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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 119 90
Rank change year-on-year +37 -29 0
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 529 467 911
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 2.94% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.11% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 340 276 781
10th Percentile £46,426 £45,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,531 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +2.73% +0.46%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 13,808 15,028 25,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.57% 94.62% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 8,918 21,255
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,400 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 7 February 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 19 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.51%) Apache
6 6 (1.13%) Confluence
7 4 (0.76%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 329 (62.19%) Azure
2 294 (55.58%) AWS
3 144 (27.22%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (25.14%) GitHub
5 94 (17.77%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (17.01%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (16.82%) GCP
8 82 (15.50%) Serverless
9 67 (12.67%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (12.29%) Entra ID
11 53 (10.02%) Amazon EKS
11 53 (10.02%) SaaS
12 52 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (9.26%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (8.32%) IaaS
14 44 (8.32%) PaaS
15 43 (8.13%) Amazon S3
16 39 (7.37%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (6.81%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (6.43%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.91%) Firewall
2 44 (8.32%) VPN
3 27 (5.10%) Broadband
4 21 (3.97%) DNS
5 20 (3.78%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.84%) Network Security
7 14 (2.65%) WAN
8 13 (2.46%) BGP
9 10 (1.89%) VLAN
10 9 (1.70%) LAN
11 8 (1.51%) DHCP
11 8 (1.51%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.95%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.76%) Unified Communications
14 4 (0.76%) VoIP
15 3 (0.57%) IPsec
15 3 (0.57%) OSPF
15 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.13%) NoSQL
2 31 (5.86%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.73%) SQL Server
5 22 (4.16%) Data Lake
6 21 (3.97%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.59%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.84%) MySQL
10 13 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.46%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.27%) Redis
12 10 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.70%) MongoDB
14 8 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
15 7 (1.32%) Metadata
16 6 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
17 5 (0.95%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 60 (11.34%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.99%) Git
2 37 (6.99%) GitLab
3 19 (3.59%) Jaeger
4 10 (1.89%) JIRA
4 10 (1.89%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.70%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.13%) git-flow
7 5 (0.95%) Storybook
8 4 (0.76%) JMeter
8 4 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.57%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.57%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 162 (30.62%) Finance
2 119 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 46 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (8.32%) Banking
5 42 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.18%) Law
6 38 (7.18%) Retail
7 22 (4.16%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.16%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.40%) Back Office
9 16 (3.02%) Billing
10 10 (1.89%) Legal
11 8 (1.51%) Marketing
12 7 (1.32%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Games
13 6 (1.13%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.95%) Publishing
15 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (25.33%) Senior
2 94 (17.77%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (13.42%) Lead
4 60 (11.34%) Azure Engineer
4 60 (11.34%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (11.15%) DevOps Engineer
6 53 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 49 (9.26%) Developer
8 39 (7.37%) AWS Engineer
9 37 (6.99%) Architect
10 23 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
12 20 (3.78%) Data Engineer
12 20 (3.78%) Software Engineer
13 19 (3.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 18 (3.40%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (3.21%) Infrastructure Architect
15 17 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (3.21%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (7.75%) .NET
1 41 (7.75%) React
2 34 (6.43%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (6.24%) RESTful
4 29 (5.48%) Node.js
5 26 (4.91%) OAuth
6 22 (4.16%) Spring
7 21 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
7 21 (3.97%) YAML
8 19 (3.59%) OpenAPI
8 19 (3.59%) Swagger
9 18 (3.40%) CSS
9 18 (3.40%) JSON
9 18 (3.40%) Spring Boot
10 17 (3.21%) HTML
11 16 (3.02%) AWS CDK
11 16 (3.02%) Django
11 16 (3.02%) REST
12 15 (2.84%) GraphQL
12 15 (2.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (24.20%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.99%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (6.62%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
5 25 (4.73%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.16%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.78%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.84%) Blog
10 11 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 11 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.13%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.95%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 119 (22.50%) Linux
2 52 (9.83%) Windows
3 41 (7.75%) Unix
4 14 (2.65%) VMS
5 11 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.70%) Android
6 9 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.95%) CentOS
9 4 (0.76%) Debian
9 4 (0.76%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (69.00%) DevOps
2 347 (65.60%) CI/CD
3 165 (31.19%) Agile
4 141 (26.65%) Mentoring
5 129 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (24.39%) Observability
6 117 (22.12%) Containerisation
7 99 (18.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 93 (17.58%) Coaching
9 91 (17.20%) Platform Engineering
10 89 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (16.26%) Roadmaps
12 83 (15.69%) Analytics
13 78 (14.74%) AI
13 78 (14.74%) Software Engineering
14 76 (14.37%) Cloud Security
15 69 (13.04%) Asset Management
16 66 (12.48%) High Availability
17 64 (12.10%) Incident Response
18 61 (11.53%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 214 (40.45%) Python
2 117 (22.12%) PowerShell
3 109 (20.60%) Bash
4 87 (16.45%) Bicep
5 80 (15.12%) SQL
6 67 (12.67%) Java
7 54 (10.21%) JavaScript
8 52 (9.83%) Go
9 37 (6.99%) C#
10 35 (6.62%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.08%) Scala
12 4 (0.76%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.76%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.57%) Rust
14 2 (0.38%) C++
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 2 (0.38%) VB
14 2 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 75 (14.18%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.10%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.72%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.86%) Degree
6 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.51%) CCNP
11 7 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.76%) CISSP
14 4 (0.76%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.76%) OSCE
14 4 (0.76%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.10%) GDPR
3 25 (4.73%) NIST
3 25 (4.73%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.16%) SOC 2
5 19 (3.59%) Data Quality
6 18 (3.40%) Accessibility
7 14 (2.65%) QA
8 8 (1.51%) SLA
9 6 (1.13%) GRC
10 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.76%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 160 (30.25%) Docker
2 27 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.73%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.46%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.27%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.70%) vSphere
9 3 (0.57%) Firmware
9 3 (0.57%) NFS
9 3 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.38%) vCloud
11 1 (0.19%) HDFS
11 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (73.72%) Terraform
2 194 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 122 (23.06%) Ansible
4 73 (13.80%) Prometheus
5 72 (13.61%) Grafana
6 26 (4.91%) Argo
7 22 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.59%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.32%) Puppet
11 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.13%) SCOM
12 4 (0.76%) Cilium
12 4 (0.76%) logstash
12 4 (0.76%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.76%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.57%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.57%) Packer
14 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.75%) Google
3 40 (7.56%) VMware
4 20 (3.78%) Databricks
5 17 (3.21%) Cisco
6 14 (2.65%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.65%) Splunk
7 9 (1.70%) New Relic
7 9 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.51%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.32%) Oracle
9 7 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.95%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.95%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.76%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.76%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.76%) Cribl.io
11 4 (0.76%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.76%) PagerDuty