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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 116 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +1
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 50 15 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.07% 0.80% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 0.89% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 28 8 40
10th Percentile £48,750 £53,000 £49,750
25th Percentile £63,625 £59,375 £52,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,625 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year - +9.81% -5.90%

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 3,321 1,691 3,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 71.19% 90.72% 78.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,054 838 2,522
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,094 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £44,162
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -3.76% -12.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £58,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -8 32 £67,500 - 1
Nottinghamshire -13 6 £52,500 -19.23% 6
Derbyshire -8 4 £71,250 -1.72% 3
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Northamptonshire +1 1 £70,000 +7.69%
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 11 (22.00%) IIS
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) AWS
2 28 (56.00%) Azure
3 20 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (40.00%) Serverless
4 17 (34.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (22.00%) npm
5 11 (22.00%) NuGet
5 11 (22.00%) SonarCloud
6 5 (10.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.00%) GCP
7 4 (8.00%) GitHub
7 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) Slack
8 3 (6.00%) IaaS
8 3 (6.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) Broadband
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
3 1 (2.00%) DHCP
3 1 (2.00%) DNS
3 1 (2.00%) VLAN
3 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.00%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (2.00%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.00%) KNIME
5 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Jaeger
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Billing
4 3 (6.00%) Retail
5 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 12 (24.00%) Lead
3 11 (22.00%) Senior
4 10 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
4 10 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (14.00%) Lead DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Architect
7 3 (6.00%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Leader
9 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
9 1 (2.00%) DevOps Architect
9 1 (2.00%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (52.00%) React
2 14 (28.00%) .NET
2 14 (28.00%) Node.js
3 13 (26.00%) AWS CDK
4 12 (24.00%) Next.js
5 11 (22.00%) YAML
6 8 (16.00%) .NET Framework
7 5 (10.00%) .NET Core
7 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET
7 5 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (8.00%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 2 (4.00%) PyTorch
10 2 (4.00%) TensorFlow
11 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
11 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
11 1 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.00%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
2 12 (24.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (46.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (46.00%) DevOps
2 23 (46.00%) Observability
3 22 (44.00%) Test Automation
4 21 (42.00%) Mentoring
5 20 (40.00%) Agile
6 17 (34.00%) DevSecOps
7 15 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
8 14 (28.00%) Personalization
9 13 (26.00%) Performance Optimisation
10 12 (24.00%) Clean Code
10 12 (24.00%) Decision-Making
10 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (24.00%) Re-Platforming
10 12 (24.00%) Technical Discovery
11 11 (22.00%) Microservices
12 10 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 8 (16.00%) AI
14 7 (14.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (28.00%) Bash
3 12 (24.00%) TypeScript
4 11 (22.00%) C#
5 10 (20.00%) Python
6 6 (12.00%) SQL
7 4 (8.00%) Bicep
8 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.00%) Go
9 1 (2.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.00%) CEH
1 2 (4.00%) CISSP
1 2 (4.00%) GCIH
1 2 (4.00%) OSCP
1 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 33 (66.00%) Terraform
2 18 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.00%) Ansible
3 3 (6.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Argo
5 1 (2.00%) Istio
5 1 (2.00%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (22.00%) CrowdStrike
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds