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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 128 151
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 77 42 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.27% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.47% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 70 36 93
10th Percentile £48,400 £43,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,938 £55,313 £58,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,100 £97,500 £81,250
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 5,444 2,852 6,636
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.83% 86.42% 80.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,070 1,791 4,482
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £26,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,000
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 £78,750
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 9 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 9 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 0 39 £85,000 +25.93% 20
Herefordshire -12 11 £100,000 +150.00% 3
Coventry -16 10 £83,750 +52.27% 1
Worcestershire - 6 £99,000 - 3
Staffordshire - 3 £80,000 - 4
Shropshire -14 2 £56,250 -13.46% 2
Wolverhampton -20 2 £62,000 -34.74%
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 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.30%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 50 (64.94%) Azure
2 29 (37.66%) AWS
3 19 (24.68%) PaaS
4 15 (19.48%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Azure App Service
6 11 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.69%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (11.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (11.69%) Serverless
8 8 (10.39%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (10.39%) GCP
9 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 7 (9.09%) SaaS
9 7 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (7.79%) GitHub
11 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (5.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (5.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Network Security
1 5 (6.49%) VPN
2 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (11.69%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) Redis
5 2 (2.60%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.90%) GitLab
4 2 (2.60%) JMeter
4 2 (2.60%) Locust
5 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (23.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.49%) Advertising
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (25.97%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (11.69%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Architect
6 8 (10.39%) Lead
7 7 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Senior
8 6 (7.79%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Azure Architect
10 4 (5.19%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Junior
11 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) Kafka
2 6 (7.79%) .NET
3 5 (6.49%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET
3 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (6.49%) Entity Framework
3 5 (6.49%) REST
4 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
5 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 3 (3.90%) React
6 2 (2.60%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.30%) CSS
7 1 (1.30%) D3.js
7 1 (1.30%) NumPy
7 1 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (1.30%) RESTful
7 1 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (12.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.60%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.30%) Online Gambling
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.30%) Sports Betting
7 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (59.74%) CI/CD
2 40 (51.95%) DevOps
3 24 (31.17%) Observability
4 23 (29.87%) Platform Engineering
5 20 (25.97%) Containerisation
6 18 (23.38%) Technical Leadership
7 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (20.78%) Microservices
9 15 (19.48%) Agile
9 15 (19.48%) Cloud Security
10 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (15.58%) API Management
12 11 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 9 (11.69%) Test Automation
14 8 (10.39%) Software Architecture
15 7 (9.09%) Decision-Making
15 7 (9.09%) DevSecOps
15 7 (9.09%) Event-Driven
15 7 (9.09%) High Availability
15 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.38%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) SQL
3 13 (16.88%) Bicep
4 11 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.39%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.09%) Java
7 6 (7.79%) Bash
7 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.49%) C#
9 2 (2.60%) C
9 2 (2.60%) C++
9 2 (2.60%) Go
9 2 (2.60%) Scala
10 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.48%) SC Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.30%) Degree
7 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.90%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) WCAG
3 1 (1.30%) GxP
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (16.88%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (83.12%) Terraform
2 27 (35.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.69%) Ansible
4 4 (5.19%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) Argo
6 2 (2.60%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (31.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.69%) VMware
3 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) Facebook
4 2 (2.60%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) Instagram
4 2 (2.60%) TikTok
5 1 (1.30%) Citrix
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) OpenText
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle