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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 168 134
Rank change year-on-year +19 -34 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 67 99 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.16% 1.13% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.37% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 56 51 81
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,197 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £75,446 £73,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% -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 4,797 7,233 4,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.76% 82.37% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 3,193 3,169 3,628
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £26,768
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -1.86%
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% - -1.64%

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 18 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 18 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 +21 47 £65,000 -5.80% 39
East Midlands +27 20 £65,000 +56.63% 27
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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) IIS
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.49%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (70.15%) Azure
2 33 (49.25%) AWS
3 19 (28.36%) GCP
4 18 (26.87%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (17.91%) SaaS
6 10 (14.93%) GitHub
6 10 (14.93%) PaaS
7 9 (13.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (11.94%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (10.45%) Entra ID
9 7 (10.45%) Serverless
10 6 (8.96%) IaaS
10 6 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
13 3 (4.48%) Azure API Management
13 3 (4.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
13 3 (4.48%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Firewall
1 7 (10.45%) VPN
2 6 (8.96%) TCP/IP
3 5 (7.46%) Network Security
3 5 (7.46%) WAN
4 4 (5.97%) DHCP
4 4 (5.97%) DNS
5 3 (4.48%) BGP
5 3 (4.48%) IPsec
5 3 (4.48%) OSPF
5 3 (4.48%) SD-WAN
5 3 (4.48%) VLAN
5 3 (4.48%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (4.48%) Wireshark
6 2 (2.99%) Ethernet
6 2 (2.99%) LAN
6 2 (2.99%) SAN
6 2 (2.99%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.49%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.40%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Big Data
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.99%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.99%) Redis
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.49%) Metadata
6 1 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.49%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) MSTest
4 3 (4.48%) NUnit
5 2 (2.99%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
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 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Finance
3 3 (4.48%) Advertising
3 3 (4.48%) Agriculture
3 3 (4.48%) Billing
3 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.48%) Law
3 3 (4.48%) Legal
3 3 (4.48%) Retail
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Automotive
5 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Senior
2 12 (17.91%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Developer
6 5 (7.46%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Administrator
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Blazor Developer
8 3 (4.48%) IAM Specialist
8 3 (4.48%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (4.48%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) .NET
2 8 (11.94%) .NET Framework
2 8 (11.94%) Django
3 7 (10.45%) Entity Framework
4 6 (8.96%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.96%) Flask
5 5 (7.46%) OAuth
5 5 (7.46%) SAML
5 5 (7.46%) YAML
6 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.97%) Blazor
6 4 (5.97%) REST
6 4 (5.97%) RESTful
7 3 (4.48%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.48%) gRPC
7 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.48%) OpenID
8 2 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (5.97%) PKI
4 3 (4.48%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) IoT
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
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 9 (13.43%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.99%) AIX
3 2 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) DevOps
2 37 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 19 (28.36%) Agile
4 12 (17.91%) Observability
5 10 (14.93%) Containerisation
6 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
7 8 (11.94%) Clean Code
7 8 (11.94%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (10.45%) Machine Learning
9 6 (8.96%) AI
9 6 (8.96%) API Design
9 6 (8.96%) CRM
9 6 (8.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (8.96%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (8.96%) Software Engineering
10 5 (7.46%) Analytics
10 5 (7.46%) Cost Optimisation
11 4 (5.97%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) SQL
3 12 (17.91%) Bicep
4 9 (13.43%) C#
5 7 (10.45%) Go
6 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.46%) Java
8 3 (4.48%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.99%) Scala
9 2 (2.99%) VB
10 1 (1.49%) Groovy
10 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Degree
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.48%) CCNP
7 2 (2.99%) CCNA
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
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%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 4 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 49 (73.13%) Terraform
2 21 (31.34%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.46%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (2.99%) Grafana
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Google
2 8 (11.94%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) SolarWinds
4 4 (5.97%) Cisco
4 4 (5.97%) Databricks
5 3 (4.48%) Dell
5 3 (4.48%) Meraki
5 3 (4.48%) Palo Alto
5 3 (4.48%) RedGate
5 3 (4.48%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.49%) Informatica
7 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.49%) Oracle
7 1 (1.49%) Rapid7