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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 143 134
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 43 63 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.85% 1.37% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.54% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 39 34 29
10th Percentile £52,500 £38,026 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,299 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -14.84% +14.81%
75th Percentile £73,631 £78,375 £106,289
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,801 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.79% -3.33% -

All Process and 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 4,256 4,090 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.01% 89.03% 92.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,161 1,875 2,417
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £67,500 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +12 19 £66,250 +2.28% 17
Coventry +7 8 £61,250 -10.91% 6
Herefordshire -5 4 £92,500 +12.12%
Staffordshire -8 2 £62,750 -10.36% 7
Warwickshire +31 1 - - 1
Solihull -5 1 £100,000 +51.52%
Worcestershire -15 1 £64,500 +84.29% 7
Shropshire -18 1 £65,000 -18.75% 8
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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) IIS
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 31 (72.09%) Azure
2 22 (51.16%) AWS
3 14 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (23.26%) GCP
4 10 (23.26%) SaaS
5 9 (20.93%) GitHub
6 8 (18.60%) Serverless
7 6 (13.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (11.63%) Entra ID
9 4 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (9.30%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (9.30%) PaaS
10 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
10 3 (6.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (6.98%) dbt
10 3 (6.98%) Power Automate
10 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.95%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) DHCP
2 4 (9.30%) DNS
2 4 (9.30%) Firewall
2 4 (9.30%) VPN
3 3 (6.98%) BGP
3 3 (6.98%) IPsec
3 3 (6.98%) Network Security
3 3 (6.98%) OSPF
3 3 (6.98%) SD-WAN
3 3 (6.98%) VLAN
3 3 (6.98%) WAN
3 3 (6.98%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (6.98%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 6 (13.95%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.98%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.98%) Redis
4 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.65%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.65%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.33%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.33%) Metadata
5 1 (2.33%) MySQL
5 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.30%) GitLab
1 4 (9.30%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) MSTest
2 3 (6.98%) NUnit
3 2 (4.65%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) JUnit
4 1 (2.33%) Locust
4 1 (2.33%) MLflow
4 1 (2.33%) Moq
4 1 (2.33%) NSubstitute
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
General
1 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Advertising
2 3 (6.98%) Agriculture
2 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Finance
2 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (6.98%) Law
2 3 (6.98%) Legal
3 2 (4.65%) Automotive
4 1 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.33%) Billing
4 1 (2.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Senior
2 7 (16.28%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Azure Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.98%) IAM Specialist
5 3 (6.98%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Operations Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) .NET
2 6 (13.95%) .NET Framework
3 5 (11.63%) Entity Framework
3 5 (11.63%) OAuth
3 5 (11.63%) SAML
4 4 (9.30%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
5 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET
5 3 (6.98%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (6.98%) OAuth2
5 3 (6.98%) OpenID
5 3 (6.98%) RESTful
5 3 (6.98%) YAML
6 2 (4.65%) Blazor
6 2 (4.65%) Django
6 2 (4.65%) gRPC
6 2 (4.65%) React
6 2 (4.65%) REST
7 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Cloud Native
2 4 (9.30%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (9.30%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.30%) PKI
3 3 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Derivative
5 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.28%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (72.09%) DevOps
2 25 (58.14%) CI/CD
3 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
4 7 (16.28%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (13.95%) Clean Code
6 5 (11.63%) Observability
7 4 (9.30%) Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) Data Protection
7 4 (9.30%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.30%) Software Engineering
7 4 (9.30%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.98%) API Design
8 3 (6.98%) API Integration
8 3 (6.98%) Mentoring
8 3 (6.98%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (6.98%) SIEM
8 3 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.91%) Python
2 9 (20.93%) Bicep
3 8 (18.60%) SQL
4 7 (16.28%) C#
5 4 (9.30%) Java
5 4 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 4 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.98%) Go
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) Scala
8 1 (2.33%) C
8 1 (2.33%) C++
8 1 (2.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Azure Certification
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.98%) CCNP
4 3 (6.98%) Degree
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.65%) CCNA
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.33%) CISSP
6 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) Firmware
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (69.77%) Terraform
2 14 (32.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.95%) Ansible
4 3 (6.98%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Copilot
5 1 (2.33%) Grafana
5 1 (2.33%) Nagios
5 1 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.28%) VMware
3 4 (9.30%) Google
3 4 (9.30%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.98%) Cisco
4 3 (6.98%) Dell
4 3 (6.98%) Meraki
4 3 (6.98%) Palo Alto
4 3 (6.98%) Zscaler
5 2 (4.65%) Databricks
6 1 (2.33%) Informatica
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) RedGate
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce