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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 128 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 90 44 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.05% 1.28% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.51% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 78 37 67
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £54,200
25th Percentile £61,563 £56,250 £63,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,387 £64,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.83% -7.86% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,250 £80,500
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 5,948 2,919 5,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.10% 84.61% 78.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,477 1,853 3,020
10th Percentile £32,250 £28,600 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -10.40%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -9 43 £85,000 +41.67% 38
Herefordshire -5 18 £90,000 -2.70%
Worcestershire -7 14 £88,000 +36.43% 2
Coventry -16 5 £87,500 +59.09% 2
Staffordshire - 4 £76,250 - 4
Warwickshire -5 3 £55,000 -24.14% 8
Wolverhampton -14 2 £62,000 -34.74%
Shropshire -20 2 £56,250 -13.46% 1
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 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 66 (73.33%) Azure
2 32 (35.56%) AWS
3 19 (21.11%) PaaS
4 18 (20.00%) GCP
5 17 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (13.33%) Azure AKS
6 12 (13.33%) Azure App Service
7 9 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 9 (10.00%) SaaS
8 8 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.78%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.67%) dbt
11 5 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.56%) GitHub
11 5 (5.56%) Serverless
11 5 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) Network Security
1 10 (11.11%) VPN
2 7 (7.78%) Firewall
3 4 (4.44%) DNS
4 3 (3.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.44%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.22%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.22%) MySQL
5 2 (2.22%) Power BI
5 2 (2.22%) Power Query
6 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.11%) Metadata
6 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
2 3 (3.33%) GitLab
2 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.22%) Ant
3 2 (2.22%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.22%) JMeter
3 2 (2.22%) Locust
3 2 (2.22%) Maven
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.44%) Advertising
3 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (4.44%) Marketing
3 4 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.33%) Finance
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.22%) Retail
6 1 (1.11%) Billing
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (23.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Architect
5 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Lead
6 10 (11.11%) Senior
7 9 (10.00%) Azure Architect
7 9 (10.00%) Technical Architect
8 8 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Python Engineer
11 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
12 4 (4.44%) Support Engineer
13 3 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (80.00%) Terraform
2 8 (8.89%) Kafka
3 5 (5.56%) .NET
3 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.33%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.22%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.22%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.22%) REST
6 1 (1.11%) D3.js
6 1 (1.11%) Flask
6 1 (1.11%) Loki
6 1 (1.11%) NumPy
6 1 (1.11%) Pandas
6 1 (1.11%) pytest
6 1 (1.11%) RESTful
6 1 (1.11%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.44%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.11%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Solaris
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
2 2 (2.22%) Windows
2 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 39 (43.33%) DevOps
3 28 (31.11%) Containerisation
4 27 (30.00%) Observability
5 25 (27.78%) Cloud Security
6 24 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (24.44%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (23.33%) Agile
9 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.89%) DevSecOps
11 15 (16.67%) Microservices
12 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (14.44%) Mentoring
13 12 (13.33%) API Management
13 12 (13.33%) GitOps
14 11 (12.22%) Software Engineering
15 9 (10.00%) Decision-Making
15 9 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 9 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
15 9 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 18 (20.00%) Bicep
3 16 (17.78%) SQL
4 13 (14.44%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.89%) C#
7 7 (7.78%) Java
8 6 (6.67%) Bash
9 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (4.44%) Go
11 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (37.78%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.22%) SC Cleared
3 21 (23.33%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.89%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.56%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.33%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 2 (2.22%) WCAG
4 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) GxP
4 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (4.44%) Argo
3 4 (4.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (41.11%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) VMware
3 7 (7.78%) Google
4 5 (5.56%) Databricks
5 4 (4.44%) Facebook
5 4 (4.44%) Instagram
5 4 (4.44%) TikTok
6 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) Citrix
7 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.11%) OpenText
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Virgin Media