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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 118 78
Rank change year-on-year +56 -40 -13
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 253 51 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.41% 1.43% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 1.74% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 141 44 129
10th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £48,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £54,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £88,125 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £95,875 £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 7,508 2,932 5,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.40% 81.95% 76.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,088 1,836 2,927
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £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% -1.32%

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 10 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 10 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 +20 134 £82,500 -1.49% 70
Bristol +2 67 £72,500 -3.33% 22
Wiltshire -1 20 £75,000 -14.29% 14
Somerset -17 15 £70,000 +55.56% 22
Devon -27 10 £67,500 -3.57% 8
Dorset +1 3 £90,000 - 25
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 (8.70%) Apache
2 14 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 13 (5.14%) Confluence
4 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.98%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (49.41%) AWS
2 113 (44.66%) Azure
3 44 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (17.39%) Serverless
4 43 (17.00%) GCP
5 41 (16.21%) GitHub
6 28 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (10.67%) OpenShift
8 25 (9.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (8.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 20 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.91%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.72%) Azure AKS
12 16 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.32%) PaaS
13 15 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (5.53%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (5.53%) IaaS
15 12 (4.74%) Amazon ECS
15 12 (4.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.44%) VPN
2 24 (9.49%) Firewall
3 18 (7.11%) Network Security
4 14 (5.53%) WAN
5 11 (4.35%) BGP
5 11 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (3.56%) SD-WAN
6 9 (3.56%) VLAN
7 8 (3.16%) DNS
7 8 (3.16%) LAN
8 6 (2.37%) Wireless
9 5 (1.98%) AMQP
9 5 (1.98%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (1.98%) OSPF
9 5 (1.98%) SNMP
10 4 (1.58%) Internet
10 4 (1.58%) IPv4
10 4 (1.58%) WLAN
11 3 (1.19%) DHCP
12 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.93%) Big Data
2 14 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (3.56%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.77%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.37%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.98%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.98%) Flink
8 5 (1.98%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.58%) Metadata
10 3 (1.19%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.19%) Power BI
10 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 62 (24.51%) Git
2 43 (17.00%) GitLab
3 35 (13.83%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.93%) JIRA
5 11 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.95%) Selenium
7 9 (3.56%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.16%) Subversion
9 7 (2.77%) MSI
9 7 (2.77%) Robot Framework
10 6 (2.37%) TestRail
11 5 (1.98%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.58%) Postman
13 3 (1.19%) git-flow
13 3 (1.19%) JUnit
13 3 (1.19%) NUnit
13 3 (1.19%) Snyk
14 2 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.79%) Cucumber
14 2 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 62 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.72%) Finance
3 26 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (10.28%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.30%) Aerospace
6 14 (5.53%) Law
7 7 (2.77%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.58%) Marketing
8 4 (1.58%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Legal
10 2 (0.79%) Banking
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Games
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (29.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (17.79%) Senior
3 36 (14.23%) Lead
4 33 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.88%) Architect
6 23 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
7 21 (8.30%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 19 (7.51%) Developer
9 16 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (5.93%) Software Engineer
11 14 (5.53%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (5.14%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
12 13 (5.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.74%) Analyst
13 12 (4.74%) Cloud Engineer
13 12 (4.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 11 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (3.56%) Azure Architect
15 9 (3.56%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (72.73%) Terraform
2 27 (10.67%) Spring
2 27 (10.67%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
3 21 (8.30%) RESTful
4 20 (7.91%) React
5 16 (6.32%) Node.js
6 15 (5.93%) REST
7 12 (4.74%) .NET
8 11 (4.35%) pytest
9 10 (3.95%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.56%) GeoJSON
11 8 (3.16%) CSS
11 8 (3.16%) CSS3
11 8 (3.16%) HTML
11 8 (3.16%) HTML5
11 8 (3.16%) Kafka
11 8 (3.16%) OpenAPI
11 8 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 61 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (6.32%) Onboarding
3 16 (6.32%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.74%) Podcast
4 12 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.74%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.37%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.58%) CMDB
9 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.58%) PKI
10 3 (1.19%) Blog
10 3 (1.19%) IoT
11 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.79%) FlexPod
11 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (28.46%) Linux
2 48 (18.97%) Windows
3 12 (4.74%) VMS
4 11 (4.35%) CentOS
5 9 (3.56%) Unix
6 8 (3.16%) Windows Server
7 6 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.98%) Debian
8 5 (1.98%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.79%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (80.24%) CI/CD
2 159 (62.85%) DevOps
3 130 (51.38%) Containerisation
4 115 (45.45%) Agile
5 71 (28.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 60 (23.72%) AI
7 58 (22.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (22.92%) DevSecOps
8 57 (22.53%) Observability
9 56 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (21.74%) Test Automation
11 43 (17.00%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (17.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 43 (17.00%) Software Engineering
12 42 (16.60%) Cloud Security
13 39 (15.42%) Mentoring
14 37 (14.62%) Deployment Automation
15 36 (14.23%) Analytics
16 35 (13.83%) Configuration Management
17 34 (13.44%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 137 (54.15%) Python
2 79 (31.23%) Bash
3 58 (22.92%) Java
4 37 (14.62%) Bicep
5 36 (14.23%) PowerShell
6 33 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 27 (10.67%) SQL
8 23 (9.09%) Go
9 17 (6.72%) TypeScript
10 12 (4.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (3.16%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.77%) C#
13 6 (2.37%) Rust
14 5 (1.98%) Scala
15 3 (1.19%) C++
16 2 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 160 (63.24%) Security Cleared
2 88 (34.78%) DV Cleared
3 74 (29.25%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.30%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.11%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (3.95%) Degree
8 9 (3.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 9 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.37%) RHCSA
10 5 (1.98%) CCNP
11 4 (1.58%) CCNA
11 4 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.58%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.58%) OCP
11 4 (1.58%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.58%) OSCP
11 4 (1.58%) RHCE
12 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.32%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.74%) NCSC
3 11 (4.35%) QA
4 7 (2.77%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.77%) WCAG
5 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.19%) GDPR
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.79%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 96 (37.94%) Docker
2 41 (16.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (11.46%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.51%) vSphere
5 13 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (3.56%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.58%) Firmware
8 4 (1.58%) Squid
8 4 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 147 (58.10%) Kubernetes
2 108 (42.69%) Ansible
3 34 (13.44%) Grafana
4 29 (11.46%) Puppet
5 23 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.53%) Argo
7 10 (3.95%) Rancher
8 9 (3.56%) Packer
8 9 (3.56%) vCenter Server
9 8 (3.16%) Kibana
9 8 (3.16%) logstash
9 8 (3.16%) yum
10 5 (1.98%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.58%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.58%) Istio
11 4 (1.58%) linkerd
11 4 (1.58%) Mesos
12 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 62 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 45 (17.79%) VMware
3 24 (9.49%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.14%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.14%) Splunk
5 12 (4.74%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (4.35%) Google
7 8 (3.16%) Cisco
7 8 (3.16%) Databricks
8 7 (2.77%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.98%) Oracle
9 5 (1.98%) SaltStack
9 5 (1.98%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.58%) Avaya
10 4 (1.58%) F5
10 4 (1.58%) Infoblox
10 4 (1.58%) Meraki
10 4 (1.58%) Netskope
10 4 (1.58%) ServiceNow