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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 107 114
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 32 9 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.98% 0.55% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 0.61% 1.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 47
10th Percentile £62,500 £53,000 £49,500
25th Percentile £64,750 £59,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £86,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%

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 2,478 1,484 2,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 76.15% 91.21% 83.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,488 826 2,270
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,125 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +0.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 10 March 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 10 March 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 - 15 £67,250 - 2
Northamptonshire +1 7 £70,000 +7.69%
Derbyshire -22 4 £76,250 +5.17% 1
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 1
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 7 (21.88%) IIS
2 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) AWS
3 11 (34.38%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) GCP
5 7 (21.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (21.88%) npm
5 7 (21.88%) NuGet
5 7 (21.88%) SonarCloud
6 6 (18.75%) Serverless
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.25%) Azure AKS
8 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (6.25%) Datadog
8 2 (6.25%) PaaS
9 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (3.13%) IaaS
9 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Broadband
2 2 (6.25%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) NAS
3 1 (3.13%) SAN
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Jaeger
4 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Billing
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Health Technology
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Senior
2 11 (34.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (28.13%) Architect
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Senior Architect
6 5 (15.63%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Lead
8 3 (9.38%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (6.25%) Security Architect
10 1 (3.13%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (37.50%) React
2 7 (21.88%) .NET
2 7 (21.88%) Node.js
2 7 (21.88%) YAML
3 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
3 5 (15.63%) AWS CDK
3 5 (15.63%) Next.js
4 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
5 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
5 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.25%) PyTorch
5 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.13%) PKI
5 1 (3.13%) Replication
5 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows
3 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) CI/CD
1 15 (46.88%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 11 (34.38%) Mentoring
4 11 (34.38%) Observability
5 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (28.13%) DevSecOps
7 8 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (21.88%) Microservices
8 7 (21.88%) Personalization
9 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
9 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
9 6 (18.75%) Migration
9 6 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (15.63%) Clean Code
10 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
10 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (15.63%) Logistics
10 5 (15.63%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 10 (31.25%) Bash
1 10 (31.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) C#
3 5 (15.63%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) Bicep
4 3 (9.38%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 2 (6.25%) CEH
1 2 (6.25%) CISSP
1 2 (6.25%) GCIH
1 2 (6.25%) OSCP
2 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (56.25%) Terraform
2 10 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Grafana
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.13%) Argo
5 1 (3.13%) Kustomize
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (18.75%) Google
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.13%) VMware