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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 94 79
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 77 96 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 2.55% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.92% 3.87%
Number of salaries quoted 62 68 160
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £51,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +15.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £74,688 £84,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £89,125 £85,000
England median annual salary £74,875 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.17% +3.45% -3.33%

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 3,921 3,286 5,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.02% 87.39% 88.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,654 1,606 4,492
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
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% -2.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year -11.29% +11.71% -11.20%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 0 20 £62,500 +4.17% 28
Bristol -24 18 £71,250 -1.72% 27
Somerset - 14 £50,000 -
Wiltshire +11 5 £65,000 -7.14% 5
Devon +1 5 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Cornwall -7 4 - -
Dorset +2 3 £67,500 -20.59% 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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (62.34%) AWS
1 48 (62.34%) Azure
2 24 (31.17%) GitHub
3 23 (29.87%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (29.87%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (25.97%) Serverless
5 13 (16.88%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (16.88%) GCP
6 11 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (10.39%) SaaS
8 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (9.09%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
9 6 (7.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (6.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.49%) Datadog
10 5 (6.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) DHCP
3 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.19%) Network Security
5 3 (3.90%) VPN
6 2 (2.60%) AMQP
7 1 (1.30%) Broadband
7 1 (1.30%) Internet
7 1 (1.30%) VLAN
7 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.90%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.60%) MySQL
4 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.30%) Big Data
5 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 6 (7.79%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) CircleCI
4 5 (6.49%) Subversion
5 4 (5.19%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.60%) JIRA
6 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.30%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.30%) Selenium
7 1 (1.30%) TestRail
General
1 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Electronics
5 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.19%) Marketing
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Billing
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Games
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Platform Engineer
2 15 (19.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Senior
4 10 (12.99%) Developer
5 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Lead
9 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Architect
10 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
11 2 (2.60%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) YAML
2 10 (12.99%) React
3 8 (10.39%) Spring
4 7 (9.09%) Node.js
5 6 (7.79%) .NET
6 5 (6.49%) RESTful
6 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.19%) REST
8 3 (3.90%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.90%) CSS
8 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.90%) HTML
8 3 (3.90%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.90%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.90%) Swagger
9 2 (2.60%) .NET Core
9 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.60%) Avalonia
9 2 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
3 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
4 5 (6.49%) Debian
5 3 (3.90%) CentOS
5 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.60%) Unix
7 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (77.92%) DevOps
2 53 (68.83%) CI/CD
3 33 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 29 (37.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (35.06%) Agile
6 21 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
9 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
10 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (15.58%) Incident Response
12 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 10 (12.99%) Microservices
14 9 (11.69%) Kanban
14 9 (11.69%) Mentoring
14 9 (11.69%) SDLC
15 8 (10.39%) AI
15 8 (10.39%) Scrum
16 7 (9.09%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (53.25%) Python
2 30 (38.96%) Bash
3 21 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 19 (24.68%) Bicep
5 17 (22.08%) Java
6 10 (12.99%) JavaScript
7 9 (11.69%) Go
7 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
8 7 (9.09%) C#
9 6 (7.79%) SQL
10 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.60%) VB
10 2 (2.60%) XAML
11 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (35.06%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) DV Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (1.30%) CCNA
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (46.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.60%) iptables
4 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 45 (58.44%) Terraform
3 26 (33.77%) Ansible
4 12 (15.58%) Grafana
5 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.79%) Argo
6 6 (7.79%) Puppet
7 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.49%) Rancher
7 5 (6.49%) yum
8 2 (2.60%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.30%) Kibana
9 1 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.30%) logstash
9 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
3 4 (5.19%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 4 (5.19%) VMware
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco
4 3 (3.90%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) Dell
5 2 (2.60%) HP
5 2 (2.60%) Juniper
5 2 (2.60%) Veeam
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) SaltStack