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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 157 141
Rank change year-on-year +85 -16 -60
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 704 361 751
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 2.31% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 2.45% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 474 264 605
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £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 £87,500 £90,125 £87,500
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 16,791 14,738 29,927
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.17% 94.32% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,235 8,589 23,073
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,625 £75,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 27 June 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 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (2.13%) Apache
3 13 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.71%) Jupyter
4 5 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.43%) Confluence
5 3 (0.43%) WordPress
6 2 (0.28%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.57%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 433 (61.51%) AWS
2 331 (47.02%) Azure
3 118 (16.76%) Serverless
4 115 (16.34%) GitHub
5 99 (14.06%) GCP
6 98 (13.92%) Azure DevOps
7 90 (12.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (10.37%) PaaS
9 69 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (8.38%) IaaS
11 56 (7.95%) Amazon S3
12 53 (7.53%) SaaS
13 50 (7.10%) Azure AKS
13 50 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
14 47 (6.68%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
15 40 (5.68%) Entra ID
16 37 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
17 36 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.94%) Broadband
2 67 (9.52%) Firewall
3 47 (6.68%) VPN
4 39 (5.54%) DNS
5 30 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 21 (2.98%) BGP
7 16 (2.27%) LAN
7 16 (2.27%) WAN
8 15 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (2.13%) VLAN
9 14 (1.99%) Network Security
9 14 (1.99%) OSPF
10 11 (1.56%) DHCP
10 11 (1.56%) VXLAN
11 9 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 6 (0.85%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.85%) WebEx
13 5 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.71%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.39%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.26%) Metadata
4 34 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
6 28 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 24 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 22 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (3.13%) Data Lake
9 16 (2.27%) DynamoDB
10 15 (2.13%) Delta Lake
10 15 (2.13%) RDBMS
11 12 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.56%) BigQuery
13 10 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.42%) MySQL
14 9 (1.28%) Redis
15 8 (1.14%) Big Data
16 7 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (11.36%) Git
2 48 (6.82%) GitLab
3 42 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.70%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.14%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.99%) NUnit
7 6 (0.85%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.85%) JMeter
8 5 (0.71%) JIRA
8 5 (0.71%) Locust
8 5 (0.71%) Selenium
8 5 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.43%) MLflow
11 2 (0.28%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.28%) MSI
11 2 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.28%) Vagrant
General
1 207 (29.40%) Social Skills
2 105 (14.91%) Finance
3 67 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 62 (8.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
6 42 (5.97%) Law
7 37 (5.26%) Banking
8 31 (4.40%) Games
9 30 (4.26%) Retail
10 20 (2.84%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.70%) Billing
12 11 (1.56%) Legal
13 10 (1.42%) Back Office
13 10 (1.42%) Financial Institution
13 10 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.42%) Marketing
14 9 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Aviation
16 6 (0.85%) Health Technology
16 6 (0.85%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 186 (26.42%) Senior
2 132 (18.75%) Lead
3 91 (12.93%) Cloud Engineer
4 89 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 76 (10.80%) Platform Engineer
6 75 (10.65%) Developer
7 58 (8.24%) Architect
8 57 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
9 55 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (6.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 43 (6.11%) Software Engineer
12 33 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.40%) Data Engineer
14 30 (4.26%) Python Engineer
14 30 (4.26%) Senior Developer
15 25 (3.55%) Lead Developer
16 24 (3.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 23 (3.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (7.53%) React
2 48 (6.82%) RESTful
3 46 (6.53%) REST
4 40 (5.68%) .NET
5 39 (5.54%) Node.js
6 37 (5.26%) AWS CDK
7 31 (4.40%) Spring
8 29 (4.12%) ARM Templates
9 26 (3.69%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.69%) YAML
10 21 (2.98%) Kafka
10 21 (2.98%) Next.js
11 19 (2.70%) FastAPI
11 19 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
11 19 (2.70%) PySpark
12 17 (2.41%) CSS
12 17 (2.41%) Django
12 17 (2.41%) PyTorch
13 16 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (2.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 226 (32.10%) Cloud Native
2 74 (10.51%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.82%) Video\Live Streaming
4 43 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (5.82%) Product Ownership
6 37 (5.26%) Public Cloud
7 32 (4.55%) Low-Code
8 30 (4.26%) Security Posture
9 27 (3.84%) Data Centre
10 24 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (3.27%) Onboarding
12 21 (2.98%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (2.56%) Podcast
14 15 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
14 15 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
15 13 (1.85%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.70%) Blog
16 12 (1.70%) Legacy Applications
17 11 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
17 11 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (16.48%) Linux
2 47 (6.68%) Windows
3 26 (3.69%) Unix
4 19 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.85%) VMS
6 10 (1.42%) Android
7 9 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 1 (0.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (71.45%) CI/CD
2 396 (56.25%) DevOps
3 241 (34.23%) Observability
4 219 (31.11%) Agile
5 217 (30.82%) Mentoring
6 193 (27.41%) Containerisation
7 187 (26.56%) AI
7 187 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (24.72%) Platform Engineering
9 156 (22.16%) Technical Leadership
10 152 (21.59%) Software Engineering
11 136 (19.32%) Test Automation
12 119 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
13 117 (16.62%) Microservices
14 109 (15.48%) Roadmaps
15 104 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 96 (13.64%) Analytics
17 93 (13.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 88 (12.50%) Machine Learning
19 78 (11.08%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 323 (45.88%) Python
2 112 (15.91%) Bash
3 105 (14.91%) Java
4 94 (13.35%) Bicep
5 90 (12.78%) SQL
6 87 (12.36%) PowerShell
7 77 (10.94%) Go
8 76 (10.80%) TypeScript
9 74 (10.51%) JavaScript
10 45 (6.39%) C#
11 16 (2.27%) Scala
12 13 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 10 (1.42%) Ruby
14 9 (1.28%) PHP
15 8 (1.14%) C++
16 7 (0.99%) Groovy
17 5 (0.71%) Apex Code
18 4 (0.57%) Rust
19 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
19 2 (0.28%) Perl
Qualifications
1 109 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.38%) Azure Certification
4 53 (7.53%) Degree
5 41 (5.82%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.84%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.70%) DBS Check
11 11 (1.56%) CCNP
12 8 (1.14%) CCNA
13 7 (0.99%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.57%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.57%) LPIC
15 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.57%) MCSE
15 4 (0.57%) RHCSA
15 4 (0.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.40%) QA
2 33 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 15 (2.13%) GDPR
4 14 (1.99%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.70%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.14%) NIST
9 5 (0.71%) WCAG
10 3 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS
11 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.28%) NCSC
11 2 (0.28%) Solvency II
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
12 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (23.30%) Docker
2 42 (5.97%) Active Directory
3 35 (4.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (3.41%) vSphere
5 13 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (1.14%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 6 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.57%) Firmware
10 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 423 (60.09%) Terraform
2 231 (32.81%) Kubernetes
3 105 (14.91%) Ansible
4 71 (10.09%) Grafana
5 64 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 31 (4.40%) Argo
7 18 (2.56%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.41%) Progress Chef
9 15 (2.13%) Puppet
10 13 (1.85%) Istio
11 12 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (1.42%) Proxmox
13 9 (1.28%) FortiGate
14 7 (0.99%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.85%) Cisco CUCM
15 6 (0.85%) Packer
16 5 (0.71%) AWS Copilot
17 4 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
18 3 (0.43%) linkerd
Vendors
1 134 (19.03%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.68%) VMware
3 35 (4.97%) Google
4 30 (4.26%) Cisco
5 27 (3.84%) Palo Alto
6 24 (3.41%) Databricks
7 20 (2.84%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.27%) Fortinet
9 14 (1.99%) Oracle
10 13 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.70%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.56%) F5
12 11 (1.56%) Splunk
13 7 (0.99%) CyberArk
13 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 6 (0.85%) CheckPoint
14 6 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 6 (0.85%) Juniper
14 6 (0.85%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.85%) Zscaler