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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 140 136
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +30
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 38 58 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.72% 1.40% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 1.53% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 34 29 37
10th Percentile £48,575 £36,673 £42,868
25th Percentile £51,563 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.57% +3.70%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,500 -
England median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £73,500
% change year-on-year +1.79% -1.36% -2.00%

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 4,323 3,783 3,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.09% 91.51% 87.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,245 1,682 2,769
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £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 £70,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +26 23 £58,750 -19.24% 11
Herefordshire -5 4 £92,500 +12.12%
Coventry +2 3 £70,000 - 1
Staffordshire -12 2 £62,750 -10.36% 2
Warwickshire +21 1 - - 1
Worcestershire -21 1 £64,500 +84.29% 7
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 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) IIS
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (57.89%) Azure
2 21 (55.26%) AWS
3 14 (36.84%) Serverless
4 13 (34.21%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (28.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (21.05%) GCP
8 7 (18.42%) GitHub
8 7 (18.42%) SaaS
9 6 (15.79%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (10.53%) PaaS
11 3 (7.89%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (7.89%) Azure Functions
11 3 (7.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (7.89%) Power Automate
11 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) DHCP
2 4 (10.53%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) BGP
3 3 (7.89%) IPsec
3 3 (7.89%) Network Security
3 3 (7.89%) OSPF
3 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
3 3 (7.89%) VLAN
3 3 (7.89%) WAN
3 3 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (7.89%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.89%) Redis
5 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.26%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.63%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.63%) Metadata
6 1 (2.63%) MySQL
6 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) GitLab
2 5 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.53%) Git
4 3 (7.89%) MSTest
4 3 (7.89%) NUnit
5 2 (5.26%) JIRA
6 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.63%) JMeter
6 1 (2.63%) Locust
6 1 (2.63%) MLflow
6 1 (2.63%) Moq
6 1 (2.63%) NSubstitute
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Advertising
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Automotive
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Billing
5 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Senior
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) .NET
1 6 (15.79%) AWS CDK
2 5 (13.16%) .NET Framework
3 4 (10.53%) ARM Templates
3 4 (10.53%) Entity Framework
4 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET
4 3 (7.89%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (7.89%) RESTful
4 3 (7.89%) YAML
5 2 (5.26%) Django
5 2 (5.26%) gRPC
5 2 (5.26%) React
5 2 (5.26%) REST
6 1 (2.63%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (2.63%) Blazor
6 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.63%) GraphQL
6 1 (2.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.63%) Derivative
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (2.63%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) DevOps
2 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
4 6 (15.79%) Observability
4 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.16%) Clean Code
5 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (10.53%) Agile
6 4 (10.53%) Analytics
6 4 (10.53%) Data Protection
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (7.89%) Code Quality
7 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.89%) ITIL
7 3 (7.89%) Secrets Management
7 3 (7.89%) Software Engineering
7 3 (7.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (26.32%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) Bicep
3 5 (13.16%) C#
3 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.89%) Go
4 3 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) C
5 1 (2.63%) C++
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Scala
5 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (7.89%) CCNP
4 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (5.26%) CCNA
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Firmware
2 3 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (63.16%) Terraform
2 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.79%) Ansible
4 3 (7.89%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.63%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.63%) Grafana
5 1 (2.63%) Nagios
5 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) VMware
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 3 (7.89%) Cisco
4 3 (7.89%) Dell
4 3 (7.89%) Meraki
4 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
4 3 (7.89%) SolarWinds
4 3 (7.89%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.63%) Databricks
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce