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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 145 146
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 44 32 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.53% 0.97% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.09% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 43 24 84
10th Percentile £48,800 £40,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year - +1.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,375 £115,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +6.90% -3.33%

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 6,060 2,934 6,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 73.32% 88.99% 83.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,592 1,687 4,537
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 2 May 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 2 May 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 21 £70,079 -26.23% 14
Herefordshire -20 7 £75,000 +87.50% 3
Coventry -19 6 £66,250 -1.85% 1
Staffordshire -24 2 £69,000 -1.43% 1
Warwickshire -10 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £62,000 - 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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (59.09%) Azure
2 25 (56.82%) AWS
3 13 (29.55%) Serverless
4 11 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (15.91%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (15.91%) GCP
7 7 (15.91%) PaaS
8 6 (13.64%) Azure App Service
9 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
10 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (6.82%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (6.82%) GitHub
10 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (6.82%) Pulumi
10 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) DNS
1 4 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.73%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.82%) Redis
3 3 (6.82%) TimescaleDB
4 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.27%) Metadata
5 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.64%) GitLab
3 5 (11.36%) Git
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.55%) JMeter
5 2 (4.55%) Locust
6 1 (2.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.64%) Advertising
3 3 (6.82%) Banking
3 3 (6.82%) Finance
3 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.82%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Senior
7 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) DataOps Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Test Leader
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) AWS CDK
2 4 (9.09%) GraphQL
2 4 (9.09%) Node.js
2 4 (9.09%) React
3 3 (6.82%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
4 2 (4.55%) Gherkin
4 2 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.27%) EDI
5 1 (2.27%) Flutter
5 1 (2.27%) gRPC
5 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.27%) React Native
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
5 1 (2.27%) Spring
5 1 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Online Gambling
3 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.27%) Sports Betting
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Android
2 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (65.91%) DevOps
2 28 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 14 (31.82%) Observability
4 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
4 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.91%) Cloud Security
6 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (13.64%) Incident Response
8 5 (11.36%) API Management
8 5 (11.36%) Secrets Management
8 5 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (11.36%) Test Automation
9 4 (9.09%) Agile
9 4 (9.09%) API Design
9 4 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 4 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 11 (25.00%) SQL
3 8 (18.18%) Bicep
4 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
5 6 (13.64%) Java
5 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.36%) Bash
7 3 (6.82%) C
7 3 (6.82%) C++
7 3 (6.82%) Scala
8 1 (2.27%) C#
8 1 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (2.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) DV Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
5 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) WCAG
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (59.09%) Terraform
2 14 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.82%) Grafana
5 3 (6.82%) Nagios
6 1 (2.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) VMware
3 2 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce