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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 124 130
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 575 363 792
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 2.69% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 2.84% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 374 268 675
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 £87,188 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

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 14,981 12,789 29,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 94.78% 91.36%
Number of salaries quoted 10,485 8,897 23,598
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,690 £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% -10.57%

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 26 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 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.74%) Apache
3 8 (1.39%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.04%) Confluence
5 4 (0.70%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 347 (60.35%) AWS
2 296 (51.48%) Azure
3 110 (19.13%) GitHub
4 107 (18.61%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (16.87%) GCP
6 93 (16.17%) Serverless
7 80 (13.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (13.74%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
10 45 (7.83%) SaaS
11 43 (7.48%) Azure Monitor
11 43 (7.48%) PaaS
12 42 (7.30%) Amazon S3
12 42 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (6.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (6.61%) Entra ID
14 35 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
16 31 (5.39%) IaaS
17 30 (5.22%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (12.17%) Firewall
2 38 (6.61%) Broadband
3 30 (5.22%) VPN
4 26 (4.52%) TCP/IP
5 22 (3.83%) DNS
6 16 (2.78%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.26%) BGP
8 12 (2.09%) LAN
9 11 (1.91%) WAN
10 10 (1.74%) Network Security
10 10 (1.74%) VLAN
11 9 (1.57%) DHCP
12 6 (1.04%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.87%) Unified Communications
13 5 (0.87%) WebEx
14 4 (0.70%) HTTP
14 4 (0.70%) OSPF
15 3 (0.52%) SSL
15 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (6.96%) NoSQL
3 30 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 29 (5.04%) Relational Database
5 20 (3.48%) Data Lake
5 20 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.30%) RDBMS
7 17 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.61%) Metadata
9 14 (2.43%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.26%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.91%) MySQL
12 10 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (1.39%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (9.57%) Git
2 41 (7.13%) GitLab
3 36 (6.26%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.30%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.57%) JIRA
6 8 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.39%) JMeter
6 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.04%) Locust
7 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.87%) NUnit
8 5 (0.87%) Selenium
8 5 (0.87%) Storybook
9 3 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.35%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.35%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.35%) MLflow
10 2 (0.35%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.35%) Vagrant
General
1 146 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 122 (21.22%) Finance
3 58 (10.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 49 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (7.30%) Banking
7 37 (6.43%) Retail
8 30 (5.22%) Law
9 27 (4.70%) Telecoms
10 18 (3.13%) Billing
11 14 (2.43%) Back Office
11 14 (2.43%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.43%) Marketing
12 8 (1.39%) Health Technology
12 8 (1.39%) Legal
13 7 (1.22%) Games
14 6 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.04%) Tech for Good
15 5 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (24.35%) Senior
2 110 (19.13%) Lead
3 83 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (10.78%) Platform Engineer
6 59 (10.26%) Developer
7 56 (9.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 52 (9.04%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (7.30%) AWS Engineer
10 34 (5.91%) Software Engineer
11 28 (4.87%) Architect
12 27 (4.70%) Data Engineer
12 27 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 22 (3.83%) Lead DevOps
14 22 (3.83%) Python Engineer
15 21 (3.65%) Lead Developer
16 18 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
16 18 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.00%) React
2 40 (6.96%) .NET
3 37 (6.43%) Node.js
4 36 (6.26%) REST
5 34 (5.91%) RESTful
6 30 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.22%) Spring
7 29 (5.04%) AWS CDK
8 24 (4.17%) Spring Boot
8 24 (4.17%) YAML
9 23 (4.00%) OAuth
10 22 (3.83%) OpenTelemetry
11 21 (3.65%) Kafka
12 19 (3.30%) OpenAPI
12 19 (3.30%) Swagger
13 18 (3.13%) Django
14 17 (2.96%) JSON
15 16 (2.78%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.78%) React Native
16 15 (2.61%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 149 (25.91%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.61%) Product Ownership
3 37 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 29 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (4.17%) Security Posture
6 23 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.48%) Data Centre
7 20 (3.48%) Mobile App
7 20 (3.48%) Onboarding
7 20 (3.48%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.96%) Legacy Applications
9 16 (2.78%) Video\Live Streaming
10 15 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (2.26%) Blog
11 13 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
12 11 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.57%) Algorithms
15 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 116 (20.17%) Linux
2 39 (6.78%) Windows
3 38 (6.61%) Unix
4 20 (3.48%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.43%) Android
6 13 (2.26%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.87%) VMS
8 4 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.52%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (69.22%) CI/CD
2 375 (65.22%) DevOps
3 201 (34.96%) Agile
4 181 (31.48%) Mentoring
5 174 (30.26%) Observability
6 158 (27.48%) Containerisation
7 139 (24.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (21.57%) Platform Engineering
9 111 (19.30%) Software Engineering
10 103 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
10 103 (17.91%) Test Automation
11 100 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 99 (17.22%) Technical Leadership
13 86 (14.96%) AI
14 83 (14.43%) Roadmaps
15 78 (13.57%) Microservices
16 71 (12.35%) Coaching
17 70 (12.17%) Analytics
18 67 (11.65%) Incident Response
19 65 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 235 (40.87%) Python
2 93 (16.17%) Java
3 91 (15.83%) Bash
4 79 (13.74%) SQL
5 74 (12.87%) PowerShell
6 68 (11.83%) JavaScript
7 67 (11.65%) Bicep
8 56 (9.74%) Go
9 51 (8.87%) TypeScript
10 41 (7.13%) C#
11 14 (2.43%) Scala
12 8 (1.39%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.04%) C++
14 5 (0.87%) PHP
14 5 (0.87%) Ruby
14 5 (0.87%) Rust
15 2 (0.35%) C
15 2 (0.35%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.35%) Perl
15 2 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.52%) Degree
4 43 (7.48%) AWS Certification
5 37 (6.43%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 16 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.09%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.57%) CCNP
10 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.22%) CCNA
12 6 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.87%) LPIC
13 5 (0.87%) MCSE
13 5 (0.87%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.70%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.22%) QA
2 23 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 22 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.65%) GDPR
5 18 (3.13%) SOC 2
6 17 (2.96%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.91%) NIST
8 5 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.87%) WCAG
9 4 (0.70%) GRC
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS
11 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.17%) SLA
11 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 156 (27.13%) Docker
2 26 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.65%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.09%) vSphere
5 11 (1.91%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.70%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 384 (66.78%) Terraform
2 207 (36.00%) Kubernetes
3 112 (19.48%) Ansible
4 72 (12.52%) Prometheus
5 71 (12.35%) Grafana
6 31 (5.39%) Argo
7 23 (4.00%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.43%) Puppet
9 13 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.57%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.22%) Proxmox
12 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.87%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.70%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.70%) Istio
14 4 (0.70%) logstash
14 4 (0.70%) Packer
14 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 99 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.96%) VMware
3 38 (6.61%) Google
4 30 (5.22%) Cisco
5 21 (3.65%) Databricks
6 18 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 14 (2.43%) Splunk
8 12 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.57%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.22%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.04%) F5
12 6 (1.04%) Juniper
12 6 (1.04%) NetApp
12 6 (1.04%) New Relic
13 5 (0.87%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.87%) SolarWinds