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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 119 128
Rank change year-on-year +50 +9 -42
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 596 367 805
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 2.76% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 2.92% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 376 273 683
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £75,360 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +6.78% -5.27%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +6.90% -3.33%

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 14,776 12,587 29,780
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.16% 94.78% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,325 8,918 23,667
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 19 April 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 16 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.51%) Apache
3 8 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Confluence
5 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.50%) IIS
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 366 (61.41%) AWS
2 311 (52.18%) Azure
3 117 (19.63%) GitHub
4 116 (19.46%) GCP
5 115 (19.30%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (16.28%) Serverless
7 92 (15.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 84 (14.09%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (10.23%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (9.23%) SaaS
11 47 (7.89%) Amazon S3
11 47 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
12 44 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
12 44 (7.38%) PaaS
13 40 (6.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (6.71%) Amazon ECS
14 38 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (6.38%) dbt
15 37 (6.21%) Entra ID
16 34 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 73 (12.25%) Firewall
2 38 (6.38%) Broadband
3 32 (5.37%) TCP/IP
3 32 (5.37%) VPN
4 19 (3.19%) DNS
5 16 (2.68%) Cisco ASA
6 14 (2.35%) BGP
7 13 (2.18%) Network Security
8 11 (1.85%) LAN
8 11 (1.85%) VLAN
9 10 (1.68%) WAN
10 9 (1.51%) DHCP
11 6 (1.01%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
12 5 (0.84%) WebEx
13 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
14 3 (0.50%) HTTP
14 3 (0.50%) OSPF
14 3 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
2 41 (6.88%) NoSQL
3 38 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (5.37%) SQL Server
5 27 (4.53%) Relational Database
6 22 (3.69%) MongoDB
7 21 (3.52%) Data Lake
8 20 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
9 19 (3.19%) RDBMS
10 16 (2.68%) Metadata
11 15 (2.52%) DynamoDB
12 13 (2.18%) Delta Lake
12 13 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (1.85%) MySQL
13 11 (1.85%) Redis
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
16 7 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 55 (9.23%) Git
2 43 (7.21%) GitLab
3 40 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.19%) Jaeger
5 10 (1.68%) SonarQube
6 9 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.51%) JIRA
6 9 (1.51%) JMeter
7 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.01%) Locust
7 6 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.84%) NUnit
8 5 (0.84%) Selenium
8 5 (0.84%) Storybook
9 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.50%) git-flow
9 3 (0.50%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) MLflow
10 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 155 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 144 (24.16%) Finance
3 69 (11.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 55 (9.23%) Banking
5 54 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 51 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
7 49 (8.22%) Retail
8 39 (6.54%) Law
9 28 (4.70%) Telecoms
10 26 (4.36%) Financial Institution
11 22 (3.69%) Back Office
12 18 (3.02%) Billing
13 14 (2.35%) Marketing
14 8 (1.34%) Health Technology
14 8 (1.34%) Legal
15 7 (1.17%) Games
16 6 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
17 5 (0.84%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 151 (25.34%) Senior
2 113 (18.96%) Lead
3 86 (14.43%) Cloud Engineer
4 67 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (10.74%) Platform Engineer
6 59 (9.90%) Developer
7 57 (9.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 56 (9.40%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (5.03%) Architect
10 30 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 27 (4.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 27 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
12 25 (4.19%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.69%) Lead DevOps
14 21 (3.52%) Python Engineer
15 20 (3.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 20 (3.36%) Lead Developer
16 19 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 18 (3.02%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.72%) React
2 43 (7.21%) .NET
3 37 (6.21%) Node.js
4 36 (6.04%) REST
4 36 (6.04%) RESTful
5 32 (5.37%) Elastic Stack
6 30 (5.03%) Spring
7 28 (4.70%) AWS CDK
8 27 (4.53%) Django
9 25 (4.19%) OAuth
10 24 (4.03%) Spring Boot
10 24 (4.03%) YAML
11 23 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
12 21 (3.52%) OpenAPI
12 21 (3.52%) Swagger
13 20 (3.36%) Kafka
14 18 (3.02%) FastAPI
14 18 (3.02%) JSON
15 17 (2.85%) ARM Templates
15 17 (2.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (26.51%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 37 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.21%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.53%) Security Posture
5 26 (4.36%) Data Centre
6 22 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 20 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.36%) Mobile App
7 20 (3.36%) Onboarding
8 17 (2.85%) Legacy Applications
9 16 (2.68%) Blog
9 16 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 12 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (2.01%) Linux Command Line
11 11 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.34%) Low-Code
14 8 (1.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (21.64%) Linux
2 46 (7.72%) Windows
3 45 (7.55%) Unix
4 20 (3.36%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.35%) Android
6 13 (2.18%) Apple iOS
7 6 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.01%) VMS
8 5 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.67%) CentOS
9 4 (0.67%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (70.13%) CI/CD
2 393 (65.94%) DevOps
3 207 (34.73%) Agile
4 179 (30.03%) Observability
5 178 (29.87%) Mentoring
6 156 (26.17%) Containerisation
7 152 (25.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 125 (20.97%) Platform Engineering
9 114 (19.13%) Software Engineering
10 109 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 98 (16.44%) Test Automation
13 93 (15.60%) Technical Leadership
14 88 (14.77%) AI
15 85 (14.26%) Roadmaps
16 76 (12.75%) Microservices
17 73 (12.25%) Analytics
17 73 (12.25%) Coaching
17 73 (12.25%) Incident Response
18 70 (11.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 243 (40.77%) Python
2 98 (16.44%) Java
3 94 (15.77%) Bash
4 80 (13.42%) SQL
5 79 (13.26%) PowerShell
6 70 (11.74%) Bicep
7 68 (11.41%) JavaScript
8 60 (10.07%) Go
9 48 (8.05%) TypeScript
10 40 (6.71%) C#
11 13 (2.18%) Scala
12 8 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.84%) C++
14 5 (0.84%) Ruby
15 4 (0.67%) Rust
16 3 (0.50%) PHP
17 2 (0.34%) VB
18 1 (0.17%) C
18 1 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 79 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.22%) Degree
4 48 (8.05%) AWS Certification
5 41 (6.88%) Azure Certification
6 18 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.34%) CCNP
10 7 (1.17%) CREST Certified
10 7 (1.17%) OSCP
11 6 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
11 6 (1.01%) CCNA
12 5 (0.84%) LPIC
12 5 (0.84%) MCSE
12 5 (0.84%) RHCSA
12 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (0.67%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.20%) QA
3 26 (4.36%) PCI DSS
3 26 (4.36%) SOC 2
4 25 (4.19%) GDPR
5 23 (3.86%) Accessibility
6 21 (3.52%) Data Quality
7 16 (2.68%) NIST
8 7 (1.17%) GRC
9 6 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.84%) SLA
10 5 (0.84%) WCAG
11 4 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.67%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.17%) IFRS
13 1 (0.17%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 169 (28.36%) Docker
2 25 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.18%) vSphere
5 12 (2.01%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.67%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.34%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 412 (69.13%) Terraform
2 215 (36.07%) Kubernetes
3 119 (19.97%) Ansible
4 75 (12.58%) Prometheus
5 73 (12.25%) Grafana
6 29 (4.87%) Argo
7 21 (3.52%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.35%) Puppet
9 12 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
13 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.67%) Cilium
13 4 (0.67%) logstash
13 4 (0.67%) Packer
13 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.34%) Istio
Vendors
1 99 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.55%) Google
3 40 (6.71%) VMware
4 30 (5.03%) Cisco
5 21 (3.52%) Databricks
6 17 (2.85%) Splunk
7 16 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.18%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.01%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.68%) Ab Initio
11 8 (1.34%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.34%) New Relic
12 7 (1.17%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.17%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.17%) Fortinet
13 6 (1.01%) F5
13 6 (1.01%) Juniper
13 6 (1.01%) NetApp
13 6 (1.01%) Okta
14 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace