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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 118 92
Rank change year-on-year +42 -26 -4
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 531 465 900
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 2.92% 3.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.08% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 344 276 772
10th Percentile £46,446 £45,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,281 £57,416
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,788
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +2.42% +1.13%
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 13,845 15,075 25,445
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.66% 94.54% 92.80%
Number of salaries quoted 8,824 8,952 21,022
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £34,751
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.62% -7.20%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £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 6 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 (3.58%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.26%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.32%) Apache
6 6 (1.13%) Confluence
7 4 (0.75%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 331 (62.34%) Azure
2 293 (55.18%) AWS
3 145 (27.31%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (25.05%) GitHub
5 94 (17.70%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (17.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 89 (16.76%) GCP
8 85 (16.01%) Serverless
9 67 (12.62%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (12.24%) Entra ID
11 54 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (10.17%) SaaS
12 53 (9.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (9.60%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (8.47%) Amazon S3
15 43 (8.10%) IaaS
15 43 (8.10%) PaaS
16 40 (7.53%) Azure Data Factory
17 36 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
18 35 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.68%) Firewall
2 44 (8.29%) VPN
3 27 (5.08%) Broadband
4 22 (4.14%) DNS
4 22 (4.14%) TCP/IP
5 15 (2.82%) Network Security
6 14 (2.64%) WAN
7 13 (2.45%) BGP
8 10 (1.88%) VLAN
9 9 (1.69%) LAN
10 8 (1.51%) DHCP
10 8 (1.51%) SD-WAN
11 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.75%) Unified Communications
13 4 (0.75%) VoIP
14 3 (0.56%) IPsec
14 3 (0.56%) OSPF
14 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (8.29%) NoSQL
2 33 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 26 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.52%) Data Lake
6 22 (4.14%) Relational Database
7 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.58%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.82%) MySQL
10 14 (2.64%) DynamoDB
11 13 (2.45%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (2.26%) Redis
13 10 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 8 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
17 6 (1.13%) Metadata
18 5 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 61 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.97%) Git
2 37 (6.97%) GitLab
3 19 (3.58%) Jaeger
4 10 (1.88%) JIRA
4 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.13%) git-flow
7 5 (0.94%) Storybook
8 4 (0.75%) JMeter
8 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.56%) 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
1 163 (30.70%) Finance
2 123 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 46 (8.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.29%) Banking
5 42 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
5 42 (7.91%) Public Sector
6 37 (6.97%) Law
6 37 (6.97%) Retail
7 23 (4.33%) Telecoms
8 22 (4.14%) Financial Institution
9 18 (3.39%) Back Office
10 16 (3.01%) Billing
11 10 (1.88%) Legal
12 9 (1.69%) Marketing
13 7 (1.32%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.32%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.13%) Games
15 5 (0.94%) Publishing
16 4 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 135 (25.42%) Senior
2 93 (17.51%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (13.18%) Lead
4 62 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (11.49%) Azure Engineer
6 60 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
7 53 (9.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (9.23%) Developer
9 38 (7.16%) Architect
9 38 (7.16%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (4.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.33%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (3.77%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.58%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.58%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.39%) Infrastructure Architect
13 18 (3.39%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 17 (3.20%) Lead DevOps
14 17 (3.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.91%) .NET
2 41 (7.72%) React
3 36 (6.78%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (6.21%) RESTful
5 29 (5.46%) Node.js
6 26 (4.90%) OAuth
7 22 (4.14%) Spring
8 21 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 21 (3.95%) YAML
9 19 (3.58%) OpenAPI
9 19 (3.58%) Swagger
10 18 (3.39%) AWS CDK
10 18 (3.39%) CSS
10 18 (3.39%) JSON
10 18 (3.39%) Spring Boot
11 17 (3.20%) HTML
12 16 (3.01%) Django
12 16 (3.01%) REST
13 15 (2.82%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.82%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (24.11%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.78%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.59%) Product Ownership
4 33 (6.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (4.71%) Public Cloud
7 22 (4.14%) Onboarding
7 22 (4.14%) Security Posture
8 20 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (2.82%) Blog
11 11 (2.07%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (2.07%) Management Information System
11 11 (2.07%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
15 5 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 118 (22.22%) Linux
2 52 (9.79%) Windows
3 41 (7.72%) Unix
4 14 (2.64%) VMS
5 11 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.69%) Android
6 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.94%) CentOS
9 4 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (69.30%) DevOps
2 348 (65.54%) CI/CD
3 167 (31.45%) Agile
4 143 (26.93%) Mentoring
5 129 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (24.29%) Observability
6 118 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 100 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 93 (17.51%) Coaching
9 91 (17.14%) Platform Engineering
9 91 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (16.01%) Roadmaps
11 84 (15.82%) Analytics
12 79 (14.88%) Software Engineering
13 77 (14.50%) Cloud Security
14 76 (14.31%) AI
15 69 (12.99%) Asset Management
16 66 (12.43%) High Availability
17 64 (12.05%) Incident Response
18 60 (11.30%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 214 (40.30%) Python
2 117 (22.03%) PowerShell
3 111 (20.90%) Bash
4 87 (16.38%) Bicep
5 82 (15.44%) SQL
6 67 (12.62%) Java
7 53 (9.98%) JavaScript
8 50 (9.42%) Go
9 38 (7.16%) C#
10 35 (6.59%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.07%) Scala
12 4 (0.75%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.56%) Rust
14 2 (0.38%) C++
14 2 (0.38%) PHP
14 2 (0.38%) VB
14 2 (0.38%) XAML
Qualifications
1 75 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.24%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.68%) SC Cleared
4 45 (8.47%) Azure Certification
5 30 (5.65%) Degree
6 17 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.51%) CCNP
10 8 (1.51%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.75%) CISSP
13 4 (0.75%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.75%) OSCE
13 4 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (5.27%) GDPR
3 25 (4.71%) NIST
3 25 (4.71%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.14%) SOC 2
5 18 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 18 (3.39%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.64%) QA
7 8 (1.51%) SLA
8 6 (1.13%) GRC
9 4 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 164 (30.89%) Docker
2 27 (5.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.71%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.45%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.26%) Hyper-V
8 9 (1.69%) vSphere
9 3 (0.56%) Firmware
9 3 (0.56%) NFS
9 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.38%) vCloud
11 1 (0.19%) HDFS
11 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 393 (74.01%) Terraform
2 196 (36.91%) Kubernetes
3 121 (22.79%) Ansible
4 74 (13.94%) Prometheus
5 73 (13.75%) Grafana
6 26 (4.90%) Argo
7 22 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.58%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.32%) Puppet
11 6 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.13%) SCOM
12 4 (0.75%) Cilium
12 4 (0.75%) logstash
12 4 (0.75%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.56%) Packer
13 3 (0.56%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 101 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.72%) Google
3 39 (7.34%) VMware
4 19 (3.58%) Databricks
5 17 (3.20%) Cisco
6 14 (2.64%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.64%) Splunk
7 9 (1.69%) New Relic
7 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.51%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.32%) Oracle
9 7 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.94%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.94%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.75%) Cribl.io
11 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.75%) PagerDuty