Infrastructure as Code Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 -29
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 72 50 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.61% 2.04% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 2.26% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 42 71
10th Percentile £413 £428 £513
25th Percentile £456 £500 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £645
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -14.73% +3.20%
75th Percentile £688 £643 £738
90th Percentile £748 £689 £813
London median daily rate £550 £558 £625
% change year-on-year -1.35% -10.80% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure as Code falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +25 67 £600 +9.09% 39
Camden +1 2 £550 +10.00%
City of Westminster 0 1 £425 -22.73%
West End of London -2 1 £425 -15.00% 14
Infrastructure as Code
London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) Azure
2 33 (45.83%) AWS
3 16 (22.22%) Serverless
4 15 (20.83%) GitHub
5 9 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 8 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.11%) GCP
6 8 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (11.11%) PaaS
7 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (9.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.94%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (6.94%) SaaS
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.56%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.56%) IaaS
10 4 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) DNS
1 11 (15.28%) Firewall
2 10 (13.89%) VPN
3 7 (9.72%) NGFW
4 2 (2.78%) DHCP
4 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.39%) HTTP
5 1 (1.39%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.39%) Big Data
5 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) GitLab
2 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) Maven
4 1 (1.39%) Snyk
4 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.39%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (26.39%) Finance
2 18 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Banking
4 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (1.39%) Advertising
6 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (15.28%) Architect
2 11 (15.28%) Senior
3 9 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 9 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Developer
4 8 (11.11%) Lead
5 7 (9.72%) Azure Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Network Support
5 7 (9.72%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) ADO
2 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.94%) Node.js
2 5 (6.94%) React
3 4 (5.56%) .NET
3 4 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (5.56%) RESTful
3 4 (5.56%) Spring
4 3 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.17%) Kafka
4 3 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.78%) Jest
5 2 (2.78%) JSON
5 2 (2.78%) OAuth
5 2 (2.78%) OpenID
5 2 (2.78%) REST
5 2 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) DataPower
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.78%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) SUSE
5 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 42 (58.33%) DevOps
3 27 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 22 (30.56%) Agile
5 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.83%) Migration
7 13 (18.06%) Configuration Management
7 13 (18.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
8 11 (15.28%) Microservices
9 9 (12.50%) Observability
10 8 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (9.72%) High Availability
11 7 (9.72%) Kalman Filter
11 7 (9.72%) Service-Level Objective
12 6 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (8.33%) Event-Driven
12 6 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 5 (6.94%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (43.06%) Python
2 9 (12.50%) Bash
2 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.11%) Bicep
3 8 (11.11%) Java
4 7 (9.72%) Shell Script
4 7 (9.72%) SQL
5 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.94%) Go
7 4 (5.56%) C#
8 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.78%) Perl
8 2 (2.78%) Rust
9 1 (1.39%) C
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) PHP
9 1 (1.39%) Ruby
9 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.17%) CISA
4 3 (4.17%) CISM
4 3 (4.17%) CISSP
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 2 (2.78%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.39%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 55 (76.39%) Terraform
2 36 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (23.61%) Ansible
4 9 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.72%) Grafana
6 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.56%) Puppet
7 2 (2.78%) Argo
7 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.78%) Nagios
7 2 (2.78%) Podman
7 2 (2.78%) SCCM
8 1 (1.39%) CASB
8 1 (1.39%) Istio
8 1 (1.39%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.39%) Rancher
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 7 (9.72%) CheckPoint
3 7 (9.72%) Infoblox
4 4 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.17%) Databricks
6 2 (2.78%) Google
6 2 (2.78%) Qualys
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.78%) Snow
7 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.39%) Confluent
7 1 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.39%) New Relic
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk
7 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software