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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 129 118
Rank change year-on-year +54 -11 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 809 398 594
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 2.46% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 2.64% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 542 298 372
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £104,750
UK median annual salary £75,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +7.14% -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 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £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 23 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 20 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.22%) Apache
3 16 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.62%) Confluence
6 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 4 (0.49%) CMS
8 3 (0.37%) IIS
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 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
1 468 (57.85%) Azure
2 429 (53.03%) AWS
3 152 (18.79%) GCP
4 134 (16.56%) GitHub
5 111 (13.72%) Azure DevOps
5 111 (13.72%) Serverless
6 93 (11.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 77 (9.52%) PaaS
8 72 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (8.53%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (8.03%) SaaS
11 64 (7.91%) Cloud Computing
12 61 (7.54%) Azure AKS
13 59 (7.29%) IaaS
14 55 (6.80%) Amazon S3
14 55 (6.80%) Azure Monitor
15 50 (6.18%) Entra ID
16 43 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
16 43 (5.32%) Power Platform
17 39 (4.82%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.27%) WAN
2 71 (8.78%) LAN
3 56 (6.92%) Firewall
4 52 (6.43%) VPN
5 48 (5.93%) DNS
6 43 (5.32%) TCP/IP
7 42 (5.19%) Broadband
8 24 (2.97%) DHCP
9 19 (2.35%) BGP
9 19 (2.35%) Network Security
10 16 (1.98%) OSPF
11 14 (1.73%) VXLAN
12 9 (1.11%) VLAN
13 8 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.99%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.74%) Wireless
15 5 (0.62%) HTTP
15 5 (0.62%) NGFW
16 4 (0.49%) NX-OS
16 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (11.37%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.32%) Metadata
3 37 (4.57%) MongoDB
4 30 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (3.71%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.21%) SQL Server
6 24 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.97%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.47%) Delta Lake
9 16 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
9 16 (1.98%) Data Vault
10 13 (1.61%) MySQL
11 11 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.11%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.99%) Big Data
14 7 (0.87%) Redis
15 6 (0.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (10.01%) Git
2 49 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.93%) GitLab
4 9 (1.11%) JIRA
5 7 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.74%) NUnit
7 5 (0.62%) Poetry
8 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
8 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.37%) JUnit
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.25%) JMeter
10 2 (0.25%) MSI
10 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 319 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 190 (23.49%) Finance
3 95 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.41%) Law
5 63 (7.79%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.07%) Banking
9 28 (3.46%) Games
10 23 (2.84%) Retail
11 17 (2.10%) Legal
12 14 (1.73%) Marketing
13 12 (1.48%) Local Government
14 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.87%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.74%) Police
18 5 (0.62%) Advertising
18 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
19 4 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 238 (29.42%) Senior
2 143 (17.68%) Architect
3 124 (15.33%) Lead
4 103 (12.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 95 (11.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 81 (10.01%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.28%) Platform Engineer
8 66 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 66 (8.16%) Systems Architect
9 61 (7.54%) Developer
10 54 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 39 (4.82%) Python Engineer
12 37 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (4.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (4.45%) Site Engineer
14 35 (4.33%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
16 29 (3.58%) Technical Leader
17 27 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (57.73%) Terraform
2 71 (8.78%) React
3 49 (6.06%) Node.js
4 46 (5.69%) RESTful
5 43 (5.32%) .NET
5 43 (5.32%) REST
6 32 (3.96%) AWS CDK
7 30 (3.71%) Kafka
7 30 (3.71%) PySpark
8 27 (3.34%) ARM Templates
9 22 (2.72%) Next.js
10 20 (2.47%) Spring
11 19 (2.35%) CSS
12 17 (2.10%) YAML
13 15 (1.85%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.73%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.73%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.73%) FastAPI
15 13 (1.61%) OAuth
15 13 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 228 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 98 (12.11%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.93%) Public Cloud
4 41 (5.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (3.34%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.97%) Low-Code
10 23 (2.84%) Product Ownership
11 19 (2.35%) Blog
11 19 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.98%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.73%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.73%) Podcast
14 12 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.48%) PKI
15 11 (1.36%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 93 (11.50%) Linux
2 64 (7.91%) Windows
3 29 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.09%) Unix
5 13 (1.61%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (69.10%) CI/CD
2 400 (49.44%) DevOps
3 284 (35.11%) Observability
4 250 (30.90%) Containerisation
5 239 (29.54%) Mentoring
6 217 (26.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (26.21%) AI
8 204 (25.22%) Agile
9 197 (24.35%) Software Engineering
10 173 (21.38%) Technical Leadership
11 167 (20.64%) Roadmaps
12 166 (20.52%) Platform Engineering
13 154 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (15.70%) Analytics
15 115 (14.22%) Microservices
16 111 (13.72%) Test Automation
17 107 (13.23%) Cloud Security
18 96 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
19 95 (11.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 93 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 331 (40.91%) Python
2 122 (15.08%) Bicep
3 116 (14.34%) PowerShell
4 111 (13.72%) SQL
5 98 (12.11%) Bash
6 86 (10.63%) Java
7 83 (10.26%) TypeScript
8 70 (8.65%) Go
9 55 (6.80%) JavaScript
10 48 (5.93%) C#
11 20 (2.47%) Scala
12 14 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.36%) Ruby
14 8 (0.99%) Groovy
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) C++
16 6 (0.74%) Rust
17 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) C
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 141 (17.43%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 90 (11.12%) Azure Certification
4 50 (6.18%) Degree
5 38 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (4.08%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.60%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.10%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.36%) CCNP
12 8 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.74%) CCNA
14 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.62%) CCIE
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.37%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.17%) GRC
2 51 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 20 (2.47%) QA
4 18 (2.22%) NIST
5 16 (1.98%) GDPR
6 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.11%) SLA
9 8 (0.99%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.74%) NCSC
10 6 (0.74%) 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
1 155 (19.16%) Docker
2 52 (6.43%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.47%) vSphere
6 18 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 211 (26.08%) Kubernetes
2 88 (10.88%) Ansible
3 79 (9.77%) Grafana
4 47 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.60%) Argo
6 18 (2.22%) Istio
7 17 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.24%) FortiGate
8 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.99%) Puppet
11 6 (0.74%) Packer
12 5 (0.62%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.49%) Cilium
13 4 (0.49%) linkerd
14 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
14 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 270 (33.37%) Microsoft
2 56 (6.92%) Google
3 35 (4.33%) VMware
4 31 (3.83%) Databricks
5 23 (2.84%) Dynatrace
6 22 (2.72%) Oracle
7 18 (2.22%) Cisco
8 17 (2.10%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.73%) Red Hat
10 13 (1.61%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.48%) Informatica
11 12 (1.48%) Okta
11 12 (1.48%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.48%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.36%) Splunk
13 8 (0.99%) Arista
14 7 (0.87%) ForgeRock
15 6 (0.74%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.62%) Ping Identity