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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 79 47
Rank change year-on-year -49 -32 +69
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 60 148 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.31% 2.62% 5.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.32% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 54 113 176
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,304
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,875 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,000 £93,467
England median annual salary £73,801 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.51% -4.01% -

All Process and 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 3,476 4,459 4,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 76.04% 78.91% 94.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,323 2,456 3,130
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,914
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £55,000 £54,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.44%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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
Bristol -25 19 £70,000 -6.67% 19
Somerset -4 14 £50,000 -9.09% 7
Gloucestershire -7 9 £76,250 +27.08% 22
Devon -9 5 £56,250 -19.64% 3
Wiltshire +21 3 £60,000 -14.29% 12
Cornwall -15 3 - -
Dorset +6 2 £70,000 -15.15% 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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 41 (68.33%) Azure
2 36 (60.00%) AWS
3 22 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (28.33%) GitHub
5 16 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (25.00%) Serverless
7 9 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 9 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.67%) OpenShift
9 6 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.33%) SaaS
11 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
11 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.67%) GCP
11 4 (6.67%) PaaS
12 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (5.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) AMQP
2 3 (5.00%) VPN
3 2 (3.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.67%) DNS
4 1 (1.67%) Internet
4 1 (1.67%) VLAN
4 1 (1.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Redis
5 1 (1.67%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.67%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.67%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (5.00%) GitLab
4 2 (3.33%) JIRA
4 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) Mockito
5 1 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.67%) Subversion
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.67%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.33%) Law
5 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.67%) Banking
5 1 (1.67%) Billing
5 1 (1.67%) Electronics
5 1 (1.67%) Games
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.67%) Marketing
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 15 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Developer
4 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) Senior
5 4 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) YAML
2 8 (13.33%) React
3 5 (8.33%) .NET
3 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.67%) Spring
5 3 (5.00%) Node.js
5 3 (5.00%) REST
5 3 (5.00%) RESTful
6 2 (3.33%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.33%) Avalonia
6 2 (3.33%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.33%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.33%) WPF
7 1 (1.67%) NestJS
7 1 (1.67%) Next.js
7 1 (1.67%) Svelte
7 1 (1.67%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.67%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Linux
2 7 (11.67%) Windows
3 6 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 5 (8.33%) Debian
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.33%) VMS
7 1 (1.67%) CentOS
7 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (76.67%) DevOps
2 43 (71.67%) CI/CD
3 32 (53.33%) Containerisation
4 19 (31.67%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (26.67%) Agile
7 11 (18.33%) Software Engineering
8 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (13.33%) AI
9 8 (13.33%) Microservices
9 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 7 (11.67%) Configuration Management
10 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (10.00%) Cloud Security
11 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (10.00%) Kanban
11 6 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 5 (8.33%) Clean Code
12 5 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
12 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.00%) Python
2 22 (36.67%) Bicep
3 13 (21.67%) Bash
4 12 (20.00%) Java
4 12 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 10 (16.67%) SQL
6 7 (11.67%) Go
6 7 (11.67%) TypeScript
7 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.67%) C#
9 3 (5.00%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.33%) C++
10 2 (3.33%) XAML
11 1 (1.67%) C
11 1 (1.67%) Rust
11 1 (1.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.33%) Degree
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.67%) CCNA
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (53.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.67%) iptables
4 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (63.33%) Terraform
3 14 (23.33%) Ansible
4 5 (8.33%) Grafana
4 5 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 5 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.67%) Argo
7 1 (1.67%) Rancher
7 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.67%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.00%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) New Relic
5 1 (1.67%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) VMware