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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 113 95
Rank change year-on-year +35 -18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 533 461 896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 2.94% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.11% 3.50%
Number of salaries quoted 342 279 772
10th Percentile £46,025 £46,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £61,438 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +2.73% +0.11%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £73,801 £74,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.94% +2.76% -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 14,010 14,842 25,591
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.46% 94.70% 92.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,916 8,853 21,164
10th Percentile £30,165 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,381
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +8.69% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 February 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 19 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (1.69%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.50%) Apache
6 6 (1.13%) Confluence
7 4 (0.75%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 328 (61.54%) Azure
2 298 (55.91%) AWS
3 143 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (24.95%) GitHub
5 95 (17.82%) GitHub Actions
6 91 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
7 90 (16.89%) GCP
8 83 (15.57%) Serverless
9 66 (12.38%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (12.20%) Entra ID
11 53 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (9.76%) SaaS
13 51 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (9.19%) AWS Lambda
15 45 (8.44%) Amazon S3
16 44 (8.26%) PaaS
17 43 (8.07%) IaaS
18 39 (7.32%) Azure Data Factory
19 35 (6.57%) Microsoft 365
20 33 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 62 (11.63%) Firewall
2 44 (8.26%) VPN
3 27 (5.07%) Broadband
4 22 (4.13%) DNS
5 19 (3.56%) TCP/IP
6 15 (2.81%) Network Security
7 13 (2.44%) BGP
7 13 (2.44%) WAN
8 10 (1.88%) VLAN
9 8 (1.50%) DHCP
9 8 (1.50%) LAN
9 8 (1.50%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.75%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.75%) VoIP
13 3 (0.56%) IPsec
13 3 (0.56%) OSPF
13 3 (0.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.07%) NoSQL
2 31 (5.82%) Amazon RDS
3 27 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.94%) Data Lake
5 21 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.56%) RDBMS
8 15 (2.81%) MySQL
9 13 (2.44%) Delta Lake
9 13 (2.44%) DynamoDB
9 13 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.25%) Redis
11 10 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
13 8 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (1.31%) Metadata
15 6 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (0.94%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 58 (10.88%) Jenkins
2 36 (6.75%) Git
2 36 (6.75%) GitLab
3 19 (3.56%) Jaeger
4 10 (1.88%) JIRA
4 10 (1.88%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (1.13%) git-flow
7 5 (0.94%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.94%) Storybook
8 4 (0.75%) JMeter
8 4 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.56%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.56%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.56%) Selenium
10 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.19%) Locust
10 1 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) Vagrant
General
1 159 (29.83%) Finance
2 122 (22.89%) Social Skills
3 46 (8.63%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 44 (8.26%) Banking
5 42 (7.88%) Public Sector
6 38 (7.13%) Law
6 38 (7.13%) Retail
7 22 (4.13%) Financial Institution
7 22 (4.13%) Telecoms
8 18 (3.38%) Back Office
9 16 (3.00%) Billing
10 10 (1.88%) Legal
11 8 (1.50%) Marketing
12 7 (1.31%) Tech for Good
13 6 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.13%) Games
13 6 (1.13%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.94%) Publishing
15 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 133 (24.95%) Senior
2 93 (17.45%) Cloud Engineer
3 72 (13.51%) Lead
4 62 (11.63%) Platform Engineer
5 60 (11.26%) Azure Engineer
6 58 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 52 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 49 (9.19%) Developer
9 38 (7.13%) AWS Engineer
10 36 (6.75%) Architect
11 23 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 22 (4.13%) Senior DevOps
12 22 (4.13%) Software Engineer
13 20 (3.75%) Data Engineer
14 19 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 19 (3.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 17 (3.19%) Infrastructure Architect
15 17 (3.19%) Lead DevOps
15 17 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 16 (3.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (8.07%) .NET
2 42 (7.88%) React
3 35 (6.57%) Elastic Stack
4 33 (6.19%) RESTful
5 29 (5.44%) Node.js
6 26 (4.88%) OAuth
7 21 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
7 21 (3.94%) Spring
7 21 (3.94%) YAML
8 19 (3.56%) OpenAPI
8 19 (3.56%) Swagger
9 18 (3.38%) CSS
9 18 (3.38%) JSON
10 17 (3.19%) AWS CDK
10 17 (3.19%) HTML
10 17 (3.19%) REST
10 17 (3.19%) Spring Boot
11 16 (3.00%) Django
11 16 (3.00%) GraphQL
12 15 (2.81%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.83%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.75%) Data Centre
3 35 (6.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 35 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 32 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (4.88%) Public Cloud
6 22 (4.13%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.13%) Security Posture
7 20 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.81%) Blog
11 11 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
11 11 (2.06%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.88%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 6 (1.13%) Data Structures
16 5 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 5 (0.94%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 117 (21.95%) Linux
2 51 (9.57%) Windows
3 41 (7.69%) Unix
4 14 (2.63%) VMS
5 11 (2.06%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.69%) Android
6 9 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.69%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.94%) CentOS
9 4 (0.75%) Debian
9 4 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (69.23%) DevOps
2 350 (65.67%) CI/CD
3 168 (31.52%) Agile
4 140 (26.27%) Mentoring
5 131 (24.58%) Observability
6 130 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 118 (22.14%) Containerisation
8 99 (18.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 93 (17.45%) Coaching
9 93 (17.45%) Platform Engineering
9 93 (17.45%) Problem-Solving
10 86 (16.14%) Roadmaps
11 82 (15.38%) Analytics
12 79 (14.82%) AI
12 79 (14.82%) Software Engineering
13 76 (14.26%) Cloud Security
14 69 (12.95%) Asset Management
15 66 (12.38%) High Availability
16 64 (12.01%) Incident Response
17 60 (11.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 216 (40.53%) Python
2 116 (21.76%) PowerShell
3 110 (20.64%) Bash
4 85 (15.95%) Bicep
5 79 (14.82%) SQL
6 66 (12.38%) Java
7 55 (10.32%) JavaScript
8 53 (9.94%) Go
9 38 (7.13%) C#
10 35 (6.57%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.06%) Scala
12 5 (0.94%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.75%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.56%) Rust
15 2 (0.38%) C++
15 2 (0.38%) PHP
15 2 (0.38%) VB
15 2 (0.38%) XAML
16 1 (0.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.82%) AWS Certification
3 62 (11.63%) SC Cleared
4 45 (8.44%) Azure Certification
5 32 (6.00%) Degree
6 17 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.50%) CCNP
10 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 6 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 4 (0.75%) CISSP
13 4 (0.75%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.75%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.75%) OSCE
13 4 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (5.07%) GDPR
3 25 (4.69%) NIST
3 25 (4.69%) PCI DSS
4 23 (4.32%) SOC 2
5 19 (3.56%) Data Quality
6 18 (3.38%) Accessibility
7 16 (3.00%) QA
8 8 (1.50%) SLA
9 6 (1.13%) GRC
10 4 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.75%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
System Software
1 162 (30.39%) Docker
2 26 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.69%) Active Directory
4 20 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (2.44%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.25%) Hyper-V
8 8 (1.50%) vSphere
9 4 (0.75%) Firmware
10 3 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.38%) NFS
11 2 (0.38%) vCloud
12 1 (0.19%) HDFS
12 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (73.55%) Terraform
2 194 (36.40%) Kubernetes
3 123 (23.08%) Ansible
4 73 (13.70%) Prometheus
5 72 (13.51%) Grafana
6 27 (5.07%) Argo
7 22 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 19 (3.56%) Kustomize
9 10 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.50%) Puppet
11 6 (1.13%) SCOM
12 5 (0.94%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.75%) Cilium
13 4 (0.75%) logstash
13 4 (0.75%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.75%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
14 3 (0.56%) Packer
15 2 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
16 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 99 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.69%) Google
3 39 (7.32%) VMware
4 20 (3.75%) Databricks
5 17 (3.19%) Cisco
6 14 (2.63%) Ab Initio
6 14 (2.63%) Splunk
7 9 (1.69%) New Relic
7 9 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.50%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.31%) CyberArk
9 7 (1.31%) Oracle
10 5 (0.94%) Dell
10 5 (0.94%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.94%) Zscaler
11 4 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.75%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 4 (0.75%) PagerDuty