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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 114 65
Rank change year-on-year -12 -49 +22
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 420 573 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.56% 2.77% 4.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 3.15% 4.77%
Number of salaries quoted 308 351 835
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £48,020
25th Percentile £59,688 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +2.11%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £88,750
90th Percentile £101,625 £105,000 £106,289
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% -3.33%

All Process and 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 15,402 18,187 22,106
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.81% 88.00% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,401 10,957 17,963
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,498 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 October 2025.

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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 21 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.90%) Apache
2 8 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) nginx
5 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 281 (66.90%) Azure
2 229 (54.52%) AWS
3 112 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 81 (19.29%) GitHub
5 63 (15.00%) Serverless
6 61 (14.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 61 (14.52%) Entra ID
7 59 (14.05%) GitHub Actions
8 58 (13.81%) GCP
9 56 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
10 54 (12.86%) PaaS
11 53 (12.62%) SaaS
12 48 (11.43%) IaaS
13 47 (11.19%) Microsoft 365
14 43 (10.24%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (8.10%) Power Automate
17 32 (7.62%) Power Platform
18 30 (7.14%) Amazon S3
18 30 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 65 (15.48%) Firewall
2 58 (13.81%) VPN
3 54 (12.86%) WAN
4 44 (10.48%) DNS
5 33 (7.86%) LAN
6 30 (7.14%) SD-WAN
7 17 (4.05%) Network Security
8 14 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (2.62%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.90%) BGP
10 8 (1.90%) DHCP
11 7 (1.67%) Unified Communications
11 7 (1.67%) VoIP
12 6 (1.43%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (1.19%) OSPF
13 5 (1.19%) VLAN
14 4 (0.95%) SAN
14 4 (0.95%) Wireless
14 4 (0.95%) Wireshark
15 3 (0.71%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (8.10%) Data Lake
2 26 (6.19%) Power BI
3 25 (5.95%) MySQL
4 23 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (3.33%) DynamoDB
6 12 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.14%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.43%) Redis
10 5 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.19%) Tableau
11 4 (0.95%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.71%) Big Data
12 3 (0.71%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 55 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 46 (10.95%) Git
3 36 (8.57%) GitLab
4 9 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (1.43%) SonarQube
5 6 (1.43%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.19%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.95%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.95%) JIRA
8 3 (0.71%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.71%) IntelliJ
8 3 (0.71%) JUnit
8 3 (0.71%) Maven
8 3 (0.71%) Mockito
8 3 (0.71%) Subversion
9 2 (0.48%) git-flow
9 2 (0.48%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.24%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.24%) Snyk
General
1 85 (20.24%) Finance
2 77 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 33 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (7.86%) Law
4 26 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.57%) Banking
6 15 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 13 (3.10%) Legal
8 11 (2.62%) Retail
9 7 (1.67%) Games
9 7 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.95%) Advertising
12 4 (0.95%) Back Office
12 4 (0.95%) Marketing
13 3 (0.71%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.71%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 97 (23.10%) Senior
2 75 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 67 (15.95%) Architect
3 67 (15.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 51 (12.14%) Lead
5 35 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
6 33 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
7 32 (7.62%) Developer
8 30 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 27 (6.43%) Senior DevOps
10 24 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (5.24%) AWS DevOps
11 22 (5.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 17 (4.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 14 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.10%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (11.67%) .NET
2 31 (7.38%) React
3 18 (4.29%) REST
4 13 (3.10%) Elastic Stack
4 13 (3.10%) YAML
5 12 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
5 12 (2.86%) Node.js
6 11 (2.62%) RESTful
7 10 (2.38%) .NET Framework
7 10 (2.38%) Spring
8 9 (2.14%) AWS CDK
8 9 (2.14%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.90%) .NET Core
9 8 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 8 (1.90%) ARM Templates
9 8 (1.90%) Kafka
9 8 (1.90%) OAuth
10 7 (1.67%) JSON
10 7 (1.67%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.43%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.24%) Cloud Native
2 39 (9.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 38 (9.05%) Data Centre
4 32 (7.62%) Public Cloud
5 27 (6.43%) Product Ownership
6 19 (4.52%) Management Information System
7 18 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (3.81%) NHS
9 14 (3.33%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.10%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
11 12 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.62%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.67%) Operational Technology
15 5 (1.19%) Data Structures
16 4 (0.95%) AI Agents
16 4 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 4 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
16 4 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 69 (16.43%) Linux
2 40 (9.52%) Windows
3 12 (2.86%) Unix
4 11 (2.62%) VMS
5 8 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.67%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.95%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.71%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (72.38%) DevOps
2 267 (63.57%) CI/CD
3 139 (33.10%) Agile
4 85 (20.24%) Roadmaps
5 82 (19.52%) Analytics
6 80 (19.05%) Containerisation
7 78 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (16.19%) AI
8 68 (16.19%) Mentoring
8 68 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
9 63 (15.00%) Observability
10 60 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 58 (13.81%) ITIL
12 53 (12.62%) Cloud Security
13 49 (11.67%) Migration
13 49 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 47 (11.19%) Coaching
14 47 (11.19%) Software Engineering
15 45 (10.71%) High Availability
16 42 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 168 (40.00%) Python
2 109 (25.95%) PowerShell
3 77 (18.33%) Bash
4 70 (16.67%) Bicep
5 66 (15.71%) SQL
6 39 (9.29%) JavaScript
7 32 (7.62%) C#
8 26 (6.19%) TypeScript
9 22 (5.24%) Java
10 20 (4.76%) Go
11 5 (1.19%) PHP
12 3 (0.71%) C++
12 3 (0.71%) Groovy
12 3 (0.71%) Julia
12 3 (0.71%) R
12 3 (0.71%) VBA
13 2 (0.48%) Scala
13 2 (0.48%) XAML
14 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (15.24%) Azure Certification
2 59 (14.05%) Security Cleared
3 46 (10.95%) AWS Certification
3 46 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 25 (5.95%) Degree
5 18 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 18 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (4.05%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (3.81%) CCNP
7 16 (3.81%) DBS Check
8 12 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 9 (2.14%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (1.67%) PMI Certification
10 7 (1.67%) PMP
11 5 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.19%) CISSP
12 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.48%) CCNA
12 2 (0.48%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.71%) NIST
2 20 (4.76%) GDPR
2 20 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.10%) QA
4 7 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.67%) SOC 2
5 5 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.95%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.71%) SLA
8 2 (0.48%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 103 (24.52%) Docker
2 38 (9.05%) Virtual Machines
3 24 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 21 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.38%) vSphere
7 7 (1.67%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.43%) NFS
9 3 (0.71%) Firmware
9 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.48%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.24%) HDFS
11 1 (0.24%) KVM
11 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (66.67%) Terraform
2 147 (35.00%) Kubernetes
3 112 (26.67%) Ansible
4 48 (11.43%) Grafana
5 37 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (4.52%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (2.38%) Argo
9 8 (1.90%) SCOM
10 3 (0.71%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.48%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.24%) Puppet
12 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (23.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.81%) Cisco
3 33 (7.86%) Databricks
4 26 (6.19%) VMware
5 19 (4.52%) Meraki
5 19 (4.52%) Palo Alto
6 15 (3.57%) Red Hat
7 14 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 13 (3.10%) Aruba
9 12 (2.86%) Mellanox
9 12 (2.86%) NVIDIA
10 11 (2.62%) Google
10 11 (2.62%) Oracle
11 7 (1.67%) Commvault
11 7 (1.67%) Pure Storage
12 6 (1.43%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.95%) Ab Initio
13 4 (0.95%) Dell
13 4 (0.95%) Foundry
13 4 (0.95%) Salesforce