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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 114 132
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 -23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 133 46 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.70% 1.62% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 1.81% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 81 27 145
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,800 £48,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £51,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £83,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,889 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 5,435 2,537 8,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.62% 89.24% 78.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,635 1,589 5,999
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -4.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 June 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 June 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 +11 58 £77,500 +10.71% 25
Bristol -2 41 £73,750 -1.67% 17
Wiltshire -7 10 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Somerset - 8 £72,500 - 5
Devon -29 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset 0 4 £97,500 -
Cornwall - 4 - -
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 7 (5.26%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) Apache
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.89%) AWS
2 58 (43.61%) Azure
3 31 (23.31%) Serverless
4 30 (22.56%) GCP
5 28 (21.05%) GitHub
6 24 (18.05%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (13.53%) Amazon S3
9 16 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (9.77%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (7.52%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (7.52%) OpenShift
13 9 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (6.77%) Azure Functions
14 8 (6.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (6.02%) IaaS
14 8 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.29%) Firewall
2 10 (7.52%) VPN
2 10 (7.52%) WAN
3 9 (6.77%) Network Security
3 9 (6.77%) VLAN
4 7 (5.26%) LAN
5 6 (4.51%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (4.51%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (4.51%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (4.51%) Unified Communications
5 6 (4.51%) WebEx
6 4 (3.01%) Broadband
6 4 (3.01%) DNS
6 4 (3.01%) IPv4
7 3 (2.26%) AMQP
7 3 (2.26%) BGP
7 3 (2.26%) DHCP
7 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (1.50%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.76%) Big Data
2 5 (3.76%) Geospatial Data
2 5 (3.76%) InfluxDB
2 5 (3.76%) MongoDB
2 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
4 3 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.26%) Metadata
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.50%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.50%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.50%) Flink
5 2 (1.50%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (27.82%) Git
2 29 (21.80%) Jenkins
3 24 (18.05%) GitLab
4 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket
5 8 (6.02%) JIRA
6 6 (4.51%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.76%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.76%) Selenium
7 5 (3.76%) Subversion
7 5 (3.76%) TestRail
8 4 (3.01%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.26%) MSI
10 2 (1.50%) MLflow
11 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.75%) git-flow
11 1 (0.75%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.75%) Postman
General
1 36 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.03%) Aerospace
5 13 (9.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (5.26%) Law
7 6 (4.51%) Banking
7 6 (4.51%) Marketing
7 6 (4.51%) Retail
7 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Automotive
9 3 (2.26%) Electronics
9 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.50%) Billing
10 2 (1.50%) Games
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 26 (19.55%) Senior
2 23 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (8.27%) Architect
3 11 (8.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 11 (8.27%) Lead
4 10 (7.52%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (7.52%) Developer
4 10 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Analyst
6 6 (4.51%) Collaboration Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 6 (4.51%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (4.51%) Test Engineer
7 5 (3.76%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) REST
2 10 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
2 10 (7.52%) Node.js
2 10 (7.52%) RESTful
3 8 (6.02%) React
3 8 (6.02%) Spring
4 7 (5.26%) OpenAPI
4 7 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.26%) Swagger
5 6 (4.51%) .NET
5 6 (4.51%) XMPP
6 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
6 5 (3.76%) CSS
6 5 (3.76%) CSS3
6 5 (3.76%) GeoJSON
6 5 (3.76%) HTML
6 5 (3.76%) HTML5
6 5 (3.76%) Playwright
6 5 (3.76%) pytest
7 4 (3.01%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.30%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (7.52%) Onboarding
3 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.52%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.02%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.51%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.51%) FlexPod
5 6 (4.51%) Podcast
5 6 (4.51%) Replication
5 6 (4.51%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.01%) CUDA
7 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.26%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.26%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.50%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 55 (41.35%) Linux
2 38 (28.57%) Windows
3 11 (8.27%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.02%) CentOS
5 7 (5.26%) VMS
6 4 (3.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.01%) Unix
7 3 (2.26%) Debian
7 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (69.92%) CI/CD
2 78 (58.65%) DevOps
3 56 (42.11%) Agile
4 45 (33.83%) Containerisation
5 44 (33.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (21.80%) DevSecOps
6 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.05%) Test Automation
8 26 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (18.80%) Observability
10 23 (17.29%) Analytics
10 23 (17.29%) Mentoring
11 20 (15.04%) AI
11 20 (15.04%) Software Engineering
12 19 (14.29%) Cloud Security
12 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (14.29%) Scrum
13 17 (12.78%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (12.03%) Collaborative Culture
15 15 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (53.38%) Python
2 46 (34.59%) Bash
3 31 (23.31%) PowerShell
4 21 (15.79%) Java
5 19 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 18 (13.53%) Bicep
7 12 (9.02%) SQL
8 9 (6.77%) Go
9 8 (6.02%) C#
10 7 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (5.26%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.26%) C++
12 2 (1.50%) C
12 2 (1.50%) Rust
12 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 66 (49.62%) Security Cleared
2 32 (24.06%) DV Cleared
3 28 (21.05%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.52%) AWS Certification
4 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.77%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.51%) Degree
7 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.76%) CCNA
7 5 (3.76%) RHCSA
8 4 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.01%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.01%) OSCP
8 4 (3.01%) RHCE
9 1 (0.75%) CCNP
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) VCAP
9 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) NCSC
3 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.26%) WCAG
5 2 (1.50%) GDPR
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS
5 2 (1.50%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.50%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (35.34%) Docker
2 25 (18.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (12.78%) vSphere
4 15 (11.28%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (4.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (4.51%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (4.51%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.01%) Firmware
7 4 (3.01%) iptables
7 4 (3.01%) Squid
8 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 96 (72.18%) Terraform
2 62 (46.62%) Kubernetes
3 60 (45.11%) Ansible
4 32 (24.06%) Grafana
5 17 (12.78%) Prometheus
5 17 (12.78%) Puppet
6 7 (5.26%) Argo
7 6 (4.51%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (4.51%) Packer
7 6 (4.51%) Rancher
8 5 (3.76%) Kibana
8 5 (3.76%) logstash
8 5 (3.76%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.76%) yum
9 4 (3.01%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.01%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.75%) Istio
10 1 (0.75%) linkerd
10 1 (0.75%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 33 (24.81%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.80%) VMware
3 17 (12.78%) Red Hat
4 16 (12.03%) Splunk
5 12 (9.02%) Cisco
6 7 (5.26%) Atlassian
6 7 (5.26%) NetApp
7 6 (4.51%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.51%) Palo Alto
7 6 (4.51%) ScienceLogic
8 5 (3.76%) Dell
8 5 (3.76%) Google
9 4 (3.01%) Databricks
9 4 (3.01%) Oracle
10 3 (2.26%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.75%) HP
11 1 (0.75%) Juniper
11 1 (0.75%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.75%) Zscaler