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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 61 76
Rank change year-on-year +27 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 118 62 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.50% 3.56% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 3.86% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 37 42
10th Percentile £356 £399 £450
25th Percentile £413 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -14.56%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £649
90th Percentile £688 £720 £701
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -15.38%
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 1,878 1,605 2,067
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.55% 92.19% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,292 1,035 1,465
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.46 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £45.08 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £58.53 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +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 30 March 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 4 (3.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.54%) Apache
2 3 (2.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (51.69%) AWS
2 49 (41.53%) Azure
3 36 (30.51%) GitHub
4 31 (26.27%) GCP
5 27 (22.88%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (19.49%) Serverless
7 19 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
8 15 (12.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (11.02%) Amazon S3
10 12 (10.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 10 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (6.78%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.93%) OpenShift
14 6 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 4 (3.39%) Apigee
15 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
15 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) Network Security
2 4 (3.39%) DNS
2 4 (3.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) BGP
3 1 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.85%) OSPF
3 1 (0.85%) SAN
3 1 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.24%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.54%) MySQL
3 3 (2.54%) Redis
3 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.69%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.69%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.69%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.69%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Git
2 9 (7.63%) GitLab
3 7 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.08%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.69%) Gatling
5 2 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.85%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.85%) MLflow
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.85%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.85%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (18.64%) Finance
2 16 (13.56%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.78%) Banking
4 8 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (22.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (15.25%) Architect
3 12 (10.17%) Developer
4 11 (9.32%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) Lead
6 9 (7.63%) Cloud Architect
6 9 (7.63%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Architect
8 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Consultant
10 4 (3.39%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (2.54%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.78%) OAuth
1 8 (6.78%) OpenTelemetry
1 8 (6.78%) React
2 7 (5.93%) Node.js
3 6 (5.08%) Kafka
4 5 (4.24%) boto
4 5 (4.24%) REST
4 5 (4.24%) Spring
5 4 (3.39%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.39%) Next.js
5 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.54%) .NET
6 3 (2.54%) Django
6 3 (2.54%) Flask
6 3 (2.54%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.54%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.54%) Playwright
7 2 (1.69%) JSON
7 2 (1.69%) OpenID
7 2 (1.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.97%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.78%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.39%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.54%) Replication
6 2 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.69%) Equities
6 2 (1.69%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.85%) Clustering
7 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 6 (5.08%) Windows
3 2 (1.69%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) VMS
4 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (63.56%) CI/CD
2 64 (54.24%) DevOps
3 32 (27.12%) AI
4 27 (22.88%) Containerisation
4 27 (22.88%) Observability
5 20 (16.95%) Migration
6 19 (16.10%) Platform Engineering
7 17 (14.41%) Cloud Security
8 16 (13.56%) Agile
9 15 (12.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.86%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (10.17%) Microservices
13 11 (9.32%) Analytics
13 11 (9.32%) High Availability
13 11 (9.32%) Software Engineering
14 10 (8.47%) Cost Optimisation
14 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (8.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 43 (36.44%) Python
2 14 (11.86%) Java
2 14 (11.86%) SQL
3 12 (10.17%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.32%) Bash
5 6 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.24%) Go
7 4 (3.39%) Bicep
7 4 (3.39%) C#
7 4 (3.39%) Ruby
8 1 (0.85%) C
8 1 (0.85%) Perl
8 1 (0.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.85%) ProC
8 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (37.29%) Security Cleared
2 43 (36.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
3 7 (5.93%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.54%) CISSP
6 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.69%) Degree
8 1 (0.85%) CCNA
8 1 (0.85%) CCNP
8 1 (0.85%) CCSP
8 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) OSCP
8 1 (0.85%) SANS
8 1 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.85%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.93%) GDPR
1 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.24%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.39%) QA
4 3 (2.54%) SLA
5 2 (1.69%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.69%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.69%) PSD2
5 2 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.69%) SEPA
6 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (19.49%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.69%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.69%) vSphere
5 1 (0.85%) Firmware
5 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 87 (73.73%) Terraform
2 38 (32.20%) Kubernetes
3 23 (19.49%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Grafana
5 5 (4.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.39%) Argo
7 3 (2.54%) Istio
8 2 (1.69%) vRealize
8 2 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.85%) Icinga
9 1 (0.85%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.85%) Kibana
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.85%) Packer
9 1 (0.85%) Podman
9 1 (0.85%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.85%) QRadar
9 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (12.71%) Google
2 12 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.08%) VMware
4 5 (4.24%) Databricks
4 5 (4.24%) Splunk
5 3 (2.54%) Oracle
6 2 (1.69%) Confluent
6 2 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.69%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.69%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.85%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.85%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.85%) Palantir
7 1 (0.85%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds