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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 126 85
Rank change year-on-year -5 -41 +9
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 941 1,205 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.85% 2.30% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.59% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 722 767 1,191
10th Percentile £48,750 £44,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 42,661 46,460 41,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.78% 88.79% 93.61%
Number of salaries quoted 25,336 23,962 31,724
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,900 £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% - -1.64%

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 14 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 14 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 0 418 £85,000 -5.56% 276
North of England -14 194 £70,000 +16.67% 285
South East +20 117 £75,000 +15.38% 363
Yorkshire -9 87 £70,000 +27.27% 117
North West -2 81 £67,500 +0.86% 140
South West -39 68 £63,225 -12.18% 192
Midlands +18 66 £67,250 +3.82% 212
West Midlands +10 43 £67,500 +2.27% 104
East of England +27 29 £66,500 -8.28% 153
North East -5 26 £67,539 +46.03% 29
East Midlands +7 21 £67,000 +55.22% 96
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 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (3.29%) Apache
3 19 (2.02%) Confluence
4 18 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.74%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.64%) Appian
7 6 (0.64%) IIS
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
8 4 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) SAS
9 1 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
9 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
1 587 (62.38%) AWS
2 584 (62.06%) Azure
3 216 (22.95%) GitHub
4 211 (22.42%) Azure DevOps
5 202 (21.47%) GCP
6 147 (15.62%) Serverless
7 142 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 130 (13.82%) GitHub Actions
9 96 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
9 96 (10.20%) SaaS
10 94 (9.99%) Amazon S3
11 74 (7.86%) PaaS
12 65 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
14 55 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
17 48 (5.10%) Entra ID
17 48 (5.10%) IaaS
18 46 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 104 (11.05%) Firewall
2 67 (7.12%) DNS
3 62 (6.59%) VPN
4 51 (5.42%) WAN
5 46 (4.89%) 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 15 (1.59%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.38%) BGP
11 13 (1.38%) VLAN
12 12 (1.28%) VoIP
13 11 (1.17%) Wireless
14 10 (1.06%) Internet
14 10 (1.06%) SAN
15 7 (0.74%) OSPF
15 7 (0.74%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.74%) Wireshark
16 6 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.31%) NoSQL
3 46 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
4 45 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 43 (4.57%) DynamoDB
6 36 (3.83%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.44%) BigQuery
7 23 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 22 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (2.23%) MySQL
10 18 (1.91%) Redis
11 16 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
13 14 (1.49%) Big Data
13 14 (1.49%) Power BI
14 10 (1.06%) Relational Database
15 8 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (0.85%) Metadata
15 8 (0.85%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 156 (16.58%) Jenkins
2 142 (15.09%) Git
3 103 (10.95%) GitLab
4 37 (3.93%) JIRA
5 30 (3.19%) Selenium
6 25 (2.66%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.23%) Snyk
8 18 (1.91%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.70%) MLflow
10 15 (1.59%) TeamCity
11 14 (1.49%) SonarQube
12 13 (1.38%) CircleCI
13 12 (1.28%) Cucumber
14 11 (1.17%) Artifactory
15 10 (1.06%) JMeter
16 7 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
17 5 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.53%) git-flow
17 5 (0.53%) Locust
17 5 (0.53%) Vite
General
1 275 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 202 (21.47%) Finance
3 88 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (6.27%) Law
5 57 (6.06%) Banking
6 43 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 39 (4.14%) Retail
8 38 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.87%) Financial Institution
9 27 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (2.55%) Games
11 22 (2.34%) Legal
12 18 (1.91%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.91%) Marketing
13 14 (1.49%) Billing
14 13 (1.38%) Advertising
14 13 (1.38%) Back Office
14 13 (1.38%) Electronics
15 12 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 189 (20.09%) Senior
2 146 (15.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 126 (13.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 106 (11.26%) Lead
5 101 (10.73%) Architect
6 92 (9.78%) Platform Engineer
7 91 (9.67%) Developer
8 73 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (3.83%) Data Engineer
12 35 (3.72%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.40%) Lead DevOps
14 30 (3.19%) Cloud Architect
14 30 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (3.08%) Support Engineer
16 28 (2.98%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (2.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
18 21 (2.23%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.25%) .NET
2 86 (9.14%) React
3 48 (5.10%) Node.js
4 47 (4.99%) RESTful
5 44 (4.68%) ARM Templates
6 43 (4.57%) Kafka
7 41 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
7 41 (4.36%) YAML
8 32 (3.40%) Django
9 29 (3.08%) .NET Core
10 28 (2.98%) REST
11 27 (2.87%) FastAPI
11 27 (2.87%) Spring
12 24 (2.55%) AWS CDK
12 24 (2.55%) CSS
12 24 (2.55%) Spring Boot
13 23 (2.44%) HTML
14 20 (2.13%) Flask
15 17 (1.81%) ASP.NET
15 17 (1.81%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 235 (24.97%) Cloud Native
2 68 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 58 (6.16%) Public Cloud
4 54 (5.74%) Data Centre
5 35 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
6 29 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 25 (2.66%) Security Posture
9 22 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.81%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.59%) Low-Code
11 15 (1.59%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
13 13 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 13 (1.38%) PKI
14 12 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 10 (1.06%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 208 (22.10%) Linux
2 116 (12.33%) Windows
3 40 (4.25%) Windows Server
4 39 (4.14%) Unix
5 21 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 19 (2.02%) VMS
7 14 (1.49%) Debian
8 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.53%) CentOS
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 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 640 (68.01%) CI/CD
2 620 (65.89%) DevOps
3 301 (31.99%) Agile
4 254 (26.99%) Containerisation
5 193 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 190 (20.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 174 (18.49%) Observability
8 147 (15.62%) Mentoring
9 142 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
10 137 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 129 (13.71%) Cloud Security
12 126 (13.39%) AI
13 122 (12.96%) Software Engineering
14 110 (11.69%) Microservices
15 106 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 102 (10.84%) Analytics
17 101 (10.73%) DevSecOps
17 101 (10.73%) Test Automation
18 90 (9.56%) Incident Response
19 89 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 409 (43.46%) Python
2 178 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 172 (18.28%) Bash
4 148 (15.73%) SQL
5 111 (11.80%) Bicep
6 82 (8.71%) Java
7 76 (8.08%) JavaScript
8 71 (7.55%) TypeScript
9 70 (7.44%) C#
10 55 (5.84%) Go
11 13 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.85%) C++
13 8 (0.85%) Scala
14 5 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.43%) C
15 4 (0.43%) Ruby
15 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.32%) Perl
17 2 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 163 (17.32%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.50%) Degree
4 79 (8.40%) DV Cleared
5 75 (7.97%) Azure Certification
6 74 (7.86%) AWS Certification
7 34 (3.61%) 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
11 21 (2.23%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 11 (1.17%) OSCP
14 7 (0.74%) CISM
14 7 (0.74%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.74%) PMP
15 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 5 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 44 (4.68%) GDPR
3 38 (4.04%) QA
4 34 (3.61%) NIST
5 26 (2.76%) SOC 2
6 23 (2.44%) Data Quality
7 21 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.17%) SLA
10 10 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.64%) GRC
12 5 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.53%) WCAG
13 4 (0.43%) EU AI Act
13 4 (0.43%) NCSC
14 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.21%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 312 (33.16%) Docker
2 61 (6.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (5.84%) Active Directory
4 24 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (2.44%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.91%) vSphere
7 12 (1.28%) NFS
8 11 (1.17%) Firmware
9 9 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.74%) vCloud
12 5 (0.53%) KVM
12 5 (0.53%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.53%) XenApp
12 5 (0.53%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.21%) GPFS
13 2 (0.21%) Lustre
13 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
14 1 (0.11%) iptables
Systems Management
1 660 (70.14%) Terraform
2 372 (39.53%) Kubernetes
3 267 (28.37%) Ansible
4 113 (12.01%) Grafana
5 109 (11.58%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.23%) Argo
8 19 (2.02%) SCCM
9 15 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
10 13 (1.38%) Rancher
11 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.17%) Puppet
12 10 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.96%) SCOM
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.53%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.53%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.43%) Istio
16 4 (0.43%) linkerd
16 4 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 193 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 92 (9.78%) VMware
3 62 (6.59%) Google
4 48 (5.10%) Cisco
5 42 (4.46%) Databricks
6 37 (3.93%) Red Hat
7 36 (3.83%) Splunk
8 25 (2.66%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.23%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.13%) Coverity
11 19 (2.02%) Oracle
12 14 (1.49%) SolarWinds
13 13 (1.38%) SAP
14 11 (1.17%) Commvault
14 11 (1.17%) Juniper
14 11 (1.17%) Zscaler
15 10 (1.06%) Atlassian
15 10 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (1.06%) New Relic
16 9 (0.96%) Salesforce