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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 127 138
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +20
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 89 45 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.05% 1.32% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 1.55% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 77 39 69
10th Percentile £53,250 £52,250 £53,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -10.34% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £79,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,000 £80,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -6.67%

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 5,846 2,898 5,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.02% 84.91% 78.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,402 1,875 3,189
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,879 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,887 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -1.17% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -7 44 £85,000 +41.67% 19
Herefordshire -6 15 £100,000 +8.11% 2
Worcestershire -9 11 £88,000 +36.43% 5
Coventry -16 7 £87,500 +59.09% 3
Staffordshire - 4 £76,250 - 1
Warwickshire -10 2 £55,000 -24.14% 10
Shropshire -19 2 £56,250 -13.46% 1
Wolverhampton -20 2 £62,000 -34.74%
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 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.12%) Apache
2 1 (1.12%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 63 (70.79%) Azure
2 34 (38.20%) AWS
3 19 (21.35%) PaaS
4 18 (20.22%) GCP
5 17 (19.10%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (14.61%) Azure App Service
7 9 (10.11%) Azure AKS
7 9 (10.11%) SaaS
8 8 (8.99%) Amazon S3
8 8 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (7.87%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (6.74%) dbt
10 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
10 6 (6.74%) GitHub
10 6 (6.74%) Serverless
11 5 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Network Security
1 7 (7.87%) VPN
2 6 (6.74%) Firewall
3 4 (4.49%) DNS
4 2 (2.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.61%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.49%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.25%) MySQL
5 2 (2.25%) Power BI
5 2 (2.25%) Power Query
6 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.12%) Metadata
6 1 (1.12%) Redis
6 1 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) GitLab
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.25%) Ant
3 2 (2.25%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.25%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.25%) JMeter
3 2 (2.25%) Locust
3 2 (2.25%) Maven
General
1 25 (28.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (4.49%) Advertising
3 4 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (4.49%) Finance
3 4 (4.49%) Marketing
3 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.25%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.25%) Retail
5 1 (1.12%) Billing
5 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (28.09%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (23.60%) Cloud Engineer
3 20 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Lead
5 11 (12.36%) Senior
6 10 (11.24%) Architect
7 9 (10.11%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Azure Architect
9 6 (6.74%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Technical Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Security Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Support Engineer
12 3 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) Kafka
2 5 (5.62%) .NET
2 5 (5.62%) .NET Framework
2 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET
2 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (5.62%) Entity Framework
3 3 (3.37%) REST
4 2 (2.25%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.25%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.12%) CSS
5 1 (1.12%) D3.js
5 1 (1.12%) Flask
5 1 (1.12%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.12%) HTML
5 1 (1.12%) Loki
5 1 (1.12%) Pandas
5 1 (1.12%) pytest
5 1 (1.12%) React
5 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.85%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (13.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.49%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.12%) Online Gambling
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.12%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.25%) Solaris
2 2 (2.25%) Unix
2 2 (2.25%) Windows
2 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.80%) CI/CD
2 41 (46.07%) DevOps
3 28 (31.46%) Observability
4 25 (28.09%) Containerisation
4 25 (28.09%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (25.84%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (23.60%) Agile
6 21 (23.60%) Cloud Security
6 21 (23.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (17.98%) Microservices
8 14 (15.73%) DevSecOps
8 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (15.73%) Mentoring
9 12 (13.48%) API Management
10 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.11%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.11%) Event-Driven
11 9 (10.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 9 (10.11%) GitOps
12 8 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.97%) Python
2 18 (20.22%) SQL
3 15 (16.85%) Bicep
4 13 (14.61%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.87%) C#
6 7 (7.87%) Java
7 6 (6.74%) Bash
7 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.49%) Go
9 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) C++
10 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 18 (20.22%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.99%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.49%) Degree
7 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) WCAG
3 1 (1.12%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) GxP
3 1 (1.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (11.24%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (79.78%) Terraform
2 28 (31.46%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.11%) Ansible
4 4 (4.49%) Argo
4 4 (4.49%) Grafana
5 3 (3.37%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.25%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.25%) Puppet
7 1 (1.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 33 (37.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.36%) VMware
3 7 (7.87%) Google
4 5 (5.62%) Databricks
5 4 (4.49%) Facebook
5 4 (4.49%) Instagram
5 4 (4.49%) TikTok
6 2 (2.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Citrix
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) OpenText
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle
7 1 (1.12%) Virgin Media