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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 113 99
Rank change year-on-year +47 -14 -24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 226 55 175
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.42% 1.58% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 1.91% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 131 40 137
10th Percentile £47,750 £52,375 £50,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +16.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £96,375 £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 6,640 2,878 6,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.16% 82.63% 75.67%
Number of salaries quoted 4,442 1,880 4,095
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 26 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 26 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 +15 113 £86,500 +1.76% 59
Bristol +4 63 £65,000 -13.33% 41
Wiltshire -4 17 £75,000 -3.23% 6
Somerset -16 15 £70,000 -6.67% 12
Devon -25 8 £67,500 -3.57% 1
Dorset +4 5 £90,000 - 12
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 15 (6.64%) Apache
2 13 (5.75%) Confluence
3 12 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.87%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.77%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 113 (50.00%) AWS
2 97 (42.92%) Azure
3 41 (18.14%) Serverless
4 40 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (16.81%) GCP
6 37 (16.37%) GitHub
7 24 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (10.62%) OpenShift
8 22 (9.73%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (9.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 19 (8.41%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.52%) Azure AKS
11 16 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
11 16 (7.08%) PaaS
12 15 (6.64%) IaaS
13 14 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (6.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (5.31%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (13.27%) VPN
2 22 (9.73%) Firewall
3 17 (7.52%) Network Security
4 13 (5.75%) WAN
5 10 (4.42%) VLAN
6 9 (3.98%) LAN
6 9 (3.98%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (3.10%) BGP
8 6 (2.65%) DNS
9 5 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (2.21%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (2.21%) SD-WAN
9 5 (2.21%) Unified Communications
9 5 (2.21%) WebEx
10 4 (1.77%) IPv4
10 4 (1.77%) Wireless
11 3 (1.33%) Broadband
11 3 (1.33%) DHCP
11 3 (1.33%) OSPF
11 3 (1.33%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.75%) Big Data
2 13 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.98%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (3.98%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.10%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.65%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.65%) InfluxDB
5 6 (2.65%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.65%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.77%) Flink
6 4 (1.77%) Metadata
7 3 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.33%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.33%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.33%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 56 (24.78%) Git
2 39 (17.26%) GitLab
3 33 (14.60%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.08%) JIRA
5 11 (4.87%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.42%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.42%) Selenium
7 7 (3.10%) MSI
7 7 (3.10%) Robot Framework
8 6 (2.65%) TestRail
9 5 (2.21%) Subversion
10 4 (1.77%) Postman
10 4 (1.77%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.33%) git-flow
11 3 (1.33%) JUnit
11 3 (1.33%) NUnit
11 3 (1.33%) Snyk
12 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.88%) MLflow
13 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 58 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.91%) Finance
3 26 (11.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (10.18%) Public Sector
5 20 (8.85%) Aerospace
6 16 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.19%) Law
8 8 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.10%) Marketing
10 5 (2.21%) Banking
10 5 (2.21%) Retail
11 4 (1.77%) Military
12 3 (1.33%) Automotive
12 3 (1.33%) Electronics
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
12 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.88%) Games
13 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (24.34%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (18.14%) Senior
3 32 (14.16%) Lead
4 31 (13.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (10.62%) Architect
6 22 (9.73%) Lead DevOps
7 20 (8.85%) Developer
8 19 (8.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.75%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.31%) Analyst
11 12 (5.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (4.87%) Azure Architect
12 11 (4.87%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.87%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.98%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.98%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.98%) Technical Architect
15 8 (3.54%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (76.55%) Terraform
2 22 (9.73%) Spring
2 22 (9.73%) Spring Boot
3 19 (8.41%) RESTful
4 18 (7.96%) REST
5 17 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (7.08%) React
7 13 (5.75%) Node.js
8 11 (4.87%) .NET
9 10 (4.42%) .NET Core
9 10 (4.42%) pytest
10 9 (3.98%) GeoJSON
11 8 (3.54%) CSS
11 8 (3.54%) CSS3
11 8 (3.54%) HTML
11 8 (3.54%) HTML5
11 8 (3.54%) Kafka
12 7 (3.10%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.10%) ATL
12 7 (3.10%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 58 (25.66%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.52%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.08%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.75%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.31%) Podcast
6 12 (5.31%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.98%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.98%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.21%) Data Structures
10 5 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (2.21%) FlexPod
10 5 (2.21%) Replication
10 5 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.77%) CUDA
11 4 (1.77%) PKI
12 3 (1.33%) Blog
12 3 (1.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 65 (28.76%) Linux
2 53 (23.45%) Windows
3 13 (5.75%) VMS
4 11 (4.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.98%) CentOS
6 6 (2.65%) Unix
7 5 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.33%) Debian
8 3 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (80.97%) CI/CD
2 139 (61.50%) DevOps
3 114 (50.44%) Containerisation
4 99 (43.81%) Agile
5 62 (27.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 55 (24.34%) DevSecOps
6 55 (24.34%) Observability
7 51 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (22.57%) Test Automation
8 48 (21.24%) AI
8 48 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 45 (19.91%) Software Engineering
10 40 (17.70%) Analytics
11 36 (15.93%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (15.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 34 (15.04%) Cloud Security
12 34 (15.04%) Mentoring
13 30 (13.27%) Scrum
14 27 (11.95%) Configuration Management
14 27 (11.95%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 120 (53.10%) Python
2 67 (29.65%) Bash
3 46 (20.35%) Java
4 36 (15.93%) Bicep
5 35 (15.49%) PowerShell
6 30 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 26 (11.50%) SQL
8 19 (8.41%) Go
9 15 (6.64%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.75%) Kusto Query Language
11 8 (3.54%) C#
12 5 (2.21%) Rust
12 5 (2.21%) Scala
13 2 (0.88%) C
13 2 (0.88%) C++
13 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 138 (61.06%) Security Cleared
2 72 (31.86%) DV Cleared
3 67 (29.65%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.41%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.96%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.75%) Degree
8 9 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.65%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.21%) CCNA
13 4 (1.77%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.77%) OCP
13 4 (1.77%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.77%) OSCP
13 4 (1.77%) RHCE
14 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (1.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.08%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.31%) NCSC
3 8 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.54%) QA
4 7 (3.10%) WCAG
5 4 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.33%) GDPR
6 3 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.88%) IFRS
7 2 (0.88%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.88%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 86 (38.05%) Docker
2 41 (18.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (13.27%) Active Directory
4 22 (9.73%) vSphere
5 13 (5.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (3.10%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (1.77%) Squid
9 3 (1.33%) Firmware
10 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.44%) iptables
11 1 (0.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 130 (57.52%) Kubernetes
2 97 (42.92%) Ansible
3 33 (14.60%) Grafana
4 20 (8.85%) Prometheus
4 20 (8.85%) Puppet
5 9 (3.98%) Packer
6 7 (3.10%) Argo
6 7 (3.10%) Kibana
6 7 (3.10%) logstash
6 7 (3.10%) Rancher
6 7 (3.10%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.21%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (2.21%) yum
7 5 (2.21%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.33%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.88%) Istio
9 2 (0.88%) linkerd
Vendors
1 52 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 44 (19.47%) VMware
3 23 (10.18%) Red Hat
4 16 (7.08%) Splunk
5 12 (5.31%) Atlassian
5 12 (5.31%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (4.42%) Cisco
7 8 (3.54%) Fortinet
8 6 (2.65%) Databricks
8 6 (2.65%) NetApp
9 5 (2.21%) Google
9 5 (2.21%) Oracle
9 5 (2.21%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.33%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.33%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.88%) Infoblox
12 2 (0.88%) Meraki
12 2 (0.88%) Netskope
12 2 (0.88%) ServiceNow