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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 158 134
Rank change year-on-year +87 -24 -55
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 761 372 726
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 2.27% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.42% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 497 276 581
10th Percentile £51,709 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £76,430 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +9.19% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,001 £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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £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% -8.71%

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 9 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 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.97%) Apache
3 13 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) 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 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 444 (58.34%) AWS
2 382 (50.20%) Azure
3 121 (15.90%) Serverless
4 112 (14.72%) GitHub
5 110 (14.45%) GCP
6 96 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (11.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (10.38%) PaaS
9 68 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (7.62%) IaaS
11 56 (7.36%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (7.10%) SaaS
13 49 (6.44%) Azure AKS
14 46 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
15 45 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (5.26%) Power Platform
17 39 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
18 38 (4.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.20%) Broadband
2 64 (8.41%) Firewall
3 50 (6.57%) VPN
4 47 (6.18%) LAN
4 47 (6.18%) WAN
5 39 (5.12%) DNS
6 31 (4.07%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.76%) BGP
8 15 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (1.97%) VLAN
9 14 (1.84%) Network Security
9 14 (1.84%) OSPF
10 11 (1.45%) DHCP
10 11 (1.45%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.18%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.79%) WebEx
13 5 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (5.91%) MongoDB
3 38 (4.99%) Metadata
4 37 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 27 (3.55%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.02%) Data Lake
9 21 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (2.23%) DynamoDB
11 15 (1.97%) RDBMS
12 14 (1.84%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.71%) MySQL
14 12 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
15 11 (1.45%) BigQuery
16 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
16 10 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
17 9 (1.18%) Redis
18 8 (1.05%) Big Data
19 7 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (10.38%) Git
2 46 (6.04%) GitLab
3 41 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.58%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.92%) JMeter
6 7 (0.92%) NUnit
7 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.79%) JIRA
8 5 (0.66%) Locust
8 5 (0.66%) Selenium
9 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.39%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.26%) MSI
11 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 247 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 143 (18.79%) Finance
3 73 (9.59%) Law
3 73 (9.59%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (8.28%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.99%) Banking
7 35 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 31 (4.07%) Games
8 31 (4.07%) Retail
9 20 (2.63%) Telecoms
10 13 (1.71%) Marketing
11 12 (1.58%) Legal
12 11 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.31%) Back Office
13 10 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.05%) Billing
15 7 (0.92%) Aviation
16 6 (0.79%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 193 (25.36%) Senior
2 143 (18.79%) Lead
3 94 (12.35%) Architect
3 94 (12.35%) Cloud Engineer
4 89 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 78 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
6 73 (9.59%) Developer
7 61 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
8 54 (7.10%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 49 (6.44%) Software Engineer
10 40 (5.26%) Systems Architect
11 35 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.20%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.20%) Python Engineer
13 30 (3.94%) Senior Developer
13 30 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 25 (3.29%) Technical Leader
16 23 (3.02%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.36%) React
2 50 (6.57%) RESTful
3 49 (6.44%) REST
4 43 (5.65%) Node.js
5 42 (5.52%) .NET
6 38 (4.99%) AWS CDK
7 31 (4.07%) ARM Templates
8 30 (3.94%) Spring
9 26 (3.42%) YAML
10 24 (3.15%) Spring Boot
11 22 (2.89%) Kafka
11 22 (2.89%) Next.js
12 19 (2.50%) FastAPI
12 19 (2.50%) OpenTelemetry
13 18 (2.37%) PySpark
14 17 (2.23%) CSS
14 17 (2.23%) Django
14 17 (2.23%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (2.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 234 (30.75%) Cloud Native
2 78 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.99%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.20%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.81%) Security Posture
8 27 (3.55%) Data Centre
9 26 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (3.02%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.37%) Podcast
13 15 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.71%) Blog
14 13 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.58%) Legacy Applications
16 11 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 111 (14.59%) Linux
2 51 (6.70%) Windows
3 26 (3.42%) Unix
4 19 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.71%) VMS
6 8 (1.05%) Android
7 7 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (69.51%) CI/CD
2 409 (53.75%) DevOps
3 254 (33.38%) Observability
4 235 (30.88%) Containerisation
5 230 (30.22%) Mentoring
6 229 (30.09%) Agile
7 201 (26.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 190 (24.97%) AI
9 180 (23.65%) Platform Engineering
10 170 (22.34%) Technical Leadership
11 165 (21.68%) Software Engineering
12 145 (19.05%) Test Automation
13 144 (18.92%) Roadmaps
14 137 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (16.29%) Microservices
16 105 (13.80%) Full-Stack Development
17 98 (12.88%) Analytics
18 94 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 90 (11.83%) Machine Learning
20 80 (10.51%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 338 (44.42%) Python
2 113 (14.85%) Bash
3 108 (14.19%) Java
4 97 (12.75%) Bicep
5 96 (12.61%) PowerShell
5 96 (12.61%) SQL
6 79 (10.38%) Go
7 77 (10.12%) JavaScript
8 76 (9.99%) TypeScript
9 46 (6.04%) C#
10 15 (1.97%) Scala
11 13 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.45%) Ruby
13 9 (1.18%) PHP
14 8 (1.05%) C++
15 7 (0.92%) Groovy
16 5 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.53%) Rust
18 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 113 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.67%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.23%) Degree
5 40 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.58%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.45%) CCNP
12 8 (1.05%) CCNA
12 8 (1.05%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.53%) LPIC
14 4 (0.53%) MCSE
14 4 (0.53%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.39%) QA
2 37 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.20%) GRC
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
4 16 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.58%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.31%) NIST
8 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 170 (22.34%) Docker
2 42 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.15%) vSphere
5 13 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.53%) Firmware
10 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 434 (57.03%) Terraform
2 243 (31.93%) Kubernetes
3 105 (13.80%) Ansible
4 73 (9.59%) Grafana
5 62 (8.15%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.07%) Argo
7 18 (2.37%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 17 (2.23%) Puppet
9 13 (1.71%) Istio
10 12 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.31%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.18%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.92%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.79%) Packer
15 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
17 3 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 179 (23.52%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.18%) VMware
3 38 (4.99%) Google
4 30 (3.94%) Cisco
5 27 (3.55%) Palo Alto
6 23 (3.02%) Databricks
7 20 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.23%) Oracle
9 16 (2.10%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.58%) ScienceLogic
11 12 (1.58%) Splunk
12 11 (1.45%) F5
13 7 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.92%) Informatica
13 7 (0.92%) Okta
13 7 (0.92%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.79%) Dynatrace
14 6 (0.79%) NetApp
14 6 (0.79%) Zscaler