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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 146 145
Rank change year-on-year +77 -1 -67
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 803 390 571
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.60% 2.35% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 2.53% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 521 292 443
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,275 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £90,125 £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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £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 3 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 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.87%) Apache
3 14 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.37%) Camunda
7 3 (0.37%) Confluence
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) IIS
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%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 451 (56.16%) AWS
2 441 (54.92%) Azure
3 147 (18.31%) GCP
4 111 (13.82%) Serverless
5 109 (13.57%) GitHub
6 103 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 94 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
8 78 (9.71%) PaaS
9 68 (8.47%) Cloud Computing
10 63 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
12 57 (7.10%) SaaS
13 54 (6.72%) IaaS
14 52 (6.48%) Amazon S3
15 48 (5.98%) Azure AKS
16 40 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (4.98%) Power Platform
17 39 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
18 38 (4.73%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (9.46%) LAN
1 76 (9.46%) WAN
2 62 (7.72%) Firewall
3 53 (6.60%) Broadband
4 47 (5.85%) VPN
5 45 (5.60%) TCP/IP
6 43 (5.35%) DNS
7 18 (2.24%) BGP
8 17 (2.12%) DHCP
9 16 (1.99%) Network Security
9 16 (1.99%) OSPF
10 14 (1.74%) Cisco ASA
11 13 (1.62%) VLAN
11 13 (1.62%) VXLAN
12 9 (1.12%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.87%) Cisco Firepower
13 7 (0.87%) Ethernet VPN
13 7 (0.87%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.87%) WebEx
14 6 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (12.08%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.35%) MongoDB
3 40 (4.98%) Metadata
4 28 (3.49%) Relational Database
5 27 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (3.11%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.11%) SQL Server
7 22 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (2.37%) DynamoDB
9 16 (1.99%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.62%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (1.49%) MySQL
12 11 (1.37%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.37%) Data Vault
13 10 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.25%) Redis
14 7 (0.87%) Big Data
15 6 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 81 (10.09%) Git
2 49 (6.10%) GitLab
3 43 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.12%) NUnit
5 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.75%) 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
8 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.37%) MLflow
9 3 (0.37%) Postman
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
1 297 (36.99%) Social Skills
2 175 (21.79%) Finance
3 73 (9.09%) Law
4 70 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (7.85%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (4.73%) Banking
8 33 (4.11%) Games
9 28 (3.49%) Retail
10 19 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.99%) Legal
11 16 (1.99%) Marketing
12 11 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.87%) Advertising
14 7 (0.87%) Aviation
14 7 (0.87%) Local Government
15 6 (0.75%) Legal Technology
16 5 (0.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (26.40%) Senior
2 136 (16.94%) Lead
3 130 (16.19%) Architect
4 97 (12.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 92 (11.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 72 (8.97%) Developer
7 71 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
8 67 (8.34%) Systems Architect
9 66 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (7.10%) Software Engineer
11 43 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (5.35%) Python Engineer
12 38 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 34 (4.23%) Data Engineer
15 30 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (3.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 29 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 28 (3.49%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.49%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.97%) React
2 54 (6.72%) REST
3 45 (5.60%) Node.js
3 45 (5.60%) RESTful
4 43 (5.35%) .NET
5 38 (4.73%) AWS CDK
6 31 (3.86%) ARM Templates
7 26 (3.24%) YAML
8 24 (2.99%) Next.js
8 24 (2.99%) Spring
9 22 (2.74%) Kafka
10 21 (2.62%) PySpark
11 19 (2.37%) Spring Boot
12 18 (2.24%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.12%) Django
14 16 (1.99%) CSS
15 15 (1.87%) AngularJS
16 13 (1.62%) JSON
16 13 (1.62%) PyTorch
17 12 (1.49%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 230 (28.64%) Cloud Native
2 87 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (5.60%) Video\Live Streaming
4 44 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (5.35%) Public Cloud
6 40 (4.98%) Product Ownership
7 33 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (3.99%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.61%) Security Posture
10 25 (3.11%) Data Centre
11 18 (2.24%) Podcast
12 17 (2.12%) 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 13 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (1.37%) Blog
18 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.45%) Linux
2 53 (6.60%) Windows
3 23 (2.86%) Unix
4 22 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.62%) 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
1 553 (68.87%) CI/CD
2 415 (51.68%) DevOps
3 276 (34.37%) Observability
4 256 (31.88%) Containerisation
5 228 (28.39%) Mentoring
6 225 (28.02%) Agile
7 223 (27.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (25.65%) AI
9 187 (23.29%) Software Engineering
10 183 (22.79%) Technical Leadership
11 178 (22.17%) Platform Engineering
12 163 (20.30%) Roadmaps
13 138 (17.19%) Test Automation
14 137 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
15 123 (15.32%) Microservices
16 109 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
17 103 (12.83%) Analytics
18 93 (11.58%) Machine Learning
19 90 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
20 86 (10.71%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 347 (43.21%) Python
2 105 (13.08%) Bicep
3 101 (12.58%) SQL
4 95 (11.83%) PowerShell
5 92 (11.46%) Bash
6 90 (11.21%) Java
7 79 (9.84%) TypeScript
8 72 (8.97%) Go
9 66 (8.22%) JavaScript
10 47 (5.85%) C#
11 16 (1.99%) Scala
12 13 (1.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (1.49%) Ruby
14 8 (1.00%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) C++
15 7 (0.87%) Groovy
16 5 (0.62%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.50%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
18 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 131 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 121 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.71%) Azure Certification
4 61 (7.60%) Degree
5 30 (3.74%) AWS Certification
5 30 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (1.62%) CCNP
10 12 (1.49%) SnowPro
11 9 (1.12%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.00%) CCNA
13 6 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
13 6 (0.75%) 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 (7.35%) GRC
2 43 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.73%) QA
4 15 (1.87%) GDPR
4 15 (1.87%) NIST
5 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.00%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.62%) WCAG
10 4 (0.50%) NCSC
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS
11 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 164 (20.42%) Docker
2 42 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (3.11%) vSphere
5 14 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.50%) Firmware
9 2 (0.25%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 448 (55.79%) Terraform
2 227 (28.27%) Kubernetes
3 89 (11.08%) Ansible
4 77 (9.59%) Grafana
5 47 (5.85%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.49%) Argo
7 16 (1.99%) Istio
8 15 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.62%) Puppet
10 9 (1.12%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (0.87%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.75%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.75%) 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
1 226 (28.14%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.23%) Google
3 40 (4.98%) VMware
4 31 (3.86%) Cisco
5 28 (3.49%) Databricks
5 28 (3.49%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.74%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.24%) Oracle
8 17 (2.12%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.74%) Splunk
10 12 (1.49%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.37%) F5
11 11 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.25%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.25%) Informatica
12 10 (1.25%) Okta
13 9 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.87%) Arista
14 7 (0.87%) NetApp
15 6 (0.75%) Juniper