Hybrid/Remote Infrastructure as Code Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 132 142
Rank change year-on-year +62 +10 -71
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 820 398 570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.51% 2.43% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 2.61% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 537 302 387
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.70% -4.83%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,121
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,145 15,240 21,286
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.96% 92.98% 87.58%
Number of salaries quoted 13,809 8,865 14,207
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,075
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.92% -6.54%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Infrastructure as Code salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work 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 21 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (2.07%) Apache
3 15 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 457 (55.73%) Azure
2 444 (54.15%) AWS
3 154 (18.78%) GCP
4 123 (15.00%) GitHub
5 109 (13.29%) Serverless
6 101 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (8.78%) PaaS
9 70 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
10 69 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (7.68%) Cloud Computing
12 59 (7.20%) Azure AKS
13 55 (6.71%) Amazon S3
13 55 (6.71%) IaaS
13 55 (6.71%) SaaS
14 48 (5.85%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
16 41 (5.00%) Power Platform
17 38 (4.63%) Entra ID
18 35 (4.27%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.27%) WAN
2 74 (9.02%) LAN
3 62 (7.56%) Firewall
4 51 (6.22%) DNS
5 50 (6.10%) VPN
6 49 (5.98%) Broadband
7 45 (5.49%) TCP/IP
8 25 (3.05%) DHCP
9 19 (2.32%) BGP
10 17 (2.07%) Network Security
10 17 (2.07%) OSPF
11 14 (1.71%) VXLAN
12 11 (1.34%) VLAN
13 9 (1.10%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
15 6 (0.73%) HTTP
15 6 (0.73%) Wireless
16 5 (0.61%) Unified Communications
16 5 (0.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.37%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.00%) Metadata
4 31 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.41%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.29%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (2.80%) DynamoDB
9 20 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
9 20 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (2.44%) Delta Lake
10 16 (1.95%) Data Vault
11 15 (1.83%) MySQL
12 14 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
13 12 (1.46%) NoSQL
14 11 (1.34%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.98%) Big Data
16 5 (0.61%) Redis
17 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 83 (10.12%) Git
2 52 (6.34%) GitLab
3 45 (5.49%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.10%) NUnit
5 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.73%) JIRA
7 5 (0.61%) Selenium
8 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
9 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.37%) JMeter
9 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 3 (0.37%) Poetry
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.24%) MSI
10 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 308 (37.56%) Social Skills
2 187 (22.80%) Finance
3 80 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.41%) Law
5 65 (7.93%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (5.12%) Banking
9 35 (4.27%) Games
10 23 (2.80%) Retail
11 21 (2.56%) Legal
12 15 (1.83%) Marketing
13 13 (1.59%) Local Government
13 13 (1.59%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.34%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.85%) Aviation
17 6 (0.73%) Legal Technology
18 5 (0.61%) Advertising
18 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 226 (27.56%) Senior
2 136 (16.59%) Architect
3 130 (15.85%) Lead
4 99 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
4 99 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (9.39%) Azure Engineer
6 69 (8.41%) Platform Engineer
7 68 (8.29%) Developer
8 67 (8.17%) Systems Architect
9 62 (7.56%) Software Engineer
10 51 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (5.24%) Python Engineer
12 40 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (4.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.39%) Site Engineer
16 34 (4.15%) Data Engineer
17 29 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.54%) Technical Leader
18 27 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 466 (56.83%) Terraform
2 68 (8.29%) React
3 50 (6.10%) Node.js
3 50 (6.10%) REST
3 50 (6.10%) RESTful
4 44 (5.37%) .NET
5 38 (4.63%) AWS CDK
6 29 (3.54%) ARM Templates
7 28 (3.41%) Kafka
7 28 (3.41%) PySpark
8 23 (2.80%) Next.js
8 23 (2.80%) YAML
9 20 (2.44%) CSS
10 19 (2.32%) Spring
11 16 (1.95%) FastAPI
12 14 (1.71%) AngularJS
13 13 (1.59%) .NET Core
13 13 (1.59%) OpenTelemetry
13 13 (1.59%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 234 (28.54%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.22%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (5.98%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
6 39 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 33 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.78%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.54%) Security Posture
10 26 (3.17%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.20%) Podcast
12 17 (2.07%) Blog
13 15 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.83%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.71%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.46%) Mobile App
15 12 (1.46%) Replication
16 11 (1.34%) PKI
17 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 97 (11.83%) Linux
2 63 (7.68%) Windows
3 31 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.80%) Unix
5 13 (1.59%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (68.17%) CI/CD
2 404 (49.27%) DevOps
3 282 (34.39%) Observability
4 259 (31.59%) Containerisation
5 238 (29.02%) Mentoring
6 225 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (26.10%) Agile
8 213 (25.98%) AI
9 202 (24.63%) Software Engineering
10 183 (22.32%) Technical Leadership
11 180 (21.95%) Platform Engineering
12 164 (20.00%) Roadmaps
13 145 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (15.49%) Test Automation
15 121 (14.76%) Analytics
16 119 (14.51%) Microservices
17 110 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
18 97 (11.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 96 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 95 (11.59%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 346 (42.20%) Python
2 119 (14.51%) Bicep
3 112 (13.66%) PowerShell
4 105 (12.80%) SQL
5 96 (11.71%) Bash
6 83 (10.12%) Java
6 83 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 72 (8.78%) Go
8 60 (7.32%) JavaScript
9 47 (5.73%) C#
10 20 (2.44%) Scala
11 13 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.59%) Ruby
12 8 (0.98%) PHP
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Rust
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 132 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 120 (14.63%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.49%) Azure Certification
4 59 (7.20%) Degree
5 37 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 26 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (3.05%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.07%) SnowPro
10 15 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.59%) CCNP
12 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
12 7 (0.85%) CCNA
13 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.73%) CCIE
13 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.37%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.07%) GRC
2 49 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.78%) QA
4 15 (1.83%) GDPR
4 15 (1.83%) NIST
5 14 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.10%) SLA
7 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.61%) NCSC
8 5 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.24%) WCAG
10 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 156 (19.02%) Docker
2 50 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 36 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.80%) vSphere
5 22 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 217 (26.46%) Kubernetes
2 91 (11.10%) Ansible
3 77 (9.39%) Grafana
4 47 (5.73%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.68%) Argo
6 18 (2.20%) Istio
7 14 (1.71%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.22%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.98%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.98%) Puppet
10 7 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.61%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.49%) linkerd
13 3 (0.37%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Packer
13 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.24%) MIIS
Vendors
1 256 (31.22%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.59%) Google
3 39 (4.76%) VMware
4 30 (3.66%) Databricks
5 24 (2.93%) Cisco
6 23 (2.80%) Palo Alto
7 20 (2.44%) Oracle
8 17 (2.07%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.95%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.83%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.59%) Splunk
12 12 (1.46%) Informatica
12 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.46%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.34%) Okta
14 8 (0.98%) Arista
14 8 (0.98%) F5
14 8 (0.98%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.85%) NetApp
16 6 (0.73%) SolarWinds