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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 124 123
Rank change year-on-year +49 -1 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 808 411 598
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 2.44% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 2.60% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 537 300 365
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,761 £59,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +6.43% -3.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £101,375 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 20,083 15,814 19,645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.74% 93.84% 88.19%
Number of salaries quoted 14,322 8,472 11,653
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,460 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%

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 4 October 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 18 (2.23%) Apache
2 17 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 16 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.62%) Camunda
5 5 (0.62%) CMS
5 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.50%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) nginx
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 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 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 462 (57.18%) Azure
2 430 (53.22%) AWS
3 147 (18.19%) GCP
4 135 (16.71%) GitHub
5 110 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
5 110 (13.61%) Serverless
6 97 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 78 (9.65%) PaaS
8 74 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (8.54%) Microsoft 365
10 67 (8.29%) SaaS
11 64 (7.92%) Cloud Computing
12 61 (7.55%) IaaS
13 60 (7.43%) Azure AKS
14 56 (6.93%) Amazon S3
15 54 (6.68%) Azure Monitor
16 49 (6.06%) Entra ID
17 44 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
17 44 (5.45%) Power Platform
18 39 (4.83%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 73 (9.03%) WAN
2 68 (8.42%) LAN
3 56 (6.93%) VPN
4 54 (6.68%) Firewall
5 46 (5.69%) DNS
6 43 (5.32%) TCP/IP
7 42 (5.20%) Broadband
8 22 (2.72%) DHCP
9 21 (2.60%) BGP
9 21 (2.60%) Network Security
10 15 (1.86%) OSPF
11 14 (1.73%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.99%) VLAN
13 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.62%) NGFW
14 5 (0.62%) Wireless
15 4 (0.50%) HTTP
15 4 (0.50%) NX-OS
15 4 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.32%) Metadata
3 35 (4.33%) MongoDB
4 29 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
5 27 (3.34%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.22%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.09%) DynamoDB
7 25 (3.09%) SQL Server
8 20 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.48%) Delta Lake
9 17 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (2.10%) Data Vault
10 13 (1.61%) MySQL
11 10 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 8 (0.99%) Big Data
13 7 (0.87%) Power BI
13 7 (0.87%) Redis
14 6 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 73 (9.03%) Git
2 51 (6.31%) Jenkins
3 49 (6.06%) GitLab
4 9 (1.11%) TeamCity
5 8 (0.99%) JIRA
6 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.62%) Poetry
7 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.50%) JUnit
7 4 (0.50%) NUnit
7 4 (0.50%) Snyk
8 3 (0.37%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.37%) Postman
8 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 2 (0.25%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) Mockito
9 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 321 (39.73%) Social Skills
2 192 (23.76%) Finance
3 101 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.17%) Law
5 63 (7.80%) Presentation Skills
6 62 (7.67%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (4.70%) Banking
9 28 (3.47%) Games
10 25 (3.09%) Retail
11 15 (1.86%) Legal
12 13 (1.61%) Marketing
13 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.24%) Local Government
15 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.74%) Police
17 5 (0.62%) Advertising
17 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.62%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 244 (30.20%) Senior
2 142 (17.57%) Architect
3 123 (15.22%) Lead
4 107 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 105 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 83 (10.27%) Azure Engineer
7 71 (8.79%) Software Engineer
8 68 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
9 66 (8.17%) Systems Architect
10 58 (7.18%) Developer
11 53 (6.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (4.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.46%) Python Engineer
15 36 (4.46%) Site Engineer
16 34 (4.21%) Data Engineer
17 32 (3.96%) Senior Software Engineer
18 31 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
19 28 (3.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 461 (57.05%) Terraform
2 70 (8.66%) React
3 48 (5.94%) Node.js
4 46 (5.69%) .NET
5 43 (5.32%) RESTful
6 42 (5.20%) REST
7 31 (3.84%) PySpark
8 29 (3.59%) AWS CDK
8 29 (3.59%) Kafka
9 28 (3.47%) ARM Templates
10 23 (2.85%) Next.js
11 20 (2.48%) Spring
12 18 (2.23%) CSS
13 16 (1.98%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.98%) YAML
14 15 (1.86%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.49%) Middleware
16 12 (1.49%) OAuth
16 12 (1.49%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 228 (28.22%) Cloud Native
2 101 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.82%) Public Cloud
4 38 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 33 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
7 29 (3.59%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.09%) Data Centre
9 24 (2.97%) Low-Code
10 20 (2.48%) Blog
11 18 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (2.23%) Management Information System
11 18 (2.23%) Product Ownership
12 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.61%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.49%) Podcast
15 10 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.24%) PKI
15 10 (1.24%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 94 (11.63%) Linux
2 63 (7.80%) Windows
3 29 (3.59%) Unix
4 27 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.49%) VMS
6 1 (0.12%) Android
6 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (69.55%) CI/CD
2 403 (49.88%) DevOps
3 277 (34.28%) Observability
4 255 (31.56%) Containerisation
4 255 (31.56%) Mentoring
5 222 (27.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 220 (27.23%) AI
7 198 (24.50%) Agile
8 191 (23.64%) Software Engineering
9 174 (21.53%) Technical Leadership
10 173 (21.41%) Platform Engineering
11 163 (20.17%) Roadmaps
12 162 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
13 127 (15.72%) Analytics
14 116 (14.36%) Microservices
15 115 (14.23%) Cloud Security
15 115 (14.23%) Test Automation
16 96 (11.88%) Coaching
17 94 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 90 (11.14%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 329 (40.72%) Python
2 120 (14.85%) Bicep
3 118 (14.60%) PowerShell
4 108 (13.37%) SQL
5 100 (12.38%) Bash
6 91 (11.26%) Java
7 80 (9.90%) TypeScript
8 74 (9.16%) Go
9 52 (6.44%) C#
9 52 (6.44%) JavaScript
10 20 (2.48%) Scala
11 14 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.36%) Ruby
13 8 (0.99%) Groovy
13 8 (0.99%) PHP
14 7 (0.87%) C++
15 6 (0.74%) Rust
16 3 (0.37%) C
16 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 144 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 132 (16.34%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.77%) Azure Certification
4 49 (6.06%) Degree
5 39 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 34 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.10%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.11%) CCNP
12 8 (0.99%) TOGAF Certification
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.62%) CCNA
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 4 (0.50%) CISM
15 4 (0.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.18%) GRC
2 52 (6.44%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.72%) NIST
4 19 (2.35%) GDPR
5 18 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (2.23%) QA
6 17 (2.10%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.49%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.36%) SOC 2
9 9 (1.11%) SLA
10 6 (0.74%) NCSC
11 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS
12 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.12%) IASME
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 157 (19.43%) Docker
2 49 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 32 (3.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 19 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (2.23%) vSphere
7 7 (0.87%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 209 (25.87%) Kubernetes
2 84 (10.40%) Ansible
3 79 (9.78%) Grafana
4 46 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.85%) Argo
6 18 (2.23%) Istio
7 17 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.24%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.99%) Kustomize
10 8 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.74%) Cilium
11 6 (0.74%) Packer
11 6 (0.74%) Puppet
12 5 (0.62%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.50%) linkerd
14 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco CUCM
15 2 (0.25%) Kibana
15 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 268 (33.17%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.05%) Google
3 33 (4.08%) Databricks
3 33 (4.08%) VMware
4 23 (2.85%) Dynatrace
4 23 (2.85%) Oracle
5 15 (1.86%) Palo Alto
6 14 (1.73%) Cisco
7 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 12 (1.49%) Informatica
8 12 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.36%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.24%) Okta
10 10 (1.24%) Splunk
11 8 (0.99%) Arista
12 7 (0.87%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.74%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.62%) YouTube