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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 98 89
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 85 94 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.45% 2.63% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.98% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 66 66 154
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,750 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +10.76% +8.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,938
90th Percentile £89,375 £90,625 £86,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 4,180 3,159 5,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.15% 88.24% 88.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,830 1,515 4,588
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +12 27 £62,500 +4.17% 26
Bristol -29 18 £72,500 - 16
Somerset - 13 £45,000 -
Wiltshire +2 6 £65,000 -7.14% 7
Devon -6 6 £53,750 -17.31% 1
Cornwall -9 4 - -
Dorset -4 3 £67,500 -27.03% 1
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 2 (2.35%) Apache
1 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.00%) AWS
2 49 (57.65%) Azure
3 25 (29.41%) GitHub
4 24 (28.24%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (27.06%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (23.53%) Serverless
7 15 (17.65%) GCP
8 13 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
10 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (9.41%) SaaS
12 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (8.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (7.06%) Datadog
13 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
13 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
14 5 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) DNS
2 6 (7.06%) Network Security
3 5 (5.88%) DHCP
3 5 (5.88%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.53%) VPN
5 2 (2.35%) VLAN
6 1 (1.18%) AMQP
6 1 (1.18%) Broadband
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (1.18%) Internet
6 1 (1.18%) LAN
6 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.18%) VSAN
6 1 (1.18%) WAN
6 1 (1.18%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.71%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.35%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.18%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.18%) Big Data
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (1.18%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.18%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.18%) Redis
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
2 10 (11.76%) Git
3 6 (7.06%) CircleCI
3 6 (7.06%) GitLab
3 6 (7.06%) Subversion
4 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.18%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.18%) JIRA
6 1 (1.18%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.18%) Selenium
6 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.18%) TestRail
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Finance
3 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.06%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.88%) Marketing
5 5 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Electronics
6 4 (4.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.53%) Billing
8 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.35%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (18.82%) Platform Engineer
3 13 (15.29%) Senior
4 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Developer
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Lead
9 4 (4.71%) Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Administrator
10 3 (3.53%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) YAML
2 10 (11.76%) React
3 8 (9.41%) Spring
4 7 (8.24%) Node.js
5 5 (5.88%) .NET
5 5 (5.88%) RESTful
5 5 (5.88%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.71%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.71%) ARM Templates
7 3 (3.53%) CSS
7 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.53%) HTML
7 3 (3.53%) OpenAPI
7 3 (3.53%) REST
7 3 (3.53%) Swagger
8 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.35%) HTML5
8 2 (2.35%) jQuery
8 2 (2.35%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.35%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.88%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.18%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.18%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (40.00%) Linux
2 11 (12.94%) Windows
3 5 (5.88%) Ubuntu
3 5 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.71%) Debian
5 3 (3.53%) CentOS
6 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.35%) Unix
7 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (75.29%) DevOps
2 55 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 35 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 31 (36.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (34.12%) Agile
6 22 (25.88%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 16 (18.82%) Software Engineering
11 13 (15.29%) Incident Response
12 12 (14.12%) Cloud Security
13 11 (12.94%) Full-Stack Development
13 11 (12.94%) Mentoring
14 10 (11.76%) Kanban
14 10 (11.76%) Microservices
14 10 (11.76%) SDLC
15 9 (10.59%) Scrum
16 8 (9.41%) AI
16 8 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) Python
2 33 (38.82%) Bash
3 23 (27.06%) PowerShell
4 19 (22.35%) Bicep
5 17 (20.00%) Java
6 9 (10.59%) Go
6 9 (10.59%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.06%) C#
8 5 (5.88%) SQL
9 2 (2.35%) VB
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (38.82%) Security Cleared
2 19 (22.35%) DV Cleared
3 14 (16.47%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (1.18%) CCNA
7 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.18%) Degree
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.18%) GDPR
3 1 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (44.71%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (3.53%) iptables
5 2 (2.35%) Firmware
5 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.35%) vSphere
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (58.82%) Kubernetes
2 47 (55.29%) Terraform
3 28 (32.94%) Ansible
4 15 (17.65%) Grafana
5 9 (10.59%) Puppet
6 8 (9.41%) Argo
6 8 (9.41%) Prometheus
7 6 (7.06%) Rancher
7 6 (7.06%) yum
8 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.35%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.35%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.18%) Istio
10 1 (1.18%) Kibana
10 1 (1.18%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.18%) linkerd
10 1 (1.18%) logstash
10 1 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Red Hat
3 6 (7.06%) Cisco
3 6 (7.06%) VMware
4 5 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 5 (5.88%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.71%) Dell
5 4 (4.71%) Google
5 4 (4.71%) SAP
5 4 (4.71%) Splunk
6 3 (3.53%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.35%) HP
7 2 (2.35%) Juniper
7 2 (2.35%) Veeam
8 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.18%) Databricks
8 1 (1.18%) NetApp
8 1 (1.18%) New Relic
8 1 (1.18%) SaltStack