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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 116 87
Rank change year-on-year +36 -29 +2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 530 465 901
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 2.96% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.12% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 340 276 775
10th Percentile £46,225 £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% +0.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,375 £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 13,892 14,889 25,667
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.42% 94.66% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,854 8,791 21,222
10th Percentile £30,038 £36,250 £34,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,477
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
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 10 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 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.70%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.51%) 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 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 328 (61.89%) Azure
2 296 (55.85%) AWS
3 143 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (24.72%) GitHub
5 93 (17.55%) GitHub Actions
6 90 (16.98%) GCP
7 89 (16.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 82 (15.47%) Serverless
9 66 (12.45%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (12.26%) Entra ID
11 52 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (9.81%) SaaS
12 51 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 49 (9.25%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (8.30%) PaaS
15 43 (8.11%) Amazon S3
15 43 (8.11%) IaaS
16 39 (7.36%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
18 34 (6.42%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.70%) Firewall
2 43 (8.11%) VPN
3 27 (5.09%) Broadband
4 21 (3.96%) DNS
5 19 (3.58%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.83%) Network Security
7 13 (2.45%) BGP
7 13 (2.45%) WAN
8 10 (1.89%) VLAN
9 8 (1.51%) DHCP
9 8 (1.51%) LAN
9 8 (1.51%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.75%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.75%) VoIP
13 3 (0.57%) IPsec
13 3 (0.57%) OSPF
13 3 (0.57%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 31 (5.85%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.96%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.58%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.83%) MySQL
9 13 (2.45%) Delta Lake
9 13 (2.45%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.26%) Redis
11 10 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.70%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.32%) Metadata
15 6 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 59 (11.13%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.98%) GitLab
3 36 (6.79%) Git
4 19 (3.58%) Jaeger
5 10 (1.89%) JIRA
5 10 (1.89%) TeamCity
6 9 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.13%) git-flow
8 5 (0.94%) Storybook
9 4 (0.75%) JMeter
9 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.57%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.57%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.57%) Selenium
11 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 160 (30.19%) Finance
2 120 (22.64%) Social Skills
3 46 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.30%) Banking
5 42 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.17%) Law
6 38 (7.17%) Retail
7 22 (4.15%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.15%) 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 (0.94%) Publishing
15 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (25.09%) Senior
2 93 (17.55%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (13.40%) Lead
4 60 (11.32%) Azure Engineer
4 60 (11.32%) Platform Engineer
5 58 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 52 (9.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 50 (9.43%) Developer
8 39 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (6.79%) Architect
10 23 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 22 (4.15%) Senior DevOps
12 21 (3.96%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.77%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.58%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.21%) Infrastructure Architect
15 17 (3.21%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (3.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.02%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (7.92%) .NET
1 42 (7.92%) React
2 34 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
3 33 (6.23%) RESTful
4 29 (5.47%) Node.js
5 26 (4.91%) OAuth
6 22 (4.15%) Spring
7 21 (3.96%) OpenTelemetry
7 21 (3.96%) YAML
8 19 (3.58%) OpenAPI
8 19 (3.58%) Swagger
9 18 (3.40%) CSS
9 18 (3.40%) JSON
9 18 (3.40%) Spring Boot
10 17 (3.21%) HTML
10 17 (3.21%) REST
11 16 (3.02%) AWS CDK
11 16 (3.02%) Django
11 16 (3.02%) GraphQL
12 15 (2.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.79%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (6.60%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.91%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.15%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.15%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (2.83%) Blog
9 15 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
10 11 (2.08%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
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 (22.26%) Linux
2 51 (9.62%) Windows
3 41 (7.74%) Unix
4 14 (2.64%) VMS
5 11 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.70%) Android
6 9 (1.70%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.70%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.32%) 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
1 366 (69.06%) DevOps
2 348 (65.66%) CI/CD
3 166 (31.32%) Agile
4 140 (26.42%) Mentoring
5 129 (24.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 129 (24.34%) Observability
6 117 (22.08%) Containerisation
7 98 (18.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 93 (17.55%) Coaching
9 92 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (17.17%) Platform Engineering
11 86 (16.23%) Roadmaps
12 82 (15.47%) Analytics
13 79 (14.91%) Software Engineering
14 78 (14.72%) AI
15 75 (14.15%) Cloud Security
16 69 (13.02%) Asset Management
17 66 (12.45%) High Availability
18 63 (11.89%) Incident Response
19 60 (11.32%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 215 (40.57%) Python
2 117 (22.08%) PowerShell
3 109 (20.57%) Bash
4 85 (16.04%) Bicep
5 79 (14.91%) SQL
6 68 (12.83%) Java
7 55 (10.38%) JavaScript
8 52 (9.81%) Go
9 37 (6.98%) C#
10 35 (6.60%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.08%) Scala
12 5 (0.94%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.57%) Rust
15 2 (0.38%) C++
15 2 (0.38%) PHP
15 2 (0.38%) VB
15 2 (0.38%) XAML
16 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (14.15%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.89%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.70%) SC Cleared
4 45 (8.49%) Azure Certification
5 32 (6.04%) Degree
6 17 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.89%) 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 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.09%) GDPR
3 25 (4.72%) NIST
3 25 (4.72%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.15%) SOC 2
5 19 (3.58%) Data Quality
6 18 (3.40%) Accessibility
7 16 (3.02%) QA
8 8 (1.51%) SLA
9 6 (1.13%) GRC
10 4 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 160 (30.19%) Docker
2 26 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.72%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.45%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.26%) Hyper-V
8 8 (1.51%) vSphere
9 4 (0.75%) Firmware
10 3 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.38%) NFS
11 2 (0.38%) vCloud
12 1 (0.19%) HDFS
12 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 390 (73.58%) Terraform
2 192 (36.23%) Kubernetes
3 121 (22.83%) Ansible
4 73 (13.77%) Prometheus
5 71 (13.40%) Grafana
6 26 (4.91%) Argo
7 22 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.58%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.51%) 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%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.75%) 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 (18.68%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.74%) Google
3 39 (7.36%) VMware
4 20 (3.77%) Databricks
5 17 (3.21%) Cisco
6 14 (2.64%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.64%) Splunk
7 9 (1.70%) New Relic
7 9 (1.70%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.51%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.32%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.32%) Oracle
10 5 (0.94%) Dell
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