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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 121 72
Rank change year-on-year +58 -49 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 255 51 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.43% 1.42% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 1.73% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 140 43 130
10th Percentile £49,875 £42,500 £48,625
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £93,125 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,275 £96,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -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 7,495 2,956 5,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.41% 82.09% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 5,090 1,844 2,932
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,063 £31,250 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +22 137 £82,500 -1.49% 88
Bristol +4 66 £72,500 -3.33% 28
Wiltshire -6 20 £75,000 -14.29% 13
Somerset -19 15 £70,000 +55.56% 25
Devon -24 10 £67,500 -3.57% 10
Dorset -2 3 £90,000 - 31
Cornwall +8 2 - - 2
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 22 (8.63%) Apache
2 14 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.10%) Confluence
4 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.96%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (49.02%) AWS
2 113 (44.31%) Azure
3 44 (17.25%) GCP
3 44 (17.25%) Serverless
4 43 (16.86%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (15.69%) GitHub
6 28 (10.98%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (10.98%) OpenShift
7 26 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (8.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 21 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.84%) Amazon S3
11 18 (7.06%) Azure AKS
12 16 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.27%) PaaS
13 15 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (5.49%) IaaS
15 12 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (4.71%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.33%) VPN
2 24 (9.41%) Firewall
3 18 (7.06%) Network Security
4 14 (5.49%) WAN
5 11 (4.31%) BGP
5 11 (4.31%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (3.53%) SD-WAN
6 9 (3.53%) VLAN
7 8 (3.14%) DNS
7 8 (3.14%) LAN
8 6 (2.35%) Wireless
9 5 (1.96%) AMQP
9 5 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (1.96%) OSPF
9 5 (1.96%) SNMP
10 4 (1.57%) Internet
10 4 (1.57%) IPv4
10 4 (1.57%) WLAN
11 3 (1.18%) DHCP
12 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.88%) Big Data
2 14 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (4.31%) Hadoop
4 10 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (3.53%) Geospatial Data
5 9 (3.53%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.75%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.35%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.35%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.96%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.96%) Flink
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.57%) Metadata
9 4 (1.57%) MySQL
10 3 (1.18%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 64 (25.10%) Git
2 44 (17.25%) GitLab
3 35 (13.73%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.88%) JIRA
5 11 (4.31%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.92%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.92%) Selenium
7 9 (3.53%) Subversion
8 7 (2.75%) MSI
8 7 (2.75%) Robot Framework
9 6 (2.35%) TestRail
10 5 (1.96%) SonarQube
11 4 (1.57%) Postman
12 3 (1.18%) git-flow
12 3 (1.18%) JUnit
12 3 (1.18%) NUnit
12 3 (1.18%) Snyk
13 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.78%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.78%) MLflow
General
1 63 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.53%) Finance
3 26 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.63%) Aerospace
6 14 (5.49%) Law
7 7 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.57%) Marketing
8 4 (1.57%) Military
9 3 (1.18%) Legal
10 2 (0.78%) Banking
10 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (29.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (17.65%) Senior
3 35 (13.73%) Lead
4 34 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.80%) Architect
6 23 (9.02%) Lead DevOps
7 21 (8.24%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) Developer
9 16 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.88%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.49%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.10%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (5.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.71%) Analyst
13 12 (4.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 11 (4.31%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.53%) Azure Architect
15 9 (3.53%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (72.55%) Terraform
2 27 (10.59%) Spring
2 27 (10.59%) Spring Boot
3 22 (8.63%) RESTful
4 21 (8.24%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (7.84%) React
6 16 (6.27%) Node.js
7 15 (5.88%) REST
8 12 (4.71%) .NET
9 11 (4.31%) pytest
10 10 (3.92%) .NET Core
11 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.53%) GeoJSON
12 8 (3.14%) CSS
12 8 (3.14%) CSS3
12 8 (3.14%) HTML
12 8 (3.14%) HTML5
12 8 (3.14%) Kafka
12 8 (3.14%) OpenAPI
12 8 (3.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.92%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.27%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.71%) Podcast
5 12 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.71%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.31%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.35%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.57%) CMDB
10 4 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.57%) PKI
11 3 (1.18%) Blog
11 3 (1.18%) IoT
12 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.78%) FlexPod
12 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 75 (29.41%) Linux
2 48 (18.82%) Windows
3 12 (4.71%) VMS
4 11 (4.31%) CentOS
5 9 (3.53%) Unix
6 8 (3.14%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.96%) Debian
8 5 (1.96%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.78%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 161 (63.14%) DevOps
3 132 (51.76%) Containerisation
4 117 (45.88%) Agile
5 73 (28.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 59 (23.14%) AI
6 59 (23.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (22.75%) DevSecOps
8 57 (22.35%) Observability
8 57 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (21.96%) Test Automation
10 44 (17.25%) Software Engineering
11 43 (16.86%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (16.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 42 (16.47%) Cloud Security
13 39 (15.29%) Mentoring
14 38 (14.90%) Deployment Automation
15 37 (14.51%) Analytics
16 35 (13.73%) Configuration Management
16 35 (13.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 138 (54.12%) Python
2 80 (31.37%) Bash
3 60 (23.53%) Java
4 37 (14.51%) Bicep
5 36 (14.12%) PowerShell
6 33 (12.94%) JavaScript
7 27 (10.59%) SQL
8 25 (9.80%) Go
9 17 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (3.14%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.75%) C#
13 6 (2.35%) Rust
14 5 (1.96%) Scala
15 3 (1.18%) C++
16 2 (0.78%) C
Qualifications
1 163 (63.92%) Security Cleared
2 89 (34.90%) DV Cleared
3 74 (29.02%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.24%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.06%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.92%) Degree
8 9 (3.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.35%) RHCSA
10 5 (1.96%) CCNP
11 4 (1.57%) CCNA
11 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.57%) OCP
11 4 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.57%) OSCP
11 4 (1.57%) RHCE
12 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.27%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.71%) NCSC
2 12 (4.71%) QA
3 7 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.75%) WCAG
4 6 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.18%) GDPR
5 3 (1.18%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 97 (38.04%) Docker
2 41 (16.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (11.37%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.45%) vSphere
5 13 (5.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.53%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.57%) Firmware
8 4 (1.57%) Squid
8 4 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.39%) KVM
Systems Management
1 150 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 110 (43.14%) Ansible
3 34 (13.33%) Grafana
4 30 (11.76%) Puppet
5 23 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 15 (5.88%) Argo
7 12 (4.71%) Rancher
8 9 (3.53%) Packer
8 9 (3.53%) vCenter Server
8 9 (3.53%) yum
9 8 (3.14%) Kibana
9 8 (3.14%) logstash
10 5 (1.96%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.57%) Istio
11 4 (1.57%) linkerd
11 4 (1.57%) Mesos
12 3 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.65%) VMware
3 24 (9.41%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.10%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.10%) Splunk
5 12 (4.71%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (4.31%) Google
7 8 (3.14%) Cisco
8 7 (2.75%) Databricks
8 7 (2.75%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.96%) Oracle
9 5 (1.96%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.96%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.57%) Avaya
10 4 (1.57%) F5
10 4 (1.57%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.57%) Meraki
10 4 (1.57%) Netskope
10 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow