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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 118 57
Rank change year-on-year -4 -61 +55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 19 14 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.58% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.66% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 52
10th Percentile £57,250 £36,250 £48,875
25th Percentile £62,500 £39,250 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £70,313
90th Percentile £74,500 £102,500 £89,625
England median annual salary £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +0.69% -3.33% -

All Process and 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 2,033 2,108 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.94% 87.47% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 916 1,013
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,730 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -8.15% -1.49%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,750
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 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 19 December 2025.

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 19 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
Northamptonshire +10 8 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Leicestershire +12 6 £67,250 +16.96% 15
Derbyshire -14 2 £70,000 -2.21% 17
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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
1 3 (15.79%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) GCP
3 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) npm
4 3 (15.79%) NuGet
4 3 (15.79%) PaaS
4 3 (15.79%) SonarCloud
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.26%) Datadog
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) IaaS
6 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) NAS
2 1 (5.26%) SAN
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Billing
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Senior
2 8 (42.11%) Architect
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Architect
4 5 (26.32%) Senior Cloud Architect
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (15.79%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (10.53%) Security Architect
7 2 (10.53%) Technical Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) IT Architect
8 1 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) Node.js
1 3 (15.79%) React
1 3 (15.79%) YAML
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
1 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.26%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) DevOps
2 8 (42.11%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) DevSecOps
4 5 (26.32%) Logistics
4 5 (26.32%) Observability
5 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
5 4 (21.05%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.79%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Cost Management
6 3 (15.79%) Microservices
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) RBAC
7 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 4 (21.05%) Bash
3 3 (15.79%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) Java
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) CEH
1 2 (10.53%) CISSP
1 2 (10.53%) GCIH
1 2 (10.53%) OSCP
2 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Terraform
2 6 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco
5 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) VMware