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 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 117 82
Rank change year-on-year +44 -35 +6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 537 476 921
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 2.94% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.11% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 350 282 789
10th Percentile £46,446 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,750 £60,000 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,375 £98,474 £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 13,710 15,305 24,440
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.71% 94.43% 92.92%
Number of salaries quoted 8,709 9,023 20,101
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -9.60%

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 31 January 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 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.30%) Apache
6 6 (1.12%) Confluence
7 4 (0.74%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 337 (62.76%) Azure
2 297 (55.31%) AWS
3 145 (27.00%) Azure DevOps
4 137 (25.51%) GitHub
5 95 (17.69%) GitHub Actions
6 92 (17.13%) AWS CloudFormation
7 91 (16.95%) GCP
8 84 (15.64%) Serverless
9 66 (12.29%) Azure Monitor
10 63 (11.73%) Entra ID
11 54 (10.06%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (10.06%) SaaS
12 52 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 50 (9.31%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (8.19%) Amazon S3
15 40 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 40 (7.45%) IaaS
15 40 (7.45%) PaaS
16 39 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
17 35 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (11.36%) Firewall
2 44 (8.19%) VPN
3 27 (5.03%) Broadband
4 24 (4.47%) DNS
5 23 (4.28%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.98%) Network Security
6 16 (2.98%) WAN
7 14 (2.61%) BGP
8 11 (2.05%) LAN
9 10 (1.86%) VLAN
10 8 (1.49%) DHCP
10 8 (1.49%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
11 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.74%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.74%) VoIP
12 3 (0.56%) SAN
12 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.38%) NoSQL
2 33 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.66%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.47%) Data Lake
5 22 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 19 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.54%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.79%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.79%) MySQL
8 13 (2.42%) Delta Lake
8 13 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (2.23%) Redis
10 10 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (1.12%) Metadata
15 5 (0.93%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 63 (11.73%) Jenkins
2 39 (7.26%) GitLab
3 38 (7.08%) Git
4 19 (3.54%) Jaeger
5 10 (1.86%) JIRA
5 10 (1.86%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.12%) Bitbucket
7 6 (1.12%) git-flow
8 5 (0.93%) Storybook
9 4 (0.74%) JMeter
9 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.56%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.56%) 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
1 164 (30.54%) Finance
2 124 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 46 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.19%) Banking
5 41 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 39 (7.26%) Law
7 37 (6.89%) Retail
8 22 (4.10%) Financial Institution
8 22 (4.10%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.35%) Back Office
10 14 (2.61%) Billing
11 11 (2.05%) Legal
12 9 (1.68%) Marketing
13 7 (1.30%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.30%) Tech for Good
14 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.12%) Games
15 5 (0.93%) Publishing
16 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (25.51%) Senior
2 92 (17.13%) Cloud Engineer
3 75 (13.97%) Lead
4 65 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (11.36%) Azure Engineer
6 59 (10.99%) Platform Engineer
7 53 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (9.12%) Developer
9 39 (7.26%) Architect
9 39 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
10 23 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 23 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
11 21 (3.91%) Software Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) Lead DevOps
12 19 (3.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 19 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 18 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
13 18 (3.35%) Infrastructure Architect
13 18 (3.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (8.19%) .NET
2 42 (7.82%) React
3 36 (6.70%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (6.15%) RESTful
5 28 (5.21%) Node.js
6 26 (4.84%) OAuth
7 22 (4.10%) Spring
8 21 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
9 20 (3.72%) YAML
10 19 (3.54%) OpenAPI
10 19 (3.54%) Swagger
11 18 (3.35%) AWS CDK
11 18 (3.35%) CSS
11 18 (3.35%) Spring Boot
12 17 (3.17%) HTML
12 17 (3.17%) JSON
13 16 (2.98%) Django
14 15 (2.79%) Kafka
15 14 (2.61%) OAuth2
15 14 (2.61%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 131 (24.39%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.89%) Data Centre
3 34 (6.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 34 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 30 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.84%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.10%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.10%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.79%) Blog
10 14 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
12 11 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
12 11 (2.05%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 5 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 119 (22.16%) Linux
2 56 (10.43%) Windows
3 40 (7.45%) Unix
4 14 (2.61%) VMS
5 13 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.68%) Android
6 9 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.68%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.93%) CentOS
8 4 (0.74%) Debian
8 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (69.46%) DevOps
2 350 (65.18%) CI/CD
3 172 (32.03%) Agile
4 145 (27.00%) Mentoring
5 132 (24.58%) Observability
6 130 (24.21%) Continuous Improvement
7 116 (21.60%) Containerisation
8 101 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 94 (17.50%) Coaching
10 91 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (16.76%) Platform Engineering
12 88 (16.39%) Roadmaps
13 83 (15.46%) Analytics
14 78 (14.53%) Software Engineering
15 77 (14.34%) Cloud Security
16 76 (14.15%) AI
17 69 (12.85%) Asset Management
18 67 (12.48%) High Availability
19 66 (12.29%) Incident Response
20 58 (10.80%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 212 (39.48%) Python
2 120 (22.35%) PowerShell
3 112 (20.86%) Bash
4 88 (16.39%) Bicep
5 83 (15.46%) SQL
6 67 (12.48%) Java
7 52 (9.68%) JavaScript
8 49 (9.12%) Go
9 40 (7.45%) C#
10 36 (6.70%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.05%) Scala
12 4 (0.74%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.37%) C++
13 2 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.37%) Rust
13 2 (0.37%) VB
13 2 (0.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 75 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 66 (12.29%) AWS Certification
3 61 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 46 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 29 (5.40%) Degree
6 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.68%) CCNP
10 9 (1.68%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.74%) CISSP
13 4 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.74%) OSCE
13 4 (0.74%) OSCP
13 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (5.21%) GDPR
3 24 (4.47%) NIST
3 24 (4.47%) PCI DSS
4 22 (4.10%) SOC 2
5 18 (3.35%) Accessibility
6 17 (3.17%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.61%) QA
8 8 (1.49%) SLA
9 6 (1.12%) GRC
10 4 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (30.73%) Docker
2 28 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (5.03%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.42%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.23%) Hyper-V
8 10 (1.86%) vSphere
9 4 (0.74%) NFS
10 3 (0.56%) Firmware
10 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.37%) vCloud
12 1 (0.19%) HDFS
12 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 397 (73.93%) Terraform
2 199 (37.06%) Kubernetes
3 127 (23.65%) Ansible
4 75 (13.97%) Prometheus
5 74 (13.78%) Grafana
6 26 (4.84%) Argo
7 22 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.54%) Kustomize
9 9 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (1.30%) SCOM
11 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.12%) Puppet
12 4 (0.74%) Cilium
12 4 (0.74%) logstash
12 4 (0.74%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
13 3 (0.56%) Packer
13 3 (0.56%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 101 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.82%) VMware
3 41 (7.64%) Google
4 19 (3.54%) Databricks
5 18 (3.35%) Cisco
6 14 (2.61%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.61%) Splunk
7 9 (1.68%) New Relic
7 9 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.49%) Oracle
9 7 (1.30%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 5 (0.93%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.74%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.74%) Cribl.io
11 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.74%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.74%) Palo Alto
11 4 (0.74%) Pure Storage