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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 129 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 -60 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 392 595 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.42% 2.57% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.93% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 294 379 858
10th Percentile £52,325 £40,000 £47,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £70,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,419
90th Percentile £101,250 £103,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -3.07%

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 15,073 20,325 24,017
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 87.67% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8,550 12,689 19,809
10th Percentile £29,913 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,512 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +2.16%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Infrastructure as Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure as Code trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure as Code.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Infrastructure as Code salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.53%) Apache
4 2 (0.51%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.51%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 245 (62.50%) Azure
2 217 (55.36%) AWS
3 94 (23.98%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (17.35%) GCP
5 63 (16.07%) Serverless
6 60 (15.31%) GitHub
7 54 (13.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 53 (13.52%) SaaS
9 49 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (11.73%) Entra ID
11 43 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (10.97%) PaaS
12 39 (9.95%) Azure Monitor
13 38 (9.69%) Microsoft 365
14 36 (9.18%) IaaS
15 33 (8.42%) Power Automate
15 33 (8.42%) Power Platform
16 32 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 29 (7.40%) Amazon S3
18 26 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 61 (15.56%) Firewall
2 56 (14.29%) WAN
3 51 (13.01%) VPN
4 38 (9.69%) DNS
5 33 (8.42%) LAN
6 29 (7.40%) SD-WAN
7 20 (5.10%) Network Security
8 12 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (2.30%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.79%) BGP
10 7 (1.79%) DHCP
11 6 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (1.53%) Unified Communications
11 6 (1.53%) VoIP
12 5 (1.28%) OSPF
13 4 (1.02%) SAN
13 4 (1.02%) VLAN
13 4 (1.02%) Wireless
14 3 (0.77%) Broadband
14 3 (0.77%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.42%) Data Lake
2 28 (7.14%) Power BI
3 23 (5.87%) MySQL
4 22 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.59%) NoSQL
6 14 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.79%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.79%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.79%) Tableau
9 6 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.02%) Big Data
11 4 (1.02%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.77%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (14.54%) Git
2 55 (14.03%) Jenkins
3 36 (9.18%) GitLab
4 22 (5.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (4.85%) SonarQube
6 15 (3.83%) JUnit
6 15 (3.83%) Maven
7 5 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.28%) IntelliJ
7 5 (1.28%) Mockito
8 4 (1.02%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.02%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.02%) Subversion
9 3 (0.77%) JIRA
9 3 (0.77%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.51%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.26%) Snyk
General
1 83 (21.17%) Finance
2 68 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 29 (7.40%) Law
4 23 (5.87%) Banking
5 22 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 15 (3.83%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.81%) Retail
9 8 (2.04%) Advertising
9 8 (2.04%) Legal
10 7 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Back Office
11 4 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.02%) Games
11 4 (1.02%) Marketing
11 4 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.77%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.77%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.51%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 105 (26.79%) Senior
2 80 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (16.58%) Cloud Engineer
4 64 (16.33%) Architect
5 53 (13.52%) Lead
6 39 (9.95%) Cloud Architect
7 35 (8.93%) AWS Engineer
8 30 (7.65%) Azure Engineer
8 30 (7.65%) Senior DevOps
9 27 (6.89%) AWS DevOps
9 27 (6.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 26 (6.63%) Developer
11 24 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 23 (5.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 22 (5.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 21 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (5.10%) Software Engineer
16 16 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 16 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
17 14 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (11.22%) .NET
2 26 (6.63%) React
3 21 (5.36%) Spring
4 20 (5.10%) Spring Boot
5 18 (4.59%) RESTful
6 17 (4.34%) REST
7 15 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
8 12 (3.06%) HTML5 Canvas
8 12 (3.06%) Node.js
9 10 (2.55%) Hibernate
10 9 (2.30%) .NET Core
10 9 (2.30%) .NET Framework
10 9 (2.30%) Kafka
10 9 (2.30%) YAML
11 8 (2.04%) ARM Templates
11 8 (2.04%) AWS CDK
12 5 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
12 5 (1.28%) JMS
12 5 (1.28%) OAuth
13 4 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (18.88%) Cloud Native
2 35 (8.93%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 31 (7.91%) Public Cloud
5 24 (6.12%) Management Information System
6 20 (5.10%) Product Ownership
7 16 (4.08%) NHS
8 15 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (3.32%) Security Posture
10 11 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (2.81%) Private Cloud
11 10 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.30%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.53%) Operational Technology
14 5 (1.28%) Credit Derivative
14 5 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 5 (1.28%) IoT
15 4 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
15 4 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 4 (1.02%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 84 (21.43%) Linux
2 35 (8.93%) Windows
3 20 (5.10%) Unix
4 10 (2.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.53%) VMS
7 3 (0.77%) Debian
7 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (76.28%) DevOps
2 258 (65.82%) CI/CD
3 120 (30.61%) Agile
4 79 (20.15%) Containerisation
5 75 (19.13%) Roadmaps
6 66 (16.84%) Analytics
7 65 (16.58%) Mentoring
8 63 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (15.31%) Software Engineering
10 57 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 56 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
12 53 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 52 (13.27%) Cloud Security
14 51 (13.01%) Observability
15 50 (12.76%) High Availability
16 46 (11.73%) Test Automation
17 45 (11.48%) Migration
18 43 (10.97%) Microservices
19 42 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 39 (9.95%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 174 (44.39%) Python
2 88 (22.45%) PowerShell
3 69 (17.60%) Bash
4 68 (17.35%) SQL
5 50 (12.76%) Bicep
6 44 (11.22%) JavaScript
7 37 (9.44%) Java
8 32 (8.16%) Go
9 28 (7.14%) C#
10 23 (5.87%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.79%) R
12 6 (1.53%) PHP
13 5 (1.28%) C++
14 4 (1.02%) Julia
14 4 (1.02%) VBA
15 3 (0.77%) Groovy
16 2 (0.51%) C
16 2 (0.51%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.51%) Perl
16 2 (0.51%) XAML
Qualifications
1 54 (13.78%) Azure Certification
2 48 (12.24%) AWS Certification
3 47 (11.99%) Security Cleared
4 32 (8.16%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.63%) Degree
6 19 (4.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 16 (4.08%) DBS Check
8 15 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (3.57%) CCNP
10 11 (2.81%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (2.04%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.53%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.53%) PMP
14 5 (1.28%) CISSP
15 4 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.51%) CCIE
16 2 (0.51%) CCNA
16 2 (0.51%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.10%) NIST
2 19 (4.85%) GDPR
2 19 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.06%) QA
4 7 (1.79%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.28%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.28%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.02%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.26%) NCSC
8 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 109 (27.81%) Docker
2 32 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 13 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 13 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (2.04%) vSphere
6 6 (1.53%) NFS
7 3 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.51%) Firmware
8 2 (0.51%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.26%) HDFS
9 1 (0.26%) KVM
9 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 267 (68.11%) Terraform
2 153 (39.03%) Kubernetes
3 110 (28.06%) Ansible
4 44 (11.22%) Grafana
5 36 (9.18%) Prometheus
6 19 (4.85%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (2.55%) Istio
9 9 (2.30%) Argo
10 4 (1.02%) Puppet
11 3 (0.77%) SCOM
12 2 (0.51%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.51%) Kustomize
12 2 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.26%) CFEngine
13 1 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 83 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 35 (8.93%) Cisco
3 31 (7.91%) Databricks
4 18 (4.59%) Meraki
4 18 (4.59%) Palo Alto
5 17 (4.34%) VMware
6 15 (3.83%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.57%) Aruba
7 14 (3.57%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.32%) Mellanox
8 13 (3.32%) NVIDIA
9 10 (2.55%) Google
10 9 (2.30%) Oracle
11 7 (1.79%) Commvault
11 7 (1.79%) Pure Storage
12 5 (1.28%) IBM
12 5 (1.28%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.77%) Dell
14 3 (0.77%) HP