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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 123 84
Rank change year-on-year -7 -39 +15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 962 1,262 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.99% 2.23% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 2.56% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 728 793 1,223
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,600 £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 £91,250 £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 40,777 49,219 41,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.17% 86.79% 93.60%
Number of salaries quoted 25,092 25,637 32,297
10th Percentile £28,250 £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 £75,000 £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% - -

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 5 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 5 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 +7 432 £85,000 -5.56% 184
North of England -4 190 £70,000 +16.67% 117
South East +26 122 £78,000 +20.00% 141
North West +9 84 £66,500 +2.31% 58
Yorkshire -15 81 £70,000 +27.27% 39
Midlands +30 73 £67,250 +3.64% 37
South West -42 64 £62,500 -10.71% 70
West Midlands +4 45 £66,500 -0.37% 21
East of England +30 32 £66,500 -8.28% 18
East Midlands +16 26 £67,250 +60.12% 15
North East -1 25 £70,079 +40.16% 21
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 (4.57%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (3.33%) Apache
3 20 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.08%) Confluence
4 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.62%) Appian
6 6 (0.62%) IIS
6 6 (0.62%) nginx
7 4 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) SAS
8 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.10%) Traefik
8 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 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.10%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 601 (62.47%) Azure
2 599 (62.27%) AWS
3 212 (22.04%) GCP
4 206 (21.41%) GitHub
5 201 (20.89%) Azure DevOps
6 142 (14.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 140 (14.55%) Serverless
8 123 (12.79%) GitHub Actions
9 100 (10.40%) SaaS
10 91 (9.46%) Amazon S3
11 90 (9.36%) AWS Lambda
12 79 (8.21%) PaaS
13 62 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 60 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
15 59 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
16 52 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
17 51 (5.30%) Entra ID
17 51 (5.30%) IaaS
18 48 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
19 44 (4.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 108 (11.23%) Firewall
2 69 (7.17%) DNS
3 63 (6.55%) VPN
4 53 (5.51%) WAN
5 45 (4.68%) TCP/IP
6 40 (4.16%) Network Security
7 38 (3.95%) LAN
8 27 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
9 25 (2.60%) DHCP
10 15 (1.56%) SD-WAN
11 13 (1.35%) BGP
11 13 (1.35%) VLAN
12 12 (1.25%) VoIP
13 11 (1.14%) Internet
13 11 (1.14%) Wireless
14 10 (1.04%) SAN
15 7 (0.73%) OSPF
15 7 (0.73%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.73%) Wireshark
16 6 (0.62%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.09%) NoSQL
1 49 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (4.99%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (4.89%) SQL Server
4 40 (4.16%) DynamoDB
5 37 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (2.29%) BigQuery
8 20 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.08%) MySQL
8 20 (2.08%) Redis
9 19 (1.98%) Big Data
10 16 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 14 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.46%) Power BI
13 11 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.14%) Relational Database
14 8 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (0.83%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 155 (16.11%) Jenkins
2 138 (14.35%) Git
3 106 (11.02%) GitLab
4 39 (4.05%) JIRA
5 29 (3.01%) Selenium
6 24 (2.49%) Robot Framework
7 20 (2.08%) Snyk
8 16 (1.66%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.66%) TeamCity
9 15 (1.56%) CircleCI
9 15 (1.56%) MLflow
9 15 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 13 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.25%) Artifactory
12 10 (1.04%) JMeter
13 8 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
14 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.52%) git-flow
15 5 (0.52%) Locust
General
1 277 (28.79%) Social Skills
2 219 (22.77%) Finance
3 94 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (7.48%) Law
5 69 (7.17%) Banking
6 44 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 41 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 41 (4.26%) Retail
8 35 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 27 (2.81%) Financial Institution
10 25 (2.60%) Legal
11 24 (2.49%) Games
12 21 (2.18%) Marketing
13 17 (1.77%) Advertising
14 15 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.46%) Back Office
16 13 (1.35%) Billing
16 13 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
17 11 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
18 10 (1.04%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 195 (20.27%) Senior
2 143 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 130 (13.51%) Cloud Engineer
4 112 (11.64%) Lead
5 108 (11.23%) Architect
6 95 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
7 91 (9.46%) Developer
8 67 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
9 57 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (4.57%) Software Engineer
12 39 (4.05%) Data Engineer
13 34 (3.53%) Cloud Architect
14 32 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (3.22%) Security Engineer
16 30 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 29 (3.01%) Lead DevOps
17 29 (3.01%) Support Engineer
18 24 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
19 23 (2.39%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (9.56%) .NET
2 83 (8.63%) React
3 50 (5.20%) Kafka
4 44 (4.57%) RESTful
5 42 (4.37%) ARM Templates
5 42 (4.37%) Elastic Stack
5 42 (4.37%) Node.js
5 42 (4.37%) YAML
6 36 (3.74%) Django
7 33 (3.43%) Spring
8 29 (3.01%) .NET Core
8 29 (3.01%) Spring Boot
9 28 (2.91%) REST
10 25 (2.60%) FastAPI
11 24 (2.49%) CSS
11 24 (2.49%) Flask
12 23 (2.39%) HTML
13 20 (2.08%) .NET Framework
14 19 (1.98%) AWS CDK
15 18 (1.87%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 243 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 73 (7.59%) Public Cloud
3 67 (6.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 53 (5.51%) Data Centre
5 38 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 31 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (3.22%) Onboarding
7 27 (2.81%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.60%) Security Posture
9 24 (2.49%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.87%) Private Cloud
12 16 (1.66%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
14 14 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.46%) Low-Code
15 13 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.35%) PKI
16 10 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 205 (21.31%) Linux
2 118 (12.27%) Windows
3 42 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 36 (3.74%) Unix
5 20 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 20 (2.08%) VMS
6 14 (1.46%) Debian
7 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.52%) CentOS
9 4 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.31%) AIX
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%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (68.50%) CI/CD
2 627 (65.18%) DevOps
3 306 (31.81%) Agile
4 255 (26.51%) Containerisation
5 204 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 168 (17.46%) Observability
8 159 (16.53%) Mentoring
9 145 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
10 142 (14.76%) Software Engineering
11 135 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 128 (13.31%) AI
13 127 (13.20%) Cloud Security
14 110 (11.43%) Microservices
15 109 (11.33%) Test Automation
16 106 (11.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 100 (10.40%) Analytics
18 98 (10.19%) DevSecOps
19 86 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
19 86 (8.94%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 416 (43.24%) Python
2 183 (19.02%) PowerShell
3 173 (17.98%) Bash
4 150 (15.59%) SQL
5 107 (11.12%) Bicep
6 88 (9.15%) Java
7 75 (7.80%) C#
8 72 (7.48%) JavaScript
9 65 (6.76%) TypeScript
10 64 (6.65%) Go
11 17 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.04%) C++
13 9 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.83%) 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%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 102 (10.60%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.63%) Degree
4 81 (8.42%) Azure Certification
5 78 (8.11%) AWS Certification
6 76 (7.90%) DV Cleared
7 36 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (3.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.29%) CCNP
11 21 (2.18%) Master's Degree
12 19 (1.98%) CISSP
13 11 (1.14%) OSCP
14 9 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
15 7 (0.73%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.73%) PMP
16 6 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.62%) CCNA
17 5 (0.52%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (5.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (4.99%) GDPR
3 39 (4.05%) QA
4 35 (3.64%) NIST
5 24 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.39%) SOC 2
7 20 (2.08%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.25%) SLA
9 11 (1.14%) Accessibility
10 10 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.62%) 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 (32.22%) Docker
2 61 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (6.24%) Active Directory
4 25 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (2.29%) Hyper-V
6 19 (1.98%) vSphere
7 12 (1.25%) NFS
8 11 (1.14%) Firmware
9 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
11 7 (0.73%) vCloud
12 6 (0.62%) 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
1 662 (68.81%) Terraform
2 384 (39.92%) Kubernetes
3 264 (27.44%) Ansible
4 110 (11.43%) Grafana
5 108 (11.23%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (2.08%) SCCM
8 19 (1.98%) Argo
9 14 (1.46%) Docker Swarm
10 12 (1.25%) Puppet
11 11 (1.14%) Rancher
12 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
12 10 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
13 9 (0.94%) SCOM
14 6 (0.62%) 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
1 209 (21.73%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.46%) VMware
3 67 (6.96%) Google
4 48 (4.99%) Cisco
5 41 (4.26%) Databricks
6 38 (3.95%) Red Hat
7 37 (3.85%) Splunk
8 24 (2.49%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.08%) Black Duck
10 19 (1.98%) Coverity
11 18 (1.87%) Oracle
12 14 (1.46%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.14%) Commvault
14 10 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
14 10 (1.04%) Juniper
14 10 (1.04%) New Relic
14 10 (1.04%) SAP
14 10 (1.04%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.94%) Atlassian
16 8 (0.83%) Citrix