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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 142 139
Rank change year-on-year +72 -3 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 776 384 630
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 2.33% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 2.50% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 499 286 499
10th Percentile £51,862 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £77,500 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +12.48% -8.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
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 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 24 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 21 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.93%) Apache
3 14 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 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
1 428 (55.15%) AWS
2 421 (54.25%) Azure
3 130 (16.75%) GCP
4 114 (14.69%) Serverless
5 107 (13.79%) GitHub
6 92 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
7 89 (11.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (10.18%) PaaS
9 67 (8.63%) Cloud Computing
10 65 (8.38%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (7.09%) IaaS
13 53 (6.83%) SaaS
14 52 (6.70%) Amazon S3
15 49 (6.31%) Azure AKS
16 41 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (5.28%) Power Platform
17 39 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
18 35 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.66%) LAN
1 75 (9.66%) WAN
2 59 (7.60%) Firewall
3 57 (7.35%) Broadband
4 48 (6.19%) VPN
5 42 (5.41%) DNS
6 37 (4.77%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.45%) BGP
8 17 (2.19%) Network Security
9 16 (2.06%) OSPF
10 15 (1.93%) DHCP
11 13 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (1.68%) VLAN
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%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.77%) WebEx
14 6 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.54%) Metadata
2 43 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 28 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.22%) Data Lake
6 24 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.93%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.68%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
11 12 (1.55%) MySQL
12 11 (1.42%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.29%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.29%) Redis
14 7 (0.90%) Big Data
15 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (10.44%) Git
2 47 (6.06%) GitLab
3 42 (5.41%) 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%) MSI
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
1 277 (35.70%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.04%) Finance
3 72 (9.28%) Law
4 67 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.99%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (7.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.64%) Banking
8 32 (4.12%) Games
9 28 (3.61%) Retail
10 18 (2.32%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.93%) Marketing
12 14 (1.80%) Legal
13 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.90%) Aviation
16 6 (0.77%) Advertising
16 6 (0.77%) Billing
16 6 (0.77%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (25.39%) Senior
2 133 (17.14%) Lead
3 127 (16.37%) Architect
4 92 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.41%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (8.89%) Developer
8 67 (8.63%) Systems Architect
9 63 (8.12%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (6.83%) Software Engineer
11 45 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (4.64%) Python Engineer
14 34 (4.38%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 29 (3.74%) Senior Developer
17 23 (2.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.22%) React
2 51 (6.57%) REST
3 46 (5.93%) RESTful
4 41 (5.28%) Node.js
5 40 (5.15%) .NET
6 35 (4.51%) 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 20 (2.58%) 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 14 (1.80%) JSON
18 13 (1.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 227 (29.25%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.70%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.54%) Product Ownership
5 42 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (5.15%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.12%) Low-Code
8 31 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
9 26 (3.35%) Data Centre
9 26 (3.35%) Security Posture
10 18 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.32%) Podcast
11 17 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.80%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.68%) Replication
13 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.68%) Virtual Team
14 12 (1.55%) Blog
15 10 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 96 (12.37%) Linux
2 51 (6.57%) Windows
3 20 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.06%) 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
1 536 (69.07%) CI/CD
2 396 (51.03%) DevOps
3 260 (33.51%) Observability
4 251 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 215 (27.71%) Agile
6 214 (27.58%) Mentoring
7 207 (26.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (26.03%) AI
9 178 (22.94%) Technical Leadership
10 175 (22.55%) Platform Engineering
11 173 (22.29%) Software Engineering
12 165 (21.26%) Roadmaps
13 140 (18.04%) Test Automation
14 136 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
15 122 (15.72%) Microservices
16 103 (13.27%) Full-Stack Development
17 100 (12.89%) Analytics
18 97 (12.50%) Machine Learning
19 86 (11.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 83 (10.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 335 (43.17%) Python
2 102 (13.14%) Bicep
3 97 (12.50%) SQL
4 94 (12.11%) Bash
5 93 (11.98%) PowerShell
6 88 (11.34%) Java
7 75 (9.66%) TypeScript
8 66 (8.51%) Go
9 63 (8.12%) JavaScript
10 43 (5.54%) C#
11 15 (1.93%) 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
1 114 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.40%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.54%) Azure Certification
4 57 (7.35%) Degree
5 29 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.35%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.58%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.68%) CCNP
11 11 (1.42%) 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 Developer
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.64%) CCIE
16 4 (0.52%) MCSE
16 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
16 4 (0.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.60%) GRC
2 42 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.15%) QA
4 16 (2.06%) GDPR
5 13 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.29%) NIST
8 9 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.64%) WCAG
11 3 (0.39%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 159 (20.49%) Docker
2 41 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.38%) 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 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 426 (54.90%) Terraform
2 224 (28.87%) Kubernetes
3 87 (11.21%) Ansible
4 72 (9.28%) Grafana
5 46 (5.93%) 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
11 8 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
13 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.52%) linkerd
15 4 (0.52%) Packer
16 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 216 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.15%) VMware
3 39 (5.03%) Google
4 30 (3.87%) Cisco
5 27 (3.48%) Databricks
5 27 (3.48%) Palo Alto
6 19 (2.45%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.19%) Oracle
8 16 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.55%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.42%) F5
10 11 (1.42%) Splunk
11 10 (1.29%) Okta
12 9 (1.16%) Informatica
13 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.90%) Arista
14 7 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.77%) NetApp
15 6 (0.77%) Zscaler