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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 135 133
Rank change year-on-year +62 -2 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 810 397 596
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.38% 2.44% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 2.63% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 532 295 383
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,875
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.92%

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 19,633 15,114 20,558
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.88% 93.04% 87.64%
Number of salaries quoted 14,127 8,686 12,990
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £40,250 £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 11 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 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.35%) Apache
3 15 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Camunda
6 4 (0.49%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) IIS
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) 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
1 455 (56.17%) Azure
2 439 (54.20%) AWS
3 152 (18.77%) GCP
4 124 (15.31%) GitHub
5 109 (13.46%) Serverless
6 102 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (11.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (8.77%) PaaS
9 69 (8.52%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (7.90%) Cloud Computing
11 59 (7.28%) Azure AKS
12 58 (7.16%) Amazon S3
13 56 (6.91%) SaaS
14 55 (6.79%) IaaS
15 48 (5.93%) Azure Monitor
16 45 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
17 41 (5.06%) Power Platform
18 39 (4.81%) Entra ID
19 34 (4.20%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.26%) WAN
2 73 (9.01%) LAN
3 57 (7.04%) Firewall
4 49 (6.05%) DNS
5 48 (5.93%) Broadband
5 48 (5.93%) VPN
6 44 (5.43%) TCP/IP
7 24 (2.96%) DHCP
8 19 (2.35%) BGP
9 17 (2.10%) Network Security
9 17 (2.10%) OSPF
10 14 (1.73%) VXLAN
11 10 (1.23%) VLAN
12 9 (1.11%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.74%) HTTP
14 6 (0.74%) Wireless
15 5 (0.62%) NGFW
16 4 (0.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.31%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.06%) Metadata
4 29 (3.58%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.21%) Data Lake
7 25 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.47%) Delta Lake
11 16 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (1.98%) Data Vault
12 15 (1.85%) MySQL
13 12 (1.48%) NoSQL
14 10 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 8 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.99%) Big Data
16 5 (0.62%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 83 (10.25%) Git
2 50 (6.17%) GitLab
3 46 (5.68%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.11%) NUnit
5 7 (0.86%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.86%) JIRA
6 5 (0.62%) Poetry
6 5 (0.62%) Selenium
7 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.49%) Snyk
8 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.37%) MLflow
8 3 (0.37%) Postman
8 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 305 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 186 (22.96%) Finance
3 83 (10.25%) Public Sector
4 67 (8.27%) Law
5 64 (7.90%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (5.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.06%) Banking
9 34 (4.20%) Games
10 22 (2.72%) Retail
11 19 (2.35%) Legal
12 14 (1.73%) Marketing
13 13 (1.60%) Local Government
14 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.86%) Aviation
17 5 (0.62%) Advertising
17 5 (0.62%) Aerospace
18 4 (0.49%) Billing
Job Titles
1 232 (28.64%) Senior
2 136 (16.79%) Architect
3 128 (15.80%) Lead
4 100 (12.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 95 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 77 (9.51%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.27%) Developer
7 67 (8.27%) Systems Architect
8 66 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (7.78%) Software Engineer
10 51 (6.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 41 (5.06%) Python Engineer
12 39 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (4.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.44%) Site Engineer
15 35 (4.32%) Data Engineer
16 29 (3.58%) Technical Leader
17 28 (3.46%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 462 (57.04%) Terraform
2 67 (8.27%) React
3 51 (6.30%) RESTful
4 50 (6.17%) Node.js
5 48 (5.93%) REST
6 43 (5.31%) .NET
7 36 (4.44%) AWS CDK
8 31 (3.83%) Kafka
9 30 (3.70%) PySpark
10 29 (3.58%) ARM Templates
11 22 (2.72%) Spring
12 21 (2.59%) Next.js
12 21 (2.59%) YAML
13 20 (2.47%) CSS
14 16 (1.98%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.85%) FastAPI
16 14 (1.73%) AngularJS
17 13 (1.60%) .NET Core
17 13 (1.60%) OpenTelemetry
18 12 (1.48%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 231 (28.52%) Cloud Native
2 93 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (5.93%) Public Cloud
4 40 (4.94%) Video\Live Streaming
5 39 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (4.20%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (3.70%) Low-Code
8 30 (3.70%) Security Posture
9 25 (3.09%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.22%) Blog
11 16 (1.98%) Podcast
11 16 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.60%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.36%) PKI
14 11 (1.36%) Replication
15 10 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 95 (11.73%) Linux
2 61 (7.53%) Windows
3 29 (3.58%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.72%) Unix
5 13 (1.60%) VMS
6 3 (0.37%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (68.27%) CI/CD
2 394 (48.64%) DevOps
3 280 (34.57%) Observability
4 255 (31.48%) Containerisation
5 236 (29.14%) Mentoring
6 217 (26.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (26.42%) AI
8 210 (25.93%) Agile
9 202 (24.94%) Software Engineering
10 176 (21.73%) Technical Leadership
11 173 (21.36%) Platform Engineering
12 161 (19.88%) Roadmaps
13 147 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (14.81%) Analytics
14 120 (14.81%) Test Automation
15 116 (14.32%) Microservices
16 107 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
17 96 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 95 (11.73%) Cloud Security
19 94 (11.60%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 338 (41.73%) Python
2 117 (14.44%) Bicep
3 110 (13.58%) PowerShell
4 107 (13.21%) SQL
5 95 (11.73%) Bash
6 84 (10.37%) Java
7 83 (10.25%) TypeScript
8 70 (8.64%) Go
9 58 (7.16%) JavaScript
10 47 (5.80%) C#
11 20 (2.47%) Scala
12 13 (1.60%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.48%) Ruby
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
15 7 (0.86%) C++
15 7 (0.86%) Groovy
16 6 (0.74%) Rust
17 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) C
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 132 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 118 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.25%) Azure Certification
4 53 (6.54%) Degree
5 37 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (3.83%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.84%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.10%) SnowPro
10 15 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.60%) CCNP
12 7 (0.86%) CCNA
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.74%) CCIE
13 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.37%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.16%) GRC
2 50 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.46%) QA
4 15 (1.85%) GDPR
4 15 (1.85%) NIST
5 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.11%) SLA
7 7 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.74%) NCSC
9 5 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 157 (19.38%) Docker
2 50 (6.17%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 22 (2.72%) vSphere
5 14 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 212 (26.17%) Kubernetes
2 88 (10.86%) Ansible
3 73 (9.01%) Grafana
4 46 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 22 (2.72%) Argo
6 18 (2.22%) Istio
7 15 (1.85%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.23%) FortiGate
9 8 (0.99%) Kustomize
9 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.99%) Puppet
10 7 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.49%) linkerd
11 4 (0.49%) Packer
11 4 (0.49%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.37%) Cilium
12 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 254 (31.36%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.54%) Google
3 36 (4.44%) VMware
4 30 (3.70%) Databricks
5 22 (2.72%) Cisco
6 21 (2.59%) Oracle
6 21 (2.59%) Palo Alto
7 16 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 16 (1.98%) Red Hat
8 14 (1.73%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.48%) Informatica
9 12 (1.48%) Okta
9 12 (1.48%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.48%) ScienceLogic
9 12 (1.48%) Splunk
10 8 (0.99%) Arista
11 7 (0.86%) F5
11 7 (0.86%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.74%) NetApp
12 6 (0.74%) SolarWinds