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

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 125 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -27 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 934 1,160 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.78% 2.33% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 2.58% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 703 733 1,164
10th Percentile £47,523 £46,250 £50,467
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £111,111 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -3.33%

All Process & 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 43,086 44,897 41,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.23% 90.06% 91.31%
Number of salaries quoted 25,747 22,592 32,329
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,000 £80,625 £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 28 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 28 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 +3 430 £83,375 -7.36% 619
North of England -17 189 £70,000 +13.85% 403
South East +16 111 £75,000 +15.38% 429
Yorkshire -13 88 £70,000 +27.27% 157
North West -14 76 £70,000 +3.70% 201
South West -34 66 £62,500 -10.71% 213
Midlands +18 64 £67,000 +1.52% 271
West Midlands +17 42 £65,250 -2.25% 149
East of England +28 27 £67,500 -6.90% 217
North East +5 25 £67,539 +35.08% 46
East Midlands +7 20 £67,500 +3.85% 106
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 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.53%) Apache
3 19 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 19 (2.03%) Confluence
4 18 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.86%) IIS
5 8 (0.86%) 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
1 584 (62.53%) AWS
2 567 (60.71%) Azure
3 220 (23.55%) GitHub
4 216 (23.13%) Azure DevOps
5 199 (21.31%) GCP
6 155 (16.60%) Serverless
7 146 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 136 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
9 105 (11.24%) AWS Lambda
10 97 (10.39%) Amazon S3
11 92 (9.85%) SaaS
12 73 (7.82%) PaaS
13 70 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
14 57 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
15 53 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
16 51 (5.46%) Entra ID
17 50 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
18 48 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
19 46 (4.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 106 (11.35%) Firewall
2 68 (7.28%) DNS
3 62 (6.64%) VPN
4 52 (5.57%) WAN
5 48 (5.14%) TCP/IP
6 33 (3.53%) LAN
7 32 (3.43%) Network Security
8 27 (2.89%) DHCP
9 26 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.50%) BGP
10 14 (1.50%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.39%) Internet
12 12 (1.28%) VLAN
12 12 (1.28%) VoIP
13 10 (1.07%) Broadband
13 10 (1.07%) Wireless
14 9 (0.96%) SAN
15 7 (0.75%) OSPF
15 7 (0.75%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.64%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.32%) NoSQL
1 59 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 42 (4.50%) DynamoDB
5 38 (4.07%) Data Lake
6 25 (2.68%) MongoDB
7 24 (2.57%) BigQuery
8 22 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (2.36%) MySQL
9 18 (1.93%) Redis
10 17 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 16 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.71%) Relational Database
12 15 (1.61%) Power BI
13 12 (1.28%) Big Data
14 9 (0.96%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.86%) Metadata
15 8 (0.86%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 158 (16.92%) Jenkins
2 141 (15.10%) Git
3 108 (11.56%) GitLab
4 34 (3.64%) JIRA
5 29 (3.10%) Selenium
6 25 (2.68%) Robot Framework
7 21 (2.25%) Snyk
8 17 (1.82%) Bitbucket
9 16 (1.71%) MLflow
10 14 (1.50%) CircleCI
10 14 (1.50%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.07%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.07%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.96%) Jaeger
13 9 (0.96%) JMeter
14 6 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 5 (0.54%) git-flow
15 5 (0.54%) Vite
General
1 276 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 205 (21.95%) Finance
3 86 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.42%) Banking
5 55 (5.89%) Law
6 43 (4.60%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.28%) Telecoms
8 38 (4.07%) Retail
9 32 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 27 (2.89%) Financial Institution
11 24 (2.57%) Games
12 21 (2.25%) Legal
13 19 (2.03%) Marketing
14 18 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.71%) Billing
16 14 (1.50%) Advertising
16 14 (1.50%) Back Office
17 13 (1.39%) Electronics
18 11 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
18 11 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 183 (19.59%) Senior
2 148 (15.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 134 (14.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 107 (11.46%) Lead
5 97 (10.39%) Developer
6 92 (9.85%) Architect
7 91 (9.74%) Platform Engineer
8 76 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 54 (5.78%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (3.96%) Data Engineer
12 36 (3.85%) Software Engineer
13 34 (3.64%) Lead DevOps
14 32 (3.43%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.32%) Security Engineer
16 30 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.10%) Support Engineer
18 24 (2.57%) Cloud Security Engineer
19 23 (2.46%) GCP Engineer
19 23 (2.46%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (9.74%) React
2 78 (8.35%) .NET
3 53 (5.67%) Node.js
4 50 (5.35%) RESTful
5 45 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (4.71%) Kafka
7 42 (4.50%) ARM Templates
8 40 (4.28%) YAML
9 32 (3.43%) AWS CDK
10 30 (3.21%) Django
11 29 (3.10%) .NET Core
11 29 (3.10%) REST
11 29 (3.10%) Spring
12 27 (2.89%) FastAPI
13 25 (2.68%) CSS
13 25 (2.68%) Spring Boot
14 24 (2.57%) HTML
15 18 (1.93%) Flask
15 18 (1.93%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (1.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 232 (24.84%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 54 (5.78%) Data Centre
4 49 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 32 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.32%) Security Posture
7 27 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 25 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 24 (2.57%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.14%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.61%) Low-Code
14 13 (1.39%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.28%) PKI
16 11 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
17 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (1.07%) Private Cloud
18 9 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 9 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 211 (22.59%) Linux
2 108 (11.56%) Windows
3 46 (4.93%) Unix
4 37 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 21 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 20 (2.14%) VMS
7 14 (1.50%) Debian
8 7 (0.75%) CentOS
9 5 (0.54%) Android
9 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.43%) Mac OS
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
1 631 (67.56%) CI/CD
2 617 (66.06%) DevOps
3 283 (30.30%) Agile
4 259 (27.73%) Containerisation
5 187 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 184 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 181 (19.38%) Observability
8 148 (15.85%) Mentoring
9 142 (15.20%) Platform Engineering
10 137 (14.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 130 (13.92%) Cloud Security
12 129 (13.81%) AI
13 120 (12.85%) Software Engineering
14 109 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 107 (11.46%) Analytics
15 107 (11.46%) DevSecOps
16 106 (11.35%) Microservices
17 99 (10.60%) Test Automation
18 98 (10.49%) Incident Response
19 91 (9.74%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 403 (43.15%) Python
2 172 (18.42%) Bash
3 164 (17.56%) PowerShell
4 148 (15.85%) SQL
5 112 (11.99%) Bicep
6 88 (9.42%) Java
7 79 (8.46%) JavaScript
8 74 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 68 (7.28%) Go
10 63 (6.75%) C#
11 12 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
11 12 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.07%) C++
12 10 (1.07%) Scala
13 7 (0.75%) C
14 5 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.43%) Ruby
15 4 (0.43%) Rust
15 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 99 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.57%) AWS Certification
4 79 (8.46%) Degree
5 78 (8.35%) DV Cleared
6 69 (7.39%) Azure Certification
7 31 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 25 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.57%) CISSP
11 22 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (2.03%) CCNP
12 19 (2.03%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
13 13 (1.39%) OSCP
14 7 (0.75%) CISM
14 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
14 7 (0.75%) PMP
15 6 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 46 (4.93%) GDPR
3 35 (3.75%) NIST
3 35 (3.75%) QA
4 28 (3.00%) SOC 2
5 26 (2.78%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.61%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 11 (1.18%) SLA
10 6 (0.64%) GRC
11 5 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.54%) NCSC
11 5 (0.54%) 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
1 320 (34.26%) Docker
2 60 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (6.32%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.71%) vSphere
6 11 (1.18%) Firmware
6 11 (1.18%) NFS
7 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.54%) KVM
9 5 (0.54%) vCloud
9 5 (0.54%) XenApp
9 5 (0.54%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.21%) GPFS
10 2 (0.21%) Lustre
10 2 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.21%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 667 (71.41%) Terraform
2 371 (39.72%) Kubernetes
3 265 (28.37%) Ansible
4 119 (12.74%) Prometheus
5 114 (12.21%) Grafana
6 26 (2.78%) Argo
6 26 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (2.03%) SCCM
8 13 (1.39%) Rancher
9 12 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 11 (1.18%) Puppet
11 10 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.96%) SCOM
13 7 (0.75%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
15 5 (0.54%) MaaS360
15 5 (0.54%) ZABBIX
16 4 (0.43%) Istio
16 4 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 185 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.64%) VMware
3 74 (7.92%) Google
4 48 (5.14%) Cisco
5 40 (4.28%) Databricks
6 36 (3.85%) Splunk
7 35 (3.75%) Red Hat
8 26 (2.78%) Palo Alto
9 21 (2.25%) Black Duck
10 20 (2.14%) Coverity
11 16 (1.71%) Oracle
12 15 (1.61%) Zscaler
13 13 (1.39%) SAP
14 12 (1.28%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
15 11 (1.18%) Salesforce
15 11 (1.18%) SolarWinds
16 10 (1.07%) Commvault
16 10 (1.07%) Juniper
16 10 (1.07%) New Relic