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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 114 98
Rank change year-on-year +38 -16 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 553 453 858
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.36% 3.02% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.17% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 352 284 734
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.60% +3.45% -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 14,124 14,280 25,656
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.91% 95.08% 92.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,181 8,724 21,327
10th Percentile £30,750 £36,000 £34,756
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 25 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 14 (2.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 14 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (1.81%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.63%) Apache
5 4 (0.72%) Confluence
5 4 (0.72%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 326 (58.95%) Azure
2 322 (58.23%) AWS
3 134 (24.23%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (23.51%) GitHub
5 98 (17.72%) GCP
6 95 (17.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
8 87 (15.73%) Serverless
9 61 (11.03%) Azure Monitor
10 59 (10.67%) Entra ID
11 54 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (9.22%) SaaS
13 50 (9.04%) PaaS
14 48 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 48 (8.68%) Amazon S3
14 48 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (7.59%) IaaS
16 40 (7.23%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
18 36 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.21%) Firewall
2 39 (7.05%) VPN
3 32 (5.79%) Broadband
4 24 (4.34%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.62%) DNS
6 12 (2.17%) BGP
6 12 (2.17%) Network Security
7 11 (1.99%) VLAN
7 11 (1.99%) WAN
8 9 (1.63%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (1.27%) DHCP
9 7 (1.27%) LAN
10 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 4 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.72%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.36%) DSL
12 2 (0.36%) IPsec
12 2 (0.36%) WebEx
12 2 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 37 (6.69%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.16%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.62%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.44%) RDBMS
8 17 (3.07%) Redis
9 16 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.35%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.35%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.35%) Metadata
10 13 (2.35%) MySQL
11 11 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.72%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 55 (9.95%) Jenkins
2 38 (6.87%) GitLab
3 37 (6.69%) Git
4 19 (3.44%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.45%) JIRA
6 8 (1.45%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.08%) git-flow
8 5 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.90%) Storybook
9 4 (0.72%) JMeter
9 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
10 3 (0.54%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.54%) Selenium
11 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
12 1 (0.18%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.18%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 155 (28.03%) Finance
2 133 (24.05%) Social Skills
3 54 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.68%) Banking
7 42 (7.59%) Law
7 42 (7.59%) Retail
8 24 (4.34%) Financial Institution
8 24 (4.34%) Telecoms
9 20 (3.62%) Back Office
10 16 (2.89%) Billing
11 10 (1.81%) Legal
11 10 (1.81%) Marketing
12 7 (1.27%) Health Technology
12 7 (1.27%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.08%) Games
14 5 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.90%) Military
14 5 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 142 (25.68%) Senior
2 91 (16.46%) Cloud Engineer
3 86 (15.55%) Lead
4 66 (11.93%) Platform Engineer
5 61 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (10.67%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 48 (8.68%) Developer
9 42 (7.59%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (6.15%) Architect
11 27 (4.88%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
13 23 (4.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.98%) Data Engineer
15 20 (3.62%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.62%) Lead DevOps
16 19 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 17 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
18 16 (2.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
19 15 (2.71%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.14%) React
2 39 (7.05%) .NET
3 35 (6.33%) Elastic Stack
4 31 (5.61%) RESTful
5 28 (5.06%) Node.js
6 26 (4.70%) OAuth
7 25 (4.52%) Spring
8 23 (4.16%) YAML
9 22 (3.98%) Django
10 21 (3.80%) OpenTelemetry
10 21 (3.80%) Spring Boot
11 20 (3.62%) AWS CDK
12 19 (3.44%) JSON
12 19 (3.44%) OpenAPI
12 19 (3.44%) Swagger
13 18 (3.25%) CSS
14 17 (3.07%) HTML
15 15 (2.71%) GraphQL
15 15 (2.71%) Kafka
15 15 (2.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 131 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 39 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 32 (5.79%) Data Centre
3 32 (5.79%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.70%) Public Cloud
6 22 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.98%) Security Posture
7 21 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (2.89%) Blog
9 16 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.53%) Legacy Applications
11 12 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
11 12 (2.17%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.99%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.63%) Video\Live Streaming
15 6 (1.08%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (23.15%) Linux
2 51 (9.22%) Windows
3 48 (8.68%) Unix
4 13 (2.35%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.17%) VMS
6 10 (1.81%) Android
6 10 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.27%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.90%) CentOS
10 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.36%) Debian
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (68.17%) DevOps
2 370 (66.91%) CI/CD
3 180 (32.55%) Agile
4 157 (28.39%) Mentoring
5 148 (26.76%) Observability
6 139 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (22.97%) Containerisation
8 97 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 97 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
8 97 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 95 (17.18%) Coaching
10 85 (15.37%) Roadmaps
11 83 (15.01%) Software Engineering
12 82 (14.83%) AI
13 81 (14.65%) Analytics
14 74 (13.38%) Cloud Security
15 72 (13.02%) Incident Response
16 62 (11.21%) Test Automation
17 61 (11.03%) Asset Management
18 60 (10.85%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 223 (40.33%) Python
2 107 (19.35%) PowerShell
3 105 (18.99%) Bash
4 80 (14.47%) Bicep
5 78 (14.10%) SQL
6 77 (13.92%) Java
7 55 (9.95%) JavaScript
8 53 (9.58%) Go
9 39 (7.05%) TypeScript
10 35 (6.33%) C#
11 11 (1.99%) Scala
12 6 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.54%) Rust
14 2 (0.36%) C++
14 2 (0.36%) Ruby
14 2 (0.36%) VB
15 1 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 87 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 75 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 58 (10.49%) AWS Certification
4 42 (7.59%) Azure Certification
5 34 (6.15%) Degree
6 17 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.81%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.27%) DBS Check
11 6 (1.08%) CCNP
12 5 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.90%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.90%) OSCP
13 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.72%) OSCE
14 3 (0.54%) CCNA
14 3 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (4.70%) GDPR
3 25 (4.52%) PCI DSS
4 24 (4.34%) SOC 2
5 21 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 21 (3.80%) NIST
6 19 (3.44%) QA
7 16 (2.89%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.45%) SLA
9 6 (1.08%) GRC
10 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.72%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 174 (31.46%) Docker
2 29 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.70%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (2.35%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.17%) Hyper-V
8 10 (1.81%) vSphere
9 5 (0.90%) Firmware
9 5 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.36%) vCloud
11 1 (0.18%) NFS
11 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 393 (71.07%) Terraform
2 196 (35.44%) Kubernetes
3 122 (22.06%) Ansible
4 74 (13.38%) Prometheus
5 73 (13.20%) Grafana
6 26 (4.70%) Argo
7 19 (3.44%) Kustomize
8 18 (3.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.81%) Puppet
11 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.08%) SCOM
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.90%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.72%) Cilium
13 4 (0.72%) logstash
13 4 (0.72%) Packer
13 4 (0.72%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 96 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.14%) Google
3 43 (7.78%) VMware
4 21 (3.80%) Databricks
5 20 (3.62%) Cisco
6 16 (2.89%) Splunk
7 14 (2.53%) Ab Initio
8 12 (2.17%) Red Hat
9 9 (1.63%) New Relic
10 8 (1.45%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.45%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.27%) CyberArk
11 7 (1.27%) Oracle
12 6 (1.08%) Dell
13 4 (0.72%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.72%) CheckPoint
13 4 (0.72%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.72%) PagerDuty
13 4 (0.72%) Zscaler