Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 113 165
Rank change year-on-year -2 +52 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 51 20 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.06% 1.01% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.12% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 28 13 38
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,500 £43,421
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £71,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +12.59% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,420 1,781 4,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.91% 89.54% 76.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,191 921 2,828
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,375 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £76,134 £72,500 £68,750
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 East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the East 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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Leicestershire -9 29 £67,500 - 2
Nottinghamshire -15 10 £52,500 -12.50% 8
Derbyshire +4 5 £60,000 -7.69%
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East 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 8 (15.69%) IIS
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (58.82%) AWS
2 26 (50.98%) Azure
3 21 (41.18%) Serverless
4 20 (39.22%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (15.69%) npm
6 8 (15.69%) NuGet
6 8 (15.69%) SonarCloud
7 7 (13.73%) GitHub
7 7 (13.73%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 5 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (9.80%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (9.80%) Azure AKS
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.84%) GCP
9 4 (7.84%) Slack
10 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 3 (5.88%) Broadband
2 3 (5.88%) VLAN
2 3 (5.88%) VPN
3 2 (3.92%) DHCP
3 2 (3.92%) DNS
4 1 (1.96%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.84%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.92%) Metadata
4 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (1.96%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.96%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.96%) KNIME
5 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (1.96%) Jaeger
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) NUnit
General
1 6 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Law
3 3 (5.88%) Retail
4 2 (3.92%) Billing
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Lead
3 10 (19.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
5 7 (13.73%) Lead DevOps
5 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps
5 7 (13.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.96%) DevOps Architect
9 1 (1.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (47.06%) React
2 14 (27.45%) AWS CDK
3 13 (25.49%) Next.js
4 12 (23.53%) .NET
5 11 (21.57%) Node.js
6 8 (15.69%) YAML
7 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
8 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET
8 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
9 4 (7.84%) Lambda Expressions
10 3 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (3.92%) Middleware
11 2 (3.92%) PyTorch
11 2 (3.92%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
12 1 (1.96%) ASP.NET Web API
12 1 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
12 1 (1.96%) PySpark
12 1 (1.96%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (7.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.84%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.92%) PKI
3 2 (3.92%) SCADA
3 2 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Linux
1 13 (25.49%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 28 (54.90%) Observability
3 25 (49.02%) Mentoring
4 24 (47.06%) DevOps
5 23 (45.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 21 (41.18%) Test Automation
7 19 (37.25%) Agile
8 15 (29.41%) Collaborative Working
8 15 (29.41%) DevSecOps
8 15 (29.41%) Personalization
9 14 (27.45%) Performance Optimisation
10 13 (25.49%) Clean Code
10 13 (25.49%) Decision-Making
10 13 (25.49%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (25.49%) Re-Platforming
10 13 (25.49%) Technical Discovery
11 11 (21.57%) Containerisation
11 11 (21.57%) Roadmaps
12 10 (19.61%) AI
13 9 (17.65%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (27.45%) PowerShell
2 13 (25.49%) TypeScript
3 12 (23.53%) Bash
3 12 (23.53%) Python
4 9 (17.65%) C#
5 5 (9.80%) Bicep
5 5 (9.80%) SQL
6 1 (1.96%) Go
6 1 (1.96%) Java
6 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
1 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.92%) CISSP
2 2 (3.92%) CompTIA Security+
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.96%) CCNA
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.96%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.88%) QA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (37.25%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (64.71%) Terraform
2 18 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 4 (7.84%) Ansible
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.92%) Argo
5 2 (3.92%) Istio
6 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.88%) VMware
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Google
5 1 (1.96%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.96%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds