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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 124 126
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 57 19 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.89% 0.82% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.96% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 31 10 35
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,375 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,438 £43,421
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £71,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +10.71% -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 4,518 1,978 3,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 70.18% 85.11% 76.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,030 1,093 1,496
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £28,671
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -8.89% -14.69%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -13 29 £67,500 - 11
Nottinghamshire -12 15 £56,250 +7.14% 16
Derbyshire -8 5 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Lincolnshire - 3 - - 1
Northamptonshire -7 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 4 (7.02%) IIS
2 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (52.63%) AWS
2 29 (50.88%) Azure
3 18 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (29.82%) Serverless
5 13 (22.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
6 8 (14.04%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (12.28%) AWS Step Functions
7 7 (12.28%) PaaS
8 6 (10.53%) SonarCloud
9 5 (8.77%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (8.77%) Azure AKS
9 5 (8.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (8.77%) Entra ID
9 5 (8.77%) GitHub
9 5 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (8.77%) IaaS
9 5 (8.77%) SaaS
10 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
2 5 (8.77%) DHCP
2 5 (8.77%) DNS
3 4 (7.02%) VLAN
3 4 (7.02%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) NX-OS
5 2 (3.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) NoSQL
2 5 (8.77%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (3.51%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) KNIME
5 2 (3.51%) Metadata
5 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (1.75%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.75%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Git
2 4 (7.02%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) NUnit
General
1 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 6 (10.53%) Law
4 3 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.26%) Retail
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (19.30%) Lead
3 8 (14.04%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
4 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Architect
5 6 (10.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
7 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Security Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Head of Infrastructure
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (73.68%) Terraform
2 14 (24.56%) React
3 10 (17.54%) .NET
4 7 (12.28%) AWS CDK
4 7 (12.28%) Node.js
5 6 (10.53%) Next.js
5 6 (10.53%) YAML
6 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
6 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (7.02%) .NET Core
7 4 (7.02%) Lambda Expressions
8 2 (3.51%) Middleware
8 2 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 1 (1.75%) NumPy
9 1 (1.75%) Pandas
9 1 (1.75%) PySpark
9 1 (1.75%) React Native
9 1 (1.75%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.77%) Cloud Native
3 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.02%) Private Cloud
5 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (5.26%) PKI
5 3 (5.26%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.51%) SCADA
6 2 (3.51%) Tandem
7 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 6 (10.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 36 (63.16%) DevOps
3 24 (42.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (42.11%) Observability
4 23 (40.35%) DevSecOps
5 22 (38.60%) Agile
6 17 (29.82%) Mentoring
7 15 (26.32%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
9 13 (22.81%) AI
10 11 (19.30%) Containerisation
10 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (17.54%) Software Delivery
11 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
12 9 (15.79%) Roadmaps
12 9 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (14.04%) Cloud Security
13 8 (14.04%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (14.04%) Microservices
13 8 (14.04%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 11 (19.30%) Python
3 8 (14.04%) Bash
3 8 (14.04%) SQL
4 7 (12.28%) C#
4 7 (12.28%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.02%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
1 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.26%) CCNA
3 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) MCSE
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.51%) CISSP
4 2 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) SLA
4 2 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (38.60%) Docker
2 5 (8.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (5.26%) vSphere
4 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (38.60%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.26%) Grafana
2 3 (5.26%) Istio
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.51%) Nessus
3 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (8.77%) VMware
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (3.51%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) FIS
5 2 (3.51%) IFS
5 2 (3.51%) Informatica
5 2 (3.51%) Meraki
5 2 (3.51%) Tenable
5 2 (3.51%) Veracode
6 1 (1.75%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.75%) OpenAI