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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 115 132
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 124 45 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.60% 1.60% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.78% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 75 26 143
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £54,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,438 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,987 £87,500
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 5,379 2,522 8,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.43% 89.69% 79.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,599 1,579 5,957
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,729 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +0.44% -3.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -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 14 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 14 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 +15 55 £75,000 +7.14% 19
Bristol -3 38 £75,000 -2.48% 19
Wiltshire -8 10 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Devon -28 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset -1 4 £97,500 - 2
Cornwall - 4 - -
Somerset - 4 £60,000 - 7
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 (4.03%) Apache
1 5 (4.03%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.03%) Confluence
2 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 75 (60.48%) AWS
2 50 (40.32%) Azure
3 29 (23.39%) GCP
3 29 (23.39%) Serverless
4 24 (19.35%) GitHub
5 21 (16.94%) AWS Lambda
6 19 (15.32%) Amazon S3
6 19 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (10.48%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.26%) OpenShift
11 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Functions
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (4.84%) Datadog
13 6 (4.84%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.32%) Firewall
2 10 (8.06%) WAN
3 9 (7.26%) VLAN
4 8 (6.45%) Network Security
5 7 (5.65%) LAN
5 7 (5.65%) VPN
6 6 (4.84%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (4.84%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (4.84%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (4.84%) Unified Communications
6 6 (4.84%) WebEx
7 4 (3.23%) Broadband
7 4 (3.23%) DNS
7 4 (3.23%) IPv4
8 3 (2.42%) BGP
8 3 (2.42%) DHCP
8 3 (2.42%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.61%) AMQP
9 2 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.61%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.03%) InfluxDB
2 5 (4.03%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.03%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.23%) Big Data
3 4 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.42%) Metadata
4 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.61%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.61%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.81%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (26.61%) Git
2 29 (23.39%) Jenkins
3 22 (17.74%) GitLab
4 10 (8.06%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.84%) Cypress.io
5 6 (4.84%) JIRA
6 5 (4.03%) Robot Framework
6 5 (4.03%) Selenium
6 5 (4.03%) Subversion
6 5 (4.03%) TestRail
7 4 (3.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.61%) MLflow
9 1 (0.81%) git-flow
9 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.81%) MSI
9 1 (0.81%) Postman
General
1 34 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.13%) Finance
3 15 (12.10%) Aerospace
3 15 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.84%) Banking
5 6 (4.84%) Marketing
5 6 (4.84%) Retail
5 6 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Law
7 3 (2.42%) Automotive
7 3 (2.42%) Electronics
7 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.61%) Billing
8 2 (1.61%) Games
8 2 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (19.35%) Senior
3 20 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (8.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 10 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Architect
6 9 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Lead
7 8 (6.45%) Developer
8 7 (5.65%) Site Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.65%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (4.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Collaboration Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.06%) Elastic Stack
1 10 (8.06%) Node.js
2 9 (7.26%) REST
3 8 (6.45%) React
3 8 (6.45%) Spring
4 7 (5.65%) RESTful
5 6 (4.84%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.84%) XMPP
6 5 (4.03%) OpenAPI
6 5 (4.03%) Playwright
6 5 (4.03%) pytest
6 5 (4.03%) Swagger
7 4 (3.23%) .NET
7 4 (3.23%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.23%) boto
7 4 (3.23%) Django
7 4 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.23%) Flask
8 3 (2.42%) CSS3
8 3 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 8 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.84%) FlexPod
5 6 (4.84%) Replication
5 6 (4.84%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.84%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (4.03%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.23%) CUDA
7 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
7 4 (3.23%) Podcast
8 3 (2.42%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
8 3 (2.42%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.42%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 54 (43.55%) Linux
2 34 (27.42%) Windows
3 11 (8.87%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.65%) CentOS
5 5 (4.03%) VMS
6 4 (3.23%) Unix
7 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.61%) Debian
8 2 (1.61%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (69.35%) CI/CD
2 72 (58.06%) DevOps
3 47 (37.90%) Agile
4 43 (34.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (31.45%) Containerisation
6 28 (22.58%) Test Automation
7 27 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (18.55%) Mentoring
10 22 (17.74%) DevSecOps
11 21 (16.94%) Observability
12 20 (16.13%) Analytics
13 19 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (15.32%) Software Engineering
14 17 (13.71%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (12.90%) Cloud Security
15 16 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
15 16 (12.90%) Scrum
16 15 (12.10%) AI
16 15 (12.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (54.84%) Python
2 44 (35.48%) Bash
3 29 (23.39%) PowerShell
4 21 (16.94%) Java
5 16 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 12 (9.68%) Bicep
7 9 (7.26%) Go
7 9 (7.26%) SQL
8 6 (4.84%) C#
8 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.03%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.42%) C++
11 2 (1.61%) C
11 2 (1.61%) Rust
11 2 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 60 (48.39%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.19%) DV Cleared
3 23 (18.55%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.84%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.84%) Degree
7 5 (4.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (4.03%) CCNA
7 5 (4.03%) RHCSA
8 4 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.23%) OSCP
8 4 (3.23%) RHCE
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.81%) VCAP
9 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.65%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.42%) NCSC
3 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) IFRS
3 2 (1.61%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.61%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (33.87%) Docker
2 22 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.10%) vSphere
4 12 (9.68%) Active Directory
5 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (4.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (4.84%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (4.84%) VMware NSX
7 4 (3.23%) Firmware
7 4 (3.23%) iptables
7 4 (3.23%) Squid
7 4 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 87 (70.16%) Terraform
2 58 (46.77%) Ansible
3 57 (45.97%) Kubernetes
4 31 (25.00%) Grafana
5 16 (12.90%) Prometheus
5 16 (12.90%) Puppet
6 7 (5.65%) Argo
7 6 (4.84%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (4.84%) Packer
7 6 (4.84%) Rancher
8 5 (4.03%) Kibana
8 5 (4.03%) logstash
8 5 (4.03%) vCenter Server
8 5 (4.03%) yum
9 4 (3.23%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.23%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.81%) Mesos
10 1 (0.81%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 27 (21.77%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.74%) VMware
3 16 (12.90%) Red Hat
3 16 (12.90%) Splunk
4 12 (9.68%) Cisco
5 7 (5.65%) NetApp
6 6 (4.84%) Atlassian
6 6 (4.84%) Fortinet
6 6 (4.84%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.03%) Dell
8 4 (3.23%) Databricks
8 4 (3.23%) Google
8 4 (3.23%) Oracle
8 4 (3.23%) ScienceLogic
9 2 (1.61%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.81%) HP
10 1 (0.81%) Juniper
10 1 (0.81%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.81%) Zscaler