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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 107 64
Rank change year-on-year +19 -43 +26
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 478 572 998
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.04% 2.87% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 3.24% 4.83%
Number of salaries quoted 341 344 781
10th Percentile £46,500 £41,594 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £98,474 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 14,455 17,637 20,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.89% 88.60% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,789 10,534 16,696
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,950
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £98,150 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

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 14 November 2025.

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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.46%) Apache
4 6 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) IIS
6 2 (0.42%) Confluence
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 323 (67.57%) Azure
2 268 (56.07%) AWS
3 112 (23.43%) Azure DevOps
4 108 (22.59%) GitHub
5 91 (19.04%) GCP
6 89 (18.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 80 (16.74%) Serverless
8 75 (15.69%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (11.30%) Entra ID
10 53 (11.09%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (11.09%) SaaS
11 46 (9.62%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
13 44 (9.21%) PaaS
14 38 (7.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (7.95%) Amazon S3
14 38 (7.95%) IaaS
15 36 (7.53%) Amazon ECS
16 35 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 62 (12.97%) Firewall
2 48 (10.04%) VPN
3 32 (6.69%) WAN
4 28 (5.86%) DNS
5 26 (5.44%) LAN
6 24 (5.02%) Network Security
7 22 (4.60%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.93%) SD-WAN
8 14 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (2.30%) BGP
10 8 (1.67%) DHCP
10 8 (1.67%) VLAN
11 7 (1.46%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.46%) VoIP
12 6 (1.26%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (1.05%) OSPF
14 4 (0.84%) Broadband
14 4 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.84%) Wireless
14 4 (0.84%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 20 (4.18%) DynamoDB
3 20 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.77%) Data Lake
5 17 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 14 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (2.93%) MySQL
7 13 (2.72%) Redis
8 11 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
9 9 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (1.67%) Power BI
11 7 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.26%) MongoDB
13 5 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.84%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
15 3 (0.63%) Big Data
15 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (12.76%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.37%) GitLab
3 33 (6.90%) Git
4 10 (2.09%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.88%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (1.26%) Bitbucket
8 5 (1.05%) git-flow
8 5 (1.05%) JIRA
9 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.42%) JMeter
10 2 (0.42%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.42%) Subversion
11 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.21%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.21%) JUnit
11 1 (0.21%) Maven
11 1 (0.21%) Mockito
General
1 124 (25.94%) Finance
2 112 (23.43%) Social Skills
3 43 (9.00%) Law
4 39 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.32%) Banking
6 33 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 29 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (6.07%) Retail
8 20 (4.18%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.93%) Financial Institution
10 13 (2.72%) Back Office
10 13 (2.72%) Legal
11 7 (1.46%) Games
11 7 (1.46%) Marketing
11 7 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.84%) Advertising
15 3 (0.63%) Electronics
15 3 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 120 (25.10%) Senior
2 82 (17.15%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 58 (12.13%) Lead
5 56 (11.72%) Architect
6 42 (8.79%) Developer
7 40 (8.37%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
9 33 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
11 23 (4.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 22 (4.60%) Senior DevOps
13 20 (4.18%) Cloud Architect
13 20 (4.18%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 19 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.35%) AWS DevOps
17 15 (3.14%) Senior Developer
18 14 (2.93%) Lead DevOps
18 14 (2.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.30%) .NET
2 38 (7.95%) React
3 20 (4.18%) Node.js
4 19 (3.97%) RESTful
4 19 (3.97%) YAML
5 17 (3.56%) REST
6 16 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
7 15 (3.14%) OAuth
8 14 (2.93%) CSS
8 14 (2.93%) Django
9 13 (2.72%) AWS CDK
9 13 (2.72%) HTML
10 12 (2.51%) Kafka
11 11 (2.30%) Spring
12 10 (2.09%) JSON
12 10 (2.09%) OAuth2
12 10 (2.09%) Vue
13 9 (1.88%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.88%) ARM Templates
13 9 (1.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 121 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 35 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (6.69%) Product Ownership
5 30 (6.28%) Data Centre
6 24 (5.02%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (3.97%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (3.77%) Management Information System
9 17 (3.56%) Security Posture
10 15 (3.14%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (2.30%) Private Cloud
12 10 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.46%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.46%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.26%) Blog
15 6 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
16 4 (0.84%) AI Agents
16 4 (0.84%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 83 (17.36%) Linux
2 51 (10.67%) Windows
3 20 (4.18%) Unix
4 13 (2.72%) VMS
5 10 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.26%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.84%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.63%) CentOS
9 3 (0.63%) Debian
10 2 (0.42%) Android
10 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (71.55%) DevOps
2 314 (65.69%) CI/CD
3 153 (32.01%) Agile
4 114 (23.85%) Continuous Improvement
5 94 (19.67%) Containerisation
6 93 (19.46%) Observability
7 91 (19.04%) Mentoring
7 91 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (17.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 73 (15.27%) Analytics
10 70 (14.64%) Roadmaps
11 68 (14.23%) Cloud Security
12 65 (13.60%) AI
13 64 (13.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 63 (13.18%) Coaching
15 60 (12.55%) Software Engineering
16 57 (11.92%) Incident Response
17 54 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
18 50 (10.46%) ITIL
19 48 (10.04%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (38.08%) Python
2 106 (22.18%) PowerShell
3 90 (18.83%) Bash
4 72 (15.06%) Bicep
5 64 (13.39%) SQL
6 38 (7.95%) JavaScript
7 37 (7.74%) C#
8 33 (6.90%) TypeScript
9 29 (6.07%) Java
10 26 (5.44%) Go
11 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.84%) PHP
12 2 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.42%) Groovy
12 2 (0.42%) Scala
12 2 (0.42%) XAML
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Julia
13 1 (0.21%) R
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 76 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 59 (12.34%) SC Cleared
3 52 (10.88%) Azure Certification
4 49 (10.25%) AWS Certification
5 27 (5.65%) Degree
6 20 (4.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (3.35%) CCNP
9 16 (3.35%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.88%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.46%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.46%) PMP
12 5 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.05%) OSCP
13 4 (0.84%) CISSP
13 4 (0.84%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.84%) OSCE
14 3 (0.63%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (6.49%) NIST
3 28 (5.86%) GDPR
4 18 (3.77%) SOC 2
5 17 (3.56%) QA
6 16 (3.35%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.67%) SLA
8 6 (1.26%) GRC
9 4 (0.84%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.84%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.63%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 131 (27.41%) Docker
2 24 (5.02%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.81%) Active Directory
3 23 (4.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (2.30%) vSphere
6 8 (1.67%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.26%) NFS
8 3 (0.63%) Firmware
8 3 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.21%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) KVM
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 337 (70.50%) Terraform
2 167 (34.94%) Kubernetes
3 112 (23.43%) Ansible
4 56 (11.72%) Grafana
5 42 (8.79%) Prometheus
6 24 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.30%) Argo
8 8 (1.67%) SCOM
9 4 (0.84%) Cilium
10 3 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.42%) Puppet
12 1 (0.21%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.21%) Icinga
12 1 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.21%) Nagios
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 109 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.28%) Cisco
3 28 (5.86%) VMware
4 20 (4.18%) Google
5 19 (3.97%) Databricks
6 15 (3.14%) Red Hat
7 13 (2.72%) Oracle
8 12 (2.51%) Palo Alto
9 9 (1.88%) Splunk
10 7 (1.46%) Ab Initio
10 7 (1.46%) Commvault
10 7 (1.46%) New Relic
10 7 (1.46%) Pure Storage
11 6 (1.26%) Aruba
11 6 (1.26%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.26%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.26%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.05%) Mellanox
12 5 (1.05%) NVIDIA
12 5 (1.05%) PagerDuty