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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 164 139
Rank change year-on-year +91 -25 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 699 348 761
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 2.24% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 2.37% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 468 253 608
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,850
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,662 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -6.67%

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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 21 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.15%) Apache
3 13 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.72%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.43%) Confluence
6 3 (0.43%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 434 (62.09%) AWS
2 320 (45.78%) Azure
3 118 (16.88%) Serverless
4 110 (15.74%) GitHub
5 98 (14.02%) GCP
6 94 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (12.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 66 (9.44%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (9.44%) PaaS
9 56 (8.01%) Amazon S3
9 56 (8.01%) SaaS
10 53 (7.58%) IaaS
11 49 (7.01%) Azure AKS
11 49 (7.01%) Azure Monitor
12 48 (6.87%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (5.72%) Entra ID
15 38 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (10.87%) Broadband
2 64 (9.16%) Firewall
3 42 (6.01%) VPN
4 37 (5.29%) DNS
5 29 (4.15%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.00%) BGP
7 15 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (2.15%) VLAN
8 14 (2.00%) LAN
8 14 (2.00%) OSPF
8 14 (2.00%) WAN
9 13 (1.86%) Network Security
10 11 (1.57%) VXLAN
11 10 (1.43%) DHCP
12 8 (1.14%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.86%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.86%) WebEx
14 5 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.72%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.44%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.58%) Relational Database
4 37 (5.29%) Metadata
5 34 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.29%) Data Lake
9 21 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (3.00%) RDBMS
10 16 (2.29%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.15%) DynamoDB
12 12 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.57%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.29%) MySQL
15 9 (1.29%) Redis
16 8 (1.14%) Big Data
17 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 77 (11.02%) Git
2 50 (7.15%) GitLab
3 39 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.58%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.00%) NUnit
7 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.86%) JMeter
7 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.72%) JIRA
8 5 (0.72%) Locust
8 5 (0.72%) Selenium
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.43%) MLflow
11 2 (0.29%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.29%) MSI
11 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 202 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.59%) Finance
3 67 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 65 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (5.58%) Law
7 37 (5.29%) Banking
8 31 (4.43%) Games
9 30 (4.29%) Retail
10 20 (2.86%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.86%) Billing
12 10 (1.43%) Back Office
12 10 (1.43%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.43%) Legal
12 10 (1.43%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.43%) Marketing
13 9 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.14%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.00%) Aviation
16 6 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 180 (25.75%) Senior
2 141 (20.17%) Lead
3 90 (12.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (11.02%) Developer
5 75 (10.73%) Platform Engineer
6 59 (8.44%) AWS Engineer
7 56 (8.01%) Architect
8 53 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
9 47 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (6.15%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
13 32 (4.58%) Data Engineer
14 30 (4.29%) Python Engineer
14 30 (4.29%) Senior Developer
15 27 (3.86%) Lead Developer
16 24 (3.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.29%) Technical Leader
18 22 (3.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.58%) React
2 48 (6.87%) RESTful
3 45 (6.44%) REST
4 41 (5.87%) .NET
5 39 (5.58%) Node.js
6 37 (5.29%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.72%) Spring
8 28 (4.01%) Spring Boot
9 27 (3.86%) ARM Templates
10 26 (3.72%) YAML
11 25 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
12 22 (3.15%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.00%) Kafka
13 21 (3.00%) Next.js
14 20 (2.86%) PySpark
15 19 (2.72%) FastAPI
16 17 (2.43%) CSS
16 17 (2.43%) Django
16 17 (2.43%) PyTorch
17 16 (2.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 221 (31.62%) Cloud Native
2 72 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.87%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (5.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (5.87%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.58%) Low-Code
5 32 (4.58%) Public Cloud
6 29 (4.15%) Security Posture
7 26 (3.72%) Data Centre
8 24 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (3.15%) Onboarding
10 21 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (2.29%) Mobile App
11 16 (2.29%) Podcast
12 15 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.86%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (1.57%) Blog
16 10 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 121 (17.31%) Linux
2 42 (6.01%) Windows
3 32 (4.58%) Unix
4 18 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.72%) Android
6 11 (1.57%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.57%) VMS
7 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
10 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (71.10%) CI/CD
2 399 (57.08%) DevOps
3 239 (34.19%) Observability
4 221 (31.62%) Agile
5 219 (31.33%) Mentoring
6 198 (28.33%) Containerisation
7 180 (25.75%) AI
7 180 (25.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
9 153 (21.89%) Technical Leadership
10 150 (21.46%) Software Engineering
11 134 (19.17%) Test Automation
12 117 (16.74%) Microservices
13 112 (16.02%) Roadmaps
14 111 (15.88%) Problem-Solving
15 105 (15.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 94 (13.45%) Analytics
17 93 (13.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 87 (12.45%) Machine Learning
19 76 (10.87%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 319 (45.64%) Python
2 115 (16.45%) Bash
3 111 (15.88%) Java
4 89 (12.73%) Bicep
5 88 (12.59%) SQL
6 81 (11.59%) PowerShell
7 78 (11.16%) Go
8 77 (11.02%) JavaScript
9 75 (10.73%) TypeScript
10 45 (6.44%) C#
11 17 (2.43%) Scala
12 11 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (1.29%) Ruby
14 8 (1.14%) C++
14 8 (1.14%) PHP
15 6 (0.86%) Groovy
16 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.57%) Rust
18 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 104 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.16%) Azure Certification
4 52 (7.44%) Degree
5 47 (6.72%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.86%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.86%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.29%) CCNP
12 6 (0.86%) CCNA
12 6 (0.86%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.57%) MCSE
13 4 (0.57%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.29%) QA
2 34 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.00%) GDPR
4 13 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.00%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) WCAG
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (24.46%) Docker
2 39 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (3.15%) vSphere
5 11 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.57%) Firmware
10 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 421 (60.23%) Terraform
2 235 (33.62%) Kubernetes
3 113 (16.17%) Ansible
4 73 (10.44%) Grafana
5 72 (10.30%) Prometheus
6 37 (5.29%) Argo
7 24 (3.43%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.15%) Puppet
10 12 (1.72%) Istio
10 12 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.43%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.14%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.00%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.86%) Packer
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
17 3 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 129 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.44%) VMware
3 41 (5.87%) Google
4 29 (4.15%) Cisco
5 26 (3.72%) Palo Alto
6 25 (3.58%) Databricks
7 20 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.57%) F5
10 11 (1.57%) Splunk
11 10 (1.43%) Oracle
11 10 (1.43%) ScienceLogic
12 7 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.86%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.86%) Juniper
13 6 (0.86%) NetApp
13 6 (0.86%) Zscaler