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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 148 137
Rank change year-on-year +77 -11 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 776 384 648
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 2.33% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 2.50% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 501 286 516
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £77,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +14.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 17,957 15,368 25,424
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.85% 93.21% 88.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,086 18,978
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,711
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,043 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.01% +0.08% -8.71%

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 23 July 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 22 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.80%) Apache
3 13 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 431 (55.54%) AWS
2 418 (53.87%) Azure
3 126 (16.24%) GCP
4 115 (14.82%) Serverless
5 109 (14.05%) GitHub
6 92 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (10.05%) PaaS
9 67 (8.63%) Cloud Computing
9 67 (8.63%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
11 54 (6.96%) Amazon S3
11 54 (6.96%) IaaS
12 52 (6.70%) SaaS
13 48 (6.19%) Azure AKS
14 43 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
15 41 (5.28%) Power Platform
16 40 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
17 39 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.66%) LAN
1 75 (9.66%) WAN
2 60 (7.73%) Firewall
3 57 (7.35%) Broadband
4 50 (6.44%) VPN
5 40 (5.15%) DNS
6 35 (4.51%) TCP/IP
7 20 (2.58%) BGP
8 17 (2.19%) Network Security
9 16 (2.06%) OSPF
10 14 (1.80%) VLAN
11 13 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (1.68%) DHCP
11 13 (1.68%) VXLAN
12 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.77%) HTTP
14 6 (0.77%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.41%) Metadata
4 29 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (3.35%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.09%) Data Lake
6 24 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.80%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.68%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.55%) MySQL
12 11 (1.42%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.29%) Redis
14 9 (1.16%) Data Vault
15 7 (0.90%) Big Data
16 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (10.31%) Git
2 49 (6.31%) GitLab
3 44 (5.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.90%) NUnit
6 6 (0.77%) JMeter
7 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.64%) JIRA
7 5 (0.64%) Locust
8 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.39%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 275 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.04%) Finance
3 73 (9.41%) Law
4 69 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 66 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (7.99%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 37 (4.77%) Banking
9 32 (4.12%) Games
10 30 (3.87%) Retail
11 18 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.80%) Marketing
13 12 (1.55%) Legal
14 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.90%) Aviation
16 7 (0.90%) Back Office
16 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.77%) Advertising
17 6 (0.77%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 195 (25.13%) Senior
2 132 (17.01%) Lead
3 126 (16.24%) Architect
4 93 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
5 90 (11.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (9.66%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (8.89%) Developer
8 67 (8.63%) Systems Architect
9 63 (8.12%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (6.57%) Software Engineer
11 48 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
12 42 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 38 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 36 (4.64%) Python Engineer
15 33 (4.25%) Data Engineer
16 31 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
17 29 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.74%) Senior Developer
18 23 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 23 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.22%) React
2 51 (6.57%) REST
3 47 (6.06%) RESTful
4 40 (5.15%) Node.js
5 39 (5.03%) .NET
6 36 (4.64%) AWS CDK
7 31 (3.99%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.35%) YAML
9 25 (3.22%) Spring
10 22 (2.84%) Next.js
11 21 (2.71%) Kafka
11 21 (2.71%) Spring Boot
12 19 (2.45%) PySpark
13 18 (2.32%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.19%) Django
14 17 (2.19%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.06%) TensorFlow
16 15 (1.93%) CSS
17 13 (1.68%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 231 (29.77%) Cloud Native
2 81 (10.44%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (5.54%) Product Ownership
5 39 (5.03%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.12%) Low-Code
7 31 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (3.35%) Data Centre
8 26 (3.35%) Security Posture
9 20 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (2.45%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.32%) Podcast
12 14 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.68%) Replication
13 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.55%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.42%) Blog
16 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 95 (12.24%) Linux
2 50 (6.44%) Windows
3 19 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.80%) Unix
5 13 (1.68%) VMS
6 5 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (68.81%) CI/CD
2 395 (50.90%) DevOps
3 259 (33.38%) Observability
4 252 (32.47%) Containerisation
5 214 (27.58%) Mentoring
6 212 (27.32%) Agile
7 202 (26.03%) AI
7 202 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (22.94%) Platform Engineering
9 176 (22.68%) Technical Leadership
10 171 (22.04%) Software Engineering
11 163 (21.01%) Roadmaps
12 141 (18.17%) Test Automation
13 137 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 121 (15.59%) Microservices
15 103 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
16 99 (12.76%) Analytics
17 95 (12.24%) Machine Learning
18 88 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 82 (10.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 335 (43.17%) Python
2 99 (12.76%) Bicep
3 97 (12.50%) Bash
4 96 (12.37%) SQL
5 93 (11.98%) PowerShell
6 88 (11.34%) Java
7 75 (9.66%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.76%) Go
9 62 (7.99%) JavaScript
10 43 (5.54%) C#
11 14 (1.80%) Scala
12 13 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.42%) Ruby
14 9 (1.16%) PHP
15 7 (0.90%) C++
15 7 (0.90%) Groovy
16 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.52%) Rust
17 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 109 (14.05%) Security Cleared
2 99 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.28%) Azure Certification
4 56 (7.22%) Degree
5 28 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.68%) CCNP
11 10 (1.29%) SnowPro
12 9 (1.16%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.03%) CCNA
14 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.64%) CCIE
16 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
16 4 (0.52%) MCSE
16 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
16 4 (0.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.60%) GRC
2 40 (5.15%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.15%) QA
3 16 (2.06%) GDPR
4 13 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.29%) NIST
5 10 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.64%) WCAG
8 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
9 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 159 (20.49%) Docker
2 41 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.96%) vSphere
5 13 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.52%) Firmware
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 424 (54.64%) Terraform
2 228 (29.38%) Kubernetes
3 87 (11.21%) Ansible
4 74 (9.54%) Grafana
5 48 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.58%) Argo
7 15 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.80%) Istio
9 13 (1.68%) Puppet
10 9 (1.16%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.16%) Proxmox
10 9 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.52%) linkerd
13 4 (0.52%) Packer
14 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 213 (27.45%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.15%) VMware
3 37 (4.77%) Google
4 30 (3.87%) Cisco
5 27 (3.48%) Palo Alto
6 25 (3.22%) Databricks
7 19 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.19%) Oracle
9 16 (2.06%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.55%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.42%) F5
11 11 (1.42%) Splunk
12 10 (1.29%) Okta
13 9 (1.16%) Informatica
14 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.90%) Arista
15 7 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.77%) NetApp
16 6 (0.77%) Zscaler