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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 113 97
Rank change year-on-year +47 -16 -8
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 211 55 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.40% 1.59% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.35% 1.89% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 124 36 144
10th Percentile £47,750 £53,750 £50,375
25th Percentile £58,750 £67,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,905 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +2.54% +15.38%
75th Percentile £95,313 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,000 £98,474 £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 6,301 2,910 6,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.54% 83.89% 75.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4,141 1,898 4,237
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +21 104 £88,000 +3.53% 52
Bristol -4 58 £65,000 -17.52% 60
Wiltshire -4 16 £75,000 -3.23% 11
Somerset - 14 £70,000 - 11
Devon -18 9 £67,500 -3.57% 2
Dorset +1 5 £90,000 - 7
Cornwall - 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 12 (5.69%) Apache
1 12 (5.69%) Confluence
1 12 (5.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) nginx
3 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.47%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 106 (50.24%) AWS
2 90 (42.65%) Azure
3 39 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (17.54%) GCP
4 37 (17.54%) Serverless
5 34 (16.11%) GitHub
6 21 (9.95%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (9.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 18 (8.53%) Amazon S3
9 17 (8.06%) OpenShift
10 16 (7.58%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (7.58%) Azure Monitor
11 15 (7.11%) IaaS
11 15 (7.11%) PaaS
12 14 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.64%) Azure AKS
12 14 (6.64%) Azure Key Vault
13 12 (5.69%) Azure Functions
13 12 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (12.80%) VPN
2 23 (10.90%) Firewall
3 16 (7.58%) Network Security
4 15 (7.11%) WAN
5 12 (5.69%) VLAN
6 11 (5.21%) LAN
7 9 (4.27%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (3.32%) BGP
8 7 (3.32%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (3.32%) Cisco Firepower
8 7 (3.32%) Unified Communications
8 7 (3.32%) WebEx
9 6 (2.84%) DNS
10 5 (2.37%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.90%) IPv4
11 4 (1.90%) Wireless
12 3 (1.42%) Broadband
12 3 (1.42%) DHCP
12 3 (1.42%) OSPF
12 3 (1.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.74%) Big Data
4 9 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.27%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (3.32%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.84%) InfluxDB
6 6 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.37%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.37%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.42%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.42%) Flink
8 3 (1.42%) Metadata
8 3 (1.42%) MySQL
8 3 (1.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 57 (27.01%) Git
2 38 (18.01%) GitLab
3 33 (15.64%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.64%) JIRA
5 10 (4.74%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.74%) Cypress.io
5 10 (4.74%) Selenium
6 7 (3.32%) MSI
6 7 (3.32%) Robot Framework
7 6 (2.84%) Subversion
7 6 (2.84%) TestRail
8 4 (1.90%) Postman
8 4 (1.90%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.42%) JUnit
9 3 (1.42%) NUnit
9 3 (1.42%) Snyk
10 2 (0.95%) git-flow
10 2 (0.95%) MLflow
11 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 59 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 39 (18.48%) Finance
3 25 (11.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 24 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 17 (8.06%) Aerospace
6 15 (7.11%) Law
7 13 (6.16%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (4.74%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.79%) Marketing
10 7 (3.32%) Banking
10 7 (3.32%) Retail
11 3 (1.42%) Automotive
11 3 (1.42%) Electronics
11 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.42%) Military
12 2 (0.95%) Games
12 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.95%) Legal
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (23.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (18.01%) Senior
3 32 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (13.27%) Lead
5 19 (9.00%) Architect
6 18 (8.53%) Developer
7 17 (8.06%) Lead DevOps
8 15 (7.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.64%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Analyst
10 12 (5.69%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 10 (4.74%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Azure Architect
12 8 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.53%) RESTful
1 18 (8.53%) Spring
1 18 (8.53%) Spring Boot
2 16 (7.58%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (7.58%) REST
3 12 (5.69%) React
4 11 (5.21%) .NET
4 11 (5.21%) Node.js
5 10 (4.74%) .NET Core
5 10 (4.74%) pytest
6 9 (4.27%) GeoJSON
7 8 (3.79%) CSS
7 8 (3.79%) CSS3
7 8 (3.79%) HTML
7 8 (3.79%) HTML5
8 7 (3.32%) .NET Framework
8 7 (3.32%) ATL
8 7 (3.32%) COM
8 7 (3.32%) WPF
8 7 (3.32%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 48 (22.75%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (8.06%) Onboarding
4 16 (7.58%) Public Cloud
5 12 (5.69%) Podcast
5 12 (5.69%) Product Ownership
5 12 (5.69%) Security Posture
6 10 (4.74%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (3.32%) FlexPod
8 7 (3.32%) Replication
8 7 (3.32%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.37%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.90%) CUDA
12 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.42%) PKI
12 3 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 68 (32.23%) Linux
2 55 (26.07%) Windows
3 14 (6.64%) Windows Server
4 13 (6.16%) VMS
5 8 (3.79%) CentOS
6 5 (2.37%) Unix
7 4 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.95%) Debian
8 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.47%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (76.78%) CI/CD
2 127 (60.19%) DevOps
3 95 (45.02%) Containerisation
4 91 (43.13%) Agile
5 61 (28.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 51 (24.17%) Observability
7 49 (23.22%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (22.75%) DevSecOps
9 47 (22.27%) Test Automation
10 44 (20.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (19.91%) AI
12 39 (18.48%) Software Engineering
13 35 (16.59%) Analytics
14 31 (14.69%) Cloud Security
14 31 (14.69%) Mentoring
14 31 (14.69%) Platform Engineering
14 31 (14.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 28 (13.27%) Scrum
16 25 (11.85%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (11.85%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (54.03%) Python
2 61 (28.91%) Bash
3 40 (18.96%) Java
4 35 (16.59%) PowerShell
5 33 (15.64%) Bicep
6 28 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 25 (11.85%) SQL
8 17 (8.06%) Go
9 13 (6.16%) Kusto Query Language
10 12 (5.69%) TypeScript
11 9 (4.27%) C#
12 3 (1.42%) C++
12 3 (1.42%) Rust
12 3 (1.42%) Scala
13 2 (0.95%) C
13 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (59.24%) Security Cleared
2 66 (31.28%) DV Cleared
3 58 (27.49%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.53%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (6.64%) AWS Certification
7 13 (6.16%) Degree
8 8 (3.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.84%) RHCSA
11 5 (2.37%) CCNA
12 4 (1.90%) ISTQB
12 4 (1.90%) OSCP
12 4 (1.90%) RHCE
13 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.42%) CCNP
13 3 (1.42%) OCP
13 3 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.69%) Accessibility
2 11 (5.21%) NCSC
3 9 (4.27%) QA
4 7 (3.32%) WCAG
5 6 (2.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.95%) GDPR
8 2 (0.95%) IFRS
8 2 (0.95%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.95%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.47%) SLA
System Software
1 79 (37.44%) Docker
2 40 (18.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (12.32%) Active Directory
4 24 (11.37%) vSphere
5 13 (6.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (3.79%) VMware NSX
7 7 (3.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.32%) Virtual Servers
8 6 (2.84%) Firmware
9 4 (1.90%) Squid
10 2 (0.95%) iptables
10 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.47%) KVM
Systems Management
1 154 (72.99%) Terraform
2 111 (52.61%) Kubernetes
3 88 (41.71%) Ansible
4 38 (18.01%) Grafana
5 22 (10.43%) Prometheus
6 21 (9.95%) Puppet
7 9 (4.27%) Argo
7 9 (4.27%) Packer
8 8 (3.79%) Rancher
9 7 (3.32%) Cisco CUCM
9 7 (3.32%) Kibana
9 7 (3.32%) logstash
9 7 (3.32%) vCenter Server
10 6 (2.84%) yum
11 5 (2.37%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.42%) Istio
12 3 (1.42%) linkerd
12 3 (1.42%) Mesos
12 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 41 (19.43%) VMware
3 23 (10.90%) Red Hat
4 18 (8.53%) Splunk
5 15 (7.11%) Cisco
6 12 (5.69%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (5.21%) Atlassian
8 10 (4.74%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.79%) NetApp
10 7 (3.32%) Databricks
10 7 (3.32%) Palo Alto
11 5 (2.37%) Oracle
12 4 (1.90%) Dell
12 4 (1.90%) Google
13 3 (1.42%) OpenAI
13 3 (1.42%) SolarWinds
14 2 (0.95%) Avaya
14 2 (0.95%) F5
14 2 (0.95%) Infoblox
14 2 (0.95%) Netskope