Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 56 76
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 125 67 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.46% 3.86% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 4.14% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 39 38
10th Percentile £363 £406 £425
25th Percentile £458 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -13.56%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £643
90th Percentile £675 £753 £704
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% -14.23%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,946 1,619 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.05% 93.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,021 1,389
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (2.40%) Apache
1 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.60%) Confluence
3 1 (0.80%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.80%) nginx
3 1 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.80%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 64 (51.20%) AWS
2 50 (40.00%) Azure
3 35 (28.00%) GitHub
4 27 (21.60%) GCP
5 26 (20.80%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (20.00%) Serverless
7 18 (14.40%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.80%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (11.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (9.60%) Amazon S3
10 12 (9.60%) Azure AKS
11 11 (8.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (4.80%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
13 5 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.60%) Firewall
1 7 (5.60%) Network Security
2 5 (4.00%) DNS
3 2 (1.60%) SAN
3 2 (1.60%) VPN
4 1 (0.80%) BGP
4 1 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.80%) IPsec
4 1 (0.80%) NAS
4 1 (0.80%) OSPF
4 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.80%) SSL
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
2 4 (3.20%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.40%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
3 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.60%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.60%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.60%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.60%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.60%) Metadata
4 2 (1.60%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.60%) Power BI
4 2 (1.60%) Redis
5 1 (0.80%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 15 (12.00%) Git
2 11 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 9 (7.20%) GitLab
4 6 (4.80%) JIRA
5 4 (3.20%) JMeter
5 4 (3.20%) Postman
6 2 (1.60%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.60%) Gatling
6 2 (1.60%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.80%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.80%) MLflow
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.80%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (16.00%) Finance
2 17 (13.60%) Public Sector
2 17 (13.60%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.20%) Banking
4 7 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.60%) Marketing
8 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.80%) Games
8 1 (0.80%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Police
8 1 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (22.40%) Architect
2 24 (19.20%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (10.40%) Developer
4 10 (8.00%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (7.20%) Senior
6 8 (6.40%) Lead
6 8 (6.40%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Architect
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.40%) OpenTelemetry
1 8 (6.40%) React
1 8 (6.40%) Spring
2 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.80%) Kafka
3 6 (4.80%) Node.js
4 5 (4.00%) boto
4 5 (4.00%) REST
5 4 (3.20%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.20%) Next.js
5 4 (3.20%) Swagger
6 3 (2.40%) .NET
6 3 (2.40%) Django
6 3 (2.40%) Flask
6 3 (2.40%) HTML
6 3 (2.40%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.40%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.40%) OAuth
6 3 (2.40%) Playwright
7 2 (1.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.40%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.20%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.40%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.40%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.60%) Equities
6 2 (1.60%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.80%) Clustering
7 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.80%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.80%) LIMS
7 1 (0.80%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.80%) Online Games
7 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.80%) Linux
2 5 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) CentOS
3 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) VMS
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 68 (54.40%) DevOps
3 41 (32.80%) Containerisation
4 36 (28.80%) AI
5 33 (26.40%) Observability
6 23 (18.40%) Migration
7 20 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 19 (15.20%) Agile
9 18 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (11.20%) Analytics
10 14 (11.20%) Cloud Security
10 14 (11.20%) Generative AI
10 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (11.20%) Machine Learning
10 14 (11.20%) Microservices
10 14 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.60%) Roadmaps
12 11 (8.80%) Data Engineering
12 11 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (33.60%) Python
2 16 (12.80%) Java
3 14 (11.20%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.40%) Bash
4 13 (10.40%) SQL
5 10 (8.00%) Bicep
6 9 (7.20%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.80%) C#
7 6 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.20%) Go
8 4 (3.20%) Ruby
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) Perl
9 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.80%) ProC
9 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 56 (44.80%) SC Cleared
1 56 (44.80%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.20%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.60%) CISSP
5 2 (1.60%) Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.80%) CCNA
6 1 (0.80%) CCNP
6 1 (0.80%) CCSP
6 1 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) OSCP
6 1 (0.80%) SANS
6 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.80%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.80%) GDPR
3 5 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.00%) QA
4 3 (2.40%) SLA
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.60%) NCSC
5 2 (1.60%) NIST
5 2 (1.60%) PSD2
5 2 (1.60%) SEPA
6 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.80%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (18.40%) Docker
2 7 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.80%) Firmware
5 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.80%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.80%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (65.60%) Terraform
2 49 (39.20%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.80%) Ansible
4 12 (9.60%) Grafana
5 11 (8.80%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.20%) Argo
7 3 (2.40%) Istio
8 2 (1.60%) Puppet
9 1 (0.80%) Icinga
9 1 (0.80%) Kibana
9 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.80%) Packer
9 1 (0.80%) Podman
9 1 (0.80%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.80%) QRadar
9 1 (0.80%) Salt
9 1 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.80%) vRealize
9 1 (0.80%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (10.40%) Google
2 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.80%) Databricks
3 6 (4.80%) Splunk
4 5 (4.00%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.00%) VMware
5 3 (2.40%) Oracle
6 2 (1.60%) Confluent
6 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.60%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.60%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.80%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.80%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.80%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.80%) Foundry
7 1 (0.80%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.80%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.80%) Palantir
7 1 (0.80%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.80%) Rapid7