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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 109 130
Rank change year-on-year +22 +21 -22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 152 50 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.92% 1.73% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 1.96% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 86 31 149
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £54,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,188 £86,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 5,565 2,557 8,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.29% 88.48% 78.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3,716 1,631 5,935
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -1.92% -3.70%
75th Percentile £70,752 £68,525 £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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +14 66 £77,500 -8.82% 26
Bristol +2 48 £72,500 -3.33% 23
Wiltshire -9 12 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Somerset - 9 £70,000 - 6
Devon -29 6 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Dorset +2 4 £97,500 -
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 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.61%) Apache
2 7 (4.61%) Confluence
3 6 (3.95%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 81 (53.29%) AWS
2 69 (45.39%) Azure
3 39 (25.66%) Serverless
4 35 (23.03%) GitHub
5 33 (21.71%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (21.05%) GCP
7 23 (15.13%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (13.16%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (9.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 15 (9.87%) Azure Functions
11 14 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (9.21%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (9.21%) IaaS
12 13 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (8.55%) OpenShift
12 13 (8.55%) PaaS
13 10 (6.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.84%) Firewall
2 17 (11.18%) VPN
3 10 (6.58%) WAN
4 9 (5.92%) Network Security
4 9 (5.92%) VLAN
5 7 (4.61%) LAN
6 6 (3.95%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (3.95%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (3.95%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (3.95%) Unified Communications
6 6 (3.95%) WebEx
7 4 (2.63%) DNS
7 4 (2.63%) IPv4
8 3 (1.97%) AMQP
8 3 (1.97%) BGP
8 3 (1.97%) Broadband
8 3 (1.97%) DHCP
8 3 (1.97%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.32%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.21%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (5.92%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.95%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.29%) Big Data
4 5 (3.29%) Geospatial Data
5 4 (2.63%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.97%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.97%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.97%) Metadata
6 3 (1.97%) MySQL
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.32%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.32%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.32%) Flink
Development Applications
1 46 (30.26%) Git
2 32 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 28 (18.42%) GitLab
4 11 (7.24%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.26%) JIRA
6 7 (4.61%) Cypress.io
7 6 (3.95%) Robot Framework
7 6 (3.95%) Selenium
7 6 (3.95%) Subversion
7 6 (3.95%) TestRail
8 4 (2.63%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.97%) MSI
10 2 (1.32%) MLflow
11 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.66%) git-flow
11 1 (0.66%) Postman
11 1 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 24 (15.79%) Finance
3 19 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (11.84%) Aerospace
4 18 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.55%) Law
6 6 (3.95%) Banking
6 6 (3.95%) Marketing
6 6 (3.95%) Retail
6 6 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (1.97%) Automotive
8 3 (1.97%) Electronics
8 3 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.32%) Billing
9 2 (1.32%) Games
9 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (20.39%) Senior
2 30 (19.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (16.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.55%) Architect
5 12 (7.89%) Analyst
5 12 (7.89%) Developer
5 12 (7.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 12 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Lead
8 8 (5.26%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Software Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Collaboration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
1 12 (7.89%) REST
1 12 (7.89%) RESTful
2 10 (6.58%) Node.js
3 9 (5.92%) React
4 8 (5.26%) Spring
5 7 (4.61%) OpenAPI
5 7 (4.61%) pytest
5 7 (4.61%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.61%) Swagger
6 6 (3.95%) .NET
6 6 (3.95%) Playwright
6 6 (3.95%) XMPP
7 5 (3.29%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.29%) CSS
7 5 (3.29%) CSS3
7 5 (3.29%) Django
7 5 (3.29%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.29%) HTML
7 5 (3.29%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.74%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 14 (9.21%) Security Posture
5 12 (7.89%) Podcast
6 11 (7.24%) Product Ownership
7 10 (6.58%) Onboarding
8 7 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
9 6 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (3.95%) FlexPod
9 6 (3.95%) Replication
9 6 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.63%) CUDA
11 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.97%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.97%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.97%) Video\Live Streaming
12 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 60 (39.47%) Linux
2 46 (30.26%) Windows
3 13 (8.55%) VMS
4 12 (7.89%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.92%) CentOS
6 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.63%) Unix
7 3 (1.97%) Debian
7 3 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.66%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (73.03%) CI/CD
2 91 (59.87%) DevOps
3 68 (44.74%) Agile
4 51 (33.55%) Containerisation
5 49 (32.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 36 (23.68%) DevSecOps
7 35 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (21.71%) Observability
9 32 (21.05%) Test Automation
10 30 (19.74%) Analytics
11 29 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (18.42%) AI
13 27 (17.76%) Cloud Security
14 26 (17.11%) Mentoring
14 26 (17.11%) Scrum
15 23 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (15.13%) Software Engineering
16 20 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (13.16%) Infrastructure Automation
16 20 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 78 (51.32%) Python
2 58 (38.16%) Bash
3 39 (25.66%) PowerShell
4 25 (16.45%) Bicep
5 22 (14.47%) Java
6 19 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 19 (12.50%) SQL
7 13 (8.55%) Kusto Query Language
8 11 (7.24%) Go
9 8 (5.26%) C#
9 8 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.97%) C++
11 2 (1.32%) C
11 2 (1.32%) Rust
11 2 (1.32%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 79 (51.97%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.03%) DV Cleared
3 34 (22.37%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.53%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.95%) Degree
7 5 (3.29%) CCNA
7 5 (3.29%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.63%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.63%) OSCP
8 4 (2.63%) RHCE
9 1 (0.66%) CCNP
9 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.66%) VCAP
9 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.92%) QA
2 5 (3.29%) NCSC
3 4 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.97%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.97%) WCAG
5 2 (1.32%) GDPR
5 2 (1.32%) IFRS
5 2 (1.32%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.32%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (32.89%) Docker
2 34 (22.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (15.13%) vSphere
4 22 (14.47%) Active Directory
5 12 (7.89%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.61%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.61%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (3.95%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.63%) Firmware
8 4 (2.63%) iptables
8 4 (2.63%) Squid
9 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 110 (72.37%) Terraform
2 73 (48.03%) Kubernetes
3 66 (43.42%) Ansible
4 35 (23.03%) Grafana
5 19 (12.50%) Puppet
6 17 (11.18%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.26%) Rancher
8 7 (4.61%) Argo
8 7 (4.61%) Kibana
8 7 (4.61%) logstash
9 6 (3.95%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (3.95%) Packer
9 6 (3.95%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.95%) yum
10 4 (2.63%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.63%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.66%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.66%) Mesos
11 1 (0.66%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 40 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.37%) VMware
3 19 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 17 (11.18%) Splunk
5 12 (7.89%) Cisco
5 12 (7.89%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (5.26%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.61%) NetApp
8 6 (3.95%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.95%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.29%) Dell
10 4 (2.63%) Databricks
10 4 (2.63%) Google
10 4 (2.63%) Oracle
11 3 (1.97%) SaltStack
12 2 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.66%) HP
13 1 (0.66%) Juniper
13 1 (0.66%) Zscaler