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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 144 138
Rank change year-on-year +74 -6 -68
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 821 387 583
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.64% 2.35% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 2.53% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 535 295 445
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,650 £43,800
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,810 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +14.38% -8.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £104,000
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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 6 August 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 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.83%) Apache
3 14 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) Camunda
8 3 (0.37%) Confluence
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 460 (56.03%) AWS
2 452 (55.05%) Azure
3 155 (18.88%) GCP
4 114 (13.89%) GitHub
5 113 (13.76%) Serverless
6 105 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 97 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (9.38%) PaaS
9 69 (8.40%) Cloud Computing
10 63 (7.67%) GitHub Actions
10 63 (7.67%) Microsoft 365
11 59 (7.19%) SaaS
12 53 (6.46%) Amazon S3
12 53 (6.46%) IaaS
13 50 (6.09%) Azure AKS
14 41 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
15 40 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (4.87%) Power Platform
16 33 (4.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.26%) LAN
1 76 (9.26%) WAN
2 63 (7.67%) Firewall
3 54 (6.58%) Broadband
4 49 (5.97%) TCP/IP
5 48 (5.85%) VPN
6 46 (5.60%) DNS
7 19 (2.31%) DHCP
8 18 (2.19%) BGP
9 16 (1.95%) Network Security
9 16 (1.95%) OSPF
10 13 (1.58%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (1.58%) VLAN
10 13 (1.58%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.10%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 7 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 7 (0.85%) WebEx
13 6 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (12.06%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.24%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.12%) Metadata
4 29 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.17%) Data Lake
6 26 (3.17%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (2.44%) DynamoDB
9 17 (2.07%) Delta Lake
10 14 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.58%) MySQL
11 13 (1.58%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 12 (1.46%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.22%) Redis
14 7 (0.85%) Big Data
15 6 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 82 (9.99%) Git
2 47 (5.72%) GitLab
3 43 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.10%) NUnit
5 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.73%) JMeter
7 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.61%) Locust
7 5 (0.61%) Selenium
8 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.49%) JIRA
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
9 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 302 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 180 (21.92%) Finance
3 73 (8.89%) Law
4 72 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 64 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
6 63 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (4.75%) Banking
9 33 (4.02%) Games
10 29 (3.53%) Retail
11 18 (2.19%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.07%) Legal
12 17 (2.07%) Marketing
13 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.97%) Local Government
15 7 (0.85%) Advertising
15 7 (0.85%) Aviation
16 6 (0.73%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 219 (26.67%) Senior
2 136 (16.57%) Lead
3 131 (15.96%) Architect
4 101 (12.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 94 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 74 (9.01%) Developer
7 73 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
8 70 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
9 67 (8.16%) Systems Architect
10 59 (7.19%) Software Engineer
11 46 (5.60%) Python Engineer
12 44 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (4.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 35 (4.26%) Data Engineer
15 35 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 32 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.90%) Site Engineer
17 29 (3.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (8.16%) React
2 53 (6.46%) REST
3 45 (5.48%) Node.js
3 45 (5.48%) RESTful
4 44 (5.36%) .NET
5 39 (4.75%) AWS CDK
6 30 (3.65%) ARM Templates
7 25 (3.05%) Next.js
7 25 (3.05%) Spring
7 25 (3.05%) YAML
8 23 (2.80%) Kafka
9 22 (2.68%) PySpark
10 19 (2.31%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.19%) FastAPI
12 17 (2.07%) CSS
12 17 (2.07%) Django
13 15 (1.83%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.58%) .NET Core
14 13 (1.58%) PyTorch
15 12 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 234 (28.50%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.08%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (5.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 40 (4.87%) Product Ownership
7 35 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (3.90%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.53%) Security Posture
10 25 (3.05%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.19%) Podcast
12 17 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.95%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.71%) Replication
14 14 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.46%) Blog
15 12 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.22%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.15%) Linux
2 56 (6.82%) Windows
3 24 (2.92%) Unix
3 24 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.58%) VMS
5 5 (0.61%) Android
6 4 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (68.70%) CI/CD
2 421 (51.28%) DevOps
3 282 (34.35%) Observability
4 259 (31.55%) Containerisation
5 236 (28.75%) Mentoring
6 228 (27.77%) Agile
7 225 (27.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 214 (26.07%) AI
9 194 (23.63%) Software Engineering
10 186 (22.66%) Technical Leadership
11 183 (22.29%) Platform Engineering
12 164 (19.98%) Roadmaps
13 140 (17.05%) Test Automation
14 139 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.10%) Microservices
16 111 (13.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 108 (13.15%) Analytics
18 96 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 95 (11.57%) Machine Learning
20 90 (10.96%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 354 (43.12%) Python
2 107 (13.03%) Bicep
3 104 (12.67%) SQL
4 100 (12.18%) PowerShell
5 93 (11.33%) Bash
5 93 (11.33%) Java
6 81 (9.87%) TypeScript
7 72 (8.77%) Go
8 64 (7.80%) JavaScript
9 48 (5.85%) C#
10 18 (2.19%) Scala
11 13 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.58%) Ruby
12 8 (0.97%) PHP
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.37%) Rust
17 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 136 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 126 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.87%) Azure Certification
4 63 (7.67%) Degree
5 31 (3.78%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 23 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.58%) CCNP
9 13 (1.58%) SnowPro
10 9 (1.10%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.97%) CCNA
12 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.61%) CCIE
14 4 (0.49%) LPIC
14 4 (0.49%) MCSE
14 4 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.19%) GRC
2 46 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.63%) QA
4 15 (1.83%) GDPR
5 14 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.71%) NIST
6 9 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.97%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.61%) WCAG
9 4 (0.49%) NCSC
10 3 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS
11 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 164 (19.98%) Docker
2 44 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 37 (4.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.05%) vSphere
5 16 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.49%) Firmware
8 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 458 (55.79%) Terraform
2 228 (27.77%) Kubernetes
3 90 (10.96%) Ansible
4 78 (9.50%) Grafana
5 46 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.44%) Argo
7 16 (1.95%) Istio
8 15 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.46%) Puppet
10 9 (1.10%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (0.85%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.73%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.61%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.49%) linkerd
15 3 (0.37%) Packer
15 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 231 (28.14%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.70%) Google
3 42 (5.12%) VMware
4 30 (3.65%) Cisco
5 29 (3.53%) Databricks
6 27 (3.29%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.19%) Oracle
9 17 (2.07%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.71%) Splunk
11 12 (1.46%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.46%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.34%) Okta
12 11 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.22%) F5
13 10 (1.22%) Informatica
13 10 (1.22%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.85%) Arista
14 7 (0.85%) NetApp
15 6 (0.73%) HubSpot