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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 117 136
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 -31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 119 46 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.54% 1.64% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.82% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 72 27 138
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,875 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.36% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,889 -
England median annual salary £75,588 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.09% +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 5,369 2,524 8,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.53% 89.82% 79.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,567 1,561 5,932
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £51,373
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +2.19% -4.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 11 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 11 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 +11 54 £67,750 -3.21% 23
Bristol -8 36 £75,000 -2.48% 22
Wiltshire -6 8 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Devon -26 6 £52,500 -25.00%
Dorset +1 4 £97,500 +14.71% 2
Cornwall - 4 - - 1
Somerset - 4 £60,000 - 10
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 (4.20%) Apache
1 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
1 5 (4.20%) Confluence
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 70 (58.82%) AWS
2 49 (41.18%) Azure
3 29 (24.37%) GCP
4 28 (23.53%) Serverless
5 24 (20.17%) GitHub
6 20 (16.81%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (15.13%) Amazon S3
9 16 (13.45%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (9.24%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.72%) OpenShift
13 7 (5.88%) Azure Functions
13 7 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (5.04%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (5.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.29%) Firewall
2 9 (7.56%) WAN
3 8 (6.72%) VLAN
4 7 (5.88%) LAN
4 7 (5.88%) Network Security
5 6 (5.04%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (5.04%) Cisco Firepower
5 6 (5.04%) Unified Communications
5 6 (5.04%) VPN
5 6 (5.04%) WebEx
6 5 (4.20%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (3.36%) Broadband
7 4 (3.36%) IPv4
8 3 (2.52%) DHCP
8 3 (2.52%) DNS
8 3 (2.52%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.68%) AMQP
9 2 (1.68%) BGP
10 1 (0.84%) NAS
10 1 (0.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.36%) Big Data
4 4 (3.36%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.36%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.52%) Metadata
5 3 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.68%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.68%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.68%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.84%) Flink
7 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 32 (26.89%) Git
2 27 (22.69%) Jenkins
3 19 (15.97%) GitLab
4 10 (8.40%) Bitbucket
5 6 (5.04%) JIRA
5 6 (5.04%) Subversion
6 4 (3.36%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.36%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.36%) Robot Framework
6 4 (3.36%) Selenium
6 4 (3.36%) TestRail
7 2 (1.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.84%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.84%) MSI
General
1 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.13%) Finance
3 15 (12.61%) Aerospace
3 15 (12.61%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.04%) Banking
5 6 (5.04%) Marketing
5 6 (5.04%) Retail
5 6 (5.04%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.20%) Law
7 3 (2.52%) Automotive
7 3 (2.52%) Electronics
7 3 (2.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.68%) Billing
8 2 (1.68%) Games
8 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (21.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (19.33%) Senior
3 19 (15.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.24%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 10 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.56%) Lead
7 8 (6.72%) Architect
7 8 (6.72%) Developer
8 7 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Site Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 7 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Collaboration Engineer
9 6 (5.04%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.56%) Node.js
1 9 (7.56%) REST
2 8 (6.72%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (6.72%) Spring
3 7 (5.88%) React
3 7 (5.88%) RESTful
4 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
4 6 (5.04%) XMPP
5 5 (4.20%) OpenAPI
5 5 (4.20%) Swagger
6 4 (3.36%) .NET
6 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.36%) boto
6 4 (3.36%) Django
6 4 (3.36%) FastAPI
6 4 (3.36%) Flask
6 4 (3.36%) Playwright
6 4 (3.36%) pytest
7 3 (2.52%) CSS3
7 3 (2.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.33%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.72%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 6 (5.04%) FlexPod
4 6 (5.04%) Replication
4 6 (5.04%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.04%) Video Conferencing
5 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.36%) CUDA
6 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.36%) Podcast
7 3 (2.52%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.52%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.52%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 52 (43.70%) Linux
2 32 (26.89%) Windows
3 11 (9.24%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.04%) CentOS
5 5 (4.20%) VMS
6 4 (3.36%) Unix
7 3 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.68%) Debian
8 2 (1.68%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (69.75%) CI/CD
2 71 (59.66%) DevOps
3 44 (36.97%) Agile
4 43 (36.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 37 (31.09%) Containerisation
6 27 (22.69%) Test Automation
7 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (19.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (19.33%) Mentoring
9 22 (18.49%) DevSecOps
10 20 (16.81%) Observability
11 19 (15.97%) Analytics
11 19 (15.97%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (15.97%) Software Engineering
12 17 (14.29%) Scrum
13 16 (13.45%) Cloud Security
13 16 (13.45%) Infrastructure Automation
14 15 (12.61%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 14 (11.76%) AI
Programming Languages
1 66 (55.46%) Python
2 43 (36.13%) Bash
3 28 (23.53%) PowerShell
4 22 (18.49%) Java
5 14 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.08%) Bicep
7 10 (8.40%) Go
8 9 (7.56%) SQL
9 6 (5.04%) C#
9 6 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (2.52%) C++
12 2 (1.68%) C
12 2 (1.68%) Rust
12 2 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (47.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (24.37%) DV Cleared
3 23 (19.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.40%) AWS Certification
5 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.04%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.04%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.20%) CCNA
7 5 (4.20%) Degree
8 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.36%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.36%) OSCP
8 4 (3.36%) RHCE
8 4 (3.36%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.84%) CCNP
9 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.84%) VCAP
9 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.72%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) NCSC
3 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) IFRS
3 2 (1.68%) IFRS 17
3 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.68%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
4 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (33.61%) Docker
2 21 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.61%) vSphere
4 12 (10.08%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.04%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (5.04%) VMware NSX
6 4 (3.36%) Firmware
6 4 (3.36%) iptables
6 4 (3.36%) Squid
6 4 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 83 (69.75%) Terraform
2 55 (46.22%) Ansible
3 54 (45.38%) Kubernetes
4 30 (25.21%) Grafana
5 16 (13.45%) Prometheus
5 16 (13.45%) Puppet
6 8 (6.72%) Argo
7 7 (5.88%) Rancher
8 6 (5.04%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (5.04%) yum
9 5 (4.20%) Packer
10 4 (3.36%) Kibana
10 4 (3.36%) logstash
10 4 (3.36%) Progress Chef
10 4 (3.36%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.36%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.84%) linkerd
11 1 (0.84%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 27 (22.69%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.65%) VMware
3 15 (12.61%) Red Hat
3 15 (12.61%) Splunk
4 12 (10.08%) Cisco
5 7 (5.88%) NetApp
6 6 (5.04%) Fortinet
6 6 (5.04%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.20%) Atlassian
7 5 (4.20%) Dell
8 4 (3.36%) Databricks
8 4 (3.36%) Google
8 4 (3.36%) Oracle
8 4 (3.36%) ScienceLogic
9 2 (1.68%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.84%) HP
10 1 (0.84%) Juniper
10 1 (0.84%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.84%) Veeam
10 1 (0.84%) Zscaler