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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 110 108
Rank change year-on-year +38 -2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 189 54 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.23% 1.60% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.11% 1.89% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 111 34 144
10th Percentile £47,750 £50,375 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,813 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.38%
75th Percentile £96,250 £88,750 £85,625
90th Percentile £106,250 £98,181 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -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 6,068 2,854 6,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.54% 84.31% 77.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,990 1,867 4,799
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.34%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,155 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -11.29%

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 25 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 25 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 +21 91 £92,500 +10.45% 30
Bristol +2 53 £65,500 -12.67% 24
Wiltshire -7 14 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Somerset - 13 £70,000 - 12
Devon -15 10 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Dorset -1 3 £97,500 - 4
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 (6.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (5.82%) Apache
3 10 (5.29%) Confluence
4 7 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.53%) JBoss
6 1 (0.53%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 95 (50.26%) AWS
2 81 (42.86%) Azure
3 36 (19.05%) Serverless
4 35 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (18.52%) GCP
5 30 (15.87%) GitHub
6 20 (10.58%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (10.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 18 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 16 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (7.94%) IaaS
10 15 (7.94%) PaaS
11 14 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (7.41%) Azure AKS
11 14 (7.41%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (7.41%) OpenShift
12 13 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (6.35%) Azure Functions
14 11 (5.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.23%) VPN
2 20 (10.58%) Firewall
3 15 (7.94%) Network Security
4 12 (6.35%) WAN
5 10 (5.29%) VLAN
6 8 (4.23%) LAN
6 8 (4.23%) Software-Defined Networking
7 6 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (3.17%) Cisco Firepower
7 6 (3.17%) Unified Communications
7 6 (3.17%) WebEx
8 5 (2.65%) BGP
8 5 (2.65%) DNS
9 4 (2.12%) IPv4
9 4 (2.12%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.59%) Broadband
10 3 (1.59%) DHCP
10 3 (1.59%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.59%) SNMP
11 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.23%) Big Data
4 8 (4.23%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.17%) InfluxDB
6 6 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.12%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.12%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.59%) Flink
9 3 (1.59%) Metadata
9 3 (1.59%) MySQL
10 2 (1.06%) ClickHouse
10 2 (1.06%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 55 (29.10%) Git
2 34 (17.99%) GitLab
3 32 (16.93%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.35%) JIRA
5 10 (5.29%) Bitbucket
6 8 (4.23%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.23%) Selenium
7 7 (3.70%) Robot Framework
8 6 (3.17%) MSI
8 6 (3.17%) Subversion
8 6 (3.17%) TestRail
9 2 (1.06%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.06%) MLflow
9 2 (1.06%) Postman
9 2 (1.06%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.53%) git-flow
10 1 (0.53%) JUnit
10 1 (0.53%) NUnit
10 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.53%) Snyk
General
1 52 (27.51%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.52%) Finance
3 24 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.99%) Aerospace
6 14 (7.41%) Law
7 8 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.23%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.70%) Marketing
9 6 (3.17%) Banking
9 6 (3.17%) Retail
10 3 (1.59%) Automotive
10 3 (1.59%) Electronics
10 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.06%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
12 1 (0.53%) Military
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (21.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (18.52%) Senior
3 32 (16.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 23 (12.17%) Lead
5 19 (10.05%) Architect
6 13 (6.88%) Developer
6 13 (6.88%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.35%) Analyst
7 12 (6.35%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 12 (6.35%) Lead DevOps
8 11 (5.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (4.23%) Azure Architect
11 8 (4.23%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.94%) REST
1 15 (7.94%) RESTful
1 15 (7.94%) Spring
1 15 (7.94%) Spring Boot
2 14 (7.41%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (4.23%) .NET
3 8 (4.23%) GeoJSON
3 8 (4.23%) Node.js
3 8 (4.23%) pytest
3 8 (4.23%) React
4 7 (3.70%) .NET Core
4 7 (3.70%) CSS
4 7 (3.70%) CSS3
4 7 (3.70%) HTML
4 7 (3.70%) HTML5
5 6 (3.17%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.17%) Django
5 6 (3.17%) Kafka
5 6 (3.17%) Playwright
5 6 (3.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 23 (12.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (8.47%) Public Cloud
4 14 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 12 (6.35%) Podcast
5 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 12 (6.35%) Security Posture
6 8 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 6 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.17%) FlexPod
7 6 (3.17%) Replication
7 6 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.17%) Video Conferencing
8 5 (2.65%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.12%) CUDA
9 4 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.59%) PKI
10 3 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 65 (34.39%) Linux
2 52 (27.51%) Windows
3 13 (6.88%) VMS
3 13 (6.88%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.23%) CentOS
5 4 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.12%) Unix
6 2 (1.06%) Debian
6 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.53%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (75.13%) CI/CD
2 111 (58.73%) DevOps
3 84 (44.44%) Agile
4 81 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 55 (29.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (23.28%) DevSecOps
7 43 (22.75%) Observability
7 43 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (21.69%) Test Automation
9 38 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 37 (19.58%) AI
11 33 (17.46%) Analytics
12 31 (16.40%) Software Engineering
13 29 (15.34%) Cloud Security
14 28 (14.81%) Mentoring
15 26 (13.76%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (13.76%) Scrum
15 26 (13.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 22 (11.64%) Collaborative Culture
16 22 (11.64%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (53.97%) Python
2 58 (30.69%) Bash
3 35 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 32 (16.93%) Bicep
4 32 (16.93%) Java
5 24 (12.70%) JavaScript
6 23 (12.17%) SQL
7 14 (7.41%) Go
8 13 (6.88%) Kusto Query Language
9 9 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.23%) C#
11 3 (1.59%) C++
12 2 (1.06%) C
12 2 (1.06%) Rust
12 2 (1.06%) Scala
12 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 110 (58.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (30.16%) DV Cleared
3 49 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 16 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (5.82%) AWS Certification
7 10 (5.29%) Degree
8 7 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.17%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.65%) CCNA
11 4 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.12%) ISTQB
11 4 (2.12%) OSCP
11 4 (2.12%) RHCE
12 2 (1.06%) CCNP
13 1 (0.53%) OCP
13 1 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 9 (4.76%) NCSC
1 9 (4.76%) QA
2 6 (3.17%) WCAG
3 5 (2.65%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS
5 2 (1.06%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.06%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (37.57%) Docker
2 37 (19.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (13.23%) Active Directory
4 23 (12.17%) vSphere
5 13 (6.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.70%) VMware NSX
7 6 (3.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (2.65%) Firmware
9 4 (2.12%) Squid
10 3 (1.59%) iptables
Systems Management
1 137 (72.49%) Terraform
2 100 (52.91%) Kubernetes
3 79 (41.80%) Ansible
4 36 (19.05%) Grafana
5 20 (10.58%) Prometheus
5 20 (10.58%) Puppet
6 9 (4.76%) Argo
6 9 (4.76%) Packer
7 8 (4.23%) Rancher
8 7 (3.70%) Kibana
8 7 (3.70%) logstash
9 6 (3.17%) Cisco CUCM
9 6 (3.17%) vCenter Server
9 6 (3.17%) yum
10 4 (2.12%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.12%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.59%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.59%) Istio
11 3 (1.59%) linkerd
11 3 (1.59%) Mesos
Vendors
1 46 (24.34%) Microsoft
2 37 (19.58%) VMware
3 20 (10.58%) Red Hat
4 17 (8.99%) Splunk
5 12 (6.35%) Cisco
5 12 (6.35%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (5.29%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.70%) Fortinet
7 7 (3.70%) NetApp
8 6 (3.17%) Databricks
8 6 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 4 (2.12%) Dell
9 4 (2.12%) Google
9 4 (2.12%) Oracle
10 2 (1.06%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.06%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.53%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.53%) Meraki
11 1 (0.53%) New Relic
11 1 (0.53%) ServiceNow