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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 177 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 99 45 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.77% 0.90% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.01% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 76 30 128
10th Percentile £48,750 £40,000 £49,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,625 £83,250
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 9,336 4,463 9,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.43% 89.42% 81.72%
Number of salaries quoted 5,643 2,558 7,134
10th Percentile £29,625 £27,465 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £34,250 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,375 £63,750 £62,311
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,250 £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 13 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 13 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 -3 51 £70,079 +0.11% 29
East Midlands +10 46 £67,500 +3.85% 16
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 (11.11%) IIS
2 3 (3.03%) Confluence
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 59 (59.60%) Azure
2 51 (51.52%) AWS
3 30 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (29.29%) Serverless
5 26 (26.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (13.13%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (13.13%) GCP
6 13 (13.13%) PaaS
7 11 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (11.11%) npm
7 11 (11.11%) NuGet
7 11 (11.11%) SonarCloud
8 10 (10.10%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (8.08%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.07%) Azure App Service
10 7 (7.07%) GitHub
11 6 (6.06%) Azure AKS
11 6 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.04%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Firewall
2 4 (4.04%) DNS
3 3 (3.03%) Broadband
4 1 (1.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.13%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.10%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (8.08%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.03%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.03%) Metadata
5 3 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.03%) Redis
5 3 (3.03%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.02%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.01%) Apache Hudi
7 1 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.01%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (18.18%) Git
2 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.06%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.03%) JIRA
5 2 (2.02%) JMeter
5 2 (2.02%) Locust
6 1 (1.01%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
General
1 23 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.09%) Finance
3 6 (6.06%) Advertising
3 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Billing
6 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.03%) Retail
7 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) Automotive
8 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (26.26%) Azure Engineer
3 20 (20.20%) Senior
4 18 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Lead
6 12 (12.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 10 (10.10%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (10.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (9.09%) Architect
9 8 (8.08%) Lead DevOps
10 7 (7.07%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (5.05%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 4 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
13 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
14 3 (3.03%) Developer
14 3 (3.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 3 (3.03%) Operations Engineer
14 3 (3.03%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.29%) React
2 19 (19.19%) AWS CDK
3 18 (18.18%) .NET
3 18 (18.18%) Node.js
4 11 (11.11%) Next.js
4 11 (11.11%) YAML
5 10 (10.10%) .NET Framework
6 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET
6 7 (7.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 5 (5.05%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.05%) Kafka
8 4 (4.04%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.04%) REST
9 3 (3.03%) ARM Templates
9 3 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (2.02%) Entity Framework
10 2 (2.02%) Lambda Expressions
10 2 (2.02%) PyTorch
10 2 (2.02%) RESTful
10 2 (2.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Greenfield Project
2 13 (13.13%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.05%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.02%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.01%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.01%) PKI
6 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.01%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.15%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Android
3 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 56 (56.57%) DevOps
3 37 (37.37%) Observability
4 33 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 28 (28.28%) Agile
6 27 (27.27%) Test Automation
7 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
8 22 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 21 (21.21%) DevSecOps
10 17 (17.17%) Collaborative Working
10 17 (17.17%) Microservices
11 16 (16.16%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (15.15%) Decision-Making
12 15 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (14.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (14.14%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (13.13%) Cloud Security
14 13 (13.13%) Personalization
15 12 (12.12%) Clean Code
15 12 (12.12%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.24%) PowerShell
1 24 (24.24%) Python
2 19 (19.19%) Bash
2 19 (19.19%) TypeScript
3 18 (18.18%) SQL
4 14 (14.14%) C#
5 13 (13.13%) Bicep
6 7 (7.07%) Java
7 5 (5.05%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.03%) C
8 3 (3.03%) C++
8 3 (3.03%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) Go
9 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) AWS Certification
3 8 (8.08%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.05%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (3.03%) CISSP
7 2 (2.02%) CEH
7 2 (2.02%) GCIH
7 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.02%) OSCP
8 1 (1.01%) Degree
8 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.03%) GDPR
2 3 (3.03%) QA
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (32.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (67.68%) Terraform
2 33 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.11%) Ansible
4 6 (6.06%) Grafana
4 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.03%) Nagios
6 2 (2.02%) Argo
7 1 (1.01%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (3.03%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) Google
4 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.01%) Citrix
5 1 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.01%) VMware