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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 161 134
Rank change year-on-year +90 -27 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 652 340 762
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 2.33% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 2.46% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 428 240 646
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,950 £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 15,889 13,827 29,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.91% 94.82% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,338 8,083 23,433
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,300 £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 £106,100 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%

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 28 May 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 18 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (2.15%) Apache
3 12 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.77%) Confluence
4 5 (0.77%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.31%) 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 (0.61%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (60.58%) AWS
2 306 (46.93%) Azure
3 107 (16.41%) GitHub
4 100 (15.34%) GCP
5 99 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (14.72%) Serverless
7 79 (12.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (11.04%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (7.82%) PaaS
10 48 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (7.21%) Amazon S3
12 46 (7.06%) SaaS
13 45 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
14 44 (6.75%) Amazon EC2
15 41 (6.29%) Azure AKS
16 40 (6.13%) IaaS
17 38 (5.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 38 (5.83%) Entra ID
18 34 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
19 32 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (10.58%) Firewall
2 63 (9.66%) Broadband
3 32 (4.91%) DNS
4 28 (4.29%) VPN
5 27 (4.14%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.91%) BGP
7 17 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.15%) LAN
9 13 (1.99%) WAN
10 12 (1.84%) VLAN
11 11 (1.69%) OSPF
12 10 (1.53%) DHCP
12 10 (1.53%) Network Security
13 8 (1.23%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.23%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.92%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.92%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.92%) WebEx
15 5 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.77%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (11.66%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.52%) Relational Database
3 35 (5.37%) MongoDB
4 33 (5.06%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.91%) Amazon RDS
6 29 (4.45%) Metadata
7 26 (3.99%) Data Lake
8 24 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.76%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (2.15%) Delta Lake
10 14 (2.15%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.69%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.53%) MySQL
13 9 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.38%) Redis
14 8 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 69 (10.58%) Git
2 46 (7.06%) GitLab
3 36 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.76%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.07%) JMeter
7 6 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.92%) JIRA
7 6 (0.92%) Locust
7 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.77%) NUnit
8 5 (0.77%) Selenium
8 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.77%) Storybook
9 3 (0.46%) MLflow
10 2 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.31%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.31%) MSI
10 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 109 (16.72%) Finance
3 65 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (8.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (6.13%) Banking
7 35 (5.37%) Retail
8 30 (4.60%) Law
9 22 (3.37%) Games
9 22 (3.37%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.61%) Billing
11 12 (1.84%) Back Office
11 12 (1.84%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.84%) Marketing
12 10 (1.53%) Legal
12 10 (1.53%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 7 (1.07%) Aviation
14 7 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 164 (25.15%) Senior
2 129 (19.79%) Lead
3 88 (13.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 82 (12.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (11.20%) Platform Engineer
6 67 (10.28%) Developer
7 57 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
7 57 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
8 51 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 47 (7.21%) Software Engineer
10 37 (5.67%) Architect
11 33 (5.06%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.91%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (4.14%) Python Engineer
14 26 (3.99%) Lead Developer
15 23 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 22 (3.37%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 19 (2.91%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (7.67%) React
2 45 (6.90%) REST
3 42 (6.44%) RESTful
4 41 (6.29%) Node.js
5 38 (5.83%) .NET
6 33 (5.06%) AWS CDK
6 33 (5.06%) Spring
7 28 (4.29%) YAML
8 27 (4.14%) Spring Boot
9 24 (3.68%) Elastic Stack
10 23 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
11 21 (3.22%) ARM Templates
12 20 (3.07%) Kafka
13 17 (2.61%) Django
13 17 (2.61%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.61%) React Native
14 16 (2.45%) JSON
14 16 (2.45%) Next.js
14 16 (2.45%) OAuth
14 16 (2.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 178 (27.30%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.98%) Video\Live Streaming
4 38 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.53%) Low-Code
8 21 (3.22%) Onboarding
8 21 (3.22%) Security Posture
9 20 (3.07%) Mobile App
10 18 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (2.61%) Public Cloud
12 15 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
13 14 (2.15%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.84%) Blog
15 10 (1.53%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.38%) Private Cloud
16 9 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 121 (18.56%) Linux
2 36 (5.52%) Windows
3 33 (5.06%) Unix
4 23 (3.53%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.84%) Android
6 11 (1.69%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.46%) VMS
9 2 (0.31%) CentOS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (70.86%) CI/CD
2 390 (59.82%) DevOps
3 215 (32.98%) Observability
4 208 (31.90%) Mentoring
5 206 (31.60%) Agile
6 187 (28.68%) Containerisation
7 164 (25.15%) Platform Engineering
8 153 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 139 (21.32%) Software Engineering
10 134 (20.55%) AI
11 128 (19.63%) Test Automation
12 127 (19.48%) Technical Leadership
13 108 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (15.49%) Microservices
15 96 (14.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 94 (14.42%) Roadmaps
17 88 (13.50%) Full-Stack Development
18 79 (12.12%) Analytics
19 68 (10.43%) Machine Learning
20 66 (10.12%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 292 (44.79%) Python
2 107 (16.41%) Java
3 104 (15.95%) Bash
4 83 (12.73%) PowerShell
5 76 (11.66%) SQL
6 75 (11.50%) JavaScript
7 68 (10.43%) Go
8 67 (10.28%) Bicep
9 65 (9.97%) TypeScript
10 41 (6.29%) C#
11 15 (2.30%) Scala
12 9 (1.38%) C++
13 7 (1.07%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.92%) PHP
14 6 (0.92%) Ruby
15 5 (0.77%) Rust
16 4 (0.61%) Groovy
17 2 (0.31%) C
17 2 (0.31%) Perl
17 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 94 (14.42%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.34%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.44%) Degree
4 49 (7.52%) Azure Certification
5 45 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 20 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.99%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.38%) CCNP
10 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.92%) CCNA
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.61%) LPIC
12 4 (0.61%) MCSE
12 4 (0.61%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.61%) VCAP
12 4 (0.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.37%) QA
2 29 (4.45%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.91%) Accessibility
4 18 (2.76%) GDPR
5 16 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.30%) PCI DSS
7 14 (2.15%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.38%) NIST
9 5 (0.77%) WCAG
10 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS
11 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (26.38%) Docker
2 26 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.99%) vSphere
5 11 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.61%) Firmware
9 3 (0.46%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 403 (61.81%) Terraform
2 225 (34.51%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.72%) Ansible
4 72 (11.04%) Grafana
4 72 (11.04%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.21%) Argo
6 22 (3.37%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.15%) Puppet
8 13 (1.99%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.23%) Istio
10 8 (1.23%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.92%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.77%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.77%) Packer
12 5 (0.77%) ZABBIX
13 4 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.46%) logstash
Vendors
1 111 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.90%) Google
3 40 (6.13%) VMware
4 31 (4.75%) Cisco
5 23 (3.53%) Palo Alto
6 20 (3.07%) Databricks
7 17 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.84%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.84%) Splunk
10 11 (1.69%) F5
11 8 (1.23%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.07%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.07%) Dynatrace
13 6 (0.92%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.92%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.92%) Juniper
13 6 (0.92%) NetApp
13 6 (0.92%) Oracle
14 5 (0.77%) Ab Initio