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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 150 140
Rank change year-on-year +77 -10 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 713 364 749
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 2.30% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 2.45% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 482 267 604
10th Percentile £52,064 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,039 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
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 16,995 14,837 29,778
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 93.93% 89.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,422 8,708 22,912
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 30 June 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 (2.95%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.10%) Apache
3 13 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) WordPress
7 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 440 (61.71%) AWS
2 334 (46.84%) Azure
3 119 (16.69%) Serverless
4 116 (16.27%) GitHub
5 100 (14.03%) GCP
6 98 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (12.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (10.24%) PaaS
9 69 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (8.13%) IaaS
11 57 (7.99%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.57%) SaaS
13 49 (6.87%) Azure AKS
13 49 (6.87%) Azure Monitor
14 47 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
15 39 (5.47%) Entra ID
16 38 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (5.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (4.91%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.82%) Broadband
2 66 (9.26%) Firewall
3 47 (6.59%) VPN
4 39 (5.47%) DNS
5 30 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 21 (2.95%) BGP
7 16 (2.24%) LAN
7 16 (2.24%) WAN
8 15 (2.10%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.10%) VLAN
9 14 (1.96%) Network Security
9 14 (1.96%) OSPF
10 11 (1.54%) DHCP
10 11 (1.54%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.26%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.84%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.84%) WebEx
13 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.70%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.31%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.19%) Metadata
4 34 (4.77%) Relational Database
5 31 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.93%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.51%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (3.09%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.24%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.10%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.10%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.54%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.40%) MySQL
15 9 (1.26%) Redis
16 8 (1.12%) Big Data
17 7 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (11.36%) Git
2 48 (6.73%) GitLab
3 43 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.68%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.98%) NUnit
7 6 (0.84%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.84%) JIRA
7 6 (0.84%) JMeter
8 5 (0.70%) Locust
8 5 (0.70%) Selenium
8 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.28%) MSI
11 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 209 (29.31%) Social Skills
2 107 (15.01%) Finance
3 73 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.89%) Law
7 37 (5.19%) Banking
8 31 (4.35%) Games
9 30 (4.21%) Retail
10 20 (2.81%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.68%) Legal
12 11 (1.54%) Billing
13 10 (1.40%) Back Office
13 10 (1.40%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.40%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.40%) Marketing
14 7 (0.98%) Aviation
15 6 (0.84%) Health Technology
15 6 (0.84%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 187 (26.23%) Senior
2 135 (18.93%) Lead
3 93 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 91 (12.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 77 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
6 76 (10.66%) Developer
7 59 (8.27%) Architect
8 57 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (7.71%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (6.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 44 (6.17%) Software Engineer
12 34 (4.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 33 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (4.35%) Data Engineer
15 30 (4.21%) Python Engineer
15 30 (4.21%) Senior Developer
16 25 (3.51%) Lead Developer
17 24 (3.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 24 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.23%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.71%) React
2 48 (6.73%) RESTful
3 47 (6.59%) REST
4 41 (5.75%) .NET
4 41 (5.75%) Node.js
5 38 (5.33%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.35%) Spring
7 29 (4.07%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.65%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.65%) YAML
9 22 (3.09%) Next.js
10 21 (2.95%) Kafka
11 19 (2.66%) FastAPI
11 19 (2.66%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.66%) PySpark
12 18 (2.52%) CSS
13 17 (2.38%) Django
13 17 (2.38%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (2.24%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 228 (31.98%) Cloud Native
2 75 (10.52%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.73%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.75%) Product Ownership
6 38 (5.33%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.49%) Low-Code
8 30 (4.21%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.79%) Data Centre
10 24 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (3.23%) Onboarding
12 22 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (2.52%) Podcast
14 15 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (1.96%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.82%) Blog
17 12 (1.68%) Legacy Applications
17 12 (1.68%) Virtual Team
18 11 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.27%) Linux
2 48 (6.73%) Windows
3 26 (3.65%) Unix
4 19 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.82%) VMS
6 10 (1.40%) Android
7 9 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (71.67%) CI/CD
2 404 (56.66%) DevOps
3 248 (34.78%) Observability
4 225 (31.56%) Agile
5 224 (31.42%) Mentoring
6 198 (27.77%) Containerisation
7 189 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 188 (26.37%) AI
9 175 (24.54%) Platform Engineering
10 159 (22.30%) Technical Leadership
11 156 (21.88%) Software Engineering
12 140 (19.64%) Test Automation
13 125 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
14 119 (16.69%) Microservices
15 109 (15.29%) Roadmaps
16 106 (14.87%) Full-Stack Development
17 96 (13.46%) Analytics
18 93 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 89 (12.48%) Machine Learning
20 78 (10.94%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 324 (45.44%) Python
2 112 (15.71%) Bash
3 106 (14.87%) Java
4 94 (13.18%) Bicep
5 91 (12.76%) SQL
6 87 (12.20%) PowerShell
7 77 (10.80%) Go
7 77 (10.80%) TypeScript
8 74 (10.38%) JavaScript
9 46 (6.45%) C#
10 16 (2.24%) Scala
11 13 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.54%) Ruby
13 9 (1.26%) PHP
14 8 (1.12%) C++
15 7 (0.98%) Groovy
16 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.56%) Rust
18 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 111 (15.57%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.88%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.26%) Azure Certification
4 53 (7.43%) Degree
5 41 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.68%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.54%) CCNP
12 8 (1.12%) CCNA
13 7 (0.98%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.56%) LPIC
15 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) MCSE
15 4 (0.56%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.33%) QA
2 33 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.24%) GDPR
4 14 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.68%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.12%) NIST
9 5 (0.70%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 165 (23.14%) Docker
2 42 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.37%) vSphere
5 13 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.56%) Firmware
10 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 426 (59.75%) Terraform
2 236 (33.10%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.73%) Ansible
4 71 (9.96%) Grafana
5 64 (8.98%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.35%) Argo
7 18 (2.52%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.38%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.10%) Puppet
10 13 (1.82%) Istio
11 12 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.40%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.26%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.98%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.84%) Packer
16 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
17 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
18 3 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 135 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.59%) VMware
3 35 (4.91%) Google
4 30 (4.21%) Cisco
5 27 (3.79%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.37%) Databricks
7 20 (2.81%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.24%) Fortinet
9 15 (2.10%) Oracle
10 13 (1.82%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.68%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.54%) F5
12 11 (1.54%) Splunk
13 7 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.84%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.84%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.84%) Okta
14 6 (0.84%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.84%) Zscaler