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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 137 150
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 35 41 84
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.50% 1.21% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 1.33% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 74
10th Percentile £46,700 £38,173 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +3.70% -5.26%
75th Percentile £74,762 £87,500 £80,938
90th Percentile £82,000 £97,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +4.48% -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 5,374 3,079 5,561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 76.53% 91.07% 83.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 1,720 4,356
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,225 £26,250
25th Percentile £39,959 £41,250 £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 £68,750 £68,375 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 29 March 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 29 March 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 17 £50,000 -44.44% 20
Coventry -12 7 £67,500 - 2
Herefordshire -19 4 £60,000 +50.00% 3
Warwickshire -1 1 - - 3
Staffordshire -17 1 £65,500 -6.43% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 23 (65.71%) AWS
2 16 (45.71%) Azure
3 13 (37.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (37.14%) Serverless
4 10 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (25.71%) Amazon ECS
6 7 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (17.14%) PaaS
8 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
8 5 (14.29%) dbt
8 5 (14.29%) GCP
9 4 (11.43%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (11.43%) GitHub
9 4 (11.43%) Pulumi
9 4 (11.43%) SaaS
10 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.57%) Datadog
10 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (8.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) DNS
1 3 (8.57%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (14.29%) Redis
4 4 (11.43%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.86%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) MySQL
6 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.29%) GitLab
3 4 (11.43%) Cucumber
3 4 (11.43%) Git
4 3 (8.57%) JMeter
4 3 (8.57%) Locust
5 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Advertising
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Automotive
5 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (25.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Lead
5 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Test Leader
6 2 (5.71%) DataOps Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Site Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (14.29%) React
3 4 (11.43%) GraphQL
3 4 (11.43%) Node.js
4 3 (8.57%) Gherkin
4 3 (8.57%) REST
5 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 2 (5.71%) Django
6 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.86%) EDI
6 1 (2.86%) Flutter
6 1 (2.86%) gRPC
6 1 (2.86%) Kafka
6 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.86%) React Native
6 1 (2.86%) RESTful
6 1 (2.86%) Spring
6 1 (2.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Derivative
2 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.86%) PKI
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 2 (5.71%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Android
3 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (74.29%) DevOps
2 25 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 11 (31.43%) Observability
4 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Containerisation
7 6 (17.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (14.29%) Incident Response
8 5 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.43%) Agile
9 4 (11.43%) API Design
9 4 (11.43%) BDD
9 4 (11.43%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (11.43%) High Availability
9 4 (11.43%) OWASP
9 4 (11.43%) Secrets Management
9 4 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 8 (22.86%) Java
3 7 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 6 (17.14%) Bicep
4 6 (17.14%) SQL
5 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 3 (8.57%) Bash
6 3 (8.57%) C
6 3 (8.57%) C++
6 3 (8.57%) Scala
7 1 (2.86%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
1 8 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
3 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.86%) CISSP
5 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (8.57%) WCAG
3 2 (5.71%) GDPR
4 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (62.86%) Terraform
2 14 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (8.57%) Grafana
4 3 (8.57%) Nagios
4 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Google
2 3 (8.57%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Databricks
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce