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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 174 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 -29 +30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 59 68 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 1.09% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.20% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 44 35 93
10th Percentile £49,125 £38,630 £47,950
25th Percentile £55,938 £51,848 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +1.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,500 £112,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

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 6,452 5,685 5,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.71% 90.86% 86.35%
Number of salaries quoted 3,589 2,525 4,810
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 21 January 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 January 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 +4 36 £65,000 -5.45% 42
East Midlands +3 21 £67,750 +4.23% 59
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 (8.47%) IIS
2 4 (6.78%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 34 (57.63%) Azure
2 28 (47.46%) AWS
3 18 (30.51%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (23.73%) GCP
4 14 (23.73%) Serverless
5 13 (22.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (16.95%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (16.95%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (13.56%) GitHub
8 7 (11.86%) PaaS
9 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (10.17%) SaaS
10 5 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (6.78%) npm
11 4 (6.78%) NuGet
11 4 (6.78%) SonarCloud
12 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (5.08%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 5 (8.47%) VPN
3 4 (6.78%) DHCP
3 4 (6.78%) DNS
3 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.08%) BGP
4 3 (5.08%) IPsec
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security
4 3 (5.08%) OSPF
4 3 (5.08%) SD-WAN
4 3 (5.08%) VLAN
4 3 (5.08%) WAN
4 3 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.08%) Wireshark
5 2 (3.39%) SAN
6 1 (1.69%) Broadband
6 1 (1.69%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (10.17%) NoSQL
2 6 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.08%) Redis
4 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.39%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.69%) Metadata
5 1 (1.69%) MySQL
5 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) GitLab
2 7 (11.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.47%) JIRA
4 2 (3.39%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.39%) MSTest
4 2 (3.39%) NUnit
4 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.69%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.69%) JMeter
5 1 (1.69%) Locust
5 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (23.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 5 (8.47%) Advertising
4 4 (6.78%) Billing
4 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Automotive
5 2 (3.39%) Banking
5 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Senior
2 13 (22.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) Architect
3 12 (20.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (11.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Cloud Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Architect
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Developer
7 3 (5.08%) Network Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.95%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) .NET Framework
2 7 (11.86%) React
3 6 (10.17%) ARM Templates
3 6 (10.17%) AWS CDK
3 6 (10.17%) Node.js
3 6 (10.17%) YAML
4 4 (6.78%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.08%) AngularJS
5 3 (5.08%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.08%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.08%) gRPC
5 3 (5.08%) REST
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
6 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (3.39%) Django
6 2 (3.39%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.69%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.69%) Derivative
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) SCADA
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
3 3 (5.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (71.19%) DevOps
2 32 (54.24%) CI/CD
3 13 (22.03%) Agile
3 13 (22.03%) Observability
4 10 (16.95%) Containerisation
5 9 (15.25%) DevSecOps
5 9 (15.25%) Test Automation
6 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.86%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (10.17%) Microservices
8 5 (8.47%) Analytics
8 5 (8.47%) Clean Code
8 5 (8.47%) High Availability
8 5 (8.47%) Logistics
8 5 (8.47%) Migration
8 5 (8.47%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (6.78%) Cloud Security
9 4 (6.78%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) Python
2 9 (15.25%) Bicep
2 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
3 8 (13.56%) C#
3 8 (13.56%) SQL
4 7 (11.86%) Java
5 6 (10.17%) Bash
5 6 (10.17%) Go
6 4 (6.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.39%) Scala
8 1 (1.69%) C
8 1 (1.69%) C++
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.17%) Azure Certification
2 6 (10.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (5.08%) CCNP
5 3 (5.08%) CISSP
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.39%) CEH
6 2 (3.39%) GCIH
6 2 (3.39%) OSCP
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.08%) Firmware
4 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (67.80%) Terraform
2 22 (37.29%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.56%) Ansible
4 3 (5.08%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.69%) Argo
6 1 (1.69%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (1.69%) Grafana
6 1 (1.69%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.69%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.95%) Google
3 8 (13.56%) VMware
4 4 (6.78%) Cisco
4 4 (6.78%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (6.78%) SolarWinds
5 3 (5.08%) Dell
5 3 (5.08%) Meraki
5 3 (5.08%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.08%) Zscaler
6 2 (3.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.69%) Databricks
7 1 (1.69%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (1.69%) Salesforce