Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 18 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 -24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 35 8 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 3.98% 5.84% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 7.14% 5.33%
Number of salaries quoted 27 4 13
10th Percentile £60,500 - -
25th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +63.64% -23.61%
75th Percentile £96,250 £99,688 £78,750
90th Percentile £107,350 £108,125 £81,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £86,500 £83,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.28% +52.27% -23.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 709 112 300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 80.66% 81.75% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 502 72 204
10th Percentile £40,000 £27,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £91,875 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £87,125
Gloucestershire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -8.70%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in Cheltenham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Cheltenham

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 21 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub
4 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (8.57%) Serverless
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) OpenShift
5 2 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.86%) AWS KMS
6 1 (2.86%) GCP
6 1 (2.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) LAN
2 7 (20.00%) VLAN
2 7 (20.00%) WAN
3 6 (17.14%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (17.14%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (17.14%) Unified Communications
3 6 (17.14%) WebEx
4 2 (5.71%) DHCP
4 2 (5.71%) DNS
4 2 (5.71%) VPN
5 1 (2.86%) BGP
5 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
5 1 (2.86%) MPLS
5 1 (2.86%) Network Security
5 1 (2.86%) OSPF
5 1 (2.86%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.71%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
General
1 6 (17.14%) Banking
1 6 (17.14%) Marketing
1 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
1 6 (17.14%) Retail
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
1 6 (17.14%) Telecoms
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Lead
2 11 (31.43%) Lead DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Collaboration Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Senior
7 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Team Leader
8 1 (2.86%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (94.29%) Terraform
2 7 (20.00%) Spring
2 7 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (17.14%) XMPP
4 1 (2.86%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (17.14%) FlexPod
2 6 (17.14%) Onboarding
2 6 (17.14%) Replication
2 6 (17.14%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.71%) Algorithms
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) PKI
4 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (57.14%) Linux
2 11 (31.43%) Windows
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) DevOps
2 19 (54.29%) CI/CD
2 19 (54.29%) Containerisation
3 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (25.71%) Infrastructure Automation
4 9 (25.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Agile
7 6 (17.14%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (17.14%) Data Management
7 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.14%) Performance Management
7 6 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (14.29%) Software Delivery
9 4 (11.43%) Service Delivery
9 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (60.00%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Bash
2 8 (22.86%) Java
3 5 (14.29%) Rust
4 3 (8.57%) Go
4 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.71%) C
5 2 (5.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (74.29%) Security Cleared
2 18 (51.43%) DV Cleared
3 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (28.57%) Docker
2 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (17.14%) Virtual Servers
3 6 (17.14%) vSphere
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.86%) KVM
5 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (74.29%) Ansible
2 18 (51.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.00%) Grafana
4 6 (17.14%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (8.57%) Packer
6 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.86%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.86%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) VMware
2 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.00%) Cisco
3 7 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) NetApp
4 6 (17.14%) Palo Alto
4 6 (17.14%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Arista
5 1 (2.86%) Juniper
5 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds