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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 113 108
Rank change year-on-year +41 -5 -16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 202 55 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.32% 1.59% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 1.89% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 120 36 146
10th Percentile £47,725 £53,750 £51,875
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,905 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.54% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,313 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £98,474 £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 6,243 2,905 6,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.64% 83.96% 76.20%
Number of salaries quoted 4,098 1,898 4,430
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,063 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -11.41%

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 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 1 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 +18 100 £88,000 +3.53% 58
Bristol -1 56 £65,000 -17.52% 37
Wiltshire -7 14 £75,000 -3.23% 9
Somerset - 14 £70,000 - 11
Devon -20 9 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Dorset -1 4 £93,750 - 5
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 (5.94%) Apache
1 12 (5.94%) Confluence
1 12 (5.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.99%) nginx
3 2 (0.99%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 100 (49.50%) AWS
2 84 (41.58%) Azure
3 37 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (18.32%) Serverless
4 35 (17.33%) GCP
5 31 (15.35%) GitHub
6 21 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (9.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 18 (8.91%) Amazon S3
9 16 (7.92%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (7.43%) IaaS
10 15 (7.43%) PaaS
11 14 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.93%) Azure AKS
11 14 (6.93%) Azure Key Vault
11 14 (6.93%) OpenShift
12 13 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (5.94%) Azure Functions
14 10 (4.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.87%) VPN
2 23 (11.39%) Firewall
3 16 (7.92%) Network Security
4 14 (6.93%) WAN
5 12 (5.94%) VLAN
6 10 (4.95%) LAN
7 9 (4.46%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.47%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (3.47%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (3.47%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.47%) WebEx
9 6 (2.97%) BGP
10 5 (2.48%) DNS
11 4 (1.98%) IPv4
11 4 (1.98%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.49%) Broadband
12 3 (1.49%) DHCP
12 3 (1.49%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.49%) SNMP
12 3 (1.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (4.95%) Big Data
2 10 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.46%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (3.47%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.97%) InfluxDB
5 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.48%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.48%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.48%) Hadoop
6 5 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.49%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.49%) Flink
8 3 (1.49%) Metadata
8 3 (1.49%) MySQL
9 2 (0.99%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 57 (28.22%) Git
2 36 (17.82%) GitLab
3 31 (15.35%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.93%) JIRA
5 10 (4.95%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 8 (3.96%) Selenium
7 7 (3.47%) MSI
7 7 (3.47%) Robot Framework
8 6 (2.97%) Subversion
8 6 (2.97%) TestRail
9 2 (0.99%) git-flow
9 2 (0.99%) MLflow
9 2 (0.99%) Postman
9 2 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.50%) NUnit
10 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.50%) Snyk
General
1 56 (27.72%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.82%) Finance
3 25 (12.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.42%) Aerospace
6 14 (6.93%) Law
7 12 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (4.46%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.96%) Marketing
10 7 (3.47%) Banking
10 7 (3.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.49%) Automotive
11 3 (1.49%) Electronics
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.99%) Games
12 2 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.50%) Legal
13 1 (0.50%) Military
13 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (23.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (17.33%) Senior
3 31 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 27 (13.37%) Lead
5 19 (9.41%) Architect
6 16 (7.92%) Lead DevOps
7 15 (7.43%) Developer
8 14 (6.93%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.93%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Analyst
9 12 (5.94%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 10 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (4.95%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Azure Architect
11 8 (3.96%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.96%) Test Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (3.47%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.91%) Spring
1 18 (8.91%) Spring Boot
2 16 (7.92%) REST
2 16 (7.92%) RESTful
3 14 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (4.46%) .NET
4 9 (4.46%) GeoJSON
4 9 (4.46%) React
5 8 (3.96%) .NET Core
5 8 (3.96%) CSS
5 8 (3.96%) CSS3
5 8 (3.96%) HTML
5 8 (3.96%) HTML5
5 8 (3.96%) Node.js
5 8 (3.96%) pytest
6 7 (3.47%) .NET Framework
6 7 (3.47%) ATL
6 7 (3.47%) Kafka
6 7 (3.47%) WPF
6 7 (3.47%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (7.92%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.92%) Public Cloud
4 12 (5.94%) Podcast
4 12 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.94%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.46%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.47%) FlexPod
6 7 (3.47%) Replication
6 7 (3.47%) Video Conferencing
7 6 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.98%) CUDA
10 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.49%) PKI
10 3 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 67 (33.17%) Linux
2 54 (26.73%) Windows
3 14 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.44%) VMS
5 8 (3.96%) CentOS
6 5 (2.48%) Unix
7 4 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.99%) Debian
8 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (76.24%) CI/CD
2 121 (59.90%) DevOps
3 90 (44.55%) Containerisation
4 87 (43.07%) Agile
5 59 (29.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 49 (24.26%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (23.27%) Observability
8 46 (22.77%) DevSecOps
9 43 (21.29%) Test Automation
10 41 (20.30%) AI
10 41 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (17.33%) Analytics
12 34 (16.83%) Software Engineering
13 30 (14.85%) Mentoring
14 29 (14.36%) Cloud Security
14 29 (14.36%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (14.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (13.37%) Scrum
16 23 (11.39%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (11.39%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 109 (53.96%) Python
2 59 (29.21%) Bash
3 37 (18.32%) Java
4 34 (16.83%) PowerShell
5 33 (16.34%) Bicep
6 25 (12.38%) JavaScript
6 25 (12.38%) SQL
7 15 (7.43%) Go
8 13 (6.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 11 (5.45%) TypeScript
10 9 (4.46%) C#
11 3 (1.49%) C++
11 3 (1.49%) Rust
11 3 (1.49%) Scala
12 2 (0.99%) C
12 2 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (58.91%) Security Cleared
2 64 (31.68%) DV Cleared
3 54 (26.73%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.91%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.94%) AWS Certification
7 11 (5.45%) Degree
8 7 (3.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.97%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.48%) CCNA
11 4 (1.98%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.98%) OSCP
11 4 (1.98%) RHCE
12 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.99%) CCNP
14 1 (0.50%) OCP
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
14 1 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.95%) NCSC
3 9 (4.46%) QA
4 7 (3.47%) WCAG
5 6 (2.97%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.99%) GDPR
7 2 (0.99%) IFRS
7 2 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.99%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.50%) NIST
8 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (37.62%) Docker
2 39 (19.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (12.87%) Active Directory
4 24 (11.88%) vSphere
5 13 (6.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 7 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.47%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (3.47%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.48%) Firmware
8 4 (1.98%) Squid
9 2 (0.99%) iptables
10 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.50%) KVM
10 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (73.27%) Terraform
2 106 (52.48%) Kubernetes
3 85 (42.08%) Ansible
4 36 (17.82%) Grafana
5 20 (9.90%) Prometheus
5 20 (9.90%) Puppet
6 9 (4.46%) Argo
6 9 (4.46%) Packer
7 8 (3.96%) Rancher
8 7 (3.47%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (3.47%) Kibana
8 7 (3.47%) logstash
9 6 (2.97%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.97%) yum
10 5 (2.48%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.49%) Istio
11 3 (1.49%) linkerd
11 3 (1.49%) Mesos
11 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 48 (23.76%) Microsoft
2 40 (19.80%) VMware
3 21 (10.40%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.91%) Splunk
5 14 (6.93%) Cisco
6 12 (5.94%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (5.45%) Atlassian
8 9 (4.46%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.96%) NetApp
10 7 (3.47%) Databricks
10 7 (3.47%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.98%) Dell
11 4 (1.98%) Google
11 4 (1.98%) Oracle
12 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.99%) SaltStack
13 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 1 (0.50%) Meraki
14 1 (0.50%) New Relic
14 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow