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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 115 95
Rank change year-on-year +52 -20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 226 54 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.48% 1.55% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 1.86% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 130 36 139
10th Percentile £47,750 £53,750 £49,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £96,875 £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 6,521 2,896 6,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.44% 83.29% 75.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 1,892 4,132
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,250 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -11.47% -0.91%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +17 115 £82,500 -2.94% 60
Bristol +2 61 £65,000 -17.52% 48
Wiltshire +2 17 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Somerset -20 15 £70,000 -6.67% 10
Devon -23 8 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Dorset +2 5 £90,000 - 9
Cornwall - 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 15 (6.64%) Apache
2 13 (5.75%) Confluence
3 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.87%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.33%) nginx
5 3 (1.33%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (50.88%) AWS
2 95 (42.04%) Azure
3 41 (18.14%) Serverless
4 40 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (16.81%) GCP
6 36 (15.93%) GitHub
7 24 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (10.18%) OpenShift
9 22 (9.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (9.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (8.41%) Amazon S3
12 16 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (7.08%) Azure AKS
12 16 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (7.08%) PaaS
13 15 (6.64%) IaaS
14 14 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (5.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (12.83%) VPN
2 23 (10.18%) Firewall
3 16 (7.08%) Network Security
4 14 (6.19%) WAN
5 11 (4.87%) VLAN
6 10 (4.42%) LAN
7 9 (3.98%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.10%) BGP
8 7 (3.10%) DNS
9 6 (2.65%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (2.65%) Cisco Firepower
9 6 (2.65%) Unified Communications
9 6 (2.65%) WebEx
10 5 (2.21%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.77%) DHCP
11 4 (1.77%) IPv4
11 4 (1.77%) Wireless
12 3 (1.33%) Broadband
12 3 (1.33%) SNMP
12 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.75%) Big Data
3 12 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.98%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (3.98%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.10%) Data Lake
5 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.65%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.65%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.77%) Flink
7 4 (1.77%) Metadata
8 3 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.33%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
8 3 (1.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 57 (25.22%) Git
2 39 (17.26%) GitLab
3 33 (14.60%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.08%) JIRA
5 11 (4.87%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.42%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.42%) Selenium
7 7 (3.10%) MSI
7 7 (3.10%) Robot Framework
8 6 (2.65%) TestRail
9 5 (2.21%) Subversion
10 4 (1.77%) Postman
10 4 (1.77%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.33%) git-flow
11 3 (1.33%) JUnit
11 3 (1.33%) NUnit
11 3 (1.33%) Snyk
12 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.88%) MLflow
13 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 59 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.47%) Finance
3 26 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.85%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.19%) Law
8 9 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.54%) Marketing
10 6 (2.65%) Banking
10 6 (2.65%) Retail
11 4 (1.77%) Military
12 3 (1.33%) Automotive
12 3 (1.33%) Electronics
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Games
13 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (23.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.26%) Senior
3 32 (14.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (13.72%) Lead
5 23 (10.18%) Architect
6 21 (9.29%) Lead DevOps
7 19 (8.41%) Developer
8 18 (7.96%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) Analyst
11 12 (5.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 12 (5.31%) Software Engineer
12 11 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Azure Architect
13 10 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.54%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.54%) Technical Architect
14 8 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.73%) Spring
1 22 (9.73%) Spring Boot
2 19 (8.41%) RESTful
3 18 (7.96%) REST
4 17 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.64%) React
6 12 (5.31%) Node.js
7 11 (4.87%) .NET
8 10 (4.42%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.42%) pytest
9 9 (3.98%) GeoJSON
10 8 (3.54%) CSS
10 8 (3.54%) CSS3
10 8 (3.54%) HTML
10 8 (3.54%) HTML5
10 8 (3.54%) Kafka
11 7 (3.10%) .NET Framework
11 7 (3.10%) ATL
11 7 (3.10%) COM
11 7 (3.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 56 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.96%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.08%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.75%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.31%) Podcast
6 12 (5.31%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.98%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.65%) FlexPod
9 6 (2.65%) Replication
9 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.65%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.77%) CUDA
11 4 (1.77%) PKI
12 3 (1.33%) Blog
12 3 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 68 (30.09%) Linux
2 54 (23.89%) Windows
3 13 (5.75%) VMS
4 12 (5.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.98%) CentOS
6 6 (2.65%) Unix
7 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Debian
8 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (79.20%) CI/CD
2 137 (60.62%) DevOps
3 112 (49.56%) Containerisation
4 99 (43.81%) Agile
5 63 (27.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (24.34%) Observability
7 54 (23.89%) DevSecOps
8 52 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
9 50 (22.12%) Test Automation
10 48 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (20.80%) AI
12 45 (19.91%) Software Engineering
13 40 (17.70%) Analytics
14 36 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 34 (15.04%) Mentoring
15 34 (15.04%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (14.60%) Cloud Security
17 30 (13.27%) Scrum
18 27 (11.95%) Configuration Management
18 27 (11.95%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.98%) Python
2 67 (29.65%) Bash
3 47 (20.80%) Java
4 36 (15.93%) PowerShell
5 35 (15.49%) Bicep
6 31 (13.72%) JavaScript
7 26 (11.50%) SQL
8 19 (8.41%) Go
9 14 (6.19%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (3.98%) C#
12 5 (2.21%) Rust
12 5 (2.21%) Scala
13 3 (1.33%) C++
14 2 (0.88%) C
14 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 140 (61.95%) Security Cleared
2 73 (32.30%) DV Cleared
3 67 (29.65%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.41%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.96%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.75%) Degree
8 9 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.65%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.21%) CCNA
13 4 (1.77%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.77%) OCP
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.77%) OSCP
13 4 (1.77%) RHCE
14 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.08%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.31%) NCSC
3 8 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.54%) QA
4 7 (3.10%) WCAG
5 4 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.33%) GDPR
6 3 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) IFRS
7 2 (0.88%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.88%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (38.05%) Docker
2 41 (18.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (12.83%) Active Directory
4 23 (10.18%) vSphere
5 13 (5.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.10%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.77%) Firmware
8 4 (1.77%) Squid
9 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.44%) iptables
10 1 (0.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 171 (75.66%) Terraform
2 128 (56.64%) Kubernetes
3 98 (43.36%) Ansible
4 34 (15.04%) Grafana
5 21 (9.29%) Puppet
6 20 (8.85%) Prometheus
7 9 (3.98%) Packer
8 7 (3.10%) Argo
8 7 (3.10%) Kibana
8 7 (3.10%) logstash
8 7 (3.10%) Rancher
8 7 (3.10%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.65%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (2.21%) yum
10 5 (2.21%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.88%) Istio
12 2 (0.88%) linkerd
Vendors
1 52 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 44 (19.47%) VMware
3 24 (10.62%) Red Hat
4 17 (7.52%) Splunk
5 12 (5.31%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.31%) Cisco
5 12 (5.31%) ScienceLogic
6 9 (3.98%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.10%) NetApp
8 6 (2.65%) Databricks
8 6 (2.65%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.21%) Google
9 5 (2.21%) Oracle
10 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.33%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.33%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.88%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.88%) Meraki
12 2 (0.88%) Netskope
12 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow