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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 90 55
Rank change year-on-year -19 -35 +50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 70 111 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.38% 2.68% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.13% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 61 82 156
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,500 £46,903
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +10.76% +11.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +1.79% - -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 3,639 3,549 4,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.62% 85.58% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 1,776 3,216
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,454 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Bristol -24 20 £72,500 - 24
Somerset -5 14 £50,000 -4.76% 10
Gloucestershire +3 13 £67,500 +12.50% 36
Devon -1 6 £55,000 -21.43% 11
Cornwall -12 4 - -
Wiltshire +12 3 £60,000 -14.29% 11
Dorset 0 2 £67,500 -20.59% 10
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 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (62.86%) Azure
2 42 (60.00%) AWS
3 22 (31.43%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (28.57%) GitHub
5 19 (27.14%) GitHub Actions
5 19 (27.14%) Serverless
6 14 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 14 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (12.86%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (11.43%) SaaS
9 7 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (8.57%) GCP
10 6 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (7.14%) PaaS
12 4 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) Firewall
2 4 (5.71%) DNS
2 4 (5.71%) Network Security
3 3 (4.29%) AMQP
3 3 (4.29%) DHCP
3 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.29%) VPN
4 1 (1.43%) Broadband
4 1 (1.43%) Internet
4 1 (1.43%) VLAN
4 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.71%) InfluxDB
3 4 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.43%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.43%) Redis
5 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (8.57%) Git
3 4 (5.71%) GitLab
4 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Subversion
5 2 (2.86%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.86%) JIRA
5 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.43%) Jaeger
General
1 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Finance
3 10 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Electronics
4 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.71%) Marketing
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.29%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.29%) Billing
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (24.29%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (11.43%) Developer
4 6 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (8.57%) Senior
5 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.14%) Lead
5 5 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Architect
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.86%) C# Developer
8 2 (2.86%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) YAML
2 9 (12.86%) React
3 7 (10.00%) Spring
4 5 (7.14%) Node.js
5 4 (5.71%) .NET
5 4 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (4.29%) ARM Templates
6 3 (4.29%) REST
6 3 (4.29%) RESTful
6 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.86%) .NET Core
7 2 (2.86%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.86%) Avalonia
7 2 (2.86%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.86%) WPF
8 1 (1.43%) CSS
8 1 (1.43%) Express.js
8 1 (1.43%) HTML
8 1 (1.43%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 23 (32.86%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Linux
2 8 (11.43%) Windows
3 6 (8.57%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.14%) Debian
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.43%) CentOS
6 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (75.71%) DevOps
2 49 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 32 (45.71%) Containerisation
4 23 (32.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
6 20 (28.57%) Agile
7 14 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (20.00%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (14.29%) Microservices
9 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (12.86%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.43%) Configuration Management
11 8 (11.43%) Incident Response
12 7 (10.00%) AI
12 7 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (10.00%) Kanban
12 7 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) Python
2 21 (30.00%) Bash
2 21 (30.00%) Bicep
3 17 (24.29%) PowerShell
4 16 (22.86%) Java
5 9 (12.86%) Go
5 9 (12.86%) SQL
5 9 (12.86%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 4 (5.71%) C#
8 3 (4.29%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.86%) XAML
10 1 (1.43%) C
10 1 (1.43%) C++
10 1 (1.43%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.86%) DV Cleared
3 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.86%) Degree
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.86%) NCSC
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (50.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.86%) iptables
4 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 46 (65.71%) Kubernetes
2 41 (58.57%) Terraform
3 19 (27.14%) Ansible
4 8 (11.43%) Grafana
5 7 (10.00%) Progress Chef
5 7 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.71%) Argo
7 3 (4.29%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (4.29%) Puppet
7 3 (4.29%) Rancher
7 3 (4.29%) yum
8 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
8 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.71%) Fortinet
3 4 (5.71%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.71%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.29%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) Cisco
5 2 (2.86%) VMware
6 1 (1.43%) Dell
6 1 (1.43%) HP
6 1 (1.43%) Juniper
6 1 (1.43%) New Relic
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk
6 1 (1.43%) Veeam