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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 159 141
Rank change year-on-year +87 -18 -58
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 682 342 758
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.41% 2.22% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 2.35% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 451 246 608
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,125 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £89,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,810 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.83% +12.59% -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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
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 18 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 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (2.35%) Apache
3 13 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.73%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.73%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.44%) Confluence
6 3 (0.44%) WordPress
7 2 (0.29%) Camunda
8 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.15%) nginx
8 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 424 (62.17%) AWS
2 309 (45.31%) Azure
3 109 (15.98%) Serverless
4 105 (15.40%) GitHub
5 97 (14.22%) GCP
6 91 (13.34%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
8 68 (9.97%) GitHub Actions
9 61 (8.94%) PaaS
10 53 (7.77%) Amazon S3
11 50 (7.33%) SaaS
12 49 (7.18%) IaaS
13 47 (6.89%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (6.89%) Amazon EKS
13 47 (6.89%) Azure Monitor
14 46 (6.74%) Azure AKS
15 37 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (5.43%) Entra ID
16 36 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
17 34 (4.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (11.00%) Broadband
2 66 (9.68%) Firewall
3 37 (5.43%) VPN
4 36 (5.28%) DNS
5 28 (4.11%) TCP/IP
6 21 (3.08%) BGP
7 16 (2.35%) Cisco ASA
8 14 (2.05%) LAN
8 14 (2.05%) VLAN
8 14 (2.05%) WAN
9 13 (1.91%) OSPF
10 11 (1.61%) Network Security
11 10 (1.47%) DHCP
11 10 (1.47%) VXLAN
12 8 (1.17%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (0.88%) Unified Communications
13 6 (0.88%) WebEx
14 5 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.73%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
2 45 (6.60%) MongoDB
3 39 (5.72%) Relational Database
4 34 (4.99%) Metadata
4 34 (4.99%) NoSQL
5 31 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 21 (3.08%) RDBMS
9 16 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (2.05%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.91%) Delta Lake
12 12 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
13 11 (1.61%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
14 10 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.32%) MySQL
15 9 (1.32%) Redis
16 8 (1.17%) Big Data
17 7 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 71 (10.41%) Git
2 50 (7.33%) GitLab
3 40 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.64%) Jaeger
5 8 (1.17%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.03%) NUnit
7 6 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.88%) JMeter
7 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.73%) JIRA
8 5 (0.73%) Locust
8 5 (0.73%) Selenium
9 4 (0.59%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.44%) MLflow
11 2 (0.29%) Jasmine
11 2 (0.29%) MSI
11 2 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.29%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.29%) Vagrant
General
1 192 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 99 (14.52%) Finance
3 68 (9.97%) Public Sector
4 61 (8.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 58 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (5.43%) Banking
7 34 (4.99%) Law
8 31 (4.55%) Games
8 31 (4.55%) Retail
9 21 (3.08%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.05%) Billing
11 11 (1.61%) Marketing
12 10 (1.47%) Back Office
12 10 (1.47%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.32%) Legal
14 8 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.03%) Aviation
16 6 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 177 (25.95%) Senior
2 136 (19.94%) Lead
3 88 (12.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 87 (12.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (11.00%) Platform Engineer
6 74 (10.85%) Developer
7 58 (8.50%) AWS Engineer
8 52 (7.62%) Architect
8 52 (7.62%) Azure Engineer
9 46 (6.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 42 (6.16%) Software Engineer
11 34 (4.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 32 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.55%) Data Engineer
14 30 (4.40%) Senior Developer
15 28 (4.11%) Python Engineer
16 27 (3.96%) Lead Developer
17 23 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 22 (3.23%) Technical Leader
19 21 (3.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.48%) React
2 48 (7.04%) RESTful
3 45 (6.60%) REST
4 40 (5.87%) .NET
5 39 (5.72%) Node.js
6 35 (5.13%) AWS CDK
7 32 (4.69%) Spring
8 27 (3.96%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.81%) ARM Templates
9 26 (3.81%) YAML
10 25 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 22 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (3.08%) Kafka
13 19 (2.79%) Next.js
14 17 (2.49%) Django
14 17 (2.49%) FastAPI
14 17 (2.49%) PySpark
14 17 (2.49%) PyTorch
15 16 (2.35%) CSS
15 16 (2.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 217 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 71 (10.41%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (7.04%) Video\Live Streaming
4 41 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (6.01%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.69%) Low-Code
6 26 (3.81%) Data Centre
6 26 (3.81%) Security Posture
7 24 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
7 24 (3.52%) Public Cloud
8 21 (3.08%) Onboarding
9 20 (2.93%) Greenfield Project
10 17 (2.49%) Mobile App
11 15 (2.20%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.91%) Legacy Applications
13 12 (1.76%) Podcast
13 12 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.47%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.47%) Blog
14 10 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 121 (17.74%) Linux
2 37 (5.43%) Windows
3 32 (4.69%) Unix
4 19 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.76%) Android
6 11 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.03%) VMS
8 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.29%) CentOS
11 1 (0.15%) Debian
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (71.26%) CI/CD
2 390 (57.18%) DevOps
3 234 (34.31%) Observability
4 215 (31.52%) Agile
4 215 (31.52%) Mentoring
5 195 (28.59%) Containerisation
6 177 (25.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 170 (24.93%) AI
8 168 (24.63%) Platform Engineering
9 148 (21.70%) Software Engineering
10 147 (21.55%) Technical Leadership
11 134 (19.65%) Test Automation
12 112 (16.42%) Microservices
13 111 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
14 106 (15.54%) Roadmaps
15 101 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
16 93 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 85 (12.46%) Analytics
17 85 (12.46%) Machine Learning
18 70 (10.26%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 309 (45.31%) Python
2 110 (16.13%) Bash
3 109 (15.98%) Java
4 81 (11.88%) Bicep
5 80 (11.73%) Go
5 80 (11.73%) SQL
6 78 (11.44%) PowerShell
7 75 (11.00%) JavaScript
8 72 (10.56%) TypeScript
9 44 (6.45%) C#
10 15 (2.20%) Scala
11 9 (1.32%) C++
12 8 (1.17%) Ruby
13 7 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (1.03%) PHP
14 6 (0.88%) Groovy
15 5 (0.73%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.73%) Rust
16 2 (0.29%) C
16 2 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 104 (15.25%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 57 (8.36%) Azure Certification
4 53 (7.77%) Degree
5 47 (6.89%) AWS Certification
6 21 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (2.93%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.91%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.32%) CCNP
12 6 (0.88%) CCNA
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.59%) LPIC
13 4 (0.59%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.59%) MCSE
13 4 (0.59%) RHCSA
13 4 (0.59%) VCAP
13 4 (0.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.28%) QA
2 31 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.05%) GDPR
4 13 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 12 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.76%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.03%) NIST
7 5 (0.73%) WCAG
8 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.29%) NCSC
9 2 (0.29%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.15%) GRC
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 171 (25.07%) Docker
2 33 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 30 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.64%) vSphere
5 9 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 6 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.59%) Firmware
9 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 413 (60.56%) Terraform
2 232 (34.02%) Kubernetes
3 111 (16.28%) Ansible
4 73 (10.70%) Grafana
4 73 (10.70%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.43%) Argo
6 24 (3.52%) Kustomize
7 16 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.20%) Puppet
9 12 (1.76%) Istio
9 12 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.47%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.03%) FortiGate
11 7 (1.03%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
12 6 (0.88%) Packer
13 5 (0.73%) AWS Copilot
14 4 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.44%) linkerd
Vendors
1 121 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.30%) VMware
3 42 (6.16%) Google
4 30 (4.40%) Cisco
5 25 (3.67%) Palo Alto
6 21 (3.08%) Databricks
7 20 (2.93%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.05%) Fortinet
9 12 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.61%) F5
10 11 (1.61%) Splunk
11 8 (1.17%) Oracle
12 7 (1.03%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.03%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.88%) HubSpot
13 6 (0.88%) Juniper
13 6 (0.88%) NetApp
13 6 (0.88%) ScienceLogic
13 6 (0.88%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.73%) OpenAI