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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 163 132
Rank change year-on-year +92 -31 -48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 648 343 769
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.38% 2.34% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 2.47% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 429 243 650
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,800 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 15,852 13,879 29,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.70% 94.80% 90.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,330 8,122 23,480
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,025 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -9.84%

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 29 May 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 18 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.16%) Apache
3 12 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.77%) Confluence
4 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.31%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 399 (61.57%) AWS
2 300 (46.30%) Azure
3 104 (16.05%) GitHub
4 102 (15.74%) GCP
5 97 (14.97%) Serverless
6 93 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (12.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.87%) PaaS
10 50 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
11 48 (7.41%) Amazon S3
12 46 (7.10%) SaaS
13 45 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
14 43 (6.64%) Azure Monitor
15 41 (6.33%) Azure AKS
16 40 (6.17%) IaaS
17 38 (5.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (5.86%) Entra ID
18 35 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (5.09%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.65%) Firewall
2 63 (9.72%) Broadband
3 32 (4.94%) DNS
4 28 (4.32%) VPN
5 27 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.93%) BGP
7 17 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.16%) LAN
9 13 (2.01%) WAN
10 12 (1.85%) VLAN
11 11 (1.70%) OSPF
12 10 (1.54%) DHCP
12 10 (1.54%) Network Security
13 8 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.23%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.93%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.93%) WebEx
15 5 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (12.04%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 36 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 33 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (5.09%) NoSQL
5 29 (4.48%) Metadata
6 26 (4.01%) Data Lake
7 24 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.93%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.16%) Delta Lake
9 14 (2.16%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 11 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.70%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.54%) MySQL
13 9 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.39%) Redis
14 8 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 69 (10.65%) Git
2 47 (7.25%) GitLab
3 36 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.78%) Jaeger
5 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.93%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.93%) JIRA
6 6 (0.93%) JMeter
6 6 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.77%) Locust
7 5 (0.77%) NUnit
7 5 (0.77%) Storybook
8 4 (0.62%) Selenium
8 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 2 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.31%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 104 (16.05%) Finance
3 65 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.10%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.17%) Banking
7 34 (5.25%) Retail
8 30 (4.63%) Law
9 22 (3.40%) Games
9 22 (3.40%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.62%) Billing
11 12 (1.85%) Back Office
11 12 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.85%) Marketing
12 10 (1.54%) Legal
12 10 (1.54%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.08%) Aviation
14 7 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 163 (25.15%) Senior
2 128 (19.75%) Lead
3 89 (13.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 83 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (11.27%) Platform Engineer
6 67 (10.34%) Developer
7 59 (9.10%) AWS Engineer
8 53 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
9 50 (7.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (7.25%) Software Engineer
11 37 (5.71%) Architect
12 33 (5.09%) Data Engineer
13 32 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 32 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (4.17%) Python Engineer
15 26 (4.01%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.55%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 19 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.93%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.87%) React
2 45 (6.94%) REST
3 41 (6.33%) Node.js
4 40 (6.17%) RESTful
5 38 (5.86%) .NET
6 33 (5.09%) AWS CDK
6 33 (5.09%) Spring
7 27 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 26 (4.01%) YAML
9 23 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
9 23 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (3.24%) ARM Templates
11 20 (3.09%) Kafka
12 18 (2.78%) Django
13 17 (2.62%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.62%) React Native
14 16 (2.47%) CSS
14 16 (2.47%) FastAPI
14 16 (2.47%) Next.js
14 16 (2.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 181 (27.93%) Cloud Native
2 57 (8.80%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 39 (6.02%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (4.01%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.55%) Low-Code
8 21 (3.24%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.24%) Security Posture
9 20 (3.09%) Mobile App
10 18 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.47%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (2.16%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.85%) Blog
15 10 (1.54%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.39%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.36%) Linux
2 35 (5.40%) Windows
3 32 (4.94%) Unix
4 22 (3.40%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.85%) Android
6 11 (1.70%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.31%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (70.68%) CI/CD
2 386 (59.57%) DevOps
3 213 (32.87%) Observability
4 205 (31.64%) Mentoring
5 201 (31.02%) Agile
6 186 (28.70%) Containerisation
7 161 (24.85%) Platform Engineering
8 151 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 137 (21.14%) Software Engineering
10 136 (20.99%) AI
11 128 (19.75%) Technical Leadership
12 124 (19.14%) Test Automation
13 106 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (15.74%) Microservices
15 96 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 93 (14.35%) Roadmaps
17 89 (13.73%) Full-Stack Development
18 77 (11.88%) Analytics
19 68 (10.49%) Machine Learning
20 66 (10.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 290 (44.75%) Python
2 106 (16.36%) Java
3 103 (15.90%) Bash
4 79 (12.19%) PowerShell
5 75 (11.57%) JavaScript
6 72 (11.11%) SQL
7 68 (10.49%) Go
8 67 (10.34%) TypeScript
9 64 (9.88%) Bicep
10 40 (6.17%) C#
11 15 (2.31%) Scala
12 9 (1.39%) C++
13 6 (0.93%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.93%) PHP
13 6 (0.93%) Ruby
14 5 (0.77%) Rust
15 4 (0.62%) Groovy
16 2 (0.31%) C
16 2 (0.31%) Perl
16 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 88 (13.58%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.49%) Degree
4 49 (7.56%) Azure Certification
5 45 (6.94%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.01%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.39%) CCNP
10 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.93%) CCNA
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.62%) LPIC
12 4 (0.62%) MCSE
12 4 (0.62%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.62%) VCAP
12 4 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.25%) QA
2 29 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.47%) GDPR
4 16 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.31%) PCI DSS
6 14 (2.16%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.39%) NIST
8 5 (0.77%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS
10 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.15%) GRC
11 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (26.39%) Docker
2 26 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.01%) vSphere
5 11 (1.70%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.62%) Firmware
9 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 398 (61.42%) Terraform
2 226 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.82%) Ansible
4 71 (10.96%) Grafana
4 71 (10.96%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.09%) Argo
6 22 (3.40%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.16%) Puppet
8 13 (2.01%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.23%) Istio
10 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.77%) Packer
12 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.94%) Google
3 40 (6.17%) VMware
4 31 (4.78%) Cisco
5 23 (3.55%) Palo Alto
6 20 (3.09%) Databricks
7 17 (2.62%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.85%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.70%) F5
10 11 (1.70%) Splunk
11 8 (1.23%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.08%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.93%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.93%) Juniper
13 6 (0.93%) NetApp
13 6 (0.93%) Oracle
14 5 (0.77%) Arista
14 5 (0.77%) SolarWinds