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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 102 132
Rank change year-on-year -7 +30 -27
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 110 55 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.42% 2.10% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.30% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 66 36 139
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £52,188 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,450 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -6.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 -
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 5,295 2,390 7,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.49% 91.05% 82.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,484 1,445 5,594
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,976
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.99% -3.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £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 23 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 23 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 +8 56 £60,500 -6.92% 35
Bristol -20 30 £75,000 +3.45% 24
Wiltshire -9 6 £70,000 -9.68% 5
Devon -20 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset -8 5 £93,750 +10.29% 4
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 5 (4.55%) Apache
1 5 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.73%) Confluence
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 67 (60.91%) AWS
2 42 (38.18%) Azure
3 28 (25.45%) GCP
4 21 (19.09%) Serverless
5 17 (15.45%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (15.45%) GitHub
6 16 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (13.64%) Amazon S3
8 12 (10.91%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.18%) OpenShift
11 8 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (6.36%) Datadog
12 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.45%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECR
14 4 (3.64%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 15 (13.64%) Firewall
2 9 (8.18%) WAN
3 8 (7.27%) VLAN
4 7 (6.36%) LAN
4 7 (6.36%) Network Security
5 6 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.45%) DHCP
5 6 (5.45%) DNS
5 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.45%) Unified Communications
5 6 (5.45%) WebEx
6 4 (3.64%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.73%) Broadband
7 3 (2.73%) IPv4
8 2 (1.82%) AMQP
8 2 (1.82%) BGP
8 2 (1.82%) VPN
9 1 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
9 1 (0.91%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.55%) InfluxDB
2 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.64%) Big Data
3 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.73%) Metadata
4 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.82%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.82%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.82%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.91%) MySQL
6 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (26.36%) Jenkins
2 28 (25.45%) Git
3 18 (16.36%) GitLab
4 10 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.36%) Subversion
6 6 (5.45%) CircleCI
7 5 (4.55%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.64%) JIRA
8 4 (3.64%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.64%) Selenium
8 4 (3.64%) TestRail
9 2 (1.82%) MLflow
10 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (26.36%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.64%) Aerospace
5 9 (8.18%) Marketing
5 9 (8.18%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.45%) Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Electronics
6 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.45%) Retail
7 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.73%) Automotive
9 2 (1.82%) Billing
9 2 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Games
10 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (16.36%) Senior
3 17 (15.45%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Architect
7 6 (5.45%) Collaboration Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Lead
7 6 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (7.27%) REST
2 7 (6.36%) Node.js
2 7 (6.36%) React
2 7 (6.36%) Spring
3 6 (5.45%) XMPP
4 5 (4.55%) RESTful
4 5 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.64%) Django
5 4 (3.64%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.64%) Flask
5 4 (3.64%) OpenAPI
5 4 (3.64%) Playwright
5 4 (3.64%) pytest
5 4 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.64%) Swagger
6 3 (2.73%) .NET
6 3 (2.73%) boto
6 3 (2.73%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.45%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.45%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.45%) Replication
4 6 (5.45%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.64%) CUDA
6 4 (3.64%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.73%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.82%) PKI
8 2 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 58 (52.73%) Linux
2 27 (24.55%) Windows
3 10 (9.09%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.45%) CentOS
5 4 (3.64%) Unix
6 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.82%) Debian
7 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 61 (55.45%) DevOps
3 44 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (34.55%) Agile
5 33 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 27 (24.55%) Test Automation
7 25 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 18 (16.36%) Mentoring
11 16 (14.55%) Collaborative Culture
11 16 (14.55%) DevSecOps
11 16 (14.55%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (11.82%) Analytics
13 13 (11.82%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (11.82%) Scrum
13 13 (11.82%) SDLC
14 12 (10.91%) Cloud Security
14 12 (10.91%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (59.09%) Python
2 41 (37.27%) Bash
3 27 (24.55%) PowerShell
4 22 (20.00%) Java
5 13 (11.82%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.00%) Go
7 5 (4.55%) C#
7 5 (4.55%) SQL
7 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.64%) Bicep
9 3 (2.73%) C++
10 2 (1.82%) C
10 2 (1.82%) Rust
10 2 (1.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.82%) VB
11 1 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (49.09%) Security Cleared
2 27 (24.55%) DV Cleared
3 21 (19.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.18%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.45%) Degree
6 5 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.64%) CCNA
8 3 (2.73%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.73%) OSCP
8 3 (2.73%) RHCE
8 3 (2.73%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.91%) CCNP
10 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.91%) VCAP
10 1 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.18%) QA
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) IFRS
3 2 (1.82%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (33.64%) Docker
2 17 (15.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.09%) vSphere
4 7 (6.36%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.45%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (4.55%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.64%) Firmware
7 4 (3.64%) iptables
8 3 (2.73%) Squid
9 2 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 72 (65.45%) Terraform
2 53 (48.18%) Ansible
3 52 (47.27%) Kubernetes
4 31 (28.18%) Grafana
5 16 (14.55%) Puppet
6 15 (13.64%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.18%) Argo
8 8 (7.27%) Rancher
9 7 (6.36%) yum
10 6 (5.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (5.45%) Progress Chef
11 4 (3.64%) Kibana
11 4 (3.64%) logstash
11 4 (3.64%) Packer
11 4 (3.64%) vCenter Server
12 3 (2.73%) ZABBIX
13 2 (1.82%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.91%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.91%) Mesos
Vendors
1 22 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.45%) VMware
3 14 (12.73%) Red Hat
3 14 (12.73%) Splunk
4 13 (11.82%) Cisco
5 7 (6.36%) NetApp
6 6 (5.45%) Dell
6 6 (5.45%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.45%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.64%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.64%) Databricks
7 4 (3.64%) Google
8 3 (2.73%) Oracle
8 3 (2.73%) SAP
9 2 (1.82%) HP
9 2 (1.82%) Juniper
9 2 (1.82%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.82%) Veeam
10 1 (0.91%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.91%) Zscaler