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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 119 101
Rank change year-on-year +47 -18 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 214 56 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.39% 1.60% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 1.91% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 124 38 140
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,125 £49,875
25th Percentile £59,688 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.69% +13.46%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £97,792 £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 6,408 2,935 6,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.63% 83.71% 75.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,227 1,900 4,187
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,894 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.49% -10.29% -0.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +25 105 £86,500 +1.76% 90
Bristol +2 61 £65,000 -17.52% 83
Wiltshire 0 16 £75,000 -3.23% 14
Somerset -24 14 £70,000 -6.67% 11
Devon -17 8 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Dorset +4 5 £90,000 - 17
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 14 (6.54%) Apache
2 13 (6.07%) Confluence
3 12 (5.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (5.14%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 111 (51.87%) AWS
2 92 (42.99%) Azure
3 40 (18.69%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (18.69%) Serverless
4 37 (17.29%) GCP
5 35 (16.36%) GitHub
6 23 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (9.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 19 (8.88%) Amazon S3
8 19 (8.88%) OpenShift
9 16 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (7.01%) Azure AKS
10 15 (7.01%) IaaS
10 15 (7.01%) PaaS
11 14 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.54%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.54%) Azure Key Vault
12 12 (5.61%) Azure Functions
12 12 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.08%) VPN
2 22 (10.28%) Firewall
3 15 (7.01%) Network Security
3 15 (7.01%) WAN
4 12 (5.61%) VLAN
5 11 (5.14%) LAN
6 9 (4.21%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (3.27%) BGP
7 7 (3.27%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (3.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (3.27%) Unified Communications
7 7 (3.27%) WebEx
8 6 (2.80%) DNS
9 5 (2.34%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.87%) IPv4
10 4 (1.87%) Wireless
11 3 (1.40%) Broadband
11 3 (1.40%) DHCP
11 3 (1.40%) OSPF
11 3 (1.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (5.61%) Big Data
3 11 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.21%) Geospatial Data
5 8 (3.74%) Hadoop
6 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.27%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.80%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.80%) InfluxDB
7 6 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.34%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.87%) Flink
9 4 (1.87%) Metadata
10 3 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.40%) ClickHouse
10 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.40%) MySQL
10 3 (1.40%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 56 (26.17%) Git
2 38 (17.76%) GitLab
3 33 (15.42%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.48%) JIRA
5 10 (4.67%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.67%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.67%) Selenium
6 7 (3.27%) MSI
6 7 (3.27%) Robot Framework
7 6 (2.80%) TestRail
8 5 (2.34%) Subversion
9 4 (1.87%) Postman
9 4 (1.87%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.40%) git-flow
10 3 (1.40%) JUnit
10 3 (1.40%) NUnit
10 3 (1.40%) Snyk
11 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.93%) MLflow
12 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
General
1 58 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.69%) Finance
3 26 (12.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.94%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (7.01%) Law
7 10 (4.67%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.21%) Marketing
9 7 (3.27%) Banking
9 7 (3.27%) Retail
10 4 (1.87%) Military
11 3 (1.40%) Automotive
11 3 (1.40%) Electronics
11 3 (1.40%) Legal
11 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.93%) Games
12 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (22.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (17.29%) Senior
3 31 (14.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (13.08%) Lead
5 21 (9.81%) Architect
6 19 (8.88%) Developer
7 17 (7.94%) Lead DevOps
8 15 (7.01%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.01%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.54%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) Analyst
10 12 (5.61%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (5.14%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.67%) Software Engineer
13 9 (4.21%) Azure Architect
14 8 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
14 8 (3.74%) Senior Developer
14 8 (3.74%) Test Engineer
15 7 (3.27%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.88%) RESTful
2 18 (8.41%) Spring
2 18 (8.41%) Spring Boot
3 17 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (7.48%) REST
5 13 (6.07%) React
6 11 (5.14%) .NET
6 11 (5.14%) Node.js
7 10 (4.67%) .NET Core
7 10 (4.67%) pytest
8 9 (4.21%) GeoJSON
9 8 (3.74%) CSS
9 8 (3.74%) CSS3
9 8 (3.74%) HTML
9 8 (3.74%) HTML5
9 8 (3.74%) Kafka
10 7 (3.27%) ATL
10 7 (3.27%) COM
10 7 (3.27%) MFC
10 7 (3.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (24.77%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.94%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.48%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.61%) Podcast
5 12 (5.61%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.61%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.21%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.27%) FlexPod
8 7 (3.27%) Replication
8 7 (3.27%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.87%) CUDA
12 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.40%) IoT
12 3 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 64 (29.91%) Linux
2 54 (25.23%) Windows
3 13 (6.07%) VMS
3 13 (6.07%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.74%) CentOS
5 5 (2.34%) Unix
6 4 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.93%) Debian
7 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (78.50%) CI/CD
2 128 (59.81%) DevOps
3 100 (46.73%) Containerisation
4 94 (43.93%) Agile
5 60 (28.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (24.77%) Observability
7 51 (23.83%) DevSecOps
8 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (21.96%) Test Automation
10 45 (21.03%) AI
11 43 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 42 (19.63%) Software Engineering
13 39 (18.22%) Analytics
14 32 (14.95%) Cloud Security
14 32 (14.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (14.02%) Mentoring
17 29 (13.55%) Scrum
18 26 (12.15%) Data Pipeline
19 25 (11.68%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (53.74%) Python
2 62 (28.97%) Bash
3 42 (19.63%) Java
4 34 (15.89%) Bicep
4 34 (15.89%) PowerShell
5 29 (13.55%) JavaScript
6 27 (12.62%) SQL
7 18 (8.41%) Go
8 13 (6.07%) Kusto Query Language
8 13 (6.07%) TypeScript
9 9 (4.21%) C#
10 5 (2.34%) Scala
11 4 (1.87%) Rust
12 3 (1.40%) C++
13 2 (0.93%) C
13 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 128 (59.81%) Security Cleared
2 64 (29.91%) DV Cleared
3 61 (28.50%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.88%) Azure Certification
5 18 (8.41%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (6.07%) Degree
8 9 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.80%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.34%) CCNA
13 4 (1.87%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.87%) OCP
13 4 (1.87%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.87%) OSCP
13 4 (1.87%) RHCE
14 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.40%) CCNP
15 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.54%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.61%) NCSC
3 8 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.74%) QA
4 7 (3.27%) WCAG
5 4 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) GDPR
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (37.85%) Docker
2 40 (18.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (12.62%) Active Directory
4 24 (11.21%) vSphere
5 13 (6.07%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.27%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.27%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.34%) Firmware
8 4 (1.87%) Squid
9 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.47%) iptables
10 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 159 (74.30%) Terraform
2 116 (54.21%) Kubernetes
3 87 (40.65%) Ansible
4 35 (16.36%) Grafana
5 21 (9.81%) Puppet
6 20 (9.35%) Prometheus
7 9 (4.21%) Packer
8 7 (3.27%) Argo
8 7 (3.27%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (3.27%) Kibana
8 7 (3.27%) logstash
8 7 (3.27%) Rancher
8 7 (3.27%) vCenter Server
9 5 (2.34%) yum
9 5 (2.34%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.93%) Istio
11 2 (0.93%) linkerd
Vendors
1 51 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 42 (19.63%) VMware
3 24 (11.21%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.41%) Splunk
5 14 (6.54%) Cisco
6 12 (5.61%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.61%) ScienceLogic
7 10 (4.67%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.74%) NetApp
9 7 (3.27%) Databricks
9 7 (3.27%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.34%) Oracle
11 4 (1.87%) Google
11 4 (1.87%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.40%) Dell
12 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.93%) Avaya
13 2 (0.93%) F5
13 2 (0.93%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow