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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 145 179
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 -33
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 48 23 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.76% 0.78% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.84% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 38 19 41
10th Percentile £52,350 £46,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -3.70% -1.10%
75th Percentile £84,375 £72,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £78,155 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.84% +11.65% -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 4,418 2,754 5,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.00% 93.36% 78.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,897 1,379 3,798
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -12.00%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -13 28 £60,100 -9.28% 11
Hertfordshire -7 11 £80,000 +11.89% 17
Suffolk +14 3 £70,000 +7.69% 7
Bedfordshire +12 2 - - 1
Essex -26 2 - - 22
Norfolk -27 1 £75,000 +20.00%
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 (2.08%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 19 (39.58%) Azure
3 7 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (14.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (12.50%) Serverless
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (10.42%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (10.42%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) CloudFront
5 5 (10.42%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.33%) IaaS
6 4 (8.33%) PaaS
7 3 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.25%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) Broadband
1 4 (8.33%) DHCP
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) Firewall
1 4 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.33%) VLAN
2 3 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.25%) Metadata
5 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Power BI
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Publishing
4 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 2 (4.17%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Lead
2 10 (20.83%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) Developer
3 9 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Lead Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Principal Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Team Leader
4 6 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Technical Leader
7 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.42%) Loki
2 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.08%) Node.js
3 1 (2.08%) Nuxt
3 1 (2.08%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (2.08%) WebRTC
3 1 (2.08%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (27.08%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (27.08%) Legacy Applications
3 12 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.08%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Linux
2 5 (10.42%) Windows
3 4 (8.33%) VMS
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) CI/CD
2 30 (62.50%) DevOps
3 28 (58.33%) Observability
4 21 (43.75%) AI
5 17 (35.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (33.33%) Incident Response
6 16 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
7 15 (31.25%) Event-Driven
7 15 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (31.25%) Mentoring
7 15 (31.25%) Microservices
8 14 (29.17%) Agile
8 14 (29.17%) Coaching
8 14 (29.17%) Migration
9 13 (27.08%) Machine Learning
10 11 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (20.83%) Cloud Security
11 10 (20.83%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) Python
2 10 (20.83%) Bash
3 7 (14.58%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.08%) Bicep
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) Go
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (2.08%) Ruby
4 1 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Degree
2 13 (27.08%) DBS Check
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CISM
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) GSEC
6 1 (2.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
2 1 (2.08%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Terraform
2 8 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 5 (10.42%) Grafana
3 5 (10.42%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (8.33%) SolarWinds Orion
4 4 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 3 (6.25%) Ansible
6 1 (2.08%) Nessus
6 1 (2.08%) Proxmox
6 1 (2.08%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 4 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk
3 1 (2.08%) Tenable