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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 83 66
Rank change year-on-year -28 -17 +50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 59 188 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.69% 2.50% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 3.29% 4.66%
Number of salaries quoted 44 137 154
10th Percentile £49,875 £50,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,375 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £88,125 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £87,500 £96,539
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -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 2,859 5,706 4,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 81.80% 75.93% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,808 3,429 3,375
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £40,500
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 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 September 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 September 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 -11 25 £75,000 - 18
Gloucestershire +6 12 £85,000 +41.67% 30
Devon +8 9 £70,000 - 1
Somerset -3 5 £75,000 +20.00% 4
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire +22 2 £77,500 +16.54% 4
Dorset +27 1 - - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (62.71%) AWS
2 34 (57.63%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) Serverless
4 10 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (15.25%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon S3
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub
6 6 (10.17%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (8.47%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (8.47%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.47%) SaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.78%) IaaS
8 4 (6.78%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.78%) PaaS
8 4 (6.78%) Pulumi
9 3 (5.08%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Firewall
2 3 (5.08%) AMQP
2 3 (5.08%) VPN
3 2 (3.39%) IPv4
3 2 (3.39%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.69%) Broadband
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) Internet
4 1 (1.69%) Network Security
4 1 (1.69%) OSPF
4 1 (1.69%) SAN
4 1 (1.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
4 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.47%) Power BI
2 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.78%) Qlik Sense
3 4 (6.78%) Tableau
4 3 (5.08%) InfluxDB
5 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.69%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.69%) MySQL
6 1 (1.69%) Redis
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (23.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.95%) Git
3 4 (6.78%) JUnit
3 4 (6.78%) Subversion
4 3 (5.08%) GitLab
4 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 2 (3.39%) Maven
5 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.69%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.69%) Mockito
6 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.69%) Selenium
General
1 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Law
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Games
7 1 (1.69%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
1 9 (15.25%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (13.56%) Lead
3 6 (10.17%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Architect
4 5 (8.47%) Developer
4 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Software Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Analytics Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Data Analytics Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Data Manager
5 4 (6.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (5.08%) C# Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (5.08%) Site Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) .NET
1 6 (10.17%) React
2 4 (6.78%) Kafka
2 4 (6.78%) REST
2 4 (6.78%) Spring
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.08%) ARM Templates
3 3 (5.08%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.39%) Avalonia
4 2 (3.39%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.39%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.39%) JWT
4 2 (3.39%) Keycloak
4 2 (3.39%) OAuth
4 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.39%) OpenID
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.56%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.17%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (10.17%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (8.47%) Data Structures
5 4 (6.78%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.39%) PKI
6 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.69%) NHS
7 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.59%) Linux
2 11 (18.64%) Windows
3 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.47%) Debian
4 5 (8.47%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.08%) Unix
6 1 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) DevOps
2 33 (55.93%) CI/CD
3 26 (44.07%) Containerisation
4 18 (30.51%) Agile
5 12 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
5 12 (20.34%) Software Engineering
6 11 (18.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 11 (18.64%) Mentoring
7 10 (16.95%) Microservices
8 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
9 7 (11.86%) Analytics
9 7 (11.86%) DevSecOps
9 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (11.86%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.17%) Clean Code
10 6 (10.17%) Coaching
10 6 (10.17%) Event-Driven
11 5 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (8.47%) Migration
11 5 (8.47%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 34 (57.63%) Python
2 19 (32.20%) SQL
3 15 (25.42%) Java
4 14 (23.73%) PowerShell
5 12 (20.34%) Bash
6 11 (18.64%) Bicep
7 8 (13.56%) Go
7 8 (13.56%) JavaScript
8 6 (10.17%) R
9 4 (6.78%) C#
9 4 (6.78%) Julia
9 4 (6.78%) VBA
10 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
10 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
11 2 (3.39%) C++
11 2 (3.39%) XAML
12 1 (1.69%) C
12 1 (1.69%) Perl
12 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (32.20%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.56%) DV Cleared
4 7 (11.86%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (6.78%) Degree
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.39%) CCNA
7 2 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.69%) CCNP
8 1 (1.69%) CISSP
8 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.39%) GDPR
1 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
1 2 (3.39%) NIST
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (44.07%) Docker
2 5 (8.47%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.69%) iptables
Systems Management
1 36 (61.02%) Terraform
2 31 (52.54%) Kubernetes
3 20 (33.90%) Ansible
4 5 (8.47%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.78%) Grafana
5 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
5 4 (6.78%) Puppet
6 3 (5.08%) Argo
6 3 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.39%) Graylog
7 2 (3.39%) Istio
8 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.47%) VMware
4 4 (6.78%) Fortinet
5 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.08%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.39%) Databricks
6 2 (3.39%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Splunk
7 1 (1.69%) Cisco
7 1 (1.69%) HP
7 1 (1.69%) Meraki
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce