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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 148 140
Rank change year-on-year +79 -8 -65
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 806 385 581
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 2.33% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 2.51% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 525 293 443
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,450 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,810 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +14.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £104,500
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 18,460 15,337 22,190
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.88% 92.94% 87.76%
Number of salaries quoted 13,367 9,043 15,990
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,917 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,400 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +1.19% -6.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 4 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 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.86%) Apache
3 14 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.50%) Camunda
8 3 (0.37%) Confluence
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
10 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%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 450 (55.83%) AWS
2 445 (55.21%) Azure
3 148 (18.36%) GCP
4 110 (13.65%) GitHub
4 110 (13.65%) Serverless
5 103 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 95 (11.79%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (9.55%) PaaS
8 68 (8.44%) Cloud Computing
9 63 (7.82%) GitHub Actions
10 62 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
11 58 (7.20%) SaaS
12 53 (6.58%) IaaS
13 52 (6.45%) Amazon S3
14 50 (6.20%) Azure AKS
15 41 (5.09%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (4.96%) Power Platform
17 38 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (4.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.43%) LAN
1 76 (9.43%) WAN
2 63 (7.82%) Firewall
3 53 (6.58%) Broadband
4 48 (5.96%) TCP/IP
4 48 (5.96%) VPN
5 45 (5.58%) DNS
6 19 (2.36%) DHCP
7 18 (2.23%) BGP
8 16 (1.99%) Network Security
8 16 (1.99%) OSPF
9 13 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
9 13 (1.61%) VLAN
9 13 (1.61%) VXLAN
10 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.87%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.87%) WebEx
12 6 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.16%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.33%) MongoDB
3 40 (4.96%) Metadata
4 28 (3.47%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.10%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 19 (2.36%) DynamoDB
10 16 (1.99%) Delta Lake
11 13 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (1.61%) NoSQL
12 12 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.49%) MySQL
13 11 (1.36%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.36%) Data Vault
14 10 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.24%) Redis
15 7 (0.87%) Big Data
16 6 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (10.05%) Git
2 47 (5.83%) GitLab
3 43 (5.33%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.12%) NUnit
5 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.74%) JMeter
7 5 (0.62%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.62%) Locust
7 5 (0.62%) Selenium
8 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.50%) JIRA
8 4 (0.50%) Snyk
9 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
9 3 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.25%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 296 (36.72%) Social Skills
2 174 (21.59%) Finance
3 73 (9.06%) Law
4 71 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.82%) Presentation Skills
6 62 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 38 (4.71%) Banking
9 33 (4.09%) Games
10 28 (3.47%) Retail
11 18 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.99%) Legal
12 16 (1.99%) Marketing
13 10 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Advertising
15 7 (0.87%) Aviation
15 7 (0.87%) Local Government
16 6 (0.74%) Legal Technology
17 5 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (26.55%) Senior
2 136 (16.87%) Lead
3 130 (16.13%) Architect
4 98 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (11.29%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.06%) Developer
7 72 (8.93%) Platform Engineer
8 69 (8.56%) Azure Engineer
9 67 (8.31%) Systems Architect
10 57 (7.07%) Software Engineer
11 44 (5.46%) Python Engineer
12 43 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 37 (4.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 34 (4.22%) Data Engineer
16 31 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (3.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 29 (3.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 29 (3.60%) Senior Developer
17 29 (3.60%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.94%) React
2 53 (6.58%) REST
3 45 (5.58%) Node.js
3 45 (5.58%) RESTful
4 43 (5.33%) .NET
5 38 (4.71%) AWS CDK
6 30 (3.72%) ARM Templates
7 25 (3.10%) Spring
7 25 (3.10%) YAML
8 24 (2.98%) Next.js
9 23 (2.85%) Kafka
10 21 (2.61%) PySpark
11 19 (2.36%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.23%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.11%) Django
14 16 (1.99%) CSS
15 15 (1.86%) AngularJS
16 13 (1.61%) PyTorch
17 12 (1.49%) Flask
17 12 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 231 (28.66%) Cloud Native
2 88 (10.92%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 45 (5.58%) Video\Live Streaming
5 43 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 40 (4.96%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (3.97%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.60%) Security Posture
10 25 (3.10%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.23%) Podcast
12 17 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
13 16 (1.99%) Onboarding
14 14 (1.74%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.74%) Replication
14 14 (1.74%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.36%) Blog
17 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 107 (13.28%) Linux
2 55 (6.82%) Windows
3 24 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.85%) Unix
5 13 (1.61%) VMS
6 5 (0.62%) Android
7 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (68.73%) CI/CD
2 414 (51.36%) DevOps
3 277 (34.37%) Observability
4 255 (31.64%) Containerisation
5 231 (28.66%) Mentoring
6 225 (27.92%) Agile
7 222 (27.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 208 (25.81%) AI
9 191 (23.70%) Software Engineering
10 183 (22.70%) Technical Leadership
11 180 (22.33%) Platform Engineering
12 163 (20.22%) Roadmaps
13 139 (17.25%) Test Automation
14 138 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
15 122 (15.14%) Microservices
16 110 (13.65%) Full-Stack Development
17 104 (12.90%) Analytics
18 93 (11.54%) Machine Learning
19 91 (11.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 88 (10.92%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 345 (42.80%) Python
2 106 (13.15%) Bicep
3 102 (12.66%) SQL
4 97 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 92 (11.41%) Bash
6 91 (11.29%) Java
7 79 (9.80%) TypeScript
8 72 (8.93%) Go
9 64 (7.94%) JavaScript
10 47 (5.83%) C#
11 16 (1.99%) Scala
12 13 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.49%) Ruby
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) C++
15 7 (0.87%) Groovy
16 5 (0.62%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.37%) Rust
19 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 132 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.93%) Azure Certification
4 60 (7.44%) Degree
5 30 (3.72%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 25 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 21 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.61%) CCNP
10 12 (1.49%) SnowPro
11 9 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.99%) CCNA
13 6 (0.74%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
14 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.62%) CCIE
15 4 (0.50%) LPIC
15 4 (0.50%) MCSE
15 4 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.32%) GRC
2 43 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.71%) QA
4 15 (1.86%) GDPR
5 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.74%) NIST
6 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.62%) WCAG
9 4 (0.50%) NCSC
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
10 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 164 (20.35%) Docker
2 44 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 37 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.10%) vSphere
5 16 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.50%) Firmware
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 450 (55.83%) Terraform
2 227 (28.16%) Kubernetes
3 88 (10.92%) Ansible
4 76 (9.43%) Grafana
5 46 (5.71%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.48%) Argo
7 16 (1.99%) Istio
8 15 (1.86%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.49%) Puppet
10 9 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (0.87%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.74%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.62%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.50%) linkerd
14 4 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.37%) Packer
15 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 229 (28.41%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.33%) Google
3 42 (5.21%) VMware
4 30 (3.72%) Cisco
5 28 (3.47%) Databricks
6 27 (3.35%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.61%) Red Hat
8 18 (2.23%) Oracle
9 17 (2.11%) Fortinet
10 14 (1.74%) Splunk
11 12 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.24%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.24%) F5
13 10 (1.24%) Informatica
13 10 (1.24%) Okta
14 9 (1.12%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.87%) Arista
15 7 (0.87%) NetApp
16 6 (0.74%) HubSpot