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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 129 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 -18 +47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 92 40 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.03% 1.23% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.43% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 76 36 60
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,375
25th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.55% -11.07% -
75th Percentile £90,625 £72,500 £75,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £80,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -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 6,199 2,805 4,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.29% 86.18% 79.72%
Number of salaries quoted 4,578 1,783 2,515
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £29,300
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,250 £37,500
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 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 18 September 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 18 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
Birmingham -5 45 £85,000 +41.67% 52
Herefordshire -4 16 £95,000 +2.70% 3
Worcestershire -11 14 £88,000 +36.43% 8
Staffordshire +9 5 £72,500 +20.83% 8
Coventry -22 5 £87,500 +59.09% 2
Warwickshire - 4 £55,000 - 10
Wolverhampton -11 2 £62,000 -34.74% 4
Shropshire -19 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 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 69 (75.00%) Azure
2 34 (36.96%) AWS
3 21 (22.83%) GCP
4 19 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (18.48%) PaaS
6 12 (13.04%) Azure AKS
6 12 (13.04%) Azure App Service
7 11 (11.96%) Entra ID
8 10 (10.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (9.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon S3
10 7 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (7.61%) SaaS
11 6 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (5.43%) GitHub
12 5 (5.43%) Serverless
12 5 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.22%) VPN
2 10 (10.87%) Firewall
3 9 (9.78%) Network Security
4 3 (3.26%) DNS
4 3 (3.26%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.17%) WAN
6 1 (1.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.17%) MySQL
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
5 2 (2.17%) Power Query
6 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.09%) Metadata
6 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Git
2 3 (3.26%) GitLab
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.17%) Ant
3 2 (2.17%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (2.17%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.17%) Maven
General
1 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.35%) Advertising
3 4 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (4.35%) Marketing
3 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.26%) Finance
5 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.09%) Billing
6 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Azure Engineer
1 24 (26.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 21 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Architect
4 13 (14.13%) Senior
5 12 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead
7 9 (9.78%) Azure Architect
7 9 (9.78%) Technical Architect
8 8 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Junior
11 4 (4.35%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (78.26%) Terraform
2 8 (8.70%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) .NET
3 5 (5.43%) .NET Framework
3 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (5.43%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.26%) Pulumi
5 2 (2.17%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.17%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (1.09%) CSS
6 1 (1.09%) Flask
6 1 (1.09%) HTML
6 1 (1.09%) Loki
6 1 (1.09%) NumPy
6 1 (1.09%) Pandas
6 1 (1.09%) pytest
6 1 (1.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 17 (18.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (16.30%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (5.43%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (4.35%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.17%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.09%) Online Gambling
9 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.09%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Unix
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 4 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.70%) CI/CD
2 42 (45.65%) DevOps
3 26 (28.26%) Containerisation
4 25 (27.17%) Cloud Security
4 25 (27.17%) Observability
5 23 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 21 (22.83%) Agile
6 21 (22.83%) Technical Leadership
7 20 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (19.57%) DevSecOps
9 15 (16.30%) Microservices
10 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 14 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 12 (13.04%) API Management
11 12 (13.04%) GitOps
12 11 (11.96%) Software Engineering
13 9 (9.78%) Event-Driven
13 9 (9.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 9 (9.78%) Network Virtualisation
13 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.83%) Python
2 18 (19.57%) SQL
3 15 (16.30%) Bicep
4 14 (15.22%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.70%) C#
7 7 (7.61%) Bash
8 5 (5.43%) Java
8 5 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 4 (4.35%) Go
10 2 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 26 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 18 (19.57%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.87%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.61%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.43%) Degree
7 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) GxP
4 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Active Directory
1 9 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (28.26%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.70%) Ansible
3 4 (4.35%) Argo
4 2 (2.17%) Grafana
4 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.17%) Puppet
4 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (41.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.22%) VMware
3 10 (10.87%) Google
4 5 (5.43%) Databricks
5 4 (4.35%) Facebook
5 4 (4.35%) Instagram
5 4 (4.35%) TikTok
6 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Citrix
7 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.09%) OpenText
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) Virgin Media