Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 100 129
Rank change year-on-year +46 +29 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 688 439 571
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.55% 3.40% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.54% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 415 312 469
10th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £70,645 £71,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £106,500 £107,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £123,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,162 12,417 21,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.30% 96.06% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,596 7,558 16,043
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 April 2026. 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
Central London -10 104 £86,250 -6.76% 89
West London -18 10 £105,000 +114.29% 12
East London - 9 £105,000 - 14
South London +13 3 - -
North London - 1 £72,500 - 3
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 30 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.62%) Apache
3 16 (2.33%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.60%) Confluence
6 6 (0.87%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (0.87%) PlantUML
2 4 (0.58%) Weka
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.15%) Maya
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.15%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.15%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 405 (58.87%) AWS
2 364 (52.91%) Azure
3 169 (24.56%) GCP
4 128 (18.60%) AWS CloudFormation
5 123 (17.88%) GitHub
6 116 (16.86%) Serverless
7 98 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
10 63 (9.16%) SaaS
11 59 (8.58%) Datadog
12 58 (8.43%) Amazon S3
12 58 (8.43%) Entra ID
13 48 (6.98%) PaaS
14 47 (6.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (6.83%) Microsoft 365
15 40 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
16 39 (5.67%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (5.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 78 (11.34%) Firewall
2 43 (6.25%) VPN
3 34 (4.94%) WAN
4 33 (4.80%) DNS
5 31 (4.51%) TCP/IP
6 27 (3.92%) Broadband
7 24 (3.49%) Network Security
8 17 (2.47%) DHCP
9 16 (2.33%) LAN
10 14 (2.03%) BGP
11 13 (1.89%) DSL
12 11 (1.60%) SD-WAN
12 11 (1.60%) Software-Defined Networking
13 8 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (1.02%) VLAN
15 6 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
16 5 (0.73%) HTTP
16 5 (0.73%) Internet
16 5 (0.73%) IPv4
17 4 (0.58%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (10.76%) NoSQL
2 34 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
2 34 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
3 31 (4.51%) Data Lake
3 31 (4.51%) Relational Database
4 23 (3.34%) DynamoDB
5 22 (3.20%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 18 (2.62%) BigQuery
6 18 (2.62%) Power BI
7 17 (2.47%) Delta Lake
8 16 (2.33%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.74%) Metadata
12 10 (1.45%) MySQL
12 10 (1.45%) Pinecone
13 9 (1.31%) Redis
14 8 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 108 (15.70%) Jenkins
2 106 (15.41%) GitLab
3 77 (11.19%) Git
4 25 (3.63%) CircleCI
5 19 (2.76%) Bitbucket
6 18 (2.62%) Jaeger
7 14 (2.03%) JIRA
8 12 (1.74%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.60%) Cucumber
9 11 (1.60%) MLflow
10 9 (1.31%) Vite
11 8 (1.16%) Storybook
12 6 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.73%) Balsamiq
13 5 (0.73%) JMeter
13 5 (0.73%) Maven
13 5 (0.73%) Selenium
13 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
15 3 (0.44%) Eclipse
General
1 218 (31.69%) Finance
2 184 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 84 (12.21%) Banking
4 51 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (6.25%) Retail
7 33 (4.80%) Law
8 28 (4.07%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.63%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.20%) Back Office
11 15 (2.18%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.74%) Advertising
13 10 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.02%) Electronics
15 7 (1.02%) Marketing
16 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.73%) Billing
17 5 (0.73%) Games
17 5 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 159 (23.11%) Senior
2 126 (18.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 97 (14.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (11.19%) AWS Engineer
5 73 (10.61%) Lead
6 72 (10.47%) Architect
7 70 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
8 65 (9.45%) Azure Engineer
9 54 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (6.98%) Security Engineer
11 45 (6.54%) Developer
12 41 (5.96%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 39 (5.67%) Data Engineer
14 28 (4.07%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.92%) Senior DevOps
16 26 (3.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.78%) Principal Engineer
16 26 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.78%) Software Engineer
17 25 (3.63%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (8.43%) Kafka
2 40 (5.81%) React
3 37 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
4 32 (4.65%) .NET
5 31 (4.51%) Node.js
6 30 (4.36%) Spring
7 29 (4.22%) RESTful
7 29 (4.22%) Spring Boot
8 28 (4.07%) OAuth
9 26 (3.78%) AWS CDK
10 25 (3.63%) YAML
11 24 (3.49%) PySpark
12 23 (3.34%) REST
13 20 (2.91%) LangChain
14 17 (2.47%) Next.js
14 17 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
14 17 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
14 17 (2.47%) web3js
15 16 (2.33%) ADO
16 15 (2.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (26.45%) Cloud Native
2 46 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 44 (6.40%) Security Posture
4 42 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (5.52%) Public Cloud
6 36 (5.23%) Data Centre
7 21 (3.05%) Blockchain
7 21 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.76%) Web3
9 18 (2.62%) Hedge funds
10 16 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
11 15 (2.18%) Blog
11 15 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.74%) PKI
13 10 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.31%) Product Ownership
14 9 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.08%) Linux
2 86 (12.50%) Windows
3 41 (5.96%) Unix
4 36 (5.23%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.76%) VMS
6 17 (2.47%) Ubuntu
7 14 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.60%) CentOS
9 4 (0.58%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.58%) SUSE
10 3 (0.44%) Android
10 3 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.15%) Rocky
11 1 (0.15%) Solaris
11 1 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (63.23%) CI/CD
2 386 (56.10%) DevOps
3 184 (26.74%) Containerisation
4 163 (23.69%) Observability
5 151 (21.95%) Agile
6 139 (20.20%) AI
7 134 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 119 (17.30%) Cloud Security
9 118 (17.15%) Mentoring
10 115 (16.72%) Platform Engineering
11 109 (15.84%) Software Engineering
12 107 (15.55%) High Availability
13 105 (15.26%) Analytics
14 99 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
15 94 (13.66%) Test Automation
16 90 (13.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 89 (12.94%) Microservices
17 89 (12.94%) Technical Leadership
18 81 (11.77%) DevSecOps
19 78 (11.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 329 (47.82%) Python
2 125 (18.17%) Bash
3 122 (17.73%) SQL
4 106 (15.41%) Java
5 96 (13.95%) Go
6 94 (13.66%) PowerShell
7 61 (8.87%) JavaScript
8 56 (8.14%) Bicep
9 42 (6.10%) TypeScript
10 40 (5.81%) C#
11 19 (2.76%) Rust
12 14 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (1.89%) C++
14 11 (1.60%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.60%) Scala
15 5 (0.73%) Ruby
16 4 (0.58%) Google Apps Script
17 3 (0.44%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.29%) Perl
18 2 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 82 (11.92%) Degree
3 75 (10.90%) AWS Certification
4 66 (9.59%) SC Cleared
5 47 (6.83%) Azure Certification
6 34 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (4.94%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.92%) OSCP
8 20 (2.91%) CISSP
9 19 (2.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.74%) CCNP
12 11 (1.60%) CCSK
13 10 (1.45%) CCNA
13 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 8 (1.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 8 (1.16%) RHCSA
15 7 (1.02%) CREST Certified
16 6 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.98%) SOC 2
2 43 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 42 (6.10%) GDPR
4 34 (4.94%) PCI DSS
5 33 (4.80%) Data Quality
6 29 (4.22%) NIST
7 23 (3.34%) QA
8 14 (2.03%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.02%) GRC
10 6 (0.87%) SLA
11 5 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.58%) EU AI Act
13 3 (0.44%) WCAG
14 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.29%) NCSC
14 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.15%) Basel III
15 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 1 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 202 (29.36%) Docker
2 62 (9.01%) Active Directory
3 32 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.45%) vSphere
6 8 (1.16%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.87%) KVM
8 4 (0.58%) Firmware
9 3 (0.44%) Squid
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 504 (73.26%) Terraform
2 302 (43.90%) Kubernetes
3 152 (22.09%) Ansible
4 95 (13.81%) Prometheus
5 78 (11.34%) Grafana
6 36 (5.23%) Argo
7 27 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (3.05%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (2.33%) Kustomize
10 12 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 9 (1.31%) Cilium
12 7 (1.02%) Istio
12 7 (1.02%) Puppet
12 7 (1.02%) SCCM
12 7 (1.02%) ZABBIX
13 6 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.87%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.73%) linkerd
14 5 (0.73%) Mesos
14 5 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 119 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.32%) Google
3 52 (7.56%) VMware
4 34 (4.94%) Databricks
5 26 (3.78%) Red Hat
6 23 (3.34%) Palo Alto
7 22 (3.20%) Cisco
7 22 (3.20%) Zscaler
8 21 (3.05%) Splunk
9 18 (2.62%) OpenAI
10 14 (2.03%) Oracle
11 10 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.31%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.16%) Okta
14 7 (1.02%) New Relic
15 6 (0.87%) Juniper
15 6 (0.87%) OneLogin
15 6 (0.87%) Varonis
16 5 (0.73%) CheckPoint
16 5 (0.73%) SAP