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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 113 116
Rank change year-on-year +39 +3 -32
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 562 378 813
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 2.93% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 3.08% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 350 283 695
10th Percentile £46,446 £48,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,360 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +6.78% -3.13%
75th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% -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 14,237 12,283 28,237
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 84.42% 95.05% 91.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,595 8,796 23,110
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,806
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 March 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 14 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.60%) Apache
3 8 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.07%) Confluence
5 5 (0.89%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.71%) IIS
6 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 346 (61.57%) AWS
2 305 (54.27%) Azure
3 124 (22.06%) Azure DevOps
4 123 (21.89%) GitHub
5 105 (18.68%) GCP
6 95 (16.90%) Serverless
7 91 (16.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 89 (15.84%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (10.14%) SaaS
10 55 (9.79%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (8.90%) Amazon S3
12 47 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (8.36%) Azure Monitor
13 45 (8.01%) PaaS
14 43 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (6.94%) dbt
16 38 (6.76%) Amazon ECS
17 37 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
18 36 (6.41%) Entra ID
19 34 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 65 (11.57%) Firewall
2 38 (6.76%) Broadband
3 29 (5.16%) TCP/IP
3 29 (5.16%) VPN
4 15 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
5 13 (2.31%) DNS
5 13 (2.31%) Network Security
6 12 (2.14%) BGP
7 11 (1.96%) VLAN
8 8 (1.42%) WAN
9 7 (1.25%) LAN
10 4 (0.71%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (0.71%) DHCP
10 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.71%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.71%) WebEx
11 3 (0.53%) Modbus
12 2 (0.36%) DSL
12 2 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.01%) NoSQL
1 45 (8.01%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.76%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 25 (4.45%) Relational Database
5 21 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 19 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.38%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.67%) DynamoDB
7 15 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 15 (2.67%) MySQL
7 15 (2.67%) Redis
8 14 (2.49%) Metadata
9 13 (2.31%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (8.72%) Jenkins
2 46 (8.19%) Git
3 41 (7.30%) GitLab
4 19 (3.38%) Jaeger
5 10 (1.78%) JIRA
6 9 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 8 (1.42%) JMeter
7 8 (1.42%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.25%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.07%) git-flow
9 6 (1.07%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.89%) Locust
10 5 (0.89%) Selenium
10 5 (0.89%) Storybook
11 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
11 3 (0.53%) NUnit
11 3 (0.53%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.36%) Vagrant
12 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 137 (24.38%) Finance
2 136 (24.20%) Social Skills
3 64 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 54 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 49 (8.72%) Banking
7 46 (8.19%) Retail
8 39 (6.94%) Law
9 29 (5.16%) Telecoms
10 24 (4.27%) Financial Institution
11 20 (3.56%) Back Office
12 18 (3.20%) Billing
13 13 (2.31%) Marketing
14 11 (1.96%) Legal
15 9 (1.60%) Games
16 7 (1.25%) Health Technology
16 7 (1.25%) Tech for Good
17 6 (1.07%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.89%) Military
18 5 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 140 (24.91%) Senior
2 100 (17.79%) Lead
3 82 (14.59%) Cloud Engineer
4 66 (11.74%) Platform Engineer
5 62 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 60 (10.68%) Developer
7 53 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
8 50 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 40 (7.12%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.52%) Architect
11 28 (4.98%) Software Engineer
12 24 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
13 22 (3.91%) Data Engineer
13 22 (3.91%) Lead DevOps
14 20 (3.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
15 19 (3.38%) Senior Developer
16 17 (3.02%) Full-Stack Developer
16 17 (3.02%) Operations Engineer
16 17 (3.02%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (8.19%) .NET
1 46 (8.19%) React
2 35 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.23%) REST
3 34 (6.05%) RESTful
4 32 (5.69%) Node.js
5 31 (5.52%) Spring
6 26 (4.63%) Spring Boot
6 26 (4.63%) YAML
7 25 (4.45%) AWS CDK
7 25 (4.45%) OAuth
8 24 (4.27%) Django
9 21 (3.74%) CSS
10 20 (3.56%) HTML
10 20 (3.56%) JSON
10 20 (3.56%) OpenAPI
10 20 (3.56%) OpenTelemetry
10 20 (3.56%) Swagger
11 18 (3.20%) Kafka
12 15 (2.67%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 144 (25.62%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 35 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (6.05%) Distributed Systems
5 30 (5.34%) Data Centre
6 25 (4.45%) Public Cloud
6 25 (4.45%) Security Posture
7 19 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 18 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (2.85%) Blog
9 16 (2.85%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
10 15 (2.67%) Legacy Applications
11 13 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.78%) Management Information System
15 8 (1.42%) Data Structures
15 8 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 135 (24.02%) Linux
2 50 (8.90%) Unix
3 49 (8.72%) Windows
4 15 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.96%) Android
6 10 (1.78%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.42%) VMS
8 7 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (1.07%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.89%) CentOS
11 4 (0.71%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.18%) Debian
12 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (69.40%) CI/CD
2 382 (67.97%) DevOps
3 197 (35.05%) Agile
4 160 (28.47%) Mentoring
5 159 (28.29%) Observability
6 151 (26.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 145 (25.80%) Containerisation
8 112 (19.93%) Platform Engineering
9 103 (18.33%) Software Engineering
10 100 (17.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 91 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
12 90 (16.01%) Test Automation
13 87 (15.48%) AI
14 78 (13.88%) Roadmaps
15 77 (13.70%) Incident Response
16 76 (13.52%) Technical Leadership
17 71 (12.63%) Coaching
18 70 (12.46%) Analytics
19 69 (12.28%) Cloud Security
20 65 (11.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 232 (41.28%) Python
2 97 (17.26%) Bash
3 90 (16.01%) Java
4 87 (15.48%) PowerShell
5 80 (14.23%) SQL
6 72 (12.81%) Bicep
7 61 (10.85%) JavaScript
8 57 (10.14%) Go
9 39 (6.94%) C#
10 38 (6.76%) TypeScript
11 12 (2.14%) Scala
12 9 (1.60%) Apex Code
13 6 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.71%) Ruby
15 3 (0.53%) Rust
16 2 (0.36%) C++
16 2 (0.36%) PHP
16 2 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.21%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 44 (7.83%) Degree
5 39 (6.94%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.42%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.25%) CCNP
11 6 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 5 (0.89%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (0.89%) CCNA
12 5 (0.89%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.89%) LPIC
12 5 (0.89%) MCSE
12 5 (0.89%) OSCP
12 5 (0.89%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.87%) QA
2 31 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.45%) PCI DSS
3 25 (4.45%) SOC 2
4 24 (4.27%) GDPR
5 21 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 21 (3.74%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.49%) NIST
7 7 (1.25%) GRC
7 7 (1.25%) SLA
8 5 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.71%) EU AI Act
9 4 (0.71%) WCAG
10 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 173 (30.78%) Docker
2 26 (4.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.85%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.49%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.49%) vSphere
5 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.71%) Firmware
7 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.36%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 388 (69.04%) Terraform
2 197 (35.05%) Kubernetes
3 119 (21.17%) Ansible
4 74 (13.17%) Prometheus
5 72 (12.81%) Grafana
6 26 (4.63%) Argo
7 19 (3.38%) Kustomize
8 12 (2.14%) Puppet
9 11 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.07%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.89%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.71%) Cilium
14 4 (0.71%) Cisco CUCM
14 4 (0.71%) logstash
14 4 (0.71%) Packer
14 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.36%) MIIS
Vendors
1 89 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.19%) Google
3 41 (7.30%) VMware
4 28 (4.98%) Cisco
5 21 (3.74%) Databricks
6 18 (3.20%) Splunk
7 14 (2.49%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.31%) Palo Alto
9 12 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.96%) Ab Initio
11 9 (1.60%) New Relic
12 8 (1.42%) Atlassian
13 7 (1.25%) CheckPoint
13 7 (1.25%) CyberArk
13 7 (1.25%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.07%) F5
14 6 (1.07%) Juniper
14 6 (1.07%) Oracle
15 5 (0.89%) NetApp
16 4 (0.71%) Dell