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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 226 113
Rank change year-on-year +39 -113 +81
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 127 177 403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.34% 1.02% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.22% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 51 143 225
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £86,875 £78,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £103,000
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 8,709 14,487 13,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 92.03% 83.62% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4,196 10,016 7,809
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,750 £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 £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 +66 57 £77,500 +31.36% 60
Berkshire +46 29 £85,000 +44.07% 32
Surrey +53 27 £75,000 -3.23% 14
Buckinghamshire +41 21 £77,500 +34.78% 10
Hampshire +31 19 £62,500 -10.71% 37
Middlesex - 12 - -
Kent +41 7 - - 15
Oxfordshire +36 7 £67,500 -5.26% 23
East Sussex +15 4 £85,000 - 5
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 (10.24%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.94%) Apache
3 4 (3.15%) IBM Domino
4 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.36%) Appian
5 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 79 (62.20%) AWS
2 51 (40.16%) Azure
3 29 (22.83%) GCP
4 25 (19.69%) Pulumi
5 17 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (13.39%) SaaS
6 15 (11.81%) PaaS
7 13 (10.24%) Entra ID
8 11 (8.66%) GitHub
9 10 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.87%) Azure Key Vault
9 10 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (7.09%) Amazon S3
10 9 (7.09%) IaaS
10 9 (7.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (6.30%) Power Platform
11 8 (6.30%) Serverless
12 7 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (3.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.69%) Broadband
2 15 (11.81%) DNS
2 15 (11.81%) Firewall
3 13 (10.24%) VPN
4 10 (7.87%) WAN
5 9 (7.09%) 5G
5 9 (7.09%) Bluetooth
5 9 (7.09%) LTE
5 9 (7.09%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (3.15%) LAN
6 4 (3.15%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.36%) Network Security
8 2 (1.57%) DWDM
8 2 (1.57%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.57%) GPON
8 2 (1.57%) Internet
8 2 (1.57%) IPv4
8 2 (1.57%) IPv6
8 2 (1.57%) MPLS
8 2 (1.57%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (27.56%) NoSQL
2 28 (22.05%) Relational Database
3 25 (19.69%) RDBMS
4 15 (11.81%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.66%) Big Data
5 11 (8.66%) Hadoop
6 9 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (6.30%) MySQL
8 4 (3.15%) Power BI
9 3 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.57%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.57%) Bigtable
10 2 (1.57%) HBase
10 2 (1.57%) Impala
10 2 (1.57%) Metadata
10 2 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (19.69%) Jaeger
2 16 (12.60%) Git
3 13 (10.24%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.36%) JIRA
4 3 (2.36%) Robot Framework
4 3 (2.36%) Selenium
4 3 (2.36%) Snyk
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (33.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 38 (29.92%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.17%) Law
4 9 (7.09%) Electronics
4 9 (7.09%) Telecoms
5 8 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Automotive
7 2 (1.57%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Finance
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (31.50%) Lead
2 28 (22.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 26 (20.47%) Team Leader
4 23 (18.11%) Senior
5 19 (14.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Architect
7 10 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Data Analytics Director
8 9 (7.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (5.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (21.26%) Elastic Stack
2 25 (19.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 13 (10.24%) Kafka
4 9 (7.09%) Node.js
5 7 (5.51%) YAML
6 4 (3.15%) Loki
6 4 (3.15%) React
7 3 (2.36%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.57%) gRPC
8 2 (1.57%) LAMP
9 1 (0.79%) .NET
9 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.79%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.79%) JSON
9 1 (0.79%) MERN Stack
9 1 (0.79%) Next.js
9 1 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.79%) REST
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.96%) Cloud Native
2 17 (13.39%) Management Information System
3 13 (10.24%) IoT
3 13 (10.24%) Public Cloud
4 9 (7.09%) NB-IoT
5 6 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.94%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.15%) Hackathon
7 4 (3.15%) NHS
8 3 (2.36%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (43.31%) Linux
2 25 (19.69%) Unix
3 21 (16.54%) Windows
4 12 (9.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (70.08%) DevOps
2 68 (53.54%) CI/CD
3 54 (42.52%) High Availability
4 51 (40.16%) Agile
5 41 (32.28%) Roadmaps
6 34 (26.77%) Containerisation
7 33 (25.98%) Mentoring
7 33 (25.98%) Task Automation
8 32 (25.20%) Analytics
8 32 (25.20%) Performance Optimisation
9 30 (23.62%) GitOps
10 27 (21.26%) Cost Optimisation
11 25 (19.69%) Budget Control
11 25 (19.69%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (19.69%) Product Management
11 25 (19.69%) Resource Management
12 23 (18.11%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (16.54%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (15.75%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 79 (62.20%) Python
2 43 (33.86%) Bash
3 32 (25.20%) Go
4 31 (24.41%) Java
4 31 (24.41%) JavaScript
5 30 (23.62%) PowerShell
6 28 (22.05%) SQL
7 10 (7.87%) Bicep
8 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.36%) C#
9 3 (2.36%) Perl
9 3 (2.36%) PHP
9 3 (2.36%) Ruby
10 2 (1.57%) C
10 2 (1.57%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.79%) Groovy
11 1 (0.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (28.35%) AWS Certification
2 28 (22.05%) Degree
3 17 (13.39%) Azure Certification
4 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
5 11 (8.66%) Master's Degree
6 10 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (7.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 9 (7.09%) Network+ Certification
8 8 (6.30%) SC Cleared
9 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
10 4 (3.15%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.87%) GDPR
2 9 (7.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.79%) NIST
4 1 (0.79%) QA
4 1 (0.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 42 (33.07%) Docker
2 14 (11.02%) Virtual Machines
2 14 (11.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.09%) vSphere
4 3 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 94 (74.02%) Terraform
2 60 (47.24%) Ansible
3 55 (43.31%) Kubernetes
4 32 (25.20%) Prometheus
5 25 (19.69%) Argo
5 25 (19.69%) Kustomize
6 10 (7.87%) Puppet
7 7 (5.51%) Grafana
8 4 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.57%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.79%) Packer
10 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (33.86%) Google
2 29 (22.83%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.60%) VMware
4 10 (7.87%) Databricks
5 7 (5.51%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.15%) Aruba
6 4 (3.15%) Cisco
6 4 (3.15%) Fortinet
6 4 (3.15%) Mellanox
6 4 (3.15%) Meraki
6 4 (3.15%) NVIDIA
6 4 (3.15%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.36%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (2.36%) Black Duck
7 3 (2.36%) UiPath
8 2 (1.57%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.57%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.57%) MapR
8 2 (1.57%) Nokia
8 2 (1.57%) Splunk