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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 105 124
Rank change year-on-year +21 +19 -19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 148 50 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.87% 1.74% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.97% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 83 31 149
10th Percentile £45,500 £50,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £86,000 £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 5,553 2,544 8,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.13% 88.67% 78.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,710 1,620 5,992
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 23 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 23 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 +16 66 £77,500 -8.82% 25
Bristol -4 45 £73,750 -1.67% 23
Wiltshire -4 12 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Somerset - 9 £70,000 - 6
Devon -29 6 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Dorset +5 4 £97,500 -
Cornwall - 4 - -
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 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.73%) Apache
2 7 (4.73%) Confluence
3 6 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.35%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 82 (55.41%) AWS
2 66 (44.59%) Azure
3 37 (25.00%) Serverless
4 33 (22.30%) GitHub
5 32 (21.62%) GCP
6 30 (20.27%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (15.54%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (13.51%) Amazon S3
9 16 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (9.46%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (8.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 13 (8.78%) Azure Functions
11 13 (8.78%) OpenShift
12 12 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
13 11 (7.43%) IaaS
14 10 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (6.76%) PaaS
15 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.16%) Firewall
2 15 (10.14%) VPN
3 10 (6.76%) WAN
4 9 (6.08%) Network Security
4 9 (6.08%) VLAN
5 7 (4.73%) LAN
6 6 (4.05%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (4.05%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (4.05%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (4.05%) Unified Communications
6 6 (4.05%) WebEx
7 4 (2.70%) Broadband
7 4 (2.70%) DNS
7 4 (2.70%) IPv4
8 3 (2.03%) AMQP
8 3 (2.03%) BGP
8 3 (2.03%) DHCP
8 3 (2.03%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 2 (1.35%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (6.08%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.05%) InfluxDB
3 6 (4.05%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.38%) Big Data
4 5 (3.38%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.03%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.03%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.03%) Metadata
6 3 (2.03%) MySQL
6 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.35%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.35%) Flink
Development Applications
1 44 (29.73%) Git
2 32 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 28 (18.92%) GitLab
4 11 (7.43%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.41%) JIRA
6 7 (4.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.05%) Robot Framework
7 6 (4.05%) Selenium
7 6 (4.05%) Subversion
7 6 (4.05%) TestRail
8 4 (2.70%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.03%) MSI
10 2 (1.35%) MLflow
11 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.68%) git-flow
11 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.68%) Postman
11 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.22%) Finance
3 18 (12.16%) Aerospace
3 18 (12.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 18 (12.16%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.43%) Law
5 6 (4.05%) Banking
5 6 (4.05%) Marketing
5 6 (4.05%) Retail
5 6 (4.05%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.03%) Automotive
7 3 (2.03%) Electronics
7 3 (2.03%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.35%) Billing
8 2 (1.35%) Games
8 2 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 29 (19.59%) Senior
3 25 (16.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (8.78%) Architect
5 12 (8.11%) Developer
6 11 (7.43%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 11 (7.43%) Lead
7 10 (6.76%) Analyst
7 10 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (6.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
9 7 (4.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Site Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (4.73%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.05%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (8.11%) REST
2 12 (8.11%) RESTful
3 10 (6.76%) Node.js
4 9 (6.08%) React
5 8 (5.41%) Spring
6 7 (4.73%) OpenAPI
6 7 (4.73%) pytest
6 7 (4.73%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.73%) Swagger
7 6 (4.05%) .NET
7 6 (4.05%) Playwright
7 6 (4.05%) XMPP
8 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
8 5 (3.38%) CSS
8 5 (3.38%) Django
8 5 (3.38%) Flask
8 5 (3.38%) GeoJSON
8 5 (3.38%) HTML
8 5 (3.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (9.46%) Public Cloud
4 12 (8.11%) Security Posture
5 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
6 10 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 10 (6.76%) Podcast
7 6 (4.05%) Data Centre
7 6 (4.05%) FlexPod
7 6 (4.05%) Replication
7 6 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (4.05%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.70%) CUDA
10 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 3 (2.03%) Low-Code
10 3 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (2.03%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 61 (41.22%) Linux
2 44 (29.73%) Windows
3 12 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.43%) VMS
5 9 (6.08%) CentOS
6 5 (3.38%) Unix
7 4 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (2.03%) Debian
8 3 (2.03%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.68%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (71.62%) CI/CD
2 88 (59.46%) DevOps
3 66 (44.59%) Agile
4 51 (34.46%) Containerisation
5 49 (33.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (22.97%) DevSecOps
6 34 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.62%) Test Automation
8 29 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (19.59%) Observability
9 28 (18.92%) Analytics
10 25 (16.89%) AI
10 25 (16.89%) Mentoring
11 24 (16.22%) Cloud Security
11 24 (16.22%) Scrum
12 21 (14.19%) Software Engineering
13 20 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
13 20 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (12.16%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 78 (52.70%) Python
2 56 (37.84%) Bash
3 36 (24.32%) PowerShell
4 23 (15.54%) Bicep
4 23 (15.54%) Java
5 20 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.49%) SQL
7 11 (7.43%) Go
7 11 (7.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 8 (5.41%) C#
8 8 (5.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.03%) C++
10 2 (1.35%) C
10 2 (1.35%) Rust
10 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (51.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (23.65%) DV Cleared
3 32 (21.62%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.46%) Azure Certification
4 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (6.76%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.05%) Degree
7 5 (3.38%) CCNA
7 5 (3.38%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.70%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.70%) OSCP
8 4 (2.70%) RHCE
9 1 (0.68%) CCNP
9 1 (0.68%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.68%) VCAP
9 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.08%) QA
2 5 (3.38%) NCSC
3 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.03%) WCAG
5 2 (1.35%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) IFRS
5 2 (1.35%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (33.78%) Docker
2 32 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (14.19%) vSphere
4 20 (13.51%) Active Directory
5 10 (6.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.73%) VMware NSX
7 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (4.05%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.70%) Firmware
8 4 (2.70%) iptables
8 4 (2.70%) Squid
9 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 108 (72.97%) Terraform
2 72 (48.65%) Kubernetes
3 67 (45.27%) Ansible
4 35 (23.65%) Grafana
5 19 (12.84%) Puppet
6 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
7 8 (5.41%) Argo
7 8 (5.41%) Rancher
8 7 (4.73%) Kibana
8 7 (4.73%) logstash
9 6 (4.05%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (4.05%) Packer
9 6 (4.05%) vCenter Server
9 6 (4.05%) yum
10 4 (2.70%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.70%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.68%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.68%) Mesos
11 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 37 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.62%) VMware
3 19 (12.84%) Red Hat
4 17 (11.49%) Splunk
5 12 (8.11%) Cisco
6 10 (6.76%) ScienceLogic
7 8 (5.41%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.73%) NetApp
9 6 (4.05%) Fortinet
9 6 (4.05%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.38%) Dell
10 5 (3.38%) Google
11 4 (2.70%) Databricks
11 4 (2.70%) Oracle
12 3 (2.03%) SaltStack
13 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
14 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 1 (0.68%) HP
14 1 (0.68%) Veeam
14 1 (0.68%) Zscaler