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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 127 153
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 +3
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 78 43 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.97% 1.27% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 1.48% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 71 37 83
10th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,500 £56,250 £58,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £82,250
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 5,501 2,900 6,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.69% 85.75% 80.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 1,825 4,337
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £26,900
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £79,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 37 £85,000 +25.93% 16
Herefordshire -8 12 £100,000 +150.00% 5
Coventry -18 10 £83,750 +52.27% 1
Worcestershire - 8 £99,000 - 4
Staffordshire - 4 £76,250 - 1
Shropshire -18 2 £56,250 -13.46% 3
Wolverhampton -19 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 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) Apache
2 1 (1.28%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 52 (66.67%) Azure
2 28 (35.90%) AWS
3 19 (24.36%) PaaS
4 15 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.67%) Azure App Service
6 10 (12.82%) Amazon S3
7 9 (11.54%) GCP
8 8 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (10.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (10.26%) Azure AKS
9 7 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (8.97%) GitHub
9 7 (8.97%) SaaS
9 7 (8.97%) Serverless
10 6 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.41%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (6.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 5 (6.41%) Entra ID
11 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) Network Security
1 6 (7.69%) VPN
2 4 (5.13%) DNS
2 4 (5.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (8.97%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.56%) Redis
5 2 (2.56%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.28%) Metadata
6 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Git
2 4 (5.13%) GitLab
3 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 3 (3.85%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.56%) JMeter
4 2 (2.56%) Locust
5 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Advertising
4 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Marketing
6 1 (1.28%) Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Billing
6 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Azure Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (11.54%) Architect
5 9 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (10.26%) Lead
7 7 (8.97%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (8.97%) Senior
8 6 (7.69%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Azure Architect
9 5 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (6.41%) Technical Architect
10 4 (5.13%) Support Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Cloud Architect
11 3 (3.85%) Developer
11 3 (3.85%) Junior
11 3 (3.85%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) Kafka
2 6 (7.69%) .NET
3 5 (6.41%) .NET Framework
3 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET
3 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET Core
3 5 (6.41%) ASP.NET Web API
3 5 (6.41%) Entity Framework
3 5 (6.41%) REST
4 3 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.85%) Node.js
4 3 (3.85%) React
5 2 (2.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.28%) CSS
6 1 (1.28%) EDI
6 1 (1.28%) HTML
6 1 (1.28%) NumPy
6 1 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.28%) RESTful
6 1 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.36%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.10%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.10%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.13%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (2.56%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.28%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.28%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Android
2 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 40 (51.28%) DevOps
3 25 (32.05%) Observability
4 23 (29.49%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (28.21%) Containerisation
6 19 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (20.51%) Agile
8 16 (20.51%) Cloud Security
8 16 (20.51%) Microservices
9 13 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (15.38%) API Management
11 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
12 9 (11.54%) DevSecOps
12 9 (11.54%) Test Automation
13 8 (10.26%) Decision-Making
13 8 (10.26%) Event-Driven
13 8 (10.26%) GitOps
13 8 (10.26%) Software Architecture
14 7 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.64%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) SQL
3 14 (17.95%) Bicep
4 11 (14.10%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.97%) Java
7 6 (7.69%) Bash
7 6 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 5 (6.41%) C#
9 2 (2.56%) C
9 2 (2.56%) C++
9 2 (2.56%) Go
9 2 (2.56%) Scala
10 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 22 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 15 (19.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.85%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) WCAG
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) GxP
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
2 5 (6.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (84.62%) Terraform
2 28 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.26%) Ansible
4 4 (5.13%) Argo
4 4 (5.13%) Grafana
4 4 (5.13%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.82%) VMware
3 3 (3.85%) Databricks
3 3 (3.85%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) Facebook
4 2 (2.56%) Instagram
4 2 (2.56%) TikTok
5 1 (1.28%) Citrix
5 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) OpenText
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle