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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 118 100
Rank change year-on-year +50 -18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 215 56 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.42% 1.60% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 1.91% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 124 37 143
10th Percentile £47,750 £54,000 £50,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +5.08% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £98,474 £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 6,385 2,938 6,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.78% 83.75% 75.89%
Number of salaries quoted 4,204 1,914 4,194
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -8.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,269 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 9 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 9 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 +18 106 £86,500 +1.76% 48
Bristol -2 59 £65,000 -17.62% 61
Wiltshire +2 17 £75,000 -3.23% 9
Somerset - 14 £70,000 - 8
Devon -14 9 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Dorset +1 5 £90,000 - 10
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 14 (6.51%) Apache
2 13 (6.05%) Confluence
3 12 (5.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (4.65%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 109 (50.70%) AWS
2 92 (42.79%) Azure
3 40 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (18.60%) Serverless
4 37 (17.21%) GCP
5 34 (15.81%) GitHub
6 23 (10.70%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (9.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 19 (8.84%) Amazon S3
8 19 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (8.37%) OpenShift
10 16 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (6.98%) Azure AKS
11 15 (6.98%) IaaS
11 15 (6.98%) PaaS
12 14 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.51%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (5.58%) Azure Functions
13 12 (5.58%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.02%) VPN
2 23 (10.70%) Firewall
3 17 (7.91%) Network Security
4 15 (6.98%) WAN
5 12 (5.58%) VLAN
6 11 (5.12%) LAN
7 9 (4.19%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.26%) BGP
8 7 (3.26%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (3.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (3.26%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.26%) WebEx
9 6 (2.79%) DNS
10 5 (2.33%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.86%) IPv4
11 4 (1.86%) Wireless
12 3 (1.40%) Broadband
12 3 (1.40%) DHCP
12 3 (1.40%) OSPF
12 3 (1.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (5.12%) Big Data
2 11 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.19%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.26%) Hadoop
5 7 (3.26%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.79%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.79%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.79%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.33%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.86%) Flink
8 4 (1.86%) Metadata
9 3 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.40%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.40%) MySQL
9 3 (1.40%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 58 (26.98%) Git
2 38 (17.67%) GitLab
3 34 (15.81%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.44%) JIRA
5 11 (5.12%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.65%) Selenium
7 7 (3.26%) MSI
7 7 (3.26%) Robot Framework
8 6 (2.79%) Subversion
8 6 (2.79%) TestRail
9 4 (1.86%) Postman
9 4 (1.86%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.40%) git-flow
10 3 (1.40%) JUnit
10 3 (1.40%) NUnit
10 3 (1.40%) Snyk
11 2 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.93%) MLflow
12 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
General
1 58 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.60%) Finance
3 26 (12.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 18 (8.37%) Aerospace
6 15 (6.98%) Law
7 14 (6.51%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.65%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.19%) Marketing
10 7 (3.26%) Banking
10 7 (3.26%) Retail
11 4 (1.86%) Military
12 3 (1.40%) Automotive
12 3 (1.40%) Electronics
12 3 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.93%) Games
13 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Legal
14 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 37 (17.21%) Senior
3 32 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (13.02%) Lead
5 22 (10.23%) Architect
6 18 (8.37%) Developer
7 17 (7.91%) Lead DevOps
8 15 (6.98%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (6.05%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.58%) Analyst
10 12 (5.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 10 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 9 (4.19%) Azure Architect
13 8 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.72%) Senior Developer
13 8 (3.72%) Test Engineer
14 7 (3.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.84%) RESTful
2 18 (8.37%) Spring
2 18 (8.37%) Spring Boot
3 17 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (7.44%) REST
5 12 (5.58%) React
6 11 (5.12%) .NET
6 11 (5.12%) Node.js
7 10 (4.65%) .NET Core
7 10 (4.65%) pytest
8 9 (4.19%) GeoJSON
9 8 (3.72%) CSS
9 8 (3.72%) CSS3
9 8 (3.72%) HTML
9 8 (3.72%) HTML5
9 8 (3.72%) Kafka
10 7 (3.26%) ATL
10 7 (3.26%) COM
10 7 (3.26%) MFC
10 7 (3.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (7.91%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.44%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.58%) Podcast
5 12 (5.58%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.58%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.65%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.26%) FlexPod
8 7 (3.26%) Replication
8 7 (3.26%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.33%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.86%) CUDA
12 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.40%) IoT
12 3 (1.40%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 68 (31.63%) Linux
2 56 (26.05%) Windows
3 14 (6.51%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.05%) VMS
5 8 (3.72%) CentOS
6 5 (2.33%) Unix
7 4 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.93%) Debian
8 2 (0.93%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (77.21%) CI/CD
2 128 (59.53%) DevOps
3 100 (46.51%) Containerisation
4 93 (43.26%) Agile
5 62 (28.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 53 (24.65%) Observability
7 51 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (23.26%) DevSecOps
9 47 (21.86%) Test Automation
10 44 (20.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (20.00%) AI
12 40 (18.60%) Software Engineering
13 37 (17.21%) Analytics
14 32 (14.88%) Platform Engineering
15 31 (14.42%) Cloud Security
15 31 (14.42%) Mentoring
15 31 (14.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (13.49%) Scrum
17 25 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
17 25 (11.63%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 115 (53.49%) Python
2 62 (28.84%) Bash
3 42 (19.53%) Java
4 35 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 34 (15.81%) Bicep
6 28 (13.02%) JavaScript
7 26 (12.09%) SQL
8 18 (8.37%) Go
9 13 (6.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (5.58%) TypeScript
11 9 (4.19%) C#
12 4 (1.86%) Rust
12 4 (1.86%) Scala
13 3 (1.40%) C++
14 2 (0.93%) C
14 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 67 (31.16%) DV Cleared
3 61 (28.37%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.84%) Azure Certification
5 17 (7.91%) AWS Certification
6 16 (7.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (6.05%) Degree
8 8 (3.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.79%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.33%) CCNA
12 4 (1.86%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.86%) OCP
12 4 (1.86%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (1.86%) OSCP
12 4 (1.86%) RHCE
13 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.40%) CCNP
14 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.05%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.12%) NCSC
3 9 (4.19%) QA
4 7 (3.26%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.26%) WCAG
5 4 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) GDPR
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS
7 2 (0.93%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.93%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (37.67%) Docker
2 41 (19.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (13.02%) Active Directory
4 24 (11.16%) vSphere
5 13 (6.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.72%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.26%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (2.79%) Firmware
9 4 (1.86%) Squid
10 2 (0.93%) iptables
10 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 158 (73.49%) Terraform
2 115 (53.49%) Kubernetes
3 88 (40.93%) Ansible
4 37 (17.21%) Grafana
5 22 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 22 (10.23%) Puppet
6 9 (4.19%) Argo
6 9 (4.19%) Packer
7 8 (3.72%) Rancher
8 7 (3.26%) Cisco CUCM
8 7 (3.26%) Kibana
8 7 (3.26%) logstash
8 7 (3.26%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.79%) yum
10 5 (2.33%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.40%) Istio
12 3 (1.40%) linkerd
12 3 (1.40%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 43 (20.00%) VMware
3 25 (11.63%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.37%) Splunk
5 15 (6.98%) Cisco
6 12 (5.58%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.58%) ScienceLogic
7 10 (4.65%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.72%) NetApp
9 7 (3.26%) Databricks
9 7 (3.26%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.33%) Oracle
11 4 (1.86%) Dell
11 4 (1.86%) Google
12 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.93%) Infoblox
13 2 (0.93%) Meraki
13 2 (0.93%) Netskope
13 2 (0.93%) SaltStack