Hybrid/Remote Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 66 82
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 557 387 479
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 5.47% 3.19% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.00% 3.60% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 280 371
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £442 £468 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% -4.91% -5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £41.10 £25.55 £58.50
25th Percentile £48.75 £26.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £26.88 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year +143.72% -60.05% +22.30%
75th Percentile £83.75 £36.78 £73.75
90th Percentile £90.50 £53.71 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +28.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Infrastructure as Code daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Infrastructure as Code hourly rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid working options

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 17 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (2.33%) Confluence
3 12 (2.15%) Apache
4 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.72%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.54%) JBoss
6 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.36%) IIS
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) CMS
8 1 (0.18%) Drupal
8 1 (0.18%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.72%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.72%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 332 (59.61%) AWS
2 212 (38.06%) Azure
3 176 (31.60%) GitHub
4 126 (22.62%) GitHub Actions
5 115 (20.65%) Serverless
6 106 (19.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (16.16%) Amazon S3
8 82 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (14.36%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (12.39%) GCP
11 66 (11.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 60 (10.77%) Amazon EKS
13 56 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
14 54 (9.69%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 40 (7.18%) OpenShift
17 38 (6.82%) Azure AKS
18 33 (5.92%) Entra ID
19 27 (4.85%) SaaS
20 24 (4.31%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (9.52%) Firewall
2 32 (5.75%) DNS
2 32 (5.75%) VPN
3 24 (4.31%) Network Security
4 17 (3.05%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.97%) SSL
6 7 (1.26%) HTTP
7 5 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.72%) DHCP
8 4 (0.72%) Internet
8 4 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.72%) WAN
9 3 (0.54%) BGP
9 3 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
10 2 (0.36%) 3GPP
10 2 (0.36%) Anycast
10 2 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
10 2 (0.36%) Radio Access Network
10 2 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (5.21%) MongoDB
4 25 (4.49%) NoSQL
5 24 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (4.13%) DynamoDB
7 22 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (3.59%) Data Lake
9 14 (2.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (2.51%) Power BI
9 14 (2.51%) SQL Server
10 13 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.80%) MySQL
13 8 (1.44%) Redis
14 7 (1.26%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.26%) Tableau
15 6 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (24.60%) Jenkins
2 114 (20.47%) GitLab
3 65 (11.67%) Git
4 23 (4.13%) JIRA
4 23 (4.13%) SonarQube
5 14 (2.51%) JUnit
6 11 (1.97%) Cypress.io
7 10 (1.80%) Snyk
8 9 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (1.08%) Gatling
9 6 (1.08%) JMeter
9 6 (1.08%) Liquibase
9 6 (1.08%) Mockito
9 6 (1.08%) Selenium
10 5 (0.90%) Artifactory
10 5 (0.90%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.54%) Maven
11 3 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (0.54%) RStudio
General
1 151 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 90 (16.16%) Public Sector
3 78 (14.00%) Finance
4 40 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (6.10%) Banking
6 15 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (1.44%) Front Office
9 7 (1.26%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.08%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.08%) Publishing
10 6 (1.08%) Retail
11 5 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.90%) Military
12 4 (0.72%) Legal
13 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.54%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.54%) Law
13 3 (0.54%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 125 (22.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (16.16%) Senior
3 78 (14.00%) Architect
3 78 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
4 60 (10.77%) Developer
5 38 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 38 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
6 37 (6.64%) Lead
7 33 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (5.03%) Data Engineer
9 27 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
10 25 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 21 (3.77%) Cloud Architect
11 21 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 20 (3.59%) Azure Architect
12 20 (3.59%) Java Developer
12 20 (3.59%) Security Engineer
12 20 (3.59%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 20 (3.59%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.34%) Kafka
2 37 (6.64%) REST
3 36 (6.46%) Node.js
4 34 (6.10%) Spring
5 29 (5.21%) .NET
5 29 (5.21%) AWS CDK
5 29 (5.21%) React
5 29 (5.21%) Spring Boot
6 28 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (4.49%) OAuth
7 25 (4.49%) YAML
8 24 (4.31%) RESTful
9 21 (3.77%) GraphQL
10 19 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 18 (3.23%) ARM Templates
12 16 (2.87%) JSON
13 15 (2.69%) Playwright
14 14 (2.51%) Keycloak
14 14 (2.51%) OpenID
14 14 (2.51%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 113 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 51 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 15 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.97%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.80%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.62%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.62%) Replication
11 8 (1.44%) Algorithms
12 7 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.26%) NHS
13 6 (1.08%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
13 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 80 (14.36%) Linux
2 30 (5.39%) Windows
3 10 (1.80%) Unix
4 9 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (1.62%) VMS
4 9 (1.62%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.36%) SUSE
5 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Android
6 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Solaris
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (74.69%) CI/CD
2 371 (66.61%) DevOps
3 168 (30.16%) Containerisation
4 163 (29.26%) Agile
5 107 (19.21%) Observability
6 93 (16.70%) Migration
7 85 (15.26%) DevSecOps
7 85 (15.26%) Software Engineering
8 80 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (14.00%) Microservices
10 72 (12.93%) Mentoring
11 68 (12.21%) Infrastructure Automation
12 66 (11.85%) Cloud Security
13 62 (11.13%) Test Automation
14 60 (10.77%) Platform Engineering
15 59 (10.59%) Event-Driven
16 58 (10.41%) AI
17 57 (10.23%) Analytics
18 50 (8.98%) Scrum
19 48 (8.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 257 (46.14%) Python
2 109 (19.57%) Bash
3 88 (15.80%) Java
4 81 (14.54%) SQL
5 72 (12.93%) PowerShell
6 50 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 46 (8.26%) Go
8 35 (6.28%) Bicep
8 35 (6.28%) JavaScript
9 27 (4.85%) C#
10 9 (1.62%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.44%) Groovy
11 8 (1.44%) Ruby
11 8 (1.44%) Scala
12 5 (0.90%) PromQL
13 4 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.54%) C++
15 2 (0.36%) C
15 2 (0.36%) Perl
15 2 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 139 (24.96%) SC Cleared
3 40 (7.18%) AWS Certification
4 29 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.13%) Degree
6 16 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.62%) CISSP
10 8 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 7 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.72%) CISM
13 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.36%) SANS
14 2 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.28%) GDPR
2 32 (5.75%) QA
3 27 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.95%) NIST
5 17 (3.05%) Data Quality
6 15 (2.69%) Accessibility
7 13 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.26%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.26%) NCSC
9 4 (0.72%) MiFID
9 4 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.36%) GRC
10 2 (0.36%) PSD2
10 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.36%) SLA
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 197 (35.37%) Docker
2 32 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 24 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.62%) vSphere
6 4 (0.72%) Squid
6 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.72%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.54%) Snort
8 2 (0.36%) KVM
8 2 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 427 (76.66%) Terraform
2 242 (43.45%) Kubernetes
3 108 (19.39%) Ansible
3 108 (19.39%) Grafana
4 94 (16.88%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.13%) Argo
6 18 (3.23%) Istio
7 15 (2.69%) Puppet
8 11 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.80%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.44%) Kibana
11 7 (1.26%) Packer
11 7 (1.26%) Podman
12 6 (1.08%) Rancher
13 5 (0.90%) linkerd
14 4 (0.72%) Fluentd
14 4 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
14 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.72%) Nessus
14 4 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 72 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.92%) Splunk
3 31 (5.57%) Google
4 28 (5.03%) Databricks
5 26 (4.67%) Red Hat
6 25 (4.49%) VMware
7 14 (2.51%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.80%) Oracle
9 9 (1.62%) Cisco
9 9 (1.62%) Zscaler
10 8 (1.44%) F5
11 7 (1.26%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.90%) Cribl.io
12 5 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
12 5 (0.90%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.90%) Qualys
12 5 (0.90%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.90%) SAP
13 4 (0.72%) OpenAI