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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 154 136
Rank change year-on-year +82 -18 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 768 373 710
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 2.26% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 2.42% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 492 278 566
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,313 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £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 17,646 15,385 28,336
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.65% 93.30% 88.77%
Number of salaries quoted 12,860 9,109 21,557
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.84%

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 15 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 22 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.08%) Apache
3 13 (1.69%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) WordPress
6 2 (0.26%) Camunda
7 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Weka
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 432 (56.25%) AWS
2 405 (52.73%) Azure
3 115 (14.97%) Serverless
4 111 (14.45%) GCP
5 110 (14.32%) GitHub
6 94 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (10.16%) PaaS
9 68 (8.85%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.68%) Cloud Computing
11 57 (7.42%) IaaS
12 56 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
13 55 (7.16%) Amazon S3
14 54 (7.03%) SaaS
15 50 (6.51%) Azure AKS
16 44 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
17 43 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
17 43 (5.60%) Azure Monitor
18 41 (5.34%) Power Platform
19 39 (5.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.72%) LAN
1 67 (8.72%) WAN
2 64 (8.33%) Broadband
3 62 (8.07%) Firewall
4 50 (6.51%) VPN
5 40 (5.21%) DNS
6 32 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.47%) BGP
8 15 (1.95%) Network Security
8 15 (1.95%) VLAN
9 14 (1.82%) OSPF
10 13 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.56%) DHCP
12 11 (1.43%) VXLAN
13 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.78%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.78%) WebEx
15 5 (0.65%) HTTP
15 5 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.73%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.21%) Metadata
4 32 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.52%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 22 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (2.21%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.82%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.69%) MySQL
13 12 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (1.43%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
15 10 (1.30%) Redis
16 9 (1.17%) RDBMS
17 8 (1.04%) Big Data
17 8 (1.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 79 (10.29%) Git
2 47 (6.12%) GitLab
3 42 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.91%) JMeter
5 7 (0.91%) NUnit
6 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.78%) Jaeger
7 5 (0.65%) JIRA
7 5 (0.65%) Locust
8 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.52%) Selenium
8 4 (0.52%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.39%) MLflow
10 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 261 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 158 (20.57%) Finance
3 74 (9.64%) Law
4 71 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 62 (8.07%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (7.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (7.16%) Presentation Skills
8 37 (4.82%) Banking
9 31 (4.04%) Games
10 30 (3.91%) Retail
11 18 (2.34%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
13 11 (1.43%) Marketing
14 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.17%) Back Office
15 9 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.04%) Billing
16 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.91%) Aviation
18 6 (0.78%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 188 (24.48%) Senior
2 134 (17.45%) Lead
3 117 (15.23%) Architect
4 90 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 89 (11.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 73 (9.51%) Platform Engineer
7 72 (9.38%) Developer
8 61 (7.94%) Azure Engineer
9 60 (7.81%) Systems Architect
10 51 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (6.38%) Software Engineer
12 48 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 33 (4.30%) Data Engineer
15 32 (4.17%) Python Engineer
16 30 (3.91%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 23 (2.99%) Lead Developer
19 22 (2.86%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.29%) React
2 51 (6.64%) RESTful
3 50 (6.51%) REST
4 41 (5.34%) .NET
4 41 (5.34%) Node.js
5 38 (4.95%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.04%) ARM Templates
7 28 (3.65%) Spring
8 26 (3.39%) YAML
9 23 (2.99%) Kafka
9 23 (2.99%) Spring Boot
10 22 (2.86%) Next.js
11 18 (2.34%) FastAPI
11 18 (2.34%) PySpark
12 17 (2.21%) CSS
12 17 (2.21%) Django
12 17 (2.21%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.08%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 230 (29.95%) Cloud Native
2 78 (10.16%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
4 44 (5.73%) Product Ownership
5 43 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (4.95%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.17%) Low-Code
8 27 (3.52%) Security Posture
9 26 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (3.13%) Data Centre
11 23 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.99%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.34%) Podcast
13 16 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (1.95%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.69%) Blog
15 13 (1.69%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.43%) Private Cloud
16 11 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 100 (13.02%) Linux
2 51 (6.64%) Windows
3 20 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.47%) Unix
5 13 (1.69%) VMS
6 8 (1.04%) Android
7 7 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (68.49%) CI/CD
2 398 (51.82%) DevOps
3 251 (32.68%) Observability
4 247 (32.16%) Containerisation
5 220 (28.65%) Agile
6 218 (28.39%) Mentoring
7 199 (25.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 192 (25.00%) AI
9 176 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
10 169 (22.01%) Technical Leadership
11 166 (21.61%) Software Engineering
12 162 (21.09%) Roadmaps
13 143 (18.62%) Test Automation
14 134 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (15.63%) Microservices
16 103 (13.41%) Full-Stack Development
17 97 (12.63%) Analytics
18 93 (12.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 91 (11.85%) Machine Learning
20 78 (10.16%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 332 (43.23%) Python
2 106 (13.80%) Bash
3 100 (13.02%) Java
4 99 (12.89%) Bicep
5 98 (12.76%) SQL
6 97 (12.63%) PowerShell
7 74 (9.64%) Go
7 74 (9.64%) TypeScript
8 70 (9.11%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.86%) C#
10 15 (1.95%) Scala
11 13 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.43%) Ruby
13 9 (1.17%) PHP
14 7 (0.91%) C++
14 7 (0.91%) Groovy
15 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.52%) Rust
17 2 (0.26%) C
17 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 109 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 96 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 68 (8.85%) Azure Certification
4 54 (7.03%) Degree
5 33 (4.30%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.43%) CCNP
11 9 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.17%) SnowPro
12 8 (1.04%) CCNA
13 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.52%) LPIC
14 4 (0.52%) MCSE
14 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.52%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.77%) GRC
2 41 (5.34%) QA
3 39 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.21%) GDPR
5 15 (1.95%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.43%) NIST
9 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.65%) WCAG
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.26%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 162 (21.09%) Docker
2 44 (5.73%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.99%) vSphere
5 13 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.52%) Firmware
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 426 (55.47%) Terraform
2 232 (30.21%) Kubernetes
3 96 (12.50%) Ansible
4 72 (9.38%) Grafana
5 54 (7.03%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.39%) Argo
7 15 (1.95%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.95%) Puppet
8 13 (1.69%) Istio
8 13 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.56%) Kustomize
10 10 (1.30%) Proxmox
11 9 (1.17%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.65%) Packer
13 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 203 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.60%) VMware
3 34 (4.43%) Google
4 28 (3.65%) Cisco
5 27 (3.52%) Palo Alto
6 23 (2.99%) Databricks
7 20 (2.60%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.21%) Oracle
9 16 (2.08%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.56%) ScienceLogic
11 12 (1.56%) Splunk
12 11 (1.43%) F5
13 9 (1.17%) Okta
14 8 (1.04%) Informatica
15 7 (0.91%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.78%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
16 6 (0.78%) Zscaler