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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 172 142
Rank change year-on-year +33 -30 +14
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 153 61 147
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.98% 1.09% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 1.27% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 105 48 90
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £64,750 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% -1.89% -5.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -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 10,928 4,792 7,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.69% 78.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,736 2,872 3,979
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,462
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -7.90%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +2 94 £85,000 +36.55% 105
East Midlands +8 59 £67,500 +3.85% 80
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 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.31%) IIS
2 2 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Documentum
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 102 (66.67%) Azure
2 69 (45.10%) AWS
3 35 (22.88%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (19.61%) GCP
5 24 (15.69%) PaaS
6 23 (15.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (14.38%) Serverless
8 17 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 16 (10.46%) Entra ID
10 15 (9.80%) Amazon S3
11 13 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (7.84%) Azure App Service
12 12 (7.84%) SaaS
13 11 (7.19%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (6.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 10 (6.54%) GitHub
15 9 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.42%) Firewall
2 18 (11.76%) VPN
3 11 (7.19%) Network Security
4 8 (5.23%) DNS
5 7 (4.58%) Internet
6 5 (3.27%) DHCP
7 4 (2.61%) VLAN
8 3 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 3 (1.96%) NX-OS
9 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.15%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.92%) Data Lake
3 6 (3.92%) DynamoDB
3 6 (3.92%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.27%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.96%) Metadata
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.31%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.31%) KNIME
7 2 (1.31%) MySQL
7 2 (1.31%) Power BI
7 2 (1.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) Git
2 6 (3.92%) GitLab
3 4 (2.61%) JIRA
4 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.31%) Ant
5 2 (1.31%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (1.31%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.31%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 10 (6.54%) Finance
4 6 (3.92%) Law
5 5 (3.27%) Retail
6 4 (2.61%) Advertising
6 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.61%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.61%) Marketing
6 4 (2.61%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.96%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Billing
8 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (28.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
3 29 (18.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (13.73%) Lead
5 20 (13.07%) Architect
6 17 (11.11%) Senior
7 16 (10.46%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 11 (7.19%) Software Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Azure Architect
10 9 (5.88%) Technical Architect
11 8 (5.23%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (4.58%) Trainee
13 6 (3.92%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (73.20%) Terraform
2 13 (8.50%) .NET
3 12 (7.84%) React
4 9 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 9 (5.88%) ASP.NET
4 9 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (5.88%) AWS CDK
5 8 (5.23%) Kafka
6 6 (3.92%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (3.92%) Next.js
7 5 (3.27%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.27%) Node.js
8 4 (2.61%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (2.61%) YAML
9 3 (1.96%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.96%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.31%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.31%) NumPy
10 2 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.31%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (9.80%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (9.15%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (6.54%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (5.23%) Driving Licence
7 7 (4.58%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.92%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.92%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.92%) Security Posture
9 5 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (2.61%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.96%) PKI
12 2 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.31%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (1.31%) SCADA
12 2 (1.31%) Tandem
13 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.95%) Linux
2 18 (11.76%) Windows
3 10 (6.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.61%) Unix
5 2 (1.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (66.01%) CI/CD
2 82 (53.59%) DevOps
3 49 (32.03%) Observability
4 45 (29.41%) DevSecOps
5 44 (28.76%) Platform Engineering
6 42 (27.45%) Agile
6 42 (27.45%) Containerisation
6 42 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (25.49%) Cloud Security
8 36 (23.53%) Mentoring
9 31 (20.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 30 (19.61%) Technical Leadership
11 25 (16.34%) Software Engineering
12 21 (13.73%) AI
12 21 (13.73%) Microservices
13 20 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (11.76%) Configuration Management
14 18 (11.76%) SDLC
15 16 (10.46%) Incident Management
15 16 (10.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (20.92%) Python
2 28 (18.30%) PowerShell
3 26 (16.99%) SQL
4 19 (12.42%) Bicep
5 13 (8.50%) Bash
5 13 (8.50%) C#
6 12 (7.84%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 7 (4.58%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.27%) Java
10 4 (2.61%) Go
11 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 42 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 37 (24.18%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.73%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.50%) AWS Certification
5 12 (7.84%) Degree
6 10 (6.54%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.96%) CCNA
9 3 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.96%) MCSE
9 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (1.31%) CISSP
10 2 (1.31%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (3.92%) QA
3 5 (3.27%) SLA
4 4 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.96%) NIST
6 2 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.31%) GDPR
7 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.65%) GxP
7 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (21.57%) Docker
2 14 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.84%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.96%) vSphere
5 2 (1.31%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (30.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.19%) Ansible
3 5 (3.27%) Argo
4 4 (2.61%) Grafana
4 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.61%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.96%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.96%) Istio
6 2 (1.31%) Nessus
6 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.31%) Puppet
6 2 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (36.60%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.42%) VMware
3 16 (10.46%) Google
4 7 (4.58%) Databricks
5 4 (2.61%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.61%) Facebook
5 4 (2.61%) Instagram
5 4 (2.61%) TikTok
6 3 (1.96%) Cisco
7 2 (1.31%) FIS
7 2 (1.31%) IFS
7 2 (1.31%) Informatica
7 2 (1.31%) Meraki
7 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.31%) Tenable
7 2 (1.31%) Veracode
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media