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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 110 132
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 -28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 114 48 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.49% 1.76% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.93% 2.15%
Number of salaries quoted 71 30 135
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £58,438 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +1.79% +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £84,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,597 -
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,155 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.84% +11.65% -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 5,303 2,485 7,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.23% 90.99% 80.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3,517 1,510 5,745
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -6.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,422 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -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 1 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 1 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 +9 58 £60,500 -10.37% 39
Bristol -10 30 £75,000 +1.69% 22
Wiltshire -13 8 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Devon -29 6 £52,500 -25.00% 7
Dorset -6 5 £93,750 +10.29% 2
Cornwall - 3 - - 13
Somerset - 1 £45,000 - 5
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 (4.39%) Apache
1 5 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 69 (60.53%) AWS
2 42 (36.84%) Azure
3 28 (24.56%) GCP
4 23 (20.18%) Serverless
5 19 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (15.79%) GitHub
7 17 (14.91%) Amazon S3
8 16 (14.04%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (9.65%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (7.02%) OpenShift
13 7 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (6.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (5.26%) Datadog
15 4 (3.51%) AWS CloudTrail
15 4 (3.51%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.91%) Firewall
2 9 (7.89%) WAN
3 8 (7.02%) VLAN
4 7 (6.14%) LAN
4 7 (6.14%) Network Security
5 6 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.26%) DHCP
5 6 (5.26%) DNS
5 6 (5.26%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.26%) Unified Communications
5 6 (5.26%) WebEx
6 5 (4.39%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.51%) IPv4
8 3 (2.63%) Broadband
9 2 (1.75%) AMQP
9 2 (1.75%) BGP
9 2 (1.75%) VPN
10 1 (0.88%) NAS
10 1 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.39%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.51%) Big Data
4 4 (3.51%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.51%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.63%) Metadata
5 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.88%) Flink
7 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (24.56%) Git
1 28 (24.56%) Jenkins
2 20 (17.54%) GitLab
3 11 (9.65%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.26%) Subversion
5 5 (4.39%) CircleCI
5 5 (4.39%) JIRA
6 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.51%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.51%) Selenium
6 4 (3.51%) TestRail
7 2 (1.75%) MLflow
8 1 (0.88%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (25.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Finance
3 19 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.16%) Aerospace
5 9 (7.89%) Marketing
5 9 (7.89%) Telecoms
6 6 (5.26%) Banking
6 6 (5.26%) Electronics
6 6 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.26%) Retail
7 5 (4.39%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Automotive
9 2 (1.75%) Billing
9 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Games
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (24.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (17.54%) Senior
3 19 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (10.53%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 9 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (7.02%) Lead
7 7 (6.14%) Architect
7 7 (6.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Collaboration Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Developer
9 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Site Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) Node.js
1 9 (7.89%) Spring
2 8 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (7.02%) REST
3 7 (6.14%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.26%) React
4 6 (5.26%) XMPP
5 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.51%) boto
5 4 (3.51%) Django
5 4 (3.51%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.51%) Flask
5 4 (3.51%) OpenAPI
5 4 (3.51%) Playwright
5 4 (3.51%) pytest
5 4 (3.51%) RESTful
5 4 (3.51%) Swagger
6 3 (2.63%) .NET
6 3 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.26%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.26%) Replication
4 6 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.51%) CUDA
6 4 (3.51%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.63%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.75%) PKI
8 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 56 (49.12%) Linux
2 28 (24.56%) Windows
3 11 (9.65%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.26%) CentOS
5 4 (3.51%) Unix
6 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.75%) Debian
7 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (65.79%) CI/CD
2 65 (57.02%) DevOps
3 45 (39.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (34.21%) Agile
5 36 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 27 (23.68%) Test Automation
7 24 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (18.42%) Mentoring
10 19 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 17 (14.91%) DevSecOps
12 16 (14.04%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (14.04%) Infrastructure Automation
13 14 (12.28%) Analytics
14 13 (11.40%) Cloud Security
14 13 (11.40%) Scrum
14 13 (11.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 12 (10.53%) Configuration Management
15 12 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 67 (58.77%) Python
2 42 (36.84%) Bash
3 27 (23.68%) PowerShell
4 23 (20.18%) Java
5 13 (11.40%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.89%) Go
7 5 (4.39%) Bicep
7 5 (4.39%) C#
7 5 (4.39%) SQL
8 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.63%) C++
10 2 (1.75%) C
10 2 (1.75%) Rust
10 2 (1.75%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.75%) VB
11 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 58 (50.88%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 22 (19.30%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.77%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.26%) Degree
6 5 (4.39%) CCNA
6 5 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.51%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.51%) OSCP
7 4 (3.51%) RHCE
7 4 (3.51%) RHCSA
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.88%) CCNP
9 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.88%) VCAP
9 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.02%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.75%) IFRS
3 2 (1.75%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (35.09%) Docker
2 18 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (9.65%) vSphere
4 8 (7.02%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (5.26%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.51%) Firmware
6 4 (3.51%) iptables
6 4 (3.51%) Squid
7 2 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 77 (67.54%) Terraform
2 58 (50.88%) Ansible
3 54 (47.37%) Kubernetes
4 31 (27.19%) Grafana
5 16 (14.04%) Prometheus
5 16 (14.04%) Puppet
6 8 (7.02%) Argo
7 7 (6.14%) Rancher
8 6 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (5.26%) yum
9 5 (4.39%) Packer
9 5 (4.39%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.51%) Kibana
10 4 (3.51%) logstash
10 4 (3.51%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.51%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.75%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.88%) Mesos
Vendors
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.79%) VMware
3 15 (13.16%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.16%) Splunk
4 13 (11.40%) Cisco
5 7 (6.14%) NetApp
6 6 (5.26%) Dell
6 6 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.26%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.39%) Atlassian
8 4 (3.51%) Databricks
8 4 (3.51%) Google
8 4 (3.51%) Oracle
9 3 (2.63%) SAP
10 2 (1.75%) HP
10 2 (1.75%) Juniper
10 2 (1.75%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.75%) Veeam
11 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.88%) Zscaler