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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 125 84
Rank change year-on-year -4 -41 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 958 1,254 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 2.25% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.59% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 726 792 1,233
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,550 £51,050
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £91,063 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% 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 41,486 48,456 42,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.29% 87.03% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,004 25,273 32,594
10th Percentile £28,500 £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% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £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% - -0.83%

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 7 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 7 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 +3 426 £85,000 -5.56% 255
North of England -8 191 £70,000 +16.67% 239
South East +24 122 £78,000 +20.00% 315
North West +6 84 £66,500 +2.31% 113
Yorkshire -20 82 £70,000 +27.27% 102
Midlands +17 71 £67,250 +3.64% 149
South West -39 65 £62,500 -10.71% 139
West Midlands +7 44 £67,500 +1.12% 82
East of England +27 32 £66,500 -8.28% 109
East Midlands +21 25 £67,000 +59.52% 61
North East -2 25 £70,079 +40.16% 25
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 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (3.34%) Apache
3 20 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.09%) Confluence
4 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.63%) Appian
6 6 (0.63%) IIS
7 5 (0.52%) nginx
8 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) SAS
9 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
9 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 599 (62.53%) Azure
2 594 (62.00%) AWS
3 211 (22.03%) GCP
4 208 (21.71%) GitHub
5 202 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
6 141 (14.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 139 (14.51%) Serverless
8 125 (13.05%) GitHub Actions
9 99 (10.33%) SaaS
10 91 (9.50%) Amazon S3
11 89 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
12 78 (8.14%) PaaS
13 62 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 59 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (6.05%) Microsoft 365
16 51 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
17 50 (5.22%) Entra ID
17 50 (5.22%) IaaS
18 48 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
19 44 (4.59%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 107 (11.17%) Firewall
2 69 (7.20%) DNS
3 62 (6.47%) VPN
4 52 (5.43%) WAN
5 46 (4.80%) TCP/IP
6 38 (3.97%) Network Security
7 37 (3.86%) LAN
8 27 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (2.71%) DHCP
10 15 (1.57%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.36%) BGP
11 13 (1.36%) VLAN
12 12 (1.25%) VoIP
13 11 (1.15%) Internet
13 11 (1.15%) Wireless
14 10 (1.04%) SAN
15 7 (0.73%) OSPF
15 7 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.73%) Wireshark
16 6 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.22%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.11%) NoSQL
3 47 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (4.91%) SQL Server
4 39 (4.07%) DynamoDB
5 36 (3.76%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.30%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.09%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.09%) MySQL
8 20 (2.09%) Redis
9 19 (1.98%) Big Data
10 16 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.46%) Power BI
13 11 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.15%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 154 (16.08%) Jenkins
2 139 (14.51%) Git
3 104 (10.86%) GitLab
4 39 (4.07%) JIRA
5 29 (3.03%) Selenium
6 24 (2.51%) Robot Framework
7 20 (2.09%) Snyk
8 16 (1.67%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.67%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.57%) MLflow
10 14 (1.46%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 13 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 12 (1.25%) Artifactory
13 10 (1.04%) JMeter
14 8 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
15 6 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.52%) git-flow
16 5 (0.52%) Locust
16 5 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 276 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 218 (22.76%) Finance
3 94 (9.81%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (7.52%) Law
5 67 (6.99%) Banking
6 44 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 42 (4.38%) Public Sector
8 40 (4.18%) Retail
9 36 (3.76%) Telecoms
10 27 (2.82%) Financial Institution
11 25 (2.61%) Legal
12 24 (2.51%) Games
13 22 (2.30%) Marketing
14 17 (1.77%) Advertising
15 16 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 14 (1.46%) Back Office
17 13 (1.36%) Billing
17 13 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.15%) Electronics
18 11 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 195 (20.35%) Senior
2 143 (14.93%) DevOps Engineer
3 131 (13.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 111 (11.59%) Lead
5 106 (11.06%) Architect
6 96 (10.02%) Platform Engineer
7 90 (9.39%) Developer
8 68 (7.10%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (4.59%) Software Engineer
12 39 (4.07%) Data Engineer
13 34 (3.55%) Cloud Architect
14 32 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.24%) Security Engineer
16 30 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
16 30 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.03%) Support Engineer
18 23 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.39%) .NET
2 83 (8.66%) React
3 49 (5.11%) Kafka
4 44 (4.59%) RESTful
5 42 (4.38%) ARM Templates
5 42 (4.38%) Elastic Stack
5 42 (4.38%) YAML
6 41 (4.28%) Node.js
7 36 (3.76%) Django
8 32 (3.34%) Spring
9 29 (3.03%) .NET Core
9 29 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 27 (2.82%) REST
11 25 (2.61%) FastAPI
12 24 (2.51%) CSS
12 24 (2.51%) Flask
13 23 (2.40%) HTML
14 20 (2.09%) AWS CDK
15 19 (1.98%) .NET Framework
16 18 (1.88%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 243 (25.37%) Cloud Native
2 71 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 67 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 52 (5.43%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.13%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 25 (2.61%) Security Posture
10 24 (2.51%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.77%) Private Cloud
13 16 (1.67%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.57%) Distributed Architecture
15 14 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
16 13 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.36%) PKI
17 10 (1.04%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 206 (21.50%) Linux
2 117 (12.21%) Windows
3 41 (4.28%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.76%) Unix
5 20 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.09%) VMS
6 14 (1.46%) Debian
7 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.52%) CentOS
9 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.31%) Android
10 3 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.31%) Solaris
10 3 (0.31%) SUSE
11 2 (0.21%) AIX
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (68.37%) CI/CD
2 623 (65.03%) DevOps
3 308 (32.15%) Agile
4 252 (26.30%) Containerisation
5 204 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 166 (17.33%) Observability
8 157 (16.39%) Mentoring
9 144 (15.03%) Platform Engineering
10 140 (14.61%) Software Engineering
11 137 (14.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 128 (13.36%) Cloud Security
13 127 (13.26%) AI
14 111 (11.59%) Microservices
15 108 (11.27%) Test Automation
16 106 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 99 (10.33%) Analytics
17 99 (10.33%) DevSecOps
18 88 (9.19%) Incident Response
19 86 (8.98%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 414 (43.22%) Python
2 182 (19.00%) PowerShell
3 172 (17.95%) Bash
4 149 (15.55%) SQL
5 107 (11.17%) Bicep
6 87 (9.08%) Java
7 74 (7.72%) C#
8 72 (7.52%) JavaScript
9 63 (6.58%) TypeScript
10 61 (6.37%) Go
11 17 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.04%) C++
13 9 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.84%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.73%) Scala
16 5 (0.52%) Ruby
17 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.31%) C
18 3 (0.31%) Perl
19 2 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 160 (16.70%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.66%) Degree
4 82 (8.56%) Azure Certification
5 79 (8.25%) AWS Certification
6 76 (7.93%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (2.19%) CCNP
11 21 (2.19%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.98%) CISSP
13 11 (1.15%) OSCP
14 10 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.73%) PMP
16 6 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.52%) CCIE
17 5 (0.52%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 47 (4.91%) GDPR
3 38 (3.97%) QA
4 35 (3.65%) NIST
5 24 (2.51%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.40%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.98%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 11 (1.15%) SLA
10 10 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.63%) GRC
12 5 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.52%) NCSC
12 5 (0.52%) WCAG
13 4 (0.42%) EU AI Act
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
1 310 (32.36%) Docker
2 61 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (6.26%) Active Directory
4 25 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.98%) vSphere
7 12 (1.25%) NFS
8 11 (1.15%) Firmware
9 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.73%) vCloud
12 6 (0.63%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.52%) KVM
13 5 (0.52%) XenApp
13 5 (0.52%) XenDesktop
14 3 (0.31%) zsh
15 2 (0.21%) GPFS
15 2 (0.21%) Lustre
15 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 659 (68.79%) Terraform
2 382 (39.87%) Kubernetes
3 265 (27.66%) Ansible
4 110 (11.48%) Grafana
5 108 (11.27%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.09%) SCCM
8 19 (1.98%) Argo
9 14 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.25%) Puppet
11 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.15%) Rancher
12 10 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.94%) SCOM
14 6 (0.63%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.52%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.52%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.42%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.42%) Rundeck
16 4 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 208 (21.71%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.50%) VMware
3 66 (6.89%) Google
4 48 (5.01%) Cisco
5 41 (4.28%) Databricks
6 38 (3.97%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.86%) Splunk
8 24 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.09%) Black Duck
10 19 (1.98%) Coverity
10 19 (1.98%) Oracle
11 14 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 11 (1.15%) Commvault
12 11 (1.15%) SAP
13 10 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (1.04%) Juniper
13 10 (1.04%) New Relic
13 10 (1.04%) Zscaler
14 9 (0.94%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.84%) Citrix