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 3 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 74 88
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 44 28 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.22% 2.23% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.52% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 33 26 64
10th Percentile £46,750 £49,625 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £50,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,950 £71,991 £65,025
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +10.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £91,264 £83,950
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

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 2,366 1,111 3,238
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 65.59% 88.31% 85.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 668 2,546
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -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 3 months to 28 January 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 3 months to 28 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire -8 16 £55,000 -8.33% 36
Bristol -22 10 £73,750 +2.44% 32
Somerset - 4 £55,000 - 10
Dorset -16 3 £67,500 -27.03% 12
Devon - 3 £57,500 - 19
Wiltshire - 3 £65,000 - 10
Cornwall -12 1 - - 9
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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Apache
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 49 (63.64%) Azure
2 47 (61.04%) AWS
3 24 (31.17%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (31.17%) GitHub
4 23 (29.87%) GitHub Actions
5 20 (25.97%) Serverless
6 13 (16.88%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (15.58%) GCP
8 11 (14.29%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (10.39%) OpenShift
9 8 (10.39%) SaaS
10 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (6.49%) PaaS
12 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (5.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) Firewall
2 6 (7.79%) DNS
3 5 (6.49%) DHCP
3 5 (6.49%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.90%) AMQP
4 3 (3.90%) Network Security
4 3 (3.90%) VPN
5 1 (1.30%) Broadband
5 1 (1.30%) Internet
5 1 (1.30%) VLAN
5 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.39%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (6.49%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.19%) InfluxDB
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Airbyte
6 1 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.30%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.30%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Jenkins
2 8 (10.39%) Git
3 7 (9.09%) GitLab
4 5 (6.49%) Subversion
5 4 (5.19%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.60%) JIRA
7 2 (2.60%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.30%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.30%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) TestRail
General
1 25 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
3 9 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Aerospace
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Electronics
5 4 (5.19%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.19%) Marketing
5 4 (5.19%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Billing
7 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Games
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (11.69%) Senior
5 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Architect
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) YAML
2 10 (12.99%) React
3 8 (10.39%) Spring
4 7 (9.09%) Node.js
5 6 (7.79%) .NET
6 5 (6.49%) RESTful
6 5 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 4 (5.19%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.19%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (5.19%) REST
8 3 (3.90%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.90%) CSS
8 3 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.90%) HTML
8 3 (3.90%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.90%) Swagger
9 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.60%) jQuery
9 2 (2.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.19%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.66%) Linux
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
3 7 (9.09%) Ubuntu
4 6 (7.79%) Debian
5 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.90%) CentOS
7 2 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.60%) Unix
8 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (77.92%) DevOps
2 54 (70.13%) CI/CD
3 33 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 29 (37.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (33.77%) Agile
6 22 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (20.78%) Software Engineering
8 16 (20.78%) Test Automation
9 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (14.29%) Incident Response
11 10 (12.99%) Cloud Security
11 10 (12.99%) Microservices
12 9 (11.69%) Kanban
12 9 (11.69%) SDLC
13 8 (10.39%) AI
13 8 (10.39%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.39%) Scrum
14 7 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 42 (54.55%) Python
2 28 (36.36%) Bash
3 20 (25.97%) Bicep
3 20 (25.97%) PowerShell
4 18 (23.38%) Java
5 10 (12.99%) Go
5 10 (12.99%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.69%) TypeScript
7 7 (9.09%) C#
7 7 (9.09%) SQL
8 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.60%) VB
9 2 (2.60%) XAML
10 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.30%) CCNA
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.60%) NCSC
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (46.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.60%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.30%) iptables
6 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (66.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (59.74%) Terraform
3 25 (32.47%) Ansible
4 11 (14.29%) Grafana
5 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.79%) Argo
7 5 (6.49%) Progress Chef
7 5 (6.49%) Puppet
7 5 (6.49%) Rancher
7 5 (6.49%) yum
8 2 (2.60%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (2.60%) NetBackup
8 2 (2.60%) vCenter Server
9 1 (1.30%) Kibana
9 1 (1.30%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.30%) logstash
9 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Red Hat
3 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
3 4 (5.19%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 4 (5.19%) VMware
4 3 (3.90%) Cisco
4 3 (3.90%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (3.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) Dell
5 2 (2.60%) HP
5 2 (2.60%) Juniper
5 2 (2.60%) Veeam
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) SaltStack