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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 169 122
Rank change year-on-year +9 -47 +46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 65 74 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.85% 1.07% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.20% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 51 43 81
10th Percentile £52,500 £36,543 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £46,197 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £99,500 £106,289
England median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

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 6,334 6,161 4,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.38% 88.99% 92.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,486 2,752 3,452
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 18 December 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 December 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 +20 44 £65,250 -1.14% 105
East Midlands -3 19 £67,500 +17.39% 72
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.54%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 45 (69.23%) Azure
2 30 (46.15%) AWS
3 20 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (26.15%) GCP
5 10 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (15.38%) Serverless
6 9 (13.85%) GitHub
7 8 (12.31%) SaaS
8 7 (10.77%) PaaS
9 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
11 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (4.62%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (4.62%) dbt
12 3 (4.62%) IaaS
12 3 (4.62%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) Firewall
1 6 (9.23%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.69%) VPN
3 4 (6.15%) DHCP
3 4 (6.15%) DNS
4 3 (4.62%) BGP
4 3 (4.62%) IPsec
4 3 (4.62%) Network Security
4 3 (4.62%) OSPF
4 3 (4.62%) SD-WAN
4 3 (4.62%) VLAN
4 3 (4.62%) WAN
4 3 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (4.62%) Wireshark
5 2 (3.08%) SAN
6 1 (1.54%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.62%) Redis
6 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.08%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.54%) Metadata
7 1 (1.54%) MySQL
7 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Git
2 8 (12.31%) GitLab
3 6 (9.23%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.23%) JIRA
4 3 (4.62%) MSTest
4 3 (4.62%) NUnit
5 2 (3.08%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.54%) JMeter
6 1 (1.54%) JUnit
6 1 (1.54%) Locust
6 1 (1.54%) MLflow
6 1 (1.54%) Moq
6 1 (1.54%) NSubstitute
6 1 (1.54%) Postman
General
1 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Advertising
2 6 (9.23%) Finance
3 4 (6.15%) Billing
3 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Agriculture
4 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.62%) Law
4 3 (4.62%) Legal
5 2 (3.08%) Automotive
5 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (36.92%) Senior
2 13 (20.00%) Architect
3 12 (18.46%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (9.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Azure Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) IAM Specialist
8 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) .NET
2 8 (12.31%) .NET Framework
3 7 (10.77%) ARM Templates
4 6 (9.23%) YAML
5 5 (7.69%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.69%) Entity Framework
5 5 (7.69%) OAuth
5 5 (7.69%) React
5 5 (7.69%) SAML
6 4 (6.15%) Node.js
7 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
7 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (4.62%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.62%) OpenID
7 3 (4.62%) RESTful
8 2 (3.08%) Blazor
8 2 (3.08%) Django
8 2 (3.08%) gRPC
8 2 (3.08%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.15%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) PKI
4 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.54%) Derivative
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Replication
6 1 (1.54%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.46%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 2 (3.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (66.15%) DevOps
2 36 (55.38%) CI/CD
3 14 (21.54%) Agile
3 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
4 12 (18.46%) Observability
5 9 (13.85%) DevSecOps
6 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
7 6 (9.23%) Analytics
7 6 (9.23%) Clean Code
7 6 (9.23%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (7.69%) Logistics
8 5 (7.69%) Microservices
8 5 (7.69%) Migration
8 5 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (6.15%) Data Protection
9 4 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Python
2 11 (16.92%) Bicep
3 10 (15.38%) SQL
4 9 (13.85%) C#
4 9 (13.85%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.23%) Java
6 5 (7.69%) Go
6 5 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.15%) Bash
8 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.08%) Scala
9 1 (1.54%) C
9 1 (1.54%) C++
9 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.62%) CCNP
5 3 (4.62%) CISSP
5 3 (4.62%) Degree
6 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.08%) CCNA
6 2 (3.08%) CEH
6 2 (3.08%) GCIH
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.08%) OSCP
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (35.38%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.62%) Firmware
4 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (66.15%) Terraform
2 22 (33.85%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.85%) Ansible
4 3 (4.62%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Nagios
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.85%) Google
3 8 (12.31%) VMware
4 5 (7.69%) SolarWinds
5 4 (6.15%) Cisco
6 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (4.62%) Dell
6 3 (4.62%) Meraki
6 3 (4.62%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.62%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.08%) AppDynamics
7 2 (3.08%) Databricks
8 1 (1.54%) Informatica
8 1 (1.54%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle
8 1 (1.54%) RedGate
8 1 (1.54%) Salesforce