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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 123 112
Rank change year-on-year +48 -11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 557 384 826
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 2.87% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.02% 2.98%
Number of salaries quoted 346 275 700
10th Percentile £46,446 £47,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.27% -2.65%
75th Percentile £85,375 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,901 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.47% +3.45% -3.33%

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 14,348 12,730 27,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.84% 95.26% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,446 8,781 22,926
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 20 March 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 14 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.62%) Apache
3 8 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.26%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.72%) Confluence
6 4 (0.72%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 340 (61.04%) AWS
2 301 (54.04%) Azure
3 125 (22.44%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (22.26%) GitHub
5 102 (18.31%) GCP
6 95 (17.06%) Serverless
7 92 (16.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 91 (16.34%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (10.23%) SaaS
10 55 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (8.98%) Amazon S3
12 49 (8.80%) Azure Monitor
13 48 (8.62%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (8.26%) PaaS
15 43 (7.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 40 (7.18%) Amazon ECS
16 40 (7.18%) Entra ID
17 39 (7.00%) dbt
18 38 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
19 35 (6.28%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 64 (11.49%) Firewall
2 38 (6.82%) Broadband
3 29 (5.21%) TCP/IP
3 29 (5.21%) VPN
4 15 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (2.33%) DNS
6 12 (2.15%) BGP
6 12 (2.15%) Network Security
7 11 (1.97%) VLAN
8 7 (1.26%) WAN
9 6 (1.08%) LAN
10 4 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.72%) DHCP
10 4 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.72%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.72%) WebEx
11 3 (0.54%) Modbus
11 3 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.36%) DSL
13 1 (0.18%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.08%) NoSQL
1 45 (8.08%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (7.00%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (5.03%) SQL Server
4 25 (4.49%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.77%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.41%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.41%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.69%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.69%) MySQL
7 15 (2.69%) Redis
8 14 (2.51%) Metadata
9 13 (2.33%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.90%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (8.80%) Jenkins
2 44 (7.90%) Git
3 40 (7.18%) GitLab
4 19 (3.41%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.44%) JIRA
6 8 (1.44%) JMeter
7 7 (1.26%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.08%) git-flow
9 5 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.90%) Locust
9 5 (0.90%) Storybook
9 5 (0.90%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.72%) Selenium
11 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.54%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.36%) NUnit
12 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
13 1 (0.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 139 (24.96%) Finance
2 135 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 48 (8.62%) Banking
7 46 (8.26%) Retail
8 38 (6.82%) Law
9 28 (5.03%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.31%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.59%) Back Office
12 16 (2.87%) Billing
13 13 (2.33%) Marketing
14 10 (1.80%) Legal
15 9 (1.62%) Games
16 7 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 7 (1.26%) Tech for Good
17 6 (1.08%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.90%) Military
18 5 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (25.13%) Senior
2 97 (17.41%) Lead
3 82 (14.72%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (12.03%) Platform Engineer
5 61 (10.95%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (10.23%) Developer
7 52 (9.34%) Azure Engineer
8 49 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 41 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.57%) Architect
11 29 (5.21%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (3.95%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.95%) Lead DevOps
14 20 (3.59%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 18 (3.23%) Senior Developer
16 17 (3.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 17 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 15 (2.69%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (8.08%) .NET
1 45 (8.08%) React
2 35 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
3 34 (6.10%) REST
3 34 (6.10%) RESTful
4 32 (5.75%) Node.js
5 31 (5.57%) Spring
6 26 (4.67%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.67%) YAML
7 25 (4.49%) AWS CDK
7 25 (4.49%) OAuth
8 24 (4.31%) Django
9 21 (3.77%) JSON
9 21 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (3.59%) CSS
10 20 (3.59%) OpenAPI
10 20 (3.59%) Swagger
11 19 (3.41%) HTML
12 18 (3.23%) Kafka
13 15 (2.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 141 (25.31%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.64%) Product Ownership
3 34 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (6.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.21%) Data Centre
5 25 (4.49%) Security Posture
6 24 (4.31%) Public Cloud
7 19 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (3.41%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.87%) Blog
8 16 (2.87%) Video\Live Streaming
9 15 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
9 15 (2.69%) Mobile App
10 13 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.80%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 131 (23.52%) Linux
2 50 (8.98%) Unix
3 47 (8.44%) Windows
4 15 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.97%) Android
6 10 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.44%) VMS
8 7 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.08%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.90%) CentOS
11 4 (0.72%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.18%) Debian
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (69.30%) CI/CD
2 378 (67.86%) DevOps
3 192 (34.47%) Agile
4 161 (28.90%) Mentoring
5 157 (28.19%) Observability
6 148 (26.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 144 (25.85%) Containerisation
8 112 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
9 103 (18.49%) Software Engineering
10 99 (17.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 89 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
12 88 (15.80%) Test Automation
13 87 (15.62%) AI
14 79 (14.18%) Roadmaps
15 77 (13.82%) Incident Response
16 75 (13.46%) Coaching
17 73 (13.11%) Analytics
17 73 (13.11%) Technical Leadership
18 68 (12.21%) Cloud Security
19 63 (11.31%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 231 (41.47%) Python
2 98 (17.59%) Bash
3 89 (15.98%) Java
3 89 (15.98%) PowerShell
4 79 (14.18%) SQL
5 73 (13.11%) Bicep
6 60 (10.77%) JavaScript
7 57 (10.23%) Go
8 38 (6.82%) C#
8 38 (6.82%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.15%) Scala
10 9 (1.62%) Apex Code
11 6 (1.08%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.72%) Ruby
13 3 (0.54%) Rust
14 2 (0.36%) C++
14 2 (0.36%) PHP
14 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 73 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 62 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 48 (8.62%) AWS Certification
4 43 (7.72%) Degree
5 37 (6.64%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.51%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.90%) CCNP
11 5 (0.90%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.90%) OSCP
11 5 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 4 (0.72%) OSCE
12 4 (0.72%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.92%) QA
2 31 (5.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.49%) GDPR
3 25 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 25 (4.49%) SOC 2
4 21 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.77%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.69%) NIST
6 7 (1.26%) GRC
6 7 (1.26%) SLA
7 5 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.72%) EU AI Act
8 4 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 171 (30.70%) Docker
2 25 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.87%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.51%) VMware NSX
5 13 (2.33%) vSphere
6 8 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.90%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 4 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.54%) Firmware
11 2 (0.36%) vCloud
12 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 385 (69.12%) Terraform
2 196 (35.19%) Kubernetes
3 116 (20.83%) Ansible
4 74 (13.29%) Prometheus
5 73 (13.11%) Grafana
6 26 (4.67%) Argo
7 19 (3.41%) Kustomize
8 11 (1.97%) Puppet
8 11 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.26%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.08%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.90%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.72%) Cilium
13 4 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.72%) logstash
13 4 (0.72%) Packer
13 4 (0.72%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.26%) Google
3 40 (7.18%) VMware
4 25 (4.49%) Cisco
5 21 (3.77%) Databricks
6 18 (3.23%) Splunk
7 13 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.15%) Ab Initio
8 12 (2.15%) Palo Alto
8 12 (2.15%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.62%) New Relic
10 8 (1.44%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.26%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.08%) CheckPoint
12 6 (1.08%) F5
12 6 (1.08%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.08%) Juniper
12 6 (1.08%) Oracle
13 5 (0.90%) NetApp
14 4 (0.72%) AppDynamics