Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 80 90
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 -37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 67 47 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.82% 2.14% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 2.36% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 39 68
10th Percentile £406 £425 £509
25th Percentile £456 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £636
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -13.56% +1.80%
75th Percentile £688 £648 £728
90th Percentile £751 £700 £783
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £645
% change year-on-year +4.55% -14.73% +3.20%

All Process and 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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London.

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

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 1 May 2025.

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

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.99%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (49.25%) Azure
2 31 (46.27%) AWS
3 16 (23.88%) Serverless
4 14 (20.90%) GitHub
5 9 (13.43%) Azure AKS
6 8 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (11.94%) PaaS
7 7 (10.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (10.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 7 (10.45%) GCP
7 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (7.46%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (7.46%) SaaS
10 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
10 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
10 4 (5.97%) IaaS
10 4 (5.97%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) DNS
1 11 (16.42%) Firewall
2 10 (14.93%) VPN
3 7 (10.45%) NGFW
4 2 (2.99%) DHCP
4 2 (2.99%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.49%) HTTP
5 1 (1.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.99%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.49%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (16.42%) GitLab
2 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
4 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.49%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.49%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.49%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.49%) Travis CI
General
1 18 (26.87%) Finance
2 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.46%) Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.99%) Retail
6 1 (1.49%) Advertising
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Architect
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (11.94%) Developer
5 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 7 (10.45%) Network Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Network Support
5 7 (10.45%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.96%) Azure Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) ADO
2 5 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (7.46%) Node.js
2 5 (7.46%) React
3 4 (5.97%) .NET
3 4 (5.97%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (5.97%) RESTful
4 3 (4.48%) ARM Templates
4 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.48%) Spring
5 2 (2.99%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Blueprints
5 2 (2.99%) Jest
5 2 (2.99%) JSON
5 2 (2.99%) Kafka
5 2 (2.99%) OAuth
5 2 (2.99%) OpenID
5 2 (2.99%) REST
5 2 (2.99%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (25.37%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.45%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (7.46%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.99%) DataPower
5 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.99%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.99%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.99%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.49%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (17.91%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Unix
3 3 (4.48%) Windows
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.49%) SUSE
5 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (61.19%) CI/CD
2 38 (56.72%) DevOps
3 25 (37.31%) Containerisation
4 20 (29.85%) Agile
5 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (19.40%) Migration
6 13 (19.40%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
8 11 (16.42%) Configuration Management
8 11 (16.42%) Microservices
9 9 (13.43%) Observability
10 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
11 7 (10.45%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.45%) Kalman Filter
11 7 (10.45%) Service-Level Objective
12 6 (8.96%) High Availability
13 5 (7.46%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (7.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 5 (7.46%) Mentoring
13 5 (7.46%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 30 (44.78%) Python
2 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (13.43%) PowerShell
3 8 (11.94%) Bash
3 8 (11.94%) Bicep
4 7 (10.45%) Java
4 7 (10.45%) Shell Script
4 7 (10.45%) SQL
5 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
6 5 (7.46%) Go
7 4 (5.97%) C#
8 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (2.99%) Perl
8 2 (2.99%) Rust
9 1 (1.49%) C
9 1 (1.49%) C++
9 1 (1.49%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) Ruby
9 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.45%) Degree
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CISA
5 1 (1.49%) CISM
5 1 (1.49%) CISSP
5 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.48%) QA
1 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
2 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (32.84%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.49%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 52 (77.61%) Terraform
2 33 (49.25%) Kubernetes
3 17 (25.37%) Ansible
4 7 (10.45%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.96%) Grafana
6 4 (5.97%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.97%) Puppet
7 2 (2.99%) Podman
8 1 (1.49%) Argo
8 1 (1.49%) CASB
8 1 (1.49%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.49%) Rancher
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Palo Alto
3 7 (10.45%) CheckPoint
3 7 (10.45%) Infoblox
4 3 (4.48%) Databricks
5 2 (2.99%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.49%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.49%) Confluent
6 1 (1.49%) Google
6 1 (1.49%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) TOWER Software