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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 161 131
Rank change year-on-year +89 -30 -48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 608 363 771
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 2.40% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.53% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 390 262 658
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 15,505 14,349 29,620
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,008 8,690 23,384
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 19 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 15 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.97%) Apache
3 10 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.82%) Confluence
5 4 (0.66%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 371 (61.02%) AWS
2 286 (47.04%) Azure
3 106 (17.43%) GitHub
4 95 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (15.30%) Serverless
6 92 (15.13%) GCP
7 74 (12.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (12.01%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.07%) PaaS
11 42 (6.91%) Amazon S3
11 42 (6.91%) Azure Monitor
12 41 (6.74%) SaaS
13 38 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (5.59%) Entra ID
16 32 (5.26%) Azure AKS
16 32 (5.26%) IaaS
17 29 (4.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (11.68%) Firewall
2 58 (9.54%) Broadband
3 30 (4.93%) DNS
4 27 (4.44%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.44%) VPN
5 19 (3.13%) BGP
6 17 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (2.30%) LAN
8 12 (1.97%) VLAN
8 12 (1.97%) WAN
9 11 (1.81%) OSPF
10 10 (1.64%) DHCP
10 10 (1.64%) Network Security
11 8 (1.32%) VXLAN
12 7 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.99%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.99%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.99%) WebEx
14 5 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.82%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.59%) MongoDB
3 32 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 32 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 30 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
5 25 (4.11%) Metadata
6 24 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.78%) Data Lake
8 18 (2.96%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.30%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.14%) DynamoDB
12 10 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.64%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.48%) MySQL
14 8 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.15%) Big Data
15 7 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (9.87%) Git
2 39 (6.41%) GitLab
3 33 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.96%) Jaeger
5 7 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.15%) JMeter
6 6 (0.99%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.99%) JIRA
6 6 (0.99%) Locust
6 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.82%) NUnit
7 5 (0.82%) Selenium
7 5 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.82%) Storybook
8 3 (0.49%) MLflow
9 2 (0.33%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.33%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 156 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.76%) Finance
3 59 (9.70%) Public Sector
4 55 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (6.91%) Banking
7 35 (5.76%) Retail
8 27 (4.44%) Law
9 23 (3.78%) Telecoms
10 22 (3.62%) Games
11 17 (2.80%) Billing
12 12 (1.97%) Back Office
12 12 (1.97%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.97%) Marketing
13 9 (1.48%) Legal
14 8 (1.32%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.99%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.82%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 161 (26.48%) Senior
2 123 (20.23%) Lead
3 75 (12.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (11.18%) Platform Engineer
6 66 (10.86%) Developer
7 53 (8.72%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
10 41 (6.74%) Software Engineer
11 33 (5.43%) Architect
12 30 (4.93%) Data Engineer
12 30 (4.93%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.28%) Python Engineer
15 25 (4.11%) Lead Developer
16 22 (3.62%) Senior Developer
17 21 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 19 (3.13%) AWS Platform Engineer
18 19 (3.13%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.73%) React
2 45 (7.40%) RESTful
3 40 (6.58%) REST
4 37 (6.09%) .NET
5 35 (5.76%) Node.js
6 34 (5.59%) AWS CDK
7 32 (5.26%) Spring
8 27 (4.44%) Spring Boot
9 26 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
10 24 (3.95%) YAML
11 22 (3.62%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (3.13%) Kafka
13 17 (2.80%) Django
13 17 (2.80%) OAuth
14 16 (2.63%) ARM Templates
14 16 (2.63%) OpenAPI
14 16 (2.63%) React Native
14 16 (2.63%) Swagger
15 15 (2.47%) JSON
15 15 (2.47%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 163 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.22%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (5.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 26 (4.28%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.78%) Low-Code
9 22 (3.62%) Security Posture
10 20 (3.29%) Mobile App
11 19 (3.13%) Onboarding
12 16 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (2.63%) Public Cloud
13 15 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.97%) Blog
16 10 (1.64%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (1.48%) Private Cloud
17 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 114 (18.75%) Linux
2 36 (5.92%) Windows
3 35 (5.76%) Unix
4 21 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.97%) Android
6 11 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.66%) VMS
8 2 (0.33%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.16%) Debian
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (70.56%) CI/CD
2 369 (60.69%) DevOps
3 199 (32.73%) Agile
4 198 (32.57%) Observability
5 196 (32.24%) Mentoring
6 165 (27.14%) Containerisation
7 150 (24.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 143 (23.52%) Platform Engineering
9 131 (21.55%) Software Engineering
10 126 (20.72%) Test Automation
11 118 (19.41%) AI
12 116 (19.08%) Technical Leadership
13 102 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 88 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
15 88 (14.47%) Microservices
16 87 (14.31%) Roadmaps
17 71 (11.68%) Analytics
18 64 (10.53%) Incident Response
19 62 (10.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 269 (44.24%) Python
2 102 (16.78%) Java
3 90 (14.80%) Bash
4 72 (11.84%) JavaScript
4 72 (11.84%) PowerShell
5 70 (11.51%) SQL
6 66 (10.86%) Go
7 60 (9.87%) TypeScript
8 59 (9.70%) Bicep
9 40 (6.58%) C#
10 15 (2.47%) Scala
11 8 (1.32%) C++
12 7 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.99%) PHP
14 5 (0.82%) Ruby
14 5 (0.82%) Rust
15 3 (0.49%) Groovy
16 2 (0.33%) C
16 2 (0.33%) Perl
16 2 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 75 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.72%) Degree
4 45 (7.40%) Azure Certification
5 44 (7.24%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.14%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.48%) CCNP
11 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.99%) CCNA
13 5 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.66%) LPIC
14 4 (0.66%) MCSE
14 4 (0.66%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.66%) VCAP
14 4 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.26%) QA
2 26 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.29%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.96%) GDPR
5 17 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.30%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.48%) NIST
9 5 (0.82%) WCAG
10 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.33%) IFRS
11 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (25.99%) Docker
2 23 (3.78%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.14%) vSphere
4 11 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (0.66%) Firmware
7 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 375 (61.68%) Terraform
2 207 (34.05%) Kubernetes
3 109 (17.93%) Ansible
4 66 (10.86%) Grafana
5 65 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.61%) Argo
7 22 (3.62%) Kustomize
8 13 (2.14%) Puppet
9 12 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.81%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.15%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.82%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.82%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.82%) Istio
13 5 (0.82%) Packer
14 4 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.66%) logstash
14 4 (0.66%) ZABBIX
15 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 99 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.58%) Google
3 37 (6.09%) VMware
4 31 (5.10%) Cisco
5 23 (3.78%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.13%) Databricks
7 17 (2.80%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.30%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.97%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.97%) Splunk
10 11 (1.81%) F5
11 8 (1.32%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.15%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.99%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.99%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.99%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.99%) Juniper
13 6 (0.99%) NetApp
14 5 (0.82%) Arista
14 5 (0.82%) Okta