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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 69 81
Rank change year-on-year +27 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 96 50 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.99% 2.74% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 2.99% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 27 45
10th Percentile £356 £445 £450
25th Percentile £412 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £632 £697 £650
90th Percentile £721 £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 1,714 1,670 2,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.04% 91.61% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,186 1,007 1,538
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 13
10th Percentile £20.18 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £37.25 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £46.29 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -22.76% +25.85% -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 14 February 2026.

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

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 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.04%) Apache
2 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.04%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.17%) AWS
2 40 (41.67%) Azure
3 29 (30.21%) GitHub
4 28 (29.17%) GCP
5 23 (23.96%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (20.83%) Serverless
7 15 (15.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (15.63%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (10.42%) Amazon S3
11 9 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (7.29%) OpenShift
13 6 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 6 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (4.17%) Apigee
14 4 (4.17%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (4.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) Network Security
2 5 (5.21%) Firewall
3 4 (4.17%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) BGP
4 1 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.04%) IPsec
4 1 (1.04%) OSPF
4 1 (1.04%) SAN
4 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.04%) SSL
4 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.04%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.13%) MySQL
2 3 (3.13%) Pinecone
2 3 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.13%) Redis
2 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.08%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.08%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) GitLab
1 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.29%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) JIRA
3 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.08%) Gatling
5 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.04%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.04%) MLflow
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.04%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (21.88%) Finance
2 12 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.33%) Banking
3 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.29%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.04%) Games
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.54%) Architect
3 10 (10.42%) Lead
4 9 (9.38%) Developer
4 9 (9.38%) GCP Engineer
5 8 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (7.29%) Senior
7 6 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.13%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.13%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) OAuth
2 7 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (6.25%) Kafka
3 6 (6.25%) Node.js
3 6 (6.25%) React
4 5 (5.21%) Model Context Protocol
4 5 (5.21%) Spring
5 4 (4.17%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.17%) boto
5 4 (4.17%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.13%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.13%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.08%) Django
7 2 (2.08%) JWT
7 2 (2.08%) LangChain
7 2 (2.08%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.08%) Next.js
7 2 (2.08%) Quarkus
7 2 (2.08%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.08%) Equities
6 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.08%) Replication
7 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.04%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.04%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Linux
2 4 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Unix
3 1 (1.04%) VMS
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 51 (53.13%) DevOps
3 26 (27.08%) AI
4 22 (22.92%) Observability
5 19 (19.79%) Containerisation
6 16 (16.67%) Cloud Security
7 15 (15.63%) Migration
8 14 (14.58%) Infrastructure Automation
8 14 (14.58%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (11.46%) Agile
9 11 (11.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 10 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (10.42%) High Availability
11 9 (9.38%) DevSecOps
11 9 (9.38%) Generative AI
11 9 (9.38%) Microservices
11 9 (9.38%) Test Automation
12 8 (8.33%) Analytics
12 8 (8.33%) Machine Learning
13 7 (7.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 37 (38.54%) Python
2 13 (13.54%) SQL
3 11 (11.46%) Java
4 10 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.38%) Bash
6 4 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.13%) Go
8 2 (2.08%) Bicep
8 2 (2.08%) C#
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) Perl
9 1 (1.04%) PHP
9 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.04%) ProC
9 1 (1.04%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.21%) AWS Certification
3 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.13%) CISSP
6 2 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) CCNA
7 1 (1.04%) CCNP
7 1 (1.04%) CCSP
7 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.04%) Degree
7 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.04%) OSCP
7 1 (1.04%) SANS
7 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) GDPR
2 6 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.17%) NIST
4 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.08%) EU AI Act
5 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.08%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.08%) PSD2
5 2 (2.08%) QA
5 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.08%) SEPA
5 2 (2.08%) SLA
5 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.04%) GRC
6 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 20 (20.83%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.04%) Firmware
4 1 (1.04%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 75 (78.13%) Terraform
2 32 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 22 (22.92%) Ansible
4 6 (6.25%) Grafana
5 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.17%) Argo
7 3 (3.13%) Istio
8 2 (2.08%) Kibana
8 2 (2.08%) vRealize
8 2 (2.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.04%) Icinga
9 1 (1.04%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.04%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.04%) logstash
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.04%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.04%) Packer
9 1 (1.04%) Podman
9 1 (1.04%) QRadar
9 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Google
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) Databricks
3 5 (5.21%) VMware
4 3 (3.13%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (2.08%) Confluent
5 2 (2.08%) SimCorp
5 2 (2.08%) Vermilion
6 1 (1.04%) Amplitude
6 1 (1.04%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle
6 1 (1.04%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.04%) Palantir
6 1 (1.04%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) TIBCO