Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 106 84
Rank change year-on-year +34 -22 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 237 59 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.34% 1.68% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 2.05% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 132 44 137
10th Percentile £47,850 £49,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,375 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,196 2,873 5,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.95% 81.88% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4,904 1,818 3,424
10th Percentile £30,538 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,779 £31,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the South West

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Gloucestershire +22 121 £81,250 -4.41% 89
Bristol +2 65 £70,000 -6.67% 34
Wiltshire -1 20 £75,000 -3.23% 11
Somerset -18 15 £70,000 -6.67% 28
Devon -29 8 £67,500 -3.57% 6
Dorset -3 4 £93,750 - 13
Cornwall +7 2 - - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 18 (7.59%) Apache
2 13 (5.49%) Confluence
3 12 (5.06%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.69%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (49.79%) AWS
2 107 (45.15%) Azure
3 43 (18.14%) GCP
4 41 (17.30%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (17.30%) Serverless
5 40 (16.88%) GitHub
6 26 (10.97%) OpenShift
7 25 (10.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (9.28%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 18 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (7.59%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.17%) Amazon S3
12 16 (6.75%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.75%) PaaS
13 15 (6.33%) IaaS
14 14 (5.91%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (5.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.35%) VPN
2 22 (9.28%) Firewall
3 18 (7.59%) Network Security
4 15 (6.33%) WAN
5 11 (4.64%) BGP
5 11 (4.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (4.22%) VLAN
7 9 (3.80%) LAN
7 9 (3.80%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.38%) DNS
9 6 (2.53%) Wireless
10 5 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (2.11%) OSPF
10 5 (2.11%) SNMP
11 4 (1.69%) AMQP
11 4 (1.69%) IPv4
11 4 (1.69%) WLAN
12 3 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (1.27%) DHCP
12 3 (1.27%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.91%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (5.91%) Big Data
2 12 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.22%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.80%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.95%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.95%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.95%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.95%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.53%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.69%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.69%) Flink
8 4 (1.69%) Metadata
8 4 (1.69%) MySQL
8 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.27%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 59 (24.89%) Git
2 41 (17.30%) GitLab
3 33 (13.92%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.75%) JIRA
5 11 (4.64%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.22%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.22%) Selenium
7 7 (2.95%) MSI
7 7 (2.95%) Robot Framework
7 7 (2.95%) Subversion
8 6 (2.53%) TestRail
9 4 (1.69%) Postman
9 4 (1.69%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.27%) git-flow
10 3 (1.27%) JUnit
10 3 (1.27%) NUnit
10 3 (1.27%) Snyk
11 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.84%) MLflow
12 1 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 54 (22.78%) Finance
3 26 (10.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.70%) Aerospace
5 22 (9.28%) Public Sector
6 19 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.91%) Law
8 8 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.11%) Marketing
10 4 (1.69%) Military
11 3 (1.27%) Banking
11 3 (1.27%) Legal
11 3 (1.27%) Retail
12 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.42%) Automotive
13 1 (0.42%) Electronics
13 1 (0.42%) Games
13 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (25.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (16.88%) Senior
3 32 (13.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 32 (13.50%) Lead
4 26 (10.97%) Architect
5 22 (9.28%) Lead DevOps
6 19 (8.02%) Developer
6 19 (8.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.17%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.49%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Analyst
9 12 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 12 (5.06%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.80%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (74.68%) Terraform
2 24 (10.13%) Spring
2 24 (10.13%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.86%) RESTful
4 19 (8.02%) React
5 18 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (6.75%) REST
7 15 (6.33%) Node.js
8 12 (5.06%) .NET
9 10 (4.22%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.22%) pytest
10 9 (3.80%) GeoJSON
11 8 (3.38%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.38%) CSS
11 8 (3.38%) CSS3
11 8 (3.38%) HTML
11 8 (3.38%) HTML5
11 8 (3.38%) Kafka
12 7 (2.95%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 17 (7.17%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.06%) Podcast
4 12 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.06%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.64%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.69%) CMDB
10 4 (1.69%) PKI
11 3 (1.27%) Blog
11 3 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.27%) FlexPod
11 3 (1.27%) IoT
11 3 (1.27%) Replication
11 3 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 68 (28.69%) Linux
2 47 (19.83%) Windows
3 13 (5.49%) VMS
4 10 (4.22%) CentOS
5 9 (3.80%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.95%) Unix
7 6 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.69%) Debian
8 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.84%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 146 (61.60%) DevOps
3 121 (51.05%) Containerisation
4 109 (45.99%) Agile
5 65 (27.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (24.05%) Observability
7 55 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (22.78%) DevSecOps
9 53 (22.36%) AI
10 52 (21.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (21.52%) Test Automation
12 44 (18.57%) Software Engineering
13 38 (16.03%) Analytics
14 37 (15.61%) Cloud Security
14 37 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (15.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (15.19%) Mentoring
16 33 (13.92%) Scrum
17 32 (13.50%) Deployment Automation
18 31 (13.08%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (54.01%) Python
2 72 (30.38%) Bash
3 51 (21.52%) Java
4 35 (14.77%) Bicep
4 35 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 32 (13.50%) JavaScript
6 29 (12.24%) SQL
7 22 (9.28%) Go
8 17 (7.17%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.38%) C#
11 6 (2.53%) Rust
12 5 (2.11%) Scala
13 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.84%) C
14 2 (0.84%) C++
Qualifications
1 150 (63.29%) Security Cleared
2 79 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 71 (29.96%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.02%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.17%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.22%) Degree
8 9 (3.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.53%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.11%) CCNA
10 5 (2.11%) CCNP
10 5 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.69%) OCP
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.69%) OSCP
11 4 (1.69%) RHCE
12 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.75%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.06%) NCSC
3 10 (4.22%) QA
4 8 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.95%) WCAG
6 6 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.27%) GDPR
7 3 (1.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS
8 2 (0.84%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.84%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.42%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (37.55%) Docker
2 39 (16.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.66%) Active Directory
4 20 (8.44%) vSphere
5 13 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.95%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.11%) Firmware
8 4 (1.69%) Squid
9 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.84%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.42%) KVM
Systems Management
1 140 (59.07%) Kubernetes
2 102 (43.04%) Ansible
3 32 (13.50%) Grafana
4 23 (9.70%) Puppet
5 21 (8.86%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.64%) Argo
7 10 (4.22%) Rancher
8 9 (3.80%) Packer
9 7 (2.95%) Kibana
9 7 (2.95%) logstash
9 7 (2.95%) vCenter Server
9 7 (2.95%) yum
10 5 (2.11%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.69%) Istio
11 4 (1.69%) linkerd
11 4 (1.69%) Mesos
12 3 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.27%) Cisco CUCM
12 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (22.36%) Microsoft
2 43 (18.14%) VMware
3 25 (10.55%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.91%) Splunk
5 12 (5.06%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.06%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (4.22%) Cisco
7 8 (3.38%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.95%) Databricks
8 7 (2.95%) Google
9 5 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 5 (2.11%) Oracle
9 5 (2.11%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.69%) Avaya
10 4 (1.69%) F5
10 4 (1.69%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.69%) Meraki
10 4 (1.69%) NetApp
10 4 (1.69%) Netskope
10 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow