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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 112 87
Rank change year-on-year +46 -25 -24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 244 54 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.38% 1.55% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 1.90% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 134 42 134
10th Percentile £49,500 £49,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,563 £57,125 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £89,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £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 7,266 2,835 5,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 70.92% 81.61% 75.97%
Number of salaries quoted 4,946 1,792 3,299
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,760 £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 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +24 126 £82,500 -2.94% 79
Bristol -2 66 £70,000 -6.67% 32
Wiltshire -2 20 £75,000 -6.25% 11
Somerset -20 15 £70,000 -6.67% 27
Devon -23 9 £67,500 -3.57% 5
Dorset +1 4 £93,750 - 13
Cornwall +7 2 - - 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 18 (7.38%) Apache
2 13 (5.33%) Confluence
3 12 (4.92%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.64%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.23%) nginx
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 120 (49.18%) AWS
2 109 (44.67%) Azure
3 45 (18.44%) GCP
4 42 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (16.80%) Serverless
6 40 (16.39%) GitHub
7 26 (10.66%) OpenShift
8 25 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (9.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 18 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (7.38%) Azure AKS
12 17 (6.97%) Amazon S3
13 16 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
13 16 (6.56%) PaaS
14 15 (6.15%) IaaS
15 14 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
16 13 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
17 12 (4.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.93%) VPN
2 23 (9.43%) Firewall
3 18 (7.38%) Network Security
4 15 (6.15%) WAN
5 11 (4.51%) BGP
5 11 (4.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 10 (4.10%) VLAN
7 9 (3.69%) LAN
7 9 (3.69%) SD-WAN
8 8 (3.28%) DNS
9 6 (2.46%) Wireless
10 5 (2.05%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (2.05%) OSPF
10 5 (2.05%) SNMP
11 4 (1.64%) AMQP
11 4 (1.64%) IPv4
11 4 (1.64%) WLAN
12 3 (1.23%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (1.23%) Internet
12 3 (1.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (5.74%) Big Data
2 12 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.10%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.69%) Geospatial Data
4 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.87%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.87%) MongoDB
6 6 (2.46%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.64%) Flink
8 4 (1.64%) Metadata
8 4 (1.64%) MySQL
8 4 (1.64%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.23%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 63 (25.82%) Git
2 42 (17.21%) GitLab
3 34 (13.93%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.56%) JIRA
5 11 (4.51%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.10%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.10%) Selenium
7 8 (3.28%) Subversion
8 7 (2.87%) MSI
8 7 (2.87%) Robot Framework
9 6 (2.46%) TestRail
10 4 (1.64%) Postman
10 4 (1.64%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.23%) git-flow
11 3 (1.23%) JUnit
11 3 (1.23%) NUnit
11 3 (1.23%) Snyk
12 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.82%) MLflow
13 1 (0.41%) Vite
General
1 63 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.36%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.43%) Aerospace
4 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (5.74%) Law
7 8 (3.28%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.05%) Marketing
9 4 (1.64%) Military
10 3 (1.23%) Banking
10 3 (1.23%) Legal
10 3 (1.23%) Retail
11 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Automotive
12 1 (0.41%) Electronics
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (27.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (16.80%) Senior
3 33 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (13.52%) Lead
4 26 (10.66%) Architect
5 23 (9.43%) Lead DevOps
6 20 (8.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.38%) Developer
8 17 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Analyst
10 12 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 12 (4.92%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.10%) Azure Architect
12 9 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (74.18%) Terraform
2 26 (10.66%) Spring
2 26 (10.66%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.61%) RESTful
4 19 (7.79%) Elastic Stack
4 19 (7.79%) React
5 16 (6.56%) REST
6 15 (6.15%) Node.js
7 12 (4.92%) .NET
8 10 (4.10%) .NET Core
8 10 (4.10%) pytest
9 9 (3.69%) GeoJSON
10 8 (3.28%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.28%) CSS
10 8 (3.28%) CSS3
10 8 (3.28%) HTML
10 8 (3.28%) HTML5
10 8 (3.28%) Kafka
11 7 (2.87%) .NET Framework
11 7 (2.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 17 (6.97%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.92%) Podcast
4 12 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.92%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.51%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.64%) CMDB
10 4 (1.64%) PKI
11 3 (1.23%) Blog
11 3 (1.23%) FlexPod
11 3 (1.23%) IoT
11 3 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.23%) Replication
11 3 (1.23%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 73 (29.92%) Linux
2 47 (19.26%) Windows
3 13 (5.33%) VMS
4 10 (4.10%) CentOS
5 9 (3.69%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.28%) Unix
7 6 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (1.64%) Debian
8 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.82%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (80.33%) CI/CD
2 153 (62.70%) DevOps
3 127 (52.05%) Containerisation
4 111 (45.49%) Agile
5 70 (28.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (23.36%) Observability
7 56 (22.95%) DevSecOps
7 56 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (22.54%) AI
8 55 (22.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 52 (21.31%) Test Automation
10 44 (18.03%) Software Engineering
11 42 (17.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 40 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (15.98%) Cloud Security
13 39 (15.98%) Mentoring
14 38 (15.57%) Analytics
15 34 (13.93%) Configuration Management
15 34 (13.93%) Scrum
16 33 (13.52%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 132 (54.10%) Python
2 75 (30.74%) Bash
3 54 (22.13%) Java
4 35 (14.34%) Bicep
4 35 (14.34%) PowerShell
5 32 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.89%) SQL
7 23 (9.43%) Go
8 17 (6.97%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.28%) C#
11 6 (2.46%) Rust
11 6 (2.46%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.05%) Scala
13 2 (0.82%) C
13 2 (0.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 155 (63.52%) Security Cleared
2 83 (34.02%) DV Cleared
3 71 (29.10%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.97%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.10%) Degree
8 9 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.46%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.05%) CCNA
10 5 (2.05%) CCNP
10 5 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.64%) ISTQB
11 4 (1.64%) OCP
11 4 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (1.64%) OSCP
11 4 (1.64%) RHCE
12 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.56%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.92%) NCSC
3 11 (4.51%) QA
4 8 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 7 (2.87%) WCAG
6 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.23%) GDPR
7 3 (1.23%) NIST
8 2 (0.82%) IFRS
8 2 (0.82%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.82%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (38.52%) Docker
2 39 (15.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.30%) Active Directory
4 20 (8.20%) vSphere
5 13 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.87%) VMware NSX
7 5 (2.05%) Firmware
8 4 (1.64%) Squid
9 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 145 (59.43%) Kubernetes
2 106 (43.44%) Ansible
3 33 (13.52%) Grafana
4 26 (10.66%) Puppet
5 22 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.92%) Argo
7 11 (4.51%) Rancher
8 9 (3.69%) Packer
9 8 (3.28%) yum
10 7 (2.87%) Kibana
10 7 (2.87%) logstash
10 7 (2.87%) vCenter Server
11 5 (2.05%) ZABBIX
12 4 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
12 4 (1.64%) Istio
12 4 (1.64%) linkerd
12 4 (1.64%) Mesos
13 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 43 (17.62%) VMware
3 25 (10.25%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.74%) Splunk
5 12 (4.92%) Atlassian
5 12 (4.92%) ScienceLogic
6 10 (4.10%) Cisco
7 9 (3.69%) Google
8 8 (3.28%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.87%) Databricks
10 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
10 5 (2.05%) Oracle
10 5 (2.05%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.64%) Avaya
11 4 (1.64%) F5
11 4 (1.64%) Infoblox
11 4 (1.64%) Meraki
11 4 (1.64%) NetApp
11 4 (1.64%) Netskope
11 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow