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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 143 139
Rank change year-on-year +73 -4 -64
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 777 387 617
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.57% 2.35% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 2.52% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 500 288 487
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +12.48% -8.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 25 July 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 21 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.93%) Apache
3 14 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
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%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 426 (54.83%) AWS
2 422 (54.31%) Azure
3 132 (16.99%) GCP
4 113 (14.54%) Serverless
5 107 (13.77%) GitHub
6 93 (11.97%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.58%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (10.04%) PaaS
9 67 (8.62%) Cloud Computing
10 65 (8.37%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (6.95%) IaaS
13 53 (6.82%) SaaS
14 51 (6.56%) Amazon S3
15 49 (6.31%) Azure AKS
16 41 (5.28%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (5.28%) Power Platform
17 38 (4.89%) AWS Lambda
18 35 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.65%) LAN
1 75 (9.65%) WAN
2 60 (7.72%) Firewall
3 57 (7.34%) Broadband
4 48 (6.18%) VPN
5 42 (5.41%) DNS
6 37 (4.76%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.45%) BGP
8 16 (2.06%) Network Security
8 16 (2.06%) OSPF
9 15 (1.93%) DHCP
10 13 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (1.67%) VLAN
10 13 (1.67%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.77%) HTTP
13 6 (0.77%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (12.48%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.53%) Metadata
2 43 (5.53%) MongoDB
3 28 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (3.35%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.22%) Data Lake
6 24 (3.09%) SQL Server
7 20 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 17 (2.19%) DynamoDB
9 15 (1.93%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.67%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.54%) MySQL
12 11 (1.42%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.29%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.29%) Redis
14 7 (0.90%) Big Data
15 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (10.30%) Git
2 47 (6.05%) GitLab
3 42 (5.41%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.03%) NUnit
5 6 (0.77%) JMeter
6 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.64%) Locust
7 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.51%) JIRA
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) MLflow
8 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 279 (35.91%) Social Skills
2 171 (22.01%) Finance
3 72 (9.27%) Law
4 67 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 62 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
7 55 (7.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 35 (4.50%) Banking
9 32 (4.12%) Games
10 27 (3.47%) Retail
11 18 (2.32%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.06%) Marketing
13 14 (1.80%) Legal
14 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.90%) Advertising
16 7 (0.90%) Aviation
17 6 (0.77%) Billing
17 6 (0.77%) Legal Technology
17 6 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 196 (25.23%) Senior
2 134 (17.25%) Lead
3 128 (16.47%) Architect
4 91 (11.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 90 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.40%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (9.01%) Developer
8 67 (8.62%) Systems Architect
9 64 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (6.82%) Software Engineer
11 44 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (4.63%) Python Engineer
14 34 (4.38%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.73%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.73%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (2.96%) Consultant
16 23 (2.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.34%) React
2 51 (6.56%) REST
3 46 (5.92%) RESTful
4 42 (5.41%) Node.js
5 41 (5.28%) .NET
6 35 (4.50%) AWS CDK
7 31 (3.99%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.35%) YAML
9 25 (3.22%) Spring
10 22 (2.83%) Next.js
11 21 (2.70%) Kafka
11 21 (2.70%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.57%) PySpark
13 18 (2.32%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.19%) Django
14 17 (2.19%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.06%) TensorFlow
16 15 (1.93%) CSS
17 14 (1.80%) AngularJS
17 14 (1.80%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 229 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.68%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 42 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.28%) Product Ownership
5 41 (5.28%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.12%) Low-Code
7 31 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (3.47%) Security Posture
9 25 (3.22%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.32%) Podcast
11 17 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.06%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.80%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.67%) Replication
14 13 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 13 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.42%) Blog
15 11 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 96 (12.36%) Linux
2 51 (6.56%) Windows
3 20 (2.57%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.06%) Unix
5 13 (1.67%) VMS
6 5 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (69.24%) CI/CD
2 397 (51.09%) DevOps
3 261 (33.59%) Observability
4 250 (32.18%) Containerisation
5 215 (27.67%) Agile
6 214 (27.54%) Mentoring
7 209 (26.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (26.13%) AI
9 179 (23.04%) Technical Leadership
10 174 (22.39%) Platform Engineering
10 174 (22.39%) Software Engineering
11 166 (21.36%) Roadmaps
12 140 (18.02%) Test Automation
13 135 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
14 122 (15.70%) Microservices
15 104 (13.38%) Full-Stack Development
16 101 (13.00%) Analytics
17 97 (12.48%) Machine Learning
18 83 (10.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 83 (10.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 336 (43.24%) Python
2 102 (13.13%) Bicep
3 97 (12.48%) SQL
4 92 (11.84%) Bash
4 92 (11.84%) PowerShell
5 89 (11.45%) Java
6 75 (9.65%) TypeScript
7 68 (8.75%) Go
8 65 (8.37%) JavaScript
9 44 (5.66%) C#
10 15 (1.93%) Scala
11 13 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.42%) Ruby
13 9 (1.16%) PHP
14 7 (0.90%) C++
14 7 (0.90%) Groovy
15 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.51%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 116 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.65%) Azure Certification
4 58 (7.46%) Degree
5 29 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 27 (3.47%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.57%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.67%) CCNP
10 11 (1.42%) SnowPro
11 9 (1.16%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.03%) CCNA
13 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.64%) CCIE
15 4 (0.51%) LPIC
15 4 (0.51%) MCSE
15 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.59%) GRC
2 42 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.15%) QA
4 16 (2.06%) GDPR
5 14 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.54%) NIST
7 10 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.64%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (20.33%) Docker
2 40 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.96%) vSphere
5 13 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.51%) Firmware
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 424 (54.57%) Terraform
2 224 (28.83%) Kubernetes
3 86 (11.07%) Ansible
4 73 (9.40%) Grafana
5 47 (6.05%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.57%) Argo
7 15 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.80%) Istio
9 13 (1.67%) Puppet
10 9 (1.16%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.03%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.51%) linkerd
14 4 (0.51%) Packer
15 3 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 218 (28.06%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.28%) Google
3 40 (5.15%) VMware
4 30 (3.86%) Cisco
5 27 (3.47%) Databricks
5 27 (3.47%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.57%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.19%) Oracle
8 16 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.54%) ScienceLogic
10 11 (1.42%) F5
10 11 (1.42%) Splunk
11 10 (1.29%) Okta
12 9 (1.16%) Informatica
13 8 (1.03%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.90%) Arista
14 7 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.77%) NetApp
15 6 (0.77%) Zscaler