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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 107 88
Rank change year-on-year +37 -19 -20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 235 58 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.35% 1.67% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 2.04% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 130 43 136
10th Percentile £47,750 £49,500 £50,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,125 £96,250 £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 7,083 2,847 5,682
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.77% 81.90% 75.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,817 1,801 3,470
10th Percentile £30,575 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +22 121 £82,500 -2.94% 112
Bristol -3 64 £70,000 -8.98% 54
Wiltshire -3 20 £75,000 -3.23% 14
Somerset -26 15 £70,000 -6.67% 30
Devon -25 7 £67,500 -3.57% 8
Dorset +1 4 £93,750 - 22
Cornwall +6 2 - - 1
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 18 (7.66%) Apache
2 13 (5.53%) Confluence
3 12 (5.11%) Apache Spark
3 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.70%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (49.79%) AWS
2 105 (44.68%) Azure
3 43 (18.30%) GCP
4 41 (17.45%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (17.45%) Serverless
5 39 (16.60%) GitHub
6 26 (11.06%) OpenShift
7 25 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (9.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 18 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (7.66%) Azure AKS
11 17 (7.23%) Amazon S3
12 16 (6.81%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.81%) PaaS
13 15 (6.38%) IaaS
14 14 (5.96%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (5.11%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (5.11%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (14.47%) VPN
2 23 (9.79%) Firewall
3 18 (7.66%) Network Security
4 16 (6.81%) WAN
5 11 (4.68%) BGP
5 11 (4.68%) Software-Defined Networking
5 11 (4.68%) VLAN
6 10 (4.26%) LAN
7 9 (3.83%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.40%) DNS
9 6 (2.55%) Wireless
10 5 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (2.13%) OSPF
10 5 (2.13%) SNMP
11 4 (1.70%) AMQP
11 4 (1.70%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.70%) IPv4
11 4 (1.70%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.70%) WebEx
11 4 (1.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.96%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (5.96%) Big Data
2 12 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.26%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.83%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (3.40%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.98%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.98%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.98%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.55%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.55%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.70%) Cloudera CDH
9 4 (1.70%) Flink
9 4 (1.70%) Metadata
9 4 (1.70%) MySQL
10 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.28%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (25.11%) Git
2 40 (17.02%) GitLab
3 33 (14.04%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.81%) JIRA
5 11 (4.68%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.26%) Selenium
7 7 (2.98%) MSI
7 7 (2.98%) Robot Framework
7 7 (2.98%) Subversion
8 6 (2.55%) TestRail
9 4 (1.70%) Postman
9 4 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.28%) git-flow
10 3 (1.28%) JUnit
10 3 (1.28%) NUnit
10 3 (1.28%) Snyk
11 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.85%) MLflow
12 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
General
1 63 (26.81%) Social Skills
2 55 (23.40%) Finance
3 26 (11.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (10.21%) Aerospace
5 22 (9.36%) Public Sector
6 18 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.96%) Law
8 9 (3.83%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.55%) Marketing
10 4 (1.70%) Banking
10 4 (1.70%) Military
10 4 (1.70%) Retail
11 3 (1.28%) Legal
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.43%) Games
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (23.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (16.60%) Senior
3 33 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (13.62%) Lead
5 26 (11.06%) Architect
6 22 (9.36%) Lead DevOps
7 19 (8.09%) Developer
7 19 (8.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Analyst
10 12 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 12 (5.11%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.26%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.83%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.83%) Test Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (75.32%) Terraform
2 23 (9.79%) Spring
2 23 (9.79%) Spring Boot
3 20 (8.51%) RESTful
4 18 (7.66%) Elastic Stack
4 18 (7.66%) React
5 17 (7.23%) REST
6 15 (6.38%) Node.js
7 11 (4.68%) .NET
8 10 (4.26%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.26%) pytest
9 9 (3.83%) GeoJSON
10 8 (3.40%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.40%) CSS
10 8 (3.40%) CSS3
10 8 (3.40%) HTML
10 8 (3.40%) HTML5
10 8 (3.40%) Kafka
11 7 (2.98%) ATL
11 7 (2.98%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 60 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.66%) Onboarding
4 17 (7.23%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.11%) Podcast
5 12 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.11%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.68%) Data Centre
7 10 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.13%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.70%) CMDB
11 4 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.70%) FlexPod
11 4 (1.70%) PKI
11 4 (1.70%) Replication
11 4 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.28%) Blog
12 3 (1.28%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.36%) Linux
2 49 (20.85%) Windows
3 13 (5.53%) VMS
4 10 (4.26%) CentOS
4 10 (4.26%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.98%) Unix
6 6 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.70%) Debian
7 4 (1.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.85%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (79.57%) CI/CD
2 142 (60.43%) DevOps
3 119 (50.64%) Containerisation
4 108 (45.96%) Agile
5 66 (28.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (23.83%) Observability
7 55 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (22.98%) DevSecOps
9 52 (22.13%) AI
9 52 (22.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 51 (21.70%) Test Automation
11 45 (19.15%) Software Engineering
12 39 (16.60%) Analytics
13 37 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (15.32%) Cloud Security
14 36 (15.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (14.47%) Mentoring
16 33 (14.04%) Scrum
17 31 (13.19%) Deployment Automation
18 30 (12.77%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (54.47%) Python
2 72 (30.64%) Bash
3 50 (21.28%) Java
4 35 (14.89%) Bicep
4 35 (14.89%) PowerShell
5 31 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 28 (11.91%) SQL
7 22 (9.36%) Go
8 16 (6.81%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.53%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.40%) C#
11 6 (2.55%) Rust
12 5 (2.13%) Scala
13 2 (0.85%) C
13 2 (0.85%) C++
13 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (62.98%) Security Cleared
2 78 (33.19%) DV Cleared
3 70 (29.79%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.09%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.23%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.68%) Degree
8 10 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.55%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.13%) CCNA
11 5 (2.13%) CCNP
12 4 (1.70%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.70%) OCP
12 4 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.70%) OSCP
12 4 (1.70%) RHCE
13 3 (1.28%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.81%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.11%) NCSC
3 10 (4.26%) QA
4 8 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.98%) WCAG
6 6 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.28%) GDPR
7 3 (1.28%) NIST
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.85%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (37.02%) Docker
2 40 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.77%) Active Directory
4 21 (8.94%) vSphere
5 13 (5.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.98%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.13%) Firmware
8 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (1.70%) Squid
8 4 (1.70%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 140 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 103 (43.83%) Ansible
3 33 (14.04%) Grafana
4 23 (9.79%) Puppet
5 21 (8.94%) Prometheus
6 11 (4.68%) Argo
7 10 (4.26%) Rancher
8 9 (3.83%) Packer
9 7 (2.98%) Kibana
9 7 (2.98%) logstash
9 7 (2.98%) vCenter Server
9 7 (2.98%) yum
10 5 (2.13%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.70%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.70%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.70%) Istio
11 4 (1.70%) linkerd
11 4 (1.70%) Mesos
12 3 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 44 (18.72%) VMware
3 25 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 15 (6.38%) Splunk
5 12 (5.11%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.11%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (4.68%) Cisco
7 9 (3.83%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.98%) Databricks
9 6 (2.55%) Google
10 5 (2.13%) NetApp
10 5 (2.13%) Oracle
10 5 (2.13%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.70%) Avaya
11 4 (1.70%) F5
11 4 (1.70%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.70%) Meraki
11 4 (1.70%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.70%) SaltStack
11 4 (1.70%) ServiceNow