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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 159 162
Rank change year-on-year +28 +3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 148 63 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.02% 1.10% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.29% 1.72%
Number of salaries quoted 108 51 106
10th Percentile £51,375 £52,500 £41,197
25th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £53,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £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 10,095 4,890 8,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.88% 85.03% 77.85%
Number of salaries quoted 7,169 2,982 5,074
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,968 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +8 91 £80,000 +23.08% 45
East Midlands +15 57 £67,500 +3.85% 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 5 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (3.38%) IIS
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Confluence
3 1 (0.68%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 96 (64.86%) Azure
2 64 (43.24%) AWS
3 37 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (17.57%) PaaS
4 26 (17.57%) Serverless
5 24 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 22 (14.86%) GCP
7 15 (10.14%) Azure AKS
8 14 (9.46%) SaaS
9 13 (8.78%) Amazon S3
9 13 (8.78%) Azure App Service
10 12 (8.11%) Entra ID
10 12 (8.11%) GitHub
11 11 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (6.76%) Amazon EC2
12 10 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (6.08%) IaaS
14 8 (5.41%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (5.41%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.46%) Firewall
2 12 (8.11%) VPN
3 10 (6.76%) Network Security
4 7 (4.73%) DNS
5 4 (2.70%) VLAN
6 3 (2.03%) DHCP
6 3 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.68%) Broadband
8 1 (0.68%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.05%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.35%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.35%) KNIME
7 2 (1.35%) Metadata
7 2 (1.35%) MySQL
7 2 (1.35%) Power BI
7 2 (1.35%) Power Query
8 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.68%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) GitLab
3 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.35%) Ant
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.35%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.35%) JIRA
4 2 (1.35%) JMeter
4 2 (1.35%) Locust
4 2 (1.35%) Maven
5 1 (0.68%) NUnit
General
1 36 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (6.08%) Finance
4 6 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.38%) Retail
6 4 (2.70%) Advertising
6 4 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.70%) Law
6 4 (2.70%) Marketing
6 4 (2.70%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.03%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.35%) Billing
8 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (23.65%) Azure Engineer
3 27 (18.24%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (16.89%) Lead
5 19 (12.84%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.49%) Senior
7 16 (10.81%) Architect
8 13 (8.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Software Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Azure Architect
12 7 (4.73%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.73%) Technical Architect
13 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (14.19%) React
2 16 (10.81%) .NET
3 15 (10.14%) AWS CDK
4 12 (8.11%) Next.js
5 11 (7.43%) .NET Framework
6 10 (6.76%) ASP.NET
6 10 (6.76%) ASP.NET Core
7 9 (6.08%) Node.js
8 8 (5.41%) Kafka
9 7 (4.73%) YAML
10 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.38%) .NET Core
11 5 (3.38%) Entity Framework
12 4 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
13 3 (2.03%) REST
14 2 (1.35%) Gherkin
14 2 (1.35%) Middleware
14 2 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
15 1 (0.68%) CSS
15 1 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 20 (13.51%) Greenfield Project
3 15 (10.14%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (8.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.73%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.05%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.05%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.70%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.35%) PKI
9 2 (1.35%) SCADA
9 2 (1.35%) Tandem
10 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (12.84%) Linux
2 17 (11.49%) Windows
3 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.35%) Solaris
4 2 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (62.84%) CI/CD
2 71 (47.97%) DevOps
3 55 (37.16%) Observability
4 49 (33.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 42 (28.38%) Agile
6 40 (27.03%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (26.35%) Mentoring
8 37 (25.00%) Containerisation
9 35 (23.65%) DevSecOps
10 33 (22.30%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (18.92%) Cloud Security
12 25 (16.89%) Test Automation
13 24 (16.22%) Microservices
14 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 21 (14.19%) Decision-Making
16 20 (13.51%) Software Engineering
17 18 (12.16%) AI
17 18 (12.16%) Collaborative Working
18 16 (10.81%) Roadmaps
19 15 (10.14%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.97%) Python
2 28 (18.92%) PowerShell
3 24 (16.22%) SQL
4 21 (14.19%) Bicep
5 18 (12.16%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.81%) C#
7 15 (10.14%) Bash
8 9 (6.08%) JavaScript
9 8 (5.41%) Java
10 4 (2.70%) Go
11 2 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.68%) C
12 1 (0.68%) C++
12 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 34 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 22 (14.86%) DV Cleared
4 10 (6.76%) Degree
5 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 8 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.35%) CISSP
8 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.68%) CCNA
9 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.68%) MCSE
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (5.41%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.38%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) NIST
4 3 (2.03%) SLA
5 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.35%) GDPR
5 2 (1.35%) WCAG
6 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.68%) GxP
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (19.59%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 107 (72.30%) Terraform
2 48 (32.43%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.11%) Ansible
4 7 (4.73%) Grafana
5 5 (3.38%) Argo
5 5 (3.38%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.03%) Istio
7 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.35%) Nessus
7 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.35%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.14%) VMware
3 7 (4.73%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (4.73%) Google
4 5 (3.38%) Databricks
5 4 (2.70%) Facebook
5 4 (2.70%) Instagram
5 4 (2.70%) TikTok
6 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.35%) IFS
6 2 (1.35%) Meraki
6 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.35%) Tenable
6 2 (1.35%) Veracode
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) Citrix
7 1 (0.68%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.68%) OpenText
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Virgin Media