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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 129 123
Rank change year-on-year +53 -6 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 808 403 603
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.26% 2.43% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 2.60% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 540 298 370
10th Percentile £52,375 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +6.43% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,250 £101,625 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 20,082 15,514 20,012
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.02% 93.49% 88.00%
Number of salaries quoted 14,336 8,545 11,983
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,913 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,312 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,600
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 27 September 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 20 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.23%) Apache
3 16 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.62%) Camunda
6 5 (0.62%) CMS
6 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 463 (57.30%) Azure
2 431 (53.34%) AWS
3 151 (18.69%) GCP
4 135 (16.71%) GitHub
5 112 (13.86%) Serverless
6 110 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
7 94 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 76 (9.41%) PaaS
9 73 (9.03%) GitHub Actions
10 69 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
11 65 (8.04%) SaaS
12 64 (7.92%) Cloud Computing
13 60 (7.43%) Azure AKS
14 59 (7.30%) IaaS
15 57 (7.05%) Amazon S3
16 55 (6.81%) Azure Monitor
17 50 (6.19%) Entra ID
18 44 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (5.45%) Power Platform
19 39 (4.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (9.03%) WAN
2 69 (8.54%) LAN
3 53 (6.56%) Firewall
4 52 (6.44%) VPN
5 47 (5.82%) DNS
6 43 (5.32%) TCP/IP
7 42 (5.20%) Broadband
8 24 (2.97%) DHCP
9 20 (2.48%) BGP
10 19 (2.35%) Network Security
11 16 (1.98%) OSPF
12 14 (1.73%) VXLAN
13 8 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.99%) VLAN
14 7 (0.87%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.62%) HTTP
15 5 (0.62%) NGFW
15 5 (0.62%) Wireless
16 4 (0.50%) NX-OS
17 3 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (11.14%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.32%) Metadata
3 37 (4.58%) MongoDB
4 30 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 28 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 27 (3.34%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.09%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.97%) DynamoDB
9 23 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (2.48%) Delta Lake
12 17 (2.10%) Data Vault
13 16 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (1.61%) MySQL
15 11 (1.36%) NoSQL
16 9 (1.11%) BigQuery
17 8 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.99%) Big Data
18 7 (0.87%) Power BI
18 7 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (9.65%) Git
2 49 (6.06%) GitLab
2 49 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.87%) Bitbucket
3 7 (0.87%) JIRA
4 6 (0.74%) NUnit
5 5 (0.62%) Poetry
6 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.50%) JUnit
6 4 (0.50%) Snyk
6 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 3 (0.37%) Selenium
7 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.25%) MLflow
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 322 (39.85%) Social Skills
2 190 (23.51%) Finance
3 97 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.42%) Law
5 63 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.18%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (5.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.07%) Banking
9 28 (3.47%) Games
10 26 (3.22%) Retail
11 16 (1.98%) Legal
12 13 (1.61%) Marketing
13 11 (1.36%) Local Government
13 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.74%) Police
16 5 (0.62%) Advertising
16 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.50%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 239 (29.58%) Senior
2 143 (17.70%) Architect
3 127 (15.72%) Lead
4 104 (12.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 100 (12.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (8.54%) Software Engineer
8 66 (8.17%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (8.17%) Systems Architect
9 59 (7.30%) Developer
10 52 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.58%) Python Engineer
13 37 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.46%) Data Engineer
14 36 (4.46%) Site Engineer
15 30 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (3.59%) Technical Leader
17 27 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (56.93%) Terraform
2 72 (8.91%) React
3 49 (6.06%) Node.js
4 46 (5.69%) RESTful
5 45 (5.57%) .NET
6 43 (5.32%) REST
7 31 (3.84%) AWS CDK
7 31 (3.84%) PySpark
8 30 (3.71%) Kafka
9 27 (3.34%) ARM Templates
10 23 (2.85%) Next.js
11 21 (2.60%) Spring
12 18 (2.23%) CSS
13 17 (2.10%) YAML
14 16 (1.98%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.86%) .NET Core
16 14 (1.73%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.61%) Middleware
17 13 (1.61%) OAuth
17 13 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 227 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 99 (12.25%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.82%) Public Cloud
4 40 (4.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.97%) Low-Code
10 21 (2.60%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.35%) Blog
11 19 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.61%) Podcast
14 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.36%) PKI
16 10 (1.24%) Data Structures
16 10 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 89 (11.01%) Linux
2 63 (7.80%) Windows
3 28 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.09%) Unix
5 12 (1.49%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (69.31%) CI/CD
2 401 (49.63%) DevOps
3 281 (34.78%) Observability
4 253 (31.31%) Containerisation
5 244 (30.20%) Mentoring
6 217 (26.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (26.61%) AI
8 200 (24.75%) Agile
9 197 (24.38%) Software Engineering
10 172 (21.29%) Technical Leadership
11 168 (20.79%) Platform Engineering
12 165 (20.42%) Roadmaps
13 154 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (15.59%) Analytics
15 116 (14.36%) Microservices
16 111 (13.74%) Test Automation
17 109 (13.49%) Cloud Security
18 95 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
18 95 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 90 (11.14%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 328 (40.59%) Python
2 120 (14.85%) Bicep
3 115 (14.23%) PowerShell
4 111 (13.74%) SQL
5 98 (12.13%) Bash
6 87 (10.77%) Java
7 83 (10.27%) TypeScript
8 71 (8.79%) Go
9 54 (6.68%) JavaScript
10 49 (6.06%) C#
11 20 (2.48%) Scala
12 14 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.36%) Ruby
14 8 (0.99%) Groovy
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) C++
16 6 (0.74%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 143 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 131 (16.21%) SC Cleared
3 88 (10.89%) Azure Certification
4 48 (5.94%) Degree
5 38 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.10%) SnowPro
10 12 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.11%) CCNP
12 8 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.62%) CCNA
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.50%) CCIE
16 3 (0.37%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.18%) GRC
2 51 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.35%) GDPR
3 19 (2.35%) QA
4 18 (2.23%) NIST
5 16 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.11%) SLA
8 9 (1.11%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.74%) NCSC
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) IASME
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 155 (19.18%) Docker
2 51 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 31 (3.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (2.23%) vSphere
6 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 212 (26.24%) Kubernetes
2 86 (10.64%) Ansible
3 77 (9.53%) Grafana
4 46 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.72%) Argo
6 18 (2.23%) Istio
7 17 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.24%) FortiGate
8 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.99%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.87%) Puppet
12 6 (0.74%) Packer
13 5 (0.62%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.50%) Cilium
14 4 (0.50%) linkerd
15 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
16 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 268 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.93%) Google
3 33 (4.08%) VMware
4 32 (3.96%) Databricks
5 23 (2.85%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.85%) Oracle
6 15 (1.86%) Cisco
6 15 (1.86%) Palo Alto
7 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.49%) Informatica
8 12 (1.49%) Okta
8 12 (1.49%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.36%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.24%) Splunk
11 8 (0.99%) Arista
12 7 (0.87%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.74%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.62%) Ping Identity