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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 104 67
Rank change year-on-year +18 -37 +24
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 485 581 885
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 3.06% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.36% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 334 356 750
10th Percentile £46,462 £41,594 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £96,539
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,987 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,829 17,295 19,528
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.19% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,722 10,452 15,784
10th Percentile £29,750 £36,250 £36,346
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 December 2025.

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 18 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.24%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.03%) Apache
5 5 (1.03%) Confluence
6 3 (0.62%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 340 (70.10%) Azure
2 261 (53.81%) AWS
3 132 (27.22%) Azure DevOps
4 122 (25.15%) GitHub
5 90 (18.56%) GCP
6 86 (17.73%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (17.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 74 (15.26%) Serverless
9 54 (11.13%) Azure Monitor
10 53 (10.93%) SaaS
11 50 (10.31%) Entra ID
12 48 (9.90%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 42 (8.66%) PaaS
15 38 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
15 38 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
16 37 (7.63%) IaaS
17 36 (7.42%) Amazon ECS
18 35 (7.22%) Amazon S3
19 30 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 56 (11.55%) Firewall
2 43 (8.87%) VPN
3 26 (5.36%) DNS
4 25 (5.15%) WAN
5 22 (4.54%) Network Security
5 22 (4.54%) TCP/IP
6 21 (4.33%) LAN
7 14 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (2.47%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.86%) BGP
10 8 (1.65%) DHCP
10 8 (1.65%) VLAN
11 7 (1.44%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.44%) VoIP
12 6 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.82%) Broadband
13 4 (0.82%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.82%) Wireless
13 4 (0.82%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.62%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.19%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (4.54%) NoSQL
3 21 (4.33%) Data Lake
4 20 (4.12%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (3.71%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.71%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.68%) Redis
8 12 (2.47%) MySQL
9 11 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.24%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.24%) Power BI
13 5 (1.03%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.62%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 65 (13.40%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.25%) GitLab
3 38 (7.84%) Git
4 10 (2.06%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.86%) JIRA
6 7 (1.44%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.24%) git-flow
8 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.62%) JMeter
11 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
12 1 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.21%) Locust
12 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.21%) Selenium
12 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 143 (29.48%) Finance
2 112 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.25%) Law
4 38 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (7.63%) Banking
6 30 (6.19%) Retail
7 27 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.74%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.89%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.68%) Legal
11 12 (2.47%) Back Office
12 7 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.44%) Games
12 7 (1.44%) Marketing
12 7 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.03%) Advertising
13 5 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.82%) Billing
15 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 121 (24.95%) Senior
2 82 (16.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (14.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 55 (11.34%) Architect
5 54 (11.13%) Azure Engineer
6 53 (10.93%) Lead
7 41 (8.45%) Platform Engineer
8 40 (8.25%) Developer
9 36 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (4.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.12%) AWS Engineer
12 19 (3.92%) Cloud Architect
13 18 (3.71%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
13 18 (3.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 16 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 16 (3.30%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.09%) Infrastructure Architect
15 15 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
16 13 (2.68%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (9.90%) .NET
2 36 (7.42%) React
3 25 (5.15%) OAuth
4 22 (4.54%) RESTful
4 22 (4.54%) YAML
5 21 (4.33%) Node.js
6 17 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (3.09%) OAuth2
8 14 (2.89%) AWS CDK
8 14 (2.89%) Django
8 14 (2.89%) JSON
9 13 (2.68%) CSS
10 12 (2.47%) HTML
10 12 (2.47%) Kafka
11 11 (2.27%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.27%) REST
12 10 (2.06%) OpenAPI
12 10 (2.06%) Swagger
12 10 (2.06%) Vue
13 9 (1.86%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 122 (25.15%) Cloud Native
2 41 (8.45%) Public Cloud
3 32 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 30 (6.19%) Data Centre
5 29 (5.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 24 (4.95%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (3.92%) Security Posture
9 17 (3.51%) Onboarding
10 16 (3.30%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (2.27%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 7 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
15 7 (1.44%) Operational Technology
16 6 (1.24%) Blog
16 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
17 5 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
18 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (18.56%) Linux
2 53 (10.93%) Windows
3 20 (4.12%) Unix
4 16 (3.30%) VMS
5 10 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.44%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.62%) CentOS
8 3 (0.62%) Debian
9 2 (0.41%) Android
9 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (72.37%) DevOps
2 330 (68.04%) CI/CD
3 165 (34.02%) Agile
4 123 (25.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 114 (23.51%) Observability
6 92 (18.97%) Mentoring
6 92 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
7 89 (18.35%) Containerisation
8 86 (17.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 79 (16.29%) Analytics
10 78 (16.08%) Cloud Security
10 78 (16.08%) Coaching
11 69 (14.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 68 (14.02%) Roadmaps
13 67 (13.81%) AI
13 67 (13.81%) Incident Response
14 63 (12.99%) Asset Management
14 63 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
15 61 (12.58%) Software Engineering
16 53 (10.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 181 (37.32%) Python
2 117 (24.12%) PowerShell
3 92 (18.97%) Bash
4 83 (17.11%) Bicep
5 76 (15.67%) SQL
6 38 (7.84%) C#
7 34 (7.01%) JavaScript
8 33 (6.80%) TypeScript
9 25 (5.15%) Go
10 24 (4.95%) Java
11 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.62%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.62%) Scala
13 2 (0.41%) Groovy
13 2 (0.41%) PHP
13 2 (0.41%) XAML
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 71 (14.64%) Security Cleared
2 54 (11.13%) Azure Certification
3 53 (10.93%) SC Cleared
4 48 (9.90%) AWS Certification
5 29 (5.98%) Degree
6 19 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.30%) CCNP
8 16 (3.30%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.44%) PMP
11 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.03%) OSCP
12 4 (0.82%) CISSP
12 4 (0.82%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.82%) OSCE
13 3 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (5.77%) NIST
3 27 (5.57%) GDPR
4 17 (3.51%) SOC 2
5 16 (3.30%) PCI DSS
6 15 (3.09%) QA
7 11 (2.27%) Data Quality
8 10 (2.06%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.65%) SLA
10 6 (1.24%) GRC
11 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.82%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 132 (27.22%) Docker
2 24 (4.95%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (4.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (4.12%) Active Directory
6 12 (2.47%) vSphere
7 9 (1.86%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.24%) NFS
9 4 (0.82%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.62%) Firmware
10 3 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.41%) vCloud
12 1 (0.21%) HDFS
12 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 353 (72.78%) Terraform
2 170 (35.05%) Kubernetes
3 105 (21.65%) Ansible
4 62 (12.78%) Grafana
5 49 (10.10%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.27%) Argo
8 8 (1.65%) SCOM
9 4 (0.82%) Cilium
10 3 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.62%) logstash
11 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.21%) Icinga
12 1 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 113 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.98%) VMware
3 23 (4.74%) Cisco
4 20 (4.12%) Databricks
5 19 (3.92%) Google
6 16 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.47%) Ab Initio
8 11 (2.27%) Oracle
8 11 (2.27%) Splunk
9 9 (1.86%) New Relic
10 7 (1.44%) Commvault
10 7 (1.44%) Pure Storage
11 6 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.24%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.82%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.82%) Dell
13 4 (0.82%) Foundry
13 4 (0.82%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.82%) Zscaler