Infrastructure as Code Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 143 147
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 -43
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 56 33 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.69% 0.98% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.14% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 45 27 18
10th Percentile £52,000 - £57,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year - -8.77% -5.00%
75th Percentile £88,000 £73,250 £79,688
90th Percentile £92,000 £85,250 £85,184
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,665 2,895 3,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.91% 86.29% 74.96%
Number of salaries quoted 4,151 1,535 1,733
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -7.18%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the East of England over the 6 months to 22 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the East of England

Infrastructure as Code
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 22 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
Hertfordshire -10 28 £75,000 +4.90% 12
Cambridgeshire -14 19 £60,100 -6.82% 39
Suffolk +7 4 £83,750 +28.85% 4
Essex -22 3 £87,500 +40.00% 6
Bedfordshire -14 2 - - 5
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (5.36%) WordPress
2 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (41.07%) Azure
2 18 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (10.71%) GitHub
5 5 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (7.14%) Azure Storage
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Functions
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (5.36%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.36%) Serverless
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.57%) Azure API Management
8 2 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) DNS
1 6 (10.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.14%) DHCP
2 4 (7.14%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) VPN
3 3 (5.36%) Broadband
4 2 (3.57%) 4G
4 2 (3.57%) 5G
4 2 (3.57%) HTTP
4 2 (3.57%) SSH
5 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.36%) Metadata
2 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.57%) MySQL
3 2 (3.57%) Power BI
3 2 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
2 3 (5.36%) git-flow
2 3 (5.36%) Terragrunt
3 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.57%) Selenium
General
1 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Aerospace
3 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.36%) Retail
4 2 (3.57%) Finance
4 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.79%) Games
5 1 (1.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Lead
2 10 (17.86%) Developer
3 9 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Senior
5 7 (12.50%) Architect
5 7 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (10.71%) Lead Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.93%) Principal Developer
7 5 (8.93%) Team Leader
8 4 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.14%) Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Lead Architect
8 4 (7.14%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
8 4 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (5.36%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (66.07%) Terraform
2 4 (7.14%) Node.js
3 3 (5.36%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.36%) Nuxt
3 3 (5.36%) React
3 3 (5.36%) REST
3 3 (5.36%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (5.36%) Vue
4 2 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.57%) Flask
4 2 (3.57%) Jinja
4 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 2 (3.57%) Pandas
4 2 (3.57%) Playwright
4 2 (3.57%) pytest
4 2 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
4 2 (3.57%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.21%) Cloud Native
2 8 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 6 (10.71%) Clustering
3 6 (10.71%) Onboarding
4 5 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.93%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (5.36%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.36%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.57%) Life Science
6 2 (3.57%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Windows
3 4 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (73.21%) CI/CD
2 34 (60.71%) DevOps
3 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (30.36%) Technical Leadership
5 15 (26.79%) AI
5 15 (26.79%) Event-Driven
6 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (23.21%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (23.21%) Observability
8 12 (21.43%) Agile
8 12 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 12 (21.43%) Incident Response
8 12 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 12 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (19.64%) Cloud Security
9 11 (19.64%) High Availability
10 10 (17.86%) Coaching
10 10 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (16.07%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 15 (26.79%) Python
2 12 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 10 (17.86%) Bash
4 8 (14.29%) Bicep
5 7 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
5 7 (12.50%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (8.93%) C#
7 3 (5.36%) Java
7 3 (5.36%) Ruby
7 3 (5.36%) SQL
7 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.79%) PHP
9 1 (1.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Degree
4 5 (8.93%) DBS Check
5 3 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.79%) CISM
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) GSEC
6 1 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) Data Quality
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.79%) NIST
2 1 (1.79%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.93%) Docker
2 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Ansible
2 7 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Grafana
3 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.36%) Proxmox
3 3 (5.36%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.79%) Nessus
4 1 (1.79%) Podman
4 1 (1.79%) Puppet
4 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.50%) Splunk
3 5 (8.93%) VMware
4 2 (3.57%) SGI
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) RedGate
5 1 (1.79%) Tenable