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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 114 121
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 179 50 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.16% 1.52% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.02% 1.79% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 104 31 155
10th Percentile £47,575 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,500 £83,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -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 5,920 2,796 7,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.54% 85.06% 78.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3,905 1,812 5,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +20 82 £88,000 +3.53% 28
Bristol +3 50 £75,000 - 17
Wiltshire -6 15 £75,000 -3.23% 6
Somerset - 12 £70,000 - 8
Devon -23 10 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Dorset -1 4 £97,500 - 3
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.03%) Confluence
3 7 (3.91%) Apache
4 6 (3.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 87 (48.60%) AWS
2 80 (44.69%) Azure
3 40 (22.35%) Serverless
4 38 (21.23%) GCP
5 36 (20.11%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (18.44%) GitHub
7 22 (12.29%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 17 (9.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 16 (8.94%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (8.38%) Azure Functions
11 15 (8.38%) IaaS
11 15 (8.38%) PaaS
12 14 (7.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 14 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (7.82%) OpenShift
13 13 (7.26%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (7.26%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (6.15%) Azure AKS
15 8 (4.47%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.73%) VPN
2 20 (11.17%) Firewall
3 12 (6.70%) Network Security
4 11 (6.15%) WAN
5 10 (5.59%) VLAN
6 8 (4.47%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (3.91%) LAN
8 6 (3.35%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (3.35%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (3.35%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.35%) WebEx
9 4 (2.23%) BGP
9 4 (2.23%) DNS
9 4 (2.23%) IPv4
10 3 (1.68%) AMQP
10 3 (1.68%) Broadband
10 3 (1.68%) DHCP
10 3 (1.68%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.68%) SNMP
10 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.82%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.91%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.91%) InfluxDB
5 6 (3.35%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.35%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.79%) Big Data
6 5 (2.79%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.23%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.68%) Metadata
8 3 (1.68%) MySQL
8 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.12%) Flink
Development Applications
1 54 (30.17%) Git
2 34 (18.99%) Jenkins
3 32 (17.88%) GitLab
4 11 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 10 (5.59%) JIRA
6 8 (4.47%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.47%) Subversion
7 7 (3.91%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.91%) Selenium
7 7 (3.91%) TestRail
8 5 (2.79%) MSI
9 4 (2.23%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.12%) MLflow
11 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.56%) git-flow
11 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.56%) Postman
11 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.32%) Finance
3 22 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.61%) Aerospace
6 13 (7.26%) Law
7 7 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.35%) Banking
8 6 (3.35%) Marketing
8 6 (3.35%) Retail
9 3 (1.68%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Automotive
9 3 (1.68%) Electronics
9 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (20.67%) Senior
2 35 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.06%) Lead
5 16 (8.94%) Architect
6 14 (7.82%) Developer
7 13 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (6.70%) Analyst
8 12 (6.70%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (6.15%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (5.59%) Software Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
12 8 (4.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Site Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Linux Engineer
13 7 (3.91%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.94%) Spring
1 16 (8.94%) Spring Boot
2 15 (8.38%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (8.38%) REST
2 15 (8.38%) RESTful
3 9 (5.03%) Node.js
4 8 (4.47%) .NET
4 8 (4.47%) pytest
4 8 (4.47%) React
5 7 (3.91%) CSS
5 7 (3.91%) CSS3
5 7 (3.91%) GeoJSON
5 7 (3.91%) HTML
5 7 (3.91%) HTML5
5 7 (3.91%) OpenAPI
5 7 (3.91%) Playwright
5 7 (3.91%) Swagger
6 6 (3.35%) Django
6 6 (3.35%) XMPP
7 5 (2.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.55%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (9.50%) Public Cloud
4 13 (7.26%) Product Ownership
5 12 (6.70%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.70%) Podcast
5 12 (6.70%) Security Posture
6 7 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.35%) FlexPod
7 6 (3.35%) Replication
7 6 (3.35%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.23%) CUDA
8 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.68%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.68%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.68%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 70 (39.11%) Linux
2 51 (28.49%) Windows
3 13 (7.26%) VMS
4 12 (6.70%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.59%) CentOS
6 5 (2.79%) Unix
7 4 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.68%) Debian
8 3 (1.68%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.56%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (74.86%) CI/CD
2 109 (60.89%) DevOps
3 83 (46.37%) Agile
4 71 (39.66%) Containerisation
5 54 (30.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 40 (22.35%) DevSecOps
7 39 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (21.79%) Test Automation
8 38 (21.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (20.67%) Observability
10 32 (17.88%) Analytics
11 31 (17.32%) AI
12 29 (16.20%) Mentoring
13 28 (15.64%) Scrum
14 27 (15.08%) Cloud Security
15 26 (14.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 26 (14.53%) Software Engineering
16 25 (13.97%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
17 22 (12.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 98 (54.75%) Python
2 62 (34.64%) Bash
3 39 (21.79%) PowerShell
4 33 (18.44%) Java
5 29 (16.20%) Bicep
6 25 (13.97%) JavaScript
7 19 (10.61%) SQL
8 15 (8.38%) Go
9 13 (7.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (5.59%) C#
11 9 (5.03%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.68%) C++
12 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.12%) C
13 2 (1.12%) Rust
13 2 (1.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (57.54%) Security Cleared
2 51 (28.49%) DV Cleared
3 43 (24.02%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.06%) Azure Certification
5 16 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.35%) Degree
8 6 (3.35%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.79%) CCNA
10 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.23%) ISTQB
10 4 (2.23%) OSCP
10 4 (2.23%) RHCE
11 1 (0.56%) CCNP
11 1 (0.56%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.56%) VCAP
11 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) NCSC
3 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.79%) WCAG
5 3 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.12%) GDPR
6 2 (1.12%) IFRS
6 2 (1.12%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.12%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (36.31%) Docker
2 37 (20.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.41%) Active Directory
4 23 (12.85%) vSphere
5 12 (6.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.91%) VMware NSX
8 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (3.35%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (2.23%) Firmware
9 4 (2.23%) iptables
9 4 (2.23%) Squid
10 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 128 (71.51%) Terraform
2 95 (53.07%) Kubernetes
3 78 (43.58%) Ansible
4 37 (20.67%) Grafana
5 23 (12.85%) Puppet
6 18 (10.06%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.59%) Rancher
8 9 (5.03%) Argo
9 8 (4.47%) Kibana
9 8 (4.47%) logstash
9 8 (4.47%) Packer
9 8 (4.47%) yum
10 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
11 6 (3.35%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (2.23%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.23%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.56%) Istio
13 1 (0.56%) linkerd
13 1 (0.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 45 (25.14%) Microsoft
2 37 (20.67%) VMware
3 20 (11.17%) Red Hat
4 18 (10.06%) Splunk
5 12 (6.70%) Cisco
5 12 (6.70%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (5.03%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.91%) NetApp
8 6 (3.35%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.35%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.79%) Dell
9 5 (2.79%) Google
10 4 (2.23%) Databricks
10 4 (2.23%) Oracle
11 3 (1.68%) SaltStack
12 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.56%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.56%) HP
13 1 (0.56%) Juniper
13 1 (0.56%) Zscaler