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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 116 80
Rank change year-on-year +50 -36 -19
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 244 52 182
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.33% 1.46% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 1.78% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 135 42 131
10th Percentile £49,750 £43,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,250 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,500 £86,875 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,125 £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 7,467 2,927 5,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.26% 82.22% 76.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,077 1,816 3,067
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £81,350
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +20 124 £82,500 -1.49% 102
Bristol -4 68 £71,250 -5.00% 46
Wiltshire - 20 £75,000 - 19
Somerset -24 15 £70,000 +55.56% 30
Devon -19 10 £67,500 -3.57% 19
Dorset -5 3 £90,000 - 34
Cornwall +5 2 - - 8
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 19 (7.79%) Apache
2 13 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.33%) Confluence
3 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.05%) 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
1 119 (48.77%) AWS
2 109 (44.67%) Azure
3 43 (17.62%) 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
8 25 (10.25%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (9.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 19 (7.79%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (7.79%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.97%) Azure AKS
12 16 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.56%) PaaS
13 15 (6.15%) IaaS
14 14 (5.74%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (4.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (13.93%) VPN
2 22 (9.02%) Firewall
3 18 (7.38%) Network Security
4 14 (5.74%) WAN
5 11 (4.51%) BGP
5 11 (4.51%) Software-Defined Networking
6 9 (3.69%) SD-WAN
6 9 (3.69%) VLAN
7 8 (3.28%) DNS
7 8 (3.28%) LAN
8 6 (2.46%) Wireless
9 5 (2.05%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (2.05%) OSPF
9 5 (2.05%) SNMP
10 4 (1.64%) AMQP
10 4 (1.64%) Internet
10 4 (1.64%) IPv4
10 4 (1.64%) WLAN
11 3 (1.23%) DHCP
12 2 (0.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
1 14 (5.74%) Big Data
2 10 (4.10%) Hadoop
2 10 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.69%) Geospatial Data
4 8 (3.28%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (2.87%) Data Lake
5 7 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.87%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.46%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.05%) InfluxDB
8 4 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (1.64%) Flink
8 4 (1.64%) Metadata
8 4 (1.64%) MySQL
9 3 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.23%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.23%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 62 (25.41%) Git
2 40 (16.39%) GitLab
3 31 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.56%) JIRA
5 10 (4.10%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.10%) Cypress.io
6 9 (3.69%) Selenium
7 8 (3.28%) Subversion
8 7 (2.87%) MSI
9 6 (2.46%) Robot Framework
10 5 (2.05%) TestRail
11 4 (1.64%) Postman
11 4 (1.64%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.23%) git-flow
12 3 (1.23%) JUnit
12 3 (1.23%) NUnit
12 3 (1.23%) Snyk
13 2 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.82%) MLflow
14 1 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 62 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.36%) Finance
3 26 (10.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.61%) Aerospace
6 14 (5.74%) Law
7 7 (2.87%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.64%) Marketing
8 4 (1.64%) Military
9 3 (1.23%) Legal
10 2 (0.82%) Banking
10 2 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
11 1 (0.41%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (29.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 44 (18.03%) Senior
3 33 (13.52%) Lead
4 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (10.25%) Architect
6 23 (9.43%) Lead DevOps
7 20 (8.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 18 (7.38%) Developer
9 16 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (5.33%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.92%) Analyst
11 12 (4.92%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 12 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.69%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (72.95%) Terraform
2 26 (10.66%) Spring
2 26 (10.66%) Spring Boot
3 21 (8.61%) RESTful
4 19 (7.79%) React
5 18 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
6 15 (6.15%) Node.js
7 14 (5.74%) REST
8 12 (4.92%) .NET
9 10 (4.10%) .NET Core
10 9 (3.69%) GeoJSON
10 9 (3.69%) pytest
11 8 (3.28%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.28%) CSS
11 8 (3.28%) CSS3
11 8 (3.28%) HTML
11 8 (3.28%) HTML5
12 7 (2.87%) .NET Framework
12 7 (2.87%) MFC
12 7 (2.87%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (6.97%) Public Cloud
4 16 (6.56%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.92%) Podcast
5 12 (4.92%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.51%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.51%) Product Ownership
7 10 (4.10%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.05%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.64%) CMDB
11 4 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.64%) PKI
12 3 (1.23%) Blog
12 3 (1.23%) IoT
13 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.82%) FlexPod
13 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (27.87%) Linux
2 45 (18.44%) Windows
3 12 (4.92%) VMS
4 9 (3.69%) CentOS
5 8 (3.28%) Unix
5 8 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.64%) Debian
7 4 (1.64%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.82%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (79.92%) CI/CD
2 155 (63.52%) DevOps
3 127 (52.05%) Containerisation
4 109 (44.67%) Agile
5 67 (27.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (23.36%) Observability
7 56 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 56 (22.95%) DevSecOps
8 55 (22.54%) AI
8 55 (22.54%) Problem-Solving
9 51 (20.90%) Test Automation
10 42 (17.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 42 (17.21%) Software Engineering
11 40 (16.39%) Cloud Security
11 40 (16.39%) Mentoring
11 40 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
12 38 (15.57%) Analytics
13 35 (14.34%) Deployment Automation
14 34 (13.93%) Configuration Management
15 33 (13.52%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 131 (53.69%) Python
2 75 (30.74%) Bash
3 56 (22.95%) Java
4 36 (14.75%) Bicep
5 33 (13.52%) PowerShell
6 31 (12.70%) JavaScript
7 28 (11.48%) SQL
8 23 (9.43%) Go
9 17 (6.97%) TypeScript
10 13 (5.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (2.87%) C#
11 7 (2.87%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.46%) Rust
13 5 (2.05%) Scala
14 3 (1.23%) C++
15 2 (0.82%) C
Qualifications
1 154 (63.11%) Security Cleared
2 83 (34.02%) DV Cleared
3 72 (29.51%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.20%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.97%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (3.69%) Degree
8 8 (3.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.46%) RHCSA
10 5 (2.05%) CCNP
11 4 (1.64%) CCNA
11 4 (1.64%) 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 93 (38.11%) Docker
2 38 (15.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (11.89%) Active Directory
4 19 (7.79%) vSphere
5 13 (5.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.28%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.64%) Firmware
8 4 (1.64%) Squid
9 3 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.41%) KVM
Systems Management
1 142 (58.20%) Kubernetes
2 102 (41.80%) Ansible
3 31 (12.70%) Grafana
4 26 (10.66%) Puppet
5 21 (8.61%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.33%) Argo
7 11 (4.51%) Rancher
8 9 (3.69%) Packer
9 8 (3.28%) yum
10 7 (2.87%) vCenter Server
11 6 (2.46%) Kibana
11 6 (2.46%) logstash
12 5 (2.05%) ZABBIX
13 4 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
13 4 (1.64%) Istio
13 4 (1.64%) linkerd
13 4 (1.64%) Mesos
14 3 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
15 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 59 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 42 (17.21%) VMware
3 23 (9.43%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.92%) ScienceLogic
4 12 (4.92%) Splunk
5 11 (4.51%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.51%) Google
6 8 (3.28%) Cisco
6 8 (3.28%) Databricks
7 7 (2.87%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.05%) Oracle
8 5 (2.05%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.64%) Avaya
9 4 (1.64%) F5
9 4 (1.64%) Infoblox
9 4 (1.64%) Meraki
9 4 (1.64%) Netskope
9 4 (1.64%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.64%) ServiceNow