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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 98 109
Rank change year-on-year -7 +11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 84 73 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.33% 2.45% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.73% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63 61 136
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £81,250 £81,500
90th Percentile £99,750 £91,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year - +3.09% -3.00%

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 4,465 2,678 6,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.88% 89.99% 86.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,015 1,478 5,086
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,917
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 March 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 March 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 35 £57,500 -4.17% 32
Bristol -28 16 £73,750 +2.08% 30
Somerset - 10 £45,000 - 9
Wiltshire +6 6 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Devon -5 6 £52,500 -19.23% 2
Dorset -11 3 £67,500 -27.03% 2
Cornwall -9 1 - - 6
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 2 (2.38%) Apache
1 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 50 (59.52%) AWS
2 38 (45.24%) Azure
3 23 (27.38%) GitHub
4 22 (26.19%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (23.81%) Serverless
6 16 (19.05%) GCP
7 14 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (14.29%) Amazon S3
9 9 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (7.14%) Datadog
12 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
13 5 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (4.76%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (4.76%) CloudFront
14 4 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Firewall
2 7 (8.33%) DNS
2 7 (8.33%) Network Security
3 6 (7.14%) DHCP
3 6 (7.14%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.76%) VLAN
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (3.57%) LAN
5 3 (3.57%) Unified Communications
5 3 (3.57%) WAN
5 3 (3.57%) WebEx
6 2 (2.38%) VPN
7 1 (1.19%) AMQP
7 1 (1.19%) Broadband
7 1 (1.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.57%) InfluxDB
2 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.38%) MySQL
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.19%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.19%) Big Data
4 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.19%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.19%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.19%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.19%) Redis
4 1 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.67%) Git
3 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 6 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 6 (7.14%) GitLab
3 6 (7.14%) Subversion
4 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.38%) Robot Framework
5 2 (2.38%) Selenium
5 2 (2.38%) TestRail
6 1 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.19%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.86%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 7 (8.33%) Marketing
4 7 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.95%) Electronics
5 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Banking
7 3 (3.57%) Billing
7 3 (3.57%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (16.67%) Senior
4 12 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Developer
8 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Lead
9 4 (4.76%) Administrator
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Linux Administrator
10 3 (3.57%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.57%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.90%) YAML
2 8 (9.52%) Spring
3 7 (8.33%) Node.js
3 7 (8.33%) React
4 5 (5.95%) RESTful
4 5 (5.95%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.57%) .NET
6 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.57%) CSS
6 3 (3.57%) HTML
6 3 (3.57%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.57%) REST
6 3 (3.57%) Swagger
6 3 (3.57%) XMPP
7 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET
7 2 (2.38%) jQuery
7 2 (2.38%) LESS
7 2 (2.38%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.57%) FlexPod
4 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.57%) Replication
4 3 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) CUDA
6 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 38 (45.24%) Linux
2 15 (17.86%) Windows
3 6 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.76%) CentOS
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.38%) Unix
6 1 (1.19%) Debian
6 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (66.67%) DevOps
2 52 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 33 (39.29%) Containerisation
3 33 (39.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (30.95%) Agile
5 20 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 16 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 13 (15.48%) Incident Response
11 12 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 12 (14.29%) Mentoring
12 11 (13.10%) SDLC
13 9 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
14 8 (9.52%) Collaborative Culture
14 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (9.52%) Kanban
14 8 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 46 (54.76%) Python
2 35 (41.67%) Bash
3 25 (29.76%) PowerShell
4 18 (21.43%) Java
5 13 (15.48%) Bicep
6 10 (11.90%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.52%) Go
8 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.95%) C#
10 4 (4.76%) SQL
11 2 (2.38%) VB
12 1 (1.19%) C++
12 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.81%) DV Cleared
3 12 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.38%) NCSC
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (44.05%) Docker
2 9 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.95%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.76%) iptables
4 4 (4.76%) vSphere
5 3 (3.57%) Firmware
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.38%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (55.95%) Kubernetes
2 44 (52.38%) Terraform
3 31 (36.90%) Ansible
4 19 (22.62%) Grafana
5 11 (13.10%) Puppet
6 9 (10.71%) Prometheus
7 8 (9.52%) Argo
8 6 (7.14%) Progress Chef
8 6 (7.14%) Rancher
8 6 (7.14%) yum
9 3 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (3.57%) vCenter Server
10 2 (2.38%) Kibana
10 2 (2.38%) logstash
10 2 (2.38%) NetBackup
11 1 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.19%) Istio
11 1 (1.19%) linkerd
11 1 (1.19%) Mesos
11 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Cisco
2 9 (10.71%) VMware
3 7 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (8.33%) Splunk
4 5 (5.95%) Dell
5 4 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.76%) Google
5 4 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.76%) SAP
6 3 (3.57%) NetApp
7 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.38%) HP
7 2 (2.38%) Juniper
7 2 (2.38%) Veeam
8 1 (1.19%) Databricks
8 1 (1.19%) New Relic
8 1 (1.19%) SaltStack