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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 142 147
Rank change year-on-year +78 +5 -76
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 834 383 562
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.67% 2.31% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 2.48% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 543 296 417
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,375 £42,300
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £78,810 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +14.22% -8.00%
75th Percentile £91,125 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £100,626 £103,500
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 18,782 15,445 21,829
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.64% 92.96% 87.71%
Number of salaries quoted 13,537 8,945 15,559
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 13 August 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 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (1.92%) Apache
2 16 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.60%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.48%) Camunda
7 3 (0.36%) Confluence
7 3 (0.36%) IIS
7 3 (0.36%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.12%) CMS
8 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.12%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 461 (55.28%) AWS
2 460 (55.16%) Azure
3 163 (19.54%) GCP
4 116 (13.91%) GitHub
5 111 (13.31%) Serverless
6 107 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 97 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
8 77 (9.23%) PaaS
9 68 (8.15%) Cloud Computing
10 65 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
11 63 (7.55%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (6.95%) SaaS
13 54 (6.47%) IaaS
14 51 (6.12%) Amazon S3
14 51 (6.12%) Azure AKS
15 41 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
15 41 (4.92%) Power Platform
16 36 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (3.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (9.23%) WAN
2 76 (9.11%) LAN
3 63 (7.55%) Firewall
4 54 (6.47%) Broadband
5 50 (6.00%) TCP/IP
6 47 (5.64%) DNS
7 46 (5.52%) VPN
8 21 (2.52%) DHCP
9 20 (2.40%) BGP
10 17 (2.04%) Network Security
10 17 (2.04%) OSPF
11 14 (1.68%) VXLAN
12 13 (1.56%) VLAN
13 12 (1.44%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (1.08%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
16 7 (0.84%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.84%) WebEx
17 6 (0.72%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (12.11%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (5.28%) MongoDB
3 43 (5.16%) Metadata
4 30 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 28 (3.36%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.24%) Data Lake
7 26 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 21 (2.52%) DynamoDB
10 18 (2.16%) Delta Lake
11 16 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
12 14 (1.68%) MySQL
12 14 (1.68%) NoSQL
13 13 (1.56%) Data Vault
14 12 (1.44%) BigQuery
15 10 (1.20%) Redis
16 9 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (0.84%) Big Data
18 6 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 84 (10.07%) Git
2 48 (5.76%) GitLab
3 45 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.08%) NUnit
5 8 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 6 (0.72%) JMeter
7 5 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.60%) Locust
7 5 (0.60%) Selenium
8 4 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.48%) JIRA
8 4 (0.48%) Snyk
9 3 (0.36%) MLflow
9 3 (0.36%) Postman
9 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.36%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 307 (36.81%) Social Skills
2 186 (22.30%) Finance
3 78 (9.35%) Public Sector
4 71 (8.51%) Law
5 66 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
6 61 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
7 55 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 40 (4.80%) Banking
9 34 (4.08%) Games
10 27 (3.24%) Retail
11 21 (2.52%) Legal
12 17 (2.04%) Marketing
12 17 (2.04%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.32%) Local Government
13 11 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.84%) Aviation
16 6 (0.72%) Advertising
16 6 (0.72%) Legal Technology
17 4 (0.48%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 227 (27.22%) Senior
2 138 (16.55%) Lead
3 133 (15.95%) Architect
4 101 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 96 (11.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (8.75%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
7 72 (8.63%) Developer
8 67 (8.03%) Systems Architect
9 63 (7.55%) Software Engineer
10 45 (5.40%) Python Engineer
11 43 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 43 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 38 (4.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 37 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.32%) Data Engineer
15 34 (4.08%) Site Engineer
16 32 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
17 28 (3.36%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.36%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (8.27%) React
2 52 (6.24%) REST
3 47 (5.64%) Node.js
3 47 (5.64%) RESTful
4 45 (5.40%) .NET
5 39 (4.68%) AWS CDK
6 29 (3.48%) ARM Templates
7 26 (3.12%) Kafka
8 24 (2.88%) Next.js
8 24 (2.88%) Spring
8 24 (2.88%) YAML
9 23 (2.76%) PySpark
10 20 (2.40%) CSS
11 18 (2.16%) Spring Boot
12 17 (2.04%) Django
12 17 (2.04%) FastAPI
13 15 (1.80%) .NET Core
13 15 (1.80%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.56%) PyTorch
15 12 (1.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 236 (28.30%) Cloud Native
2 89 (10.67%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (5.64%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 44 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (4.80%) Product Ownership
7 34 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (3.72%) Low-Code
8 31 (3.72%) Security Posture
9 26 (3.12%) Data Centre
10 18 (2.16%) Podcast
11 17 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.92%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.80%) Blog
14 14 (1.68%) Mobile App
14 14 (1.68%) Replication
14 14 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (1.20%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 110 (13.19%) Linux
2 60 (7.19%) Windows
3 27 (3.24%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.00%) Unix
5 13 (1.56%) VMS
6 5 (0.60%) Android
7 4 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (68.47%) CI/CD
2 426 (51.08%) DevOps
3 288 (34.53%) Observability
4 263 (31.53%) Containerisation
5 242 (29.02%) Mentoring
6 231 (27.70%) Agile
7 230 (27.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 212 (25.42%) AI
9 199 (23.86%) Software Engineering
10 193 (23.14%) Technical Leadership
11 185 (22.18%) Platform Engineering
12 164 (19.66%) Roadmaps
13 139 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 135 (16.19%) Test Automation
15 126 (15.11%) Microservices
16 113 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
17 108 (12.95%) Analytics
18 100 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 97 (11.63%) Machine Learning
20 91 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 355 (42.57%) Python
2 109 (13.07%) Bicep
3 105 (12.59%) SQL
4 102 (12.23%) PowerShell
5 94 (11.27%) Java
6 91 (10.91%) Bash
7 83 (9.95%) TypeScript
8 71 (8.51%) Go
9 63 (7.55%) JavaScript
10 50 (6.00%) C#
11 19 (2.28%) Scala
12 14 (1.68%) Ruby
13 13 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.96%) PHP
15 7 (0.84%) C++
15 7 (0.84%) Groovy
16 4 (0.48%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.36%) Rust
18 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 140 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 130 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 84 (10.07%) Azure Certification
4 64 (7.67%) Degree
5 33 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 26 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (1.80%) CCNP
10 14 (1.68%) SnowPro
11 9 (1.08%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.96%) CCNA
13 7 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.72%) CCIE
14 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
15 5 (0.60%) VCAP
15 5 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 4 (0.48%) LPIC
16 4 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (7.07%) GRC
2 47 (5.64%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.32%) QA
4 16 (1.92%) GDPR
5 15 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.80%) NIST
6 10 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.72%) SLA
8 6 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.60%) NCSC
9 5 (0.60%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS
10 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 164 (19.66%) Docker
2 46 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 39 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (3.12%) vSphere
5 18 (2.16%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 7 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.36%) Firmware
10 2 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 463 (55.52%) Terraform
2 226 (27.10%) Kubernetes
3 92 (11.03%) Ansible
4 80 (9.59%) Grafana
5 46 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.40%) Argo
7 16 (1.92%) Istio
8 14 (1.68%) Progress Chef
9 11 (1.32%) Puppet
10 9 (1.08%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
11 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.72%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.72%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.60%) AWS Copilot
13 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.48%) linkerd
15 3 (0.36%) Packer
15 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 240 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.07%) Google
3 43 (5.16%) VMware
4 31 (3.72%) Cisco
5 29 (3.48%) Databricks
6 26 (3.12%) Palo Alto
7 21 (2.52%) Red Hat
8 20 (2.40%) Oracle
9 17 (2.04%) Fortinet
10 15 (1.80%) Splunk
11 14 (1.68%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.44%) ScienceLogic
13 11 (1.32%) Okta
13 11 (1.32%) OpenAI
14 10 (1.20%) Informatica
14 10 (1.20%) Salesforce
15 9 (1.08%) F5
15 9 (1.08%) NetApp
16 8 (0.96%) Arista
17 6 (0.72%) HubSpot