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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 169 135
Rank change year-on-year +17 -34 +33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 68 103 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.21% 1.16% 1.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.44% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 54 55 80
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £51,350
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,197 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £76,815 £73,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £81,750 £80,000 £106,289
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

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 4,787 7,173 4,715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.45% 81.04% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2,957 3,231 3,627
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £52,398 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% +4.80% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £63,965
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 +15 47 £65,000 -7.14% 35
East Midlands +29 21 £65,000 +54.76% 28
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 4 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) IIS
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.47%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (72.06%) Azure
2 38 (55.88%) AWS
3 23 (33.82%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (26.47%) GCP
5 17 (25.00%) SaaS
6 15 (22.06%) PaaS
7 12 (17.65%) Entra ID
8 11 (16.18%) IaaS
9 10 (14.71%) GitHub
10 9 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (13.24%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (10.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 7 (10.29%) Power Automate
12 7 (10.29%) Power Platform
12 7 (10.29%) Serverless
13 5 (7.35%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 4 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Firewall
1 11 (16.18%) VPN
2 9 (13.24%) WAN
3 8 (11.76%) DNS
4 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
5 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 5 (7.35%) Network Security
7 4 (5.88%) DHCP
8 3 (4.41%) BGP
8 3 (4.41%) IPsec
8 3 (4.41%) OSPF
8 3 (4.41%) VLAN
8 3 (4.41%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (4.41%) Wireshark
9 2 (2.94%) Ethernet
9 2 (2.94%) LAN
9 2 (2.94%) SAN
9 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (1.47%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.06%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.82%) Big Data
4 5 (7.35%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.35%) MySQL
5 4 (5.88%) Power BI
6 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.94%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.94%) Redis
7 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.47%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) JIRA
3 4 (5.88%) GitLab
4 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) MSTest
4 3 (4.41%) NUnit
5 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.94%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.47%) JMeter
6 1 (1.47%) JUnit
6 1 (1.47%) Locust
6 1 (1.47%) MLflow
6 1 (1.47%) Moq
6 1 (1.47%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.47%) Postman
General
1 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (4.41%) Advertising
3 3 (4.41%) Agriculture
3 3 (4.41%) Billing
3 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.41%) Law
3 3 (4.41%) Legal
3 3 (4.41%) Retail
4 2 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) Senior
2 14 (20.59%) Architect
3 9 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Cloud Architect
4 7 (10.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Developer
5 6 (8.82%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (7.35%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.35%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Blazor Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.41%) DBA
8 3 (4.41%) IAM Specialist
8 3 (4.41%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Python Software Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) .NET
2 9 (13.24%) .NET Framework
3 8 (11.76%) Django
3 8 (11.76%) Entity Framework
4 6 (8.82%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.82%) Flask
4 6 (8.82%) YAML
5 5 (7.35%) Blazor
5 5 (7.35%) OAuth
5 5 (7.35%) REST
5 5 (7.35%) SAML
6 4 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.88%) RESTful
7 3 (4.41%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.41%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.41%) gRPC
7 3 (4.41%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.41%) OpenID
7 3 (4.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.12%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.71%) Data Centre
3 7 (10.29%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.88%) NHS
4 4 (5.88%) PKI
5 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.94%) IoT
6 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.47%) Derivative
7 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.47%) Replication
7 1 (1.47%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.71%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
2 3 (4.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.94%) AIX
3 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (72.06%) DevOps
2 42 (61.76%) CI/CD
3 23 (33.82%) Agile
4 12 (17.65%) Observability
5 11 (16.18%) AI
5 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.24%) Clean Code
6 9 (13.24%) Test Automation
7 8 (11.76%) Analytics
7 8 (11.76%) CRM
7 8 (11.76%) Mentoring
8 7 (10.29%) ITIL
8 7 (10.29%) Migration
8 7 (10.29%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.82%) API Management
9 6 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.82%) Machine Learning
9 6 (8.82%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (8.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) SQL
2 17 (25.00%) Python
3 16 (23.53%) Bicep
4 11 (16.18%) PowerShell
5 9 (13.24%) C#
6 7 (10.29%) Go
7 5 (7.35%) Java
8 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (4.41%) VB
9 2 (2.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.47%) Groovy
10 1 (1.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 15 (22.06%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.35%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.88%) DBS Check
5 4 (5.88%) Degree
6 3 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.41%) CCNP
7 2 (2.94%) CCNA
8 1 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.35%) QA
2 2 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.47%) NIST
3 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (30.88%) Docker
2 4 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (75.00%) Terraform
2 22 (32.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.82%) Ansible
4 4 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.41%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.94%) Grafana
7 1 (1.47%) AWS Copilot
7 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.76%) Databricks
3 7 (10.29%) Meraki
3 7 (10.29%) SolarWinds
4 6 (8.82%) Google
5 5 (7.35%) VMware
6 4 (5.88%) Cisco
7 3 (4.41%) Dell
7 3 (4.41%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.41%) RedGate
7 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.41%) Zscaler
8 2 (2.94%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.47%) Informatica
9 1 (1.47%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.47%) Oracle
9 1 (1.47%) Rapid7