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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 157 134
Rank change year-on-year +86 -23 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 653 341 761
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 2.30% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 2.43% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 433 241 641
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 £98,700 £100,000 £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 15,885 14,034 29,900
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.77% 94.81% 90.07%
Number of salaries quoted 11,369 8,239 23,472
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,450 £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 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 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 20 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.45%) Apache
3 14 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.77%) Confluence
4 5 (0.77%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
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 (0.61%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (61.56%) AWS
2 299 (45.79%) Azure
3 104 (15.93%) GitHub
4 102 (15.62%) GCP
5 97 (14.85%) Serverless
6 92 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (12.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (10.57%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.81%) PaaS
10 50 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (7.66%) Amazon S3
11 47 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
12 46 (7.04%) SaaS
13 43 (6.58%) Azure Monitor
14 41 (6.28%) Azure AKS
15 40 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 40 (6.13%) IaaS
16 38 (5.82%) Entra ID
17 35 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.57%) Firewall
2 64 (9.80%) Broadband
3 33 (5.05%) DNS
4 29 (4.44%) VPN
5 28 (4.29%) TCP/IP
6 20 (3.06%) BGP
7 17 (2.60%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.14%) LAN
9 13 (1.99%) VLAN
9 13 (1.99%) WAN
10 12 (1.84%) OSPF
11 11 (1.68%) Network Security
12 10 (1.53%) DHCP
13 9 (1.38%) VXLAN
14 8 (1.23%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
15 6 (0.92%) WebEx
16 5 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
16 5 (0.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.67%) Relational Database
3 36 (5.51%) MongoDB
4 33 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 29 (4.44%) Metadata
6 27 (4.13%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.91%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.30%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.14%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
12 11 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.68%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (1.53%) MySQL
14 9 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.38%) Big Data
14 9 (1.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 69 (10.57%) Git
2 49 (7.50%) GitLab
3 36 (5.51%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.92%) JIRA
6 6 (0.92%) JMeter
6 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.77%) Locust
7 5 (0.77%) NUnit
7 5 (0.77%) Storybook
8 4 (0.61%) Selenium
8 4 (0.61%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.31%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (26.34%) Social Skills
2 105 (16.08%) Finance
3 67 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.13%) Banking
7 34 (5.21%) Retail
8 30 (4.59%) Law
9 22 (3.37%) Games
9 22 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.60%) Billing
11 12 (1.84%) Back Office
11 12 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.84%) Marketing
12 10 (1.53%) Legal
12 10 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.07%) Aviation
14 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 163 (24.96%) Senior
2 130 (19.91%) Lead
3 89 (13.63%) Cloud Engineer
4 83 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 74 (11.33%) Platform Engineer
6 68 (10.41%) Developer
7 59 (9.04%) AWS Engineer
8 52 (7.96%) Azure Engineer
9 49 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (7.20%) Software Engineer
11 37 (5.67%) Architect
12 34 (5.21%) Data Engineer
13 32 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 32 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (4.13%) Python Engineer
15 26 (3.98%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.52%) Senior Developer
16 23 (3.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 20 (3.06%) Technical Leader
18 19 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.81%) React
2 45 (6.89%) REST
3 41 (6.28%) Node.js
3 41 (6.28%) RESTful
4 38 (5.82%) .NET
5 33 (5.05%) AWS CDK
5 33 (5.05%) Spring
6 27 (4.13%) Spring Boot
7 26 (3.98%) YAML
8 23 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
8 23 (3.52%) OpenTelemetry
9 21 (3.22%) ARM Templates
10 20 (3.06%) Kafka
11 18 (2.76%) Django
12 17 (2.60%) PyTorch
12 17 (2.60%) React Native
13 16 (2.45%) FastAPI
13 16 (2.45%) Next.js
13 16 (2.45%) PySpark
13 16 (2.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 184 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 59 (9.04%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.97%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.98%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.52%) Low-Code
8 21 (3.22%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.22%) Security Posture
9 20 (3.06%) Mobile App
10 18 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.45%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.84%) Blog
15 10 (1.53%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.38%) Replication
16 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 119 (18.22%) Linux
2 34 (5.21%) Windows
3 32 (4.90%) Unix
4 22 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.84%) Android
6 11 (1.68%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.31%) CentOS
9 2 (0.31%) VMS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (70.75%) CI/CD
2 388 (59.42%) DevOps
3 214 (32.77%) Observability
4 206 (31.55%) Mentoring
5 204 (31.24%) Agile
6 191 (29.25%) Containerisation
7 163 (24.96%) Platform Engineering
8 154 (23.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 138 (21.13%) Software Engineering
10 137 (20.98%) AI
11 129 (19.75%) Technical Leadership
12 126 (19.30%) Test Automation
13 108 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (15.77%) Microservices
15 95 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 93 (14.24%) Roadmaps
17 89 (13.63%) Full-Stack Development
18 79 (12.10%) Analytics
19 69 (10.57%) Machine Learning
20 67 (10.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 294 (45.02%) Python
2 108 (16.54%) Java
3 105 (16.08%) Bash
4 80 (12.25%) PowerShell
5 76 (11.64%) JavaScript
6 75 (11.49%) SQL
7 68 (10.41%) Go
8 67 (10.26%) TypeScript
9 63 (9.65%) Bicep
10 40 (6.13%) C#
11 15 (2.30%) Scala
12 9 (1.38%) C++
13 7 (1.07%) PHP
14 6 (0.92%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.92%) Ruby
15 5 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.61%) Groovy
17 2 (0.31%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.31%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 98 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 91 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.42%) Degree
4 49 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 45 (6.89%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.06%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.38%) CCNP
10 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.61%) LPIC
12 4 (0.61%) MCSE
12 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.61%) VCAP
12 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.36%) QA
2 30 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 17 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 16 (2.45%) GDPR
4 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 14 (2.14%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.38%) 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
1 173 (26.49%) Docker
2 26 (3.98%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.99%) vSphere
5 11 (1.68%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.61%) Firmware
9 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 399 (61.10%) Terraform
2 228 (34.92%) Kubernetes
3 110 (16.85%) Ansible
4 72 (11.03%) Grafana
4 72 (11.03%) Prometheus
5 33 (5.05%) Argo
6 22 (3.37%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.14%) Puppet
8 13 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.23%) Istio
10 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.92%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.77%) Packer
12 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.31%) logstash
Vendors
1 108 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.89%) Google
3 40 (6.13%) VMware
4 31 (4.75%) Cisco
5 24 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 20 (3.06%) Databricks
7 18 (2.76%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.99%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.84%) Splunk
10 11 (1.68%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.92%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.92%) Juniper
13 6 (0.92%) NetApp
13 6 (0.92%) Oracle
14 5 (0.77%) Dynatrace
14 5 (0.77%) SolarWinds