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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 138 149
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 46 88 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.44% 1.60% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.95% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 41 46 32
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,000 £47,050
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,610 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £81,250 £106,289
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 2,776 4,522 3,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.91% 82.02% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,721 2,111 2,661
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.83% +0.83%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +15 24 £60,000 -11.76% 14
Coventry +11 8 £55,000 -20.00% 4
Herefordshire - 4 £92,500 - 1
Solihull -16 2 £78,750 +8.62% 1
Worcestershire +7 1 £64,500 +84.29% 5
Staffordshire +4 1 £60,000 -27.27% 5
Shropshire -1 1 £65,000 -18.75% 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £95,000 -
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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (71.74%) Azure
2 24 (52.17%) AWS
3 17 (36.96%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (30.43%) SaaS
5 10 (21.74%) Entra ID
6 9 (19.57%) GCP
7 7 (15.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 7 (15.22%) GitHub
7 7 (15.22%) Serverless
8 6 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (10.87%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.87%) PaaS
9 5 (10.87%) Power Automate
9 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
10 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (8.70%) IaaS
11 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
11 3 (6.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.04%) DNS
1 6 (13.04%) Firewall
1 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
1 6 (13.04%) VPN
2 5 (10.87%) SD-WAN
2 5 (10.87%) WAN
3 4 (8.70%) DHCP
4 3 (6.52%) BGP
4 3 (6.52%) IPsec
4 3 (6.52%) Network Security
4 3 (6.52%) OSPF
4 3 (6.52%) VLAN
4 3 (6.52%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (6.52%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.52%) MySQL
4 2 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.35%) Power BI
4 2 (4.35%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.17%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Git
1 4 (8.70%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) MSTest
2 3 (6.52%) NUnit
3 2 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
4 1 (2.17%) MLflow
4 1 (2.17%) Moq
4 1 (2.17%) NSubstitute
4 1 (2.17%) Postman
General
1 10 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Advertising
2 3 (6.52%) Agriculture
2 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Finance
2 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.52%) Law
2 3 (6.52%) Legal
3 2 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Billing
4 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
2 6 (13.04%) Architect
2 6 (13.04%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Software Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Blazor Developer
4 4 (8.70%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) DBA
5 3 (6.52%) IAM Specialist
5 3 (6.52%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (6.52%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
2 9 (19.57%) .NET Framework
3 8 (17.39%) Entity Framework
4 5 (10.87%) Blazor
4 5 (10.87%) OAuth
4 5 (10.87%) SAML
5 4 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 4 (8.70%) ARM Templates
5 4 (8.70%) YAML
6 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET
6 3 (6.52%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (6.52%) OAuth2
6 3 (6.52%) OpenID
6 3 (6.52%) REST
7 2 (4.35%) Django
7 2 (4.35%) gRPC
7 2 (4.35%) RESTful
8 1 (2.17%) React
8 1 (2.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Cloud Native
1 7 (15.22%) Onboarding
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.70%) PKI
4 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.35%) NHS
6 1 (2.17%) Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
3 1 (2.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (78.26%) DevOps
2 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 9 (19.57%) Clean Code
3 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
4 8 (17.39%) Agile
5 7 (15.22%) AI
6 6 (13.04%) CRM
6 6 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (10.87%) Analytics
7 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (10.87%) ITIL
7 5 (10.87%) Strategic Thinking
7 5 (10.87%) User Experience
7 5 (10.87%) UX Design
8 4 (8.70%) API Management
8 4 (8.70%) Observability
8 4 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.70%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) SQL
2 13 (28.26%) Bicep
3 10 (21.74%) Python
4 9 (19.57%) C#
4 9 (19.57%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.70%) Go
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.52%) VB
7 2 (4.35%) Java
7 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.17%) Groovy
8 1 (2.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (26.09%) Azure Certification
2 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
3 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (8.70%) Degree
6 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (6.52%) CCNP
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
7 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (28.26%) Docker
2 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.52%) Firmware
2 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (73.91%) Terraform
2 12 (26.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.04%) Ansible
4 3 (6.52%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds
3 5 (10.87%) Meraki
4 4 (8.70%) Databricks
4 4 (8.70%) Google
4 4 (8.70%) VMware
5 3 (6.52%) Cisco
5 3 (6.52%) Dell
5 3 (6.52%) Palo Alto
5 3 (6.52%) RedGate
5 3 (6.52%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.17%) Informatica
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.17%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.17%) Salesforce