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 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 139 142
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +29
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 33 54 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.53% 1.42% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.52% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 30 30 58
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,194 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,487 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £84,688 £94,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 4,849 3,563 4,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 78.54% 93.89% 86.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 1,661 3,808
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,200 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +9 17 £50,000 -36.71% 12
Coventry -6 8 £68,750 +1.85% 2
Staffordshire -9 2 £62,750 -10.36% 2
Warwickshire +11 1 - - 1
Herefordshire -14 1 - - 2
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 (3.03%) Confluence
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 23 (69.70%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Serverless
3 13 (39.39%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (39.39%) Azure
4 11 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 10 (30.30%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (21.21%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (21.21%) GCP
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (15.15%) Amazon S3
7 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (15.15%) GitHub
8 4 (12.12%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (12.12%) PaaS
8 4 (12.12%) SaaS
9 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (9.09%) dbt
9 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) DHCP
1 3 (9.09%) DNS
1 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.06%) BGP
2 2 (6.06%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) IPsec
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
2 2 (6.06%) OSPF
2 2 (6.06%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.06%) VLAN
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
2 2 (6.06%) WAN
2 2 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.06%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.15%) Redis
4 4 (12.12%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.03%) InfluxDB
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) Git
2 5 (15.15%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) JMeter
4 1 (3.03%) Locust
4 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Advertising
3 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Automotive
5 2 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Billing
6 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) DataOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) AWS CDK
2 5 (15.15%) React
3 4 (12.12%) GraphQL
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
4 3 (9.09%) .NET
4 3 (9.09%) REST
5 2 (6.06%) Django
5 2 (6.06%) gRPC
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.03%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.03%) EDI
6 1 (3.03%) Flutter
6 1 (3.03%) Gherkin
6 1 (3.03%) Kafka
6 1 (3.03%) React Native
6 1 (3.03%) RESTful
6 1 (3.03%) Spring
6 1 (3.03%) Vue
6 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Centre
1 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.03%) Derivative
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.03%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.21%) Linux
2 2 (6.06%) Unix
3 1 (3.03%) Android
3 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (81.82%) DevOps
2 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 10 (30.30%) Observability
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (12.12%) Agile
8 4 (12.12%) API Design
8 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.12%) High Availability
8 4 (12.12%) Microservices
8 4 (12.12%) Secrets Management
9 3 (9.09%) Data Engineering
9 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
9 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 3 (9.09%) Software Architecture
9 3 (9.09%) Task Automation
9 3 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
3 6 (18.18%) Java
3 6 (18.18%) SQL
4 3 (9.09%) C
4 3 (9.09%) C++
4 3 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) Bicep
5 1 (3.03%) C#
5 1 (3.03%) Go
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
2 4 (12.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.03%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Firmware
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (60.61%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Nagios
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (3.03%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) VMware
3 4 (12.12%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco
4 2 (6.06%) Dell
4 2 (6.06%) Meraki
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) SolarWinds
4 2 (6.06%) Zscaler
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce