Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 176 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 -57 +54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 67 72 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 1.06% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.18% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 52 41 81
10th Percentile £50,250 £36,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £79,879 £102,500 £106,289
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,392 6,094 4,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.86% 89.51% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,532 2,699 3,484
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. 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
West Midlands +26 45 £65,000 -1.52% 93
East Midlands +2 20 £67,500 +24.81% 75
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.46%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) IIS
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 44 (65.67%) Azure
2 33 (49.25%) AWS
3 20 (29.85%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (25.37%) GCP
5 12 (17.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (17.91%) Serverless
6 9 (13.43%) GitHub
7 8 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (11.94%) SaaS
8 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (10.45%) PaaS
9 6 (8.96%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (7.46%) Entra ID
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (4.48%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.48%) npm
12 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
12 3 (4.48%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.96%) Firewall
1 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.46%) VPN
3 4 (5.97%) DHCP
3 4 (5.97%) DNS
4 3 (4.48%) BGP
4 3 (4.48%) IPsec
4 3 (4.48%) Network Security
4 3 (4.48%) OSPF
4 3 (4.48%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.48%) VLAN
4 3 (4.48%) WAN
4 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.48%) Wireshark
5 2 (2.99%) SAN
6 1 (1.49%) Broadband
6 1 (1.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.43%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.48%) Redis
6 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.99%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.49%) Metadata
7 1 (1.49%) MySQL
7 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Git
2 8 (11.94%) GitLab
3 6 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.96%) JIRA
4 3 (4.48%) MSTest
4 3 (4.48%) NUnit
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.49%) JMeter
6 1 (1.49%) JUnit
6 1 (1.49%) Locust
6 1 (1.49%) MLflow
6 1 (1.49%) Moq
6 1 (1.49%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.49%) Postman
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Advertising
2 6 (8.96%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Billing
3 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Agriculture
4 3 (4.48%) Legal
5 2 (2.99%) Automotive
5 2 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.99%) Law
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Senior
2 13 (19.40%) Architect
3 12 (17.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Cloud Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Operations Engineer
4 6 (8.96%) Senior Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 6 (8.96%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (8.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Architect
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Developer
5 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.48%) IAM Specialist
6 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) .NET
2 8 (11.94%) .NET Framework
3 7 (10.45%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.96%) YAML
5 5 (7.46%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.46%) Entity Framework
5 5 (7.46%) OAuth
5 5 (7.46%) React
5 5 (7.46%) SAML
6 4 (5.97%) AWS CDK
6 4 (5.97%) Node.js
7 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.48%) OpenID
7 3 (4.48%) RESTful
8 2 (2.99%) Django
8 2 (2.99%) gRPC
8 2 (2.99%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.97%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) PKI
4 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Replication
6 1 (1.49%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.40%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
3 3 (4.48%) Unix
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) DevOps
2 35 (52.24%) CI/CD
3 15 (22.39%) Containerisation
4 14 (20.90%) Agile
5 11 (16.42%) Observability
6 9 (13.43%) DevSecOps
7 8 (11.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.45%) Cost Optimisation
9 6 (8.96%) Analytics
9 6 (8.96%) Clean Code
9 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.46%) Logistics
10 5 (7.46%) Microservices
10 5 (7.46%) Migration
10 5 (7.46%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (5.97%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (5.97%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.40%) Python
2 11 (16.42%) Bicep
3 10 (14.93%) SQL
4 9 (13.43%) C#
4 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
5 7 (10.45%) Java
6 6 (8.96%) Go
7 5 (7.46%) Bash
7 5 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.99%) Scala
10 1 (1.49%) C
10 1 (1.49%) C++
10 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.48%) CCNP
6 3 (4.48%) CISSP
6 3 (4.48%) Degree
7 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.99%) CCNA
7 2 (2.99%) CEH
7 2 (2.99%) GCIH
7 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.99%) OSCP
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (35.82%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.48%) Firmware
4 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (65.67%) Terraform
2 23 (34.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (14.93%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.49%) Argo
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.49%) Grafana
6 1 (1.49%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.93%) Google
3 8 (11.94%) VMware
4 5 (7.46%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.97%) Cisco
6 3 (4.48%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.48%) Dell
6 3 (4.48%) Meraki
6 3 (4.48%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.48%) Zscaler
7 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.99%) Databricks
8 1 (1.49%) Informatica
8 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.49%) Oracle
8 1 (1.49%) RedGate
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce