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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 168 139
Rank change year-on-year +96 -29 -56
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 677 325 762
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 2.15% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 2.27% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 445 235 624
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,694
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +7.66% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £105,000
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 16,117 14,300 30,520
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.10% 94.60% 89.29%
Number of salaries quoted 11,559 8,372 23,726
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £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 11 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 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.36%) Apache
3 14 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.44%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 416 (61.45%) AWS
2 306 (45.20%) Azure
3 107 (15.81%) GitHub
4 105 (15.51%) Serverless
5 102 (15.07%) GCP
6 92 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (12.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 60 (8.86%) PaaS
10 51 (7.53%) Amazon S3
11 50 (7.39%) SaaS
12 48 (7.09%) IaaS
13 47 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
14 45 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
14 45 (6.65%) Azure Monitor
15 44 (6.50%) Azure AKS
16 40 (5.91%) Entra ID
17 36 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.08%) Broadband
2 69 (10.19%) Firewall
3 36 (5.32%) VPN
4 35 (5.17%) DNS
5 29 (4.28%) TCP/IP
6 22 (3.25%) BGP
7 17 (2.51%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.22%) WAN
9 14 (2.07%) LAN
9 14 (2.07%) VLAN
10 13 (1.92%) OSPF
11 11 (1.62%) Network Security
12 10 (1.48%) DHCP
12 10 (1.48%) VXLAN
13 9 (1.33%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.89%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.89%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.89%) WebEx
15 5 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.74%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.85%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.65%) MongoDB
3 38 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 34 (5.02%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.58%) Metadata
6 30 (4.43%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (3.55%) Data Lake
8 23 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 20 (2.95%) RDBMS
10 15 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (1.92%) Delta Lake
13 12 (1.77%) BigQuery
14 11 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
14 11 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.33%) Big Data
15 9 (1.33%) MySQL
15 9 (1.33%) Redis
16 7 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 67 (9.90%) Git
2 49 (7.24%) GitLab
3 37 (5.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.66%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.89%) JMeter
6 6 (0.89%) NUnit
6 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.74%) JIRA
7 5 (0.74%) Locust
7 5 (0.74%) Selenium
8 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 4 (0.59%) Storybook
9 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.44%) MLflow
10 2 (0.30%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.30%) Vagrant
General
1 188 (27.77%) Social Skills
2 101 (14.92%) Finance
3 68 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 61 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (8.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (5.91%) Banking
7 34 (5.02%) Law
7 34 (5.02%) Retail
8 31 (4.58%) Games
9 22 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.22%) Billing
11 12 (1.77%) Back Office
11 12 (1.77%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.77%) Marketing
12 10 (1.48%) Legal
12 10 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.18%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.03%) Aviation
15 6 (0.89%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 176 (26.00%) Senior
2 132 (19.50%) Lead
3 88 (13.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 84 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (11.08%) Developer
6 74 (10.93%) Platform Engineer
7 57 (8.42%) AWS Engineer
8 53 (7.83%) Azure Engineer
9 50 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 45 (6.65%) Architect
10 45 (6.65%) Software Engineer
11 33 (4.87%) Data Engineer
12 32 (4.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.73%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (4.28%) Senior Developer
14 28 (4.14%) Python Engineer
15 27 (3.99%) Lead Developer
16 23 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 21 (3.10%) Python Developer
18 20 (2.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.68%) React
2 49 (7.24%) RESTful
3 46 (6.79%) REST
4 40 (5.91%) Node.js
5 39 (5.76%) .NET
6 34 (5.02%) AWS CDK
7 33 (4.87%) Spring
8 27 (3.99%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.84%) YAML
10 25 (3.69%) ARM Templates
10 25 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
11 22 (3.25%) Kafka
12 18 (2.66%) Next.js
13 17 (2.51%) Django
13 17 (2.51%) PyTorch
13 17 (2.51%) React Native
14 16 (2.36%) FastAPI
14 16 (2.36%) PySpark
14 16 (2.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 209 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 70 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.09%) Video\Live Streaming
4 40 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (5.91%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.73%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.99%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.69%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (3.10%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.95%) Onboarding
11 19 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (2.81%) Mobile App
12 15 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.92%) Legacy Applications
14 12 (1.77%) Blog
15 11 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.48%) Algorithms
16 10 (1.48%) Podcast
16 10 (1.48%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 118 (17.43%) Linux
2 37 (5.47%) Windows
3 33 (4.87%) Unix
4 22 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.77%) Android
6 11 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.74%) VMS
8 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.30%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (71.05%) CI/CD
2 389 (57.46%) DevOps
3 231 (34.12%) Observability
4 215 (31.76%) Mentoring
5 211 (31.17%) Agile
6 194 (28.66%) Containerisation
7 171 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (24.52%) Platform Engineering
9 159 (23.49%) AI
10 148 (21.86%) Software Engineering
11 138 (20.38%) Technical Leadership
12 136 (20.09%) Test Automation
13 112 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 107 (15.81%) Microservices
15 101 (14.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 101 (14.92%) Roadmaps
16 97 (14.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 83 (12.26%) Analytics
18 80 (11.82%) Machine Learning
19 69 (10.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 306 (45.20%) Python
2 111 (16.40%) Java
3 107 (15.81%) Bash
4 81 (11.96%) PowerShell
5 79 (11.67%) SQL
6 78 (11.52%) Go
7 75 (11.08%) JavaScript
8 74 (10.93%) Bicep
9 70 (10.34%) TypeScript
10 42 (6.20%) C#
11 14 (2.07%) Scala
12 9 (1.33%) C++
13 7 (1.03%) PHP
14 6 (0.89%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.89%) Ruby
15 5 (0.74%) Groovy
15 5 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.74%) Rust
16 2 (0.30%) C
16 2 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.98%) Azure Certification
4 53 (7.83%) Degree
5 45 (6.65%) AWS Certification
6 20 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.92%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.33%) CCNP
12 6 (0.89%) CCNA
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.59%) LPIC
13 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) MCSE
13 4 (0.59%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.59%) VCAP
13 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.32%) QA
2 29 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.36%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.22%) GDPR
4 15 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (2.07%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.33%) NIST
7 5 (0.74%) WCAG
8 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 173 (25.55%) Docker
2 32 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.36%) vSphere
5 10 (1.48%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.59%) Firmware
9 3 (0.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 408 (60.27%) Terraform
2 230 (33.97%) Kubernetes
3 110 (16.25%) Ansible
4 71 (10.49%) Grafana
4 71 (10.49%) Prometheus
5 36 (5.32%) Argo
6 24 (3.55%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.07%) Progress Chef
7 14 (2.07%) Puppet
8 12 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.48%) Istio
10 8 (1.18%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.03%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.89%) Packer
13 5 (0.74%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.74%) ZABBIX
14 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
Vendors
1 118 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.50%) Google
3 43 (6.35%) VMware
4 31 (4.58%) Cisco
5 25 (3.69%) Palo Alto
6 21 (3.10%) Databricks
7 20 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.07%) Fortinet
9 13 (1.92%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.77%) Splunk
11 11 (1.62%) F5
12 8 (1.18%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.03%) CyberArk
14 6 (0.89%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.89%) Juniper
14 6 (0.89%) NetApp
14 6 (0.89%) Oracle
14 6 (0.89%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.74%) Arista
15 5 (0.74%) Okta