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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 172 138
Rank change year-on-year +35 -34 +16
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 155 61 146
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.99% 1.10% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.28% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 106 48 89
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £52,500
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 10,909 4,768 7,800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 69.84% 85.63% 79.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,743 2,858 3,889
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,750
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 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

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 22 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 22 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 96 £85,000 +36.55% 93
East Midlands +12 59 £67,500 +3.85% 62
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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.29%) IIS
2 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.65%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) Documentum
3 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 104 (67.10%) Azure
2 70 (45.16%) AWS
3 35 (22.58%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (20.00%) GCP
5 25 (16.13%) PaaS
6 23 (14.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 22 (14.19%) Serverless
8 17 (10.97%) Azure AKS
8 17 (10.97%) Entra ID
9 15 (9.68%) Amazon S3
10 13 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (8.39%) SaaS
11 12 (7.74%) Azure App Service
12 11 (7.10%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (6.45%) GitHub
13 10 (6.45%) IaaS
14 9 (5.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.26%) Firewall
2 18 (11.61%) VPN
3 11 (7.10%) Network Security
4 8 (5.16%) DNS
4 8 (5.16%) Internet
5 5 (3.23%) DHCP
6 4 (2.58%) VLAN
7 3 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (1.94%) NX-OS
8 2 (1.29%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (4.52%) Data Lake
4 6 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.87%) DynamoDB
4 6 (3.87%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.94%) Metadata
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.29%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.29%) KNIME
8 2 (1.29%) MySQL
8 2 (1.29%) Power BI
8 2 (1.29%) Power Query
9 1 (0.65%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (14.19%) Git
2 6 (3.87%) GitLab
3 4 (2.58%) JIRA
4 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.29%) Ant
5 2 (1.29%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (1.29%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (1.29%) Maven
6 1 (0.65%) NUnit
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (6.45%) Finance
5 6 (3.87%) Law
6 5 (3.23%) Retail
7 4 (2.58%) Advertising
7 4 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.58%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.58%) Marketing
7 4 (2.58%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.29%) Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Billing
9 2 (1.29%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.29%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (29.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
2 30 (19.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 21 (13.55%) Lead
4 20 (12.90%) Architect
5 17 (10.97%) Senior
6 16 (10.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.10%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.81%) Azure Architect
9 9 (5.81%) Technical Architect
10 8 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
10 8 (5.16%) Trainee
11 7 (4.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 6 (3.87%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (72.90%) Terraform
2 13 (8.39%) .NET
3 12 (7.74%) React
4 9 (5.81%) .NET Framework
4 9 (5.81%) ASP.NET
4 9 (5.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (5.81%) AWS CDK
5 8 (5.16%) Kafka
6 6 (3.87%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (3.87%) Next.js
7 5 (3.23%) Entity Framework
7 5 (3.23%) Node.js
8 4 (2.58%) Lambda Expressions
8 4 (2.58%) YAML
9 3 (1.94%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.94%) Pulumi
10 2 (1.29%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.29%) REST
10 2 (1.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 31 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (9.03%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (7.10%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (5.16%) Driving Licence
7 7 (4.52%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
8 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (3.87%) Private Cloud
8 6 (3.87%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.58%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (1.94%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.94%) PKI
11 2 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (1.29%) SCADA
11 2 (1.29%) Tandem
12 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.35%) Linux
2 19 (12.26%) Windows
3 11 (7.10%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.58%) Unix
5 2 (1.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (66.45%) CI/CD
2 84 (54.19%) DevOps
3 49 (31.61%) Observability
4 46 (29.68%) DevSecOps
5 45 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
6 44 (28.39%) Containerisation
7 43 (27.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (27.10%) Agile
9 40 (25.81%) Cloud Security
10 37 (23.87%) Mentoring
11 33 (21.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 30 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
13 25 (16.13%) Software Engineering
14 21 (13.55%) AI
14 21 (13.55%) Microservices
14 21 (13.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (12.90%) Configuration Management
16 19 (12.26%) SDLC
17 17 (10.97%) Incident Management
18 16 (10.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (21.29%) Python
2 29 (18.71%) PowerShell
3 27 (17.42%) SQL
4 20 (12.90%) Bicep
5 13 (8.39%) Bash
5 13 (8.39%) C#
6 12 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 9 (5.81%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.16%) Shell Script
9 5 (3.23%) Java
10 4 (2.58%) Go
11 2 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 42 (27.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 21 (13.55%) DV Cleared
4 13 (8.39%) AWS Certification
4 13 (8.39%) Degree
5 10 (6.45%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.94%) CCNA
8 3 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.94%) MCSE
8 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.29%) CISSP
9 2 (1.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (3.87%) QA
4 5 (3.23%) SLA
5 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.94%) NIST
7 2 (1.29%) GDPR
8 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.65%) GxP
8 1 (0.65%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (21.94%) Docker
2 14 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.39%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.94%) vSphere
6 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (29.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.10%) Ansible
3 5 (3.23%) Argo
4 4 (2.58%) Grafana
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.94%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.94%) Istio
5 3 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.29%) Nessus
6 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 58 (37.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.26%) VMware
3 17 (10.97%) Google
4 7 (4.52%) Databricks
5 4 (2.58%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.58%) Facebook
5 4 (2.58%) Instagram
5 4 (2.58%) TikTok
6 3 (1.94%) Cisco
7 2 (1.29%) FIS
7 2 (1.29%) IFS
7 2 (1.29%) Informatica
7 2 (1.29%) Meraki
7 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.29%) Tenable
7 2 (1.29%) Veracode
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix
8 1 (0.65%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.65%) Virgin Media