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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 138 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 70 33 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.90% 1.09% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.24% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 65 26 97
10th Percentile £49,100 £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £96,875 £79,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 5,345 2,666 6,870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.93% 88.04% 80.37%
Number of salaries quoted 3,965 1,640 4,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +3 36 £85,000 - 19
Coventry -12 10 £83,750 +28.85% 2
Herefordshire -14 9 £88,000 +120.00% 2
Staffordshire - 3 £80,000 -
Worcestershire - 3 £88,000 - 2
Wolverhampton -20 2 £62,000 -34.74%
Shropshire - 1 £62,500 - 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 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 48 (68.57%) Azure
2 27 (38.57%) AWS
3 19 (27.14%) PaaS
4 15 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (18.57%) Azure App Service
6 10 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 10 (14.29%) Serverless
7 9 (12.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (8.57%) GCP
11 5 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 5 (7.14%) GitHub
11 5 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (7.14%) SaaS
12 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (4.29%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (4.29%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) DNS
1 4 (5.71%) Firewall
2 3 (4.29%) Network Security
2 3 (4.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.86%) Redis
5 2 (2.86%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Git
1 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.86%) GitLab
3 2 (2.86%) JMeter
3 2 (2.86%) Locust
4 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (22.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.14%) Finance
3 4 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.29%) Advertising
4 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (27.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (25.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Senior
7 6 (8.57%) Architect
7 6 (8.57%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Lead
8 5 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Support Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Junior
10 3 (4.29%) Junior Cloud Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Python Engineer
11 2 (2.86%) DataOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) Kafka
2 6 (8.57%) .NET
3 5 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (7.14%) AWS CDK
3 5 (7.14%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.71%) REST
5 3 (4.29%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.29%) Node.js
5 3 (4.29%) React
6 2 (2.86%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.43%) D3.js
7 1 (1.43%) Flask
7 1 (1.43%) NumPy
7 1 (1.43%) Pandas
7 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.43%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.43%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (11.43%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Android
1 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 39 (55.71%) DevOps
3 23 (32.86%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (28.57%) Observability
5 16 (22.86%) Technical Leadership
6 15 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (20.00%) Agile
7 14 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (18.57%) Cloud Security
8 13 (18.57%) Microservices
9 12 (17.14%) API Management
10 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.43%) Software Architecture
12 7 (10.00%) High Availability
12 7 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.57%) API Design
13 6 (8.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 6 (8.57%) Decision-Making
13 6 (8.57%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 17 (24.29%) Python
1 17 (24.29%) SQL
2 11 (15.71%) Bicep
2 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.43%) TypeScript
4 6 (8.57%) Bash
4 6 (8.57%) Java
4 6 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (2.86%) C
6 2 (2.86%) C++
6 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 1 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.43%) Degree
7 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.29%) QA
2 2 (2.86%) WCAG
3 1 (1.43%) GxP
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (17.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (82.86%) Terraform
2 22 (31.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (11.43%) Ansible
4 3 (4.29%) Grafana
4 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.86%) Argo
5 2 (2.86%) Nagios
Vendors
1 20 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) Databricks
4 1 (1.43%) Citrix