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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 143 145
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 +28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 67 32 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.88% 1.05% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 1.19% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 62 25 95
10th Percentile £48,650 £40,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £79,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -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 5,249 2,682 6,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 68.55% 88.40% 79.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,877 1,630 4,806
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,822 £26,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,000
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 £78,750 £77,500
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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +4 34 £81,887 -9.01% 18
Coventry -8 10 £83,750 +28.85% 1
Herefordshire -15 8 £81,500 +103.75% 2
Staffordshire - 3 £80,000 -
Wolverhampton -19 2 £62,000 -34.74%
Worcestershire - 2 £80,750 - 1
Shropshire -20 1 £62,500 +13.64%
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 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 45 (67.16%) Azure
2 27 (40.30%) AWS
3 18 (26.87%) PaaS
4 14 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (17.91%) Azure App Service
5 12 (17.91%) Serverless
6 11 (16.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (14.93%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (13.43%) Amazon S3
9 8 (11.94%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (10.45%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (8.96%) GCP
12 5 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (7.46%) GitHub
12 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
13 4 (5.97%) SaaS
14 3 (4.48%) Amazon EventBridge
14 3 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (4.48%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.97%) DNS
1 4 (5.97%) Firewall
2 2 (2.99%) Network Security
2 2 (2.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (13.43%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.46%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.99%) Redis
5 2 (2.99%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
1 4 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) JMeter
3 2 (2.99%) Locust
4 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.97%) Finance
2 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.48%) Advertising
3 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) Azure Engineer
2 18 (26.87%) Cloud Engineer
2 18 (26.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Senior
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 5 (7.46%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Architect
8 4 (5.97%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Junior
9 3 (4.48%) Junior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) DataOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) Kafka
2 7 (10.45%) AWS CDK
3 6 (8.96%) .NET
4 5 (7.46%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Core
4 5 (7.46%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (7.46%) Entity Framework
5 4 (5.97%) REST
6 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
6 3 (4.48%) Node.js
6 3 (4.48%) React
7 2 (2.99%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.49%) D3.js
8 1 (1.49%) Flask
8 1 (1.49%) NumPy
8 1 (1.49%) Pandas
8 1 (1.49%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.49%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (10.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.49%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Android
1 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (58.21%) DevOps
2 37 (55.22%) CI/CD
3 20 (29.85%) Platform Engineering
4 19 (28.36%) Observability
5 15 (22.39%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (20.90%) Agile
6 14 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
7 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (17.91%) Microservices
9 11 (16.42%) API Management
9 11 (16.42%) Cloud Security
10 10 (14.93%) Mentoring
11 8 (11.94%) Software Architecture
12 7 (10.45%) High Availability
12 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
13 6 (8.96%) API Design
13 6 (8.96%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 6 (8.96%) Decision-Making
14 5 (7.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) Python
2 16 (23.88%) SQL
3 11 (16.42%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.93%) Bicep
5 8 (11.94%) TypeScript
6 6 (8.96%) Bash
6 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
7 5 (7.46%) C#
7 5 (7.46%) Java
8 2 (2.99%) C
8 2 (2.99%) C++
8 2 (2.99%) Scala
9 1 (1.49%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.43%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.49%) Degree
7 1 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) Accessibility
1 3 (4.48%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (79.10%) Terraform
2 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.45%) Ansible
4 3 (4.48%) Grafana
4 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.99%) Argo
5 2 (2.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) VMware
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
4 1 (1.49%) Citrix