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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 85 52
Rank change year-on-year -35 -33 +52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 66 126 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.32% 2.86% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 3.41% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 57 97 165
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £46,783
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,500 £87,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

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 3,650 3,693 3,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.88% 83.87% 93.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,466 1,921 3,005
10th Percentile £27,875 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,439 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% +1.76% +4.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -31 19 £75,000 - 33
Somerset -5 14 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Gloucestershire -1 13 £67,500 +12.50% 51
Devon -3 5 £56,250 -19.64% 23
Cornwall -15 4 - -
Wiltshire +16 3 £60,000 -14.29% 17
Dorset +5 2 £67,500 -20.59% 12
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 (3.03%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (63.64%) Azure
2 38 (57.58%) AWS
3 21 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) GitHub
5 18 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (22.73%) Serverless
7 10 (15.15%) Amazon S3
7 10 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (10.61%) OpenShift
9 6 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (9.09%) GCP
9 6 (9.09%) SaaS
10 5 (7.58%) PaaS
11 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.06%) IaaS
11 4 (6.06%) Pulumi
12 3 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.61%) Firewall
2 4 (6.06%) DNS
3 3 (4.55%) AMQP
3 3 (4.55%) DHCP
3 3 (4.55%) Network Security
3 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.55%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) Broadband
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) VLAN
4 1 (1.52%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.58%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.06%) InfluxDB
3 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.03%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.52%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.52%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.52%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.52%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.52%) Redis
5 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 6 (9.09%) Git
3 4 (6.06%) GitLab
4 3 (4.55%) Subversion
5 2 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 2 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (3.03%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.52%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.06%) Electronics
4 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.06%) Marketing
4 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Billing
7 1 (1.52%) Games
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.58%) Lead
5 5 (7.58%) Senior
5 5 (7.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Architect
6 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.06%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.55%) Site Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (3.03%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) YAML
2 8 (12.12%) React
3 5 (7.58%) .NET
3 5 (7.58%) Spring
4 4 (6.06%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.06%) Node.js
4 4 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (4.55%) REST
5 3 (4.55%) RESTful
6 2 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.03%) Avalonia
6 2 (3.03%) Entity Framework
6 2 (3.03%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.03%) WPF
7 1 (1.52%) NestJS
7 1 (1.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (1.52%) Svelte
7 1 (1.52%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.58%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.52%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Windows
3 6 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 5 (7.58%) Debian
5 4 (6.06%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.03%) VMS
7 1 (1.52%) CentOS
7 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (74.24%) DevOps
2 45 (68.18%) CI/CD
3 31 (46.97%) Containerisation
4 23 (34.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (30.30%) Agile
6 19 (28.79%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.64%) Microservices
10 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (12.12%) AI
11 8 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
12 7 (10.61%) Configuration Management
12 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
12 7 (10.61%) Kanban
13 6 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
13 6 (9.09%) Incident Response
13 6 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (51.52%) Python
2 21 (31.82%) Bicep
3 19 (28.79%) Bash
4 15 (22.73%) PowerShell
5 14 (21.21%) Java
6 10 (15.15%) SQL
7 9 (13.64%) Go
8 8 (12.12%) TypeScript
9 4 (6.06%) C#
9 4 (6.06%) JavaScript
10 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
11 2 (3.03%) XAML
12 1 (1.52%) C
12 1 (1.52%) C++
12 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.24%) DV Cleared
3 13 (19.70%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.03%) Degree
7 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.52%) CCNA
7 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.03%) NCSC
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (51.52%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.52%) iptables
5 1 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 38 (57.58%) Terraform
3 18 (27.27%) Ansible
4 7 (10.61%) Grafana
5 6 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 6 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (6.06%) Argo
7 3 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (4.55%) Rancher
7 3 (4.55%) yum
8 2 (3.03%) Puppet
9 1 (1.52%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.52%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.52%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.06%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
3 4 (6.06%) SAP
4 3 (4.55%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) Cisco
5 2 (3.03%) VMware
6 1 (1.52%) Dell
6 1 (1.52%) HP
6 1 (1.52%) Juniper
6 1 (1.52%) New Relic
6 1 (1.52%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) Veeam