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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 97 121
Rank change year-on-year -13 +24 -8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 105 61 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.36% 2.26% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.47% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 64 43 136
10th Percentile £45,375 £49,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.97% -4.01% +11.11%
75th Percentile £81,563 £81,875 £85,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%

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 5,296 2,467 7,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.78% 91.20% 83.01%
Number of salaries quoted 3,503 1,546 5,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +12 53 £69,000 +10.40% 30
Bristol -27 28 £72,500 +0.35% 21
Devon -18 7 £52,500 -25.00% 2
Wiltshire -8 6 £65,000 -16.13% 6
Dorset -14 5 £80,000 -13.51% 3
Cornwall -8 2 - -
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 4 (3.81%) Apache
1 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 62 (59.05%) AWS
2 39 (37.14%) Azure
3 26 (24.76%) GCP
4 19 (18.10%) Serverless
5 17 (16.19%) GitHub
5 17 (16.19%) GitHub Actions
6 14 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (12.38%) Amazon S3
8 10 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (8.57%) OpenShift
10 8 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (6.67%) Datadog
12 6 (5.71%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
14 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (3.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.33%) Firewall
2 8 (7.62%) VLAN
2 8 (7.62%) WAN
3 7 (6.67%) DNS
3 7 (6.67%) LAN
3 7 (6.67%) Network Security
4 6 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (5.71%) Cisco Firepower
4 6 (5.71%) DHCP
4 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.71%) Unified Communications
4 6 (5.71%) WebEx
5 3 (2.86%) VPN
6 2 (1.90%) Broadband
6 2 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.95%) AMQP
7 1 (0.95%) BGP
7 1 (0.95%) NAS
7 1 (0.95%) SAN
7 1 (0.95%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.86%) Big Data
5 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Metadata
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.95%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.95%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 26 (24.76%) Git
3 16 (15.24%) GitLab
4 8 (7.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.67%) Subversion
6 6 (5.71%) CircleCI
7 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.81%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.81%) Selenium
8 4 (3.81%) TestRail
9 2 (1.90%) JIRA
9 2 (1.90%) MLflow
10 1 (0.95%) Jaeger
General
1 32 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.95%) Finance
3 17 (16.19%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.43%) Aerospace
5 10 (9.52%) Marketing
5 10 (9.52%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.67%) Electronics
6 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.71%) Banking
7 6 (5.71%) Retail
8 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Automotive
9 3 (2.86%) Billing
10 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.95%) Games
11 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 27 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Architect
6 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Collaboration Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Lead
7 6 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Administrator
9 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.67%) REST
3 6 (5.71%) React
3 6 (5.71%) Spring
3 6 (5.71%) XMPP
4 5 (4.76%) Node.js
4 5 (4.76%) RESTful
5 4 (3.81%) Django
5 4 (3.81%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.81%) Flask
5 4 (3.81%) Playwright
5 4 (3.81%) pytest
5 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.86%) .NET
6 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.86%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.71%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.71%) Replication
4 6 (5.71%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.81%) CUDA
6 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.90%) PKI
9 1 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 55 (52.38%) Linux
2 24 (22.86%) Windows
3 8 (7.62%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) CentOS
5 4 (3.81%) Unix
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.90%) VMS
7 1 (0.95%) Debian
7 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.95%) CI/CD
2 61 (58.10%) DevOps
3 41 (39.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (33.33%) Agile
5 30 (28.57%) Containerisation
6 27 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (24.76%) Test Automation
8 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.14%) Software Engineering
10 15 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (14.29%) Mentoring
10 15 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (12.38%) DevSecOps
11 13 (12.38%) SDLC
12 12 (11.43%) Analytics
12 12 (11.43%) Cloud Security
12 12 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (10.48%) High Availability
13 11 (10.48%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 62 (59.05%) Python
2 42 (40.00%) Bash
3 28 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 19 (18.10%) Java
5 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.48%) Go
7 7 (6.67%) SQL
8 6 (5.71%) Bicep
9 5 (4.76%) C#
9 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.86%) C++
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) Rust
11 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.90%) VB
12 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 23 (21.90%) DV Cleared
3 18 (17.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.71%) Degree
5 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.90%) CCNA
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.95%) CCNP
9 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.95%) OSCP
9 1 (0.95%) RHCE
9 1 (0.95%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.95%) VCAP
9 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) IFRS
3 2 (1.90%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (35.24%) Docker
2 15 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.62%) vSphere
4 6 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.71%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (3.81%) Firmware
5 4 (3.81%) iptables
6 3 (2.86%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (66.67%) Terraform
2 53 (50.48%) Kubernetes
3 47 (44.76%) Ansible
4 30 (28.57%) Grafana
5 15 (14.29%) Puppet
6 14 (13.33%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.57%) Argo
8 8 (7.62%) Rancher
9 7 (6.67%) yum
10 6 (5.71%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (5.71%) Progress Chef
11 4 (3.81%) Kibana
11 4 (3.81%) logstash
11 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
12 2 (1.90%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.90%) Packer
13 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.95%) Istio
13 1 (0.95%) Mesos
13 1 (0.95%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 19 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) VMware
3 13 (12.38%) Cisco
4 12 (11.43%) Splunk
5 11 (10.48%) Red Hat
6 7 (6.67%) NetApp
7 6 (5.71%) Dell
7 6 (5.71%) Fortinet
7 6 (5.71%) Palo Alto
8 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.81%) Databricks
8 4 (3.81%) Google
8 4 (3.81%) SAP
9 2 (1.90%) HP
9 2 (1.90%) Juniper
9 2 (1.90%) Veeam
10 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.95%) New Relic
10 1 (0.95%) Oracle
10 1 (0.95%) SaltStack