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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 172 169
Rank change year-on-year +38 -3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 140 63 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.02% 1.10% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 1.29% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 105 51 114
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £40,718
25th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £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 9,598 4,876 9,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.80% 85.42% 78.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,831 2,944 5,707
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,842 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -4.32% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,000 £63,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +3.64% -11.29%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +14 85 £80,000 +23.08% 36
East Midlands +10 55 £67,500 +3.85% 14
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 6 (4.29%) IIS
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) Documentum
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 87 (62.14%) Azure
2 62 (44.29%) AWS
3 35 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (20.00%) Serverless
5 27 (19.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (17.14%) PaaS
7 19 (13.57%) GCP
8 15 (10.71%) Azure AKS
9 14 (10.00%) Amazon S3
10 13 (9.29%) Azure App Service
10 13 (9.29%) GitHub
11 11 (7.86%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (7.86%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (7.86%) SaaS
12 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
13 9 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.86%) Firewall
1 11 (7.86%) VPN
2 8 (5.71%) Network Security
3 7 (5.00%) DNS
4 4 (2.86%) VLAN
5 3 (2.14%) DHCP
6 2 (1.43%) Broadband
7 1 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.29%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.57%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.14%) Metadata
7 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.43%) KNIME
7 2 (1.43%) MySQL
8 1 (0.71%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.71%) Power BI
8 1 (0.71%) Redis
8 1 (0.71%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.71%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Git
2 5 (3.57%) GitLab
2 5 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.43%) JIRA
3 2 (1.43%) JMeter
3 2 (1.43%) Locust
4 1 (0.71%) Ant
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (0.71%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.71%) NUnit
General
1 30 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (6.43%) Finance
4 6 (4.29%) Advertising
5 5 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Law
6 4 (2.86%) Marketing
6 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Billing
7 2 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.71%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (25.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 35 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 26 (18.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (17.86%) Lead
5 21 (15.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Senior
7 14 (10.00%) Architect
7 14 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.71%) Software Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Azure Architect
12 6 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.43%) React
2 17 (12.14%) AWS CDK
3 15 (10.71%) .NET
4 13 (9.29%) Next.js
5 10 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 10 (7.14%) Node.js
6 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET
6 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
6 8 (5.71%) Kafka
7 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (4.29%) YAML
8 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.86%) .NET Core
9 4 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (2.14%) REST
11 2 (1.43%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.43%) Middleware
11 2 (1.43%) PyTorch
11 2 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 20 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
3 14 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.29%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.57%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.43%) PKI
9 2 (1.43%) SCADA
9 2 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.71%) Online Gambling
10 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.14%) Linux
2 14 (10.00%) Windows
3 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) Solaris
4 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (63.57%) CI/CD
2 67 (47.86%) DevOps
3 56 (40.00%) Observability
4 46 (32.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (27.14%) Mentoring
6 36 (25.71%) Agile
6 36 (25.71%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (24.29%) Containerisation
8 29 (20.71%) Technical Leadership
9 28 (20.00%) DevSecOps
10 27 (19.29%) Test Automation
11 24 (17.14%) Cloud Security
12 23 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (16.43%) Microservices
13 21 (15.00%) Decision-Making
14 19 (13.57%) Collaborative Working
15 18 (12.86%) AI
16 17 (12.14%) Software Engineering
17 16 (11.43%) Personalization
17 16 (11.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (22.86%) Python
2 26 (18.57%) PowerShell
3 22 (15.71%) SQL
4 21 (15.00%) Bicep
5 20 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 15 (10.71%) Bash
7 13 (9.29%) C#
8 7 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 6 (4.29%) Java
10 4 (2.86%) Go
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) C++
11 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.86%) DV Cleared
4 8 (5.71%) AWS Certification
4 8 (5.71%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.29%) Degree
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.43%) CISSP
7 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.71%) CCNA
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) QA
2 5 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.43%) GDPR
4 2 (1.43%) SLA
4 2 (1.43%) WCAG
5 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.71%) GxP
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (20.00%) Docker
2 9 (6.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 103 (73.57%) Terraform
2 46 (32.86%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.57%) Ansible
4 8 (5.71%) Grafana
5 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.57%) Argo
7 3 (2.14%) Istio
8 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.71%) Nagios
8 1 (0.71%) Nessus
8 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.71%) Puppet
8 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) VMware
3 6 (4.29%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (4.29%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) Databricks
4 4 (2.86%) Facebook
4 4 (2.86%) Instagram
4 4 (2.86%) TikTok
5 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco
6 1 (0.71%) Citrix
6 1 (0.71%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (0.71%) Meraki
6 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.71%) OpenText
6 1 (0.71%) Oracle
6 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.71%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.71%) Tenable
6 1 (0.71%) Virgin Media