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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 117 136
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 116 46 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.51% 1.64% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.82% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 69 27 138
10th Percentile £44,500 £50,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,889 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 5,330 2,524 8,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.52% 89.82% 79.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,539 1,561 5,932
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,255 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,373
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.19% -4.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 June 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 June 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 +11 54 £67,750 -3.21% 23
Bristol -10 33 £75,000 -2.48% 21
Wiltshire -5 8 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Devon -25 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset -1 4 £97,500 +14.71% 1
Cornwall - 4 - - 1
Somerset - 4 £60,000 - 8
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 5 (4.31%) Apache
1 5 (4.31%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.31%) Confluence
2 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 67 (57.76%) AWS
2 47 (40.52%) Azure
3 27 (23.28%) GCP
3 27 (23.28%) Serverless
4 23 (19.83%) GitHub
5 19 (16.38%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (14.66%) Amazon S3
7 16 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.48%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.03%) Azure Functions
11 7 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (6.03%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (6.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.66%) Firewall
2 9 (7.76%) WAN
3 8 (6.90%) VLAN
4 7 (6.03%) LAN
4 7 (6.03%) Network Security
5 6 (5.17%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.17%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.17%) Unified Communications
5 6 (5.17%) VPN
5 6 (5.17%) WebEx
6 5 (4.31%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.45%) Broadband
7 4 (3.45%) IPv4
8 3 (2.59%) DHCP
8 3 (2.59%) DNS
8 3 (2.59%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.72%) AMQP
9 2 (1.72%) BGP
10 1 (0.86%) NAS
10 1 (0.86%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.45%) Big Data
4 4 (3.45%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.59%) Metadata
5 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.72%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.86%) Flink
7 1 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (27.59%) Git
2 27 (23.28%) Jenkins
3 19 (16.38%) GitLab
4 10 (8.62%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.17%) JIRA
5 6 (5.17%) Subversion
6 4 (3.45%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.45%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.45%) Selenium
6 4 (3.45%) TestRail
7 2 (1.72%) MLflow
8 1 (0.86%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.86%) MSI
General
1 32 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Aerospace
3 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.17%) Banking
5 6 (5.17%) Marketing
5 6 (5.17%) Retail
5 6 (5.17%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.31%) Law
7 3 (2.59%) Automotive
7 3 (2.59%) Electronics
7 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.72%) Billing
8 2 (1.72%) Games
8 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (18.97%) Senior
3 19 (16.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Lead
7 8 (6.90%) Architect
8 7 (6.03%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (6.03%) Developer
8 7 (6.03%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Collaboration Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Site Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.76%) Node.js
1 9 (7.76%) REST
2 8 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.90%) Spring
3 7 (6.03%) RESTful
4 6 (5.17%) React
4 6 (5.17%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.17%) XMPP
5 5 (4.31%) OpenAPI
5 5 (4.31%) Swagger
6 4 (3.45%) .NET
6 4 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.45%) boto
6 4 (3.45%) Django
6 4 (3.45%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.45%) Flask
6 4 (3.45%) Playwright
6 4 (3.45%) pytest
7 3 (2.59%) CSS3
7 3 (2.59%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.17%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.17%) Replication
4 6 (5.17%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.17%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.45%) CUDA
6 4 (3.45%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.45%) Podcast
7 3 (2.59%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.59%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.59%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.59%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (44.83%) Linux
2 32 (27.59%) Windows
3 11 (9.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.17%) CentOS
5 5 (4.31%) VMS
6 4 (3.45%) Unix
7 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.72%) Debian
8 2 (1.72%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (68.97%) CI/CD
2 69 (59.48%) DevOps
3 43 (37.07%) Agile
3 43 (37.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 37 (31.90%) Containerisation
5 27 (23.28%) Test Automation
6 23 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (19.83%) Mentoring
6 23 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.97%) DevSecOps
8 19 (16.38%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 18 (15.52%) Analytics
9 18 (15.52%) Observability
10 17 (14.66%) Scrum
11 16 (13.79%) Cloud Security
11 16 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (12.93%) Collaborative Culture
13 13 (11.21%) AI
13 13 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (56.90%) Python
2 43 (37.07%) Bash
3 28 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 22 (18.97%) Java
5 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.34%) Bicep
7 10 (8.62%) Go
8 9 (7.76%) SQL
9 6 (5.17%) C#
10 5 (4.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.59%) C++
12 2 (1.72%) C
12 2 (1.72%) Rust
12 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.72%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (47.41%) Security Cleared
2 27 (23.28%) DV Cleared
3 21 (18.10%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.62%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.17%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.31%) CCNA
7 5 (4.31%) Degree
8 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.45%) OSCP
8 4 (3.45%) RHCE
8 4 (3.45%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.86%) CCNP
9 1 (0.86%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.86%) VCAP
9 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.59%) NCSC
3 2 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) IFRS
3 2 (1.72%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
4 1 (0.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (34.48%) Docker
2 21 (18.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.93%) vSphere
4 12 (10.34%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.17%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.17%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (5.17%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.45%) Firmware
6 4 (3.45%) iptables
6 4 (3.45%) Squid
6 4 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 80 (68.97%) Terraform
2 54 (46.55%) Kubernetes
3 53 (45.69%) Ansible
4 30 (25.86%) Grafana
5 16 (13.79%) Prometheus
5 16 (13.79%) Puppet
6 8 (6.90%) Argo
7 7 (6.03%) Rancher
8 6 (5.17%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (5.17%) yum
9 5 (4.31%) Packer
10 4 (3.45%) Kibana
10 4 (3.45%) logstash
10 4 (3.45%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.45%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.45%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.86%) linkerd
11 1 (0.86%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.10%) VMware
3 15 (12.93%) Red Hat
3 15 (12.93%) Splunk
4 12 (10.34%) Cisco
5 7 (6.03%) NetApp
6 6 (5.17%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.17%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.31%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.31%) Dell
8 4 (3.45%) Databricks
8 4 (3.45%) Google
8 4 (3.45%) Oracle
8 4 (3.45%) ScienceLogic
9 2 (1.72%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.86%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.86%) HP
10 1 (0.86%) Juniper
10 1 (0.86%) Veeam
10 1 (0.86%) Zscaler