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

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 123 79
Rank change year-on-year -12 -44 +17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 986 1,265 1,643
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.16% 2.10% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.52% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 731 767 1,278
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £105,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

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 39,474 50,275 44,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 86.67% 83.28% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 23,954 26,130 33,820
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,389 £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% - -0.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% - -

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 12 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 12 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 +9 468 £85,000 -5.56% 710
North of England -23 183 £70,000 +16.67% 183
South East +24 129 £77,500 +29.17% 193
North West -11 82 £65,000 +4.00% 118
Yorkshire -1 80 £70,000 +27.27% 50
Midlands +23 65 £65,000 -1.52% 56
South West -48 58 £62,500 -10.71% 95
West Midlands +14 46 £65,000 -5.80% 34
East of England +19 36 £66,500 -8.28% 29
North East -6 21 £72,500 +45.00% 15
East Midlands +27 19 £65,000 +56.63% 20
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 51 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (3.85%) Apache
3 35 (3.55%) Apache Spark
4 20 (2.03%) Confluence
5 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (1.12%) Appian
6 11 (1.12%) nginx
6 11 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.41%) IIS
7 4 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.41%) Traefik
8 1 (0.10%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
8 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Adobe XD
1 4 (0.41%) Sketch
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 618 (62.68%) AWS
2 591 (59.94%) Azure
3 215 (21.81%) GCP
4 192 (19.47%) GitHub
5 187 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (15.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 143 (14.50%) Serverless
8 104 (10.55%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (10.14%) Amazon S3
10 99 (10.04%) SaaS
11 95 (9.63%) AWS Lambda
12 73 (7.40%) PaaS
13 69 (7.00%) Amazon EC2
14 59 (5.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 58 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
16 56 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
17 55 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
18 53 (5.38%) Entra ID
19 47 (4.77%) IaaS
20 44 (4.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 106 (10.75%) Firewall
2 73 (7.40%) DNS
3 65 (6.59%) VPN
4 58 (5.88%) WAN
5 43 (4.36%) LAN
5 43 (4.36%) TCP/IP
6 40 (4.06%) Network Security
7 25 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (2.43%) DHCP
9 18 (1.83%) SD-WAN
10 14 (1.42%) BGP
11 13 (1.32%) VLAN
12 12 (1.22%) VoIP
13 11 (1.12%) SAN
14 10 (1.01%) Internet
14 10 (1.01%) Wireless
15 8 (0.81%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.81%) OSPF
15 8 (0.81%) Wireshark
16 7 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.27%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (5.07%) NoSQL
3 49 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 43 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (4.16%) DynamoDB
6 37 (3.75%) Data Lake
7 32 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (3.14%) Big Data
9 20 (2.03%) Redis
10 19 (1.93%) Amazon Athena
10 19 (1.93%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.93%) MySQL
11 18 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (1.83%) BigQuery
12 14 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.42%) Power BI
13 13 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
14 12 (1.22%) Relational Database
15 11 (1.12%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 137 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 132 (13.39%) Git
3 109 (11.05%) GitLab
4 40 (4.06%) JIRA
5 32 (3.25%) Selenium
6 27 (2.74%) Robot Framework
7 23 (2.33%) Snyk
8 20 (2.03%) TeamCity
9 16 (1.62%) CircleCI
9 16 (1.62%) SonarQube
10 14 (1.42%) Bitbucket
11 13 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.32%) MLflow
12 12 (1.22%) Artifactory
12 12 (1.22%) Octopus Deploy
13 9 (0.91%) JMeter
13 9 (0.91%) Spinnaker
14 8 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
15 7 (0.71%) JUnit
16 6 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 291 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 249 (25.25%) Finance
3 110 (11.16%) Law
4 99 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 90 (9.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (8.62%) Banking
7 44 (4.46%) Public Sector
8 43 (4.36%) Retail
9 34 (3.45%) Marketing
10 32 (3.25%) Legal
11 26 (2.64%) Financial Institution
12 22 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.13%) Games
14 20 (2.03%) Back Office
15 16 (1.62%) Advertising
16 13 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.22%) Automotive
18 11 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.01%) Manufacturing
20 9 (0.91%) Billing
Job Titles
1 197 (19.98%) Senior
2 139 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 136 (13.79%) Lead
4 129 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 104 (10.55%) Architect
6 94 (9.53%) Developer
7 88 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (6.69%) Software Engineer
9 63 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (5.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 41 (4.16%) Data Engineer
13 35 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 29 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
15 29 (2.94%) Python Developer
15 29 (2.94%) Security Engineer
16 28 (2.84%) Python Engineer
17 26 (2.64%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.04%) .NET
2 87 (8.82%) React
3 71 (7.20%) Kafka
4 43 (4.36%) RESTful
4 43 (4.36%) YAML
5 40 (4.06%) Django
5 40 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
6 39 (3.96%) ARM Templates
7 38 (3.85%) Node.js
8 37 (3.75%) Spring
9 36 (3.65%) REST
10 33 (3.35%) Spring Boot
11 28 (2.84%) Flask
12 25 (2.54%) .NET Core
13 24 (2.43%) .NET Framework
13 24 (2.43%) CSS
14 23 (2.33%) FastAPI
14 23 (2.33%) HTML
14 23 (2.33%) Vue
15 19 (1.93%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 259 (26.27%) Cloud Native
2 84 (8.52%) Public Cloud
3 67 (6.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.38%) Data Centre
5 40 (4.06%) Distributed Systems
6 38 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (3.45%) Management Information System
8 27 (2.74%) Onboarding
8 27 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 22 (2.23%) Data Structures
10 21 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (2.03%) Distributed Architecture
12 19 (1.93%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.72%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.62%) Low-Code
15 14 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.32%) PKI
17 12 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 187 (18.97%) Linux
2 111 (11.26%) Windows
3 46 (4.67%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.35%) Unix
5 22 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (2.13%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.62%) Debian
8 13 (1.32%) VMS
9 8 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.51%) CentOS
11 4 (0.41%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.30%) AIX
12 3 (0.30%) Android
12 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.30%) Solaris
13 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (68.76%) CI/CD
2 638 (64.71%) DevOps
3 321 (32.56%) Agile
4 261 (26.47%) Containerisation
5 221 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (19.37%) Software Engineering
7 179 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 157 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
10 151 (15.31%) Observability
11 131 (13.29%) AI
11 131 (13.29%) Test Automation
12 127 (12.88%) Microservices
13 123 (12.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 108 (10.95%) Cloud Security
15 102 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 100 (10.14%) Technical Leadership
17 93 (9.43%) Analytics
18 88 (8.92%) DevSecOps
19 86 (8.72%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 433 (43.91%) Python
2 170 (17.24%) PowerShell
3 157 (15.92%) Bash
3 157 (15.92%) SQL
4 97 (9.84%) Java
5 92 (9.33%) Bicep
6 79 (8.01%) C#
7 78 (7.91%) Go
7 78 (7.91%) JavaScript
8 62 (6.29%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.03%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.22%) C++
11 11 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.51%) Ruby
13 4 (0.41%) Rust
13 4 (0.41%) Scala
14 3 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.30%) PHP
14 3 (0.30%) VB
15 2 (0.20%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 148 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 100 (10.14%) Azure Certification
3 96 (9.74%) SC Cleared
4 95 (9.63%) AWS Certification
5 94 (9.53%) Degree
6 65 (6.59%) DV Cleared
7 52 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 35 (3.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 31 (3.14%) Master's Degree
10 27 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.23%) CCNP
13 11 (1.12%) CISSP
14 8 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 8 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.81%) CCNA
15 7 (0.71%) OSCP
15 7 (0.71%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.71%) PMP
16 6 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 54 (5.48%) GDPR
3 41 (4.16%) QA
4 33 (3.35%) NIST
5 21 (2.13%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.93%) PCI DSS
6 19 (1.93%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.22%) SLA
8 10 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 7 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.51%) GRC
11 5 (0.51%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.51%) WCAG
12 4 (0.41%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 300 (30.43%) Docker
2 70 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (6.29%) Active Directory
4 22 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (2.13%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.83%) vSphere
7 15 (1.52%) NFS
8 9 (0.91%) Firmware
8 9 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.61%) KVM
10 6 (0.61%) vCloud
11 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
11 5 (0.51%) XenApp
11 5 (0.51%) XenDesktop
11 5 (0.51%) zsh
12 2 (0.20%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.10%) HDFS
13 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 664 (67.34%) Terraform
2 406 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 262 (26.57%) Ansible
4 108 (10.95%) Grafana
5 101 (10.24%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (1.83%) SCCM
8 15 (1.52%) Argo
8 15 (1.52%) Puppet
9 12 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
10 11 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.01%) SCOM
12 6 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
12 6 (0.61%) HAProxy
13 5 (0.51%) MaaS360
13 5 (0.51%) Rancher
13 5 (0.51%) Salt
13 5 (0.51%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 212 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.43%) VMware
3 81 (8.22%) Google
4 59 (5.98%) Cisco
5 40 (4.06%) Databricks
6 39 (3.96%) Splunk
7 33 (3.35%) Red Hat
8 24 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 23 (2.33%) Black Duck
10 21 (2.13%) SolarWinds
11 18 (1.83%) Coverity
11 18 (1.83%) Oracle
12 17 (1.72%) Commvault
13 11 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
13 11 (1.12%) UiPath
14 10 (1.01%) Fortinet
14 10 (1.01%) Pure Storage
15 8 (0.81%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.81%) Citrix
15 8 (0.81%) Foundry