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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 167 137
Rank change year-on-year +98 -30 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 677 323 762
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 2.14% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 2.26% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 445 233 622
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,525
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 £89,688
90th Percentile £98,400 £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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 21 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.36%) Apache
3 13 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.44%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Camunda
7 2 (0.30%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 420 (62.04%) AWS
2 307 (45.35%) Azure
3 107 (15.81%) GitHub
4 106 (15.66%) Serverless
5 100 (14.77%) GCP
6 92 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (8.71%) PaaS
10 53 (7.83%) Amazon S3
11 51 (7.53%) SaaS
12 47 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
12 47 (6.94%) IaaS
13 46 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (6.50%) Azure AKS
16 39 (5.76%) Entra ID
17 37 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 37 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.08%) Broadband
2 69 (10.19%) Firewall
3 35 (5.17%) DNS
3 35 (5.17%) VPN
4 29 (4.28%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.25%) BGP
6 17 (2.51%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (2.22%) WAN
8 14 (2.07%) LAN
8 14 (2.07%) VLAN
9 13 (1.92%) OSPF
10 11 (1.62%) Network Security
11 10 (1.48%) DHCP
11 10 (1.48%) VXLAN
12 9 (1.33%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.89%) WebEx
14 5 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.74%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.65%) MongoDB
3 38 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.02%) NoSQL
5 32 (4.73%) Metadata
6 31 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (3.40%) Data Lake
7 23 (3.40%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.95%) RDBMS
9 15 (2.22%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 11 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
13 9 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.33%) MySQL
13 9 (1.33%) Redis
14 8 (1.18%) Big Data
15 7 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 68 (10.04%) Git
2 49 (7.24%) GitLab
3 37 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.66%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.89%) JMeter
6 6 (0.89%) NUnit
6 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.74%) JIRA
7 5 (0.74%) Locust
7 5 (0.74%) Selenium
8 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
9 3 (0.44%) Storybook
10 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
General
1 187 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 101 (14.92%) Finance
3 68 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 60 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.91%) Banking
7 34 (5.02%) Law
7 34 (5.02%) Retail
8 31 (4.58%) Games
9 22 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.22%) Billing
11 12 (1.77%) Back Office
11 12 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.77%) Marketing
12 10 (1.48%) Legal
12 10 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.18%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Aviation
15 6 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (26.00%) Senior
2 134 (19.79%) Lead
3 87 (12.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 85 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (11.08%) Developer
6 74 (10.93%) Platform Engineer
7 58 (8.57%) AWS Engineer
8 52 (7.68%) Azure Engineer
9 48 (7.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (6.79%) Architect
11 44 (6.50%) Software Engineer
12 32 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.73%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 28 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.99%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.10%) Python Developer
17 21 (3.10%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.68%) React
2 49 (7.24%) RESTful
3 46 (6.79%) REST
4 40 (5.91%) Node.js
5 39 (5.76%) .NET
6 35 (5.17%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.87%) Spring
8 27 (3.99%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.84%) YAML
10 25 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 24 (3.55%) ARM Templates
12 22 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
13 21 (3.10%) Kafka
14 19 (2.81%) Next.js
15 17 (2.51%) Django
15 17 (2.51%) PySpark
15 17 (2.51%) PyTorch
16 16 (2.36%) CSS
16 16 (2.36%) React Native
16 16 (2.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 210 (31.02%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.49%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.09%) Video\Live Streaming
4 40 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (5.91%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.73%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.99%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.69%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (3.10%) Onboarding
9 21 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (2.66%) Mobile App
12 15 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.77%) Blog
15 11 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.48%) Podcast
16 10 (1.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.43%) Linux
2 35 (5.17%) Windows
3 32 (4.73%) Unix
4 20 (2.95%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.77%) Android
6 11 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.74%) VMS
8 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (71.20%) CI/CD
2 389 (57.46%) DevOps
3 231 (34.12%) Observability
4 214 (31.61%) Mentoring
5 210 (31.02%) Agile
6 193 (28.51%) Containerisation
7 170 (25.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (24.52%) Platform Engineering
9 160 (23.63%) AI
10 148 (21.86%) Software Engineering
11 140 (20.68%) Technical Leadership
12 136 (20.09%) Test Automation
13 110 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
14 108 (15.95%) Microservices
15 102 (15.07%) Full-Stack Development
16 101 (14.92%) Roadmaps
17 95 (14.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 83 (12.26%) Analytics
19 82 (12.11%) Machine Learning
20 68 (10.04%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 306 (45.20%) Python
2 111 (16.40%) Java
3 107 (15.81%) Bash
4 80 (11.82%) SQL
5 79 (11.67%) PowerShell
6 78 (11.52%) Go
7 75 (11.08%) Bicep
7 75 (11.08%) JavaScript
8 71 (10.49%) TypeScript
9 42 (6.20%) C#
10 15 (2.22%) Scala
11 9 (1.33%) C++
12 7 (1.03%) PHP
12 7 (1.03%) Ruby
13 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.74%) Groovy
14 5 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.74%) Rust
15 2 (0.30%) C
15 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.12%) Azure Certification
4 52 (7.68%) Degree
5 45 (6.65%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.92%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.33%) CCNP
12 6 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.59%) LPIC
13 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) MCSE
13 4 (0.59%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.59%) VCAP
13 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.32%) QA
2 30 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.22%) GDPR
3 15 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 14 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.07%) SOC 2
5 7 (1.03%) NIST
6 5 (0.74%) WCAG
7 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS
8 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) GRC
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.15%) NCSC
9 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (25.26%) Docker
2 31 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.36%) vSphere
5 10 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.59%) Firmware
9 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 410 (60.56%) Terraform
2 230 (33.97%) Kubernetes
3 111 (16.40%) Ansible
4 71 (10.49%) Grafana
4 71 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.32%) Argo
6 24 (3.55%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.07%) Puppet
8 12 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.48%) Istio
10 9 (1.33%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.03%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.89%) Packer
12 6 (0.89%) ZABBIX
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 117 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.35%) Google
2 43 (6.35%) VMware
3 31 (4.58%) Cisco
4 25 (3.69%) Palo Alto
5 21 (3.10%) Databricks
6 20 (2.95%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.07%) Fortinet
8 13 (1.92%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.62%) F5
9 11 (1.62%) Splunk
10 8 (1.18%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.03%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.03%) Oracle
12 6 (0.89%) HubSpot
12 6 (0.89%) Juniper
12 6 (0.89%) NetApp
12 6 (0.89%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.74%) Arista
13 5 (0.74%) Okta