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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 156 127
Rank change year-on-year +84 -29 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 614 358 772
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 2.39% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.51% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 395 259 658
10th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £99,600 £100,000 £105,000
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 15,535 14,247 29,575
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,045 8,583 23,342
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -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 21 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 16 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (1.95%) Apache
3 10 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.81%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) 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 (0.65%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 375 (61.07%) AWS
2 292 (47.56%) Azure
3 108 (17.59%) GitHub
4 96 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
5 94 (15.31%) GCP
5 94 (15.31%) Serverless
6 74 (12.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 74 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
7 47 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
8 44 (7.17%) PaaS
9 43 (7.00%) SaaS
10 42 (6.84%) Amazon S3
11 39 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (5.86%) Entra ID
13 35 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (5.70%) Azure AKS
14 34 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (5.37%) IaaS
16 30 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (11.24%) Firewall
2 58 (9.45%) Broadband
3 31 (5.05%) DNS
4 27 (4.40%) TCP/IP
4 27 (4.40%) VPN
5 19 (3.09%) BGP
6 17 (2.77%) Cisco ASA
7 14 (2.28%) LAN
8 12 (1.95%) VLAN
8 12 (1.95%) WAN
9 11 (1.79%) OSPF
10 10 (1.63%) DHCP
10 10 (1.63%) Network Security
11 8 (1.30%) VXLAN
12 7 (1.14%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.98%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.98%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.98%) WebEx
14 5 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.81%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.54%) MongoDB
3 33 (5.37%) Relational Database
4 31 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (5.05%) NoSQL
5 25 (4.07%) Metadata
6 24 (3.91%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 18 (2.93%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.28%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.28%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.79%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.47%) MySQL
14 8 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.14%) Big Data
15 7 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (10.10%) Git
2 39 (6.35%) GitLab
3 32 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.93%) Jaeger
5 7 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.14%) JMeter
6 6 (0.98%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.98%) JIRA
6 6 (0.98%) Locust
6 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.81%) NUnit
7 5 (0.81%) Selenium
7 5 (0.81%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.81%) Storybook
8 3 (0.49%) MLflow
9 2 (0.33%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.33%) MSI
9 2 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 159 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.59%) Finance
3 59 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 52 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (6.68%) Banking
7 35 (5.70%) Retail
8 29 (4.72%) Law
9 22 (3.58%) Games
9 22 (3.58%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.77%) Billing
11 12 (1.95%) Back Office
11 12 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.95%) Marketing
12 9 (1.47%) Legal
12 9 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.81%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 161 (26.22%) Senior
2 123 (20.03%) Lead
3 78 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
4 71 (11.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 69 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
6 67 (10.91%) Developer
7 51 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 48 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
10 43 (7.00%) Software Engineer
11 34 (5.54%) Architect
12 31 (5.05%) Data Engineer
13 30 (4.89%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.23%) Lead Developer
15 26 (4.23%) Python Engineer
16 22 (3.58%) Senior Developer
17 21 (3.42%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 19 (3.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
18 19 (3.09%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.82%) React
2 45 (7.33%) RESTful
3 41 (6.68%) REST
4 36 (5.86%) Node.js
5 35 (5.70%) .NET
6 34 (5.54%) AWS CDK
7 32 (5.21%) Spring
8 27 (4.40%) Spring Boot
9 25 (4.07%) YAML
10 24 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (3.26%) Kafka
13 17 (2.77%) ARM Templates
13 17 (2.77%) Django
13 17 (2.77%) OAuth
14 16 (2.61%) JSON
14 16 (2.61%) OpenAPI
14 16 (2.61%) React Native
14 16 (2.61%) Swagger
15 15 (2.44%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (26.71%) Cloud Native
2 51 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.19%) Product Ownership
4 36 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (5.70%) Video\Live Streaming
6 25 (4.07%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.75%) Low-Code
9 22 (3.58%) Security Posture
10 20 (3.26%) Mobile App
11 19 (3.09%) Onboarding
12 17 (2.77%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (2.44%) Public Cloud
14 14 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
15 13 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (1.95%) Blog
17 10 (1.63%) Algorithms
18 9 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
18 9 (1.47%) Private Cloud
18 9 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 114 (18.57%) Linux
2 35 (5.70%) Windows
3 33 (5.37%) Unix
4 22 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.95%) Android
6 11 (1.79%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.49%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) CentOS
9 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (70.68%) CI/CD
2 369 (60.10%) DevOps
3 201 (32.74%) Observability
4 199 (32.41%) Agile
5 198 (32.25%) Mentoring
6 170 (27.69%) Containerisation
7 151 (24.59%) Platform Engineering
8 150 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (21.66%) Software Engineering
10 126 (20.52%) Test Automation
11 119 (19.38%) AI
12 117 (19.06%) Technical Leadership
13 102 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
14 94 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 91 (14.82%) Microservices
16 88 (14.33%) Full-Stack Development
17 86 (14.01%) Roadmaps
18 73 (11.89%) Analytics
19 63 (10.26%) Incident Response
20 62 (10.10%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 273 (44.46%) Python
2 103 (16.78%) Java
3 89 (14.50%) Bash
4 73 (11.89%) JavaScript
4 73 (11.89%) PowerShell
5 71 (11.56%) SQL
6 65 (10.59%) Go
7 62 (10.10%) TypeScript
8 59 (9.61%) Bicep
9 39 (6.35%) C#
10 15 (2.44%) Scala
11 9 (1.47%) C++
12 7 (1.14%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.98%) PHP
14 5 (0.81%) Ruby
14 5 (0.81%) Rust
15 4 (0.65%) Groovy
16 2 (0.33%) C
16 2 (0.33%) Perl
16 2 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 79 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.96%) Degree
4 47 (7.65%) Azure Certification
5 46 (7.49%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.12%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.47%) CCNP
11 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.98%) CCNA
13 5 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.65%) LPIC
14 4 (0.65%) MCSE
14 4 (0.65%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.65%) VCAP
14 4 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.37%) QA
2 27 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 19 (3.09%) GDPR
5 17 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.44%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.28%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.47%) NIST
9 5 (0.81%) 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
1 162 (26.38%) Docker
2 24 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.12%) vSphere
5 11 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.65%) Firmware
8 3 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 380 (61.89%) Terraform
2 209 (34.04%) Kubernetes
3 106 (17.26%) Ansible
4 65 (10.59%) Grafana
4 65 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 30 (4.89%) Argo
6 22 (3.58%) Kustomize
7 13 (2.12%) Puppet
8 12 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (1.14%) Proxmox
10 6 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (0.98%) Istio
11 5 (0.81%) AWS Copilot
11 5 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.81%) Packer
12 4 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.65%) logstash
12 4 (0.65%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 102 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 41 (6.68%) Google
3 38 (6.19%) VMware
4 31 (5.05%) Cisco
5 23 (3.75%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.09%) Databricks
7 17 (2.77%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.28%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.95%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.79%) F5
10 11 (1.79%) Splunk
11 8 (1.30%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.14%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.14%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.98%) Ab Initio
13 6 (0.98%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.98%) Juniper
13 6 (0.98%) NetApp
14 5 (0.81%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.81%) SolarWinds