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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 133 144
Rank change year-on-year +64 +11 -73
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 824 401 570
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 2.44% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 2.62% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 541 303 387
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +8.70% -4.83%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,121
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 19,126 15,292 21,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.98% 93.01% 87.62%
Number of salaries quoted 13,800 8,904 14,205
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,225
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%

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 1 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 22 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.18%) Apache
3 15 (1.82%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 3 (0.36%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) IIS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
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 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 459 (55.70%) Azure
2 448 (54.37%) AWS
3 156 (18.93%) GCP
4 123 (14.93%) GitHub
5 110 (13.35%) Serverless
6 100 (12.14%) AWS CloudFormation
7 99 (12.01%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (8.74%) PaaS
9 70 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
10 69 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (7.65%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (7.04%) Azure AKS
13 56 (6.80%) Amazon S3
13 56 (6.80%) SaaS
14 55 (6.67%) IaaS
15 46 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
16 45 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (4.98%) Power Platform
18 37 (4.49%) Entra ID
19 36 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.10%) WAN
2 74 (8.98%) LAN
3 62 (7.52%) Firewall
4 51 (6.19%) DNS
5 49 (5.95%) Broadband
5 49 (5.95%) VPN
6 47 (5.70%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.03%) DHCP
8 19 (2.31%) BGP
9 17 (2.06%) Network Security
9 17 (2.06%) OSPF
10 14 (1.70%) VXLAN
11 11 (1.33%) VLAN
12 9 (1.09%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.73%) HTTP
14 6 (0.73%) Wireless
15 5 (0.61%) Unified Communications
15 5 (0.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.10%) Metadata
4 31 (3.76%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 27 (3.28%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (2.43%) Delta Lake
9 16 (1.94%) Data Vault
10 15 (1.82%) MySQL
11 14 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.70%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.33%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.97%) Big Data
15 5 (0.61%) Redis
16 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 84 (10.19%) Git
2 51 (6.19%) GitLab
3 46 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.09%) NUnit
5 7 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.73%) JIRA
7 5 (0.61%) Selenium
8 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.36%) JMeter
9 3 (0.36%) MLflow
9 3 (0.36%) Poetry
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.24%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.24%) JUnit
10 2 (0.24%) MSI
General
1 307 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 187 (22.69%) Finance
3 80 (9.71%) Public Sector
4 70 (8.50%) Law
5 65 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 61 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
7 48 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (5.10%) Banking
9 35 (4.25%) Games
10 23 (2.79%) Retail
11 21 (2.55%) Legal
12 15 (1.82%) Marketing
13 13 (1.58%) Local Government
13 13 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.46%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.85%) Aviation
17 6 (0.73%) Legal Technology
18 5 (0.61%) Advertising
18 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 226 (27.43%) Senior
2 138 (16.75%) Architect
3 129 (15.66%) Lead
4 100 (12.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 98 (11.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 77 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (8.37%) Platform Engineer
8 68 (8.25%) Developer
9 67 (8.13%) Systems Architect
10 62 (7.52%) Software Engineer
11 50 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 44 (5.34%) Python Engineer
13 41 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
14 38 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 37 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 36 (4.37%) Site Engineer
17 35 (4.25%) Data Engineer
18 29 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
18 29 (3.52%) Technical Leader
19 27 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 468 (56.80%) Terraform
2 68 (8.25%) React
3 52 (6.31%) REST
4 50 (6.07%) Node.js
4 50 (6.07%) RESTful
5 46 (5.58%) .NET
6 38 (4.61%) AWS CDK
7 29 (3.52%) ARM Templates
7 29 (3.52%) Kafka
8 28 (3.40%) PySpark
9 23 (2.79%) Next.js
9 23 (2.79%) YAML
10 20 (2.43%) CSS
11 19 (2.31%) Spring
12 16 (1.94%) FastAPI
13 15 (1.82%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.70%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.58%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.58%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.46%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 236 (28.64%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.29%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.07%) Public Cloud
4 41 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (4.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 39 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 33 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
7 31 (3.76%) Low-Code
7 31 (3.76%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.16%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.18%) Podcast
10 17 (2.06%) Blog
11 15 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.70%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.46%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.46%) Replication
14 11 (1.33%) PKI
15 10 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 98 (11.89%) Linux
2 64 (7.77%) Windows
3 31 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.79%) Unix
5 13 (1.58%) VMS
6 3 (0.36%) Android
6 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (68.20%) CI/CD
2 407 (49.39%) DevOps
3 282 (34.22%) Observability
4 261 (31.67%) Containerisation
5 237 (28.76%) Mentoring
6 225 (27.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 216 (26.21%) Agile
8 215 (26.09%) AI
9 204 (24.76%) Software Engineering
10 185 (22.45%) Technical Leadership
11 180 (21.84%) Platform Engineering
12 164 (19.90%) Roadmaps
13 144 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
14 127 (15.41%) Test Automation
15 122 (14.81%) Analytics
16 121 (14.68%) Microservices
17 110 (13.35%) Full-Stack Development
18 97 (11.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 95 (11.53%) Cloud Security
19 95 (11.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 347 (42.11%) Python
2 118 (14.32%) Bicep
3 111 (13.47%) PowerShell
4 107 (12.99%) SQL
5 96 (11.65%) Bash
6 83 (10.07%) Java
6 83 (10.07%) TypeScript
7 72 (8.74%) Go
8 60 (7.28%) JavaScript
9 49 (5.95%) C#
10 20 (2.43%) Scala
11 13 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
11 13 (1.58%) Ruby
12 8 (0.97%) PHP
13 7 (0.85%) C++
13 7 (0.85%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Rust
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.24%) Apex Code
16 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 133 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.44%) Azure Certification
4 60 (7.28%) Degree
5 38 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 26 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.06%) SnowPro
10 16 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (1.70%) CCNP
12 8 (0.97%) CCNA
13 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.73%) CCIE
14 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.49%) MCSE
15 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.04%) GRC
2 50 (6.07%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.76%) QA
4 15 (1.82%) GDPR
4 15 (1.82%) NIST
5 14 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.09%) SLA
7 8 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.61%) NCSC
8 5 (0.61%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS
9 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.24%) WCAG
10 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 156 (18.93%) Docker
2 50 (6.07%) Active Directory
3 37 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (2.91%) vSphere
5 22 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 5 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.12%) Firmware
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 218 (26.46%) Kubernetes
2 92 (11.17%) Ansible
3 77 (9.34%) Grafana
4 47 (5.70%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.67%) Argo
6 18 (2.18%) Istio
7 15 (1.82%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.21%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.09%) Puppet
10 8 (0.97%) Kustomize
11 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
13 5 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.49%) linkerd
15 3 (0.36%) Cilium
15 3 (0.36%) Packer
15 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
16 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 256 (31.07%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.55%) Google
3 40 (4.85%) VMware
4 31 (3.76%) Databricks
5 25 (3.03%) Cisco
6 23 (2.79%) Palo Alto
7 20 (2.43%) Oracle
8 17 (2.06%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.94%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.58%) Splunk
12 12 (1.46%) Informatica
12 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.46%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.33%) Okta
14 8 (0.97%) Arista
14 8 (0.97%) F5
14 8 (0.97%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.85%) NetApp
16 6 (0.73%) SolarWinds