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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 141 143
Rank change year-on-year +70 +2 -63
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 782 387 610
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.58% 2.35% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 2.52% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 503 288 481
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,938 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +12.48% -8.13%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 18,117 15,347 24,174
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.98% 93.11% 88.29%
Number of salaries quoted 13,143 9,074 17,866
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 26 July 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 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.92%) Apache
3 14 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.38%) Camunda
7 3 (0.38%) Confluence
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 430 (54.99%) AWS
2 426 (54.48%) Azure
3 136 (17.39%) GCP
4 114 (14.58%) Serverless
5 108 (13.81%) GitHub
6 93 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 78 (9.97%) PaaS
9 68 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
10 65 (8.31%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
12 54 (6.91%) IaaS
13 53 (6.78%) SaaS
14 51 (6.52%) Amazon S3
15 49 (6.27%) Azure AKS
16 41 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (5.24%) Azure Monitor
16 41 (5.24%) Power Platform
17 38 (4.86%) AWS Lambda
18 35 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (9.59%) LAN
1 75 (9.59%) WAN
2 61 (7.80%) Firewall
3 57 (7.29%) Broadband
4 48 (6.14%) VPN
5 42 (5.37%) DNS
6 38 (4.86%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.43%) BGP
8 16 (2.05%) Network Security
8 16 (2.05%) OSPF
9 15 (1.92%) DHCP
10 13 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (1.66%) VLAN
10 13 (1.66%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.15%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.77%) HTTP
13 6 (0.77%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.77%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.50%) Metadata
2 43 (5.50%) MongoDB
3 28 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 25 (3.20%) Data Lake
5 25 (3.20%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (2.17%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.92%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.66%) MySQL
9 13 (1.66%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 10 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.28%) Data Vault
12 10 (1.28%) Redis
13 7 (0.90%) Big Data
14 6 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (10.23%) Git
2 47 (6.01%) GitLab
3 42 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.02%) NUnit
5 6 (0.77%) JMeter
6 5 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.64%) Locust
7 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.51%) JIRA
7 4 (0.51%) Selenium
8 3 (0.38%) MLflow
8 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
9 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) Snyk
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 282 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 172 (21.99%) Finance
3 72 (9.21%) Law
4 67 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.93%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 35 (4.48%) Banking
8 32 (4.09%) Games
9 27 (3.45%) Retail
10 18 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.05%) Marketing
12 14 (1.79%) Legal
13 10 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.90%) Advertising
15 7 (0.90%) Aviation
16 6 (0.77%) Billing
16 6 (0.77%) Legal Technology
16 6 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 198 (25.32%) Senior
2 135 (17.26%) Lead
3 128 (16.37%) Architect
4 92 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 91 (11.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.34%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (8.95%) Developer
8 67 (8.57%) Systems Architect
9 64 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (6.91%) Software Engineer
11 44 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 36 (4.60%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 36 (4.60%) Python Engineer
14 34 (4.35%) Data Engineer
15 29 (3.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 29 (3.71%) Senior Developer
15 29 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.07%) Technical Leader
17 23 (2.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.42%) React
2 53 (6.78%) REST
3 46 (5.88%) RESTful
4 42 (5.37%) Node.js
5 41 (5.24%) .NET
6 35 (4.48%) AWS CDK
7 31 (3.96%) ARM Templates
8 26 (3.32%) Spring
8 26 (3.32%) YAML
9 22 (2.81%) Kafka
9 22 (2.81%) Next.js
10 21 (2.69%) Spring Boot
11 20 (2.56%) PySpark
12 18 (2.30%) FastAPI
13 17 (2.17%) Django
13 17 (2.17%) PyTorch
14 16 (2.05%) TensorFlow
15 15 (1.92%) CSS
16 14 (1.79%) AngularJS
16 14 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 229 (29.28%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.61%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.27%) Video\Live Streaming
4 42 (5.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 41 (5.24%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.09%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.09%) Low-Code
7 27 (3.45%) Security Posture
8 25 (3.20%) Data Centre
9 18 (2.30%) Podcast
10 17 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.05%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.79%) Mobile App
13 13 (1.66%) Replication
13 13 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.66%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.41%) Blog
14 11 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 10 (1.28%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 97 (12.40%) Linux
2 51 (6.52%) Windows
3 20 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.05%) Unix
5 13 (1.66%) VMS
6 5 (0.64%) Android
7 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (69.18%) CI/CD
2 400 (51.15%) DevOps
3 262 (33.50%) Observability
4 253 (32.35%) Containerisation
5 218 (27.88%) Mentoring
6 216 (27.62%) Agile
7 210 (26.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 205 (26.21%) AI
9 181 (23.15%) Technical Leadership
10 176 (22.51%) Platform Engineering
10 176 (22.51%) Software Engineering
11 166 (21.23%) Roadmaps
12 141 (18.03%) Test Automation
13 137 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
14 123 (15.73%) Microservices
15 105 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
16 101 (12.92%) Analytics
17 97 (12.40%) Machine Learning
18 84 (10.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 83 (10.61%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 337 (43.09%) Python
2 102 (13.04%) Bicep
3 98 (12.53%) SQL
4 92 (11.76%) Bash
4 92 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 90 (11.51%) Java
6 76 (9.72%) TypeScript
7 69 (8.82%) Go
8 65 (8.31%) JavaScript
9 44 (5.63%) C#
10 15 (1.92%) Scala
11 13 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
12 11 (1.41%) Ruby
13 9 (1.15%) PHP
14 7 (0.90%) C++
14 7 (0.90%) Groovy
15 5 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.51%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 118 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.59%) Azure Certification
4 59 (7.54%) Degree
5 29 (3.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (3.58%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.66%) CCNP
11 11 (1.41%) SnowPro
12 9 (1.15%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.02%) CCNA
14 6 (0.77%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Developer
15 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.64%) CCIE
16 4 (0.51%) LPIC
16 4 (0.51%) MCSE
16 4 (0.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.54%) GRC
2 43 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 40 (5.12%) QA
4 16 (2.05%) GDPR
5 14 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.53%) NIST
7 10 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.64%) WCAG
10 3 (0.38%) NCSC
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 160 (20.46%) Docker
2 40 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (2.94%) vSphere
5 13 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.51%) Firmware
9 2 (0.26%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 426 (54.48%) Terraform
2 225 (28.77%) Kubernetes
3 86 (11.00%) Ansible
4 73 (9.34%) Grafana
5 47 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.56%) Argo
7 15 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.79%) Istio
9 13 (1.66%) Puppet
10 9 (1.15%) FortiGate
11 8 (1.02%) Proxmox
12 6 (0.77%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.77%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.64%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.51%) linkerd
14 4 (0.51%) Packer
15 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 219 (28.01%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.24%) Google
3 40 (5.12%) VMware
4 30 (3.84%) Cisco
5 27 (3.45%) Databricks
5 27 (3.45%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.17%) Oracle
8 16 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.53%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.53%) ScienceLogic
9 12 (1.53%) Splunk
10 11 (1.41%) F5
11 10 (1.28%) Informatica
11 10 (1.28%) Okta
12 8 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.90%) Arista
13 7 (0.90%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.77%) NetApp
14 6 (0.77%) Zscaler