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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 144 132
Rank change year-on-year +71 -12 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 594 352 782
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 2.49% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 2.63% 2.64%
Number of salaries quoted 383 262 670
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £70,576
% change year-on-year -3.23% +9.81% -5.90%

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 15,141 13,407 29,643
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.62% 94.90% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 10,685 8,886 23,498
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%

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 6 May 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 15 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (1.85%) Apache
3 10 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.01%) Confluence
5 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 364 (61.28%) AWS
2 297 (50.00%) Azure
3 110 (18.52%) GitHub
4 103 (17.34%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (16.84%) GCP
6 92 (15.49%) Serverless
7 79 (13.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 79 (13.30%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (7.74%) SaaS
10 43 (7.24%) PaaS
11 41 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
12 40 (6.73%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (6.23%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 33 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
16 33 (5.56%) Entra ID
17 32 (5.39%) IaaS
18 30 (5.05%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (11.45%) Firewall
2 47 (7.91%) Broadband
3 27 (4.55%) VPN
4 26 (4.38%) TCP/IP
5 23 (3.87%) DNS
6 16 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (2.19%) BGP
7 13 (2.19%) LAN
8 11 (1.85%) Network Security
8 11 (1.85%) WAN
9 10 (1.68%) DHCP
9 10 (1.68%) VLAN
10 7 (1.18%) SD-WAN
11 5 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.84%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.84%) WebEx
12 4 (0.67%) HTTP
12 4 (0.67%) OSPF
13 3 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 38 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 30 (5.05%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (5.05%) Relational Database
4 28 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 27 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 24 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 21 (3.54%) Metadata
8 19 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (3.20%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.36%) Delta Lake
10 13 (2.19%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.85%) MySQL
12 10 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.52%) BigQuery
14 8 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (1.01%) Big Data
15 6 (1.01%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (9.60%) Git
2 42 (7.07%) GitLab
3 38 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 19 (3.20%) Jaeger
5 9 (1.52%) JIRA
6 8 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 8 (1.35%) JMeter
6 8 (1.35%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.01%) Locust
7 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.84%) NUnit
8 5 (0.84%) Selenium
8 5 (0.84%) Storybook
9 3 (0.51%) MLflow
9 3 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.34%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.34%) Jasmine
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 147 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.53%) Finance
3 58 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 57 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (7.24%) Banking
7 37 (6.23%) Retail
8 28 (4.71%) Law
9 27 (4.55%) Telecoms
10 18 (3.03%) Billing
11 14 (2.36%) Back Office
11 14 (2.36%) Financial Institution
11 14 (2.36%) Marketing
12 13 (2.19%) Games
13 8 (1.35%) Health Technology
13 8 (1.35%) Legal
14 7 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.18%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.01%) Tech for Good
16 5 (0.84%) Military
Job Titles
1 149 (25.08%) Senior
2 118 (19.87%) Lead
3 80 (13.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 70 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 66 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
6 62 (10.44%) Developer
7 53 (8.92%) Azure Engineer
7 53 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 46 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
9 34 (5.72%) Architect
9 34 (5.72%) Software Engineer
10 29 (4.88%) Data Engineer
10 29 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
11 25 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 24 (4.04%) Lead Developer
12 24 (4.04%) Python Engineer
13 23 (3.87%) Lead DevOps
14 20 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 19 (3.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
15 19 (3.20%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (7.41%) React
2 39 (6.57%) .NET
2 39 (6.57%) RESTful
3 38 (6.40%) REST
4 35 (5.89%) Node.js
5 30 (5.05%) AWS CDK
5 30 (5.05%) Spring
6 28 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
7 25 (4.21%) Spring Boot
8 23 (3.87%) Kafka
8 23 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
8 23 (3.87%) YAML
9 21 (3.54%) OAuth
10 18 (3.03%) Django
10 18 (3.03%) OpenAPI
10 18 (3.03%) Swagger
11 16 (2.69%) ARM Templates
11 16 (2.69%) JSON
11 16 (2.69%) React Native
12 15 (2.53%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 159 (26.77%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 37 (6.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (4.21%) Security Posture
6 24 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.87%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.87%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (3.37%) Mobile App
9 19 (3.20%) Onboarding
9 19 (3.20%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
11 16 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (2.36%) Low-Code
13 13 (2.19%) Blog
13 13 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.52%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 119 (20.03%) Linux
2 40 (6.73%) Windows
3 36 (6.06%) Unix
4 20 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.02%) Android
6 11 (1.85%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.84%) VMS
8 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.51%) CentOS
10 1 (0.17%) Debian
10 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 374 (62.96%) DevOps
3 204 (34.34%) Agile
4 188 (31.65%) Observability
5 184 (30.98%) Mentoring
6 161 (27.10%) Containerisation
7 142 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 132 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
9 117 (19.70%) Software Engineering
10 112 (18.86%) Test Automation
11 103 (17.34%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (17.34%) Technical Leadership
12 98 (16.50%) AI
13 96 (16.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 84 (14.14%) Roadmaps
15 83 (13.97%) Microservices
16 75 (12.63%) Full-Stack Development
17 71 (11.95%) Analytics
18 67 (11.28%) Incident Response
19 63 (10.61%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 253 (42.59%) Python
2 100 (16.84%) Java
3 91 (15.32%) Bash
4 76 (12.79%) SQL
5 75 (12.63%) PowerShell
6 70 (11.78%) JavaScript
7 66 (11.11%) Bicep
8 61 (10.27%) Go
9 54 (9.09%) TypeScript
10 43 (7.24%) C#
11 15 (2.53%) Scala
12 8 (1.35%) Apex Code
13 7 (1.18%) C++
14 5 (0.84%) PHP
14 5 (0.84%) Ruby
14 5 (0.84%) Rust
15 3 (0.51%) Groovy
16 2 (0.34%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.34%) Perl
16 2 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (13.97%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.29%) SC Cleared
3 50 (8.42%) Degree
4 43 (7.24%) AWS Certification
5 40 (6.73%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.20%) DV Cleared
7 15 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (2.19%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.68%) CCNP
11 9 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.18%) CCNA
13 5 (0.84%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.84%) LPIC
13 5 (0.84%) MCSE
13 5 (0.84%) RHCSA
13 5 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 4 (0.67%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.56%) QA
2 26 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 23 (3.87%) Accessibility
4 21 (3.54%) GDPR
4 21 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (3.03%) SOC 2
6 17 (2.86%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.85%) NIST
8 5 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.84%) WCAG
9 4 (0.67%) GRC
10 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.34%) IFRS
10 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.34%) Solvency II
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 160 (26.94%) Docker
2 25 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.19%) vSphere
5 11 (1.85%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (0.67%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 387 (65.15%) Terraform
2 210 (35.35%) Kubernetes
3 114 (19.19%) Ansible
4 70 (11.78%) Prometheus
5 68 (11.45%) Grafana
6 30 (5.05%) Argo
7 23 (3.87%) Kustomize
8 14 (2.36%) Puppet
9 13 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (1.85%) Progress Chef
11 7 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.84%) AWS Copilot
12 5 (0.84%) Cisco CUCM
12 5 (0.84%) Istio
12 5 (0.84%) Packer
13 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.67%) logstash
13 4 (0.67%) ZABBIX
14 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 99 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.07%) Google
3 39 (6.57%) VMware
4 31 (5.22%) Cisco
5 20 (3.37%) Databricks
6 18 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.53%) Palo Alto
8 13 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.19%) Splunk
9 9 (1.52%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.35%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.35%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 7 (1.18%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.01%) F5
12 6 (1.01%) Juniper
12 6 (1.01%) NetApp
13 5 (0.84%) AppDynamics
13 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.84%) SolarWinds