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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 131 124
Rank change year-on-year +57 -7 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 790 391 604
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.28% 2.41% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 2.58% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 524 293 382
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,633 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.11%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,938
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.04%

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 19,632 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.43% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,097 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £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 16 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 20 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.28%) Apache
3 15 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.51%) Confluence
8 3 (0.38%) Camunda
8 3 (0.38%) IIS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 452 (57.22%) Azure
2 421 (53.29%) AWS
3 151 (19.11%) GCP
4 122 (15.44%) GitHub
5 104 (13.16%) Serverless
6 100 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
8 72 (9.11%) PaaS
9 68 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (8.10%) Cloud Computing
11 60 (7.59%) Azure AKS
12 57 (7.22%) SaaS
13 56 (7.09%) IaaS
14 54 (6.84%) Amazon S3
15 49 (6.20%) Azure Monitor
16 42 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
17 40 (5.06%) Entra ID
17 40 (5.06%) Power Platform
18 34 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.49%) WAN
2 72 (9.11%) LAN
3 54 (6.84%) Firewall
4 49 (6.20%) VPN
5 47 (5.95%) DNS
6 43 (5.44%) Broadband
6 43 (5.44%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.04%) DHCP
8 19 (2.41%) BGP
9 17 (2.15%) Network Security
9 17 (2.15%) OSPF
10 14 (1.77%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.14%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.14%) VLAN
12 8 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.76%) HTTP
13 6 (0.76%) Wireless
14 5 (0.63%) NGFW
15 4 (0.51%) NX-OS
15 4 (0.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.27%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.19%) Metadata
3 38 (4.81%) MongoDB
4 29 (3.67%) Relational Database
5 26 (3.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 25 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.04%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.91%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (2.53%) Delta Lake
11 19 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
12 16 (2.03%) Data Vault
13 13 (1.65%) MySQL
14 11 (1.39%) NoSQL
15 9 (1.14%) BigQuery
16 8 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (1.01%) Big Data
17 6 (0.76%) Redis
18 5 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 80 (10.13%) Git
2 46 (5.82%) GitLab
3 45 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.89%) JIRA
4 7 (0.89%) NUnit
5 6 (0.76%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.63%) Poetry
7 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
7 4 (0.51%) Snyk
8 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.38%) Postman
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.25%) JMeter
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) MLflow
9 2 (0.25%) MSI
9 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 309 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 185 (23.42%) Finance
3 81 (10.25%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.61%) Law
5 64 (8.10%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.19%) Banking
9 29 (3.67%) Games
10 22 (2.78%) Retail
11 18 (2.28%) Legal
12 13 (1.65%) Local Government
12 13 (1.65%) Marketing
13 11 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.63%) Advertising
15 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.51%) Aviation
16 4 (0.51%) Billing
Job Titles
1 229 (28.99%) Senior
2 134 (16.96%) Architect
3 125 (15.82%) Lead
4 101 (12.78%) Cloud Engineer
5 92 (11.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (8.35%) Systems Architect
8 65 (8.23%) Platform Engineer
9 64 (8.10%) Developer
10 62 (7.85%) Software Engineer
11 51 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.94%) Python Engineer
13 38 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.56%) Site Engineer
16 35 (4.43%) Data Engineer
17 29 (3.67%) Technical Leader
18 28 (3.54%) Senior Developer
18 28 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 455 (57.59%) Terraform
2 66 (8.35%) React
3 48 (6.08%) Node.js
4 47 (5.95%) RESTful
5 40 (5.06%) .NET
6 38 (4.81%) REST
7 33 (4.18%) AWS CDK
8 30 (3.80%) Kafka
8 30 (3.80%) PySpark
9 27 (3.42%) ARM Templates
10 21 (2.66%) Spring
11 20 (2.53%) Next.js
12 19 (2.41%) CSS
13 18 (2.28%) YAML
14 16 (2.03%) Spring Boot
15 14 (1.77%) AngularJS
15 14 (1.77%) FastAPI
16 13 (1.65%) .NET Core
16 13 (1.65%) OpenTelemetry
17 12 (1.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 224 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.65%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.95%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.92%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (3.29%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.29%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.16%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.16%) Low-Code
9 18 (2.28%) Blog
10 16 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.90%) Podcast
12 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.52%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.39%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.39%) PKI
15 10 (1.27%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 88 (11.14%) Linux
2 59 (7.47%) Windows
3 28 (3.54%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.66%) Unix
5 13 (1.65%) VMS
6 3 (0.38%) Android
6 3 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (68.61%) CI/CD
2 385 (48.73%) DevOps
3 273 (34.56%) Observability
4 247 (31.27%) Containerisation
5 234 (29.62%) Mentoring
6 207 (26.20%) AI
6 207 (26.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 202 (25.57%) Agile
8 187 (23.67%) Software Engineering
9 174 (22.03%) Technical Leadership
10 165 (20.89%) Platform Engineering
11 159 (20.13%) Roadmaps
12 149 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (14.81%) Analytics
14 110 (13.92%) Microservices
15 108 (13.67%) Test Automation
16 98 (12.41%) Cloud Security
17 97 (12.28%) Full-Stack Development
18 95 (12.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 89 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 326 (41.27%) Python
2 115 (14.56%) Bicep
3 111 (14.05%) PowerShell
4 105 (13.29%) SQL
5 95 (12.03%) Bash
6 83 (10.51%) Java
7 81 (10.25%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.61%) Go
9 55 (6.96%) JavaScript
10 47 (5.95%) C#
11 20 (2.53%) Scala
12 14 (1.77%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.39%) Ruby
14 7 (0.89%) C++
14 7 (0.89%) Groovy
14 7 (0.89%) PHP
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.25%) C
17 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 116 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 83 (10.51%) Azure Certification
4 51 (6.46%) Degree
5 36 (4.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (4.05%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.15%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.52%) CCNP
12 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.76%) CCIE
12 6 (0.76%) CCNA
13 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.38%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.34%) GRC
2 50 (6.33%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.78%) QA
4 16 (2.03%) NIST
5 15 (1.90%) GDPR
6 12 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.14%) SLA
8 7 (0.89%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.76%) NCSC
10 4 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (19.24%) Docker
2 50 (6.33%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.53%) vSphere
6 15 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.13%) Firmware
9 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 206 (26.08%) Kubernetes
2 87 (11.01%) Ansible
3 70 (8.86%) Grafana
4 46 (5.82%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.66%) Argo
6 18 (2.28%) Istio
7 16 (2.03%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.27%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.01%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.01%) Puppet
10 8 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.63%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
12 4 (0.51%) Packer
13 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.38%) Cilium
13 3 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 256 (32.41%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.71%) Google
3 35 (4.43%) VMware
4 31 (3.92%) Databricks
5 21 (2.66%) Oracle
6 18 (2.28%) Cisco
6 18 (2.28%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.65%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.52%) Informatica
10 12 (1.52%) Okta
10 12 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.52%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.39%) Splunk
12 8 (1.01%) Arista
13 6 (0.76%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.76%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.76%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.76%) Zscaler