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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 119 92
Rank change year-on-year +44 -27 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 546 472 896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 3.02% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.18% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 352 289 772
10th Percentile £46,025 £47,334 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £73,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.07% +1.72% -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 13,968 14,831 25,724
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.17% 94.86% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,052 8,817 21,328
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,800
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.13% -7.52%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,350 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.86% +9.73% -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 16 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 17 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.47%) Apache
6 5 (0.92%) Confluence
7 4 (0.73%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 331 (60.62%) Azure
2 314 (57.51%) AWS
3 141 (25.82%) Azure DevOps
4 132 (24.18%) GitHub
5 97 (17.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 96 (17.58%) GCP
7 95 (17.40%) GitHub Actions
8 86 (15.75%) Serverless
9 64 (11.72%) Azure Monitor
10 63 (11.54%) Entra ID
11 55 (10.07%) Amazon EKS
11 55 (10.07%) SaaS
12 51 (9.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (9.16%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (9.16%) PaaS
14 46 (8.42%) Amazon S3
15 43 (7.88%) IaaS
16 39 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
17 38 (6.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (6.23%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.72%) Firewall
2 43 (7.88%) VPN
3 27 (4.95%) Broadband
4 25 (4.58%) TCP/IP
5 22 (4.03%) DNS
6 15 (2.75%) Network Security
7 13 (2.38%) BGP
8 12 (2.20%) WAN
9 10 (1.83%) VLAN
10 8 (1.47%) DHCP
11 7 (1.28%) LAN
11 7 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.55%) IPsec
14 3 (0.55%) OSPF
14 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.55%) VoIP
14 3 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 37 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 32 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.85%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.48%) RDBMS
8 17 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (3.11%) Redis
9 15 (2.75%) MySQL
10 13 (2.38%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.38%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.65%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.47%) Metadata
14 5 (0.92%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 56 (10.26%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.78%) Git
2 37 (6.78%) GitLab
3 19 (3.48%) Jaeger
4 9 (1.65%) JIRA
4 9 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.65%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.10%) git-flow
6 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.92%) Storybook
7 4 (0.73%) JMeter
7 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.55%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.55%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 158 (28.94%) Finance
2 126 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 53 (9.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 48 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (8.42%) Banking
5 46 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 41 (7.51%) Retail
7 40 (7.33%) Law
8 24 (4.40%) Financial Institution
9 22 (4.03%) Telecoms
10 20 (3.66%) Back Office
11 16 (2.93%) Billing
12 10 (1.83%) Legal
13 8 (1.47%) Marketing
14 7 (1.28%) Tech for Good
15 6 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (1.10%) Games
15 6 (1.10%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.92%) Military
16 5 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (25.64%) Senior
2 92 (16.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 78 (14.29%) Lead
4 66 (12.09%) Platform Engineer
5 59 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
6 58 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 53 (9.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 51 (9.34%) Developer
9 39 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (6.59%) Architect
11 25 (4.58%) Software Engineer
12 23 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
14 20 (3.66%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 19 (3.48%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 17 (3.11%) Infrastructure Architect
16 17 (3.11%) Lead DevOps
17 16 (2.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
17 16 (2.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.24%) React
2 44 (8.06%) .NET
3 35 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (6.04%) RESTful
5 30 (5.49%) Node.js
6 26 (4.76%) OAuth
7 22 (4.03%) Spring
7 22 (4.03%) YAML
8 21 (3.85%) Django
8 21 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
9 19 (3.48%) JSON
9 19 (3.48%) OpenAPI
9 19 (3.48%) Swagger
10 18 (3.30%) AWS CDK
10 18 (3.30%) CSS
10 18 (3.30%) Spring Boot
11 17 (3.11%) HTML
11 17 (3.11%) REST
12 16 (2.93%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.75%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 132 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.78%) Data Centre
2 37 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 33 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.76%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.03%) Security Posture
7 21 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (3.85%) Onboarding
8 17 (3.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.93%) Blog
10 13 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.20%) Management Information System
11 12 (2.20%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 5 (0.92%) Hedge funds
14 5 (0.92%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 124 (22.71%) Linux
2 50 (9.16%) Windows
3 47 (8.61%) Unix
4 13 (2.38%) VMS
5 11 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 10 (1.83%) Android
6 10 (1.83%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.47%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.92%) CentOS
10 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.55%) Debian
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (68.68%) DevOps
2 360 (65.93%) CI/CD
3 180 (32.97%) Agile
4 150 (27.47%) Mentoring
5 141 (25.82%) Observability
6 133 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (23.26%) Containerisation
8 98 (17.95%) Coaching
8 98 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 98 (17.95%) Platform Engineering
9 95 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
10 88 (16.12%) Roadmaps
11 85 (15.57%) Analytics
12 83 (15.20%) Software Engineering
13 80 (14.65%) AI
14 76 (13.92%) Cloud Security
15 71 (13.00%) Incident Response
16 65 (11.90%) Asset Management
17 64 (11.72%) High Availability
18 60 (10.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 219 (40.11%) Python
2 113 (20.70%) PowerShell
3 107 (19.60%) Bash
4 83 (15.20%) Bicep
5 77 (14.10%) SQL
6 75 (13.74%) Java
7 56 (10.26%) JavaScript
8 55 (10.07%) Go
9 38 (6.96%) C#
9 38 (6.96%) TypeScript
10 11 (2.01%) Scala
11 6 (1.10%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.92%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.55%) Rust
14 2 (0.37%) C++
14 2 (0.37%) PHP
14 2 (0.37%) Ruby
14 2 (0.37%) VB
15 1 (0.18%) XAML
Qualifications
1 83 (15.20%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.36%) AWS Certification
4 44 (8.06%) Azure Certification
5 34 (6.23%) Degree
6 16 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.47%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.28%) CCNP
12 6 (1.10%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.92%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.92%) OSCP
14 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.73%) CISSP
14 4 (0.73%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (4.95%) GDPR
3 26 (4.76%) PCI DSS
4 24 (4.40%) SOC 2
5 23 (4.21%) NIST
6 20 (3.66%) Data Quality
7 17 (3.11%) Accessibility
7 17 (3.11%) QA
8 8 (1.47%) SLA
9 6 (1.10%) GRC
10 4 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.73%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 170 (31.14%) Docker
2 26 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 18 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 12 (2.20%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.47%) vSphere
7 4 (0.73%) Firmware
8 3 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.37%) NFS
9 2 (0.37%) vCloud
10 1 (0.18%) HDFS
10 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 400 (73.26%) Terraform
2 196 (35.90%) Kubernetes
3 123 (22.53%) Ansible
4 75 (13.74%) Prometheus
5 72 (13.19%) Grafana
6 26 (4.76%) Argo
7 20 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.48%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.47%) Puppet
11 6 (1.10%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.10%) SCOM
12 5 (0.92%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.92%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.73%) Cilium
13 4 (0.73%) logstash
13 4 (0.73%) Packer
13 4 (0.73%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
15 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 98 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.42%) Google
3 40 (7.33%) VMware
4 19 (3.48%) Databricks
5 17 (3.11%) Cisco
6 14 (2.56%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.56%) Splunk
7 9 (1.65%) New Relic
7 9 (1.65%) Red Hat
7 9 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.28%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.28%) Oracle
10 6 (1.10%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.92%) Dell
11 5 (0.92%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.73%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.73%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.73%) PagerDuty