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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 83 93
Rank change year-on-year +30 +10 -39
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 73 49 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.84% 2.05% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 2.25% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 63
10th Percentile £388 £416 £514
25th Percentile £454 £475 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £719 £600 £738
90th Percentile £762 £656 £819
London median daily rate £550 £550 £613
% change year-on-year - -10.20% +2.08%

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 1,777 2,179 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.48% 90.94% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £52.69
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%

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 30 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 30 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 +29 71 £625 +13.64% 36
City of Westminster +2 1 £425 -22.73% 1
West End of London +1 1 £425 -8.11% 18
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 (2.74%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Apache
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (47.95%) Azure
2 34 (46.58%) AWS
3 16 (21.92%) GitHub
3 16 (21.92%) Serverless
4 10 (13.70%) Azure AKS
4 10 (13.70%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.33%) GCP
5 9 (12.33%) PaaS
6 8 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (9.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (9.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (8.22%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (8.22%) SaaS
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon Cognito
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (6.85%) Datadog
9 5 (6.85%) IaaS
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) DNS
2 12 (16.44%) Firewall
3 11 (15.07%) VPN
4 7 (9.59%) NGFW
5 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.74%) DHCP
6 2 (2.74%) Network Security
7 1 (1.37%) HTTP
7 1 (1.37%) Internet
7 1 (1.37%) NAS
7 1 (1.37%) SAN
7 1 (1.37%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.85%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.11%) Big Data
3 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.74%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.74%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.74%) Power BI
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.37%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.37%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.37%) Metadata
5 1 (1.37%) MySQL
5 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.37%) Redis
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) GitLab
1 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.74%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) JIRA
4 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.37%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.37%) Snyk
4 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.37%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.37%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.29%) Finance
3 6 (8.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.85%) Banking
5 4 (5.48%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Advertising
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (23.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.18%) Senior
3 11 (15.07%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (13.70%) Architect
5 7 (9.59%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Network Support
5 7 (9.59%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Azure Architect
6 6 (8.22%) Developer
7 5 (6.85%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.96%) ADO
2 6 (8.22%) .NET
2 6 (8.22%) Node.js
2 6 (8.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (6.85%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (6.85%) GraphQL
3 5 (6.85%) React
3 5 (6.85%) RESTful
4 4 (5.48%) ARM Templates
5 3 (4.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.11%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.74%) Jest
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) OAuth
6 2 (2.74%) OpenID
6 2 (2.74%) REST
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
6 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.85%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.74%) DataPower
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.74%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.74%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.37%) AS400
6 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.37%) iSeries
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.18%) Linux
2 6 (8.22%) Unix
3 3 (4.11%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) SUSE
5 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (68.49%) CI/CD
2 45 (61.64%) DevOps
3 26 (35.62%) Containerisation
4 25 (34.25%) Agile
5 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 15 (20.55%) Software Engineering
7 13 (17.81%) Microservices
8 12 (16.44%) Migration
8 12 (16.44%) Observability
9 11 (15.07%) Configuration Management
10 10 (13.70%) Cloud Security
11 9 (12.33%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (10.96%) High Availability
12 8 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (9.59%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (9.59%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 7 (9.59%) Infrastructure Automation
13 7 (9.59%) Kalman Filter
13 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 36 (49.32%) Python
2 11 (15.07%) Bash
3 10 (13.70%) SQL
4 9 (12.33%) Bicep
4 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 8 (10.96%) Java
5 8 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
6 6 (8.22%) Go
7 5 (6.85%) C#
7 5 (6.85%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.74%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.74%) Perl
8 2 (2.74%) Rust
9 1 (1.37%) C++
9 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.37%) PHP
9 1 (1.37%) RPG
9 1 (1.37%) Ruby
9 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) CFA
6 1 (1.37%) CISA
6 1 (1.37%) CISM
6 1 (1.37%) CISSP
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) QA
3 3 (4.11%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (31.51%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (78.08%) Terraform
2 40 (54.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (21.92%) Ansible
4 12 (16.44%) Prometheus
5 8 (10.96%) Grafana
6 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.48%) Puppet
7 1 (1.37%) Argo
7 1 (1.37%) CASB
7 1 (1.37%) Istio
7 1 (1.37%) Packer
7 1 (1.37%) Podman
7 1 (1.37%) Rancher
7 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Palo Alto
3 7 (9.59%) CheckPoint
3 7 (9.59%) Infoblox
4 3 (4.11%) Databricks
4 3 (4.11%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.37%) Confluent
6 1 (1.37%) FNZ
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.37%) New Relic
6 1 (1.37%) Oracle
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) TOWER Software