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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 184 178
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 107 43 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.81% 0.88% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 0.98% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 82 27 128
10th Percentile £48,525 £41,500 £49,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £70,000 £65,025
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.65% -7.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,375 £97,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%

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 9,560 4,377 9,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.31% 89.66% 81.13%
Number of salaries quoted 5,838 2,342 7,211
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,971 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,969 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £62,374
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -6 57 £71,289 +1.84% 20
East Midlands +3 50 £67,500 +3.85% 10
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 11 (10.28%) IIS
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 63 (58.88%) Azure
2 58 (54.21%) AWS
3 35 (32.71%) Serverless
4 30 (28.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 29 (27.10%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (15.89%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (14.02%) PaaS
8 13 (12.15%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (11.21%) Amazon S3
9 12 (11.21%) GCP
10 11 (10.28%) npm
10 11 (10.28%) NuGet
10 11 (10.28%) SonarCloud
11 10 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (8.41%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (7.48%) GitHub
14 7 (6.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
14 7 (6.54%) Azure App Service
14 7 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) Firewall
2 5 (4.67%) DNS
3 3 (2.80%) Broadband
4 1 (0.93%) DHCP
4 1 (0.93%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) VLAN
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.15%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.28%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (7.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.74%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.80%) Redis
6 3 (2.80%) TimescaleDB
7 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.87%) Metadata
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.93%) KNIME
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.61%) GitLab
4 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.80%) JIRA
5 2 (1.87%) JMeter
5 2 (1.87%) Locust
6 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (21.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.41%) Finance
3 6 (5.61%) Advertising
4 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.80%) Banking
5 3 (2.80%) Billing
5 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.80%) Retail
6 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (28.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (25.23%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 18 (16.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (15.89%) Lead
5 16 (14.95%) Senior
6 13 (12.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (9.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
12 4 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) Support Engineer
13 3 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.04%) React
2 21 (19.63%) AWS CDK
3 19 (17.76%) .NET
4 18 (16.82%) Node.js
5 12 (11.21%) .NET Framework
5 12 (11.21%) Next.js
6 11 (10.28%) YAML
7 9 (8.41%) ASP.NET
7 9 (8.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 7 (6.54%) Kafka
9 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.74%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (3.74%) Entity Framework
10 4 (3.74%) GraphQL
10 4 (3.74%) Lambda Expressions
10 4 (3.74%) REST
11 3 (2.80%) OpenTelemetry
12 2 (1.87%) Gherkin
12 2 (1.87%) PyTorch
12 2 (1.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.02%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.93%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.93%) Sports Betting
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.95%) Linux
2 12 (11.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Android
3 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (62.62%) CI/CD
2 58 (54.21%) DevOps
3 42 (39.25%) Observability
4 36 (33.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 32 (29.91%) Agile
6 29 (27.10%) Mentoring
6 29 (27.10%) Test Automation
7 22 (20.56%) Microservices
8 21 (19.63%) Containerisation
9 20 (18.69%) DevSecOps
10 19 (17.76%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (16.82%) Collaborative Working
12 17 (15.89%) Decision-Making
12 17 (15.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (15.89%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (14.95%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (13.08%) Personalization
15 13 (12.15%) Clean Code
15 13 (12.15%) Cloud Security
15 13 (12.15%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.23%) Python
2 26 (24.30%) PowerShell
3 22 (20.56%) TypeScript
4 20 (18.69%) Bash
5 17 (15.89%) SQL
6 15 (14.02%) C#
7 12 (11.21%) Bicep
8 7 (6.54%) Java
8 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.80%) C
9 3 (2.80%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) Scala
11 1 (0.93%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) AWS Certification
3 8 (7.48%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.67%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) CEH
7 2 (1.87%) GCIH
7 2 (1.87%) OSCP
8 1 (0.93%) Degree
8 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.74%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (30.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 74 (69.16%) Terraform
2 36 (33.64%) Kubernetes
3 11 (10.28%) Ansible
4 6 (5.61%) Grafana
4 6 (5.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.80%) Nagios
6 2 (1.87%) Argo
7 1 (0.93%) Istio
7 1 (0.93%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.28%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (1.87%) Databricks
3 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.87%) VMware
4 1 (0.93%) Citrix
4 1 (0.93%) Google
4 1 (0.93%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds