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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 119 109
Rank change year-on-year +40 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 174 50 196
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.09% 1.50% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 1.77% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 104 31 160
10th Percentile £47,575 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £54,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,313 £83,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £97,500 £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 5,946 2,817 7,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.47% 84.65% 78.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,923 1,830 5,383
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,056 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,938 £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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +14 80 £92,500 +8.82% 36
Bristol +8 51 £72,500 -3.33% 21
Wiltshire -8 13 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Somerset - 12 £70,000 - 9
Devon -15 10 £67,500 -3.57% 9
Dorset -2 3 £97,500 - 8
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 12 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.17%) Confluence
3 8 (4.60%) Apache
4 6 (3.45%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.15%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 86 (49.43%) AWS
2 76 (43.68%) Azure
3 36 (20.69%) Serverless
4 35 (20.11%) GCP
5 33 (18.97%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (16.67%) GitHub
7 21 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 17 (9.77%) Amazon S3
10 16 (9.20%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (8.62%) IaaS
11 15 (8.62%) PaaS
12 14 (8.05%) Azure Key Vault
13 13 (7.47%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (7.47%) Azure Functions
14 12 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (6.90%) Azure AKS
14 12 (6.90%) OpenShift
15 10 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (4.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.64%) VPN
2 19 (10.92%) Firewall
3 13 (7.47%) Network Security
4 11 (6.32%) WAN
5 10 (5.75%) VLAN
6 8 (4.60%) Software-Defined Networking
7 7 (4.02%) LAN
8 6 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (3.45%) Unified Communications
8 6 (3.45%) WebEx
9 4 (2.30%) BGP
9 4 (2.30%) IPv4
10 3 (1.72%) Broadband
10 3 (1.72%) DNS
10 3 (1.72%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (1.72%) SD-WAN
10 3 (1.72%) SNMP
11 2 (1.15%) DHCP
11 2 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.05%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (4.02%) Geospatial Data
4 7 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.45%) Big Data
5 6 (3.45%) InfluxDB
5 6 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.87%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.72%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.72%) Metadata
8 3 (1.72%) MySQL
9 2 (1.15%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.15%) Flink
Development Applications
1 52 (29.89%) Git
2 30 (17.24%) GitLab
2 30 (17.24%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.75%) JIRA
4 9 (5.17%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 6 (3.45%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.45%) Selenium
6 6 (3.45%) Subversion
6 6 (3.45%) TestRail
7 5 (2.87%) MSI
8 3 (1.72%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.15%) MLflow
10 1 (0.57%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.57%) git-flow
10 1 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.57%) Postman
10 1 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.82%) Finance
3 22 (12.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 17 (9.77%) Aerospace
6 13 (7.47%) Law
7 7 (4.02%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.45%) Banking
8 6 (3.45%) Marketing
8 6 (3.45%) Retail
9 5 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.72%) Automotive
10 3 (1.72%) Electronics
10 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.15%) Games
11 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.54%) DevOps Engineer
1 34 (19.54%) Senior
2 30 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 20 (11.49%) Lead
4 17 (9.77%) Architect
5 13 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Analyst
6 12 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 11 (6.32%) Developer
8 10 (5.75%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 10 (5.75%) Software Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) Lead DevOps
10 8 (4.60%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Azure Architect
11 7 (4.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.62%) Spring
1 15 (8.62%) Spring Boot
2 14 (8.05%) REST
3 13 (7.47%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (7.47%) RESTful
4 8 (4.60%) Node.js
5 7 (4.02%) GeoJSON
5 7 (4.02%) pytest
5 7 (4.02%) React
6 6 (3.45%) .NET
6 6 (3.45%) Django
6 6 (3.45%) Playwright
6 6 (3.45%) XMPP
7 5 (2.87%) .NET Framework
7 5 (2.87%) ATL
7 5 (2.87%) COM
7 5 (2.87%) CSS
7 5 (2.87%) HTML
7 5 (2.87%) MFC
7 5 (2.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 20 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 16 (9.20%) Public Cloud
4 12 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 12 (6.90%) Podcast
4 12 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.90%) Security Posture
5 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.45%) FlexPod
5 6 (3.45%) Replication
5 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.30%) CUDA
8 3 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.72%) PKI
8 3 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 62 (35.63%) Linux
2 50 (28.74%) Windows
3 13 (7.47%) VMS
4 12 (6.90%) Windows Server
5 8 (4.60%) CentOS
6 4 (2.30%) Unix
7 3 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.15%) Debian
8 2 (1.15%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.57%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (74.71%) CI/CD
2 103 (59.20%) DevOps
3 79 (45.40%) Agile
4 71 (40.80%) Containerisation
5 51 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (23.56%) DevSecOps
7 40 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (22.41%) Observability
9 36 (20.69%) Test Automation
10 35 (20.11%) AI
10 35 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (18.39%) Analytics
12 27 (15.52%) Cloud Security
12 27 (15.52%) Mentoring
12 27 (15.52%) Software Engineering
13 25 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (14.37%) Scrum
13 25 (14.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 22 (12.64%) Infrastructure Automation
15 21 (12.07%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.60%) Python
2 55 (31.61%) Bash
3 35 (20.11%) PowerShell
4 31 (17.82%) Java
5 30 (17.24%) Bicep
6 21 (12.07%) JavaScript
6 21 (12.07%) SQL
7 13 (7.47%) Go
7 13 (7.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.60%) C#
10 3 (1.72%) C++
11 2 (1.15%) C
11 2 (1.15%) Rust
11 2 (1.15%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 102 (58.62%) Security Cleared
2 53 (30.46%) DV Cleared
3 45 (25.86%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 16 (9.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (4.60%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.60%) Degree
7 6 (3.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.45%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.87%) CCNA
8 5 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.30%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.30%) OSCP
9 4 (2.30%) RHCE
10 3 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.57%) CCNP
11 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.57%) VCAP
11 1 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.17%) QA
2 7 (4.02%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.02%) NCSC
3 5 (2.87%) WCAG
4 4 (2.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.15%) GDPR
5 2 (1.15%) IFRS
5 2 (1.15%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.15%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 64 (36.78%) Docker
2 36 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (13.22%) Active Directory
3 23 (13.22%) vSphere
4 12 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.02%) VMware NSX
6 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (2.30%) Firmware
7 4 (2.30%) Squid
8 3 (1.72%) iptables
Systems Management
1 126 (72.41%) Terraform
2 91 (52.30%) Kubernetes
3 74 (42.53%) Ansible
4 34 (19.54%) Grafana
5 19 (10.92%) Puppet
6 17 (9.77%) Prometheus
7 9 (5.17%) Packer
8 8 (4.60%) Argo
8 8 (4.60%) Rancher
9 7 (4.02%) Kibana
9 7 (4.02%) logstash
10 6 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (3.45%) vCenter Server
10 6 (3.45%) yum
11 4 (2.30%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (1.15%) Istio
13 2 (1.15%) linkerd
13 2 (1.15%) Mesos
Vendors
1 43 (24.71%) Microsoft
2 36 (20.69%) VMware
3 18 (10.34%) Red Hat
4 16 (9.20%) Splunk
5 12 (6.90%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (6.32%) Cisco
7 8 (4.60%) Atlassian
8 7 (4.02%) NetApp
9 6 (3.45%) Fortinet
9 6 (3.45%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.87%) Databricks
11 4 (2.30%) Dell
11 4 (2.30%) Google
11 4 (2.30%) Oracle
12 2 (1.15%) OpenAI
12 2 (1.15%) SaltStack
13 1 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.57%) Zscaler