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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 158 134
Rank change year-on-year +84 -24 -50
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 697 351 757
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 2.25% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 2.39% 2.49%
Number of salaries quoted 470 256 606
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £49,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 16,750 14,693 30,457
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.05% 94.39% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12,187 8,560 23,487
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,969 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.15%) Apache
3 13 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.72%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) WordPress
6 2 (0.29%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 428 (61.41%) AWS
2 321 (46.05%) Azure
3 120 (17.22%) Serverless
4 113 (16.21%) GitHub
5 97 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (13.77%) GCP
7 87 (12.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (10.04%) PaaS
9 66 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (8.03%) Amazon S3
10 56 (8.03%) IaaS
10 56 (8.03%) SaaS
11 51 (7.32%) Azure Monitor
12 49 (7.03%) Azure AKS
13 48 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (5.74%) Entra ID
16 38 (5.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 38 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
17 33 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (10.04%) Broadband
2 64 (9.18%) Firewall
3 44 (6.31%) VPN
4 37 (5.31%) DNS
5 29 (4.16%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.01%) BGP
7 15 (2.15%) Cisco ASA
7 15 (2.15%) VLAN
8 14 (2.01%) LAN
8 14 (2.01%) OSPF
8 14 (2.01%) WAN
9 13 (1.87%) Network Security
10 11 (1.58%) VXLAN
11 10 (1.43%) DHCP
12 8 (1.15%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.86%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.86%) WebEx
14 5 (0.72%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.72%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.20%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.46%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.31%) Metadata
4 34 (4.88%) Relational Database
5 32 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (4.02%) NoSQL
7 24 (3.44%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.30%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.15%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.15%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.58%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.43%) MySQL
14 9 (1.29%) Redis
15 8 (1.15%) Big Data
16 7 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 79 (11.33%) Git
2 48 (6.89%) GitLab
3 39 (5.60%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.72%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.15%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.00%) NUnit
7 6 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.86%) JMeter
7 6 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.72%) JIRA
8 5 (0.72%) Locust
8 5 (0.72%) Selenium
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.43%) MLflow
11 2 (0.29%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.29%) MSI
11 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 206 (29.56%) Social Skills
2 102 (14.63%) Finance
3 67 (9.61%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
6 41 (5.88%) Law
7 37 (5.31%) Banking
8 31 (4.45%) Games
9 30 (4.30%) Retail
10 20 (2.87%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.87%) Billing
12 11 (1.58%) Legal
13 10 (1.43%) Back Office
13 10 (1.43%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.43%) Marketing
14 9 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.15%) Health Technology
16 7 (1.00%) Aviation
17 6 (0.86%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 182 (26.11%) Senior
2 134 (19.23%) Lead
3 88 (12.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 87 (12.48%) Cloud Engineer
5 77 (11.05%) Developer
6 75 (10.76%) Platform Engineer
7 59 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
8 57 (8.18%) Architect
9 53 (7.60%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (6.17%) Software Engineer
12 34 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 33 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
14 32 (4.59%) Data Engineer
15 30 (4.30%) Python Engineer
15 30 (4.30%) Senior Developer
16 27 (3.87%) Lead Developer
17 24 (3.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.30%) Technical Leader
19 22 (3.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.60%) React
2 48 (6.89%) RESTful
3 45 (6.46%) REST
4 41 (5.88%) .NET
5 39 (5.60%) Node.js
6 37 (5.31%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.73%) Spring
8 28 (4.02%) Spring Boot
9 27 (3.87%) ARM Templates
10 26 (3.73%) YAML
11 21 (3.01%) Kafka
11 21 (3.01%) Next.js
12 20 (2.87%) PySpark
13 19 (2.73%) FastAPI
13 19 (2.73%) OpenTelemetry
14 17 (2.44%) CSS
14 17 (2.44%) Django
14 17 (2.44%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
15 16 (2.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 219 (31.42%) Cloud Native
2 72 (10.33%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.89%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 35 (5.02%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.59%) Low-Code
7 31 (4.45%) Security Posture
8 26 (3.73%) Data Centre
9 24 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (3.16%) Onboarding
11 21 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (2.58%) Podcast
13 16 (2.30%) Mobile App
14 15 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.87%) Legacy Applications
16 12 (1.72%) Blog
17 11 (1.58%) Replication
17 11 (1.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.64%) Linux
2 45 (6.46%) Windows
3 26 (3.73%) Unix
4 18 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.87%) VMS
6 12 (1.72%) Android
7 11 (1.58%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (71.74%) CI/CD
2 396 (56.81%) DevOps
3 240 (34.43%) Observability
4 218 (31.28%) Agile
5 217 (31.13%) Mentoring
6 192 (27.55%) Containerisation
7 183 (26.26%) AI
8 182 (26.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (24.68%) Platform Engineering
10 155 (22.24%) Technical Leadership
11 152 (21.81%) Software Engineering
12 135 (19.37%) Test Automation
13 118 (16.93%) Microservices
14 114 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (15.35%) Roadmaps
16 105 (15.06%) Full-Stack Development
17 96 (13.77%) Analytics
18 91 (13.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 87 (12.48%) Machine Learning
20 79 (11.33%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 317 (45.48%) Python
2 113 (16.21%) Bash
3 107 (15.35%) Java
4 91 (13.06%) Bicep
5 90 (12.91%) SQL
6 84 (12.05%) PowerShell
7 75 (10.76%) TypeScript
8 74 (10.62%) Go
9 71 (10.19%) JavaScript
10 46 (6.60%) C#
11 17 (2.44%) Scala
12 13 (1.87%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.43%) Ruby
14 8 (1.15%) C++
14 8 (1.15%) PHP
15 6 (0.86%) Groovy
16 5 (0.72%) Apex Code
17 4 (0.57%) Rust
18 2 (0.29%) C
18 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 106 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.47%) Azure Certification
4 52 (7.46%) Degree
5 41 (5.88%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.87%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.29%) CCNP
12 6 (0.86%) CCNA
12 6 (0.86%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.57%) LPIC
13 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.57%) MCSE
13 4 (0.57%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.57%) VCAP
13 4 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.31%) QA
2 34 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.01%) GDPR
4 13 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.72%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.00%) NIST
8 5 (0.72%) WCAG
9 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS
10 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.14%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 163 (23.39%) Docker
2 41 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 35 (5.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.44%) vSphere
5 13 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.15%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.57%) Firmware
10 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 417 (59.83%) Terraform
2 227 (32.57%) Kubernetes
3 106 (15.21%) Ansible
4 72 (10.33%) Grafana
5 65 (9.33%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.45%) Argo
7 18 (2.58%) Kustomize
8 16 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.15%) Puppet
10 12 (1.72%) Istio
10 12 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.43%) Proxmox
12 8 (1.15%) FortiGate
13 7 (1.00%) ZABBIX
14 6 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
14 6 (0.86%) Packer
15 5 (0.72%) AWS Copilot
16 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
17 3 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 132 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.74%) VMware
3 35 (5.02%) Google
4 29 (4.16%) Cisco
5 26 (3.73%) Palo Alto
6 25 (3.59%) Databricks
7 20 (2.87%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.87%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.72%) Oracle
10 12 (1.72%) ScienceLogic
11 11 (1.58%) F5
11 11 (1.58%) Splunk
12 7 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 7 (1.00%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 6 (0.86%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.86%) Juniper
13 6 (0.86%) NetApp
13 6 (0.86%) Zscaler