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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 168 173
Rank change year-on-year +34 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 131 61 163
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.99% 1.08% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.26% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 101 49 127
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,250 £43,010
25th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%

All Process & 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 9,271 4,831 10,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.77% 85.64% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 6,588 2,875 6,694
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £49,000 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -0.67% -6.04%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
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 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 17 July 2026.

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 17 July 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
West Midlands +15 78 £80,000 +23.08% 32
East Midlands +21 53 £67,500 +3.85% 14
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 7 (5.34%) IIS
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 80 (61.07%) Azure
2 59 (45.04%) AWS
3 34 (25.95%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (21.37%) Serverless
5 26 (19.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (18.32%) PaaS
7 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
7 15 (11.45%) GCP
8 14 (10.69%) Azure AKS
8 14 (10.69%) GitHub
9 13 (9.92%) Azure App Service
10 12 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (6.87%) SaaS
13 8 (6.11%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (6.11%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.34%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.63%) VPN
2 9 (6.87%) Firewall
3 7 (5.34%) DNS
4 6 (4.58%) Network Security
5 4 (3.05%) VLAN
6 3 (2.29%) DHCP
7 2 (1.53%) Broadband
8 1 (0.76%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.92%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.82%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.29%) Metadata
8 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.53%) KNIME
8 2 (1.53%) MySQL
8 2 (1.53%) Redis
8 2 (1.53%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Git
2 5 (3.82%) GitLab
3 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.53%) JIRA
4 2 (1.53%) JMeter
4 2 (1.53%) Locust
5 1 (0.76%) NUnit
General
1 24 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.63%) Finance
3 8 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Advertising
6 4 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.05%) Law
6 4 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Marketing
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Billing
8 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.76%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (27.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (26.72%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (19.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (17.56%) Lead
5 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 14 (10.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 14 (10.69%) Senior
7 12 (9.16%) Architect
8 11 (8.40%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (5.34%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.08%) React
2 17 (12.98%) AWS CDK
3 16 (12.21%) .NET
4 13 (9.92%) Next.js
5 12 (9.16%) Node.js
6 10 (7.63%) .NET Framework
7 9 (6.87%) ASP.NET
7 9 (6.87%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (6.11%) Kafka
9 7 (5.34%) YAML
10 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.82%) Entity Framework
12 4 (3.05%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.05%) Lambda Expressions
12 4 (3.05%) REST
13 2 (1.53%) Gherkin
13 2 (1.53%) GraphQL
13 2 (1.53%) OpenTelemetry
13 2 (1.53%) PyTorch
13 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 19 (14.50%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (8.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.82%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.05%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.29%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
8 2 (1.53%) SCADA
8 2 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.76%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.21%) Linux
2 13 (9.92%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (64.12%) CI/CD
2 65 (49.62%) DevOps
3 54 (41.22%) Observability
4 46 (35.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (28.24%) Mentoring
6 33 (25.19%) Agile
6 33 (25.19%) Containerisation
6 33 (25.19%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (21.37%) Test Automation
8 25 (19.08%) Technical Leadership
9 24 (18.32%) DevSecOps
9 24 (18.32%) Microservices
10 22 (16.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (15.27%) Cloud Security
11 20 (15.27%) Decision-Making
12 19 (14.50%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (12.21%) AI
13 16 (12.21%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (11.45%) Personalization
14 15 (11.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (22.90%) Python
2 25 (19.08%) PowerShell
3 21 (16.03%) SQL
3 21 (16.03%) TypeScript
4 20 (15.27%) Bicep
5 16 (12.21%) Bash
6 13 (9.92%) C#
7 6 (4.58%) Java
7 6 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.29%) Go
9 2 (1.53%) C
9 2 (1.53%) C++
9 2 (1.53%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (19.85%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.03%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.45%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.34%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.05%) Degree
7 3 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.53%) CISSP
8 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.76%) CCNA
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.76%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.58%) QA
2 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.53%) GDPR
4 2 (1.53%) WCAG
5 1 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.76%) GxP
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (22.90%) Docker
2 8 (6.11%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (75.57%) Terraform
2 46 (35.11%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.40%) Ansible
4 9 (6.87%) Grafana
5 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.82%) Argo
7 3 (2.29%) Istio
8 2 (1.53%) Nagios
9 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.92%) VMware
3 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.05%) Google
5 3 (2.29%) Databricks
5 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.29%) Facebook
5 3 (2.29%) Instagram
5 3 (2.29%) TikTok
6 1 (0.76%) Cisco
6 1 (0.76%) Citrix
6 1 (0.76%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.76%) OpenText
6 1 (0.76%) Oracle
6 1 (0.76%) SolarWinds