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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 109 123
Rank change year-on-year +32 +14 -20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 163 51 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.02% 1.69% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 1.93% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 94 32 153
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,250 £87,500
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 5,689 2,636 8,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.61% 87.17% 78.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3,791 1,697 5,856
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,225 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% -2.48%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 +16 72 £82,750 -2.65% 57
Bristol 0 50 £75,000 - 23
Wiltshire -5 13 £75,000 -3.23% 11
Somerset - 10 £70,000 - 9
Devon -29 7 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Dorset +4 4 £97,500 - 1
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 12 (7.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (4.91%) Confluence
3 7 (4.29%) Apache
4 6 (3.68%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 84 (51.53%) AWS
2 75 (46.01%) Azure
3 40 (24.54%) Serverless
4 35 (21.47%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (20.86%) GCP
5 34 (20.86%) GitHub
6 23 (14.11%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (11.66%) Amazon S3
8 16 (9.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 16 (9.82%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (9.20%) Azure Functions
9 15 (9.20%) GitHub Actions
9 15 (9.20%) IaaS
9 15 (9.20%) PaaS
10 14 (8.59%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (8.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 13 (7.98%) OpenShift
12 10 (6.13%) Azure AKS
13 9 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.66%) Firewall
1 19 (11.66%) VPN
2 10 (6.13%) Network Security
2 10 (6.13%) WAN
3 9 (5.52%) VLAN
4 7 (4.29%) LAN
4 7 (4.29%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (3.68%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (3.68%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (3.68%) Unified Communications
5 6 (3.68%) WebEx
6 4 (2.45%) DNS
6 4 (2.45%) IPv4
7 3 (1.84%) AMQP
7 3 (1.84%) BGP
7 3 (1.84%) Broadband
7 3 (1.84%) DHCP
7 3 (1.84%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.23%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (5.52%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.68%) Geospatial Data
3 6 (3.68%) InfluxDB
3 6 (3.68%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.07%) Big Data
4 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.45%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.84%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.84%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.84%) Metadata
6 3 (1.84%) MySQL
6 3 (1.84%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.23%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 48 (29.45%) Git
2 33 (20.25%) Jenkins
3 30 (18.40%) GitLab
4 11 (6.75%) Bitbucket
5 9 (5.52%) JIRA
6 7 (4.29%) Cypress.io
6 7 (4.29%) Subversion
7 6 (3.68%) Robot Framework
7 6 (3.68%) Selenium
7 6 (3.68%) TestRail
8 4 (2.45%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.45%) MSI
9 2 (1.23%) MLflow
10 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.61%) git-flow
10 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.61%) Postman
10 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (28.83%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.18%) Finance
3 20 (12.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 18 (11.04%) Aerospace
6 13 (7.98%) Law
7 7 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.68%) Banking
8 6 (3.68%) Marketing
8 6 (3.68%) Retail
9 4 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.84%) Automotive
10 3 (1.84%) Electronics
10 3 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.23%) Games
11 2 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 34 (20.86%) Senior
2 30 (18.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 29 (17.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (8.59%) Architect
5 13 (7.98%) Developer
5 13 (7.98%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (7.36%) Analyst
6 12 (7.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 12 (7.36%) Lead
7 11 (6.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 10 (6.13%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Site Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Collaboration Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.59%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (7.98%) REST
2 13 (7.98%) RESTful
3 10 (6.13%) Node.js
3 10 (6.13%) Spring
4 9 (5.52%) React
4 9 (5.52%) Spring Boot
5 7 (4.29%) .NET
5 7 (4.29%) OpenAPI
5 7 (4.29%) pytest
5 7 (4.29%) Swagger
6 6 (3.68%) CSS
6 6 (3.68%) CSS3
6 6 (3.68%) GeoJSON
6 6 (3.68%) HTML
6 6 (3.68%) HTML5
6 6 (3.68%) Playwright
6 6 (3.68%) XMPP
7 5 (3.07%) FastAPI
7 5 (3.07%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 32 (19.63%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (9.82%) Public Cloud
4 13 (7.98%) Security Posture
5 12 (7.36%) Podcast
6 11 (6.75%) Onboarding
6 11 (6.75%) Product Ownership
7 7 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.68%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.68%) FlexPod
8 6 (3.68%) Replication
8 6 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.45%) CUDA
10 3 (1.84%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.84%) PKI
10 3 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.84%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 65 (39.88%) Linux
2 48 (29.45%) Windows
3 13 (7.98%) VMS
4 12 (7.36%) Windows Server
5 9 (5.52%) CentOS
6 5 (3.07%) Unix
7 4 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.84%) Debian
8 3 (1.84%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.61%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (73.62%) CI/CD
2 99 (60.74%) DevOps
3 71 (43.56%) Agile
4 56 (34.36%) Containerisation
5 51 (31.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (23.31%) DevSecOps
7 37 (22.70%) Problem-Solving
8 36 (22.09%) Observability
9 34 (20.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (20.86%) Test Automation
10 31 (19.02%) Analytics
11 29 (17.79%) AI
12 28 (17.18%) Mentoring
13 27 (16.56%) Cloud Security
13 27 (16.56%) Scrum
14 25 (15.34%) Platform Engineering
15 23 (14.11%) Software Engineering
16 21 (12.88%) Collaborative Culture
16 21 (12.88%) Infrastructure Automation
16 21 (12.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (52.15%) Python
2 60 (36.81%) Bash
3 39 (23.93%) PowerShell
4 27 (16.56%) Bicep
5 25 (15.34%) Java
6 20 (12.27%) JavaScript
7 19 (11.66%) SQL
8 13 (7.98%) Go
8 13 (7.98%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (5.52%) C#
9 9 (5.52%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.84%) C++
10 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.23%) C
11 2 (1.23%) Rust
11 2 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 90 (55.21%) Security Cleared
2 41 (25.15%) DV Cleared
3 39 (23.93%) SC Cleared
4 17 (10.43%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (5.52%) AWS Certification
7 6 (3.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.68%) Degree
7 6 (3.68%) RHCSA
8 5 (3.07%) CCNA
9 4 (2.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.45%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.45%) OSCP
9 4 (2.45%) RHCE
10 1 (0.61%) CCNP
10 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.61%) VCAP
10 1 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.13%) QA
2 6 (3.68%) NCSC
3 5 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.45%) WCAG
5 3 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.23%) GDPR
6 2 (1.23%) IFRS
6 2 (1.23%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.23%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (33.13%) Docker
2 35 (21.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (14.11%) Active Directory
3 23 (14.11%) vSphere
4 12 (7.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (4.29%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.29%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (3.68%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.45%) Firmware
7 4 (2.45%) iptables
7 4 (2.45%) Squid
8 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 118 (72.39%) Terraform
2 80 (49.08%) Kubernetes
3 71 (43.56%) Ansible
4 36 (22.09%) Grafana
5 21 (12.88%) Puppet
6 18 (11.04%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.52%) Rancher
8 8 (4.91%) Argo
9 7 (4.29%) Kibana
9 7 (4.29%) logstash
9 7 (4.29%) Packer
9 7 (4.29%) yum
10 6 (3.68%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (3.68%) vCenter Server
11 4 (2.45%) Progress Chef
11 4 (2.45%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.61%) Istio
12 1 (0.61%) linkerd
12 1 (0.61%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 43 (26.38%) Microsoft
2 35 (21.47%) VMware
3 19 (11.66%) Red Hat
4 17 (10.43%) Splunk
5 12 (7.36%) Cisco
5 12 (7.36%) ScienceLogic
6 8 (4.91%) Atlassian
7 7 (4.29%) NetApp
8 6 (3.68%) Fortinet
8 6 (3.68%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.07%) Dell
10 4 (2.45%) Databricks
10 4 (2.45%) Google
10 4 (2.45%) Oracle
11 3 (1.84%) SaltStack
12 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.61%) HP
13 1 (0.61%) Juniper
13 1 (0.61%) Zscaler