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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 120 77
Rank change year-on-year +54 -43 -15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 249 51 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.37% 1.42% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 1.73% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 138 43 131
10th Percentile £51,375 £43,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £94,375 £88,750 £84,375
90th Percentile £105,325 £96,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -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 7,496 2,941 5,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.23% 82.17% 75.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,088 1,827 2,988
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,924 £31,500 £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 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +21 130 £82,500 -1.49% 90
Bristol +1 67 £72,500 -3.33% 34
Wiltshire -4 20 £75,000 -14.29% 15
Somerset -23 15 £70,000 +55.56% 28
Devon -22 10 £67,500 -3.57% 14
Dorset -5 3 £90,000 - 26
Cornwall +4 2 - - 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 20 (8.03%) Apache
2 13 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.22%) Confluence
3 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.01%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (48.59%) AWS
2 111 (44.58%) Azure
3 43 (17.27%) GCP
4 42 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (16.87%) Serverless
5 41 (16.47%) GitHub
6 26 (10.44%) AWS Lambda
6 26 (10.44%) OpenShift
7 25 (10.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (8.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 20 (8.03%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (7.63%) Amazon S3
11 18 (7.23%) Azure AKS
12 17 (6.83%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (6.43%) PaaS
14 15 (6.02%) IaaS
15 14 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (5.62%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (5.22%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.65%) VPN
2 23 (9.24%) Firewall
3 18 (7.23%) Network Security
4 14 (5.62%) WAN
5 11 (4.42%) BGP
5 11 (4.42%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (3.61%) SD-WAN
6 9 (3.61%) VLAN
7 8 (3.21%) DNS
7 8 (3.21%) LAN
8 6 (2.41%) Wireless
9 5 (2.01%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.01%) OSPF
9 5 (2.01%) SNMP
10 4 (1.61%) AMQP
10 4 (1.61%) Internet
10 4 (1.61%) IPv4
10 4 (1.61%) WLAN
11 3 (1.20%) DHCP
12 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (5.62%) Big Data
2 10 (4.02%) Hadoop
2 10 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.61%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 8 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.81%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.81%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.41%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.01%) Flink
7 5 (2.01%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.61%) Metadata
8 4 (1.61%) MySQL
9 3 (1.20%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.20%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 61 (24.50%) Git
2 41 (16.47%) GitLab
3 33 (13.25%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.43%) JIRA
5 10 (4.02%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.61%) Selenium
7 8 (3.21%) Subversion
8 7 (2.81%) MSI
9 6 (2.41%) Robot Framework
10 5 (2.01%) TestRail
11 4 (1.61%) Postman
11 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.20%) git-flow
12 3 (1.20%) JUnit
12 3 (1.20%) NUnit
12 3 (1.20%) Snyk
13 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.80%) MLflow
14 1 (0.40%) Vite
General
1 64 (25.70%) Social Skills
2 57 (22.89%) Finance
3 26 (10.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (8.43%) Aerospace
7 14 (5.62%) Law
8 7 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.61%) Marketing
9 4 (1.61%) Military
10 3 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Retail
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (29.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (17.67%) Senior
3 36 (14.46%) Lead
4 32 (12.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (10.04%) Architect
6 24 (9.64%) Lead DevOps
7 21 (8.43%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.23%) Developer
9 16 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.22%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.22%) Software Engineer
12 12 (4.82%) Analyst
12 12 (4.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 12 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (4.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 11 (4.42%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.61%) Azure Architect
14 9 (3.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (73.09%) Terraform
2 26 (10.44%) Spring
2 26 (10.44%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.43%) RESTful
4 19 (7.63%) React
5 18 (7.23%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (6.02%) Node.js
7 14 (5.62%) REST
8 12 (4.82%) .NET
9 10 (4.02%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.61%) GeoJSON
10 9 (3.61%) pytest
11 8 (3.21%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.21%) CSS
11 8 (3.21%) CSS3
11 8 (3.21%) HTML
11 8 (3.21%) HTML5
11 8 (3.21%) Kafka
12 7 (2.81%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.81%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.23%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.43%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.82%) Podcast
5 12 (4.82%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.42%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.42%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.61%) CMDB
10 4 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (1.61%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) Blog
11 3 (1.20%) IoT
12 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.80%) FlexPod
12 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 70 (28.11%) Linux
2 47 (18.88%) Windows
3 12 (4.82%) VMS
4 9 (3.61%) CentOS
5 8 (3.21%) Unix
5 8 (3.21%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.61%) Debian
7 4 (1.61%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.80%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (79.92%) CI/CD
2 159 (63.86%) DevOps
3 128 (51.41%) Containerisation
4 112 (44.98%) Agile
5 70 (28.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 58 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 58 (23.29%) DevSecOps
6 58 (23.29%) Observability
7 55 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (21.69%) AI
9 52 (20.88%) Test Automation
10 42 (16.87%) Cloud Security
10 42 (16.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 42 (16.87%) Software Engineering
11 41 (16.47%) Platform Engineering
12 40 (16.06%) Mentoring
13 38 (15.26%) Analytics
14 37 (14.86%) Deployment Automation
15 35 (14.06%) Configuration Management
16 33 (13.25%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 132 (53.01%) Python
2 76 (30.52%) Bash
3 56 (22.49%) Java
4 37 (14.86%) Bicep
5 35 (14.06%) PowerShell
6 31 (12.45%) JavaScript
7 27 (10.84%) SQL
8 23 (9.24%) Go
9 17 (6.83%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.81%) C#
11 7 (2.81%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.41%) Rust
13 5 (2.01%) Scala
14 3 (1.20%) C++
15 2 (0.80%) C
Qualifications
1 157 (63.05%) Security Cleared
2 84 (33.73%) DV Cleared
3 74 (29.72%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.84%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.23%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.02%) Degree
8 9 (3.61%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (2.41%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.01%) CCNP
12 4 (1.61%) CCNA
12 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.61%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.61%) OCP
12 4 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.61%) OSCP
12 4 (1.61%) RHCE
13 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.82%) NCSC
3 11 (4.42%) QA
4 7 (2.81%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.81%) WCAG
5 6 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.20%) GDPR
6 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.80%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 95 (38.15%) Docker
2 39 (15.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (11.65%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.63%) vSphere
5 13 (5.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.21%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.61%) Firmware
8 4 (1.61%) Squid
9 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.80%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 144 (57.83%) Kubernetes
2 105 (42.17%) Ansible
3 32 (12.85%) Grafana
4 26 (10.44%) Puppet
5 22 (8.84%) Prometheus
6 14 (5.62%) Argo
7 11 (4.42%) Rancher
8 10 (4.02%) Packer
9 8 (3.21%) yum
10 7 (2.81%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.41%) Kibana
11 6 (2.41%) logstash
12 5 (2.01%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.61%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.61%) Istio
13 4 (1.61%) linkerd
13 4 (1.61%) Mesos
14 3 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 60 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.27%) VMware
3 23 (9.24%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.82%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.82%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (4.82%) Splunk
5 11 (4.42%) Google
6 8 (3.21%) Cisco
7 7 (2.81%) Databricks
7 7 (2.81%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.01%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.01%) Oracle
8 5 (2.01%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.61%) Avaya
9 4 (1.61%) F5
9 4 (1.61%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.61%) Meraki
9 4 (1.61%) Netskope
9 4 (1.61%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow