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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 152 142
Rank change year-on-year +81 -10 -61
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 730 366 744
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 2.26% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 2.42% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 484 271 599
10th Percentile £52,161 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,625 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,250 £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 17,173 15,146 29,476
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.44% 93.69% 88.91%
Number of salaries quoted 12,544 8,967 22,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £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 £80,000 £75,772
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 4 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 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.05%) Apache
3 13 (1.78%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) WordPress
7 2 (0.27%) 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 (0.55%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 437 (59.86%) AWS
2 355 (48.63%) Azure
3 119 (16.30%) Serverless
4 113 (15.48%) GitHub
5 102 (13.97%) GCP
6 96 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (12.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (10.82%) PaaS
9 68 (9.32%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (8.22%) IaaS
11 56 (7.67%) Amazon S3
12 52 (7.12%) SaaS
13 50 (6.85%) Azure AKS
14 47 (6.44%) Azure Monitor
15 46 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
16 45 (6.16%) Amazon EC2
17 39 (5.34%) Entra ID
18 37 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
18 37 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
19 35 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.59%) Broadband
2 66 (9.04%) Firewall
3 49 (6.71%) VPN
4 39 (5.34%) DNS
5 31 (4.25%) TCP/IP
6 30 (4.11%) LAN
6 30 (4.11%) WAN
7 21 (2.88%) BGP
8 15 (2.05%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.05%) VLAN
9 14 (1.92%) Network Security
9 14 (1.92%) OSPF
10 11 (1.51%) DHCP
10 11 (1.51%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.23%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.82%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.82%) WebEx
13 5 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 38 (5.21%) Metadata
4 35 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.97%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.56%) SQL Server
8 22 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (3.01%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.19%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.05%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.05%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.64%) MySQL
12 11 (1.51%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.23%) Redis
15 8 (1.10%) Big Data
16 7 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (10.82%) Git
2 47 (6.44%) GitLab
3 41 (5.62%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.64%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.23%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.96%) NUnit
7 6 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.82%) JIRA
7 6 (0.82%) JMeter
8 5 (0.68%) Locust
8 5 (0.68%) Selenium
9 4 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.41%) MLflow
11 2 (0.27%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.27%) MSI
11 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.27%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 125 (17.12%) Finance
3 73 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 63 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (8.36%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (7.67%) Law
7 37 (5.07%) Banking
8 31 (4.25%) Games
8 31 (4.25%) Retail
9 21 (2.88%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.64%) Legal
12 10 (1.37%) Back Office
12 10 (1.37%) Billing
12 10 (1.37%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.37%) Marketing
13 7 (0.96%) Aviation
14 6 (0.82%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 189 (25.89%) Senior
2 138 (18.90%) Lead
3 90 (12.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 90 (12.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (10.55%) Platform Engineer
5 76 (10.41%) Architect
6 74 (10.14%) Developer
7 58 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
8 54 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
9 49 (6.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (5.89%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 31 (4.25%) Data Engineer
12 31 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.11%) Python Engineer
13 30 (4.11%) Senior Developer
14 26 (3.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 24 (3.29%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.29%) Technical Leader
16 23 (3.15%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.53%) React
2 49 (6.71%) RESTful
3 48 (6.58%) REST
4 42 (5.75%) .NET
4 42 (5.75%) Node.js
5 38 (5.21%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.25%) ARM Templates
7 28 (3.84%) Spring
8 26 (3.56%) YAML
9 23 (3.15%) Spring Boot
10 22 (3.01%) Next.js
11 21 (2.88%) Kafka
12 19 (2.60%) FastAPI
12 19 (2.60%) OpenTelemetry
12 19 (2.60%) PySpark
13 17 (2.33%) CSS
13 17 (2.33%) Django
13 17 (2.33%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (2.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 232 (31.78%) Cloud Native
2 76 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.58%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.62%) Product Ownership
6 38 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.38%) Low-Code
8 29 (3.97%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.70%) Data Centre
10 25 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (3.15%) Onboarding
13 18 (2.47%) Podcast
14 15 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.78%) Blog
15 13 (1.78%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.64%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 113 (15.48%) Linux
2 48 (6.58%) Windows
3 26 (3.56%) Unix
4 19 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.78%) VMS
6 9 (1.23%) Android
7 8 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.41%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.27%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 516 (70.68%) CI/CD
2 404 (55.34%) DevOps
3 248 (33.97%) Observability
4 227 (31.10%) Mentoring
5 224 (30.68%) Agile
6 215 (29.45%) Containerisation
7 195 (26.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (25.89%) AI
9 176 (24.11%) Platform Engineering
10 164 (22.47%) Technical Leadership
11 157 (21.51%) Software Engineering
12 141 (19.32%) Test Automation
13 131 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (17.12%) Roadmaps
15 118 (16.16%) Microservices
16 104 (14.25%) Full-Stack Development
17 98 (13.42%) Analytics
18 92 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 90 (12.33%) Machine Learning
20 78 (10.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 329 (45.07%) Python
2 111 (15.21%) Bash
3 105 (14.38%) Java
4 96 (13.15%) Bicep
5 93 (12.74%) SQL
6 90 (12.33%) PowerShell
7 77 (10.55%) Go
8 76 (10.41%) TypeScript
9 75 (10.27%) JavaScript
10 46 (6.30%) C#
11 16 (2.19%) Scala
12 13 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.51%) Ruby
14 9 (1.23%) PHP
15 8 (1.10%) C++
16 7 (0.96%) Groovy
17 5 (0.68%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.55%) Rust
19 2 (0.27%) Kotlin
19 2 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 111 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.56%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.04%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.53%) Degree
5 40 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.74%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.64%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.51%) CCNP
12 8 (1.10%) CCNA
12 8 (1.10%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.55%) LPIC
14 4 (0.55%) MCSE
14 4 (0.55%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.48%) QA
2 35 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.19%) GDPR
3 16 (2.19%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.05%) GRC
5 13 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.64%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.37%) NIST
8 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.68%) WCAG
10 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 166 (22.74%) Docker
2 42 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.29%) vSphere
5 13 (1.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.10%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.55%) Firmware
10 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 429 (58.77%) Terraform
2 238 (32.60%) Kubernetes
3 104 (14.25%) Ansible
4 71 (9.73%) Grafana
5 63 (8.63%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.25%) Argo
7 18 (2.47%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.33%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.05%) Puppet
10 13 (1.78%) Istio
11 12 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.37%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.23%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.96%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.82%) Packer
16 5 (0.68%) AWS Copilot
17 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
18 3 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 154 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.44%) VMware
3 35 (4.79%) Google
4 30 (4.11%) Cisco
5 27 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.29%) Databricks
7 20 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.19%) Fortinet
8 16 (2.19%) Oracle
9 13 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.64%) ScienceLogic
10 12 (1.64%) Splunk
11 11 (1.51%) F5
12 7 (0.96%) CyberArk
12 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.82%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.82%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.82%) Okta
13 6 (0.82%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.82%) Zscaler