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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 162 142
Rank change year-on-year +89 -20 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 679 338 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 2.20% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 2.33% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 450 242 608
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,430 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +9.19% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 16,346 14,518 30,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.57% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,794 8,418 23,762
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £75,000
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% -9.54%

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 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 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.36%) Apache
3 13 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.44%) Confluence
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
7 2 (0.29%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 422 (62.15%) AWS
2 309 (45.51%) Azure
3 111 (16.35%) Serverless
4 107 (15.76%) GitHub
5 97 (14.29%) GCP
6 93 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
7 85 (12.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (8.98%) PaaS
10 55 (8.10%) Amazon S3
11 50 (7.36%) SaaS
12 49 (7.22%) IaaS
13 48 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
14 47 (6.92%) Azure Monitor
15 46 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (6.77%) Azure AKS
16 38 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
17 37 (5.45%) Entra ID
18 35 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.05%) Broadband
2 66 (9.72%) Firewall
3 36 (5.30%) VPN
4 35 (5.15%) DNS
5 28 (4.12%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.09%) BGP
7 16 (2.36%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.06%) LAN
8 14 (2.06%) VLAN
8 14 (2.06%) WAN
9 13 (1.91%) OSPF
10 11 (1.62%) Network Security
11 10 (1.47%) DHCP
11 10 (1.47%) VXLAN
12 8 (1.18%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.88%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.88%) WebEx
14 5 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.74%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.63%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.74%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.01%) Metadata
4 34 (5.01%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.57%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 23 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 21 (3.09%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 15 (2.21%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.06%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.77%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.62%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.33%) MySQL
14 9 (1.33%) Redis
15 8 (1.18%) Big Data
16 7 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 73 (10.75%) Git
2 50 (7.36%) GitLab
3 38 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.65%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.88%) JMeter
6 6 (0.88%) NUnit
6 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.74%) JIRA
7 5 (0.74%) Locust
7 5 (0.74%) Selenium
8 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.29%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.29%) MSI
10 2 (0.29%) Storybook
10 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 98 (14.43%) Finance
3 68 (10.01%) Public Sector
4 60 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 59 (8.69%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (5.45%) Banking
7 34 (5.01%) Law
8 31 (4.57%) Games
8 31 (4.57%) Retail
9 21 (3.09%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.06%) Billing
11 11 (1.62%) Marketing
12 10 (1.47%) Back Office
12 10 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.33%) Legal
14 8 (1.18%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.03%) Aviation
16 6 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (25.92%) Senior
2 134 (19.73%) Lead
3 87 (12.81%) Cloud Engineer
4 86 (12.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 76 (11.19%) Developer
6 75 (11.05%) Platform Engineer
7 57 (8.39%) AWS Engineer
8 51 (7.51%) Architect
8 51 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
9 46 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (6.33%) Software Engineer
11 33 (4.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.71%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.42%) Senior Developer
14 28 (4.12%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.98%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 22 (3.24%) Technical Leader
18 21 (3.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.66%) React
2 49 (7.22%) RESTful
3 46 (6.77%) REST
4 40 (5.89%) .NET
5 39 (5.74%) Node.js
6 36 (5.30%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.86%) Spring
8 27 (3.98%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.83%) ARM Templates
9 26 (3.83%) YAML
10 25 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.24%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.09%) Kafka
13 19 (2.80%) Next.js
14 18 (2.65%) PySpark
15 17 (2.50%) Django
15 17 (2.50%) FastAPI
15 17 (2.50%) PyTorch
16 16 (2.36%) CSS
16 16 (2.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 214 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 70 (10.31%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.07%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (6.04%) Product Ownership
5 40 (5.89%) Hybrid Cloud
6 32 (4.71%) Low-Code
7 26 (3.83%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.68%) Data Centre
9 24 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
9 24 (3.53%) Public Cloud
10 22 (3.24%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.80%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (2.50%) Mobile App
13 15 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
14 13 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (1.77%) Podcast
15 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.47%) Blog
16 10 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.38%) Linux
2 36 (5.30%) Windows
3 32 (4.71%) Unix
4 19 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.77%) Android
6 11 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.03%) VMS
8 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 390 (57.44%) DevOps
3 234 (34.46%) Observability
4 214 (31.52%) Mentoring
5 211 (31.08%) Agile
6 195 (28.72%) Containerisation
7 172 (25.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 167 (24.59%) AI
8 167 (24.59%) Platform Engineering
9 148 (21.80%) Software Engineering
10 145 (21.35%) Technical Leadership
11 134 (19.73%) Test Automation
12 112 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 110 (16.20%) Microservices
14 105 (15.46%) Roadmaps
15 103 (15.17%) Full-Stack Development
16 93 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 86 (12.67%) Analytics
18 85 (12.52%) Machine Learning
19 70 (10.31%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 310 (45.66%) Python
2 110 (16.20%) Bash
2 110 (16.20%) Java
3 82 (12.08%) SQL
4 81 (11.93%) Bicep
5 80 (11.78%) Go
6 78 (11.49%) PowerShell
7 75 (11.05%) JavaScript
8 72 (10.60%) TypeScript
9 43 (6.33%) C#
10 16 (2.36%) Scala
11 9 (1.33%) C++
12 7 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.03%) PHP
12 7 (1.03%) Ruby
13 6 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.74%) Groovy
14 5 (0.74%) Rust
15 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.14%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.54%) Azure Certification
4 52 (7.66%) Degree
5 46 (6.77%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.91%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.33%) CCNP
12 6 (0.88%) CCNA
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.59%) LPIC
13 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.59%) VCAP
13 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.15%) QA
2 32 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.06%) GDPR
4 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.77%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.03%) NIST
7 5 (0.74%) WCAG
8 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 172 (25.33%) Docker
2 33 (4.86%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.65%) vSphere
5 9 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.59%) Firmware
9 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 412 (60.68%) Terraform
2 232 (34.17%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.05%) Ansible
4 73 (10.75%) Grafana
4 73 (10.75%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.45%) Argo
6 24 (3.53%) Kustomize
7 15 (2.21%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.21%) Puppet
8 12 (1.77%) Istio
8 12 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (1.33%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
11 6 (0.88%) Packer
11 6 (0.88%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
13 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 121 (17.82%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.33%) VMware
3 42 (6.19%) Google
4 30 (4.42%) Cisco
5 25 (3.68%) Palo Alto
6 22 (3.24%) Databricks
7 20 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.06%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.62%) F5
10 11 (1.62%) Splunk
11 8 (1.18%) Oracle
12 7 (1.03%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.03%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.88%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.88%) Juniper
13 6 (0.88%) NetApp
13 6 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
13 6 (0.88%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.74%) Okta