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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 111 92
Rank change year-on-year +33 -19 -2
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 537 471 891
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 3.00% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.17% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 343 286 767
10th Percentile £46,050 £45,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +2.73% +0.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 19 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.68%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.49%) Apache
6 5 (0.93%) Confluence
7 4 (0.74%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 330 (61.45%) Azure
2 300 (55.87%) AWS
3 144 (26.82%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (24.39%) GitHub
5 93 (17.32%) GitHub Actions
6 91 (16.95%) AWS CloudFormation
7 88 (16.39%) GCP
8 85 (15.83%) Serverless
9 67 (12.48%) Azure Monitor
10 66 (12.29%) Entra ID
11 54 (10.06%) SaaS
12 53 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
13 51 (9.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (9.12%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (8.57%) PaaS
16 45 (8.38%) Amazon S3
17 44 (8.19%) IaaS
18 39 (7.26%) Azure Data Factory
19 36 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 63 (11.73%) Firewall
2 43 (8.01%) VPN
3 27 (5.03%) Broadband
4 22 (4.10%) DNS
5 19 (3.54%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.79%) Network Security
7 13 (2.42%) BGP
8 12 (2.23%) WAN
9 10 (1.86%) VLAN
10 8 (1.49%) DHCP
11 7 (1.30%) LAN
11 7 (1.30%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.56%) IPsec
14 3 (0.56%) OSPF
14 3 (0.56%) Unified Communications
14 3 (0.56%) VoIP
14 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (7.82%) NoSQL
2 31 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.66%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.91%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.54%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.79%) MySQL
9 13 (2.42%) Delta Lake
9 13 (2.42%) DynamoDB
10 12 (2.23%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.23%) Redis
11 10 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.68%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.30%) Metadata
15 4 (0.74%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 57 (10.61%) Jenkins
2 37 (6.89%) Git
2 37 (6.89%) GitLab
3 19 (3.54%) Jaeger
4 9 (1.68%) JIRA
4 9 (1.68%) SonarQube
4 9 (1.68%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.12%) git-flow
6 5 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.93%) Storybook
7 4 (0.74%) JMeter
7 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
8 3 (0.56%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.56%) Selenium
9 2 (0.37%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.19%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 161 (29.98%) Finance
2 124 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 47 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 45 (8.38%) Banking
4 45 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.26%) Law
5 39 (7.26%) Retail
6 23 (4.28%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.10%) Telecoms
8 19 (3.54%) Back Office
9 16 (2.98%) Billing
10 10 (1.86%) Legal
11 8 (1.49%) Marketing
12 7 (1.30%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.12%) Games
13 6 (1.12%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.93%) Publishing
15 4 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 135 (25.14%) Senior
2 94 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 75 (13.97%) Lead
4 61 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
5 60 (11.17%) Azure Engineer
6 58 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 54 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (9.12%) Developer
9 39 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (6.70%) Architect
11 23 (4.28%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 23 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 21 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
13 20 (3.72%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.17%) Infrastructure Architect
15 17 (3.17%) Lead DevOps
16 16 (2.98%) AWS Platform Engineer
16 16 (2.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.01%) React
2 42 (7.82%) .NET
3 35 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (6.15%) RESTful
5 29 (5.40%) Node.js
6 26 (4.84%) OAuth
7 22 (4.10%) Spring
7 22 (4.10%) YAML
8 21 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
9 19 (3.54%) JSON
9 19 (3.54%) OpenAPI
9 19 (3.54%) Swagger
10 18 (3.35%) CSS
10 18 (3.35%) Spring Boot
11 17 (3.17%) AWS CDK
11 17 (3.17%) HTML
11 17 (3.17%) REST
12 16 (2.98%) Django
12 16 (2.98%) GraphQL
13 15 (2.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 128 (23.84%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.89%) Data Centre
3 36 (6.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 35 (6.52%) Product Ownership
5 32 (5.96%) Distributed Systems
6 26 (4.84%) Public Cloud
7 22 (4.10%) Security Posture
8 21 (3.91%) Onboarding
9 20 (3.72%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (2.98%) Blog
11 16 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
13 11 (2.05%) Legacy Applications
13 11 (2.05%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
16 6 (1.12%) Data Structures
17 5 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
17 5 (0.93%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 118 (21.97%) Linux
2 51 (9.50%) Windows
3 42 (7.82%) Unix
4 14 (2.61%) VMS
5 11 (2.05%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.68%) Android
6 9 (1.68%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.49%) Ubuntu
8 7 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.93%) CentOS
10 4 (0.74%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.56%) Debian
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (68.72%) DevOps
2 351 (65.36%) CI/CD
3 171 (31.84%) Agile
4 145 (27.00%) Mentoring
5 132 (24.58%) Continuous Improvement
5 132 (24.58%) Observability
6 120 (22.35%) Containerisation
7 99 (18.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 98 (18.25%) Coaching
9 93 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
9 93 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
10 89 (16.57%) Roadmaps
11 87 (16.20%) Analytics
12 81 (15.08%) Software Engineering
13 78 (14.53%) AI
14 75 (13.97%) Cloud Security
15 69 (12.85%) Asset Management
16 64 (11.92%) High Availability
16 64 (11.92%) Incident Response
17 61 (11.36%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 214 (39.85%) Python
2 117 (21.79%) PowerShell
3 109 (20.30%) Bash
4 86 (16.01%) Bicep
5 78 (14.53%) SQL
6 68 (12.66%) Java
7 55 (10.24%) JavaScript
8 53 (9.87%) Go
9 38 (7.08%) C#
10 36 (6.70%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.05%) Scala
12 5 (0.93%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.74%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.56%) Rust
15 2 (0.37%) C++
15 2 (0.37%) PHP
15 2 (0.37%) VB
16 1 (0.19%) Ruby
16 1 (0.19%) XAML
Qualifications
1 78 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 62 (11.55%) AWS Certification
4 45 (8.38%) Azure Certification
5 31 (5.77%) Degree
6 17 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 7 (1.30%) CCNP
12 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.74%) CISSP
13 4 (0.74%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.74%) OSCE
13 4 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.03%) GDPR
3 26 (4.84%) PCI DSS
4 24 (4.47%) NIST
4 24 (4.47%) SOC 2
5 19 (3.54%) Data Quality
6 17 (3.17%) Accessibility
7 16 (2.98%) QA
8 8 (1.49%) SLA
9 6 (1.12%) GRC
10 4 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.74%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (30.73%) Docker
2 26 (4.84%) Active Directory
2 26 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (2.42%) VMware NSX
6 12 (2.23%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.49%) vSphere
8 4 (0.74%) Firmware
9 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.37%) NFS
10 2 (0.37%) vCloud
11 1 (0.19%) HDFS
11 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 396 (73.74%) Terraform
2 194 (36.13%) Kubernetes
3 122 (22.72%) Ansible
4 74 (13.78%) Prometheus
5 72 (13.41%) Grafana
6 26 (4.84%) Argo
7 22 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.54%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.49%) Puppet
11 6 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 6 (1.12%) SCOM
12 4 (0.74%) Cilium
12 4 (0.74%) logstash
12 4 (0.74%) Packer
12 4 (0.74%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.74%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
14 2 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
15 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.45%) Google
3 39 (7.26%) VMware
4 20 (3.72%) Databricks
5 17 (3.17%) Cisco
6 14 (2.61%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.61%) Splunk
7 9 (1.68%) New Relic
7 9 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.49%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.30%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.30%) Oracle
10 6 (1.12%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.93%) Dell
11 5 (0.93%) Zscaler
12 4 (0.74%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.74%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.74%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.74%) PagerDuty