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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 124 116
Rank change year-on-year +48 -8 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 803 403 601
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.28% 2.50% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 2.68% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 538 303 379
10th Percentile £52,500 £49,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 19,905 15,060 19,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.30% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 14,270 8,510 12,254
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 22 September 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 20 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.24%) Apache
3 16 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.87%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.62%) Confluence
6 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
7 4 (0.50%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
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%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 467 (58.16%) Azure
2 423 (52.68%) AWS
3 149 (18.56%) GCP
4 133 (16.56%) GitHub
5 111 (13.82%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (13.82%) Serverless
6 93 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 77 (9.59%) PaaS
8 71 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (8.59%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (7.97%) Cloud Computing
11 63 (7.85%) SaaS
12 61 (7.60%) Azure AKS
13 59 (7.35%) IaaS
14 55 (6.85%) Amazon S3
14 55 (6.85%) Azure Monitor
15 50 (6.23%) Entra ID
16 43 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (5.35%) Power Platform
17 39 (4.86%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.34%) WAN
2 71 (8.84%) LAN
3 55 (6.85%) Firewall
4 51 (6.35%) VPN
5 48 (5.98%) DNS
6 42 (5.23%) Broadband
6 42 (5.23%) TCP/IP
7 24 (2.99%) DHCP
8 18 (2.24%) BGP
8 18 (2.24%) Network Security
9 16 (1.99%) OSPF
10 14 (1.74%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.12%) VLAN
12 8 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.75%) Wireless
14 5 (0.62%) HTTP
14 5 (0.62%) NGFW
15 4 (0.50%) NX-OS
15 4 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.35%) Metadata
3 37 (4.61%) MongoDB
4 30 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.99%) Data Lake
7 23 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.49%) Delta Lake
11 16 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.99%) Data Vault
12 13 (1.62%) MySQL
13 11 (1.37%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.00%) Big Data
16 7 (0.87%) Redis
17 6 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (10.09%) Git
2 48 (5.98%) Jenkins
3 47 (5.85%) GitLab
4 9 (1.12%) JIRA
5 7 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.75%) NUnit
7 5 (0.62%) Poetry
8 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.50%) Snyk
9 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.37%) JUnit
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) MSI
10 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) TeamCity
General
1 315 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 189 (23.54%) Finance
3 94 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.34%) Law
5 63 (7.85%) Presentation Skills
6 57 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (5.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (4.98%) Banking
9 28 (3.49%) Games
10 22 (2.74%) Retail
11 17 (2.12%) Legal
12 14 (1.74%) Marketing
13 12 (1.49%) Local Government
14 11 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.75%) Police
18 5 (0.62%) Advertising
18 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 4 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 234 (29.14%) Senior
2 143 (17.81%) Architect
3 124 (15.44%) Lead
4 102 (12.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 94 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (10.09%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.34%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (8.22%) Systems Architect
9 64 (7.97%) Software Engineer
10 61 (7.60%) Developer
11 54 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.73%) Python Engineer
14 37 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.48%) Site Engineer
16 35 (4.36%) Data Engineer
17 29 (3.61%) Technical Leader
18 28 (3.49%) Senior Software Engineer
19 26 (3.24%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (57.53%) Terraform
2 70 (8.72%) React
3 49 (6.10%) Node.js
4 46 (5.73%) RESTful
5 43 (5.35%) REST
6 42 (5.23%) .NET
7 32 (3.99%) AWS CDK
8 30 (3.74%) Kafka
8 30 (3.74%) PySpark
9 27 (3.36%) ARM Templates
10 22 (2.74%) Next.js
11 20 (2.49%) Spring
12 19 (2.37%) CSS
13 17 (2.12%) YAML
14 15 (1.87%) Spring Boot
15 14 (1.74%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.74%) AngularJS
16 13 (1.62%) FastAPI
16 13 (1.62%) Middleware
16 13 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 224 (27.90%) Cloud Native
2 96 (11.96%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.98%) Public Cloud
4 41 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.36%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.86%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (3.24%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.11%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.99%) Low-Code
10 23 (2.86%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (2.24%) Blog
13 16 (1.99%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.74%) Management Information System
14 14 (1.74%) Podcast
15 13 (1.62%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.49%) PKI
17 11 (1.37%) Mobile App
17 11 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.58%) Linux
2 64 (7.97%) Windows
3 29 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.11%) Unix
5 13 (1.62%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (69.12%) CI/CD
2 398 (49.56%) DevOps
3 284 (35.37%) Observability
4 248 (30.88%) Containerisation
5 238 (29.64%) Mentoring
6 217 (27.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (26.15%) AI
8 204 (25.40%) Agile
9 195 (24.28%) Software Engineering
10 173 (21.54%) Technical Leadership
11 166 (20.67%) Platform Engineering
11 166 (20.67%) Roadmaps
12 151 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (15.82%) Analytics
14 113 (14.07%) Microservices
15 111 (13.82%) Test Automation
16 106 (13.20%) Cloud Security
17 96 (11.96%) Full-Stack Development
18 95 (11.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 92 (11.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 327 (40.72%) Python
2 122 (15.19%) Bicep
3 116 (14.45%) PowerShell
4 110 (13.70%) SQL
5 97 (12.08%) Bash
6 83 (10.34%) Java
7 82 (10.21%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.47%) Go
9 55 (6.85%) JavaScript
10 48 (5.98%) C#
11 20 (2.49%) Scala
12 14 (1.74%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.37%) Ruby
14 8 (1.00%) Groovy
15 7 (0.87%) C++
15 7 (0.87%) PHP
16 6 (0.75%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) C
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 141 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.94%) SC Cleared
3 90 (11.21%) Azure Certification
4 50 (6.23%) Degree
5 38 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (4.11%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.12%) SnowPro
10 13 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.37%) CCNP
12 8 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.75%) CCNA
14 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.62%) CCIE
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.37%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.22%) GRC
2 51 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.49%) QA
4 16 (1.99%) GDPR
4 16 (1.99%) NIST
5 13 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.12%) SLA
7 8 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.75%) NCSC
9 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 154 (19.18%) Docker
2 52 (6.48%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.49%) vSphere
6 17 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 208 (25.90%) Kubernetes
2 87 (10.83%) Ansible
3 78 (9.71%) Grafana
4 47 (5.85%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.62%) Argo
6 18 (2.24%) Istio
7 17 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.25%) FortiGate
8 10 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.00%) Puppet
11 5 (0.62%) Packer
11 5 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.50%) linkerd
13 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.37%) Cilium
13 3 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (33.62%) Microsoft
2 55 (6.85%) Google
3 35 (4.36%) VMware
4 31 (3.86%) Databricks
5 23 (2.86%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.74%) Oracle
7 18 (2.24%) Cisco
8 17 (2.12%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.62%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.49%) Informatica
11 12 (1.49%) Okta
11 12 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.37%) Splunk
13 8 (1.00%) Arista
14 7 (0.87%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.75%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.75%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.62%) Ping Identity