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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 127 124
Rank change year-on-year +52 -3 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 814 410 591
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 2.45% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 2.61% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 544 299 363
10th Percentile £51,625 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £59,375 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +5.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,750 £101,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -4.11%

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 15,724 19,287
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.68% 93.80% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 14,329 8,388 11,437
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,026
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 6 October 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 (2.33%) Apache
2 18 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.09%) Apache Spark
3 17 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.86%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.74%) CMS
6 5 (0.61%) Camunda
6 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.49%) Confluence
7 4 (0.49%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 3 (0.37%) nginx
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
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 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 465 (57.13%) Azure
2 432 (53.07%) AWS
3 147 (18.06%) GCP
4 137 (16.83%) GitHub
5 113 (13.88%) Serverless
6 112 (13.76%) Azure DevOps
7 97 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (9.71%) PaaS
9 75 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
10 70 (8.60%) SaaS
11 69 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
12 65 (7.99%) Cloud Computing
13 62 (7.62%) IaaS
14 61 (7.49%) Azure AKS
15 57 (7.00%) Amazon S3
16 56 (6.88%) Azure Monitor
17 51 (6.27%) Entra ID
18 44 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (5.41%) Power Platform
19 42 (5.16%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.97%) WAN
2 68 (8.35%) LAN
3 57 (7.00%) VPN
4 55 (6.76%) Firewall
5 47 (5.77%) DNS
6 43 (5.28%) TCP/IP
7 42 (5.16%) Broadband
8 22 (2.70%) DHCP
8 22 (2.70%) Network Security
9 21 (2.58%) BGP
10 15 (1.84%) OSPF
11 14 (1.72%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.98%) VLAN
13 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.61%) NGFW
14 5 (0.61%) Wireless
15 4 (0.49%) HTTP
15 4 (0.49%) NX-OS
15 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.18%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.28%) Metadata
3 35 (4.30%) MongoDB
4 30 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (3.32%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.19%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.07%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.07%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.46%) Delta Lake
9 18 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
10 17 (2.09%) Data Vault
11 13 (1.60%) MySQL
12 10 (1.23%) NoSQL
13 8 (0.98%) Big Data
14 7 (0.86%) Power BI
14 7 (0.86%) Redis
15 6 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 73 (8.97%) Git
2 51 (6.27%) GitLab
2 51 (6.27%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.11%) TeamCity
4 8 (0.98%) JIRA
5 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.61%) Poetry
6 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.49%) JUnit
6 4 (0.49%) NUnit
6 4 (0.49%) Snyk
7 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.37%) Postman
7 3 (0.37%) Selenium
8 2 (0.25%) Mockito
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 324 (39.80%) Social Skills
2 193 (23.71%) Finance
3 105 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.11%) Law
5 63 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (7.74%) Presentation Skills
6 43 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (4.55%) Banking
8 28 (3.44%) Games
9 25 (3.07%) Retail
10 15 (1.84%) Legal
11 13 (1.60%) Marketing
12 11 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.23%) Local Government
14 8 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.98%) Police
15 5 (0.61%) Advertising
15 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.61%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 248 (30.47%) Senior
2 144 (17.69%) Architect
3 123 (15.11%) Lead
4 106 (13.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 104 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 84 (10.32%) Azure Engineer
7 73 (8.97%) Software Engineer
8 69 (8.48%) Platform Engineer
9 66 (8.11%) Systems Architect
10 58 (7.13%) Developer
11 53 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 38 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.42%) Python Engineer
15 36 (4.42%) Site Engineer
16 35 (4.30%) Data Engineer
17 33 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
18 31 (3.81%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (3.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (57.13%) Terraform
2 72 (8.85%) React
3 49 (6.02%) .NET
3 49 (6.02%) Node.js
4 46 (5.65%) REST
5 43 (5.28%) RESTful
6 32 (3.93%) PySpark
7 29 (3.56%) Kafka
8 28 (3.44%) ARM Templates
8 28 (3.44%) AWS CDK
9 23 (2.83%) Next.js
10 20 (2.46%) Spring
11 18 (2.21%) CSS
12 16 (1.97%) .NET Core
12 16 (1.97%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.97%) YAML
13 14 (1.72%) OAuth
14 13 (1.60%) Middleware
14 13 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (1.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 231 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 102 (12.53%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.77%) Public Cloud
4 38 (4.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.30%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
7 30 (3.69%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.19%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.95%) Low-Code
10 21 (2.58%) Management Information System
11 20 (2.46%) Blog
12 18 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (2.21%) Product Ownership
13 16 (1.97%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.84%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.47%) Data Structures
15 12 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.47%) Podcast
16 10 (1.23%) PKI
16 10 (1.23%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.67%) Linux
2 63 (7.74%) Windows
3 29 (3.56%) Unix
4 27 (3.32%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (69.41%) CI/CD
2 404 (49.63%) DevOps
3 278 (34.15%) Observability
4 260 (31.94%) Containerisation
5 254 (31.20%) Mentoring
6 225 (27.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 222 (27.27%) AI
8 199 (24.45%) Agile
9 194 (23.83%) Software Engineering
10 175 (21.50%) Platform Engineering
11 173 (21.25%) Technical Leadership
12 164 (20.15%) Roadmaps
13 161 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
14 130 (15.97%) Analytics
15 118 (14.50%) Test Automation
16 117 (14.37%) Microservices
17 116 (14.25%) Cloud Security
18 96 (11.79%) Coaching
19 94 (11.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 92 (11.30%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 331 (40.66%) Python
2 122 (14.99%) Bicep
3 118 (14.50%) PowerShell
4 110 (13.51%) SQL
5 100 (12.29%) Bash
6 92 (11.30%) Java
7 80 (9.83%) TypeScript
8 75 (9.21%) Go
9 54 (6.63%) C#
10 52 (6.39%) JavaScript
11 20 (2.46%) Scala
12 14 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.35%) Ruby
14 9 (1.11%) PHP
15 8 (0.98%) Groovy
16 7 (0.86%) C++
16 7 (0.86%) Rust
17 3 (0.37%) C
17 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 147 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 135 (16.58%) SC Cleared
3 89 (10.93%) Azure Certification
4 51 (6.27%) Degree
5 39 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (4.18%) AWS Certification
7 25 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.46%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.09%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.11%) CCNP
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.61%) CCNA
14 5 (0.61%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.49%) CCIE
15 4 (0.49%) CISM
15 4 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.13%) GRC
2 53 (6.51%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.70%) NIST
4 19 (2.33%) GDPR
5 18 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.21%) QA
6 17 (2.09%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.11%) SLA
10 6 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) IASME
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 160 (19.66%) Docker
2 49 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 32 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.21%) vSphere
7 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 210 (25.80%) Kubernetes
2 86 (10.57%) Ansible
3 81 (9.95%) Grafana
4 46 (5.65%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.83%) Argo
6 18 (2.21%) Istio
7 17 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.23%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.98%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.86%) Packer
12 6 (0.74%) Cilium
12 6 (0.74%) Puppet
13 5 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.49%) linkerd
15 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
16 2 (0.25%) SCCM
16 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.00%) Google
3 33 (4.05%) Databricks
3 33 (4.05%) VMware
4 25 (3.07%) Dynatrace
5 23 (2.83%) Oracle
6 15 (1.84%) Palo Alto
7 14 (1.72%) Cisco
8 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.47%) Informatica
9 12 (1.47%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.35%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.23%) Okta
11 10 (1.23%) Splunk
12 8 (0.98%) Arista
13 7 (0.86%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.74%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.61%) Ping Identity