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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 93 91
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 83 80 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.35% 2.52% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.82% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 63 62 141
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £51,313 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,996 £65,050
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +9.14% +8.42%
75th Percentile £75,625 £83,750 £81,500
90th Percentile £97,250 £91,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 4,370 2,835 6,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.91% 89.40% 87.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,967 1,450 4,770
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,738 £29,000
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% -3.69%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 4 March 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 March 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 +15 31 £56,250 -6.25% 31
Bristol -21 16 £73,750 +1.72% 29
Somerset - 11 £45,000 - 7
Wiltshire +1 6 £65,000 -7.14% 6
Devon -3 5 £52,500 -19.23% 4
Dorset -11 3 £67,500 -27.03% 3
Cornwall -11 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 2 (2.41%) Apache
1 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 48 (57.83%) AWS
2 42 (50.60%) Azure
3 25 (30.12%) GitHub
4 24 (28.92%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (26.51%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (22.89%) Serverless
7 15 (18.07%) GCP
8 13 (15.66%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
10 9 (10.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (8.43%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (8.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (7.23%) Datadog
12 6 (7.23%) SaaS
13 5 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
13 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
14 4 (4.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.84%) Firewall
2 7 (8.43%) DNS
3 6 (7.23%) DHCP
3 6 (7.23%) Network Security
3 6 (7.23%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.61%) VLAN
4 3 (3.61%) VPN
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (2.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (2.41%) LAN
5 2 (2.41%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.41%) WAN
5 2 (2.41%) WebEx
6 1 (1.20%) AMQP
6 1 (1.20%) Broadband
6 1 (1.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.41%) InfluxDB
3 2 (2.41%) MySQL
3 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.20%) Airbyte
4 1 (1.20%) Big Data
4 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
4 1 (1.20%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.20%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.20%) Redis
4 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Jenkins
2 11 (13.25%) Git
3 6 (7.23%) CircleCI
3 6 (7.23%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) Subversion
4 5 (6.02%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.20%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.20%) Selenium
6 1 (1.20%) TestRail
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.87%) Finance
3 12 (14.46%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.23%) Aerospace
4 6 (7.23%) Marketing
4 6 (7.23%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Electronics
5 4 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Billing
7 2 (2.41%) Banking
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Law
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Senior
3 7 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Developer
3 7 (8.43%) Software Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) Lead
6 4 (4.82%) Administrator
6 4 (4.82%) Architect
6 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (3.61%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.25%) YAML
2 9 (10.84%) React
3 8 (9.64%) Spring
4 7 (8.43%) Node.js
5 5 (6.02%) RESTful
5 5 (6.02%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.61%) .NET
7 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.61%) CSS
7 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.61%) HTML
7 3 (3.61%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.61%) Swagger
8 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (2.41%) jQuery
8 2 (2.41%) Next.js
8 2 (2.41%) Sass
8 2 (2.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
2 4 (4.82%) Security Posture
3 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.41%) FlexPod
4 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.41%) Replication
4 2 (2.41%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.96%) Linux
2 11 (13.25%) Windows
3 5 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.61%) CentOS
5 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.41%) Unix
6 1 (1.20%) Debian
6 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) DevOps
2 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
3 34 (40.96%) Containerisation
4 31 (37.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (31.33%) Agile
6 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (21.69%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (19.28%) Test Automation
10 15 (18.07%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.66%) Incident Response
12 12 (14.46%) Cloud Security
13 11 (13.25%) Mentoring
14 10 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 10 (12.05%) SDLC
15 9 (10.84%) Collaborative Working
15 9 (10.84%) Kanban
15 9 (10.84%) Microservices
16 8 (9.64%) Root Cause Analysis
16 8 (9.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 44 (53.01%) Python
2 33 (39.76%) Bash
3 23 (27.71%) PowerShell
4 18 (21.69%) Java
5 17 (20.48%) Bicep
6 9 (10.84%) Go
6 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.64%) TypeScript
8 5 (6.02%) C#
9 4 (4.82%) SQL
10 2 (2.41%) VB
11 1 (1.20%) C++
11 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (42.17%) Security Cleared
2 20 (24.10%) DV Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.20%) CCNA
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.20%) Degree
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.41%) NCSC
3 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (44.58%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (3.61%) Firmware
5 3 (3.61%) iptables
5 3 (3.61%) vSphere
6 2 (2.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (2.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (56.63%) Kubernetes
2 42 (50.60%) Terraform
3 27 (32.53%) Ansible
4 16 (19.28%) Grafana
5 10 (12.05%) Puppet
6 8 (9.64%) Argo
6 8 (9.64%) Prometheus
7 6 (7.23%) Rancher
7 6 (7.23%) yum
8 5 (6.02%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.41%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.20%) Istio
10 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.20%) linkerd
10 1 (1.20%) logstash
10 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.64%) Cisco
3 7 (8.43%) VMware
4 6 (7.23%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.02%) Dell
5 5 (6.02%) Fortinet
5 5 (6.02%) Palo Alto
5 5 (6.02%) Splunk
6 4 (4.82%) Google
6 4 (4.82%) SAP
7 2 (2.41%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.41%) HP
7 2 (2.41%) Juniper
7 2 (2.41%) NetApp
7 2 (2.41%) Veeam
8 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.20%) Databricks
8 1 (1.20%) New Relic
8 1 (1.20%) SaltStack