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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 131 124
Rank change year-on-year +56 -7 -54
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 801 400 597
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 2.46% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 2.65% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 524 299 382
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +10.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,938
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%

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 19,546 15,102 20,547
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.74% 93.04% 87.68%
Number of salaries quoted 14,050 8,683 12,951
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,225
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 12 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 22 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.37%) Apache
3 15 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.50%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) Camunda
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
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 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 450 (56.18%) Azure
2 432 (53.93%) AWS
3 151 (18.85%) GCP
4 122 (15.23%) GitHub
5 106 (13.23%) Serverless
6 100 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (8.99%) PaaS
9 69 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
10 68 (8.49%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (7.99%) Cloud Computing
12 59 (7.37%) Azure AKS
13 57 (7.12%) Amazon S3
14 56 (6.99%) IaaS
14 56 (6.99%) SaaS
15 48 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
16 44 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (5.12%) Power Platform
18 39 (4.87%) Entra ID
19 34 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.36%) WAN
2 73 (9.11%) LAN
3 56 (6.99%) Firewall
4 49 (6.12%) DNS
5 48 (5.99%) Broadband
5 48 (5.99%) VPN
6 44 (5.49%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.00%) DHCP
8 19 (2.37%) BGP
9 17 (2.12%) Network Security
9 17 (2.12%) OSPF
10 14 (1.75%) VXLAN
11 10 (1.25%) VLAN
12 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.75%) HTTP
14 6 (0.75%) Wireless
15 5 (0.62%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (0.62%) NGFW
16 4 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (11.74%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.37%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.12%) Metadata
4 29 (3.62%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.12%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.12%) SQL Server
6 23 (2.87%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.50%) Delta Lake
9 19 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
10 16 (2.00%) Data Vault
11 14 (1.75%) MySQL
12 12 (1.50%) NoSQL
13 9 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.00%) Big Data
15 5 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
15 5 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (10.11%) Git
2 47 (5.87%) GitLab
3 46 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.87%) JIRA
4 7 (0.87%) NUnit
5 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.62%) Poetry
7 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.50%) Selenium
7 4 (0.50%) Snyk
8 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) Postman
8 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 305 (38.08%) Social Skills
2 186 (23.22%) Finance
3 81 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.49%) Law
5 64 (7.99%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (5.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (5.24%) Banking
9 34 (4.24%) Games
10 23 (2.87%) Retail
11 19 (2.37%) Legal
12 14 (1.75%) Marketing
13 13 (1.62%) Local Government
14 11 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.25%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.75%) Aviation
18 5 (0.62%) Advertising
18 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 4 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 229 (28.59%) Senior
2 136 (16.98%) Architect
3 127 (15.86%) Lead
4 100 (12.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.36%) Platform Engineer
7 67 (8.36%) Systems Architect
8 63 (7.87%) Developer
8 63 (7.87%) Software Engineer
9 51 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 41 (5.12%) Python Engineer
11 39 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.49%) Site Engineer
15 35 (4.37%) Data Engineer
16 29 (3.62%) Technical Leader
17 28 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
18 27 (3.37%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 456 (56.93%) Terraform
2 65 (8.11%) React
3 49 (6.12%) Node.js
3 49 (6.12%) RESTful
4 45 (5.62%) REST
5 41 (5.12%) .NET
6 34 (4.24%) AWS CDK
7 30 (3.75%) Kafka
7 30 (3.75%) PySpark
8 28 (3.50%) ARM Templates
9 21 (2.62%) Spring
10 20 (2.50%) Next.js
11 19 (2.37%) CSS
11 19 (2.37%) YAML
12 16 (2.00%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.87%) FastAPI
14 13 (1.62%) .NET Core
14 13 (1.62%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.62%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (1.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 230 (28.71%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.61%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.99%) Public Cloud
4 40 (4.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 39 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (3.75%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.62%) Security Posture
10 25 (3.12%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.25%) Blog
12 16 (2.00%) Podcast
12 16 (2.00%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.62%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.37%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.37%) PKI
14 11 (1.37%) Replication
15 10 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.12%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.49%) Linux
2 61 (7.62%) Windows
3 29 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.62%) Unix
5 13 (1.62%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (68.29%) CI/CD
2 389 (48.56%) DevOps
3 277 (34.58%) Observability
4 252 (31.46%) Containerisation
5 233 (29.09%) Mentoring
6 214 (26.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (26.47%) AI
8 204 (25.47%) Agile
9 198 (24.72%) Software Engineering
10 175 (21.85%) Technical Leadership
11 172 (21.47%) Platform Engineering
12 160 (19.98%) Roadmaps
13 148 (18.48%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (14.86%) Analytics
15 116 (14.48%) Test Automation
16 113 (14.11%) Microservices
17 104 (12.98%) Full-Stack Development
18 96 (11.99%) Cloud Security
19 95 (11.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 93 (11.61%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 335 (41.82%) Python
2 115 (14.36%) Bicep
3 111 (13.86%) PowerShell
4 106 (13.23%) SQL
5 96 (11.99%) Bash
6 83 (10.36%) Java
7 80 (9.99%) TypeScript
8 71 (8.86%) Go
9 56 (6.99%) JavaScript
10 46 (5.74%) C#
11 20 (2.50%) Scala
12 13 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.50%) Ruby
14 8 (1.00%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) C++
15 7 (0.87%) Groovy
16 6 (0.75%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) C
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 116 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.36%) Azure Certification
4 53 (6.62%) Degree
5 37 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (3.87%) AWS Certification
7 24 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.62%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.12%) SnowPro
10 15 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.62%) CCNP
12 7 (0.87%) CCNA
13 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.75%) CCIE
13 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.24%) GRC
2 50 (6.24%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.50%) QA
4 16 (2.00%) NIST
5 15 (1.87%) GDPR
6 13 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.12%) SLA
8 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.75%) NCSC
10 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
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
12 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 154 (19.23%) Docker
2 50 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (2.75%) vSphere
5 15 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 209 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 87 (10.86%) Ansible
3 72 (8.99%) Grafana
4 45 (5.62%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.75%) Argo
6 18 (2.25%) Istio
7 15 (1.87%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.00%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.00%) Puppet
10 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.50%) linkerd
11 4 (0.50%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.37%) Cilium
12 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 254 (31.71%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.49%) Google
3 36 (4.49%) VMware
4 30 (3.75%) Databricks
5 21 (2.62%) Cisco
5 21 (2.62%) Oracle
6 20 (2.50%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 15 (1.87%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.75%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.50%) Informatica
10 12 (1.50%) Okta
10 12 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.50%) ScienceLogic
10 12 (1.50%) Splunk
11 8 (1.00%) Arista
12 7 (0.87%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.75%) F5
13 6 (0.75%) NetApp
13 6 (0.75%) SolarWinds