Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 131 190
Rank change year-on-year +21 +59 -104
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 64 54 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.13% 1.59% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.69% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 49 28 42
10th Percentile £51,250 £54,250 £54,920
25th Percentile £61,250 £67,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.90% +31.36% -18.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,813 £70,938
90th Percentile £83,750 £100,250 £76,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +14.81% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,080 3,192 5,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 71.79% 93.91% 83.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,764 1,221 3,862
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Buckinghamshire +7 29 £75,000 -3.23% 7
Berkshire +8 19 £65,000 -23.53% 16
Oxfordshire +4 16 £67,500 -10.00% 16
Infrastructure as Code
South East

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (6.25%) CMS
1 4 (6.25%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (4.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) AWS
2 39 (60.94%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) OpenShift
3 7 (10.94%) SaaS
4 6 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (9.38%) Amazon S3
4 6 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (9.38%) Serverless
5 5 (7.81%) Apigee
5 5 (7.81%) Kong
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (4.69%) Azure API Management
6 3 (4.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Storage
7 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.13%) IaaS
7 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 5 (7.81%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (4.69%) DHCP
3 3 (4.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.56%) Broadband
4 1 (1.56%) Modbus
4 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (18.75%) GitLab
2 7 (10.94%) Git
2 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) SonarQube
4 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.81%) JIRA
5 4 (6.25%) Artifactory
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Games
3 9 (14.06%) Manufacturing
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Lead
3 11 (17.19%) Team Leader
4 9 (14.06%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
4 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 7 (10.94%) Architect
5 7 (10.94%) Solutions Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Automation Specialist
7 5 (7.81%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Junior
7 5 (7.81%) Junior DevOps
7 5 (7.81%) Junior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Network Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Network Specialist
7 5 (7.81%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Telecoms Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Telecoms Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) REST
1 12 (18.75%) YAML
2 10 (15.63%) JSON
3 5 (7.81%) Blazor
3 5 (7.81%) Jinja
3 5 (7.81%) XML
3 5 (7.81%) YANG
4 4 (6.25%) .NET
4 4 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.13%) Loki
6 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.56%) gRPC
6 1 (1.56%) MACH
6 1 (1.56%) React
6 1 (1.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.25%) Life Science
4 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.69%) Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Unix
3 5 (7.81%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.69%) Windows
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (82.81%) CI/CD
2 47 (73.44%) DevOps
3 25 (39.06%) Agile
4 16 (25.00%) AI
4 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.31%) Containerisation
5 13 (20.31%) Microservices
6 12 (18.75%) Generative AI
6 12 (18.75%) Secrets Management
7 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
7 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 9 (14.06%) Cloud Security
8 9 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
9 8 (12.50%) API Management
9 8 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
10 7 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (10.94%) TDD
10 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (37.50%) Python
2 11 (17.19%) Bash
3 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.38%) C#
4 6 (9.38%) Groovy
5 5 (7.81%) Java
5 5 (7.81%) SQL
5 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.25%) Perl
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.13%) C++
8 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (17.19%) Degree
2 9 (14.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.81%) ICAEW
6 4 (6.25%) Master's Degree
6 4 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.88%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.25%) WCAG
3 3 (4.69%) SOC 2
4 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.13%) NIST
4 2 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (56.25%) Terraform
2 19 (29.69%) Ansible
3 12 (18.75%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.38%) Grafana
4 6 (9.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.25%) Packer
6 2 (3.13%) Argo
6 2 (3.13%) Istio
6 2 (3.13%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Red Hat
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.81%) AppDynamics
3 5 (7.81%) Cisco
3 5 (7.81%) F5
3 5 (7.81%) Juniper
3 5 (7.81%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.25%) Databricks
4 4 (6.25%) IBM
4 4 (6.25%) Sitecore
5 3 (4.69%) Adobe
5 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.69%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Atlassian