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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 139 148
Rank change year-on-year +69 +9 -78
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 823 396 563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.57% 2.39% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 2.57% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 542 298 400
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,425 £40,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £54,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -6.90%
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,750 £101,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +7.14% -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 18,968 15,434 21,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.20% 92.98% 87.43%
Number of salaries quoted 13,701 8,953 14,944
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 24 August 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 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.19%) Apache
3 16 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 6 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.49%) Camunda
7 3 (0.36%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) IIS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 2 (0.24%) CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 455 (55.29%) Azure
2 447 (54.31%) AWS
3 155 (18.83%) GCP
4 117 (14.22%) GitHub
5 112 (13.61%) Serverless
6 100 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
7 99 (12.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 75 (9.11%) PaaS
9 71 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
10 64 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
11 63 (7.65%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (7.05%) SaaS
13 56 (6.80%) Azure AKS
14 55 (6.68%) IaaS
15 54 (6.56%) Amazon S3
16 45 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
17 44 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
18 42 (5.10%) Power Platform
19 37 (4.50%) Entra ID
20 36 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.23%) WAN
2 75 (9.11%) LAN
3 65 (7.90%) Firewall
4 51 (6.20%) DNS
5 49 (5.95%) Broadband
5 49 (5.95%) VPN
6 47 (5.71%) TCP/IP
7 25 (3.04%) DHCP
8 20 (2.43%) BGP
9 18 (2.19%) Network Security
10 17 (2.07%) OSPF
11 14 (1.70%) VXLAN
12 12 (1.46%) VLAN
13 10 (1.22%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (1.09%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.97%) Ethernet VPN
16 6 (0.73%) Cisco Firepower
16 6 (0.73%) Unified Communications
16 6 (0.73%) WebEx
16 6 (0.73%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.91%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (5.47%) MongoDB
3 42 (5.10%) Metadata
4 32 (3.89%) Relational Database
5 30 (3.65%) Data Lake
6 28 (3.40%) SQL Server
7 24 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
8 20 (2.43%) Delta Lake
9 19 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.82%) Data Vault
10 15 (1.82%) MySQL
11 14 (1.70%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.34%) BigQuery
14 10 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (0.97%) Big Data
16 5 (0.61%) Power BI
16 5 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 85 (10.33%) Git
2 48 (5.83%) GitLab
3 45 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.09%) NUnit
5 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.73%) JIRA
6 6 (0.73%) JMeter
7 5 (0.61%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.61%) Locust
7 5 (0.61%) Selenium
8 4 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.49%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.36%) MLflow
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 306 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 187 (22.72%) Finance
3 81 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 70 (8.51%) Law
5 65 (7.90%) Presentation Skills
6 62 (7.53%) Analytical Skills
7 50 (6.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.22%) Banking
9 35 (4.25%) Games
10 24 (2.92%) Retail
11 21 (2.55%) Legal
12 17 (2.07%) Marketing
13 15 (1.82%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.58%) Local Government
15 12 (1.46%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.85%) Aviation
18 6 (0.73%) Legal Technology
19 5 (0.61%) Advertising
19 5 (0.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 225 (27.34%) Senior
2 137 (16.65%) Architect
3 128 (15.55%) Lead
4 97 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (11.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 75 (9.11%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (8.38%) Developer
7 69 (8.38%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (8.14%) Systems Architect
9 63 (7.65%) Software Engineer
10 51 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 46 (5.59%) Python Engineer
12 42 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 37 (4.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 36 (4.37%) Site Engineer
16 35 (4.25%) Data Engineer
17 28 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.40%) Technical Leader
18 27 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 467 (56.74%) Terraform
2 67 (8.14%) React
3 53 (6.44%) REST
4 50 (6.08%) RESTful
5 48 (5.83%) Node.js
6 46 (5.59%) .NET
7 37 (4.50%) AWS CDK
8 29 (3.52%) ARM Templates
8 29 (3.52%) Kafka
9 26 (3.16%) PySpark
10 23 (2.79%) Next.js
10 23 (2.79%) YAML
11 21 (2.55%) Spring
12 20 (2.43%) CSS
13 17 (2.07%) FastAPI
14 15 (1.82%) .NET Core
14 15 (1.82%) AngularJS
14 15 (1.82%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.46%) Django
15 12 (1.46%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 235 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 91 (11.06%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.08%) Public Cloud
4 42 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (4.98%) Video\Live Streaming
6 39 (4.74%) Product Ownership
7 32 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.77%) Low-Code
8 31 (3.77%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.28%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.19%) Podcast
11 16 (1.94%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.82%) Blog
12 15 (1.82%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.58%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.58%) Replication
15 10 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.22%) PKI
15 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 100 (12.15%) Linux
2 65 (7.90%) Windows
3 32 (3.89%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.79%) Unix
5 13 (1.58%) VMS
6 4 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 559 (67.92%) CI/CD
2 411 (49.94%) DevOps
3 279 (33.90%) Observability
4 262 (31.83%) Containerisation
5 236 (28.68%) Mentoring
6 227 (27.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 221 (26.85%) Agile
8 209 (25.39%) AI
9 200 (24.30%) Software Engineering
10 185 (22.48%) Technical Leadership
11 182 (22.11%) Platform Engineering
12 164 (19.93%) Roadmaps
13 142 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
14 132 (16.04%) Test Automation
15 121 (14.70%) Microservices
16 118 (14.34%) Analytics
17 110 (13.37%) Full-Stack Development
18 99 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 96 (11.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 93 (11.30%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 348 (42.28%) Python
2 116 (14.09%) Bicep
3 109 (13.24%) PowerShell
4 107 (13.00%) SQL
5 94 (11.42%) Bash
6 88 (10.69%) Java
7 82 (9.96%) TypeScript
8 69 (8.38%) Go
9 60 (7.29%) JavaScript
10 49 (5.95%) C#
11 20 (2.43%) Scala
12 13 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
12 13 (1.58%) Ruby
13 8 (0.97%) PHP
14 7 (0.85%) C++
14 7 (0.85%) Groovy
15 4 (0.49%) Rust
15 4 (0.49%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.36%) Apex Code
17 2 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 132 (16.04%) Security Cleared
2 121 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 87 (10.57%) Azure Certification
4 62 (7.53%) Degree
5 36 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 32 (3.89%) AWS Certification
7 27 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (3.04%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (1.94%) SnowPro
10 14 (1.70%) CCNP
11 8 (0.97%) CCNA
12 7 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.73%) CCIE
13 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.49%) MCSE
14 4 (0.49%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.17%) GRC
2 49 (5.95%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.13%) QA
4 16 (1.94%) GDPR
5 15 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.82%) NIST
6 11 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.09%) SLA
8 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.61%) NCSC
9 5 (0.61%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 159 (19.32%) Docker
2 50 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 39 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.04%) vSphere
5 22 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.85%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 219 (26.61%) Kubernetes
2 93 (11.30%) Ansible
3 80 (9.72%) Grafana
4 46 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.55%) Argo
6 17 (2.07%) Istio
7 14 (1.70%) Progress Chef
8 10 (1.22%) FortiGate
9 9 (1.09%) Puppet
10 7 (0.85%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.61%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.49%) linkerd
14 3 (0.36%) Cilium
14 3 (0.36%) Packer
14 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 253 (30.74%) Microsoft
2 54 (6.56%) Google
3 42 (5.10%) VMware
4 32 (3.89%) Databricks
5 27 (3.28%) Cisco
6 24 (2.92%) Palo Alto
7 20 (2.43%) Oracle
8 16 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 16 (1.94%) Fortinet
8 16 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.70%) Splunk
10 12 (1.46%) Informatica
10 12 (1.46%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.46%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.34%) Okta
12 9 (1.09%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.97%) Arista
13 8 (0.97%) F5
13 8 (0.97%) NetApp
14 6 (0.73%) HubSpot