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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 100 121
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 105 61 186
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.39% 2.27% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.52% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 66 43 131
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -4.01% +15.38%
75th Percentile £80,313 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,778 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%

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 5,189 2,416 7,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 68.69% 89.98% 83.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,429 1,541 5,535
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £52,600 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +4.16% -3.81%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +16 51 £67,500 +8.00% 38
Bristol -22 27 £72,500 +0.71% 30
Devon -17 7 £52,500 -25.00% 1
Wiltshire -10 5 £65,000 -16.13% 8
Dorset -19 5 £80,000 -13.51% 2
Somerset - 4 £55,000 - 5
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 4 (3.81%) Apache
1 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.95%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) AWS
2 41 (39.05%) Azure
3 24 (22.86%) GCP
4 21 (20.00%) GitHub
4 21 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (17.14%) Serverless
6 17 (16.19%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (12.38%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (11.43%) Amazon S3
9 10 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (8.57%) OpenShift
11 8 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.67%) Datadog
13 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (3.81%) CloudFront
14 4 (3.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) Firewall
2 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 7 (6.67%) Network Security
2 7 (6.67%) VLAN
2 7 (6.67%) WAN
3 6 (5.71%) DHCP
3 6 (5.71%) LAN
3 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.76%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (4.76%) Unified Communications
4 5 (4.76%) WebEx
5 3 (2.86%) VPN
6 2 (1.90%) Broadband
7 1 (0.95%) AMQP
7 1 (0.95%) BGP
7 1 (0.95%) NAS
7 1 (0.95%) SAN
7 1 (0.95%) SNMP
7 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.76%) InfluxDB
3 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.81%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.86%) Big Data
5 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.86%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.90%) Metadata
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.95%) Airbyte
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.95%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.95%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) Jenkins
2 25 (23.81%) Git
3 14 (13.33%) GitLab
4 7 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.67%) Subversion
5 6 (5.71%) CircleCI
6 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.81%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.81%) Selenium
7 4 (3.81%) TestRail
8 2 (1.90%) MLflow
9 1 (0.95%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.48%) Aerospace
5 9 (8.57%) Marketing
5 9 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.67%) Electronics
6 7 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Banking
7 5 (4.76%) Retail
8 3 (2.86%) Automotive
8 3 (2.86%) Billing
9 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Games
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.24%) Senior
4 9 (8.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Architect
6 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.71%) Developer
7 6 (5.71%) Lead
7 6 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Collaboration Engineer
8 5 (4.76%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (3.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.62%) REST
2 7 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (5.71%) React
3 6 (5.71%) Spring
4 5 (4.76%) Node.js
4 5 (4.76%) RESTful
4 5 (4.76%) XMPP
5 4 (3.81%) Django
5 4 (3.81%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.81%) Flask
5 4 (3.81%) Playwright
5 4 (3.81%) pytest
5 4 (3.81%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.81%) YAML
6 3 (2.86%) .NET
6 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.86%) OpenAPI
6 3 (2.86%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.76%) FlexPod
4 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.76%) Replication
4 5 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.81%) CUDA
5 4 (3.81%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.86%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.90%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 52 (49.52%) Linux
2 22 (20.95%) Windows
3 6 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.76%) CentOS
5 3 (2.86%) Unix
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.90%) VMS
7 1 (0.95%) Debian
7 1 (0.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.95%) CI/CD
2 62 (59.05%) DevOps
3 42 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (32.38%) Agile
5 33 (31.43%) Containerisation
6 27 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (22.86%) Test Automation
8 23 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (18.10%) Software Engineering
10 16 (15.24%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
12 14 (13.33%) Mentoring
13 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (12.38%) SDLC
14 12 (11.43%) Analytics
14 12 (11.43%) DevSecOps
15 11 (10.48%) Cloud Security
15 11 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
15 11 (10.48%) High Availability
15 11 (10.48%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.24%) Python
2 39 (37.14%) Bash
3 27 (25.71%) PowerShell
4 18 (17.14%) Java
5 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.48%) Go
7 10 (9.52%) Bicep
8 7 (6.67%) SQL
9 5 (4.76%) C#
9 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.86%) C++
11 2 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.90%) Rust
11 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.90%) VB
12 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 48 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.71%) Degree
5 5 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 4 (3.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.95%) CCNA
9 1 (0.95%) CCNP
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.95%) VCAP
9 1 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) IFRS
3 2 (1.90%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.90%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.95%) NCSC
4 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (37.14%) Docker
2 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.71%) vSphere
4 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
4 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (3.81%) Firmware
5 4 (3.81%) iptables
6 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.90%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (62.86%) Terraform
2 55 (52.38%) Kubernetes
3 42 (40.00%) Ansible
4 27 (25.71%) Grafana
5 14 (13.33%) Puppet
6 12 (11.43%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.57%) Argo
8 8 (7.62%) Rancher
9 7 (6.67%) yum
10 6 (5.71%) Progress Chef
11 5 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (3.81%) Kibana
12 4 (3.81%) logstash
12 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
13 2 (1.90%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.95%) Istio
14 1 (0.95%) linkerd
14 1 (0.95%) Mesos
14 1 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) VMware
3 12 (11.43%) Cisco
4 10 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 10 (9.52%) Splunk
5 6 (5.71%) Dell
5 6 (5.71%) NetApp
6 5 (4.76%) Fortinet
6 5 (4.76%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.81%) Databricks
7 4 (3.81%) Google
7 4 (3.81%) SAP
8 2 (1.90%) HP
8 2 (1.90%) Juniper
8 2 (1.90%) Veeam
9 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.95%) New Relic
9 1 (0.95%) SaltStack