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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 114 132
Rank change year-on-year +14 +18 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 112 48 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.46% 1.71% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.90% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 67 29 135
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,695 -
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 5,327 2,525 7,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.46% 89.92% 79.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 1,555 5,880
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 9 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 9 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 +12 55 £75,000 +11.11% 22
Bristol -11 31 £75,000 - 22
Wiltshire -5 8 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Devon -21 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset -3 4 £97,500 +14.71% 1
Cornwall - 4 - - 1
Somerset - 1 £45,000 - 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 5 (4.46%) Apache
1 5 (4.46%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 68 (60.71%) AWS
2 43 (38.39%) Azure
3 27 (24.11%) GCP
4 25 (22.32%) Serverless
5 19 (16.96%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (16.96%) GitHub
6 17 (15.18%) Amazon S3
7 15 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (13.39%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (9.82%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (7.14%) OpenShift
11 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (4.46%) Azure Functions
13 5 (4.46%) Datadog
14 4 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (15.18%) Firewall
2 9 (8.04%) WAN
3 8 (7.14%) VLAN
4 7 (6.25%) LAN
4 7 (6.25%) Network Security
5 6 (5.36%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.36%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.36%) Unified Communications
5 6 (5.36%) WebEx
6 5 (4.46%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.57%) Broadband
7 4 (3.57%) IPv4
7 4 (3.57%) VPN
8 3 (2.68%) DHCP
8 3 (2.68%) DNS
8 3 (2.68%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.79%) AMQP
9 2 (1.79%) BGP
10 1 (0.89%) NAS
10 1 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.46%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.57%) Big Data
4 4 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.68%) Metadata
5 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.79%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.89%) Flink
7 1 (0.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Git
2 27 (24.11%) Jenkins
3 19 (16.96%) GitLab
4 10 (8.93%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.36%) Subversion
6 5 (4.46%) JIRA
7 4 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.57%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.57%) Selenium
7 4 (3.57%) TestRail
8 2 (1.79%) MLflow
9 1 (0.89%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (25.89%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.07%) Finance
3 16 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.39%) Aerospace
5 6 (5.36%) Banking
5 6 (5.36%) Marketing
5 6 (5.36%) Retail
5 6 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Automotive
7 3 (2.68%) Electronics
7 3 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.68%) Law
7 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Billing
8 2 (1.79%) Games
8 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (22.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (18.75%) Senior
3 19 (16.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.82%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Lead
7 7 (6.25%) Architect
7 7 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Python Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) Node.js
1 9 (8.04%) Spring
2 8 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (7.14%) REST
3 7 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.36%) React
4 6 (5.36%) XMPP
5 5 (4.46%) RESTful
6 4 (3.57%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.57%) boto
6 4 (3.57%) Django
6 4 (3.57%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.57%) Flask
6 4 (3.57%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.57%) Playwright
6 4 (3.57%) pytest
6 4 (3.57%) Swagger
7 3 (2.68%) .NET
7 3 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.68%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.36%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.36%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.36%) Replication
4 6 (5.36%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.57%) CUDA
5 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.68%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.68%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.79%) PKI
7 2 (1.79%) Podcast
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (46.43%) Linux
2 29 (25.89%) Windows
3 11 (9.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.36%) CentOS
5 4 (3.57%) Unix
6 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.68%) VMS
7 2 (1.79%) Debian
7 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 66 (58.93%) DevOps
3 42 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (34.82%) Agile
5 35 (31.25%) Containerisation
6 27 (24.11%) Test Automation
7 23 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (19.64%) Mentoring
8 22 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (17.86%) Software Engineering
10 19 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (16.07%) DevSecOps
12 16 (14.29%) Analytics
12 16 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (13.39%) Observability
13 15 (13.39%) Scrum
14 14 (12.50%) Cloud Security
15 13 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (10.71%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.04%) Python
2 41 (36.61%) Bash
3 26 (23.21%) PowerShell
4 23 (20.54%) Java
5 13 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.93%) Go
7 7 (6.25%) Bicep
7 7 (6.25%) SQL
8 5 (4.46%) C#
9 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.68%) C++
10 3 (2.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.79%) C
11 2 (1.79%) Rust
11 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (49.11%) Security Cleared
2 28 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 20 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.46%) CCNA
6 5 (4.46%) Degree
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.57%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.57%) OSCP
7 4 (3.57%) RHCE
7 4 (3.57%) RHCSA
8 1 (0.89%) CCNP
8 1 (0.89%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.89%) VCAP
8 1 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.14%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.79%) GDPR
3 2 (1.79%) IFRS
3 2 (1.79%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.79%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.89%) NCSC
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (34.82%) Docker
2 19 (16.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.61%) vSphere
4 10 (8.93%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.36%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (5.36%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.57%) Firmware
6 4 (3.57%) iptables
6 4 (3.57%) Squid
7 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 76 (67.86%) Terraform
2 53 (47.32%) Ansible
2 53 (47.32%) Kubernetes
3 30 (26.79%) Grafana
4 16 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 16 (14.29%) Puppet
5 8 (7.14%) Argo
6 7 (6.25%) Rancher
7 6 (5.36%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (5.36%) yum
8 5 (4.46%) Packer
9 4 (3.57%) Kibana
9 4 (3.57%) logstash
9 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.57%) vCenter Server
9 4 (3.57%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.89%) Mesos
10 1 (0.89%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 19 (16.96%) VMware
3 15 (13.39%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.39%) Splunk
4 12 (10.71%) Cisco
5 7 (6.25%) NetApp
6 6 (5.36%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.36%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.46%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.46%) Dell
8 4 (3.57%) Databricks
8 4 (3.57%) Google
8 4 (3.57%) Oracle
9 2 (1.79%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.79%) ScienceLogic
10 1 (0.89%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.89%) HP
10 1 (0.89%) Juniper
10 1 (0.89%) Veeam
10 1 (0.89%) Zscaler