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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 156 138
Rank change year-on-year +86 -18 -59
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 761 372 722
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 2.26% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.42% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 496 277 577
10th Percentile £51,633 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.79% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,500 £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 17,578 15,394 28,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.48% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,832 9,111 21,964
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 10 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 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.97%) Apache
3 13 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.53%) 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 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 441 (57.95%) AWS
2 384 (50.46%) Azure
3 118 (15.51%) Serverless
4 112 (14.72%) GitHub
5 111 (14.59%) GCP
6 96 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 79 (10.38%) PaaS
9 68 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
10 58 (7.62%) IaaS
11 55 (7.23%) Amazon S3
12 54 (7.10%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (7.10%) SaaS
13 50 (6.57%) Azure AKS
14 45 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (5.91%) Azure Monitor
15 40 (5.26%) Power Platform
16 39 (5.12%) Cloud Computing
17 38 (4.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.07%) Broadband
2 64 (8.41%) Firewall
3 50 (6.57%) VPN
4 47 (6.18%) LAN
4 47 (6.18%) WAN
5 39 (5.12%) DNS
6 31 (4.07%) TCP/IP
7 21 (2.76%) BGP
8 15 (1.97%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (1.97%) VLAN
9 14 (1.84%) Network Security
9 14 (1.84%) OSPF
10 11 (1.45%) DHCP
10 11 (1.45%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.18%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.79%) WebEx
13 5 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (5.91%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.12%) Metadata
4 36 (4.73%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.81%) Amazon RDS
6 27 (3.55%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.55%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.02%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (2.23%) DynamoDB
10 15 (1.97%) Delta Lake
11 14 (1.84%) RDBMS
12 13 (1.71%) MySQL
13 12 (1.58%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.45%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
15 10 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
16 9 (1.18%) Redis
17 8 (1.05%) Big Data
17 8 (1.05%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 79 (10.38%) Git
2 46 (6.04%) GitLab
3 41 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.45%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.92%) JMeter
6 7 (0.92%) NUnit
7 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.79%) JIRA
8 5 (0.66%) Locust
8 5 (0.66%) Selenium
9 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.53%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.39%) MLflow
10 3 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 246 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.66%) Finance
3 75 (9.86%) Law
4 73 (9.59%) Public Sector
5 67 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 62 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (5.26%) Banking
8 35 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
9 33 (4.34%) Retail
10 31 (4.07%) Games
11 20 (2.63%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.71%) Marketing
13 12 (1.58%) Legal
14 10 (1.31%) Back Office
14 10 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 10 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.05%) Billing
16 7 (0.92%) Aviation
17 6 (0.79%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 193 (25.36%) Senior
2 142 (18.66%) Lead
3 96 (12.61%) Architect
4 94 (12.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 89 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 78 (10.25%) Platform Engineer
7 73 (9.59%) Developer
8 61 (8.02%) Azure Engineer
9 53 (6.96%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 48 (6.31%) Software Engineer
12 40 (5.26%) Systems Architect
13 35 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 32 (4.20%) Data Engineer
14 32 (4.20%) Python Engineer
15 30 (3.94%) Senior Developer
15 30 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (3.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 24 (3.15%) Technical Leader
18 23 (3.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.23%) React
2 50 (6.57%) RESTful
3 49 (6.44%) REST
4 42 (5.52%) .NET
4 42 (5.52%) Node.js
5 38 (4.99%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.07%) ARM Templates
7 29 (3.81%) Spring
8 26 (3.42%) YAML
9 24 (3.15%) Spring Boot
10 22 (2.89%) Kafka
10 22 (2.89%) Next.js
11 19 (2.50%) FastAPI
11 19 (2.50%) PySpark
12 18 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
13 17 (2.23%) CSS
13 17 (2.23%) Django
13 17 (2.23%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.10%) TensorFlow
15 15 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 234 (30.75%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (5.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 43 (5.65%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.99%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.20%) Low-Code
7 29 (3.81%) Security Posture
8 27 (3.55%) Data Centre
9 26 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (3.02%) Onboarding
11 18 (2.37%) Podcast
12 15 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.84%) Blog
14 13 (1.71%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.71%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
15 11 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 110 (14.45%) Linux
2 51 (6.70%) Windows
3 25 (3.29%) Unix
4 19 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.71%) VMS
6 8 (1.05%) Android
7 7 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (69.65%) CI/CD
2 407 (53.48%) DevOps
3 254 (33.38%) Observability
4 234 (30.75%) Containerisation
5 227 (29.83%) Agile
5 227 (29.83%) Mentoring
6 200 (26.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 192 (25.23%) AI
8 180 (23.65%) Platform Engineering
9 170 (22.34%) Technical Leadership
10 165 (21.68%) Software Engineering
11 145 (19.05%) Roadmaps
12 144 (18.92%) Test Automation
13 134 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (16.16%) Microservices
15 104 (13.67%) Full-Stack Development
16 99 (13.01%) Analytics
17 94 (12.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 91 (11.96%) Machine Learning
19 80 (10.51%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 339 (44.55%) Python
2 112 (14.72%) Bash
3 107 (14.06%) Java
4 98 (12.88%) Bicep
5 97 (12.75%) SQL
6 96 (12.61%) PowerShell
7 80 (10.51%) Go
8 76 (9.99%) JavaScript
9 75 (9.86%) TypeScript
10 46 (6.04%) C#
11 16 (2.10%) Scala
12 13 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 11 (1.45%) Ruby
14 9 (1.18%) PHP
15 8 (1.05%) C++
16 7 (0.92%) Groovy
17 5 (0.66%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.66%) Rust
18 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
18 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 113 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 67 (8.80%) Azure Certification
4 55 (7.23%) Degree
5 38 (4.99%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.45%) CCNP
10 11 (1.45%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.18%) SnowPro
12 8 (1.05%) CCNA
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.66%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.53%) LPIC
14 4 (0.53%) MCSE
14 4 (0.53%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.39%) QA
2 38 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.20%) GRC
4 16 (2.10%) GDPR
4 16 (2.10%) PCI DSS
5 14 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.71%) SOC 2
7 11 (1.45%) NIST
8 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) WCAG
10 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 169 (22.21%) Docker
2 42 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.15%) vSphere
5 13 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.53%) Firmware
10 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 434 (57.03%) Terraform
2 242 (31.80%) Kubernetes
3 104 (13.67%) Ansible
4 73 (9.59%) Grafana
5 61 (8.02%) Prometheus
6 30 (3.94%) Argo
7 17 (2.23%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.23%) Progress Chef
7 17 (2.23%) Puppet
8 13 (1.71%) Istio
8 13 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.31%) Proxmox
10 9 (1.18%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.92%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.79%) Packer
13 5 (0.66%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 181 (23.78%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.18%) VMware
3 37 (4.86%) Google
4 30 (3.94%) Cisco
5 27 (3.55%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.15%) Databricks
7 20 (2.63%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.23%) Oracle
9 16 (2.10%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.58%) ScienceLogic
11 12 (1.58%) Splunk
12 11 (1.45%) F5
13 8 (1.05%) Okta
14 7 (0.92%) CyberArk
14 7 (0.92%) Informatica
14 7 (0.92%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.79%) Juniper
15 6 (0.79%) NetApp
15 6 (0.79%) SolarWinds