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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 154 140
Rank change year-on-year +83 -14 -57
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 710 363 751
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 2.31% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 2.45% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 479 266 606
10th Percentile £52,403 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,313 £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 £87,500
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 16,900 14,802 29,888
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.24% 94.02% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 12,326 8,674 23,017
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
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 £78,938 £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% -9.12%

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 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 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.11%) Apache
3 13 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.70%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.56%) Confluence
6 3 (0.42%) WordPress
7 2 (0.28%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 437 (61.55%) AWS
2 333 (46.90%) Azure
3 118 (16.62%) Serverless
4 116 (16.34%) GitHub
5 99 (13.94%) Azure DevOps
5 99 (13.94%) GCP
6 90 (12.68%) AWS CloudFormation
7 74 (10.42%) PaaS
8 69 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (8.31%) IaaS
10 56 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 53 (7.46%) SaaS
12 50 (7.04%) Azure AKS
12 50 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
13 47 (6.62%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
14 40 (5.63%) Entra ID
15 37 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (5.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.86%) Broadband
2 67 (9.44%) Firewall
3 47 (6.62%) VPN
4 39 (5.49%) DNS
5 30 (4.23%) TCP/IP
6 21 (2.96%) BGP
7 16 (2.25%) LAN
7 16 (2.25%) WAN
8 15 (2.11%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.11%) VLAN
9 14 (1.97%) Network Security
9 14 (1.97%) OSPF
10 11 (1.55%) DHCP
10 11 (1.55%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.27%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.85%) WebEx
13 5 (0.70%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.70%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.34%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.21%) Metadata
4 34 (4.79%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 22 (3.10%) Data Lake
10 16 (2.25%) DynamoDB
11 15 (2.11%) Delta Lake
11 15 (2.11%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.41%) MySQL
15 9 (1.27%) Redis
16 8 (1.13%) Big Data
17 7 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (11.41%) Git
2 48 (6.76%) GitLab
3 43 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.69%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.13%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.99%) NUnit
7 6 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.85%) JIRA
7 6 (0.85%) JMeter
8 5 (0.70%) Locust
8 5 (0.70%) Selenium
8 5 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.42%) MLflow
11 2 (0.28%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.28%) MSI
11 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 209 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 106 (14.93%) Finance
3 72 (10.14%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.92%) Law
7 37 (5.21%) Banking
8 31 (4.37%) Games
9 30 (4.23%) Retail
10 20 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.69%) Billing
11 12 (1.69%) Legal
12 10 (1.41%) Back Office
12 10 (1.41%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.41%) Marketing
13 7 (0.99%) Aviation
14 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
14 6 (0.85%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 187 (26.34%) Senior
2 133 (18.73%) Lead
3 92 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 91 (12.82%) Cloud Engineer
5 76 (10.70%) Developer
5 76 (10.70%) Platform Engineer
6 59 (8.31%) Architect
7 57 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
8 55 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
9 49 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 43 (6.06%) Software Engineer
11 33 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 33 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
12 31 (4.37%) Data Engineer
13 30 (4.23%) Python Engineer
13 30 (4.23%) Senior Developer
14 25 (3.52%) Lead Developer
15 24 (3.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (3.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.46%) React
2 48 (6.76%) RESTful
3 47 (6.62%) REST
4 41 (5.77%) .NET
5 40 (5.63%) Node.js
6 37 (5.21%) AWS CDK
7 31 (4.37%) Spring
8 29 (4.08%) ARM Templates
9 26 (3.66%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.66%) YAML
10 21 (2.96%) Kafka
10 21 (2.96%) Next.js
11 19 (2.68%) FastAPI
11 19 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.68%) PySpark
12 17 (2.39%) CSS
12 17 (2.39%) Django
12 17 (2.39%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (2.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 227 (31.97%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.42%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.76%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.77%) Product Ownership
6 38 (5.35%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.51%) Low-Code
8 30 (4.23%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.80%) Data Centre
10 24 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (3.24%) Onboarding
12 21 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (2.54%) Podcast
14 15 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.83%) Blog
15 13 (1.83%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.69%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.34%) Linux
2 48 (6.76%) Windows
3 26 (3.66%) Unix
4 19 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.83%) VMS
6 10 (1.41%) Android
7 9 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (71.55%) CI/CD
2 402 (56.62%) DevOps
3 245 (34.51%) Observability
4 224 (31.55%) Agile
5 221 (31.13%) Mentoring
6 196 (27.61%) Containerisation
7 188 (26.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 187 (26.34%) AI
9 174 (24.51%) Platform Engineering
10 157 (22.11%) Technical Leadership
11 154 (21.69%) Software Engineering
12 139 (19.58%) Test Automation
13 124 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (16.62%) Microservices
15 109 (15.35%) Roadmaps
16 105 (14.79%) Full-Stack Development
17 96 (13.52%) Analytics
18 93 (13.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 88 (12.39%) Machine Learning
20 78 (10.99%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 324 (45.63%) Python
2 112 (15.77%) Bash
3 106 (14.93%) Java
4 94 (13.24%) Bicep
5 91 (12.82%) SQL
6 87 (12.25%) PowerShell
7 77 (10.85%) Go
8 76 (10.70%) TypeScript
9 74 (10.42%) JavaScript
10 46 (6.48%) C#
11 16 (2.25%) Scala
12 13 (1.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.55%) Ruby
14 9 (1.27%) PHP
15 8 (1.13%) C++
16 7 (0.99%) Groovy
17 5 (0.70%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.56%) Rust
19 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
19 2 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 111 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.94%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.30%) Azure Certification
4 53 (7.46%) Degree
5 41 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.69%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.55%) CCNP
12 8 (1.13%) CCNA
13 7 (0.99%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.56%) LPIC
15 4 (0.56%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.56%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.56%) VCAP
15 4 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.35%) QA
2 33 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.11%) GDPR
4 14 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.69%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.13%) NIST
9 5 (0.70%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (23.10%) Docker
2 42 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.38%) vSphere
5 13 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.13%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.56%) Firmware
10 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 424 (59.72%) Terraform
2 234 (32.96%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.79%) Ansible
4 71 (10.00%) Grafana
5 64 (9.01%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.37%) Argo
7 18 (2.54%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.39%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.11%) Puppet
10 13 (1.83%) Istio
11 12 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.41%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.27%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.99%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.85%) Packer
16 5 (0.70%) AWS Copilot
17 4 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
18 3 (0.42%) linkerd
Vendors
1 135 (19.01%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.62%) VMware
3 35 (4.93%) Google
4 30 (4.23%) Cisco
5 27 (3.80%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.38%) Databricks
7 20 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.25%) Fortinet
9 15 (2.11%) Oracle
10 13 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.69%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.55%) F5
12 11 (1.55%) Splunk
13 7 (0.99%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.85%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.85%) NetApp
14 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.85%) Zscaler