Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 145 217
Rank change year-on-year -11 +72 -88
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 144 100 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.02% 1.46% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.63% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 117 57 135
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,700
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £56,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £91,000 £89,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,304 6,151 13,692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.13% 89.87% 84.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,609 3,314 9,866
10th Percentile £29,790 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,339
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 the South East

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 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
Thames Valley +3 54 £75,000 - 37
Hampshire -9 43 £78,500 +8.28% 18
West Sussex -1 24 £70,000 +16.67%
Buckinghamshire -19 22 £75,000 -3.23% 10
Berkshire -2 20 £67,500 -8.47% 18
Surrey -25 13 £62,500 -10.71% 4
Oxfordshire -5 12 £68,750 +1.85% 9
Kent -35 7 £85,000 +8.97%
Sussex - 2 £75,000 -
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.39%) CMS
2 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Confluence
3 1 (0.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 103 (71.53%) Azure
2 76 (52.78%) AWS
3 48 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (18.06%) GitHub
5 24 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (13.19%) PaaS
7 17 (11.81%) IaaS
8 15 (10.42%) OpenShift
9 14 (9.72%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (9.72%) Serverless
10 13 (9.03%) Amazon S3
10 13 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (8.33%) Entra ID
12 11 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (7.64%) Datadog
13 10 (6.94%) Azure AKS
13 10 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
14 9 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 36 (25.00%) Firewall
2 18 (12.50%) VPN
3 9 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (5.56%) DNS
5 7 (4.86%) BGP
6 5 (3.47%) WAN
7 4 (2.78%) Broadband
7 4 (2.78%) LAN
7 4 (2.78%) Wireless
8 2 (1.39%) DHCP
9 1 (0.69%) Modbus
9 1 (0.69%) MPLS
9 1 (0.69%) Network Security
9 1 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.08%) Spark SQL
4 2 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.39%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.39%) Metadata
4 2 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (0.69%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.69%) Power BI
5 1 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (22.22%) GitLab
2 31 (21.53%) Git
3 18 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 11 (7.64%) Selenium
5 10 (6.94%) JIRA
6 9 (6.25%) Robot Framework
7 7 (4.86%) Snyk
7 7 (4.86%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (3.47%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.78%) Artifactory
11 3 (2.08%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (1.39%) git-flow
12 2 (1.39%) Jasmine
12 2 (1.39%) MLflow
12 2 (1.39%) NUnit
12 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.39%) TestRail
12 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.31%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (13.19%) Finance
4 16 (11.11%) Retail
5 14 (9.72%) Games
6 9 (6.25%) Billing
6 9 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 8 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.86%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.78%) Banking
9 4 (2.78%) Law
9 4 (2.78%) Marketing
10 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.08%) Legal
11 2 (1.39%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.39%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.39%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 37 (25.69%) Senior
2 30 (20.83%) Lead
3 23 (15.97%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (13.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Team Leader
7 9 (6.25%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
7 9 (6.25%) Developer
7 9 (6.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 9 (6.25%) Network Engineer
7 9 (6.25%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (5.56%) Administrator
8 8 (5.56%) DevOps Administrator
8 8 (5.56%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 8 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (4.86%) Data Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Operations Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.81%) REST
2 15 (10.42%) ARM Templates
3 14 (9.72%) RabbitMQ
4 13 (9.03%) JSON
5 12 (8.33%) YAML
6 11 (7.64%) .NET
7 8 (5.56%) OAuth
7 8 (5.56%) SAML
8 6 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (3.47%) Jinja
9 5 (3.47%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (3.47%) Visualforce
9 5 (3.47%) XML
9 5 (3.47%) YANG
10 4 (2.78%) Loki
11 3 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (2.08%) PyTorch
11 3 (2.08%) React
11 3 (2.08%) Spring
12 2 (1.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.03%) Product Ownership
3 12 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (6.25%) Private Cloud
5 8 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.78%) ARM Cortex
9 4 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.78%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.08%) Life Science
10 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.39%) Animation
11 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (25.69%) Linux
2 16 (11.11%) Windows
3 9 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.86%) Ubuntu
5 6 (4.17%) Unix
6 3 (2.08%) CentOS
6 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.39%) Android
7 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.39%) VMS
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (79.17%) DevOps
2 112 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 54 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (32.64%) Agile
5 38 (26.39%) Containerisation
5 38 (26.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 35 (24.31%) Observability
7 29 (20.14%) AI
8 27 (18.75%) Test Automation
9 26 (18.06%) Cloud Security
10 20 (13.89%) Microservices
11 19 (13.19%) Scrum
12 17 (11.81%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (11.81%) Infrastructure Automation
12 17 (11.81%) Mentoring
12 17 (11.81%) Secrets Management
13 16 (11.11%) Configuration Management
13 16 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 15 (10.42%) Software Testing
14 15 (10.42%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 66 (45.83%) Python
2 36 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 31 (21.53%) Bash
4 19 (13.19%) Bicep
5 13 (9.03%) SQL
6 11 (7.64%) Go
6 11 (7.64%) Java
7 8 (5.56%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.86%) C#
9 6 (4.17%) Groovy
10 5 (3.47%) Apex Code
11 4 (2.78%) C++
11 4 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.78%) Perl
11 4 (2.78%) Ruby
11 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.08%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.69%) PHP
13 1 (0.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 31 (21.53%) Security Cleared
2 17 (11.81%) Degree
2 17 (11.81%) DV Cleared
3 12 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.39%) PhD
7 1 (0.69%) CISSP
7 1 (0.69%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.81%) QA
2 6 (4.17%) NIST
3 5 (3.47%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.39%) SLA
6 2 (1.39%) WCAG
7 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.69%) NCSC
7 1 (0.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (24.31%) Docker
2 10 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.47%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.78%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 94 (65.28%) Terraform
2 49 (34.03%) Kubernetes
3 40 (27.78%) Ansible
4 25 (17.36%) Grafana
4 25 (17.36%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.56%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.17%) Nagios
7 4 (2.78%) Packer
8 3 (2.08%) Scalr
9 2 (1.39%) Kubeflow
9 2 (1.39%) MIIS
9 2 (1.39%) Nessus
10 1 (0.69%) Argo
10 1 (0.69%) CASB
10 1 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.69%) Istio
10 1 (0.69%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.69%) Podman
10 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.50%) VMware
3 16 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 12 (8.33%) Cisco
5 10 (6.94%) Splunk
6 8 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 7 (4.86%) Black Duck
7 7 (4.86%) Coverity
7 7 (4.86%) Databricks
8 6 (4.17%) AppDynamics
9 5 (3.47%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (3.47%) F5
9 5 (3.47%) Juniper
9 5 (3.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.78%) CheckPoint
10 4 (2.78%) IBM
10 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
11 3 (2.08%) Fortinet
12 2 (1.39%) Sitecore