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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 120 134
Rank change year-on-year +40 +14 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 571 363 781
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 2.69% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 2.84% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 370 268 668
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,350 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,180 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.89% +6.52% -5.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £91,563
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £71,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.15% -5.33%

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 15,038 12,797 29,634
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.83% 94.76% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 10,506 8,904 23,499
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +6.09% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%

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 28 April 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 14 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.93%) Apache
3 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.05%) Confluence
5 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 343 (60.07%) AWS
2 292 (51.14%) Azure
3 110 (19.26%) GitHub
4 107 (18.74%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (16.99%) GCP
6 89 (15.59%) Serverless
7 79 (13.84%) GitHub Actions
8 77 (13.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (9.46%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (7.71%) SaaS
11 43 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
12 42 (7.36%) PaaS
13 40 (7.01%) Amazon S3
14 38 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
15 37 (6.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 35 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (5.95%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (5.95%) Entra ID
18 30 (5.25%) IaaS
19 29 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.26%) Firewall
2 38 (6.65%) Broadband
3 28 (4.90%) VPN
4 26 (4.55%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.85%) DNS
6 16 (2.80%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.28%) BGP
8 12 (2.10%) LAN
9 11 (1.93%) WAN
10 10 (1.75%) Network Security
10 10 (1.75%) VLAN
11 9 (1.58%) DHCP
12 6 (1.05%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.88%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.88%) WebEx
14 4 (0.70%) HTTP
14 4 (0.70%) OSPF
15 3 (0.53%) SSL
15 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.58%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (6.83%) NoSQL
3 30 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (5.08%) Relational Database
4 29 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.68%) Data Lake
6 20 (3.50%) MongoDB
7 19 (3.33%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (2.80%) Metadata
10 14 (2.45%) Delta Lake
11 13 (2.28%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.93%) MySQL
13 10 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
14 8 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.40%) BigQuery
15 7 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (1.05%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 55 (9.63%) Git
2 43 (7.53%) GitLab
3 37 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.33%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.58%) JIRA
6 8 (1.40%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.40%) JMeter
6 8 (1.40%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.05%) Locust
7 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.88%) NUnit
8 5 (0.88%) Selenium
8 5 (0.88%) Storybook
9 3 (0.53%) MLflow
9 3 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 142 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 121 (21.19%) Finance
3 57 (9.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 48 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (7.36%) Banking
7 37 (6.48%) Retail
8 30 (5.25%) Law
9 27 (4.73%) Telecoms
10 18 (3.15%) Billing
11 14 (2.45%) Back Office
11 14 (2.45%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.45%) Marketing
12 8 (1.40%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.40%) Legal
13 7 (1.23%) Games
13 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 138 (24.17%) Senior
2 111 (19.44%) Lead
3 81 (14.19%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
6 59 (10.33%) Developer
7 54 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
9 43 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (5.60%) Software Engineer
11 29 (5.08%) Architect
12 27 (4.73%) Data Engineer
12 27 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 23 (4.03%) Lead DevOps
15 22 (3.85%) Lead Developer
15 22 (3.85%) Python Engineer
16 19 (3.33%) Team Leader
17 18 (3.15%) Operations Engineer
17 18 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.53%) React
2 39 (6.83%) .NET
3 36 (6.30%) REST
4 33 (5.78%) Node.js
5 32 (5.60%) RESTful
6 30 (5.25%) Elastic Stack
7 29 (5.08%) Spring
8 28 (4.90%) AWS CDK
9 24 (4.20%) Spring Boot
9 24 (4.20%) YAML
10 23 (4.03%) OAuth
11 22 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
12 21 (3.68%) Kafka
13 19 (3.33%) OpenAPI
13 19 (3.33%) Swagger
14 18 (3.15%) Django
15 17 (2.98%) JSON
16 16 (2.80%) ARM Templates
16 16 (2.80%) React Native
17 15 (2.63%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 147 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.83%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (4.20%) Security Posture
6 20 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 20 (3.50%) Mobile App
6 20 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 19 (3.33%) Public Cloud
8 18 (3.15%) Legacy Applications
9 16 (2.80%) Video\Live Streaming
10 15 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.28%) Blog
11 13 (2.28%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.58%) Algorithms
15 8 (1.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (20.32%) Linux
2 39 (6.83%) Windows
3 38 (6.65%) Unix
4 20 (3.50%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.10%) Android
6 11 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.88%) VMS
8 4 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.53%) CentOS
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 395 (69.18%) CI/CD
2 374 (65.50%) DevOps
3 201 (35.20%) Agile
4 178 (31.17%) Mentoring
5 176 (30.82%) Observability
6 158 (27.67%) Containerisation
7 137 (23.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 123 (21.54%) Platform Engineering
9 108 (18.91%) Software Engineering
10 102 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (17.86%) Test Automation
11 99 (17.34%) Technical Leadership
12 98 (17.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 88 (15.41%) AI
14 83 (14.54%) Roadmaps
15 77 (13.49%) Microservices
16 70 (12.26%) Analytics
17 69 (12.08%) Coaching
17 69 (12.08%) Incident Response
18 64 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 236 (41.33%) Python
2 92 (16.11%) Java
3 91 (15.94%) Bash
4 78 (13.66%) SQL
5 73 (12.78%) PowerShell
6 68 (11.91%) Bicep
6 68 (11.91%) JavaScript
7 56 (9.81%) Go
8 49 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 41 (7.18%) C#
10 14 (2.45%) Scala
11 8 (1.40%) Apex Code
12 6 (1.05%) C++
13 5 (0.88%) PHP
13 5 (0.88%) Ruby
13 5 (0.88%) Rust
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.35%) Perl
14 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 76 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.76%) Degree
4 42 (7.36%) AWS Certification
5 37 (6.48%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.28%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.58%) CCNP
10 9 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.23%) CCNA
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.88%) LPIC
12 5 (0.88%) MCSE
12 5 (0.88%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.25%) QA
2 23 (4.03%) Accessibility
2 23 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.85%) GDPR
3 22 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (3.15%) SOC 2
5 17 (2.98%) PCI DSS
6 11 (1.93%) NIST
7 5 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.88%) WCAG
8 4 (0.70%) GRC
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.35%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (27.15%) Docker
2 26 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.10%) vSphere
5 11 (1.93%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.70%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 381 (66.73%) Terraform
2 206 (36.08%) Kubernetes
3 112 (19.61%) Ansible
4 72 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 71 (12.43%) Grafana
6 29 (5.08%) Argo
7 23 (4.03%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.45%) Puppet
9 13 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.58%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.23%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.88%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.70%) Istio
13 4 (0.70%) logstash
13 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.70%) Packer
13 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 98 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.01%) VMware
3 38 (6.65%) Google
4 30 (5.25%) Cisco
5 22 (3.85%) Databricks
6 18 (3.15%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.45%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.45%) Splunk
8 12 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.58%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.23%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.05%) F5
12 6 (1.05%) Juniper
12 6 (1.05%) NetApp
12 6 (1.05%) New Relic
13 5 (0.88%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.88%) SolarWinds