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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 120 128
Rank change year-on-year +46 +8 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 586 355 783
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 2.64% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 2.78% 2.63%
Number of salaries quoted 377 260 673
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,450 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 15,007 12,750 29,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,534 8,864 23,587
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,881
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +9.09% -10.57%

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 1 May 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 15 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.88%) Apache
3 10 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.02%) Confluence
5 4 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 356 (60.75%) AWS
2 295 (50.34%) Azure
3 107 (18.26%) GitHub
4 102 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (16.89%) GCP
6 92 (15.70%) Serverless
7 77 (13.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (12.97%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (8.87%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (7.68%) SaaS
11 42 (7.17%) PaaS
12 41 (7.00%) Azure Monitor
13 40 (6.83%) Amazon S3
14 38 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (5.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (5.80%) Entra ID
17 33 (5.63%) Azure Data Factory
18 31 (5.29%) IaaS
19 30 (5.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (11.60%) Firewall
2 47 (8.02%) Broadband
3 28 (4.78%) VPN
4 26 (4.44%) TCP/IP
5 23 (3.92%) DNS
6 16 (2.73%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.22%) BGP
8 12 (2.05%) LAN
9 11 (1.88%) WAN
10 10 (1.71%) DHCP
10 10 (1.71%) Network Security
10 10 (1.71%) VLAN
11 6 (1.02%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.85%) WebEx
13 4 (0.68%) HTTP
13 4 (0.68%) OSPF
14 3 (0.51%) SSL
14 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.48%) NoSQL
3 30 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (4.95%) Relational Database
5 28 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 25 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 24 (4.10%) Data Lake
8 21 (3.58%) Metadata
9 19 (3.24%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.24%) RDBMS
10 14 (2.39%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.22%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.88%) MySQL
13 10 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
14 9 (1.54%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.02%) Big Data
16 6 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 54 (9.22%) Git
2 42 (7.17%) GitLab
3 36 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.24%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.54%) JIRA
6 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.37%) JMeter
6 8 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.02%) Locust
7 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.85%) NUnit
8 5 (0.85%) Selenium
8 5 (0.85%) Storybook
9 3 (0.51%) MLflow
9 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 146 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.80%) Finance
3 58 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 58 (9.90%) Public Sector
4 48 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.00%) Banking
6 37 (6.31%) Retail
7 30 (5.12%) Law
8 26 (4.44%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.07%) Billing
10 14 (2.39%) Back Office
10 14 (2.39%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.39%) Marketing
11 12 (2.05%) Games
12 8 (1.37%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.37%) Legal
13 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.02%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 147 (25.09%) Senior
2 117 (19.97%) Lead
3 81 (13.82%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (11.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (10.92%) Platform Engineer
6 63 (10.75%) Developer
7 54 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 50 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (5.46%) Architect
10 32 (5.46%) Software Engineer
11 31 (5.29%) Data Engineer
12 28 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (4.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 24 (4.10%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.92%) Lead DevOps
14 23 (3.92%) Python Engineer
15 19 (3.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.24%) Team Leader
16 18 (3.07%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.34%) React
2 39 (6.66%) .NET
3 37 (6.31%) RESTful
4 36 (6.14%) REST
5 34 (5.80%) Node.js
6 30 (5.12%) Spring
7 29 (4.95%) AWS CDK
8 28 (4.78%) Elastic Stack
9 25 (4.27%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.92%) Kafka
10 23 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.75%) YAML
12 21 (3.58%) OAuth
13 18 (3.07%) OpenAPI
13 18 (3.07%) Swagger
14 17 (2.90%) Django
15 16 (2.73%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.73%) JSON
15 16 (2.73%) React Native
16 14 (2.39%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 158 (26.96%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.66%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 37 (6.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (4.27%) Security Posture
6 24 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 20 (3.41%) Onboarding
9 19 (3.24%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
11 16 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (2.22%) Blog
12 13 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (2.22%) Low-Code
13 12 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.54%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.80%) Linux
2 40 (6.83%) Windows
3 36 (6.14%) Unix
4 20 (3.41%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.05%) Android
6 11 (1.88%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.85%) VMS
8 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 403 (68.77%) CI/CD
2 370 (63.14%) DevOps
3 203 (34.64%) Agile
4 186 (31.74%) Mentoring
4 186 (31.74%) Observability
5 157 (26.79%) Containerisation
6 141 (24.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 129 (22.01%) Platform Engineering
8 112 (19.11%) Software Engineering
8 112 (19.11%) Test Automation
9 103 (17.58%) Technical Leadership
10 100 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
11 96 (16.38%) AI
11 96 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 84 (14.33%) Roadmaps
13 83 (14.16%) Microservices
14 72 (12.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 70 (11.95%) Analytics
16 67 (11.43%) Incident Response
17 65 (11.09%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 248 (42.32%) Python
2 99 (16.89%) Java
3 90 (15.36%) Bash
4 78 (13.31%) SQL
5 74 (12.63%) PowerShell
6 67 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 66 (11.26%) Bicep
8 60 (10.24%) Go
9 51 (8.70%) TypeScript
10 44 (7.51%) C#
11 15 (2.56%) Scala
12 8 (1.37%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.02%) C++
14 5 (0.85%) PHP
14 5 (0.85%) Ruby
14 5 (0.85%) Rust
15 2 (0.34%) C
15 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.34%) Perl
15 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 80 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 71 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.36%) Degree
4 42 (7.17%) AWS Certification
5 39 (6.66%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.22%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.54%) CCNP
10 9 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.19%) CCNA
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.85%) LPIC
12 5 (0.85%) MCSE
12 5 (0.85%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.68%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.63%) QA
2 26 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.92%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.58%) GDPR
4 21 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (3.07%) SOC 2
6 17 (2.90%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.88%) NIST
8 5 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.85%) WCAG
9 4 (0.68%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.34%) IFRS
10 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 155 (26.45%) Docker
2 26 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.75%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.22%) vSphere
5 11 (1.88%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.68%) Firmware
8 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 384 (65.53%) Terraform
2 208 (35.49%) Kubernetes
3 111 (18.94%) Ansible
4 70 (11.95%) Prometheus
5 69 (11.77%) Grafana
6 30 (5.12%) Argo
7 23 (3.92%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.39%) Puppet
9 13 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.54%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.85%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.85%) Istio
12 5 (0.85%) Packer
13 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
13 4 (0.68%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 100 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.17%) Google
3 40 (6.83%) VMware
4 30 (5.12%) Cisco
5 22 (3.75%) Databricks
6 18 (3.07%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.39%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.22%) Splunk
9 12 (2.05%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.37%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.37%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.19%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.19%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.02%) F5
12 6 (1.02%) Juniper
12 6 (1.02%) NetApp
13 5 (0.85%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.85%) New Relic
13 5 (0.85%) SolarWinds