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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 100 115
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 0
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 87 67 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.36% 2.36% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.62% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 64 55 132
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £51,716
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £81,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,767 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 4,533 2,561 6,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.71% 90.08% 85.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3,062 1,478 5,145
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £28,833
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 18 March 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 18 March 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 37 £62,500 +8.70% 24
Bristol -24 16 £73,750 +2.44% 32
Somerset - 9 £45,000 - 7
Wiltshire 0 6 £65,000 -7.14% 3
Devon -6 6 £52,500 -19.23% 1
Dorset -13 4 £70,000 -24.32% 1
Cornwall -14 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 2 (2.30%) Apache
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.77%) AWS
2 38 (43.68%) Azure
3 23 (26.44%) GitHub
4 22 (25.29%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (22.99%) Serverless
6 19 (21.84%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (18.39%) GCP
8 14 (16.09%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
10 10 (11.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (6.90%) Datadog
14 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
15 5 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (4.60%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (4.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) Firewall
2 7 (8.05%) DNS
2 7 (8.05%) Network Security
3 6 (6.90%) DHCP
3 6 (6.90%) TCP/IP
4 5 (5.75%) VLAN
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (4.60%) LAN
5 4 (4.60%) Unified Communications
5 4 (4.60%) WAN
5 4 (4.60%) WebEx
6 2 (2.30%) Broadband
6 2 (2.30%) VPN
7 1 (1.15%) AMQP
7 1 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.30%) MySQL
4 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.15%) Airbyte
5 1 (1.15%) Big Data
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
5 1 (1.15%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.15%) Redis
5 1 (1.15%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (22.99%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.09%) Git
3 8 (9.20%) GitLab
4 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.90%) CircleCI
4 6 (6.90%) Subversion
5 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.30%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.30%) Selenium
6 2 (2.30%) TestRail
7 1 (1.15%) Jaeger
General
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.24%) Finance
2 15 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.20%) Marketing
3 8 (9.20%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.05%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.75%) Electronics
5 5 (5.75%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.60%) Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Retail
7 3 (3.45%) Billing
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Games
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Developer
6 7 (8.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Lead
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Administrator
9 4 (4.60%) Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Collaboration Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Linux Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) YAML
2 8 (9.20%) Spring
3 7 (8.05%) Node.js
3 7 (8.05%) React
4 5 (5.75%) RESTful
4 5 (5.75%) Spring Boot
5 4 (4.60%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (4.60%) REST
5 4 (4.60%) XMPP
6 3 (3.45%) .NET
6 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.45%) ARM Templates
6 3 (3.45%) CSS
6 3 (3.45%) HTML
6 3 (3.45%) OpenAPI
6 3 (3.45%) Swagger
7 2 (2.30%) CSS3
7 2 (2.30%) LESS
7 2 (2.30%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (2.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.60%) FlexPod
3 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.60%) Replication
3 4 (4.60%) Security Posture
3 4 (4.60%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) CUDA
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 39 (44.83%) Linux
2 16 (18.39%) Windows
3 7 (8.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) CentOS
5 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.30%) Unix
6 1 (1.15%) Debian
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (65.52%) DevOps
2 53 (60.92%) CI/CD
3 34 (39.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (36.78%) Containerisation
5 26 (29.89%) Agile
6 21 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
8 16 (18.39%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
9 13 (14.94%) Incident Response
9 13 (14.94%) Mentoring
10 12 (13.79%) Cloud Security
11 11 (12.64%) SDLC
12 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (9.20%) Collaborative Culture
14 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Automation
14 8 (9.20%) Kanban
14 8 (9.20%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.02%) Python
2 34 (39.08%) Bash
3 24 (27.59%) PowerShell
4 18 (20.69%) Java
5 13 (14.94%) Bicep
6 10 (11.49%) JavaScript
7 9 (10.34%) Go
8 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.75%) C#
10 4 (4.60%) SQL
11 2 (2.30%) VB
12 1 (1.15%) C++
12 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (41.38%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.14%) DV Cleared
3 12 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.45%) Degree
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) QA
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.30%) NCSC
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (41.38%) Docker
2 10 (11.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (5.75%) vSphere
4 4 (4.60%) iptables
4 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 4 (4.60%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (3.45%) Firmware
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.30%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 46 (52.87%) Kubernetes
1 46 (52.87%) Terraform
2 31 (35.63%) Ansible
3 21 (24.14%) Grafana
4 10 (11.49%) Prometheus
4 10 (11.49%) Puppet
5 8 (9.20%) Argo
6 6 (6.90%) Progress Chef
6 6 (6.90%) Rancher
6 6 (6.90%) yum
7 4 (4.60%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (3.45%) vCenter Server
9 2 (2.30%) Kibana
9 2 (2.30%) logstash
9 2 (2.30%) NetBackup
10 1 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.15%) Istio
10 1 (1.15%) linkerd
10 1 (1.15%) Mesos
10 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.49%) Cisco
2 10 (11.49%) VMware
3 8 (9.20%) Splunk
4 6 (6.90%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.75%) Dell
5 5 (5.75%) Fortinet
5 5 (5.75%) Palo Alto
6 4 (4.60%) Google
6 4 (4.60%) NetApp
6 4 (4.60%) SAP
7 2 (2.30%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.30%) HP
7 2 (2.30%) Juniper
7 2 (2.30%) Veeam
8 1 (1.15%) Databricks
8 1 (1.15%) New Relic
8 1 (1.15%) SaltStack