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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 152 136
Rank change year-on-year +80 -16 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 774 375 658
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 2.28% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.44% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 501 279 526
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £77,500 £68,950
Median % change year-on-year -7.74% +12.40% -8.07%
75th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £85,000
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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 21 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 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (1.81%) Apache
3 13 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.39%) Confluence
7 3 (0.39%) WordPress
8 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.13%) nginx
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Weka
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 431 (55.68%) AWS
2 418 (54.01%) Azure
3 122 (15.76%) GCP
4 114 (14.73%) Serverless
5 107 (13.82%) GitHub
6 94 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
7 91 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 80 (10.34%) PaaS
9 66 (8.53%) GitHub Actions
10 63 (8.14%) Cloud Computing
11 57 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
12 56 (7.24%) IaaS
13 54 (6.98%) Amazon S3
14 52 (6.72%) SaaS
15 50 (6.46%) Azure AKS
16 44 (5.68%) Azure Monitor
17 43 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
18 41 (5.30%) Amazon EKS
18 41 (5.30%) Power Platform
19 39 (5.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 71 (9.17%) LAN
1 71 (9.17%) WAN
2 62 (8.01%) Firewall
3 57 (7.36%) Broadband
4 51 (6.59%) VPN
5 40 (5.17%) DNS
6 36 (4.65%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.45%) BGP
8 15 (1.94%) Network Security
8 15 (1.94%) VLAN
9 14 (1.81%) OSPF
10 13 (1.68%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (1.68%) DHCP
11 11 (1.42%) VXLAN
12 9 (1.16%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.78%) HTTP
13 6 (0.78%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.78%) WebEx
14 5 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.56%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.17%) Metadata
4 29 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
5 27 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (2.20%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.81%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.68%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.55%) MySQL
13 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.29%) Redis
14 8 (1.03%) Data Vault
15 6 (0.78%) Big Data
15 6 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (10.08%) Git
2 47 (6.07%) GitLab
3 42 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.90%) NUnit
6 6 (0.78%) JMeter
7 5 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.65%) JIRA
7 5 (0.65%) Locust
8 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.39%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.26%) MSI
10 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 270 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 168 (21.71%) Finance
3 74 (9.56%) Law
4 72 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 65 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (7.62%) Presentation Skills
7 57 (7.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (4.91%) Banking
9 31 (4.01%) Games
10 30 (3.88%) Retail
11 18 (2.33%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.68%) Marketing
13 12 (1.55%) Legal
14 10 (1.29%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.16%) Back Office
15 9 (1.16%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.03%) Billing
16 8 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.90%) Aviation
18 6 (0.78%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 193 (24.94%) Senior
2 133 (17.18%) Lead
3 122 (15.76%) Architect
4 90 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 89 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (10.08%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (9.04%) Developer
8 64 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
8 64 (8.27%) Systems Architect
9 51 (6.59%) AWS Engineer
9 51 (6.59%) Software Engineer
10 49 (6.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 38 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 34 (4.39%) Python Engineer
13 32 (4.13%) Data Engineer
14 31 (4.01%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.75%) Senior Developer
16 23 (2.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (2.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.24%) React
2 49 (6.33%) REST
3 48 (6.20%) RESTful
4 40 (5.17%) Node.js
5 39 (5.04%) .NET
6 38 (4.91%) AWS CDK
7 31 (4.01%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.36%) Spring
8 26 (3.36%) YAML
9 22 (2.84%) Next.js
9 22 (2.84%) Spring Boot
10 21 (2.71%) Kafka
11 18 (2.33%) FastAPI
11 18 (2.33%) PySpark
12 17 (2.20%) Django
12 17 (2.20%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.07%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.94%) CSS
15 13 (1.68%) AngularJS
15 13 (1.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 231 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.72%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.33%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.91%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.13%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
8 26 (3.36%) Security Posture
9 24 (3.10%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.84%) Onboarding
12 18 (2.33%) Podcast
13 15 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.94%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.68%) Blog
14 13 (1.68%) Replication
14 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.55%) Virtual Team
16 10 (1.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 94 (12.14%) Linux
2 50 (6.46%) Windows
3 20 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.81%) Unix
5 13 (1.68%) VMS
6 6 (0.78%) Android
7 5 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (68.73%) CI/CD
2 397 (51.29%) DevOps
3 257 (33.20%) Observability
4 247 (31.91%) Containerisation
5 218 (28.17%) Mentoring
6 210 (27.13%) Agile
7 201 (25.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 194 (25.06%) AI
9 182 (23.51%) Platform Engineering
10 173 (22.35%) Technical Leadership
11 170 (21.96%) Software Engineering
12 159 (20.54%) Roadmaps
13 142 (18.35%) Test Automation
14 137 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (15.63%) Microservices
16 104 (13.44%) Full-Stack Development
17 97 (12.53%) Analytics
18 93 (12.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 91 (11.76%) Machine Learning
20 79 (10.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 329 (42.51%) Python
2 100 (12.92%) Bicep
3 98 (12.66%) Bash
4 97 (12.53%) PowerShell
5 96 (12.40%) SQL
6 91 (11.76%) Java
7 74 (9.56%) TypeScript
8 69 (8.91%) Go
9 62 (8.01%) JavaScript
10 43 (5.56%) C#
11 14 (1.81%) Scala
12 13 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.42%) Ruby
14 9 (1.16%) PHP
15 7 (0.90%) C++
15 7 (0.90%) Groovy
16 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.52%) Rust
17 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 109 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 98 (12.66%) SC Cleared
3 70 (9.04%) Azure Certification
4 54 (6.98%) Degree
5 27 (3.49%) AWS Certification
5 27 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.42%) CCNP
9 9 (1.16%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.16%) SnowPro
10 8 (1.03%) CCNA
11 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.52%) LPIC
12 4 (0.52%) MCSE
12 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
12 4 (0.52%) VCAP
12 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.24%) GRC
2 40 (5.17%) QA
3 39 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.20%) GDPR
5 15 (1.94%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.55%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.42%) NIST
9 7 (0.90%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.65%) WCAG
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.26%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 155 (20.03%) Docker
2 43 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 32 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.97%) vSphere
5 13 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.52%) Firmware
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 426 (55.04%) Terraform
2 229 (29.59%) Kubernetes
3 87 (11.24%) Ansible
4 72 (9.30%) Grafana
5 47 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.58%) Argo
7 16 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.81%) Puppet
9 13 (1.68%) Istio
10 12 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (1.16%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.16%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.78%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.52%) Packer
15 3 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 210 (27.13%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.30%) VMware
3 34 (4.39%) Google
4 28 (3.62%) Cisco
5 27 (3.49%) Palo Alto
6 23 (2.97%) Databricks
7 19 (2.45%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.20%) Oracle
9 16 (2.07%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.55%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.42%) F5
11 11 (1.42%) Splunk
12 10 (1.29%) Okta
13 9 (1.16%) Informatica
14 7 (0.90%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.90%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.90%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.78%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.78%) Zscaler