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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 92 116
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 -3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 101 65 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.42% 2.47% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.76% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 66 47 135
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £51,375 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% -4.01% +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,656 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -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 4,937 2,353 7,208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.59% 89.43% 84.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,317 1,524 5,500
10th Percentile £29,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,660 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% +7.18% -2.86%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 11 April 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 April 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 +8 47 £57,500 -4.17% 28
Bristol -25 23 £72,500 +0.71% 34
Devon -11 7 £52,500 -25.00%
Somerset - 6 £55,000 - 10
Wiltshire -14 5 £62,500 -19.35% 3
Dorset -17 5 £80,000 -13.51% 3
Cornwall -16 2 - -
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 (1.98%) Apache
1 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 58 (57.43%) AWS
2 40 (39.60%) Azure
3 23 (22.77%) GCP
4 22 (21.78%) GitHub
5 21 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (19.80%) Serverless
7 18 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (12.87%) Amazon S3
10 10 (9.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (7.92%) OpenShift
12 8 (7.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (6.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (6.93%) Datadog
14 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
16 4 (3.96%) CloudFront
16 4 (3.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.90%) Firewall
2 7 (6.93%) DNS
3 6 (5.94%) DHCP
3 6 (5.94%) Network Security
3 6 (5.94%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.94%) VLAN
4 5 (4.95%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (4.95%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (4.95%) LAN
4 5 (4.95%) Unified Communications
4 5 (4.95%) WAN
4 5 (4.95%) WebEx
5 2 (1.98%) Broadband
5 2 (1.98%) VPN
6 1 (0.99%) AMQP
6 1 (0.99%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.90%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.91%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.96%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (3.96%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.97%) MySQL
6 2 (1.98%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.99%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (0.99%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 25 (24.75%) Jenkins
2 22 (21.78%) Git
3 12 (11.88%) GitLab
4 7 (6.93%) Bitbucket
4 7 (6.93%) Subversion
5 6 (5.94%) CircleCI
6 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.97%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.97%) Selenium
7 3 (2.97%) TestRail
8 1 (0.99%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.99%) JIRA
General
1 30 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Finance
3 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 11 (10.89%) Aerospace
5 9 (8.91%) Marketing
5 9 (8.91%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.93%) Electronics
6 7 (6.93%) Manufacturing
7 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (4.95%) Banking
8 5 (4.95%) Retail
9 3 (2.97%) Automotive
9 3 (2.97%) Billing
10 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.99%) Games
10 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (22.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (20.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.85%) Senior
4 9 (8.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (6.93%) Developer
6 7 (6.93%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Lead
7 6 (5.94%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Collaboration Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Administrator
9 4 (3.96%) Architect
9 4 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.92%) React
1 8 (7.92%) REST
2 7 (6.93%) Node.js
2 7 (6.93%) RESTful
2 7 (6.93%) Spring
3 6 (5.94%) YAML
4 5 (4.95%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (4.95%) XMPP
5 4 (3.96%) .NET
5 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.96%) Django
5 4 (3.96%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.96%) Flask
5 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.97%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.97%) CSS
6 3 (2.97%) HTML
6 3 (2.97%) pytest
6 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (2.97%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.95%) FlexPod
3 5 (4.95%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.95%) Replication
3 5 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (3.96%) CUDA
4 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.97%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.98%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 51 (50.50%) Linux
2 21 (20.79%) Windows
3 7 (6.93%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.95%) CentOS
5 3 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.98%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.98%) Unix
6 2 (1.98%) VMS
7 1 (0.99%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (61.39%) CI/CD
1 62 (61.39%) DevOps
2 42 (41.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 33 (32.67%) Containerisation
4 32 (31.68%) Agile
5 24 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (22.77%) Test Automation
7 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
8 16 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (13.86%) SDLC
10 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (12.87%) Mentoring
11 11 (10.89%) Cloud Security
11 11 (10.89%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (10.89%) Incident Response
12 10 (9.90%) Analytics
12 10 (9.90%) Collaborative Culture
12 10 (9.90%) DevSecOps
12 10 (9.90%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (55.45%) Python
2 37 (36.63%) Bash
3 27 (26.73%) PowerShell
4 19 (18.81%) Java
5 12 (11.88%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.89%) Go
7 10 (9.90%) Bicep
8 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
9 7 (6.93%) SQL
10 6 (5.94%) C#
11 2 (1.98%) VB
12 1 (0.99%) C++
12 1 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 43 (42.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.78%) DV Cleared
3 14 (13.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
4 5 (4.95%) Degree
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.99%) CCNA
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.99%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (38.61%) Docker
2 12 (11.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.94%) vSphere
4 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.95%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (3.96%) Firmware
5 4 (3.96%) iptables
6 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (60.40%) Terraform
2 53 (52.48%) Kubernetes
3 40 (39.60%) Ansible
4 25 (24.75%) Grafana
5 12 (11.88%) Puppet
6 11 (10.89%) Prometheus
7 9 (8.91%) Argo
8 8 (7.92%) Rancher
9 7 (6.93%) yum
10 6 (5.94%) Progress Chef
11 5 (4.95%) Cisco CUCM
12 4 (3.96%) vCenter Server
13 3 (2.97%) Kibana
13 3 (2.97%) logstash
14 2 (1.98%) NetBackup
15 1 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.99%) Istio
15 1 (0.99%) linkerd
15 1 (0.99%) Mesos
15 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Cisco
2 12 (11.88%) VMware
3 9 (8.91%) Red Hat
3 9 (8.91%) Splunk
4 6 (5.94%) Dell
4 6 (5.94%) Fortinet
4 6 (5.94%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.95%) NetApp
6 4 (3.96%) Google
6 4 (3.96%) SAP
7 3 (2.97%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.98%) Databricks
8 2 (1.98%) HP
8 2 (1.98%) Juniper
8 2 (1.98%) Veeam
9 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.99%) New Relic
9 1 (0.99%) SaltStack