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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -39 -23 +61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 58 156 233
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.44% 2.54% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.35% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 50 115 168
10th Percentile £42,500 £44,300 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £84,688 £77,500 £81,563
90th Percentile £95,125 £87,500 £95,462
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 3,175 4,653 4,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 79.00% 75.88% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 2,641 3,245
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,431
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -9 19 £75,000 - 29
Somerset -2 14 £50,000 -9.09% 10
Gloucestershire -3 9 £76,250 +45.24% 26
Devon -7 5 £55,000 -21.43% 1
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire +28 2 £73,750 +5.36% 13
Dorset -2 1 - - 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 3 (5.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (68.97%) Azure
2 36 (62.07%) AWS
3 21 (36.21%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (27.59%) GitHub
5 15 (25.86%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (25.86%) Serverless
6 9 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (8.62%) OpenShift
8 5 (8.62%) PaaS
8 5 (8.62%) SaaS
9 4 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.90%) GCP
9 4 (6.90%) IaaS
9 4 (6.90%) Pulumi
10 3 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) AMQP
2 3 (5.17%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) Network Security
4 1 (1.72%) Broadband
4 1 (1.72%) DNS
4 1 (1.72%) Internet
4 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.72%) VLAN
4 1 (1.72%) VSAN
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.17%) InfluxDB
4 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.72%) CockroachDB
5 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.72%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.72%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.72%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.07%) Git
3 4 (6.90%) GitLab
4 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 2 (3.45%) JUnit
5 2 (3.45%) Subversion
5 2 (3.45%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.72%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.72%) Mockito
6 1 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.45%) Law
5 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.72%) Banking
5 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Games
5 1 (1.72%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (25.86%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Senior
7 3 (5.17%) Site Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.17%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.45%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.97%) YAML
2 7 (12.07%) React
3 5 (8.62%) .NET
4 4 (6.90%) Spring
5 3 (5.17%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.17%) Kafka
5 3 (5.17%) Node.js
5 3 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.17%) REST
6 2 (3.45%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.45%) Avalonia
6 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.45%) RESTful
6 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.45%) WPF
7 1 (1.72%) CSS
7 1 (1.72%) HTML
7 1 (1.72%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 24 (41.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.62%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.72%) NHS
7 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Windows
3 6 (10.34%) Ubuntu
4 5 (8.62%) Debian
5 4 (6.90%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.72%) CentOS
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.72%) Unix
6 1 (1.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (77.59%) DevOps
2 42 (72.41%) CI/CD
3 33 (56.90%) Containerisation
4 18 (31.03%) Platform Engineering
5 17 (29.31%) Agile
5 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (17.24%) Software Engineering
7 9 (15.52%) AI
7 9 (15.52%) Microservices
8 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
8 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.07%) Migration
10 6 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.34%) Cost Optimisation
10 6 (10.34%) Kanban
11 5 (8.62%) Clean Code
11 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
11 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Development
11 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) Python
2 21 (36.21%) Bicep
3 14 (24.14%) Java
4 10 (17.24%) Bash
4 10 (17.24%) PowerShell
4 10 (17.24%) SQL
5 7 (12.07%) Go
6 6 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 6 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.90%) C#
8 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.45%) C++
9 2 (3.45%) XAML
10 1 (1.72%) C
10 1 (1.72%) Julia
10 1 (1.72%) R
10 1 (1.72%) Rust
10 1 (1.72%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.79%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.34%) AWS Certification
4 6 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.45%) Degree
6 1 (1.72%) CCNA
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) GDPR
1 3 (5.17%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) NCSC
3 1 (1.72%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (1.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (51.72%) Docker
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.17%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.72%) iptables
4 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.72%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (68.97%) Kubernetes
2 32 (55.17%) Terraform
3 14 (24.14%) Ansible
4 5 (8.62%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.90%) Grafana
5 4 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (3.45%) Argo
7 2 (3.45%) Puppet
7 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.72%) Rancher
8 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.72%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.90%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.90%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.17%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (5.17%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) Cisco
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Meraki
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk
5 1 (1.72%) VMware