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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 114 98
Rank change year-on-year +38 -16 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 548 461 862
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 3.01% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.17% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 351 291 738
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -3.33%

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 14,069 14,554 25,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.89% 94.92% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,144 8,791 21,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 22 February 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 14 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.46%) Apache
5 4 (0.73%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 325 (59.31%) Azure
2 320 (58.39%) AWS
3 135 (24.64%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (23.72%) GitHub
5 96 (17.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 96 (17.52%) GCP
6 95 (17.34%) GitHub Actions
7 84 (15.33%) Serverless
8 62 (11.31%) Azure Monitor
9 59 (10.77%) Entra ID
10 55 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (9.49%) SaaS
12 50 (9.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (8.94%) PaaS
14 47 (8.58%) Amazon S3
14 47 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (7.66%) IaaS
16 39 (7.12%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
18 35 (6.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.13%) Firewall
2 40 (7.30%) VPN
3 31 (5.66%) Broadband
4 24 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.65%) DNS
6 12 (2.19%) BGP
6 12 (2.19%) Network Security
7 11 (2.01%) WAN
8 10 (1.82%) VLAN
9 8 (1.46%) Cisco ASA
10 7 (1.28%) DHCP
10 7 (1.28%) LAN
11 6 (1.09%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.73%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.55%) VoIP
15 2 (0.36%) DSL
15 2 (0.36%) IPsec
15 2 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (7.48%) NoSQL
2 37 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
3 31 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.20%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.83%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.47%) RDBMS
8 17 (3.10%) Redis
9 16 (2.92%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.55%) MySQL
11 13 (2.37%) Delta Lake
12 12 (2.19%) DynamoDB
12 12 (2.19%) Metadata
13 10 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
13 10 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.64%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
16 4 (0.73%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (10.04%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.75%) GitLab
3 36 (6.57%) Git
4 19 (3.47%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.64%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.46%) JIRA
6 8 (1.46%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.09%) git-flow
8 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.91%) Storybook
9 4 (0.73%) JMeter
9 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.55%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.55%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 154 (28.10%) Finance
2 131 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 53 (9.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 52 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (8.58%) Banking
5 47 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 42 (7.66%) Retail
7 41 (7.48%) Law
8 24 (4.38%) Financial Institution
8 24 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.65%) Back Office
10 16 (2.92%) Billing
11 10 (1.82%) Legal
12 9 (1.64%) Marketing
13 7 (1.28%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.28%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.09%) Games
15 5 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.91%) Military
15 5 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (25.18%) Senior
2 91 (16.61%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (15.69%) Lead
4 66 (12.04%) Platform Engineer
5 61 (11.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (10.58%) Azure Engineer
7 52 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 48 (8.76%) Developer
9 40 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (6.20%) Architect
11 25 (4.56%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
13 21 (3.83%) Data Engineer
14 20 (3.65%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.65%) Lead DevOps
15 18 (3.28%) Full-Stack Developer
15 18 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (2.92%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 15 (2.74%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.39%) React
2 40 (7.30%) .NET
3 35 (6.39%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (5.66%) RESTful
5 28 (5.11%) Node.js
6 26 (4.74%) OAuth
7 23 (4.20%) YAML
8 22 (4.01%) Spring
9 21 (3.83%) Django
9 21 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (3.65%) AWS CDK
11 19 (3.47%) JSON
11 19 (3.47%) OpenAPI
11 19 (3.47%) Swagger
12 18 (3.28%) Spring Boot
13 17 (3.10%) CSS
14 16 (2.92%) GraphQL
14 16 (2.92%) HTML
14 16 (2.92%) REST
15 15 (2.74%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (5.84%) Data Centre
3 32 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.93%) Public Cloud
5 22 (4.01%) Security Posture
6 21 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.65%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.92%) Blog
9 16 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.55%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.19%) Mobile App
12 11 (2.01%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.09%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (23.36%) Linux
2 51 (9.31%) Windows
3 48 (8.76%) Unix
4 12 (2.19%) VMS
4 12 (2.19%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.82%) Android
5 10 (1.82%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.91%) CentOS
9 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.36%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (68.43%) DevOps
2 368 (67.15%) CI/CD
3 178 (32.48%) Agile
4 156 (28.47%) Mentoring
5 146 (26.64%) Observability
6 136 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 125 (22.81%) Containerisation
8 98 (17.88%) Platform Engineering
9 97 (17.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 97 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (17.34%) Coaching
11 86 (15.69%) Roadmaps
12 82 (14.96%) Software Engineering
13 81 (14.78%) Analytics
14 80 (14.60%) AI
15 74 (13.50%) Cloud Security
16 72 (13.14%) Incident Response
17 61 (11.13%) Asset Management
17 61 (11.13%) High Availability
18 60 (10.95%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 220 (40.15%) Python
2 108 (19.71%) PowerShell
3 106 (19.34%) Bash
4 81 (14.78%) Bicep
5 75 (13.69%) Java
5 75 (13.69%) SQL
6 55 (10.04%) Go
6 55 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 39 (7.12%) TypeScript
8 34 (6.20%) C#
9 12 (2.19%) Scala
10 6 (1.09%) Apex Code
11 5 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.55%) Rust
13 2 (0.36%) C++
13 2 (0.36%) Ruby
13 2 (0.36%) VB
14 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 84 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.95%) AWS Certification
4 43 (7.85%) Azure Certification
5 34 (6.20%) Degree
6 17 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.28%) CCNP
9 7 (1.28%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.91%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.91%) OSCP
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 4 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.73%) OSCE
12 3 (0.55%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.74%) GDPR
3 25 (4.56%) PCI DSS
4 24 (4.38%) SOC 2
5 22 (4.01%) NIST
6 20 (3.65%) Data Quality
7 17 (3.10%) QA
8 16 (2.92%) Accessibility
9 8 (1.46%) SLA
10 6 (1.09%) GRC
11 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.73%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 169 (30.84%) Docker
2 28 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.74%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (2.37%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.19%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.64%) vSphere
9 4 (0.73%) Firmware
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) vCloud
11 1 (0.18%) HDFS
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
11 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (71.53%) Terraform
2 194 (35.40%) Kubernetes
3 122 (22.26%) Ansible
4 74 (13.50%) Prometheus
5 73 (13.32%) Grafana
6 26 (4.74%) Argo
7 19 (3.47%) Kustomize
8 18 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.64%) Puppet
11 6 (1.09%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.09%) SCOM
12 5 (0.91%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.91%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.73%) Cilium
13 4 (0.73%) logstash
13 4 (0.73%) Packer
13 4 (0.73%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 97 (17.70%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.21%) Google
3 42 (7.66%) VMware
4 20 (3.65%) Databricks
5 19 (3.47%) Cisco
6 15 (2.74%) Splunk
7 14 (2.55%) Ab Initio
8 11 (2.01%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.64%) New Relic
10 8 (1.46%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.28%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.28%) Oracle
11 7 (1.28%) Palo Alto
12 5 (0.91%) Dell
13 4 (0.73%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.73%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.73%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.73%) Zscaler