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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 113 72
Rank change year-on-year +35 -41 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 484 499 848
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 3.00% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.21% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 325 305 716
10th Percentile £46,250 £44,974 £47,533
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% - +2.84%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £96,063
90th Percentile £104,500 £97,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 13,271 15,543 19,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.60% 93.41% 93.48%
Number of salaries quoted 8,417 9,212 15,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,713 £46,250
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 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 8 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 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.45%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.24%) Apache
6 5 (1.03%) Confluence
7 4 (0.83%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) nginx
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 328 (67.77%) Azure
2 259 (53.51%) AWS
3 143 (29.55%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (27.07%) GitHub
5 91 (18.80%) GCP
6 88 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 85 (17.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (14.67%) Serverless
9 63 (13.02%) Azure Monitor
10 52 (10.74%) Entra ID
11 48 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
12 46 (9.50%) SaaS
13 45 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
15 37 (7.64%) Amazon S3
15 37 (7.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 37 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
16 36 (7.44%) PaaS
17 34 (7.02%) IaaS
18 33 (6.82%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (12.40%) Firewall
2 43 (8.88%) VPN
3 25 (5.17%) DNS
4 24 (4.96%) WAN
5 23 (4.75%) TCP/IP
6 19 (3.93%) LAN
6 19 (3.93%) Network Security
7 13 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (2.27%) SD-WAN
9 10 (2.07%) BGP
9 10 (2.07%) Broadband
10 8 (1.65%) DHCP
10 8 (1.65%) VLAN
11 7 (1.45%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.45%) VoIP
12 6 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.62%) IPsec
14 3 (0.62%) Wireless
14 3 (0.62%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
1 30 (6.20%) NoSQL
2 24 (4.96%) Data Lake
3 23 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 19 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.31%) DynamoDB
7 13 (2.69%) MySQL
7 13 (2.69%) Redis
8 12 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 10 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (2.07%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.45%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.83%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.26%) Git
2 40 (8.26%) GitLab
3 10 (2.07%) TeamCity
4 8 (1.65%) JIRA
5 7 (1.45%) Jaeger
5 7 (1.45%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.24%) git-flow
7 5 (1.03%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.03%) Storybook
8 3 (0.62%) JMeter
9 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.21%) Locust
10 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.21%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.21%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 152 (31.40%) Finance
2 107 (22.11%) Social Skills
3 37 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (7.64%) Banking
3 37 (7.64%) Law
4 29 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 28 (5.79%) Retail
6 25 (5.17%) Telecoms
7 16 (3.31%) Financial Institution
8 12 (2.48%) Back Office
9 11 (2.27%) Billing
9 11 (2.27%) Legal
10 7 (1.45%) Games
10 7 (1.45%) Marketing
11 6 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.03%) Health Technology
12 5 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.83%) Tech for Good
14 3 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 124 (25.62%) Senior
2 81 (16.74%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (14.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 60 (12.40%) Azure Engineer
5 56 (11.57%) Lead
6 45 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
7 43 (8.88%) Architect
7 43 (8.88%) Developer
8 38 (7.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 28 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
10 21 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
11 19 (3.93%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 19 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.72%) Infrastructure Architect
12 18 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
13 17 (3.51%) Data Engineer
13 17 (3.51%) Linux Engineer
13 17 (3.51%) Software Engineer
14 16 (3.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (8.26%) .NET
2 39 (8.06%) React
3 26 (5.37%) OAuth
3 26 (5.37%) RESTful
4 25 (5.17%) Node.js
5 24 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (4.13%) YAML
7 16 (3.31%) AWS CDK
7 16 (3.31%) JSON
7 16 (3.31%) OpenAPI
7 16 (3.31%) Swagger
8 15 (3.10%) CSS
8 15 (3.10%) Django
9 14 (2.89%) HTML
9 14 (2.89%) OAuth2
9 14 (2.89%) Spring
10 13 (2.69%) GraphQL
10 13 (2.69%) Kafka
11 11 (2.27%) Spring Boot
11 11 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 119 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 35 (7.23%) Data Centre
3 31 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 31 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 29 (5.99%) Public Cloud
5 23 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (4.13%) Security Posture
7 16 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (3.31%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
8 14 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.65%) Blog
10 8 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 8 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
10 8 (1.65%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.45%) Operational Technology
12 6 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.03%) Hedge funds
14 4 (0.83%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 102 (21.07%) Linux
2 55 (11.36%) Windows
3 27 (5.58%) Unix
4 14 (2.89%) VMS
5 11 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 10 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.45%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.03%) Android
8 5 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.83%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.62%) CentOS
10 3 (0.62%) Debian
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (73.35%) DevOps
2 325 (67.15%) CI/CD
3 157 (32.44%) Agile
4 120 (24.79%) Observability
5 119 (24.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 106 (21.90%) Mentoring
7 98 (20.25%) Containerisation
8 87 (17.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 85 (17.56%) Coaching
10 80 (16.53%) Analytics
11 79 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
12 76 (15.70%) Cloud Security
13 73 (15.08%) Incident Response
13 73 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
14 70 (14.46%) AI
14 70 (14.46%) Roadmaps
15 69 (14.26%) Asset Management
16 66 (13.64%) Software Engineering
17 64 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 58 (11.98%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 184 (38.02%) Python
2 108 (22.31%) PowerShell
3 89 (18.39%) Bash
4 84 (17.36%) Bicep
5 79 (16.32%) SQL
6 38 (7.85%) Java
7 35 (7.23%) C#
7 35 (7.23%) JavaScript
8 32 (6.61%) TypeScript
9 29 (5.99%) Go
10 8 (1.65%) Scala
11 4 (0.83%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.41%) PHP
12 2 (0.41%) XAML
13 1 (0.21%) C++
13 1 (0.21%) Rust
Qualifications
1 66 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 53 (10.95%) SC Cleared
3 51 (10.54%) AWS Certification
4 49 (10.12%) Azure Certification
5 27 (5.58%) Degree
6 18 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (3.10%) Cisco Certification
9 14 (2.89%) CCNP
10 9 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (1.86%) DV Cleared
11 8 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 7 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 7 (1.45%) PMP
13 5 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.03%) OSCP
14 4 (0.83%) CISSP
14 4 (0.83%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.83%) OSCE
15 3 (0.62%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (5.37%) GDPR
2 26 (5.37%) NIST
3 17 (3.51%) PCI DSS
3 17 (3.51%) SOC 2
4 16 (3.31%) Accessibility
5 15 (3.10%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.69%) QA
7 8 (1.65%) SLA
8 6 (1.24%) GRC
9 4 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.83%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 144 (29.75%) Docker
2 25 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (3.72%) Active Directory
5 17 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (2.48%) vSphere
7 10 (2.07%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.24%) NFS
8 6 (1.24%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.62%) Firmware
9 3 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.41%) vCloud
11 1 (0.21%) HDFS
11 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 366 (75.62%) Terraform
2 174 (35.95%) Kubernetes
3 109 (22.52%) Ansible
4 68 (14.05%) Grafana
5 58 (11.98%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (3.31%) Argo
8 8 (1.65%) SCOM
9 7 (1.45%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.83%) Cilium
10 4 (0.83%) logstash
11 3 (0.62%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.21%) CASB
13 1 (0.21%) Icinga
13 1 (0.21%) Kibana
13 1 (0.21%) Rancher
13 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 100 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.82%) VMware
3 29 (5.99%) Google
4 24 (4.96%) Cisco
5 19 (3.93%) Databricks
6 14 (2.89%) Ab Initio
7 12 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.48%) Splunk
8 9 (1.86%) New Relic
8 9 (1.86%) Oracle
9 7 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.45%) Commvault
9 7 (1.45%) Pure Storage
10 5 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.03%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.03%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.83%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.83%) PagerDuty
11 4 (0.83%) Palo Alto