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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 154 141
Rank change year-on-year +80 -13 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 718 366 746
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.46% 2.30% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 2.45% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 486 269 604
10th Percentile £52,258 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 17,029 14,914 29,776
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.18% 93.86% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,466 8,777 22,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,809 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 1 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 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.09%) Apache
3 13 (1.81%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) WordPress
7 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 441 (61.42%) AWS
2 339 (47.21%) Azure
3 119 (16.57%) Serverless
4 116 (16.16%) GitHub
5 101 (14.07%) GCP
6 98 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (10.72%) PaaS
9 69 (9.61%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (8.22%) IaaS
11 57 (7.94%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.52%) SaaS
13 49 (6.82%) Azure AKS
13 49 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
14 47 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (5.43%) Entra ID
16 38 (5.29%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.75%) Broadband
2 66 (9.19%) Firewall
3 48 (6.69%) VPN
4 39 (5.43%) DNS
5 31 (4.32%) TCP/IP
6 21 (2.92%) BGP
7 16 (2.23%) LAN
7 16 (2.23%) WAN
8 15 (2.09%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.09%) VLAN
9 14 (1.95%) Network Security
9 14 (1.95%) OSPF
10 11 (1.53%) DHCP
10 11 (1.53%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.25%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.84%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.84%) WebEx
13 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.09%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.27%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.15%) Metadata
4 35 (4.87%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.90%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.62%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (3.06%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.23%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.09%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.09%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.53%) MySQL
14 10 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.25%) Redis
16 8 (1.11%) Big Data
17 7 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (11.28%) Git
2 47 (6.55%) GitLab
3 43 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.67%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.97%) NUnit
7 6 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.84%) JIRA
7 6 (0.84%) JMeter
8 5 (0.70%) Locust
8 5 (0.70%) Selenium
8 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.28%) MSI
11 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 211 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 111 (15.46%) Finance
3 73 (10.17%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.85%) Law
7 37 (5.15%) Banking
8 31 (4.32%) Games
9 30 (4.18%) Retail
10 20 (2.79%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.67%) Legal
12 11 (1.53%) Billing
13 10 (1.39%) Back Office
13 10 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.39%) Marketing
14 7 (0.97%) Aviation
15 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.84%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 190 (26.46%) Senior
2 139 (19.36%) Lead
3 92 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 92 (12.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 79 (11.00%) Platform Engineer
5 76 (10.58%) Developer
6 59 (8.22%) Architect
7 58 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
8 57 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.13%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.32%) Data Engineer
14 30 (4.18%) Python Engineer
14 30 (4.18%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.48%) Lead Developer
16 24 (3.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 24 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 24 (3.34%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.66%) React
2 49 (6.82%) RESTful
3 48 (6.69%) REST
4 41 (5.71%) .NET
4 41 (5.71%) Node.js
5 38 (5.29%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.32%) Spring
7 30 (4.18%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.62%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.62%) YAML
9 22 (3.06%) Next.js
10 21 (2.92%) Kafka
11 19 (2.65%) FastAPI
11 19 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.65%) PySpark
12 18 (2.51%) CSS
13 17 (2.37%) Django
13 17 (2.37%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (2.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 228 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 76 (10.58%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.69%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.71%) Product Ownership
6 38 (5.29%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.46%) Low-Code
8 30 (4.18%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.76%) Data Centre
10 25 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (3.20%) Onboarding
13 18 (2.51%) Podcast
14 15 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.95%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.81%) Blog
17 12 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.67%) Virtual Team
18 11 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.16%) Linux
2 48 (6.69%) Windows
3 26 (3.62%) Unix
4 19 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.81%) VMS
6 10 (1.39%) Android
7 9 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (71.87%) CI/CD
2 409 (56.96%) DevOps
3 247 (34.40%) Observability
4 229 (31.89%) Mentoring
5 225 (31.34%) Agile
6 200 (27.86%) Containerisation
7 194 (27.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (26.18%) AI
9 179 (24.93%) Platform Engineering
10 163 (22.70%) Technical Leadership
11 157 (21.87%) Software Engineering
12 141 (19.64%) Test Automation
13 128 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (16.57%) Microservices
15 109 (15.18%) Roadmaps
16 106 (14.76%) Full-Stack Development
17 97 (13.51%) Analytics
18 92 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 89 (12.40%) Machine Learning
20 79 (11.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 326 (45.40%) Python
2 112 (15.60%) Bash
3 106 (14.76%) Java
4 95 (13.23%) Bicep
5 92 (12.81%) SQL
6 88 (12.26%) PowerShell
7 77 (10.72%) Go
7 77 (10.72%) TypeScript
8 74 (10.31%) JavaScript
9 46 (6.41%) C#
10 16 (2.23%) Scala
11 13 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.53%) Ruby
13 9 (1.25%) PHP
14 8 (1.11%) C++
15 7 (0.97%) Groovy
16 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
18 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 111 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.19%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.66%) Degree
5 41 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.67%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.53%) CCNP
12 8 (1.11%) CCNA
13 7 (0.97%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.70%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.56%) LPIC
15 4 (0.56%) MCSE
15 4 (0.56%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.29%) QA
2 34 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.23%) GDPR
4 15 (2.09%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.25%) NIST
8 5 (0.70%) WCAG
9 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.28%) NCSC
10 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 167 (23.26%) Docker
2 42 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.34%) vSphere
5 13 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.56%) Firmware
10 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 431 (60.03%) Terraform
2 237 (33.01%) Kubernetes
3 104 (14.48%) Ansible
4 70 (9.75%) Grafana
5 63 (8.77%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.32%) Argo
7 18 (2.51%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.37%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.09%) Puppet
10 13 (1.81%) Istio
11 12 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.39%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.25%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.97%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.84%) Packer
16 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
17 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
18 3 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 137 (19.08%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.55%) VMware
3 35 (4.87%) Google
4 30 (4.18%) Cisco
5 27 (3.76%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.34%) Databricks
7 20 (2.79%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.23%) Fortinet
9 15 (2.09%) Oracle
10 13 (1.81%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.67%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.53%) F5
12 11 (1.53%) Splunk
13 7 (0.97%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.84%) Okta
14 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.84%) Zscaler