Infrastructure as Code Jobs in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 226 94
Rank change year-on-year +46 -132 +112
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 139 179 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.41% 0.98% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.19% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 64 151 240
10th Percentile £47,375 £40,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,000 £52,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -16.11% +6.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £76,875 £90,000
90th Percentile £96,225 £105,000 £100,500
England median annual salary £78,810 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +12.59% -6.67% +3.45%

All Process and 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 8,945 15,025 12,095
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.05% 81.95% 94.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,597 10,253 7,399
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +1.82% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South East.

Salary trend for Infrastructure as Code in the South East

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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
Thames Valley +51 59 £77,500 +31.36% 300
Berkshire +37 31 £85,000 +44.07% 193
Hampshire +54 28 £71,500 +19.17% 143
Surrey +50 24 £75,000 +48.51% 89
Buckinghamshire +40 20 £77,500 +34.78% 69
Kent +39 11 £95,000 +25.93% 47
Middlesex - 10 - - 1
Oxfordshire +39 8 £75,000 +3.45% 38
East Sussex +20 4 £85,000 +61.90% 38
West Sussex +20 2 £57,500 -14.81% 48
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.60%) Apache
3 4 (2.88%) IBM Domino
4 3 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.16%) Appian
5 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 95 (68.35%) AWS
2 66 (47.48%) Azure
3 37 (26.62%) GCP
4 25 (17.99%) Pulumi
4 25 (17.99%) SaaS
5 23 (16.55%) PaaS
6 19 (13.67%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (13.67%) IaaS
7 14 (10.07%) GitHub
8 11 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (7.91%) OCI
9 10 (7.19%) Entra ID
9 10 (7.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (6.47%) Amazon S3
10 9 (6.47%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (5.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.76%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
11 8 (5.76%) Serverless
12 6 (4.32%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (17.99%) Broadband
2 13 (9.35%) Firewall
2 13 (9.35%) WAN
3 12 (8.63%) DNS
3 12 (8.63%) VPN
4 7 (5.04%) LAN
5 5 (3.60%) SD-WAN
6 3 (2.16%) Network Security
7 2 (1.44%) Internet
7 2 (1.44%) MQTT
8 1 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (25.18%) NoSQL
2 28 (20.14%) Relational Database
3 25 (17.99%) RDBMS
4 15 (10.79%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.91%) Big Data
5 11 (7.91%) Hadoop
6 9 (6.47%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (5.76%) MySQL
8 4 (2.88%) Power BI
9 3 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.16%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.44%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.44%) Bigtable
10 2 (1.44%) HBase
10 2 (1.44%) Impala
10 2 (1.44%) Metadata
10 2 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.44%) Tableau
11 1 (0.72%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 25 (17.99%) Jaeger
2 17 (12.23%) Git
3 13 (9.35%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.16%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.16%) Selenium
4 3 (2.16%) Snyk
4 3 (2.16%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.72%) JIRA
General
1 37 (26.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 31 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.51%) Law
4 11 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.04%) Automotive
6 6 (4.32%) Advertising
7 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.44%) Finance
9 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (30.22%) Lead
2 30 (21.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 25 (17.99%) Team Leader
4 22 (15.83%) Senior
5 19 (13.67%) Architect
6 18 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (10.07%) Cloud Architect
7 14 (10.07%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 10 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (6.47%) Data Analytics Director
9 9 (6.47%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (5.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Lead Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Lead Cloud Architect
11 5 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.60%) Software Engineer
12 4 (2.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (20.14%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (17.99%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (9.35%) Kafka
4 8 (5.76%) Node.js
5 5 (3.60%) React
5 5 (3.60%) YAML
6 4 (2.88%) Loki
7 3 (2.16%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.44%) gRPC
8 2 (1.44%) LAMP
8 2 (1.44%) Next.js
9 1 (0.72%) .NET
9 1 (0.72%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.72%) JSON
9 1 (0.72%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.72%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.72%) REST
9 1 (0.72%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.55%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.39%) Public Cloud
3 15 (10.79%) Management Information System
4 10 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (5.76%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.60%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.88%) Hackathon
7 4 (2.88%) IoT
7 4 (2.88%) NHS
7 4 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.88%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.16%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 46 (33.09%) Linux
2 25 (17.99%) Unix
3 11 (7.91%) Windows
4 3 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (67.63%) DevOps
2 77 (55.40%) CI/CD
3 58 (41.73%) Agile
4 50 (35.97%) High Availability
5 47 (33.81%) Roadmaps
6 44 (31.65%) Mentoring
7 38 (27.34%) Containerisation
8 36 (25.90%) Problem-Solving
9 34 (24.46%) Performance Optimisation
10 31 (22.30%) Task Automation
11 30 (21.58%) GitOps
12 29 (20.86%) Resource Management
13 28 (20.14%) Analytics
13 28 (20.14%) Continuous Integration
14 27 (19.42%) Cost Optimisation
15 25 (17.99%) Budget Control
15 25 (17.99%) Product Management
16 24 (17.27%) Platform Engineering
17 22 (15.83%) Artificial Intelligence
18 21 (15.11%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.36%) Python
2 38 (27.34%) Bash
3 34 (24.46%) Go
4 32 (23.02%) Java
4 32 (23.02%) JavaScript
5 25 (17.99%) SQL
6 24 (17.27%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.76%) Bicep
8 4 (2.88%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.16%) C#
9 3 (2.16%) Perl
9 3 (2.16%) PHP
9 3 (2.16%) Ruby
10 2 (1.44%) C
10 2 (1.44%) Groovy
10 2 (1.44%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.72%) Scala
11 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (27.34%) AWS Certification
2 23 (16.55%) Security Cleared
3 18 (12.95%) Azure Certification
3 18 (12.95%) Degree
4 13 (9.35%) DV Cleared
5 11 (7.91%) Master's Degree
5 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
6 10 (7.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.88%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.72%) CCIE
8 1 (0.72%) CCNP
8 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.91%) GDPR
2 9 (6.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.44%) NIST
5 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (34.53%) Docker
2 17 (12.23%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.44%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.44%) HDFS
5 2 (1.44%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 102 (73.38%) Terraform
2 62 (44.60%) Kubernetes
3 55 (39.57%) Ansible
4 33 (23.74%) Prometheus
5 25 (17.99%) Argo
5 25 (17.99%) Kustomize
6 8 (5.76%) Grafana
7 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.44%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (1.44%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (1.44%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.72%) Nagios
9 1 (0.72%) Packer
9 1 (0.72%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 44 (31.65%) Google
2 25 (17.99%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.47%) VMware
4 8 (5.76%) Databricks
5 7 (5.04%) Aruba
5 7 (5.04%) Cisco
5 7 (5.04%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.32%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.32%) Mellanox
6 6 (4.32%) NVIDIA
7 5 (3.60%) Atlassian
8 4 (2.88%) Meraki
9 3 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
9 3 (2.16%) Black Duck
9 3 (2.16%) UiPath
10 2 (1.44%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.44%) Dataiku
10 2 (1.44%) IBM
10 2 (1.44%) MapR
11 1 (0.72%) Oracle