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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 179 172
Rank change year-on-year +36 -7 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 117 52 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.94% 1.03% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.16% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 89 38 135
10th Percentile £48,750 £41,750 £48,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -3.70% -1.46%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 8,657 4,474 11,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.44% 88.79% 78.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 2,550 7,724
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% +2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +17 67 £80,000 +23.08% 33
East Midlands +6 50 £67,500 +3.85% 17
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 8 (6.84%) IIS
2 2 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.71%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 71 (60.68%) Azure
2 57 (48.72%) AWS
3 34 (29.06%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (28.21%) Serverless
5 29 (24.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (17.95%) PaaS
7 15 (12.82%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (11.97%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.26%) Azure App Service
9 12 (10.26%) GitHub
10 11 (9.40%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (8.55%) GCP
11 10 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (7.69%) Azure AKS
13 8 (6.84%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (6.84%) npm
13 8 (6.84%) NuGet
13 8 (6.84%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.98%) Firewall
2 5 (4.27%) DNS
2 5 (4.27%) VPN
3 3 (2.56%) Broadband
3 3 (2.56%) VLAN
4 2 (1.71%) Network Security
5 1 (0.85%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 11 (9.40%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.98%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.42%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.71%) Metadata
7 2 (1.71%) Redis
7 2 (1.71%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.85%) KNIME
8 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (11.97%) Git
2 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.71%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) JIRA
4 2 (1.71%) JMeter
4 2 (1.71%) Locust
5 1 (0.85%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.85%) NUnit
5 1 (0.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.84%) Finance
3 6 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.56%) Advertising
5 3 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.56%) Retail
6 2 (1.71%) Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Billing
6 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.71%) Law
6 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 35 (29.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 31 (26.50%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (17.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 21 (17.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) Lead
5 15 (12.82%) Senior
6 14 (11.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Lead DevOps
8 8 (6.84%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (6.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Architect
10 6 (5.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.27%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (23.08%) React
2 21 (17.95%) AWS CDK
3 18 (15.38%) .NET
4 14 (11.97%) Node.js
5 13 (11.11%) Next.js
6 11 (9.40%) .NET Framework
7 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET
7 10 (8.55%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (6.84%) Kafka
8 8 (6.84%) YAML
9 6 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (4.27%) Entity Framework
11 4 (3.42%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.42%) Lambda Expressions
11 4 (3.42%) REST
12 3 (2.56%) GraphQL
12 3 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
13 2 (1.71%) Gherkin
13 2 (1.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.68%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.71%) SCADA
7 2 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.85%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.85%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.97%) Linux
2 12 (10.26%) Windows
3 3 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.85%) Android
4 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (58.97%) CI/CD
2 62 (52.99%) DevOps
3 47 (40.17%) Observability
4 37 (31.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (29.91%) Mentoring
6 33 (28.21%) Agile
7 28 (23.93%) Test Automation
8 27 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (20.51%) Containerisation
10 21 (17.95%) Microservices
11 20 (17.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 19 (16.24%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (16.24%) Decision-Making
12 19 (16.24%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (15.38%) DevSecOps
14 16 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
15 15 (12.82%) AI
15 15 (12.82%) Personalization
15 15 (12.82%) Roadmaps
16 14 (11.97%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.93%) Python
2 24 (20.51%) PowerShell
3 21 (17.95%) SQL
3 21 (17.95%) TypeScript
4 18 (15.38%) Bash
5 15 (12.82%) Bicep
6 14 (11.97%) C#
7 7 (5.98%) JavaScript
8 6 (5.13%) Java
9 2 (1.71%) C
9 2 (1.71%) C++
9 2 (1.71%) Scala
10 1 (0.85%) Go
10 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 16 (13.68%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.69%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.98%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.13%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (1.71%) CISSP
7 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.71%) Degree
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) QA
2 3 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.71%) WCAG
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 31 (26.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 85 (72.65%) Terraform
2 37 (31.62%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.40%) Ansible
4 8 (6.84%) Grafana
5 7 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.42%) Argo
7 2 (1.71%) Istio
7 2 (1.71%) Nagios
8 1 (0.85%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) CrowdStrike
2 8 (6.84%) VMware
3 3 (2.56%) Databricks
4 2 (1.71%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.85%) Citrix
5 1 (0.85%) Google
5 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds