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

6 months to
17 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 800 391 604
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 2.41% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 2.58% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 531 293 382
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +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 19,802 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.49% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,194 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 17 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 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.25%) Apache
3 15 (1.88%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.63%) 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%) CMS
8 3 (0.38%) IIS
8 3 (0.38%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
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%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 460 (57.50%) Azure
2 427 (53.38%) AWS
3 152 (19.00%) GCP
4 124 (15.50%) GitHub
5 107 (13.38%) Serverless
6 102 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (11.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (9.13%) PaaS
9 70 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
10 68 (8.50%) Microsoft 365
11 64 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
12 60 (7.50%) Azure AKS
13 58 (7.25%) SaaS
14 56 (7.00%) IaaS
15 54 (6.75%) Amazon S3
16 49 (6.13%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (5.25%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (5.13%) Entra ID
18 41 (5.13%) Power Platform
19 35 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.38%) WAN
2 72 (9.00%) LAN
3 55 (6.88%) Firewall
4 50 (6.25%) VPN
5 47 (5.88%) DNS
6 43 (5.38%) Broadband
6 43 (5.38%) TCP/IP
7 24 (3.00%) DHCP
8 19 (2.38%) BGP
9 17 (2.13%) Network Security
9 17 (2.13%) OSPF
10 14 (1.75%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.13%) SD-WAN
11 9 (1.13%) VLAN
12 8 (1.00%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.75%) HTTP
13 6 (0.75%) Wireless
14 5 (0.63%) NGFW
15 4 (0.50%) NX-OS
15 4 (0.50%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (5.13%) Metadata
3 38 (4.75%) MongoDB
4 29 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.00%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.88%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.50%) Delta Lake
11 16 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
11 16 (2.00%) Data Vault
12 13 (1.63%) MySQL
13 11 (1.38%) NoSQL
14 9 (1.13%) BigQuery
15 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.00%) Big Data
16 6 (0.75%) Redis
17 5 (0.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 81 (10.13%) Git
2 47 (5.88%) GitLab
2 47 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
3 7 (0.88%) JIRA
3 7 (0.88%) NUnit
4 5 (0.63%) Poetry
5 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.50%) Selenium
5 4 (0.50%) Snyk
6 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.38%) Postman
6 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.25%) JMeter
7 2 (0.25%) JUnit
7 2 (0.25%) MLflow
7 2 (0.25%) MSI
7 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 310 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 186 (23.25%) Finance
3 85 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.50%) Law
5 64 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.13%) Banking
9 29 (3.63%) Games
10 22 (2.75%) Retail
11 18 (2.25%) Legal
12 14 (1.75%) Marketing
13 13 (1.63%) Local Government
14 11 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.63%) Advertising
16 5 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 4 (0.50%) Aviation
17 4 (0.50%) Billing
Job Titles
1 230 (28.75%) Senior
2 134 (16.75%) Architect
3 125 (15.63%) Lead
4 102 (12.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 95 (11.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 80 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 66 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
7 66 (8.25%) Systems Architect
8 64 (8.00%) Developer
9 63 (7.88%) Software Engineer
10 54 (6.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.88%) Python Engineer
12 38 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
12 38 (4.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.50%) Site Engineer
15 35 (4.38%) Data Engineer
16 29 (3.63%) Technical Leader
17 28 (3.50%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 460 (57.50%) Terraform
2 68 (8.50%) React
3 49 (6.13%) Node.js
4 47 (5.88%) RESTful
5 41 (5.13%) .NET
6 39 (4.88%) REST
7 33 (4.13%) AWS CDK
8 30 (3.75%) Kafka
8 30 (3.75%) PySpark
9 29 (3.63%) ARM Templates
10 21 (2.63%) Next.js
10 21 (2.63%) Spring
11 19 (2.38%) CSS
12 18 (2.25%) YAML
13 16 (2.00%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.75%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.75%) FastAPI
15 13 (1.63%) .NET Core
15 13 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
16 12 (1.50%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 225 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 92 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 40 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 35 (4.38%) Video\Live Streaming
6 31 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
7 26 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.25%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.13%) Data Centre
8 25 (3.13%) Low-Code
9 18 (2.25%) Blog
10 16 (2.00%) Virtual Team
11 15 (1.88%) Podcast
12 14 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.50%) Onboarding
14 11 (1.38%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.38%) PKI
15 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 92 (11.50%) Linux
2 64 (8.00%) Windows
3 29 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.00%) Unix
5 13 (1.63%) 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
1 551 (68.88%) CI/CD
2 395 (49.38%) DevOps
3 278 (34.75%) Observability
4 248 (31.00%) Containerisation
5 237 (29.63%) Mentoring
6 214 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (26.13%) AI
8 206 (25.75%) Agile
9 188 (23.50%) Software Engineering
10 174 (21.75%) Technical Leadership
11 166 (20.75%) Platform Engineering
12 159 (19.88%) Roadmaps
13 151 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
14 120 (15.00%) Analytics
15 112 (14.00%) Test Automation
16 111 (13.88%) Microservices
17 98 (12.25%) Cloud Security
17 98 (12.25%) Full-Stack Development
18 95 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 92 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 330 (41.25%) Python
2 118 (14.75%) Bicep
3 114 (14.25%) PowerShell
4 107 (13.38%) SQL
5 96 (12.00%) Bash
6 83 (10.38%) Java
7 81 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 68 (8.50%) Go
9 56 (7.00%) JavaScript
10 48 (6.00%) C#
11 20 (2.50%) Scala
12 14 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.38%) Ruby
14 8 (1.00%) Groovy
15 7 (0.88%) C++
15 7 (0.88%) PHP
16 6 (0.75%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) C
18 2 (0.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 131 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 118 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 85 (10.63%) Azure Certification
4 51 (6.38%) Degree
5 38 (4.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (4.00%) AWS Certification
7 23 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.13%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.50%) 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 (7.25%) GRC
2 50 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.75%) QA
4 16 (2.00%) GDPR
4 16 (2.00%) NIST
5 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.13%) SLA
7 7 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.75%) NCSC
9 5 (0.63%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 153 (19.13%) Docker
2 51 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (2.50%) vSphere
6 16 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.88%) 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
1 207 (25.88%) Kubernetes
2 88 (11.00%) Ansible
3 70 (8.75%) Grafana
4 46 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.63%) Argo
6 18 (2.25%) Istio
7 16 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.00%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.00%) Puppet
10 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.63%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.50%) linkerd
12 4 (0.50%) 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
1 258 (32.25%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.75%) Google
3 35 (4.38%) VMware
4 31 (3.88%) Databricks
5 21 (2.63%) Oracle
6 18 (2.25%) Cisco
6 18 (2.25%) Palo Alto
7 16 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 13 (1.63%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.50%) Informatica
10 12 (1.50%) Okta
10 12 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.50%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.38%) Splunk
12 8 (1.00%) Arista
13 6 (0.75%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.75%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.75%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.75%) Zscaler