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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 145 149
Rank change year-on-year +76 +4 -72
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 786 382 593
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 2.32% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.49% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 510 287 465
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,810 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +14.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -6.67%

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 18,155 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.94% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,190 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 29 July 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 21 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.91%) Apache
3 14 (1.78%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.76%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.38%) Camunda
7 3 (0.38%) Confluence
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 436 (55.47%) AWS
2 433 (55.09%) Azure
3 139 (17.68%) GCP
4 113 (14.38%) Serverless
5 109 (13.87%) GitHub
6 97 (12.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 96 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
8 79 (10.05%) PaaS
9 68 (8.65%) Cloud Computing
10 65 (8.27%) GitHub Actions
11 59 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (6.87%) IaaS
12 54 (6.87%) SaaS
13 50 (6.36%) Amazon S3
13 50 (6.36%) Azure AKS
14 41 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
15 40 (5.09%) Power Platform
16 39 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
17 38 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.54%) LAN
1 75 (9.54%) WAN
2 62 (7.89%) Firewall
3 53 (6.74%) Broadband
4 48 (6.11%) VPN
5 41 (5.22%) DNS
6 40 (5.09%) TCP/IP
7 18 (2.29%) BGP
8 16 (2.04%) Network Security
8 16 (2.04%) OSPF
9 15 (1.91%) DHCP
10 13 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (1.65%) VXLAN
11 12 (1.53%) VLAN
12 9 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.76%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.76%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.76%) WebEx
14 6 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.47%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.47%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.09%) Metadata
4 28 (3.56%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (3.18%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.18%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (2.16%) DynamoDB
9 16 (2.04%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.65%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.53%) MySQL
12 11 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.40%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.27%) Redis
14 7 (0.89%) Big Data
15 6 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (10.31%) Git
2 48 (6.11%) GitLab
3 44 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.02%) NUnit
5 6 (0.76%) JMeter
6 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.64%) Locust
7 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.51%) JIRA
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.25%) Postman
9 2 (0.25%) Snyk
9 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 283 (36.01%) Social Skills
2 172 (21.88%) Finance
3 72 (9.16%) Law
4 67 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (8.02%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 36 (4.58%) Banking
8 32 (4.07%) Games
9 27 (3.44%) Retail
10 18 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.91%) Legal
11 15 (1.91%) Marketing
12 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.89%) Advertising
14 7 (0.89%) Aviation
14 7 (0.89%) Local Government
15 6 (0.76%) Billing
15 6 (0.76%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 205 (26.08%) Senior
2 134 (17.05%) Lead
3 129 (16.41%) Architect
4 96 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 72 (9.16%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (8.91%) Developer
8 67 (8.52%) Azure Engineer
8 67 (8.52%) Systems Architect
9 56 (7.12%) Software Engineer
10 42 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.96%) Python Engineer
12 36 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 36 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.33%) Data Engineer
14 31 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (3.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.69%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.18%) Technical Leader
17 24 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.76%) React
2 54 (6.87%) REST
3 44 (5.60%) Node.js
3 44 (5.60%) RESTful
4 41 (5.22%) .NET
5 35 (4.45%) AWS CDK
6 31 (3.94%) ARM Templates
7 26 (3.31%) Spring
7 26 (3.31%) YAML
8 22 (2.80%) Kafka
8 22 (2.80%) Next.js
9 21 (2.67%) PySpark
9 21 (2.67%) Spring Boot
10 18 (2.29%) FastAPI
11 17 (2.16%) Django
12 16 (2.04%) CSS
13 14 (1.78%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.65%) JSON
14 13 (1.65%) PyTorch
15 12 (1.53%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 230 (29.26%) Cloud Native
2 84 (10.69%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.73%) Video\Live Streaming
4 42 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 41 (5.22%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.07%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.07%) Low-Code
7 28 (3.56%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.29%) Podcast
10 17 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
11 15 (1.91%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.78%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.65%) Replication
13 13 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.27%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 101 (12.85%) Linux
2 50 (6.36%) Windows
3 19 (2.42%) Unix
3 19 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.65%) VMS
5 5 (0.64%) Android
6 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (69.47%) CI/CD
2 408 (51.91%) DevOps
3 265 (33.72%) Observability
4 255 (32.44%) Containerisation
5 219 (27.86%) Agile
5 219 (27.86%) Mentoring
6 213 (27.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 202 (25.70%) AI
8 182 (23.16%) Software Engineering
9 178 (22.65%) Technical Leadership
10 176 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
11 162 (20.61%) Roadmaps
12 140 (17.81%) Test Automation
13 137 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (15.78%) Microservices
15 106 (13.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 101 (12.85%) Analytics
17 94 (11.96%) Machine Learning
18 84 (10.69%) Cloud Security
19 83 (10.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 340 (43.26%) Python
2 105 (13.36%) Bicep
3 101 (12.85%) SQL
4 92 (11.70%) Bash
5 91 (11.58%) Java
5 91 (11.58%) PowerShell
6 77 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 71 (9.03%) Go
8 65 (8.27%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.73%) C#
10 16 (2.04%) Scala
11 13 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
12 12 (1.53%) Ruby
13 8 (1.02%) PHP
14 7 (0.89%) C++
14 7 (0.89%) Groovy
15 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.51%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 121 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 76 (9.67%) Azure Certification
4 57 (7.25%) Degree
5 30 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 29 (3.69%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.80%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.65%) CCNP
11 12 (1.53%) SnowPro
12 9 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.02%) CCNA
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.64%) CCIE
14 5 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.51%) MCSE
15 4 (0.51%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.51%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.51%) GRC
2 44 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.96%) QA
4 15 (1.91%) GDPR
5 13 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.65%) NIST
6 10 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.64%) WCAG
9 3 (0.38%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 163 (20.74%) Docker
2 39 (4.96%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.93%) vSphere
5 14 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.51%) Firmware
9 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 437 (55.60%) Terraform
2 228 (29.01%) Kubernetes
3 85 (10.81%) Ansible
4 73 (9.29%) Grafana
5 47 (5.98%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.54%) Argo
7 16 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.91%) Istio
9 13 (1.65%) Puppet
10 9 (1.15%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.76%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.76%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.51%) linkerd
14 4 (0.51%) Packer
15 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 222 (28.24%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.60%) Google
3 39 (4.96%) VMware
4 30 (3.82%) Cisco
5 28 (3.56%) Databricks
6 27 (3.44%) Palo Alto
7 20 (2.54%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.16%) Oracle
9 16 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.53%) ScienceLogic
10 12 (1.53%) Splunk
11 11 (1.40%) F5
11 11 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.27%) Informatica
12 10 (1.27%) Okta
13 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.89%) Arista
14 7 (0.89%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.76%) NetApp
15 6 (0.76%) Zscaler