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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 154 119
Rank change year-on-year +19 -35 +39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 28 24 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.64% 0.69% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.79% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 45
10th Percentile £53,150 £61,500 £51,750
25th Percentile £55,750 £65,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,620
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +10.49% -12.51%
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,500 £79,750
England median annual salary £74,750 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.33% +3.45% -3.33%

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 3,241 3,044 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.94% 87.77% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 1,187 2,460
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,829 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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
Cambridgeshire +5 14 £60,100 -17.10% 25
Suffolk +5 4 £71,250 - 21
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 1
Hertfordshire +9 3 £85,000 +3.03% 22
Essex - 3 £67,500 - 31
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 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 16 (57.14%) Azure
3 6 (21.43%) Serverless
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (14.29%) CloudFront
5 4 (14.29%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub
6 3 (10.71%) IaaS
6 3 (10.71%) PaaS
7 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) Datadog
8 1 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
1 3 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (7.14%) DHCP
2 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) MQTT
3 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
1 1 (3.57%) Git
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Law
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Legal
5 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Publishing
6 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.57%) Advertising
7 1 (3.57%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Lead
2 6 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Architect
4 4 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.14%) Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Loki
2 3 (10.71%) React
3 2 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
4 1 (3.57%) Django
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (3.57%) Next.js
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) Playwright
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (17.86%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) IoT
5 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) VMS
3 3 (10.71%) Windows
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) CI/CD
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 11 (39.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (35.71%) Observability
6 9 (32.14%) Microservices
6 9 (32.14%) Technical Debt
7 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 8 (28.57%) Workshop Facilitation
8 7 (25.00%) Event-Driven
9 6 (21.43%) DevSecOps
9 6 (21.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (17.86%) Data Management
10 5 (17.86%) High Availability
10 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
10 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) Bash
3 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bicep
6 1 (3.57%) Go
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) DBS Check
1 4 (14.29%) Degree
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.14%) vSphere
4 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 5 (17.86%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
2 2 (7.14%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto