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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 170 138
Rank change year-on-year +98 -32 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 665 323 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 2.14% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 2.26% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 437 235 620
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £57,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 15,967 14,283 30,442
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.63% 89.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11,428 8,372 23,637
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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% -9.54%

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 9 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 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.41%) Apache
3 14 (2.11%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.75%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.75%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.45%) Confluence
6 2 (0.30%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) IIS
7 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.15%) nginx
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.60%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (62.11%) AWS
2 299 (44.96%) Azure
3 107 (16.09%) GitHub
4 103 (15.49%) Serverless
5 101 (15.19%) GCP
6 89 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (12.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (10.68%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (8.27%) PaaS
10 51 (7.67%) Amazon S3
11 49 (7.37%) SaaS
12 47 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
13 45 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
14 44 (6.62%) IaaS
15 43 (6.47%) Azure AKS
16 42 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
17 39 (5.86%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 36 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
20 33 (4.96%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (10.68%) Broadband
2 69 (10.38%) Firewall
3 34 (5.11%) DNS
4 32 (4.81%) VPN
5 28 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.16%) BGP
7 17 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.11%) LAN
8 14 (2.11%) WAN
9 13 (1.95%) VLAN
10 12 (1.80%) OSPF
11 10 (1.50%) DHCP
11 10 (1.50%) Network Security
12 9 (1.35%) VXLAN
13 8 (1.20%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.90%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.90%) WebEx
15 5 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.75%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.32%) MongoDB
3 38 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.11%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.51%) Amazon RDS
5 30 (4.51%) Metadata
6 25 (3.76%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.46%) SQL Server
8 20 (3.01%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.26%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.95%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.80%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.35%) Big Data
13 9 (1.35%) MySQL
13 9 (1.35%) Redis
14 7 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 67 (10.08%) Git
2 49 (7.37%) GitLab
3 37 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.71%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.90%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.90%) JMeter
6 6 (0.90%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.75%) JIRA
7 5 (0.75%) Locust
7 5 (0.75%) NUnit
7 5 (0.75%) Selenium
8 4 (0.60%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.60%) Storybook
9 3 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.45%) MLflow
10 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
General
1 181 (27.22%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.89%) Finance
3 69 (10.38%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.02%) Banking
7 34 (5.11%) Retail
8 32 (4.81%) Law
9 28 (4.21%) Games
10 22 (3.31%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.26%) Billing
12 12 (1.80%) Back Office
12 12 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 12 (1.80%) Marketing
13 10 (1.50%) Legal
13 10 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.20%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.05%) Aviation
16 6 (0.90%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 170 (25.56%) Senior
2 132 (19.85%) Lead
3 87 (13.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 83 (12.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (10.98%) Developer
5 73 (10.98%) Platform Engineer
6 57 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
7 51 (7.67%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (7.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 45 (6.77%) Software Engineer
10 41 (6.17%) Architect
11 34 (5.11%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.21%) Python Engineer
15 27 (4.06%) Lead Developer
16 26 (3.91%) Senior Developer
17 23 (3.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 20 (3.01%) Python Developer
18 20 (3.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.82%) React
2 46 (6.92%) REST
2 46 (6.92%) RESTful
3 40 (6.02%) Node.js
4 39 (5.86%) .NET
5 34 (5.11%) AWS CDK
6 33 (4.96%) Spring
7 27 (4.06%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.91%) YAML
9 25 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
10 23 (3.46%) ARM Templates
11 22 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (3.31%) Kafka
12 18 (2.71%) Django
13 17 (2.56%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.56%) Next.js
13 17 (2.56%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.41%) PySpark
14 16 (2.41%) React Native
14 16 (2.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 201 (30.23%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.08%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.77%) Video\Live Streaming
4 39 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (5.86%) Product Ownership
5 29 (4.36%) Low-Code
6 26 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 24 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (3.46%) Security Posture
9 20 (3.01%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (2.86%) Mobile App
10 19 (2.86%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.80%) Blog
14 10 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.50%) Replication
14 10 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.74%) Linux
2 35 (5.26%) Windows
3 33 (4.96%) Unix
4 22 (3.31%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.80%) Android
6 11 (1.65%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.45%) VMS
9 2 (0.30%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (71.28%) CI/CD
2 384 (57.74%) DevOps
3 224 (33.68%) Observability
4 213 (32.03%) Mentoring
5 206 (30.98%) Agile
6 193 (29.02%) Containerisation
7 165 (24.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 164 (24.66%) Platform Engineering
9 151 (22.71%) AI
10 145 (21.80%) Software Engineering
11 135 (20.30%) Technical Leadership
12 133 (20.00%) Test Automation
13 110 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (15.94%) Microservices
15 97 (14.59%) Full-Stack Development
15 97 (14.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 96 (14.44%) Roadmaps
17 78 (11.73%) Analytics
18 76 (11.43%) Machine Learning
19 66 (9.92%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 302 (45.41%) Python
2 111 (16.69%) Java
3 105 (15.79%) Bash
4 78 (11.73%) PowerShell
5 76 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 75 (11.28%) Go
6 75 (11.28%) SQL
7 69 (10.38%) TypeScript
8 67 (10.08%) Bicep
9 41 (6.17%) C#
10 14 (2.11%) Scala
11 9 (1.35%) C++
12 7 (1.05%) PHP
13 6 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.90%) Ruby
14 5 (0.75%) Groovy
14 5 (0.75%) Rust
15 3 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (15.49%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.97%) Degree
4 51 (7.67%) Azure Certification
5 45 (6.77%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.95%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.35%) CCNP
11 6 (0.90%) CCNA
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.60%) LPIC
12 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.60%) MCSE
12 4 (0.60%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.60%) VCAP
12 4 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.26%) QA
2 29 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.26%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.26%) GDPR
4 15 (2.26%) PCI DSS
5 14 (2.11%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.35%) NIST
7 5 (0.75%) WCAG
8 3 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 174 (26.17%) Docker
2 29 (4.36%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.11%) vSphere
5 10 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.60%) Firmware
9 3 (0.45%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 400 (60.15%) Terraform
2 228 (34.29%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.39%) Ansible
4 71 (10.68%) Grafana
4 71 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.41%) Argo
6 24 (3.61%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.11%) Puppet
8 12 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.50%) Istio
10 8 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.90%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.90%) Packer
12 5 (0.75%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.75%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 112 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.62%) Google
3 41 (6.17%) VMware
4 31 (4.66%) Cisco
5 24 (3.61%) Palo Alto
6 20 (3.01%) Databricks
6 20 (3.01%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.95%) Fortinet
7 13 (1.95%) Salesforce
8 12 (1.80%) Splunk
9 11 (1.65%) F5
10 8 (1.20%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.05%) CyberArk
12 6 (0.90%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.90%) Juniper
12 6 (0.90%) NetApp
12 6 (0.90%) Oracle
13 5 (0.75%) Arista
13 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.75%) SolarWinds