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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 158 128
Rank change year-on-year +85 -30 -45
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 633 342 768
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 2.35% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 2.48% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 417 242 653
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 15,706 13,805 29,705
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.93% 94.87% 90.38%
Number of salaries quoted 11,181 8,074 23,429
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -9.84%

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 26 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 18 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.21%) Apache
3 12 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.79%) Confluence
4 5 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.16%) Camunda
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 390 (61.61%) AWS
2 297 (46.92%) Azure
3 108 (17.06%) GitHub
4 98 (15.48%) GCP
5 94 (14.85%) Azure DevOps
6 93 (14.69%) Serverless
7 79 (12.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (11.53%) GitHub Actions
9 47 (7.42%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (7.42%) PaaS
10 44 (6.95%) Amazon S3
11 43 (6.79%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (6.64%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (6.64%) SaaS
13 38 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (5.69%) Entra ID
14 36 (5.69%) IaaS
15 35 (5.53%) Azure AKS
16 33 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
17 31 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.90%) Firewall
2 59 (9.32%) Broadband
3 32 (5.06%) DNS
4 28 (4.42%) VPN
5 27 (4.27%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.00%) BGP
7 17 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.21%) LAN
9 12 (1.90%) VLAN
9 12 (1.90%) WAN
10 11 (1.74%) OSPF
11 10 (1.58%) DHCP
11 10 (1.58%) Network Security
12 8 (1.26%) VXLAN
13 7 (1.11%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.95%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.95%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.95%) WebEx
15 5 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.79%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (11.53%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (5.53%) Relational Database
3 34 (5.37%) MongoDB
4 30 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 25 (3.95%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.95%) Metadata
6 24 (3.79%) SQL Server
7 18 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 14 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (2.21%) Delta Lake
8 14 (2.21%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (1.74%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (1.58%) MySQL
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.26%) Big Data
12 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 66 (10.43%) Git
2 47 (7.42%) GitLab
3 37 (5.85%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.84%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.26%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.11%) JMeter
7 6 (0.95%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.95%) JIRA
7 6 (0.95%) Locust
7 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.79%) NUnit
8 5 (0.79%) Selenium
8 5 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.79%) Storybook
9 3 (0.47%) MLflow
10 2 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.32%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.32%) MSI
10 2 (0.32%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 165 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 108 (17.06%) Finance
3 63 (9.95%) Public Sector
4 55 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (6.48%) Banking
7 35 (5.53%) Retail
8 29 (4.58%) Law
9 22 (3.48%) Games
9 22 (3.48%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.53%) Billing
11 12 (1.90%) Back Office
11 12 (1.90%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.90%) Marketing
12 10 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.42%) Legal
14 8 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.95%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.79%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 162 (25.59%) Senior
2 128 (20.22%) Lead
3 86 (13.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 77 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 72 (11.37%) Platform Engineer
6 67 (10.58%) Developer
7 56 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
8 54 (8.53%) AWS Engineer
9 51 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 44 (6.95%) Software Engineer
11 36 (5.69%) Architect
12 32 (5.06%) Data Engineer
12 32 (5.06%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.11%) Lead Developer
14 26 (4.11%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.48%) Senior Developer
17 19 (3.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 19 (3.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.58%) React
2 43 (6.79%) REST
3 42 (6.64%) RESTful
4 39 (6.16%) Node.js
5 36 (5.69%) .NET
6 33 (5.21%) AWS CDK
7 32 (5.06%) Spring
8 27 (4.27%) Spring Boot
9 25 (3.95%) YAML
10 24 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
11 23 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 20 (3.16%) Kafka
13 18 (2.84%) ARM Templates
14 17 (2.69%) Django
14 17 (2.69%) React Native
15 16 (2.53%) CSS
16 15 (2.37%) JSON
16 15 (2.37%) Next.js
16 15 (2.37%) OAuth
16 15 (2.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 175 (27.65%) Cloud Native
2 54 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 37 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (5.53%) Video\Live Streaming
6 25 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.63%) Low-Code
9 21 (3.32%) Security Posture
10 20 (3.16%) Mobile App
10 20 (3.16%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.84%) Public Cloud
12 17 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.90%) Blog
16 10 (1.58%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (1.42%) Private Cloud
17 9 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 114 (18.01%) Linux
2 35 (5.53%) Windows
3 33 (5.21%) Unix
4 22 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.90%) Android
6 11 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.47%) VMS
9 2 (0.32%) CentOS
9 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.16%) Debian
10 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (70.77%) CI/CD
2 380 (60.03%) DevOps
3 210 (33.18%) Observability
4 204 (32.23%) Agile
5 203 (32.07%) Mentoring
6 184 (29.07%) Containerisation
7 157 (24.80%) Platform Engineering
8 153 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (21.17%) Software Engineering
10 126 (19.91%) Test Automation
11 125 (19.75%) AI
12 124 (19.59%) Technical Leadership
13 107 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 94 (14.85%) Microservices
16 88 (13.90%) Roadmaps
17 87 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 75 (11.85%) Analytics
19 64 (10.11%) Cloud Security
19 64 (10.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 281 (44.39%) Python
2 105 (16.59%) Java
3 99 (15.64%) Bash
4 79 (12.48%) PowerShell
5 73 (11.53%) JavaScript
6 71 (11.22%) SQL
7 67 (10.58%) Go
8 63 (9.95%) Bicep
8 63 (9.95%) TypeScript
9 39 (6.16%) C#
10 15 (2.37%) Scala
11 9 (1.42%) C++
12 7 (1.11%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.95%) PHP
14 5 (0.79%) Ruby
14 5 (0.79%) Rust
15 4 (0.63%) Groovy
16 2 (0.32%) C
16 2 (0.32%) Perl
16 2 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 84 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.69%) Degree
4 48 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 45 (7.11%) AWS Certification
6 19 (3.00%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.05%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.42%) CCNP
10 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.95%) CCNA
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.63%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.63%) LPIC
12 4 (0.63%) MCSE
12 4 (0.63%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.63%) VCAP
12 4 (0.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.37%) QA
2 28 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.84%) GDPR
5 17 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.21%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.42%) NIST
9 5 (0.79%) WCAG
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.32%) IFRS
11 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.32%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (27.17%) Docker
2 25 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.05%) vSphere
5 11 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.63%) Firmware
9 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 392 (61.93%) Terraform
2 220 (34.76%) Kubernetes
3 109 (17.22%) Ansible
4 72 (11.37%) Grafana
4 72 (11.37%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.37%) Argo
6 22 (3.48%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.21%) Puppet
8 13 (2.05%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.11%) Istio
10 7 (1.11%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.79%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.79%) Packer
13 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.63%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.47%) logstash
Vendors
1 103 (16.27%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.95%) Google
3 40 (6.32%) VMware
4 31 (4.90%) Cisco
5 23 (3.63%) Palo Alto
6 19 (3.00%) Databricks
7 17 (2.69%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.90%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.90%) Splunk
10 11 (1.74%) F5
11 8 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.11%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.11%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.95%) Juniper
13 6 (0.95%) NetApp
13 6 (0.95%) Oracle
14 5 (0.79%) Ab Initio
14 5 (0.79%) SolarWinds