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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 113 87
Rank change year-on-year +49 -26 -17
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 233 56 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.45% 1.61% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 1.96% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 132 40 136
10th Percentile £47,850 £52,375 £51,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,125 £96,375 £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 6,751 2,864 5,987
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.00% 82.30% 75.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,549 1,862 3,865
10th Percentile £30,250 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £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 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +20 119 £85,000 - 66
Bristol +6 63 £65,000 -15.48% 54
Wiltshire +1 18 £75,000 -3.23% 15
Somerset -23 15 £70,000 -6.67% 14
Devon -18 8 £67,500 -3.57% 6
Dorset -2 5 £90,000 - 14
Cornwall +7 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 16 (6.87%) Apache
2 13 (5.58%) Confluence
3 12 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (4.72%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.72%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.43%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 118 (50.64%) AWS
2 100 (42.92%) Azure
3 41 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (17.60%) Serverless
4 40 (17.17%) GCP
5 38 (16.31%) GitHub
6 25 (10.73%) OpenShift
7 24 (10.30%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (9.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (9.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 19 (8.15%) Amazon S3
11 17 (7.30%) Azure AKS
12 16 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
12 16 (6.87%) PaaS
13 15 (6.44%) IaaS
14 14 (6.01%) Amazon EC2
14 14 (6.01%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (5.15%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.30%) VPN
2 22 (9.44%) Firewall
3 17 (7.30%) Network Security
4 14 (6.01%) WAN
5 10 (4.29%) LAN
5 10 (4.29%) VLAN
6 9 (3.86%) Software-Defined Networking
7 8 (3.43%) BGP
8 7 (3.00%) DNS
9 6 (2.58%) SD-WAN
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (2.15%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (2.15%) Unified Communications
10 5 (2.15%) WebEx
10 5 (2.15%) Wireless
11 4 (1.72%) IPv4
11 4 (1.72%) OSPF
12 3 (1.29%) AMQP
12 3 (1.29%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (1.29%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.01%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (5.58%) Big Data
2 13 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (3.86%) Geospatial Data
3 9 (3.86%) Hadoop
4 7 (3.00%) Data Lake
4 7 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.00%) InfluxDB
4 7 (3.00%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.58%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.58%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.72%) Flink
6 4 (1.72%) Metadata
7 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (1.29%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (1.29%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (25.32%) Git
2 41 (17.60%) GitLab
3 35 (15.02%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.87%) JIRA
5 12 (5.15%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.72%) Selenium
7 10 (4.29%) Bitbucket
8 8 (3.43%) Robot Framework
9 7 (3.00%) MSI
9 7 (3.00%) TestRail
10 6 (2.58%) Subversion
11 4 (1.72%) Postman
11 4 (1.72%) SonarQube
12 3 (1.29%) git-flow
12 3 (1.29%) JUnit
12 3 (1.29%) NUnit
12 3 (1.29%) Snyk
13 2 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.86%) MLflow
14 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
General
1 60 (25.75%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.03%) Finance
3 26 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 23 (9.87%) Public Sector
5 21 (9.01%) Aerospace
6 17 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (6.01%) Law
8 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.00%) Marketing
10 5 (2.15%) Banking
10 5 (2.15%) Retail
11 4 (1.72%) Military
12 3 (1.29%) Automotive
12 3 (1.29%) Electronics
12 3 (1.29%) Legal
12 3 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.86%) Games
13 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (24.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 41 (17.60%) Senior
3 34 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 32 (13.73%) Lead
5 25 (10.73%) Architect
6 22 (9.44%) Lead DevOps
7 20 (8.58%) Developer
8 19 (8.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.58%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.15%) Analyst
11 12 (5.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 11 (4.72%) Azure Architect
12 11 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.72%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.72%) Software Engineer
13 10 (4.29%) Test Engineer
14 9 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (3.86%) Senior Developer
14 9 (3.86%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (76.39%) Terraform
2 22 (9.44%) Spring
2 22 (9.44%) Spring Boot
3 19 (8.15%) Elastic Stack
3 19 (8.15%) RESTful
4 18 (7.73%) REST
5 16 (6.87%) React
6 13 (5.58%) Node.js
7 11 (4.72%) .NET
7 11 (4.72%) pytest
8 10 (4.29%) .NET Core
9 9 (3.86%) GeoJSON
10 8 (3.43%) CSS
10 8 (3.43%) CSS3
10 8 (3.43%) HTML
10 8 (3.43%) HTML5
10 8 (3.43%) Kafka
11 7 (3.00%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.00%) ATL
11 7 (3.00%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.32%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.73%) Onboarding
4 16 (6.87%) Public Cloud
5 14 (6.01%) Product Ownership
6 12 (5.15%) Podcast
6 12 (5.15%) Security Posture
7 10 (4.29%) Data Centre
8 9 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.15%) Data Structures
11 5 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (2.15%) FlexPod
11 5 (2.15%) Replication
11 5 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.72%) CUDA
12 4 (1.72%) PKI
13 3 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.29%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 69 (29.61%) Linux
2 54 (23.18%) Windows
3 13 (5.58%) VMS
4 11 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 10 (4.29%) CentOS
6 7 (3.00%) Unix
7 5 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (1.29%) Debian
8 3 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 187 (80.26%) CI/CD
2 142 (60.94%) DevOps
3 117 (50.21%) Containerisation
4 102 (43.78%) Agile
5 66 (28.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (24.03%) Observability
7 55 (23.61%) DevSecOps
8 53 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (22.75%) Test Automation
9 50 (21.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 48 (20.60%) AI
11 45 (19.31%) Software Engineering
12 40 (17.17%) Analytics
13 38 (16.31%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (15.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 35 (15.02%) Cloud Security
15 35 (15.02%) Mentoring
16 31 (13.30%) Scrum
17 28 (12.02%) Configuration Management
17 28 (12.02%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 125 (53.65%) Python
2 71 (30.47%) Bash
3 47 (20.17%) Java
4 36 (15.45%) Bicep
4 36 (15.45%) PowerShell
5 31 (13.30%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.16%) SQL
7 21 (9.01%) Go
8 15 (6.44%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.58%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (3.43%) C#
11 6 (2.58%) Rust
12 5 (2.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.86%) C
13 2 (0.86%) C++
13 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (61.80%) Security Cleared
2 74 (31.76%) DV Cleared
3 68 (29.18%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.15%) Azure Certification
5 18 (7.73%) AWS Certification
6 16 (6.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.58%) Degree
8 10 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 9 (3.86%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (2.58%) RHCSA
12 5 (2.15%) CCNA
13 4 (1.72%) CCNP
13 4 (1.72%) ISTQB
13 4 (1.72%) OCP
13 4 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (1.72%) OSCP
13 4 (1.72%) RHCE
14 3 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
14 3 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.87%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.15%) NCSC
3 10 (4.29%) QA
4 8 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.00%) WCAG
6 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.29%) GDPR
7 3 (1.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS
8 2 (0.86%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.86%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 89 (38.20%) Docker
2 42 (18.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (12.88%) Active Directory
4 22 (9.44%) vSphere
5 13 (5.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.00%) VMware NSX
8 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (2.15%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (1.72%) Firmware
9 4 (1.72%) Squid
10 2 (0.86%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.43%) iptables
11 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 136 (58.37%) Kubernetes
2 102 (43.78%) Ansible
3 36 (15.45%) Grafana
4 22 (9.44%) Prometheus
4 22 (9.44%) Puppet
5 9 (3.86%) Argo
5 9 (3.86%) Packer
6 8 (3.43%) Kibana
6 8 (3.43%) logstash
6 8 (3.43%) Rancher
6 8 (3.43%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.58%) yum
8 5 (2.15%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (2.15%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.29%) Istio
9 3 (1.29%) linkerd
9 3 (1.29%) Mesos
9 3 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 52 (22.32%) Microsoft
2 46 (19.74%) VMware
3 24 (10.30%) Red Hat
4 17 (7.30%) Splunk
5 13 (5.58%) Atlassian
6 12 (5.15%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (4.72%) Cisco
8 9 (3.86%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.58%) Databricks
9 6 (2.58%) NetApp
10 5 (2.15%) Google
10 5 (2.15%) Oracle
10 5 (2.15%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 4 (1.72%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.29%) Avaya
12 3 (1.29%) F5
12 3 (1.29%) Infoblox
12 3 (1.29%) Netskope
12 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow