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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 117 126
Rank change year-on-year +47 +9 -41
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 595 367 791
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 2.75% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.90% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 382 273 672
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £75,360 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +6.78% -5.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £94,063
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 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -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% -10.86%

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 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 16 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.51%) Apache
3 8 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Confluence
5 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 363 (61.01%) AWS
2 309 (51.93%) Azure
3 117 (19.66%) GitHub
4 114 (19.16%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (18.66%) GCP
6 97 (16.30%) Serverless
7 89 (14.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 83 (13.95%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (9.92%) Amazon EKS
10 51 (8.57%) SaaS
11 47 (7.90%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (7.73%) Amazon S3
13 45 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
14 42 (7.06%) PaaS
15 39 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (6.39%) Amazon ECS
16 38 (6.39%) dbt
17 37 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
17 37 (6.22%) Entra ID
18 34 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 73 (12.27%) Firewall
2 38 (6.39%) Broadband
3 32 (5.38%) TCP/IP
4 31 (5.21%) VPN
5 20 (3.36%) DNS
6 16 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.18%) BGP
8 12 (2.02%) LAN
8 12 (2.02%) Network Security
9 11 (1.85%) WAN
10 10 (1.68%) DHCP
10 10 (1.68%) VLAN
11 6 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.84%) WebEx
13 3 (0.50%) HTTP
13 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
13 3 (0.50%) Modbus
13 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.08%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.89%) NoSQL
3 37 (6.22%) Amazon RDS
4 33 (5.55%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.87%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.53%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.19%) RDBMS
10 17 (2.86%) Metadata
11 15 (2.52%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.18%) Delta Lake
12 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
12 13 (2.18%) MySQL
13 11 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.85%) Redis
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 54 (9.08%) Git
2 42 (7.06%) GitLab
3 38 (6.39%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.19%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
5 9 (1.51%) JIRA
5 9 (1.51%) JMeter
5 9 (1.51%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 6 (1.01%) Locust
6 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.84%) NUnit
7 5 (0.84%) Selenium
7 5 (0.84%) Storybook
7 5 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.50%) git-flow
8 3 (0.50%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.34%) MLflow
9 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 157 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 135 (22.69%) Finance
3 65 (10.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 51 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (8.24%) Banking
7 44 (7.39%) Retail
8 35 (5.88%) Law
9 28 (4.71%) Telecoms
10 21 (3.53%) Financial Institution
11 19 (3.19%) Back Office
12 18 (3.03%) Billing
13 14 (2.35%) Marketing
14 8 (1.34%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.34%) Legal
15 7 (1.18%) Games
16 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (25.38%) Senior
2 112 (18.82%) Lead
3 85 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (11.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
6 60 (10.08%) Developer
7 57 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 54 (9.08%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (5.71%) Software Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Architect
12 28 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
13 26 (4.37%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.37%) Data Engineer
14 22 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
14 22 (3.70%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.53%) Lead Developer
16 19 (3.19%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.90%) React
2 44 (7.39%) .NET
3 38 (6.39%) Node.js
4 36 (6.05%) REST
5 35 (5.88%) RESTful
6 32 (5.38%) Elastic Stack
7 30 (5.04%) Spring
8 28 (4.71%) AWS CDK
9 26 (4.37%) Django
10 25 (4.20%) OAuth
11 24 (4.03%) Spring Boot
11 24 (4.03%) YAML
12 23 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
13 22 (3.70%) Kafka
14 21 (3.53%) OpenAPI
14 21 (3.53%) Swagger
15 18 (3.03%) JSON
16 17 (2.86%) CSS
16 17 (2.86%) FastAPI
16 17 (2.86%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 157 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.55%) Hybrid Cloud
2 39 (6.55%) Product Ownership
3 36 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
4 26 (4.37%) Security Posture
5 24 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.53%) Public Cloud
8 20 (3.36%) Mobile App
8 20 (3.36%) Onboarding
9 18 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
10 16 (2.69%) Video\Live Streaming
11 15 (2.52%) Blog
12 12 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (2.02%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.51%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 125 (21.01%) Linux
2 45 (7.56%) Unix
3 44 (7.39%) Windows
4 20 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.35%) Android
6 13 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.01%) VMS
8 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.50%) CentOS
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (70.08%) CI/CD
2 392 (65.88%) DevOps
3 208 (34.96%) Agile
4 182 (30.59%) Mentoring
5 180 (30.25%) Observability
6 158 (26.55%) Containerisation
7 149 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (21.01%) Platform Engineering
9 115 (19.33%) Software Engineering
10 108 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
11 106 (17.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 101 (16.97%) Test Automation
13 96 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
14 87 (14.62%) AI
15 86 (14.45%) Roadmaps
16 77 (12.94%) Microservices
17 74 (12.44%) Coaching
18 73 (12.27%) Analytics
19 72 (12.10%) Incident Response
20 67 (11.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 243 (40.84%) Python
2 96 (16.13%) Java
3 94 (15.80%) Bash
4 80 (13.45%) PowerShell
4 80 (13.45%) SQL
5 69 (11.60%) Bicep
5 69 (11.60%) JavaScript
6 58 (9.75%) Go
7 49 (8.24%) TypeScript
8 42 (7.06%) C#
9 14 (2.35%) Scala
10 8 (1.34%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.01%) C++
12 5 (0.84%) Ruby
12 5 (0.84%) Rust
13 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.67%) PHP
14 2 (0.34%) C
14 2 (0.34%) VB
15 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.24%) Degree
4 46 (7.73%) AWS Certification
5 38 (6.39%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.69%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.85%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.51%) CCNP
11 7 (1.18%) CCNA
12 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.84%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.84%) LPIC
13 5 (0.84%) MCSE
13 5 (0.84%) OSCP
13 5 (0.84%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.21%) QA
2 30 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.03%) GDPR
4 23 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 23 (3.87%) SOC 2
5 22 (3.70%) PCI DSS
6 21 (3.53%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.35%) NIST
8 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (1.01%) GRC
9 5 (0.84%) WCAG
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.34%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS
12 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 167 (28.07%) Docker
2 25 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.36%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.18%) vSphere
5 12 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.67%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 409 (68.74%) Terraform
2 213 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 118 (19.83%) Ansible
4 74 (12.44%) Prometheus
5 72 (12.10%) Grafana
6 30 (5.04%) Argo
7 22 (3.70%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.35%) Puppet
9 12 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.67%) logstash
13 4 (0.67%) Packer
13 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.50%) Cilium
14 3 (0.50%) Istio
Vendors
1 100 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.56%) Google
3 40 (6.72%) VMware
4 30 (5.04%) Cisco
5 21 (3.53%) Databricks
6 17 (2.86%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.69%) Splunk
8 13 (2.18%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.02%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.68%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.34%) New Relic
12 7 (1.18%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.18%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.18%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.01%) F5
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) NetApp
13 6 (1.01%) Okta
14 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace