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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 99 65
Rank change year-on-year +16 -34 +28
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 469 566 982
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 2.89% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.26% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 332 337 777
10th Percentile £46,500 £42,438 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,438 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £104,750 £98,474 £110,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 13,910 17,357 20,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.63% 88.77% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8,713 10,295 16,664
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,813
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 18 November 2025.

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 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.07%) Apache
5 3 (0.64%) Confluence
5 3 (0.64%) IIS
6 1 (0.21%) nginx
6 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.43%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 320 (68.23%) Azure
2 260 (55.44%) AWS
3 110 (23.45%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (23.45%) GitHub
4 86 (18.34%) AWS CloudFormation
4 86 (18.34%) GCP
5 77 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
6 76 (16.20%) Serverless
7 54 (11.51%) Entra ID
8 52 (11.09%) SaaS
9 49 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
10 47 (10.02%) Azure Monitor
11 43 (9.17%) PaaS
12 41 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
13 37 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (7.89%) IaaS
14 35 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
14 35 (7.46%) Amazon S3
15 34 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
16 23 (4.90%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (13.01%) Firewall
2 47 (10.02%) VPN
3 32 (6.82%) WAN
4 27 (5.76%) DNS
5 26 (5.54%) LAN
6 24 (5.12%) Network Security
7 22 (4.69%) TCP/IP
8 14 (2.99%) SD-WAN
8 14 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (2.35%) BGP
10 8 (1.71%) DHCP
10 8 (1.71%) VLAN
11 7 (1.49%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.49%) VoIP
12 6 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (1.07%) OSPF
14 4 (0.85%) Broadband
14 4 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
14 4 (0.85%) Wireless
14 4 (0.85%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
2 20 (4.26%) DynamoDB
2 20 (4.26%) NoSQL
2 20 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (3.84%) Data Lake
4 17 (3.62%) SQL Server
5 14 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.77%) MySQL
6 13 (2.77%) Redis
7 11 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.71%) Power BI
9 7 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.85%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.64%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.64%) Tableau
14 2 (0.43%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 61 (13.01%) Jenkins
2 40 (8.53%) GitLab
3 31 (6.61%) Git
4 10 (2.13%) TeamCity
5 8 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.28%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.28%) JIRA
6 6 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (1.07%) git-flow
8 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.43%) JMeter
9 2 (0.43%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.43%) Subversion
10 1 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.21%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.21%) Snyk
General
1 127 (27.08%) Finance
2 109 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.53%) Law
4 38 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 35 (7.46%) Banking
6 31 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 29 (6.18%) Retail
8 28 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.69%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.99%) Financial Institution
11 13 (2.77%) Back Office
11 13 (2.77%) Legal
12 7 (1.49%) Games
12 7 (1.49%) Marketing
12 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Advertising
16 3 (0.64%) Electronics
16 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (24.95%) Senior
2 81 (17.27%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (12.15%) Lead
5 53 (11.30%) Architect
6 40 (8.53%) Azure Engineer
6 40 (8.53%) Developer
7 34 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
8 33 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 24 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
10 22 (4.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 20 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
11 20 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
11 20 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 18 (3.84%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
13 14 (2.99%) Senior Developer
13 14 (2.99%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (2.77%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (10.45%) .NET
2 35 (7.46%) React
3 20 (4.26%) RESTful
4 19 (4.05%) Node.js
4 19 (4.05%) YAML
5 17 (3.62%) OAuth
6 16 (3.41%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (3.41%) REST
7 14 (2.99%) CSS
7 14 (2.99%) Django
8 13 (2.77%) AWS CDK
8 13 (2.77%) HTML
9 11 (2.35%) JSON
9 11 (2.35%) Kafka
9 11 (2.35%) OAuth2
10 10 (2.13%) Spring
10 10 (2.13%) Vue
11 9 (1.92%) .NET Core
11 9 (1.92%) .NET Framework
12 8 (1.71%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 118 (25.16%) Cloud Native
2 38 (8.10%) Public Cloud
3 34 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 32 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 30 (6.40%) Data Centre
6 24 (5.12%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (3.62%) Security Posture
9 16 (3.41%) Management Information System
10 15 (3.20%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (2.35%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 7 (1.49%) Data Structures
14 7 (1.49%) Operational Technology
15 6 (1.28%) Blog
16 5 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
17 4 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (16.84%) Linux
2 50 (10.66%) Windows
3 19 (4.05%) Unix
4 13 (2.77%) VMS
5 10 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.49%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.28%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.64%) CentOS
9 3 (0.64%) Debian
10 2 (0.43%) Android
10 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 335 (71.43%) DevOps
2 307 (65.46%) CI/CD
3 151 (32.20%) Agile
4 114 (24.31%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (20.68%) Observability
6 91 (19.40%) Containerisation
7 90 (19.19%) Mentoring
8 89 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (17.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 72 (15.35%) Analytics
11 69 (14.71%) Roadmaps
12 66 (14.07%) Cloud Security
13 65 (13.86%) AI
13 65 (13.86%) Coaching
14 64 (13.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 59 (12.58%) Incident Response
16 58 (12.37%) Software Engineering
17 52 (11.09%) Platform Engineering
18 51 (10.87%) Asset Management
19 50 (10.66%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 176 (37.53%) Python
2 106 (22.60%) PowerShell
3 87 (18.55%) Bash
4 72 (15.35%) Bicep
5 64 (13.65%) SQL
6 35 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 34 (7.25%) C#
8 32 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 26 (5.54%) Go
10 25 (5.33%) Java
11 4 (0.85%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.85%) PHP
12 2 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.43%) Groovy
12 2 (0.43%) XAML
13 1 (0.21%) Julia
13 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.21%) R
13 1 (0.21%) Scala
13 1 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 74 (15.78%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.15%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.66%) Azure Certification
4 47 (10.02%) AWS Certification
5 26 (5.54%) Degree
6 19 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 17 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.41%) CCNP
8 16 (3.41%) DV Cleared
9 9 (1.92%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.49%) PMI Certification
11 7 (1.49%) PMP
12 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.07%) OSCP
13 4 (0.85%) CISSP
13 4 (0.85%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.85%) OSCE
14 3 (0.64%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (6.61%) NIST
3 26 (5.54%) GDPR
4 17 (3.62%) SOC 2
5 16 (3.41%) PCI DSS
5 16 (3.41%) QA
6 8 (1.71%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.71%) SLA
7 6 (1.28%) GRC
8 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.85%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (27.29%) Docker
2 24 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
3 23 (4.90%) Active Directory
4 22 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.35%) vSphere
6 8 (1.71%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.28%) NFS
8 3 (0.64%) Firmware
8 3 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.21%) HDFS
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 334 (71.22%) Terraform
2 162 (34.54%) Kubernetes
3 108 (23.03%) Ansible
4 57 (12.15%) Grafana
5 43 (9.17%) Prometheus
6 24 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (2.35%) Argo
8 8 (1.71%) SCOM
9 4 (0.85%) Cilium
10 3 (0.64%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.43%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.21%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.21%) Nagios
12 1 (0.21%) Puppet
12 1 (0.21%) Rancher
12 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 106 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.40%) Cisco
3 27 (5.76%) VMware
4 18 (3.84%) Databricks
4 18 (3.84%) Google
5 15 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 12 (2.56%) Oracle
6 12 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 9 (1.92%) Splunk
8 8 (1.71%) Ab Initio
9 7 (1.49%) Commvault
9 7 (1.49%) New Relic
9 7 (1.49%) Pure Storage
10 6 (1.28%) Aruba
10 6 (1.28%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.28%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.28%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.07%) Mellanox
11 5 (1.07%) NVIDIA
11 5 (1.07%) PagerDuty