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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 86
Rank change year-on-year -7 -37 +11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 985 1,287 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.13% 2.10% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% 2.49% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 736 795 1,240
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £51,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% -4.01% -
75th Percentile £90,125 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £107,500 £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 39,525 51,629 43,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.31% 84.22% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 24,668 27,141 33,564
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £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 £99,000 £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 22 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 22 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 +12 460 £82,500 -8.33% 635
North of England +6 191 £70,000 +16.67% 179
South East +26 126 £78,250 +25.20% 198
North West +7 84 £65,250 +0.38% 125
Yorkshire +7 83 £70,000 +27.27% 38
Midlands +37 69 £65,000 -1.52% 63
South West -44 58 £62,500 -10.71% 97
West Midlands +22 47 £65,000 -4.41% 36
East of England +21 30 £66,500 -8.28% 36
North East +4 24 £70,079 +40.16% 16
East Midlands +32 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 47 (4.77%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (3.45%) Apache
3 26 (2.64%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.03%) Confluence
5 18 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.91%) nginx
8 6 (0.61%) Appian
9 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.30%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Traefik
11 1 (0.10%) CMS
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
11 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Adobe XD
1 3 (0.30%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 612 (62.13%) AWS
2 604 (61.32%) Azure
3 218 (22.13%) GCP
4 206 (20.91%) GitHub
5 192 (19.49%) Azure DevOps
6 146 (14.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 140 (14.21%) Serverless
8 119 (12.08%) GitHub Actions
9 102 (10.36%) SaaS
10 91 (9.24%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.14%) Amazon S3
12 77 (7.82%) PaaS
13 60 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (5.89%) Microsoft 365
16 54 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
17 52 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
17 52 (5.28%) Entra ID
18 50 (5.08%) IaaS
19 42 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 110 (11.17%) Firewall
2 73 (7.41%) DNS
3 64 (6.50%) VPN
4 58 (5.89%) WAN
5 45 (4.57%) TCP/IP
6 44 (4.47%) LAN
7 41 (4.16%) Network Security
8 26 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (2.44%) DHCP
10 16 (1.62%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.32%) BGP
11 13 (1.32%) VLAN
12 12 (1.22%) Internet
12 12 (1.22%) VoIP
13 11 (1.12%) SAN
13 11 (1.12%) Wireless
14 7 (0.71%) Kerberos
14 7 (0.71%) OSPF
14 7 (0.71%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.28%) NoSQL
2 50 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 48 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 40 (4.06%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.65%) Data Lake
7 28 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (2.54%) Big Data
9 21 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 21 (2.13%) Redis
10 20 (2.03%) BigQuery
10 20 (2.03%) MySQL
11 16 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
12 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.42%) Power BI
13 13 (1.32%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
15 9 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (0.81%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 151 (15.33%) Jenkins
2 133 (13.50%) Git
3 108 (10.96%) GitLab
4 42 (4.26%) JIRA
5 26 (2.64%) Selenium
6 22 (2.23%) Robot Framework
7 19 (1.93%) TeamCity
8 18 (1.83%) Snyk
9 16 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 15 (1.52%) Bitbucket
11 14 (1.42%) CircleCI
11 14 (1.42%) MLflow
12 13 (1.32%) Artifactory
12 13 (1.32%) Cucumber
13 11 (1.12%) Octopus Deploy
14 9 (0.91%) JMeter
15 7 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.71%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.71%) Spinnaker
16 5 (0.51%) git-flow
General
1 288 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 240 (24.37%) Finance
3 101 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (10.05%) Law
5 81 (8.22%) Banking
6 77 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 42 (4.26%) Retail
8 33 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 32 (3.25%) Marketing
10 30 (3.05%) Legal
11 28 (2.84%) Financial Institution
12 21 (2.13%) Games
13 18 (1.83%) Advertising
14 16 (1.62%) Back Office
15 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.32%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.12%) Billing
17 11 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 201 (20.41%) Senior
2 143 (14.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 130 (13.20%) Cloud Engineer
3 130 (13.20%) Lead
4 103 (10.46%) Architect
5 94 (9.54%) Developer
6 89 (9.04%) Platform Engineer
7 68 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
8 58 (5.89%) Software Engineer
9 56 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (4.37%) Data Engineer
12 34 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
13 33 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.25%) Security Engineer
15 31 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
17 27 (2.74%) Support Engineer
18 26 (2.64%) Python Developer
19 25 (2.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (9.44%) .NET
2 85 (8.63%) React
3 59 (5.99%) Kafka
4 44 (4.47%) Elastic Stack
4 44 (4.47%) RESTful
5 42 (4.26%) ARM Templates
6 41 (4.16%) YAML
7 39 (3.96%) Django
8 38 (3.86%) Node.js
9 36 (3.65%) Spring
10 32 (3.25%) REST
10 32 (3.25%) Spring Boot
11 28 (2.84%) .NET Core
12 27 (2.74%) CSS
12 27 (2.74%) Flask
13 26 (2.64%) HTML
14 25 (2.54%) FastAPI
15 21 (2.13%) Vue
16 20 (2.03%) .NET Framework
16 20 (2.03%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 250 (25.38%) Cloud Native
2 81 (8.22%) Public Cloud
3 72 (7.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.38%) Data Centre
5 39 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
6 37 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 29 (2.94%) Management Information System
9 26 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 22 (2.23%) Security Posture
11 20 (2.03%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.93%) Private Cloud
13 18 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
14 16 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (1.32%) PKI
17 12 (1.22%) Low-Code
18 11 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 197 (20.00%) Linux
2 117 (11.88%) Windows
3 44 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.45%) Unix
5 23 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.52%) Debian
7 15 (1.52%) VMS
8 7 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.51%) CentOS
10 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.30%) AIX
11 3 (0.30%) Android
11 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.30%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) SUSE
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (67.92%) CI/CD
2 630 (63.96%) DevOps
3 310 (31.47%) Agile
4 261 (26.50%) Containerisation
5 214 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 168 (17.06%) Software Engineering
8 163 (16.55%) Mentoring
8 163 (16.55%) Observability
9 149 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
10 133 (13.50%) AI
11 129 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 116 (11.78%) Cloud Security
12 116 (11.78%) Test Automation
13 115 (11.68%) Microservices
14 103 (10.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 95 (9.64%) Analytics
16 91 (9.24%) Technical Leadership
17 90 (9.14%) DevSecOps
18 86 (8.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 428 (43.45%) Python
2 176 (17.87%) PowerShell
3 164 (16.65%) Bash
4 156 (15.84%) SQL
5 103 (10.46%) Bicep
6 92 (9.34%) Java
7 79 (8.02%) C#
8 77 (7.82%) JavaScript
9 74 (7.51%) Go
10 63 (6.40%) TypeScript
11 19 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 11 (1.12%) C++
13 10 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.51%) Ruby
15 5 (0.51%) Scala
16 4 (0.41%) Rust
17 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
18 2 (0.20%) Perl
18 2 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 156 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 101 (10.25%) SC Cleared
3 96 (9.75%) Azure Certification
4 90 (9.14%) Degree
5 87 (8.83%) AWS Certification
6 70 (7.11%) DV Cleared
7 47 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (3.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
11 25 (2.54%) Master's Degree
12 22 (2.23%) CCNP
13 16 (1.62%) CISSP
14 9 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
14 9 (0.91%) OSCP
15 8 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.81%) CCNA
16 7 (0.71%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.71%) PMP
17 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 52 (5.28%) GDPR
3 38 (3.86%) QA
4 37 (3.76%) NIST
5 23 (2.34%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.03%) PCI DSS
6 20 (2.03%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (1.22%) SLA
8 10 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.61%) GRC
10 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.51%) NCSC
10 5 (0.51%) WCAG
11 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.20%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 306 (31.07%) Docker
2 65 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (6.19%) Active Directory
4 23 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.23%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.93%) vSphere
7 14 (1.42%) NFS
8 10 (1.02%) Firmware
9 9 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.71%) 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 (0.20%) GPFS
14 2 (0.20%) Lustre
14 2 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 669 (67.92%) Terraform
2 399 (40.51%) Kubernetes
3 263 (26.70%) Ansible
4 110 (11.17%) Grafana
5 104 (10.56%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.93%) SCCM
8 15 (1.52%) Argo
9 14 (1.42%) Puppet
10 13 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
11 12 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.02%) SCOM
13 9 (0.91%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.81%) Rancher
15 6 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
16 5 (0.51%) MaaS360
16 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
17 4 (0.41%) Control-M
17 4 (0.41%) Rundeck
17 4 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 216 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.44%) VMware
3 77 (7.82%) Google
4 57 (5.79%) Cisco
5 40 (4.06%) Databricks
6 39 (3.96%) Splunk
7 36 (3.65%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.64%) Palo Alto
9 19 (1.93%) SolarWinds
10 18 (1.83%) Black Duck
11 17 (1.73%) Coverity
11 17 (1.73%) Oracle
12 15 (1.52%) Commvault
13 10 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.91%) Atlassian
14 9 (0.91%) Juniper
14 9 (0.91%) New Relic
14 9 (0.91%) Pure Storage
15 8 (0.81%) Citrix
15 8 (0.81%) Foundry