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 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 65 68
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 95 51 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.09% 2.73% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 2.97% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 27 56
10th Percentile £358 £445 £450
25th Percentile £410 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -16.92%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £650
90th Percentile £688 £714 £769
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,663 1,720 2,168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.17% 91.98% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 1,047 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £374 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% +30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £42.12 £43.75 £42.38
90th Percentile £45.08 £112.00 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 21 January 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 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (51.58%) AWS
2 42 (44.21%) Azure
3 28 (29.47%) GitHub
4 26 (27.37%) GCP
5 23 (24.21%) GitHub Actions
6 20 (21.05%) Serverless
7 16 (16.84%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
8 15 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (12.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
11 10 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (9.47%) OpenShift
13 7 (7.37%) Azure AKS
14 6 (6.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (6.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (4.21%) Apigee
16 4 (4.21%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Firewall
1 5 (5.26%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.05%) SAN
3 1 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.05%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 4 (4.21%) Pinecone
3 3 (3.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.16%) MySQL
3 3 (3.16%) Redis
3 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.11%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.11%) CockroachDB
4 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.05%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.05%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.05%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) GitLab
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.42%) Git
4 5 (5.26%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.21%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.11%) Gatling
6 2 (2.11%) Gradle
6 2 (2.11%) Maven
6 2 (2.11%) Selenium
7 1 (1.05%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.05%) MLflow
7 1 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.05%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.05%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (23.16%) Finance
2 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Marketing
9 1 (1.05%) Games
9 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (12.63%) Architect
3 11 (11.58%) Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Lead
5 8 (8.42%) GCP Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior
7 5 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Consultant
8 4 (4.21%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Security Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.42%) OAuth
2 6 (6.32%) Node.js
2 6 (6.32%) React
2 6 (6.32%) Spring
3 5 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.21%) boto
4 4 (4.21%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.21%) Kafka
4 4 (4.21%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.16%) LangChain
5 3 (3.16%) Loki
5 3 (3.16%) REST
6 2 (2.11%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.11%) JWT
6 2 (2.11%) Micronaut
6 2 (2.11%) Next.js
6 2 (2.11%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 22 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.32%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.26%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.16%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.11%) Equities
6 2 (2.11%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.11%) Replication
6 2 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.05%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (4.21%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Android
4 1 (1.05%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
4 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (64.21%) CI/CD
2 52 (54.74%) DevOps
3 22 (23.16%) AI
4 21 (22.11%) Containerisation
5 18 (18.95%) Observability
6 16 (16.84%) Migration
7 13 (13.68%) Agile
7 13 (13.68%) Infrastructure Automation
7 13 (13.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 12 (12.63%) Cloud Security
9 10 (10.53%) Microservices
9 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (9.47%) High Availability
11 8 (8.42%) Generative AI
11 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (8.42%) LLM
11 8 (8.42%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 8 (8.42%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.37%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (7.37%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) Python
2 13 (13.68%) Java
3 11 (11.58%) SQL
4 10 (10.53%) Bash
4 10 (10.53%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.16%) Go
7 2 (2.11%) Bicep
7 2 (2.11%) Ruby
7 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.05%) C
8 1 (1.05%) C#
8 1 (1.05%) Perl
8 1 (1.05%) PHP
8 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.05%) ProC
8 1 (1.05%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) MCP
4 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.11%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.05%) CCNA
7 1 (1.05%) CCSP
7 1 (1.05%) Degree
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) OSCP
7 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) GDPR
2 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.16%) NIST
3 3 (3.16%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.16%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.11%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.11%) PSD2
4 2 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.11%) SEPA
4 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 2 (2.11%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.05%) GRC
5 1 (1.05%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) Firmware
3 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (76.84%) Terraform
2 32 (33.68%) Kubernetes
3 23 (24.21%) Ansible
4 9 (9.47%) Grafana
5 8 (8.42%) Argo
5 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.21%) Istio
7 2 (2.11%) Kibana
7 2 (2.11%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.11%) vRealize
7 2 (2.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.05%) Icinga
8 1 (1.05%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.05%) logstash
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.05%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.05%) Packer
8 1 (1.05%) Podman
8 1 (1.05%) Puppet
8 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (12.63%) Google
1 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.26%) VMware
3 4 (4.21%) Databricks
3 4 (4.21%) Splunk
4 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.11%) Confluent
5 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.11%) SimCorp
5 2 (2.11%) Vermilion
6 1 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.05%) Brocade
6 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.05%) Citrix
6 1 (1.05%) IBM
6 1 (1.05%) Oracle
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.05%) TIBCO