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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 146 138
Rank change year-on-year +76 -8 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 767 375 706
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 2.27% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 2.44% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 494 280 562
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £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 £88,148 £90,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,126 £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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -8.84%

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 16 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 22 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (1.96%) Apache
3 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.39%) WordPress
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Weka
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 431 (56.19%) AWS
2 403 (52.54%) Azure
3 115 (14.99%) Serverless
4 112 (14.60%) GCP
5 110 (14.34%) GitHub
6 94 (12.26%) Azure DevOps
7 87 (11.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 77 (10.04%) PaaS
9 69 (9.00%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
11 56 (7.30%) IaaS
11 56 (7.30%) Microsoft 365
12 55 (7.17%) Amazon S3
13 52 (6.78%) SaaS
14 49 (6.39%) Azure AKS
15 44 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
16 43 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
17 42 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
18 41 (5.35%) Power Platform
19 39 (5.08%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 67 (8.74%) LAN
1 67 (8.74%) WAN
2 64 (8.34%) Broadband
3 62 (8.08%) Firewall
4 50 (6.52%) VPN
5 40 (5.22%) DNS
6 32 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 19 (2.48%) BGP
8 15 (1.96%) Network Security
8 15 (1.96%) VLAN
9 14 (1.83%) OSPF
10 13 (1.69%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (1.56%) DHCP
12 11 (1.43%) VXLAN
13 9 (1.17%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
14 6 (0.78%) Unified Communications
14 6 (0.78%) WebEx
15 5 (0.65%) HTTP
15 5 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (12.39%) PostgreSQL
2 43 (5.61%) MongoDB
3 40 (5.22%) Metadata
4 33 (4.30%) Relational Database
5 29 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.74%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 17 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.83%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
12 12 (1.56%) MySQL
13 11 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.43%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.30%) Redis
15 9 (1.17%) RDBMS
16 8 (1.04%) Data Vault
17 7 (0.91%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 79 (10.30%) Git
2 46 (6.00%) GitLab
3 41 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 7 (0.91%) NUnit
6 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
6 6 (0.78%) Jaeger
6 6 (0.78%) JMeter
7 5 (0.65%) JIRA
7 5 (0.65%) Locust
8 4 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.39%) MLflow
9 3 (0.39%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.26%) MSI
10 2 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 261 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 159 (20.73%) Finance
3 74 (9.65%) Law
4 71 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.34%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 55 (7.17%) Presentation Skills
8 38 (4.95%) Banking
9 31 (4.04%) Games
10 30 (3.91%) Retail
11 18 (2.35%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.56%) Legal
12 12 (1.56%) Marketing
13 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.17%) Back Office
14 9 (1.17%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.04%) Billing
15 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.91%) Aviation
17 6 (0.78%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 190 (24.77%) Senior
2 133 (17.34%) Lead
3 116 (15.12%) Architect
4 91 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 87 (11.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 73 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 71 (9.26%) Developer
8 61 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
9 60 (7.82%) Systems Architect
10 51 (6.65%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (6.39%) Software Engineer
12 47 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 33 (4.30%) Data Engineer
15 32 (4.17%) Python Engineer
16 30 (3.91%) Senior Developer
16 30 (3.91%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 23 (3.00%) Technical Leader
19 22 (2.87%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (7.17%) React
2 50 (6.52%) REST
2 50 (6.52%) RESTful
3 42 (5.48%) .NET
4 40 (5.22%) Node.js
5 38 (4.95%) AWS CDK
6 31 (4.04%) ARM Templates
7 26 (3.39%) Spring
7 26 (3.39%) YAML
8 23 (3.00%) Kafka
9 22 (2.87%) Next.js
10 21 (2.74%) Spring Boot
11 18 (2.35%) FastAPI
11 18 (2.35%) PySpark
12 17 (2.22%) CSS
12 17 (2.22%) Django
12 17 (2.22%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.09%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
15 13 (1.69%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 229 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 79 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.26%) Video\Live Streaming
4 44 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (5.74%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.95%) Public Cloud
6 32 (4.17%) Low-Code
7 27 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (3.52%) Security Posture
8 24 (3.13%) Data Centre
9 23 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (3.00%) Onboarding
10 18 (2.35%) Podcast
11 15 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
12 14 (1.83%) Mobile App
12 14 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.69%) Blog
13 13 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.43%) Private Cloud
14 11 (1.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 96 (12.52%) Linux
2 50 (6.52%) Windows
3 20 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.35%) Unix
5 13 (1.69%) VMS
6 7 (0.91%) Android
7 6 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (68.58%) CI/CD
2 395 (51.50%) DevOps
3 253 (32.99%) Observability
4 244 (31.81%) Containerisation
5 218 (28.42%) Mentoring
6 217 (28.29%) Agile
7 199 (25.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 192 (25.03%) AI
9 176 (22.95%) Platform Engineering
10 170 (22.16%) Technical Leadership
11 165 (21.51%) Software Engineering
12 162 (21.12%) Roadmaps
13 142 (18.51%) Test Automation
14 136 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (15.65%) Microservices
16 102 (13.30%) Full-Stack Development
17 97 (12.65%) Analytics
18 92 (11.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 91 (11.86%) Machine Learning
20 79 (10.30%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 332 (43.29%) Python
2 106 (13.82%) Bash
3 99 (12.91%) Bicep
4 98 (12.78%) SQL
5 97 (12.65%) Java
5 97 (12.65%) PowerShell
6 73 (9.52%) Go
6 73 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 69 (9.00%) JavaScript
8 45 (5.87%) C#
9 15 (1.96%) Scala
10 13 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 11 (1.43%) Ruby
12 9 (1.17%) PHP
13 7 (0.91%) C++
13 7 (0.91%) Groovy
14 5 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.52%) Rust
16 2 (0.26%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 106 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.00%) Azure Certification
4 54 (7.04%) Degree
5 34 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (2.35%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.43%) CCNP
11 9 (1.17%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.17%) SnowPro
12 8 (1.04%) CCNA
13 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.65%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.52%) LPIC
14 4 (0.52%) MCSE
14 4 (0.52%) RHCSA
14 4 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.78%) GRC
2 41 (5.35%) QA
3 40 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 17 (2.22%) GDPR
5 15 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.56%) SOC 2
8 11 (1.43%) NIST
9 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.65%) WCAG
11 3 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS
12 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.26%) NCSC
12 2 (0.26%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 161 (20.99%) Docker
2 44 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 33 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (3.00%) vSphere
5 13 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.52%) Firmware
8 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 425 (55.41%) Terraform
2 230 (29.99%) Kubernetes
3 92 (11.99%) Ansible
4 73 (9.52%) Grafana
5 54 (7.04%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.39%) Argo
7 15 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.83%) Puppet
9 13 (1.69%) Istio
9 13 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.56%) Kustomize
11 10 (1.30%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.17%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
14 5 (0.65%) AWS Copilot
14 5 (0.65%) ZABBIX
15 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.52%) Packer
16 3 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 204 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.61%) VMware
3 34 (4.43%) Google
4 28 (3.65%) Cisco
5 27 (3.52%) Palo Alto
6 23 (3.00%) Databricks
7 19 (2.48%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.09%) Fortinet
9 15 (1.96%) Oracle
10 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.56%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.43%) F5
13 10 (1.30%) Splunk
14 9 (1.17%) Informatica
14 9 (1.17%) Okta
15 7 (0.91%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.91%) Dynatrace
15 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 6 (0.78%) NetApp
16 6 (0.78%) Zscaler