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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 130 126
Rank change year-on-year +55 -4 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 795 400 599
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 2.46% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 2.64% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 521 299 382
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,450 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £84,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £101,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%

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 19,520 15,159 20,523
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.55% 93.09% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,031 8,684 12,914
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,867 £35,341
25th Percentile £44,852 £40,500 £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 13 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 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.39%) Apache
3 15 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.63%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.50%) 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 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 447 (56.23%) Azure
2 428 (53.84%) AWS
3 151 (18.99%) GCP
4 119 (14.97%) GitHub
5 104 (13.08%) Serverless
6 99 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
7 92 (11.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 71 (8.93%) PaaS
9 69 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
10 65 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
11 64 (8.05%) Cloud Computing
12 59 (7.42%) Azure AKS
13 56 (7.04%) IaaS
13 56 (7.04%) SaaS
14 55 (6.92%) Amazon S3
15 48 (6.04%) Azure Monitor
16 43 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
17 40 (5.03%) Power Platform
18 39 (4.91%) Entra ID
19 33 (4.15%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.43%) WAN
2 73 (9.18%) LAN
3 54 (6.79%) Firewall
4 48 (6.04%) Broadband
4 48 (6.04%) DNS
5 47 (5.91%) VPN
6 44 (5.53%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.02%) DHCP
8 19 (2.39%) BGP
9 17 (2.14%) Network Security
9 17 (2.14%) OSPF
10 14 (1.76%) VXLAN
11 10 (1.26%) VLAN
12 9 (1.13%) SD-WAN
13 8 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.75%) HTTP
14 6 (0.75%) Wireless
15 5 (0.63%) NGFW
16 4 (0.50%) Cisco Firepower
16 4 (0.50%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 41 (5.16%) Metadata
4 29 (3.65%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 25 (3.14%) Data Lake
6 24 (3.02%) SQL Server
7 23 (2.89%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (2.52%) Delta Lake
10 19 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.01%) Data Vault
12 13 (1.64%) MySQL
13 12 (1.51%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.01%) Big Data
16 5 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
16 5 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 81 (10.19%) Git
2 46 (5.79%) GitLab
2 46 (5.79%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.88%) JIRA
3 7 (0.88%) NUnit
4 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.63%) Poetry
6 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.50%) Selenium
6 4 (0.50%) Snyk
7 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.38%) MLflow
7 3 (0.38%) Postman
7 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.25%) JMeter
8 2 (0.25%) JUnit
8 2 (0.25%) MSI
8 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 304 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 186 (23.40%) Finance
3 81 (10.19%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.55%) Law
5 64 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
7 46 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 42 (5.28%) Banking
9 34 (4.28%) Games
10 23 (2.89%) Retail
11 19 (2.39%) Legal
12 14 (1.76%) Marketing
13 13 (1.64%) Local Government
14 11 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.63%) Advertising
17 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.63%) Aviation
18 4 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 229 (28.81%) Senior
2 136 (17.11%) Architect
3 127 (15.97%) Lead
4 100 (12.58%) Cloud Engineer
5 93 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (9.81%) Azure Engineer
7 67 (8.43%) Systems Architect
8 65 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
9 63 (7.92%) Developer
9 63 (7.92%) Software Engineer
10 51 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 41 (5.16%) Python Engineer
12 38 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.53%) Site Engineer
15 35 (4.40%) Data Engineer
16 29 (3.65%) Technical Leader
17 28 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
18 27 (3.40%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 453 (56.98%) Terraform
2 65 (8.18%) React
3 48 (6.04%) Node.js
3 48 (6.04%) RESTful
4 43 (5.41%) REST
5 40 (5.03%) .NET
6 34 (4.28%) AWS CDK
7 30 (3.77%) Kafka
7 30 (3.77%) PySpark
8 28 (3.52%) ARM Templates
9 21 (2.64%) Spring
10 20 (2.52%) Next.js
11 18 (2.26%) CSS
11 18 (2.26%) YAML
12 16 (2.01%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.89%) FastAPI
14 13 (1.64%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.64%) OpenTelemetry
15 12 (1.51%) .NET Core
15 12 (1.51%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 228 (28.68%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.57%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.91%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.03%) Video\Live Streaming
5 39 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (4.03%) Product Ownership
7 31 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
8 30 (3.77%) Low-Code
9 28 (3.52%) Security Posture
10 25 (3.14%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.26%) Blog
12 16 (2.01%) Podcast
12 16 (2.01%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.64%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.38%) PKI
14 11 (1.38%) Replication
15 10 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (1.13%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 89 (11.19%) Linux
2 60 (7.55%) Windows
3 29 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.52%) Unix
5 13 (1.64%) 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 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 384 (48.30%) DevOps
3 275 (34.59%) Observability
4 250 (31.45%) Containerisation
5 232 (29.18%) Mentoring
6 212 (26.67%) AI
6 212 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 202 (25.41%) Agile
8 196 (24.65%) Software Engineering
9 174 (21.89%) Technical Leadership
10 170 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
11 159 (20.00%) Roadmaps
12 148 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
13 118 (14.84%) Analytics
14 114 (14.34%) Test Automation
15 111 (13.96%) Microservices
16 103 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
17 95 (11.95%) Cloud Security
18 94 (11.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 93 (11.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 332 (41.76%) Python
2 115 (14.47%) Bicep
3 110 (13.84%) PowerShell
4 106 (13.33%) SQL
5 94 (11.82%) Bash
6 83 (10.44%) Java
7 80 (10.06%) TypeScript
8 71 (8.93%) Go
9 54 (6.79%) JavaScript
10 45 (5.66%) C#
11 20 (2.52%) Scala
12 13 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.51%) Ruby
14 7 (0.88%) C++
14 7 (0.88%) Groovy
14 7 (0.88%) PHP
15 6 (0.75%) Rust
16 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.25%) C
17 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 116 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.31%) Azure Certification
4 52 (6.54%) Degree
5 36 (4.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (3.90%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.14%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.51%) CCNP
12 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
12 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.75%) CCIE
12 6 (0.75%) CCNA
13 5 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.38%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (7.30%) GRC
2 50 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 28 (3.52%) QA
4 16 (2.01%) NIST
5 14 (1.76%) GDPR
6 11 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.13%) SLA
8 7 (0.88%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.75%) NCSC
10 4 (0.50%) 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
1 153 (19.25%) Docker
2 50 (6.29%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (2.64%) vSphere
6 15 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.88%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.50%) 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
1 208 (26.16%) Kubernetes
2 86 (10.82%) Ansible
3 71 (8.93%) Grafana
4 45 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.64%) Argo
6 18 (2.26%) Istio
7 15 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.26%) FortiGate
9 8 (1.01%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (1.01%) Puppet
10 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (0.50%) linkerd
11 4 (0.50%) Packer
11 4 (0.50%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.38%) Cilium
12 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 252 (31.70%) Microsoft
2 52 (6.54%) Google
3 35 (4.40%) VMware
4 30 (3.77%) Databricks
5 21 (2.64%) Oracle
6 19 (2.39%) Cisco
6 19 (2.39%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.01%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.76%) Fortinet
8 14 (1.76%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.51%) Informatica
9 12 (1.51%) Okta
9 12 (1.51%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.51%) ScienceLogic
9 12 (1.51%) Splunk
10 8 (1.01%) Arista
11 6 (0.75%) ForgeRock
11 6 (0.75%) HubSpot
11 6 (0.75%) NetApp
11 6 (0.75%) Zscaler