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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 105 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 -40 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 480 557 1,019
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.00% 2.79% 4.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.16% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 342 333 799
10th Percentile £47,500 £41,594 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £74,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -6.04% +6.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,375 £99,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 14,816 17,600 20,873
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.52% 88.21% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,697 10,499 16,904
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,500
90th Percentile £98,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 November 2025.

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 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (4.38%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (1.67%) Apache
4 5 (1.04%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 322 (67.08%) Azure
2 273 (56.88%) AWS
3 124 (25.83%) Azure DevOps
4 102 (21.25%) GitHub
5 84 (17.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 83 (17.29%) GCP
7 77 (16.04%) Serverless
8 74 (15.42%) GitHub Actions
9 67 (13.96%) Entra ID
10 65 (13.54%) SaaS
11 60 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
12 58 (12.08%) PaaS
13 52 (10.83%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (10.83%) IaaS
14 45 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
15 42 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (7.92%) Amazon S3
17 37 (7.71%) Amazon ECS
18 34 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
19 33 (6.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 76 (15.83%) Firewall
2 63 (13.13%) VPN
3 48 (10.00%) WAN
4 44 (9.17%) DNS
5 29 (6.04%) SD-WAN
6 27 (5.63%) LAN
7 22 (4.58%) Network Security
8 21 (4.38%) TCP/IP
9 14 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (2.08%) BGP
11 9 (1.88%) DHCP
12 7 (1.46%) Unified Communications
12 7 (1.46%) VLAN
12 7 (1.46%) VoIP
13 6 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
14 5 (1.04%) OSPF
15 4 (0.83%) Broadband
15 4 (0.83%) Wireless
15 4 (0.83%) Wireshark
16 3 (0.63%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.29%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (6.88%) Data Lake
3 28 (5.83%) MySQL
4 23 (4.79%) Power BI
5 19 (3.96%) DynamoDB
6 18 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (3.54%) NoSQL
8 15 (3.13%) SQL Server
9 13 (2.71%) Redis
10 11 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (1.04%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.83%) MongoDB
15 3 (0.63%) Big Data
15 3 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 46 (9.58%) Git
3 37 (7.71%) GitLab
4 9 (1.88%) TeamCity
5 7 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (1.25%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.83%) git-flow
8 4 (0.83%) JIRA
9 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.42%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.21%) JUnit
11 1 (0.21%) Maven
11 1 (0.21%) Mockito
11 1 (0.21%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.21%) Snyk
11 1 (0.21%) Subversion
General
1 118 (24.58%) Finance
2 106 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.33%) Law
4 37 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (6.46%) Banking
6 29 (6.04%) Public Sector
7 28 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (5.21%) Retail
9 17 (3.54%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.71%) Legal
11 12 (2.50%) Back Office
11 12 (2.50%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.46%) Games
12 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.83%) Advertising
15 4 (0.83%) Marketing
16 3 (0.63%) Agriculture
17 2 (0.42%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 119 (24.79%) Senior
2 77 (16.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 76 (15.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (14.17%) Architect
5 56 (11.67%) Lead
6 40 (8.33%) Developer
7 37 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (6.88%) Cloud Architect
10 31 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 30 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
12 24 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 24 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
13 23 (4.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 21 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 20 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
17 14 (2.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 14 (2.92%) Senior Developer
18 13 (2.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.25%) .NET
2 35 (7.29%) React
3 18 (3.75%) Node.js
3 18 (3.75%) YAML
4 17 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (3.54%) REST
4 17 (3.54%) RESTful
5 13 (2.71%) Django
5 13 (2.71%) OAuth
6 12 (2.50%) AWS CDK
7 11 (2.29%) CSS
8 10 (2.08%) .NET Framework
8 10 (2.08%) HTML
8 10 (2.08%) Spring
9 9 (1.88%) .NET Core
9 9 (1.88%) JSON
9 9 (1.88%) Kafka
9 9 (1.88%) OAuth2
9 9 (1.88%) Vue
10 8 (1.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (24.58%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.17%) Data Centre
3 37 (7.71%) Public Cloud
4 35 (7.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (6.46%) Product Ownership
6 22 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (3.75%) Management Information System
8 17 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (3.33%) Security Posture
10 15 (3.13%) NHS
10 15 (3.13%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.29%) Private Cloud
12 10 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 7 (1.46%) Operational Technology
16 6 (1.25%) Data Structures
17 5 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
18 4 (0.83%) AI Agents
18 4 (0.83%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 84 (17.50%) Linux
2 48 (10.00%) Windows
3 22 (4.58%) Unix
4 12 (2.50%) VMS
5 9 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.63%) Debian
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.42%) CentOS
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (72.71%) DevOps
2 320 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 160 (33.33%) Agile
4 109 (22.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (19.58%) Containerisation
6 91 (18.96%) Observability
7 88 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 86 (17.92%) Analytics
8 86 (17.92%) Mentoring
9 84 (17.50%) Roadmaps
10 79 (16.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 77 (16.04%) AI
12 65 (13.54%) Cloud Security
12 65 (13.54%) ITIL
12 65 (13.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 60 (12.50%) Software Engineering
14 59 (12.29%) Coaching
15 56 (11.67%) Incident Response
16 52 (10.83%) Platform Engineering
17 50 (10.42%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 185 (38.54%) Python
2 120 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 91 (18.96%) Bash
4 83 (17.29%) Bicep
5 73 (15.21%) SQL
6 39 (8.13%) JavaScript
7 34 (7.08%) C#
8 31 (6.46%) TypeScript
9 27 (5.63%) Java
10 25 (5.21%) Go
11 5 (1.04%) PHP
12 4 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.42%) Groovy
13 2 (0.42%) Scala
13 2 (0.42%) XAML
14 1 (0.21%) C
14 1 (0.21%) C++
14 1 (0.21%) Perl
14 1 (0.21%) R
Qualifications
1 70 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 67 (13.96%) Azure Certification
3 55 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 51 (10.63%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.63%) Degree
6 19 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (3.13%) CCNP
9 15 (3.13%) DBS Check
10 13 (2.71%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.46%) PMP
13 5 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.04%) OSCP
14 4 (0.83%) CISSP
14 4 (0.83%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.83%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (6.25%) NIST
3 26 (5.42%) GDPR
4 17 (3.54%) QA
5 15 (3.13%) SOC 2
6 14 (2.92%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.67%) SLA
8 7 (1.46%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.83%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.83%) GRC
10 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.42%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (26.88%) Docker
2 40 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (5.00%) Active Directory
4 22 (4.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.29%) vSphere
6 8 (1.67%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.25%) NFS
8 3 (0.63%) Firmware
8 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.21%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 325 (67.71%) Terraform
2 166 (34.58%) Kubernetes
3 111 (23.13%) Ansible
4 57 (11.88%) Grafana
5 44 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 24 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (3.75%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (2.50%) Argo
9 8 (1.67%) SCOM
10 3 (0.63%) Cilium
10 3 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.21%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.21%) Puppet
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 105 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.88%) Databricks
3 30 (6.25%) Cisco
4 27 (5.63%) VMware
5 19 (3.96%) Google
6 18 (3.75%) Meraki
7 15 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.71%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.50%) Oracle
10 7 (1.46%) Aruba
10 7 (1.46%) Commvault
10 7 (1.46%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.46%) Pure Storage
10 7 (1.46%) Splunk
11 6 (1.25%) Ab Initio
11 6 (1.25%) Mellanox
11 6 (1.25%) New Relic
11 6 (1.25%) NVIDIA
11 6 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.25%) SolarWinds