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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 125 155
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 0
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 41 105 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 1.74% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.19% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 37 60 34
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,375 £47,150
25th Percentile £56,250 £64,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,625 £93,438
90th Percentile £99,250 £80,250 £106,289
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -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 2,795 4,785 3,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.71% 79.45% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,506 2,780
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,822 £27,725
25th Percentile £35,375 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £66,339
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +8 21 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Coventry +12 7 £55,000 -18.52% 2
Herefordshire - 3 £92,500 -
Solihull -14 2 £78,750 +8.62%
Worcestershire +14 1 £64,500 - 1
Staffordshire +13 1 £60,000 -27.27% 6
Wolverhampton +11 1 £95,000 +46.15%
Shropshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
Business Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (73.17%) Azure
2 21 (51.22%) AWS
3 16 (39.02%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (31.71%) SaaS
5 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
6 7 (17.07%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (17.07%) Serverless
7 6 (14.63%) GitHub
8 5 (12.20%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (12.20%) GCP
8 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (12.20%) Power Automate
8 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
9 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
10 3 (7.32%) Azure Functions
10 3 (7.32%) IaaS
10 3 (7.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) Firewall
1 5 (12.20%) VPN
2 4 (9.76%) DNS
2 4 (9.76%) SD-WAN
2 4 (9.76%) WAN
3 3 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.88%) BGP
4 2 (4.88%) DHCP
4 2 (4.88%) IPsec
4 2 (4.88%) Network Security
4 2 (4.88%) OSPF
4 2 (4.88%) VLAN
4 2 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (4.88%) Wireshark
5 1 (2.44%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.88%) MySQL
3 2 (4.88%) Power BI
3 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) MSTest
2 3 (7.32%) NUnit
3 2 (4.88%) GitLab
4 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.44%) MLflow
4 1 (2.44%) Moq
4 1 (2.44%) NSubstitute
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
General
1 7 (17.07%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Advertising
2 3 (7.32%) Agriculture
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
2 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (7.32%) Law
2 3 (7.32%) Legal
3 2 (4.88%) Automotive
3 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) Senior
2 7 (17.07%) Architect
3 6 (14.63%) Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Blazor Developer
5 4 (9.76%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.32%) Administrator
6 3 (7.32%) Azure Architect
6 3 (7.32%) DBA
6 3 (7.32%) IAM Specialist
6 3 (7.32%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (7.32%) SQL DBA
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Architect
7 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.95%) .NET
2 8 (19.51%) .NET Framework
2 8 (19.51%) Entity Framework
3 5 (12.20%) Blazor
3 5 (12.20%) OAuth
3 5 (12.20%) SAML
4 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.76%) ARM Templates
4 4 (9.76%) YAML
5 3 (7.32%) .NET Core
5 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET
5 3 (7.32%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (7.32%) OAuth2
5 3 (7.32%) OpenID
5 3 (7.32%) REST
6 2 (4.88%) RESTful
7 1 (2.44%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (2.44%) Java EE
7 1 (2.44%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Onboarding
2 6 (14.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.76%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (7.32%) PKI
5 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.88%) NHS
6 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) DevOps
2 24 (58.54%) CI/CD
3 8 (19.51%) Containerisation
4 7 (17.07%) Agile
4 7 (17.07%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (14.63%) Clean Code
5 6 (14.63%) CRM
5 6 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (12.20%) Analytics
6 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.20%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (12.20%) Strategic Thinking
6 5 (12.20%) User Experience
6 5 (12.20%) UX Design
7 4 (9.76%) API Management
7 4 (9.76%) B2B
7 4 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.76%) ITIL
7 4 (9.76%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (34.15%) SQL
2 13 (31.71%) Bicep
3 9 (21.95%) C#
4 8 (19.51%) PowerShell
5 7 (17.07%) Python
6 3 (7.32%) Go
6 3 (7.32%) VB
7 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.44%) Groovy
8 1 (2.44%) Java
8 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.76%) Degree
5 3 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.88%) CCNA
6 2 (4.88%) CCNP
6 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Firmware
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (68.29%) Terraform
2 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
3 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (4.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) SolarWinds
3 4 (9.76%) Databricks
3 4 (9.76%) Meraki
4 3 (7.32%) RedGate
4 3 (7.32%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco
5 2 (4.88%) Dell
5 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.88%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.44%) Informatica
6 1 (2.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.44%) Salesforce