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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 125 152
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 36 56 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.89% 1.65% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.80% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 23 30 31
10th Percentile £61,750 £46,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,188 £56,196
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,750 £115,000
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -3.57%

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 3,245 3,106 3,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.78% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,770 1,383 2,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,043
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Oxfordshire +20 15 £72,500 -3.33% 15
Berkshire -24 12 £67,500 -3.57% 61
Buckinghamshire +4 9 £75,000 -11.76% 12
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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (75.00%) AWS
2 21 (58.33%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) Serverless
4 8 (22.22%) Amazon S3
4 8 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (22.22%) GitHub
5 7 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (19.44%) GCP
5 7 (19.44%) SaaS
6 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.56%) Azure Storage
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) LAN
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) WAN
2 2 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (13.89%) DynamoDB
1 5 (13.89%) MySQL
1 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Airbyte
3 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
3 1 (2.78%) Redis
3 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 5 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) git-flow
3 4 (11.11%) MLflow
4 2 (5.56%) GitLab
4 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.78%) Appium
5 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Games
3 4 (11.11%) Law
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Lead
3 5 (13.89%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Team Leader
4 4 (11.11%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Team Leader
4 4 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) .NET
1 6 (16.67%) React
2 5 (13.89%) AWS CDK
2 5 (13.89%) CSS
2 5 (13.89%) Kafka
2 5 (13.89%) Material-UI
2 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (11.11%) HTML
4 3 (8.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.78%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.78%) Blazor
5 1 (2.78%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.78%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.78%) Middleware
5 1 (2.78%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
5 1 (2.78%) Snowpark
5 1 (2.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.33%) Animation
3 3 (8.33%) Life Science
4 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 23 (63.89%) DevOps
3 14 (38.89%) Agile
4 11 (30.56%) AI
5 9 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 9 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 9 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (16.67%) Microservices
7 5 (13.89%) B2B
7 5 (13.89%) Decision-Making
7 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven
7 5 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) MLOps
7 5 (13.89%) Software Delivery
8 4 (11.11%) Cloud Security
8 4 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 4 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) C#
5 4 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) Bicep
6 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.78%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.56%) vCloud
2 2 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (25.00%) Ansible
4 4 (11.11%) Kubeflow
5 3 (8.33%) Grafana
6 2 (5.56%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.56%) Rundeck
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.78%) Salesforce