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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 143 152
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 34 58 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.60% 1.45% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 1.56% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 30 30 54
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,194 £47,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,196 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £78,375 £98,438
90th Percentile £78,911 £98,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,901 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.47% +3.45% -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 4,539 3,721 4,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.48% 92.82% 86.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,385 1,656 3,775
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £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 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,205 £55,440
% change year-on-year -11.58% +12.20% -11.30%

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 February 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 February 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 +15 20 £50,000 -31.51% 11
Coventry -3 6 £68,750 -1.79% 3
Staffordshire -14 2 £62,750 -10.36% 3
Warwickshire +12 1 - - 2
Herefordshire -11 1 - - 1
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 (2.94%) Confluence
1 1 (2.94%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 22 (64.71%) AWS
2 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 15 (44.12%) Serverless
3 13 (38.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (32.35%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (20.59%) GCP
8 6 (17.65%) SaaS
9 5 (14.71%) GitHub
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
10 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
10 4 (11.76%) PaaS
11 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (8.82%) dbt
11 3 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (8.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) DHCP
1 4 (11.76%) DNS
2 3 (8.82%) BGP
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) IPsec
2 3 (8.82%) Network Security
2 3 (8.82%) OSPF
2 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
2 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
2 3 (8.82%) VLAN
2 3 (8.82%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) WAN
2 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (8.82%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.76%) Redis
4 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) GitLab
3 2 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) JMeter
4 1 (2.94%) Locust
4 1 (2.94%) MSTest
4 1 (2.94%) NUnit
4 1 (2.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Advertising
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Investment Banking
4 2 (5.88%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Senior
2 7 (20.59%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) AWS CDK
2 5 (14.71%) .NET
3 4 (11.76%) React
4 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
4 3 (8.82%) GraphQL
4 3 (8.82%) gRPC
4 3 (8.82%) Node.js
4 3 (8.82%) REST
5 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.88%) ARM Templates
5 2 (5.88%) Django
5 2 (5.88%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) Blazor
6 1 (2.94%) Flutter
6 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (2.94%) React Native
6 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (85.29%) DevOps
2 22 (64.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (26.47%) Observability
4 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.71%) Clean Code
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (11.76%) Agile
7 4 (11.76%) API Design
7 4 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 4 (11.76%) Data Protection
7 4 (11.76%) High Availability
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Secrets Management
8 3 (8.82%) ITIL
8 3 (8.82%) Microservices
8 3 (8.82%) Software Engineering
8 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
8 3 (8.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) TypeScript
3 5 (14.71%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Bicep
4 3 (8.82%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) C
5 2 (5.88%) C++
5 2 (5.88%) Go
5 2 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.88%) Scala
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (11.76%) Azure Certification
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (8.82%) CCNP
3 3 (8.82%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.94%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Docker
2 3 (8.82%) Firmware
2 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (61.76%) Terraform
2 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 3 (8.82%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (5.88%) Nagios
5 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Copilot
6 1 (2.94%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) VMware
3 4 (11.76%) Google
4 3 (8.82%) Cisco
4 3 (8.82%) Dell
4 3 (8.82%) Meraki
4 3 (8.82%) Palo Alto
4 3 (8.82%) SolarWinds
4 3 (8.82%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.94%) Databricks
5 1 (2.94%) Salesforce