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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 109 128
Rank change year-on-year +17 +19 -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 139 48 183
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.77% 1.68% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.88% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 81 29 147
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,900 £48,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £86,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,695 £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 5,490 2,551 8,223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.87% 89.04% 78.63%
Number of salaries quoted 3,663 1,599 6,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -5.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 20 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 20 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 +20 61 £77,500 +10.71% 25
Bristol -8 43 £73,750 -1.67% 20
Wiltshire -8 11 £75,000 -3.23% 3
Somerset - 8 £72,500 - 5
Devon -31 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset +2 4 £97,500 -
Cornwall - 4 - -
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 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.04%) Apache
2 7 (5.04%) Confluence
3 6 (4.32%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 79 (56.83%) AWS
2 61 (43.88%) Azure
3 34 (24.46%) Serverless
4 31 (22.30%) GCP
5 30 (21.58%) GitHub
6 26 (18.71%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (15.83%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (13.67%) Amazon S3
9 16 (11.51%) GitHub Actions
10 14 (10.07%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
12 12 (8.63%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (8.63%) OpenShift
13 11 (7.91%) Azure Functions
14 10 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (7.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (7.19%) Azure Key Vault
14 10 (7.19%) IaaS
15 9 (6.47%) PaaS
16 8 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.67%) Firewall
2 12 (8.63%) VPN
3 10 (7.19%) WAN
4 9 (6.47%) Network Security
4 9 (6.47%) VLAN
5 7 (5.04%) LAN
6 6 (4.32%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (4.32%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (4.32%) Software-Defined Networking
6 6 (4.32%) Unified Communications
6 6 (4.32%) WebEx
7 4 (2.88%) Broadband
7 4 (2.88%) DNS
7 4 (2.88%) IPv4
8 3 (2.16%) AMQP
8 3 (2.16%) BGP
8 3 (2.16%) DHCP
8 3 (2.16%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.44%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.44%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.60%) Big Data
4 5 (3.60%) Geospatial Data
4 5 (3.60%) InfluxDB
4 5 (3.60%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.16%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.16%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.16%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.16%) Metadata
5 3 (2.16%) MySQL
5 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.44%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.44%) Flink
Development Applications
1 40 (28.78%) Git
2 30 (21.58%) Jenkins
3 26 (18.71%) GitLab
4 11 (7.91%) Bitbucket
5 8 (5.76%) JIRA
6 6 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 5 (3.60%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.60%) Selenium
7 5 (3.60%) Subversion
7 5 (3.60%) TestRail
8 4 (2.88%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.16%) MSI
10 2 (1.44%) MLflow
11 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.72%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.72%) git-flow
11 1 (0.72%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.72%) Postman
11 1 (0.72%) SonarQube
General
1 39 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.11%) Finance
3 17 (12.23%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.51%) Aerospace
5 15 (10.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.47%) Law
7 6 (4.32%) Banking
7 6 (4.32%) Marketing
7 6 (4.32%) Retail
7 6 (4.32%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (2.16%) Automotive
9 3 (2.16%) Electronics
9 3 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.44%) Billing
10 2 (1.44%) Games
10 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (20.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 28 (20.14%) Senior
2 23 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (7.91%) Architect
3 11 (7.91%) Developer
3 11 (7.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 11 (7.91%) Lead
4 10 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (7.19%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (5.76%) Analyst
5 8 (5.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 7 (5.04%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (5.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Site Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (5.04%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Collaboration Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (4.32%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.63%) REST
1 12 (8.63%) RESTful
2 11 (7.91%) Elastic Stack
3 10 (7.19%) Node.js
4 8 (5.76%) React
4 8 (5.76%) Spring
5 7 (5.04%) OpenAPI
5 7 (5.04%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.04%) Swagger
6 6 (4.32%) .NET
6 6 (4.32%) pytest
6 6 (4.32%) XMPP
7 5 (3.60%) AngularJS
7 5 (3.60%) CSS
7 5 (3.60%) CSS3
7 5 (3.60%) Django
7 5 (3.60%) Flask
7 5 (3.60%) GeoJSON
7 5 (3.60%) HTML
7 5 (3.60%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (9.35%) Public Cloud
4 10 (7.19%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.19%) Product Ownership
4 10 (7.19%) Security Posture
5 8 (5.76%) Podcast
6 6 (4.32%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.32%) FlexPod
6 6 (4.32%) Replication
6 6 (4.32%) Video Conferencing
7 5 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (2.88%) CUDA
9 3 (2.16%) Algorithms
9 3 (2.16%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.16%) Low-Code
9 3 (2.16%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.16%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (1.44%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 57 (41.01%) Linux
2 41 (29.50%) Windows
3 12 (8.63%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.47%) VMS
5 8 (5.76%) CentOS
6 4 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.88%) Unix
7 3 (2.16%) Debian
7 3 (2.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (70.50%) CI/CD
2 83 (59.71%) DevOps
3 60 (43.17%) Agile
4 47 (33.81%) Containerisation
4 47 (33.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (23.02%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (22.30%) DevSecOps
7 30 (21.58%) Test Automation
8 27 (19.42%) Observability
9 26 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (17.99%) Analytics
11 24 (17.27%) Mentoring
12 22 (15.83%) AI
13 21 (15.11%) Cloud Security
13 21 (15.11%) Scrum
13 21 (15.11%) Software Engineering
14 20 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (13.67%) Infrastructure Automation
16 18 (12.95%) Collaborative Culture
17 15 (10.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.24%) Python
2 50 (35.97%) Bash
3 33 (23.74%) PowerShell
4 22 (15.83%) Java
5 20 (14.39%) Bicep
6 19 (13.67%) JavaScript
7 15 (10.79%) SQL
8 10 (7.19%) Go
9 9 (6.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (5.76%) C#
11 7 (5.04%) TypeScript
12 3 (2.16%) C++
13 2 (1.44%) C
13 2 (1.44%) Rust
13 2 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 70 (50.36%) Security Cleared
2 34 (24.46%) DV Cleared
3 29 (20.86%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (7.91%) Azure Certification
6 10 (7.19%) AWS Certification
7 6 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.32%) Degree
8 5 (3.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (3.60%) CCNA
8 5 (3.60%) RHCSA
9 4 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.88%) ISTQB
9 4 (2.88%) OSCP
9 4 (2.88%) RHCE
10 1 (0.72%) CCNP
10 1 (0.72%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.72%) VCAP
10 1 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.04%) QA
2 6 (4.32%) NCSC
3 4 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.16%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.16%) WCAG
5 2 (1.44%) GDPR
5 2 (1.44%) IFRS
5 2 (1.44%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.44%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 47 (33.81%) Docker
2 28 (20.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (13.67%) vSphere
4 17 (12.23%) Active Directory
5 8 (5.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (5.04%) VMware NSX
7 6 (4.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (4.32%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (2.88%) Firmware
8 4 (2.88%) iptables
8 4 (2.88%) Squid
9 1 (0.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 101 (72.66%) Terraform
2 65 (46.76%) Kubernetes
3 63 (45.32%) Ansible
4 33 (23.74%) Grafana
5 17 (12.23%) Prometheus
5 17 (12.23%) Puppet
6 7 (5.04%) Argo
6 7 (5.04%) Rancher
7 6 (4.32%) Cisco CUCM
7 6 (4.32%) Kibana
7 6 (4.32%) logstash
7 6 (4.32%) Packer
8 5 (3.60%) vCenter Server
8 5 (3.60%) yum
9 4 (2.88%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.88%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.72%) Istio
10 1 (0.72%) linkerd
10 1 (0.72%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 35 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.14%) VMware
3 17 (12.23%) Red Hat
4 16 (11.51%) Splunk
5 12 (8.63%) Cisco
6 8 (5.76%) ScienceLogic
7 7 (5.04%) Atlassian
7 7 (5.04%) NetApp
8 6 (4.32%) Fortinet
8 6 (4.32%) Palo Alto
9 5 (3.60%) Dell
9 5 (3.60%) Google
10 4 (2.88%) Databricks
10 4 (2.88%) Oracle
11 3 (2.16%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.72%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.72%) HP
12 1 (0.72%) Juniper
12 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.72%) Zscaler