
2 111 (11.80%) Windows
3 45 (4.78%) Unix
4 39 (4.14%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.13%) VMS
7 14 (1.49%) Debian
8 7 (0.74%) CentOS
9 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.32%) Android
11 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.32%) Solaris
11 3 (0.32%) SUSE
12 2 (0.21%) 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
1 634 (67.38%) CI/CD
2 624 (66.31%) DevOps
3 293 (31.14%) Agile
4 257 (27.31%) Containerisation
5 188 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
6 185 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 178 (18.92%) Observability
8 145 (15.41%) Mentoring
9 140 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 138 (14.67%) Platform Engineering
11 133 (14.13%) AI
12 130 (13.82%) Cloud Security
13 121 (12.86%) Software Engineering
14 111 (11.80%) Microservices
15 108 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 107 (11.37%) DevSecOps
17 103 (10.95%) Test Automation
18 102 (10.84%) Analytics
19 96 (10.20%) Incident Response
20 88 (9.35%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 404 (42.93%) Python
2 170 (18.07%) Bash
3 169 (17.96%) PowerShell
4 153 (16.26%) SQL
5 110 (11.69%) Bicep
6 88 (9.35%) Java
7 82 (8.71%) JavaScript
8 74 (7.86%) TypeScript
9 70 (7.44%) C#
10 66 (7.01%) Go
11 12 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.06%) C++
14 9 (0.96%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) C
16 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.43%) Ruby
17 4 (0.43%) Rust
17 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 159 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.73%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.61%) Degree
4 80 (8.50%) AWS Certification
5 77 (8.18%) DV Cleared
6 71 (7.55%) Azure Certification
7 32 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.55%) CISSP
11 21 (2.23%) CCNP
12 20 (2.13%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.38%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.38%) OSCP
14 7 (0.74%) CISM
14 7 (0.74%) MCP
14 7 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.74%) PMP
15 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 45 (4.78%) GDPR
3 36 (3.83%) NIST
3 36 (3.83%) QA
4 27 (2.87%) SOC 2
5 24 (2.55%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 14 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.17%) SLA
10 6 (0.64%) GRC
11 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.53%) NCSC
11 5 (0.53%) WCAG
12 4 (0.43%) 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
1 318 (33.79%) Docker
2 62 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 23 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 17 (1.81%) vSphere
7 11 (1.17%) Firmware
7 11 (1.17%) NFS
8 9 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.53%) KVM
11 5 (0.53%) vCloud
11 5 (0.53%) XenApp
11 5 (0.53%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.21%) GPFS
12 2 (0.21%) Lustre
12 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 667 (70.88%) Terraform
2 371 (39.43%) Kubernetes
3 266 (28.27%) Ansible
4 117 (12.43%) Prometheus
5 115 (12.22%) Grafana
6 26 (2.76%) Argo
7 25 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (1.91%) SCCM
9 13 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
9 13 (1.38%) Rancher
10 12 (1.28%) Puppet
11 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.96%) SCOM
14 7 (0.74%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.53%) MaaS360
16 5 (0.53%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.43%) Istio
17 4 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 192 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.67%) VMware
3 72 (7.65%) Google
4 49 (5.21%) Cisco
5 42 (4.46%) Databricks
6 36 (3.83%) Red Hat
6 36 (3.83%) Splunk
7 26 (2.76%) Palo Alto
8 21 (2.23%) Black Duck
9 20 (2.13%) Coverity
10 17 (1.81%) Oracle
11 13 (1.38%) SAP
11 13 (1.38%) SolarWinds
11 13 (1.38%) Zscaler
12 12 (1.28%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
13 11 (1.17%) Juniper
13 11 (1.17%) Salesforce
14 10 (1.06%) Commvault
14 10 (1.06%) New Relic