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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 125 127
Rank change year-on-year +54 +2 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 590 360 792
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 2.69% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.84% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 382 267 673
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,300 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +6.78% -5.90%
75th Percentile £86,188 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

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 14,862 12,659 29,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.19% 94.70% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 10,395 8,961 23,539
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 April 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 14 (2.37%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.69%) Apache
3 8 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.02%) Confluence
5 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) IIS
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 361 (61.19%) AWS
2 305 (51.69%) Azure
3 117 (19.83%) GitHub
4 111 (18.81%) Azure DevOps
5 108 (18.31%) GCP
6 97 (16.44%) Serverless
7 88 (14.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 83 (14.07%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (8.47%) SaaS
11 45 (7.63%) Amazon S3
11 45 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (7.46%) PaaS
13 43 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
14 39 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (6.44%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (6.27%) Entra ID
17 35 (5.93%) dbt
18 34 (5.76%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 71 (12.03%) Firewall
2 38 (6.44%) Broadband
3 32 (5.42%) TCP/IP
4 30 (5.08%) VPN
5 21 (3.56%) DNS
6 16 (2.71%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.20%) BGP
8 12 (2.03%) LAN
9 11 (1.86%) WAN
10 10 (1.69%) Network Security
10 10 (1.69%) VLAN
11 9 (1.53%) DHCP
12 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.85%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.85%) WebEx
14 4 (0.68%) HTTP
15 3 (0.51%) Modbus
15 3 (0.51%) SSL
15 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (7.12%) NoSQL
3 38 (6.44%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.92%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.56%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.22%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.22%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (2.54%) DynamoDB
9 15 (2.54%) Metadata
10 13 (2.20%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.20%) MySQL
11 11 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.86%) Redis
12 10 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.36%) BigQuery
14 6 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 55 (9.32%) Git
2 41 (6.95%) GitLab
3 37 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.22%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.53%) JIRA
6 8 (1.36%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.36%) JMeter
6 8 (1.36%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.02%) Locust
7 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.85%) NUnit
8 5 (0.85%) Selenium
8 5 (0.85%) Storybook
9 4 (0.68%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.51%) git-flow
11 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (26.10%) Social Skills
2 129 (21.86%) Finance
3 62 (10.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (7.97%) Banking
7 42 (7.12%) Retail
8 34 (5.76%) Law
9 28 (4.75%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.22%) Financial Institution
11 18 (3.05%) Billing
12 17 (2.88%) Back Office
13 14 (2.37%) Marketing
14 8 (1.36%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.36%) Legal
15 7 (1.19%) Games
16 6 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.02%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (25.42%) Senior
2 111 (18.81%) Lead
3 85 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (11.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 63 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
6 62 (10.51%) Developer
7 58 (9.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 54 (9.15%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (7.29%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (5.76%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.75%) Architect
11 28 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
12 26 (4.41%) Data Engineer
13 25 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.73%) Lead Developer
14 22 (3.73%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.56%) Lead DevOps
16 19 (3.22%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 19 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.05%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (8.31%) React
2 43 (7.29%) .NET
3 38 (6.44%) Node.js
4 36 (6.10%) REST
5 35 (5.93%) RESTful
6 31 (5.25%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (5.08%) Spring
8 29 (4.92%) AWS CDK
9 26 (4.41%) Django
10 25 (4.24%) YAML
11 24 (4.07%) OAuth
11 24 (4.07%) Spring Boot
12 23 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
13 22 (3.73%) Kafka
14 20 (3.39%) OpenAPI
14 20 (3.39%) Swagger
15 17 (2.88%) CSS
15 17 (2.88%) FastAPI
15 17 (2.88%) HTML
15 17 (2.88%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 153 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 39 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.24%) Security Posture
5 23 (3.90%) Data Centre
5 23 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.56%) Public Cloud
7 20 (3.39%) Mobile App
7 20 (3.39%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
9 16 (2.71%) Video\Live Streaming
10 14 (2.37%) Blog
11 13 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.53%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.53%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 126 (21.36%) Linux
2 45 (7.63%) Unix
3 43 (7.29%) Windows
4 20 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.37%) Android
6 13 (2.20%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.02%) VMS
8 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.51%) CentOS
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (70.17%) CI/CD
2 386 (65.42%) DevOps
3 205 (34.75%) Agile
4 183 (31.02%) Mentoring
5 181 (30.68%) Observability
6 159 (26.95%) Containerisation
7 147 (24.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 127 (21.53%) Platform Engineering
9 115 (19.49%) Software Engineering
10 105 (17.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 105 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (17.12%) Test Automation
12 96 (16.27%) Technical Leadership
13 86 (14.58%) AI
14 83 (14.07%) Roadmaps
15 79 (13.39%) Microservices
16 71 (12.03%) Coaching
16 71 (12.03%) Incident Response
17 69 (11.69%) Analytics
18 66 (11.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 243 (41.19%) Python
2 96 (16.27%) Java
3 93 (15.76%) Bash
4 81 (13.73%) SQL
5 77 (13.05%) PowerShell
6 69 (11.69%) JavaScript
7 68 (11.53%) Bicep
8 57 (9.66%) Go
9 51 (8.64%) TypeScript
10 43 (7.29%) C#
11 14 (2.37%) Scala
12 8 (1.36%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.02%) C++
14 5 (0.85%) PHP
14 5 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.85%) Rust
15 4 (0.68%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) C
16 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.47%) Degree
4 43 (7.29%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.44%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.54%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.53%) CCNP
10 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.19%) CCNA
12 6 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.85%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.85%) LPIC
13 5 (0.85%) MCSE
13 5 (0.85%) OSCP
13 5 (0.85%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.25%) QA
2 28 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.90%) GDPR
4 21 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 21 (3.56%) SOC 2
5 20 (3.39%) PCI DSS
6 13 (2.20%) NIST
7 6 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.85%) GRC
8 5 (0.85%) WCAG
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
9 2 (0.34%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 168 (28.47%) Docker
2 25 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.56%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.20%) vSphere
5 12 (2.03%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.68%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 400 (67.80%) Terraform
2 212 (35.93%) Kubernetes
3 115 (19.49%) Ansible
4 74 (12.54%) Prometheus
5 72 (12.20%) Grafana
6 31 (5.25%) Argo
7 23 (3.90%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.37%) Puppet
9 13 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.53%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
12 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.68%) Istio
14 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 4 (0.68%) Packer
14 4 (0.68%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 100 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.63%) Google
3 40 (6.78%) VMware
4 30 (5.08%) Cisco
5 21 (3.56%) Databricks
6 18 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.54%) Splunk
8 13 (2.20%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.53%) Ab Initio
11 7 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.19%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.19%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.19%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.19%) New Relic
12 6 (1.02%) F5
12 6 (1.02%) Juniper
12 6 (1.02%) NetApp
13 5 (0.85%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds