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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 145 150
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 +24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 60 152 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.07% 1.51% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.92% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 47 95 63
10th Percentile £52,500 £39,850 £47,950
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -5.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,000 £80,000 £105,031
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 4,808 7,918 5,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.73% 78.61% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,883 4,035 3,831
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,893 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,954
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 September 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 September 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 -14 41 £64,500 -7.86% 24
East Midlands +6 19 £65,000 +13.04% 23
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) Azure
2 32 (53.33%) AWS
3 22 (36.67%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (25.00%) SaaS
5 13 (21.67%) PaaS
6 12 (20.00%) Entra ID
6 12 (20.00%) GCP
7 11 (18.33%) IaaS
8 9 (15.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (11.67%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (11.67%) GitHub
9 7 (11.67%) Power Automate
9 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
9 7 (11.67%) Serverless
10 6 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (6.67%) Azure AI
11 4 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) Firewall
1 10 (16.67%) VPN
2 8 (13.33%) WAN
3 6 (10.00%) DNS
3 6 (10.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (6.67%) Network Security
5 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.33%) BGP
6 2 (3.33%) DHCP
6 2 (3.33%) Ethernet
6 2 (3.33%) IPsec
6 2 (3.33%) LAN
6 2 (3.33%) OSPF
6 2 (3.33%) SAN
6 2 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (3.33%) VLAN
6 2 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.33%) Wireshark
7 1 (1.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.00%) Big Data
3 5 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 4 (6.67%) MySQL
4 4 (6.67%) Power BI
5 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 4 (6.67%) GitLab
2 4 (6.67%) JIRA
3 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.00%) MSTest
3 3 (5.00%) NUnit
4 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.67%) JUnit
5 1 (1.67%) MLflow
5 1 (1.67%) Moq
5 1 (1.67%) NSubstitute
5 1 (1.67%) Postman
General
1 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.67%) Finance
4 3 (5.00%) Advertising
4 3 (5.00%) Agriculture
4 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.00%) Law
4 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (3.33%) Automotive
5 2 (3.33%) Billing
5 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Architect
2 10 (16.67%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Developer
3 7 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 5 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Blazor Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.00%) DBA
7 3 (5.00%) IAM Specialist
7 3 (5.00%) Python Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (15.00%) .NET
2 8 (13.33%) .NET Framework
2 8 (13.33%) Entity Framework
2 8 (13.33%) YAML
3 7 (11.67%) REST
4 6 (10.00%) Django
4 6 (10.00%) Flask
5 5 (8.33%) Blazor
5 5 (8.33%) OAuth
5 5 (8.33%) SAML
5 5 (8.33%) SOAP
6 4 (6.67%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.67%) ARM Templates
6 4 (6.67%) RESTful
7 3 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 3 (5.00%) OpenID
8 2 (3.33%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (6.67%) NHS
5 3 (5.00%) PKI
5 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.33%) IoT
6 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.67%) Replication
7 1 (1.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.67%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (75.00%) DevOps
2 36 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 20 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (18.33%) Artificial Intelligence
5 10 (16.67%) CRM
6 9 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (13.33%) Analytics
7 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 8 (13.33%) Observability
7 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.00%) API Design
8 6 (10.00%) B2B
8 6 (10.00%) Clean Code
8 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.00%) ITIL
8 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
8 6 (10.00%) Migration
8 6 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) SQL
2 15 (25.00%) Bicep
3 13 (21.67%) Python
4 10 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 9 (15.00%) C#
6 6 (10.00%) Go
7 3 (5.00%) Java
7 3 (5.00%) VB
8 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) Groovy
9 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (21.67%) Azure Certification
2 13 (21.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (6.67%) DBS Check
3 4 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) CCNA
5 2 (3.33%) CCNP
6 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Docker
2 4 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (71.67%) Terraform
2 19 (31.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (8.33%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.33%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.67%) Grafana
6 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.67%) Databricks
3 6 (10.00%) Meraki
4 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 5 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.67%) VMware
6 3 (5.00%) Cisco
6 3 (5.00%) RedGate
7 2 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.33%) Dell
7 2 (3.33%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.33%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.67%) Informatica
8 1 (1.67%) Oracle
8 1 (1.67%) Rapid7