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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 131 126
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 93 44 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.03% 1.35% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 1.55% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 73 39 47
10th Percentile £52,100 £52,500 £50,718
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £64,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,774 £64,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.88% -11.03% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £99,800 £98,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -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 6,263 2,846 4,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.54% 87.09% 81.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,564 1,741 2,263
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -8 46 £81,887 +36.48% 53
Herefordshire -4 14 £100,000 +8.11% 3
Worcestershire -11 14 £88,000 +36.43% 6
Coventry -19 7 £87,500 +59.09% 3
Staffordshire +8 6 £63,750 +6.25% 12
Warwickshire - 4 £55,000 - 11
Wolverhampton -6 2 £62,000 -34.74% 5
Shropshire -20 2 £56,250 -13.46% 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 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Documentum
2 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 69 (74.19%) Azure
2 37 (39.78%) AWS
3 24 (25.81%) GCP
4 19 (20.43%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.20%) PaaS
6 12 (12.90%) Azure AKS
6 12 (12.90%) Entra ID
7 10 (10.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (10.75%) Azure App Service
7 10 (10.75%) SaaS
8 9 (9.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (7.53%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.38%) GitHub
11 5 (5.38%) IaaS
11 5 (5.38%) Serverless
11 5 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.05%) VPN
2 9 (9.68%) Network Security
3 7 (7.53%) Firewall
4 5 (5.38%) Internet
5 3 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (5.38%) Data Lake
2 5 (5.38%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.15%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.15%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) Power BI
5 2 (2.15%) Power Query
6 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (11.83%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) GitLab
2 3 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.15%) Ant
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Ivy
3 2 (2.15%) IBM UrbanCode
3 2 (2.15%) Maven
General
1 26 (27.96%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Advertising
4 4 (4.30%) Marketing
5 3 (3.23%) Finance
5 3 (3.23%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.08%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.08%) Billing
7 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (26.88%) Cloud Engineer
2 23 (24.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (21.51%) Azure Engineer
4 14 (15.05%) Architect
4 14 (15.05%) Senior
5 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (10.75%) Lead
6 9 (9.68%) Azure Architect
6 9 (9.68%) Technical Architect
7 8 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (8.60%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Trainee
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (72.04%) Terraform
2 8 (8.60%) Kafka
3 5 (5.38%) .NET
3 5 (5.38%) .NET Framework
3 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET
3 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (5.38%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.15%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.15%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.15%) REST
5 1 (1.08%) CSS
5 1 (1.08%) Flask
5 1 (1.08%) HTML
5 1 (1.08%) Loki
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) Pandas
5 1 (1.08%) pytest
5 1 (1.08%) RESTful
5 1 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 17 (18.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.60%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.23%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.15%) Driving Licence
8 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.98%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
2 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.30%) Unix
4 2 (2.15%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (62.37%) CI/CD
2 47 (50.54%) DevOps
3 31 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 29 (31.18%) Cloud Security
5 27 (29.03%) Platform Engineering
6 25 (26.88%) Observability
7 22 (23.66%) DevSecOps
7 22 (23.66%) Technical Leadership
8 21 (22.58%) Agile
8 21 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (19.35%) Mentoring
10 15 (16.13%) Microservices
11 13 (13.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (12.90%) Configuration Management
12 12 (12.90%) GitOps
13 11 (11.83%) Software Engineering
14 10 (10.75%) API Management
14 10 (10.75%) SDLC
15 9 (9.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) SQL
3 13 (13.98%) Bicep
4 12 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.68%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.60%) C#
7 5 (5.38%) Java
7 5 (5.38%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.30%) Bash
8 4 (4.30%) Go
9 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 30 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.20%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.75%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.53%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.45%) Degree
7 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (2.15%) SLA
4 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) GxP
4 1 (1.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (11.83%) Docker
2 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (27.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.53%) Ansible
3 4 (4.30%) Argo
4 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.15%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (43.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Google
2 14 (15.05%) VMware
3 5 (5.38%) Databricks
4 4 (4.30%) Facebook
4 4 (4.30%) Instagram
4 4 (4.30%) TikTok
5 2 (2.15%) BMC
5 2 (2.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.08%) OpenText
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Virgin Media