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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 118 118
Rank change year-on-year +46 0 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 563 376 821
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 2.93% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.08% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 351 281 701
10th Percentile £46,446 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +6.78% -4.30%
75th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -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 14,184 12,193 28,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.28% 95.04% 91.81%
Number of salaries quoted 9,612 8,760 23,196
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 27 March 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 14 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.60%) Apache
3 8 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.53%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 346 (61.46%) AWS
2 304 (54.00%) Azure
3 122 (21.67%) Azure DevOps
3 122 (21.67%) GitHub
4 106 (18.83%) GCP
5 95 (16.87%) Serverless
6 89 (15.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 88 (15.63%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (10.12%) SaaS
9 54 (9.59%) Amazon EKS
10 50 (8.88%) Amazon S3
11 47 (8.35%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (7.99%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (7.99%) PaaS
13 41 (7.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (7.10%) dbt
15 38 (6.75%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (6.57%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (6.39%) Entra ID
18 34 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (11.90%) Firewall
2 38 (6.75%) Broadband
3 29 (5.15%) VPN
4 28 (4.97%) TCP/IP
5 16 (2.84%) Cisco ASA
6 13 (2.31%) DNS
6 13 (2.31%) Network Security
7 12 (2.13%) BGP
7 12 (2.13%) VLAN
8 9 (1.60%) WAN
9 8 (1.42%) LAN
10 5 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (0.89%) Unified Communications
10 5 (0.89%) WebEx
11 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.53%) DHCP
12 3 (0.53%) Modbus
13 2 (0.36%) DSL
13 2 (0.36%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (8.35%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (7.99%) NoSQL
3 38 (6.75%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (4.97%) SQL Server
5 27 (4.80%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.73%) Data Lake
7 19 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.37%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.37%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.66%) DynamoDB
8 15 (2.66%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.66%) MySQL
8 15 (2.66%) Redis
9 14 (2.49%) Metadata
10 13 (2.31%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 48 (8.53%) Git
1 48 (8.53%) Jenkins
2 41 (7.28%) GitLab
3 19 (3.37%) Jaeger
4 9 (1.60%) JIRA
4 9 (1.60%) JMeter
4 9 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.42%) TeamCity
6 7 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.07%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.07%) git-flow
7 6 (1.07%) Locust
7 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.89%) Selenium
8 5 (0.89%) Storybook
9 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.53%) NUnit
9 3 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.36%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
General
1 139 (24.69%) Finance
2 138 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 65 (11.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (8.88%) Banking
5 50 (8.88%) Public Sector
6 46 (8.17%) Retail
7 39 (6.93%) Law
8 30 (5.33%) Telecoms
9 24 (4.26%) Financial Institution
10 20 (3.55%) Back Office
11 18 (3.20%) Billing
12 14 (2.49%) Marketing
13 11 (1.95%) Legal
14 9 (1.60%) Games
15 7 (1.24%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.24%) Tech for Good
16 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.89%) Military
17 5 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (24.51%) Senior
2 100 (17.76%) Lead
3 80 (14.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (11.72%) Platform Engineer
5 62 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (10.48%) Developer
7 53 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (9.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.51%) Architect
11 28 (4.97%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (3.91%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.91%) Lead DevOps
14 20 (3.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 18 (3.20%) Senior Developer
16 17 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.02%) Operations Engineer
16 17 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.17%) React
2 45 (7.99%) .NET
3 37 (6.57%) REST
4 35 (6.22%) Elastic Stack
5 34 (6.04%) RESTful
6 32 (5.68%) Node.js
7 30 (5.33%) Spring
8 26 (4.62%) Django
8 26 (4.62%) YAML
9 25 (4.44%) AWS CDK
9 25 (4.44%) OAuth
9 25 (4.44%) Spring Boot
10 21 (3.73%) CSS
11 20 (3.55%) HTML
11 20 (3.55%) JSON
11 20 (3.55%) OpenAPI
11 20 (3.55%) OpenTelemetry
11 20 (3.55%) Swagger
12 18 (3.20%) Kafka
13 16 (2.84%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 145 (25.75%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 36 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (5.15%) Data Centre
5 25 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 25 (4.44%) Security Posture
6 20 (3.55%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.84%) Blog
8 16 (2.84%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
9 15 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
10 13 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.42%) Data Structures
14 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (23.98%) Linux
2 50 (8.88%) Unix
3 49 (8.70%) Windows
4 16 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.95%) Android
6 10 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.42%) VMS
8 7 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.89%) CentOS
11 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.18%) Debian
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (69.45%) CI/CD
2 380 (67.50%) DevOps
3 197 (34.99%) Agile
4 160 (28.42%) Mentoring
4 160 (28.42%) Observability
5 150 (26.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 145 (25.75%) Containerisation
7 113 (20.07%) Platform Engineering
8 104 (18.47%) Software Engineering
9 101 (17.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 91 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (15.99%) Test Automation
12 86 (15.28%) AI
13 77 (13.68%) Roadmaps
13 77 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
14 76 (13.50%) Incident Response
15 72 (12.79%) Analytics
16 71 (12.61%) Coaching
17 67 (11.90%) Cloud Security
18 64 (11.37%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 234 (41.56%) Python
2 97 (17.23%) Bash
3 90 (15.99%) Java
4 85 (15.10%) PowerShell
5 79 (14.03%) SQL
6 72 (12.79%) Bicep
7 61 (10.83%) JavaScript
8 57 (10.12%) Go
9 39 (6.93%) C#
10 38 (6.75%) TypeScript
11 12 (2.13%) Scala
12 9 (1.60%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.71%) Ruby
15 3 (0.53%) Rust
16 2 (0.36%) C++
16 2 (0.36%) PHP
16 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (13.32%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.19%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.53%) AWS Certification
4 46 (8.17%) Degree
5 38 (6.75%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.24%) CCNP
11 6 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.89%) CCNA
12 5 (0.89%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.89%) LPIC
12 5 (0.89%) MCSE
12 5 (0.89%) OSCP
12 5 (0.89%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.86%) QA
2 31 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 25 (4.44%) SOC 2
4 24 (4.26%) GDPR
5 22 (3.91%) Accessibility
6 21 (3.73%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.49%) NIST
8 7 (1.24%) GRC
8 7 (1.24%) SLA
9 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.89%) WCAG
10 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.71%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 173 (30.73%) Docker
2 27 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.66%) vSphere
4 14 (2.49%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (69.27%) Terraform
2 198 (35.17%) Kubernetes
3 119 (21.14%) Ansible
4 73 (12.97%) Grafana
4 73 (12.97%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.62%) Argo
6 19 (3.37%) Kustomize
7 12 (2.13%) Puppet
8 11 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.24%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.07%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.71%) Cilium
13 4 (0.71%) logstash
13 4 (0.71%) Packer
13 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
14 2 (0.36%) MIIS
Vendors
1 89 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.99%) Google
3 42 (7.46%) VMware
4 29 (5.15%) Cisco
5 21 (3.73%) Databricks
6 19 (3.37%) Splunk
7 14 (2.49%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.95%) Ab Initio
10 9 (1.60%) New Relic
11 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.42%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.24%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.24%) CyberArk
13 6 (1.07%) F5
13 6 (1.07%) Juniper
13 6 (1.07%) NetApp
13 6 (1.07%) Oracle
14 4 (0.71%) Cribl.io