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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 108 86
Rank change year-on-year +44 -22 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 232 55 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.42% 1.61% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 1.97% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 131 39 136
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £51,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,500 £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 6,786 2,797 5,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.85% 81.81% 75.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,588 1,805 3,719
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 4 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 4 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 +18 118 £83,750 -1.47% 68
Bristol +4 64 £65,000 -17.52% 53
Wiltshire +2 18 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Somerset -24 15 £70,000 -6.67% 22
Devon -27 7 £67,500 -3.57% 7
Dorset -1 5 £90,000 - 16
Cornwall +6 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 16 (6.90%) Apache
2 13 (5.60%) Confluence
3 12 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.74%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.72%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (50.43%) AWS
2 102 (43.97%) Azure
3 42 (18.10%) Azure DevOps
4 40 (17.24%) GCP
4 40 (17.24%) Serverless
5 39 (16.81%) GitHub
6 25 (10.78%) OpenShift
7 23 (9.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (9.91%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (9.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 18 (7.76%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.33%) Azure AKS
11 16 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (6.90%) PaaS
12 15 (6.47%) IaaS
13 14 (6.03%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (5.17%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (13.79%) VPN
2 21 (9.05%) Firewall
3 16 (6.90%) Network Security
4 14 (6.03%) WAN
5 10 (4.31%) LAN
6 9 (3.88%) BGP
6 9 (3.88%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (3.88%) VLAN
7 8 (3.45%) DNS
8 7 (3.02%) SD-WAN
9 6 (2.59%) Wireless
10 5 (2.16%) OSPF
11 4 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.72%) IPv4
11 4 (1.72%) Unified Communications
11 4 (1.72%) WebEx
11 4 (1.72%) WLAN
12 3 (1.29%) AMQP
12 3 (1.29%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.60%) Big Data
2 13 (5.60%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.88%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (3.88%) Hadoop
4 8 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.02%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.02%) InfluxDB
5 7 (3.02%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.59%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.59%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.72%) Flink
7 4 (1.72%) Metadata
8 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.29%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.29%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (25.43%) Git
2 41 (17.67%) GitLab
3 34 (14.66%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.90%) JIRA
5 12 (5.17%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.74%) Selenium
7 9 (3.88%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.45%) Robot Framework
9 7 (3.02%) MSI
9 7 (3.02%) TestRail
10 6 (2.59%) Subversion
11 4 (1.72%) Postman
11 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.29%) git-flow
12 3 (1.29%) JUnit
12 3 (1.29%) NUnit
12 3 (1.29%) Snyk
13 2 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.86%) MLflow
14 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
General
1 60 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 50 (21.55%) Finance
3 26 (11.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (9.05%) Aerospace
4 21 (9.05%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.03%) Law
7 9 (3.88%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.59%) Marketing
9 4 (1.72%) Banking
9 4 (1.72%) Military
9 4 (1.72%) Retail
10 3 (1.29%) Automotive
10 3 (1.29%) Electronics
10 3 (1.29%) Legal
10 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.86%) Games
11 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (23.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (17.24%) Senior
3 33 (14.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (14.22%) Lead
4 25 (10.78%) Architect
5 22 (9.48%) Lead DevOps
6 20 (8.62%) Developer
7 19 (8.19%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Analyst
10 12 (5.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (4.74%) Azure Architect
11 11 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.74%) Principal Engineer
11 11 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Test Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
13 9 (3.88%) Technical Architect
14 8 (3.45%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (76.72%) Terraform
2 22 (9.48%) Spring
2 22 (9.48%) Spring Boot
3 19 (8.19%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (8.19%) RESTful
4 18 (7.76%) REST
5 16 (6.90%) React
6 13 (5.60%) Node.js
7 11 (4.74%) .NET
7 11 (4.74%) pytest
8 10 (4.31%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.88%) GeoJSON
10 8 (3.45%) CSS
10 8 (3.45%) CSS3
10 8 (3.45%) HTML
10 8 (3.45%) HTML5
10 8 (3.45%) Kafka
11 7 (3.02%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.02%) ATL
11 7 (3.02%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.43%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.76%) Onboarding
4 16 (6.90%) Public Cloud
5 14 (6.03%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.17%) Podcast
6 12 (5.17%) Security Posture
7 11 (4.74%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.16%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.72%) CMDB
12 4 (1.72%) CUDA
12 4 (1.72%) FlexPod
12 4 (1.72%) PKI
12 4 (1.72%) Replication
12 4 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 67 (28.88%) Linux
2 52 (22.41%) Windows
3 13 (5.60%) VMS
4 10 (4.31%) CentOS
4 10 (4.31%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.02%) Unix
6 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.29%) Debian
7 3 (1.29%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (81.03%) CI/CD
2 141 (60.78%) DevOps
3 116 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 102 (43.97%) Agile
5 65 (28.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (24.14%) Observability
7 55 (23.71%) DevSecOps
8 53 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (22.84%) Test Automation
9 50 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (21.12%) AI
11 45 (19.40%) Software Engineering
12 40 (17.24%) Analytics
13 38 (16.38%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (15.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 36 (15.52%) Cloud Security
16 35 (15.09%) Mentoring
17 31 (13.36%) Scrum
18 29 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
19 28 (12.07%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (53.88%) Python
2 70 (30.17%) Bash
3 47 (20.26%) Java
4 36 (15.52%) Bicep
5 35 (15.09%) PowerShell
6 31 (13.36%) JavaScript
7 27 (11.64%) SQL
8 21 (9.05%) Go
9 15 (6.47%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (3.45%) C#
12 6 (2.59%) Rust
13 5 (2.16%) Scala
14 2 (0.86%) C
14 2 (0.86%) C++
14 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 143 (61.64%) Security Cleared
2 74 (31.90%) DV Cleared
3 68 (29.31%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.19%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.33%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.60%) Degree
8 10 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 10 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.59%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.16%) CCNA
11 5 (2.16%) CCNP
12 4 (1.72%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.72%) OCP
12 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.72%) OSCP
12 4 (1.72%) RHCE
13 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.90%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.17%) NCSC
3 10 (4.31%) QA
4 8 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.02%) WCAG
6 6 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.29%) GDPR
7 3 (1.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.86%) 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 88 (37.93%) Docker
2 41 (17.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.93%) Active Directory
4 21 (9.05%) vSphere
5 13 (5.60%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.02%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.16%) Firmware
9 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (1.72%) Squid
9 4 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 136 (58.62%) Kubernetes
2 101 (43.53%) Ansible
3 34 (14.66%) Grafana
4 21 (9.05%) Prometheus
4 21 (9.05%) Puppet
5 9 (3.88%) Argo
5 9 (3.88%) Packer
6 8 (3.45%) Kibana
6 8 (3.45%) logstash
6 8 (3.45%) Rancher
6 8 (3.45%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.59%) yum
8 5 (2.16%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (1.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.29%) Istio
10 3 (1.29%) linkerd
10 3 (1.29%) Mesos
10 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 45 (19.40%) VMware
3 24 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 16 (6.90%) Splunk
5 13 (5.60%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.17%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (4.74%) Cisco
8 9 (3.88%) Fortinet
9 7 (3.02%) Databricks
10 5 (2.16%) Google
10 5 (2.16%) NetApp
10 5 (2.16%) Oracle
10 5 (2.16%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.72%) Avaya
11 4 (1.72%) F5
11 4 (1.72%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.72%) Meraki
11 4 (1.72%) Netskope
11 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow