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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 55 79
Rank change year-on-year +20 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 127 71 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.61% 4.00% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.56% 4.31% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 41 40
10th Percentile £357 £413 £425
25th Percentile £453 £458 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -13.56%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £646
90th Percentile £686 £751 £706
Central London median daily rate £556 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.26% +4.55% -14.73%
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 1,935 1,647 2,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.54% 92.89% 90.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,323 1,047 1,417
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 12 13
10th Percentile £18.29 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +18.30% -42.20%
75th Percentile £48.67 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £48.57
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 24 April 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 (3.15%) Apache
1 4 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.57%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 65 (51.18%) AWS
2 52 (40.94%) Azure
3 37 (29.13%) GitHub
4 29 (22.83%) GCP
5 28 (22.05%) GitHub Actions
5 28 (22.05%) Serverless
6 22 (17.32%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (14.96%) AWS Lambda
8 16 (12.60%) Amazon S3
9 15 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (9.45%) Azure AKS
10 12 (9.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.72%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.72%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (4.72%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (4.72%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) Network Security
2 6 (4.72%) Firewall
3 4 (3.15%) DNS
4 2 (1.57%) SAN
5 1 (0.79%) BGP
5 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.79%) IPsec
5 1 (0.79%) NAS
5 1 (0.79%) OSPF
5 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) DynamoDB
1 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (3.15%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.15%) Data Mining
2 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.57%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.57%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.57%) Metadata
4 2 (1.57%) MySQL
4 2 (1.57%) Redis
4 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Git
2 10 (7.87%) GitLab
3 8 (6.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.72%) JIRA
5 2 (1.57%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.57%) Gatling
5 2 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.79%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.79%) JMeter
6 1 (0.79%) MLflow
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.79%) Postman
6 1 (0.79%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (16.54%) Finance
2 17 (13.39%) Public Sector
2 17 (13.39%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.09%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (6.30%) Banking
5 5 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.79%) Games
8 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Military
8 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Police
8 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (21.26%) Architect
1 27 (21.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (10.24%) Developer
4 11 (8.66%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (7.09%) Lead
5 9 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.09%) Senior
6 7 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (4.72%) AWS Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Azure Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) React
2 8 (6.30%) Node.js
2 8 (6.30%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (5.51%) Spring
4 6 (4.72%) Kafka
4 6 (4.72%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.94%) AWS CDK
5 5 (3.94%) boto
5 5 (3.94%) OAuth
5 5 (3.94%) REST
6 4 (3.15%) Next.js
7 3 (2.36%) .NET
7 3 (2.36%) Django
7 3 (2.36%) Flask
7 3 (2.36%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.36%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (2.36%) Playwright
8 2 (1.57%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.57%) JWT
8 2 (1.57%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 42 (33.07%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.30%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.15%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.36%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Equities
7 2 (1.57%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.57%) NHS
7 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Replication
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) LIMS
8 1 (0.79%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.79%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.30%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Windows
3 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (66.93%) CI/CD
2 71 (55.91%) DevOps
3 36 (28.35%) AI
4 34 (26.77%) Containerisation
5 29 (22.83%) Observability
6 23 (18.11%) Migration
7 19 (14.96%) Agile
8 18 (14.17%) Analytics
8 18 (14.17%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (13.39%) Test Automation
10 16 (12.60%) Cloud Security
11 14 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.02%) Generative AI
11 14 (11.02%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (11.02%) Machine Learning
11 14 (11.02%) Microservices
12 13 (10.24%) Roadmaps
12 13 (10.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (8.66%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 45 (35.43%) Python
2 15 (11.81%) Java
3 14 (11.02%) SQL
4 13 (10.24%) Bash
4 13 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 10 (7.87%) Bicep
6 8 (6.30%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.72%) C#
7 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.15%) Go
8 4 (3.15%) Ruby
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) Perl
9 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.79%) ProC
9 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (41.73%) SC Cleared
1 53 (41.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.30%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.15%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CISSP
6 2 (1.57%) Degree
7 1 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.79%) CCNA
7 1 (0.79%) CCNP
7 1 (0.79%) CCSP
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) OSCP
7 1 (0.79%) SANS
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.51%) GDPR
3 5 (3.94%) PCI DSS
3 5 (3.94%) QA
4 3 (2.36%) SLA
5 2 (1.57%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.57%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.57%) NCSC
5 2 (1.57%) NIST
5 2 (1.57%) PSD2
5 2 (1.57%) SEPA
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (19.69%) Docker
2 7 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.79%) Firmware
5 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (70.87%) Terraform
2 46 (36.22%) Kubernetes
3 22 (17.32%) Ansible
4 8 (6.30%) Grafana
5 7 (5.51%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.15%) Argo
7 3 (2.36%) Istio
8 2 (1.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.79%) Icinga
9 1 (0.79%) Kibana
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.79%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.79%) QRadar
9 1 (0.79%) Salt
9 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.79%) vRealize
9 1 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Google
2 13 (10.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.72%) Databricks
3 6 (4.72%) VMware
4 5 (3.94%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.94%) Splunk
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle
6 2 (1.57%) Confluent
6 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.57%) SimCorp
6 2 (1.57%) Vermilion
7 1 (0.79%) Amplitude
7 1 (0.79%) Brocade
7 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.79%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (0.79%) OutSystems
7 1 (0.79%) Palantir
7 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.79%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds