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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 77 50
Rank change year-on-year -51 -27 +62
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 57 153 261
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.33% 2.59% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 3.38% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 115 171
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,306
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £76,250 £78,125 £81,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 3,326 4,532 4,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.73% 76.83% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,206 2,524 3,209
10th Percentile £27,707 £30,000 £30,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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
Bristol -19 18 £71,250 -5.00% 31
Somerset -1 14 £50,000 -9.09% 9
Gloucestershire -3 8 £70,000 +27.27% 31
Devon -12 6 £57,500 -17.86% 4
Wiltshire +21 3 £60,000 -14.29% 13
Cornwall -13 3 - -
Dorset -1 1 - - 4
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 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (70.18%) Azure
2 33 (57.89%) AWS
3 21 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (28.07%) GitHub
5 15 (26.32%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (22.81%) Serverless
7 7 (12.28%) Amazon S3
7 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (10.53%) OpenShift
9 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
10 4 (7.02%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
10 4 (7.02%) PaaS
10 4 (7.02%) SaaS
11 3 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (5.26%) GCP
11 3 (5.26%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) AMQP
2 3 (5.26%) VPN
3 2 (3.51%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) DNS
4 1 (1.75%) Internet
4 1 (1.75%) VLAN
4 1 (1.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.02%) NoSQL
3 3 (5.26%) InfluxDB
3 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.75%) CockroachDB
4 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.75%) MySQL
4 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.75%) Power BI
4 1 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.75%) Redis
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.77%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) JIRA
4 2 (3.51%) Subversion
4 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) JUnit
5 1 (1.75%) Mockito
5 1 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Law
5 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Electronics
5 1 (1.75%) Games
5 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.75%) Marketing
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
1 15 (26.32%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (12.28%) Developer
3 5 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (7.02%) Architect
4 4 (7.02%) Lead
4 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Senior
5 3 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 3 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) C# Developer
6 2 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (3.51%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.51%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) YAML
2 7 (12.28%) React
3 5 (8.77%) .NET
3 5 (8.77%) ARM Templates
4 4 (7.02%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) Node.js
5 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (5.26%) REST
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.51%) Avalonia
6 2 (3.51%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.51%) RESTful
6 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) WPF
7 1 (1.75%) NestJS
7 1 (1.75%) Next.js
7 1 (1.75%) Svelte
7 1 (1.75%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (40.35%) Cloud Native
2 6 (10.53%) Public Cloud
3 5 (8.77%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.75%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Windows
3 6 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 5 (8.77%) Debian
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.51%) VMS
7 1 (1.75%) CentOS
7 1 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (77.19%) DevOps
2 40 (70.18%) CI/CD
3 32 (56.14%) Containerisation
4 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 18 (31.58%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (24.56%) Agile
6 10 (17.54%) Software Engineering
7 8 (14.04%) AI
8 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.28%) Microservices
8 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.53%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.53%) Kanban
10 5 (8.77%) Coaching
10 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (8.77%) Mentoring
10 5 (8.77%) Migration
10 5 (8.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.88%) Python
2 22 (38.60%) Bicep
3 11 (19.30%) Bash
3 11 (19.30%) Java
3 11 (19.30%) PowerShell
4 10 (17.54%) SQL
5 6 (10.53%) Go
5 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.77%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.02%) C#
8 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.51%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) XAML
10 1 (1.75%) C
10 1 (1.75%) Julia
10 1 (1.75%) R
10 1 (1.75%) Rust
10 1 (1.75%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.51%) Degree
7 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.75%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.75%) NCSC
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (54.39%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) iptables
4 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (70.18%) Kubernetes
2 35 (61.40%) Terraform
3 13 (22.81%) Ansible
4 4 (7.02%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Progress Chef
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.26%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (3.51%) Puppet
7 1 (1.75%) Argo
7 1 (1.75%) Rancher
7 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.75%) yum
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Red Hat
3 4 (7.02%) Fortinet
3 4 (7.02%) Palo Alto
4 3 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.51%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco
6 1 (1.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Splunk
6 1 (1.75%) VMware