Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Central London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 52 70
Rank change year-on-year +18 +18 +11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 140 92 63
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.48% 4.46% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 4.75% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 61 46
10th Percentile £453 £400 £425
25th Percentile £513 £454 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +10.91% -12.00%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £649
90th Percentile £725 £775 £730
London median daily rate £574 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.32% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%

All Process & 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 2,253 1,935 2,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.25% 93.84% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,280 1,433
10th Percentile £364 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%
75th Percentile £45.37 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure as Code

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 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Infrastructure as Code

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 17 August 2026. 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 +12 129 £575 -6.88% 32
City of Westminster +5 14 £630 +32.63% 1
West End of London -1 8 £663 +39.47% 1
Southwark - 1 £700 -
Infrastructure as Code
London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (3.57%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.14%) Apache
4 2 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.43%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.71%) CMS
5 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.71%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 68 (48.57%) Azure
2 59 (42.14%) AWS
3 48 (34.29%) GitHub
4 38 (27.14%) GitHub Actions
5 23 (16.43%) GCP
6 22 (15.71%) Serverless
7 21 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 15 (10.71%) Azure AKS
9 13 (9.29%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (7.86%) PaaS
10 11 (7.86%) Power Platform
11 10 (7.14%) Entra ID
12 9 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (6.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (4.29%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.29%) Firewall
2 5 (3.57%) Internet
3 4 (2.86%) DNS
4 3 (2.14%) Network Security
4 3 (2.14%) VPN
5 2 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.43%) VSAN
5 2 (1.43%) X.509
6 1 (0.71%) BGP
6 1 (0.71%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.71%) LAN
6 1 (0.71%) NAS
6 1 (0.71%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.71%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) SSH
6 1 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.71%) TACACS
6 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.71%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) Power BI
3 7 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.86%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.14%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.14%) Metadata
7 3 (2.14%) Redis
8 2 (1.43%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.43%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.43%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (12.86%) Git
1 18 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.43%) GitLab
3 12 (8.57%) JIRA
4 5 (3.57%) JUnit
5 4 (2.86%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.86%) JMeter
5 4 (2.86%) Mockito
5 4 (2.86%) Postman
6 2 (1.43%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.71%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.71%) Maven
7 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.71%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (25.00%) Finance
2 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.86%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Law
7 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.86%) Police
8 3 (2.14%) Back Office
8 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (24.29%) Architect
2 20 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.71%) Developer
5 14 (10.00%) Senior
6 11 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Azure Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Data Architect
7 9 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Lead
8 8 (5.71%) AWS Architect
8 8 (5.71%) GCP Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) Spring
2 12 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 10 (7.14%) RESTful
4 9 (6.43%) React
4 9 (6.43%) REST
5 7 (5.00%) Kafka
5 7 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.86%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.86%) Node.js
6 4 (2.86%) Swagger
6 4 (2.86%) YAML
7 3 (2.14%) .NET
7 3 (2.14%) ActiveMQ
7 3 (2.14%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.14%) GraphQL
7 3 (2.14%) HTML
7 3 (2.14%) Next.js
7 3 (2.14%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) Jest
8 2 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (35.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.86%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) NHS
7 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.71%) CCTV
8 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.71%) Clustering
8 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.71%) Genomics
8 1 (0.71%) Life Science
8 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.86%) Windows
2 4 (2.86%) Linux
3 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.43%) Unix
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.71%) CentOS
4 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 74 (52.86%) DevOps
3 57 (40.71%) Containerisation
4 34 (24.29%) Migration
5 31 (22.14%) Observability
5 31 (22.14%) Platform Engineering
6 27 (19.29%) AI
6 27 (19.29%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.86%) Agile
7 25 (17.86%) Event-Driven
8 21 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 21 (15.00%) Microservices
9 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
10 17 (12.14%) Analytics
11 16 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (11.43%) Software Engineering
12 14 (10.00%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (27.86%) Python
2 26 (18.57%) Java
3 20 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.71%) Bicep
4 15 (10.71%) SQL
5 14 (10.00%) C#
6 11 (7.86%) Bash
7 9 (6.43%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.57%) Ruby
10 2 (1.43%) Go
10 2 (1.43%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 63 (45.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.57%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.57%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.14%) Degree
8 2 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.71%) CCNP
9 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.71%) PMP
9 1 (0.71%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.57%) GDPR
2 5 (3.57%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.57%) QA
3 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.14%) NCSC
4 3 (2.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.43%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.71%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Docker
2 8 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.29%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.14%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (62.14%) Terraform
2 63 (45.00%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.43%) Ansible
4 13 (9.29%) Grafana
5 12 (8.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.43%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.43%) Puppet
7 2 (1.43%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.71%) Bosun
8 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.71%) Packer
8 1 (0.71%) Salt
8 1 (0.71%) SELinux
Vendors
1 24 (17.14%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) Google
3 13 (9.29%) Databricks
4 9 (6.43%) VMware
5 6 (4.29%) Splunk
6 5 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.57%) Oracle
6 5 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.86%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.14%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.14%) Okta
8 3 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.43%) Cisco
10 1 (0.71%) Apple
10 1 (0.71%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.71%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.71%) Foundry
10 1 (0.71%) New Relic
10 1 (0.71%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.71%) Zscaler