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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 118 117
Rank change year-on-year +39 -1 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 176 51 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.14% 1.56% 1.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.99% 1.83% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 101 32 156
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,875 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £88,000 £85,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £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 5,877 2,780 7,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.51% 85.28% 78.69%
Number of salaries quoted 3,874 1,805 5,656
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 £52,396
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.57% -3.37%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,343 £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 10 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 10 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 +21 82 £88,000 +3.53% 64
Bristol +4 49 £75,000 - 55
Wiltshire -4 14 £75,000 -3.23% 12
Somerset - 11 £70,000 - 26
Devon -26 10 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Dorset -4 4 £97,500 - 5
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 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.55%) Confluence
3 7 (3.98%) Apache
4 6 (3.41%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.14%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 86 (48.86%) AWS
2 79 (44.89%) Azure
3 39 (22.16%) Serverless
4 37 (21.02%) GCP
5 35 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (18.75%) GitHub
7 21 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.66%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 16 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (8.52%) Azure Functions
10 15 (8.52%) IaaS
10 15 (8.52%) PaaS
11 14 (7.95%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (7.95%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (7.95%) OpenShift
12 13 (7.39%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.93%) VPN
2 20 (11.36%) Firewall
3 12 (6.82%) Network Security
4 11 (6.25%) WAN
5 10 (5.68%) VLAN
6 8 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (3.98%) LAN
8 6 (3.41%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (3.41%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (3.41%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.41%) WebEx
9 4 (2.27%) BGP
9 4 (2.27%) DNS
9 4 (2.27%) IPv4
10 3 (1.70%) AMQP
10 3 (1.70%) Broadband
10 3 (1.70%) DHCP
10 3 (1.70%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.70%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.98%) InfluxDB
5 6 (3.41%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 6 (3.41%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.84%) Big Data
7 4 (2.27%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.70%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.70%) Metadata
8 3 (1.70%) MySQL
8 3 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 52 (29.55%) Git
2 34 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 31 (17.61%) GitLab
4 11 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.11%) JIRA
6 8 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.55%) Subversion
7 7 (3.98%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.98%) Selenium
7 7 (3.98%) TestRail
8 4 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.27%) MSI
9 2 (1.14%) MLflow
10 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.57%) Postman
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.61%) Finance
3 21 (11.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 19 (10.80%) Aerospace
6 13 (7.39%) Law
7 7 (3.98%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.41%) Banking
8 6 (3.41%) Marketing
8 6 (3.41%) Retail
9 3 (1.70%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Automotive
9 3 (1.70%) Electronics
9 3 (1.70%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.14%) Games
10 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (20.45%) Senior
2 35 (19.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.23%) Lead
5 16 (9.09%) Architect
6 13 (7.39%) Developer
7 12 (6.82%) Analyst
7 12 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 10 (5.68%) Software Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.11%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Site Engineer
11 8 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (3.98%) Linux Engineer
12 7 (3.98%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.09%) Spring
1 16 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 15 (8.52%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (7.39%) REST
3 13 (7.39%) RESTful
4 9 (5.11%) Node.js
5 8 (4.55%) pytest
5 8 (4.55%) React
6 7 (3.98%) .NET
6 7 (3.98%) OpenAPI
6 7 (3.98%) Playwright
6 7 (3.98%) Swagger
7 6 (3.41%) CSS
7 6 (3.41%) CSS3
7 6 (3.41%) GeoJSON
7 6 (3.41%) HTML
7 6 (3.41%) HTML5
7 6 (3.41%) XMPP
8 5 (2.84%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.84%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 33 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 19 (10.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (9.66%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.82%) Podcast
4 12 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.82%) Security Posture
5 11 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.41%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.41%) FlexPod
7 6 (3.41%) Replication
7 6 (3.41%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.27%) CUDA
8 4 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.70%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.70%) PKI
9 3 (1.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 70 (39.77%) Linux
2 50 (28.41%) Windows
3 13 (7.39%) VMS
4 12 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 10 (5.68%) CentOS
6 5 (2.84%) Unix
7 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.70%) Debian
8 3 (1.70%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (74.43%) CI/CD
2 106 (60.23%) DevOps
3 81 (46.02%) Agile
4 69 (39.20%) Containerisation
5 54 (30.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 39 (22.16%) DevSecOps
6 39 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (21.59%) Test Automation
8 37 (21.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (20.45%) Observability
10 32 (18.18%) Analytics
11 30 (17.05%) AI
12 29 (16.48%) Mentoring
13 28 (15.91%) Scrum
14 27 (15.34%) Cloud Security
15 26 (14.77%) Software Engineering
16 25 (14.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 24 (13.64%) Collaborative Culture
17 24 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
18 22 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (54.55%) Python
2 62 (35.23%) Bash
3 39 (22.16%) PowerShell
4 33 (18.75%) Java
5 28 (15.91%) Bicep
6 24 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 19 (10.80%) SQL
8 15 (8.52%) Go
9 13 (7.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (5.11%) C#
11 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.70%) C++
12 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.14%) C
13 2 (1.14%) Rust
13 2 (1.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (57.39%) Security Cleared
2 50 (28.41%) DV Cleared
3 41 (23.30%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.23%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.11%) AWS Certification
7 7 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (3.41%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.41%) Degree
8 6 (3.41%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.84%) CCNA
10 4 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.27%) ISTQB
10 4 (2.27%) OSCP
10 4 (2.27%) RHCE
11 1 (0.57%) CCNP
11 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.57%) VCAP
11 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.25%) QA
2 6 (3.41%) NCSC
3 5 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.27%) WCAG
5 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 2 (1.14%) IFRS
6 2 (1.14%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.14%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (35.80%) Docker
2 37 (21.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 23 (13.07%) vSphere
5 12 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.98%) VMware NSX
8 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (3.41%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (2.27%) Firmware
9 4 (2.27%) iptables
9 4 (2.27%) Squid
10 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 125 (71.02%) Terraform
2 93 (52.84%) Kubernetes
3 78 (44.32%) Ansible
4 37 (21.02%) Grafana
5 23 (13.07%) Puppet
6 18 (10.23%) Prometheus
7 10 (5.68%) Rancher
8 9 (5.11%) Argo
9 8 (4.55%) Kibana
9 8 (4.55%) logstash
9 8 (4.55%) Packer
9 8 (4.55%) yum
10 7 (3.98%) vCenter Server
11 6 (3.41%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
12 4 (2.27%) ZABBIX
13 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.57%) Istio
13 1 (0.57%) linkerd
13 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 44 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (21.02%) VMware
3 20 (11.36%) Red Hat
4 18 (10.23%) Splunk
5 12 (6.82%) Cisco
5 12 (6.82%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (5.11%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.98%) NetApp
8 6 (3.41%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.41%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.84%) Dell
10 4 (2.27%) Databricks
10 4 (2.27%) Google
10 4 (2.27%) Oracle
11 3 (1.70%) SaltStack
12 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.57%) HP
13 1 (0.57%) Veeam
13 1 (0.57%) Zscaler