Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 126 129
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 85 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.02% 1.32% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.55% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 75 39 70
10th Percentile £51,000 £52,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,375 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,736 2,896 5,415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.98% 85.10% 79.02%
Number of salaries quoted 4,306 1,856 3,426
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,235 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,387 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +4.77% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,185 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.79% +2.16% -11.29%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Birmingham -8 43 £84,387 +32.37% 12
Herefordshire -8 14 £100,000 +8.11% 2
Worcestershire -7 10 £99,000 +53.49% 3
Coventry -20 7 £87,500 +59.09% 2
Staffordshire - 4 £76,250 - 2
Shropshire -17 2 £56,250 -13.46% 2
Wolverhampton -19 2 £62,000 -34.74%
Warwickshire -9 1 £55,000 -22.81% 5
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 58 (68.24%) Azure
2 31 (36.47%) AWS
3 19 (22.35%) PaaS
4 16 (18.82%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.65%) GCP
6 13 (15.29%) Azure App Service
7 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
7 9 (10.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.59%) Azure AKS
7 9 (10.59%) SaaS
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.24%) Serverless
9 6 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
9 6 (7.06%) GitHub
9 6 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Network Security
1 7 (8.24%) VPN
2 5 (5.88%) Firewall
3 4 (4.71%) DNS
4 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (8.24%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.71%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.35%) MySQL
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) Metadata
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
6 1 (1.18%) Power Query
6 1 (1.18%) Redis
6 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.18%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) GitLab
2 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.35%) JMeter
3 2 (2.35%) Locust
4 1 (1.18%) Ant
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (1.18%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (1.18%) Maven
General
1 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (7.06%) Advertising
4 4 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Finance
4 4 (4.71%) Marketing
4 4 (4.71%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Billing
6 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Retail
6 1 (1.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (28.24%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 19 (22.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (14.12%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 11 (12.94%) Lead
6 10 (11.76%) Architect
7 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Senior
8 8 (9.41%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (8.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Azure Architect
10 6 (7.06%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 6 (7.06%) Technical Architect
11 5 (5.88%) Principal Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
12 4 (4.71%) Support Engineer
13 3 (3.53%) Junior
13 3 (3.53%) Junior Cloud Engineer
13 3 (3.53%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) Kafka
2 5 (5.88%) .NET
2 5 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET
2 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (5.88%) Entity Framework
3 3 (3.53%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.53%) REST
4 2 (2.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.18%) D3.js
5 1 (1.18%) Flask
5 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.18%) Loki
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) NumPy
5 1 (1.18%) Pandas
5 1 (1.18%) pytest
5 1 (1.18%) React
5 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (27.06%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.47%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (14.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.71%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (3.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.35%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.18%) Online Gambling
8 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.18%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Solaris
2 1 (1.18%) Unix
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (62.35%) CI/CD
2 40 (47.06%) DevOps
3 27 (31.76%) Observability
4 24 (28.24%) Containerisation
4 24 (28.24%) Platform Engineering
5 21 (24.71%) Technical Leadership
6 19 (22.35%) Cloud Security
6 19 (22.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (21.18%) Agile
8 16 (18.82%) Microservices
9 14 (16.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (14.12%) API Management
10 12 (14.12%) DevSecOps
10 12 (14.12%) Mentoring
11 10 (11.76%) Software Engineering
12 9 (10.59%) Event-Driven
12 9 (10.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 9 (10.59%) GitOps
13 8 (9.41%) Decision-Making
13 8 (9.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (24.71%) Python
2 17 (20.00%) SQL
3 15 (17.65%) Bicep
4 12 (14.12%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.24%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.06%) Bash
6 6 (7.06%) C#
6 6 (7.06%) Java
7 4 (4.71%) Go
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.18%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 22 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 17 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.24%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.53%) Degree
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.35%) QA
1 2 (2.35%) WCAG
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.18%) GDPR
2 1 (1.18%) GxP
2 1 (1.18%) NIST
2 1 (1.18%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Docker
2 6 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 69 (81.18%) Terraform
2 28 (32.94%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 4 (4.71%) Argo
4 4 (4.71%) Grafana
5 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.18%) Nagios
6 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (36.47%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) VMware
3 6 (7.06%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Databricks
4 4 (4.71%) Facebook
4 4 (4.71%) Instagram
4 4 (4.71%) TikTok
5 1 (1.18%) Citrix
5 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.18%) OpenText
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.18%) Virgin Media