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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 61 75
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 112 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.43% 3.22% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.15% 3.52% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 33 42
10th Percentile £356 £414 £450
25th Percentile £413 £458 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £685 £730 £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 1,821 1,649 2,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.36% 91.61% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 1,054 1,495
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £44.29
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
% change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -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 16 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 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.68%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (52.68%) AWS
2 46 (41.07%) Azure
3 34 (30.36%) GitHub
4 31 (27.68%) GCP
5 26 (23.21%) GitHub Actions
6 23 (20.54%) Serverless
7 18 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 12 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (8.93%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (6.25%) OpenShift
13 6 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (5.36%) Azure AKS
13 6 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 4 (3.57%) Apigee
14 4 (3.57%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) Network Security
2 4 (3.57%) DNS
2 4 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.89%) BGP
3 1 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.89%) IPsec
3 1 (0.89%) OSPF
3 1 (0.89%) SAN
3 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.89%) SSL
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.89%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.68%) MySQL
2 3 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.68%) Redis
3 2 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.79%) CockroachDB
3 2 (1.79%) Data Hub
3 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.79%) Hazelcast
3 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.79%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.89%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Git
2 9 (8.04%) GitLab
3 8 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.36%) JIRA
5 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.79%) Gatling
5 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.89%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.89%) MLflow
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.89%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.89%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (19.64%) Finance
2 14 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.82%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.14%) Banking
4 8 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.89%) Games
9 1 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (22.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.18%) Architect
3 11 (9.82%) Developer
3 11 (9.82%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (8.04%) Lead
5 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Senior
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Architect
7 6 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Consultant
9 4 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.14%) OAuth
1 8 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
1 8 (7.14%) React
2 7 (6.25%) Node.js
3 6 (5.36%) Kafka
4 5 (4.46%) boto
5 4 (3.57%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.57%) Next.js
5 4 (3.57%) REST
5 4 (3.57%) Spring
6 3 (2.68%) .NET
6 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.68%) Flask
6 3 (2.68%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.68%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.68%) Playwright
6 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.79%) GraphQL
7 2 (1.79%) JWT
7 2 (1.79%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 32 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.68%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.79%) Equities
6 2 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.89%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.89%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.25%) Linux
2 6 (5.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) VMS
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 60 (53.57%) DevOps
3 29 (25.89%) AI
4 27 (24.11%) Observability
5 23 (20.54%) Containerisation
6 20 (17.86%) Migration
7 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 15 (13.39%) Agile
9 15 (13.39%) Infrastructure Automation
10 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.61%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (9.82%) High Availability
13 10 (8.93%) Cost Optimisation
13 10 (8.93%) Generative AI
13 10 (8.93%) Microservices
13 10 (8.93%) Roadmaps
14 9 (8.04%) Analytics
14 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (11.61%) SQL
3 12 (10.71%) Java
3 12 (10.71%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.93%) Bash
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.46%) Go
7 3 (2.68%) Bicep
7 3 (2.68%) C#
7 3 (2.68%) Ruby
8 1 (0.89%) C
8 1 (0.89%) Perl
8 1 (0.89%) PHP
8 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.89%) ProC
8 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 41 (36.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.46%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.68%) CISSP
6 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.89%) CCNA
8 1 (0.89%) CCNP
8 1 (0.89%) CCSP
8 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.89%) Degree
8 1 (0.89%) OSCP
8 1 (0.89%) SANS
8 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.89%) VCAP
8 1 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) GDPR
1 7 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.46%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.68%) QA
4 3 (2.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.79%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.79%) NIST
5 2 (1.79%) PSD2
5 2 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.79%) SEPA
6 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
System Software
1 22 (19.64%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.79%) vSphere
5 1 (0.89%) Firmware
5 1 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 83 (74.11%) Terraform
2 35 (31.25%) Kubernetes
3 23 (20.54%) Ansible
4 6 (5.36%) Grafana
5 5 (4.46%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.57%) Argo
7 3 (2.68%) Istio
8 2 (1.79%) Kibana
8 2 (1.79%) vRealize
8 2 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.89%) Icinga
9 1 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.89%) logstash
9 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.89%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.89%) Packer
9 1 (0.89%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.89%) QRadar
9 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (13.39%) Google
2 13 (11.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.36%) VMware
4 5 (4.46%) Databricks
4 5 (4.46%) Splunk
5 2 (1.79%) Confluent
5 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.79%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.79%) Vermilion
6 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.89%) Brocade
6 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.89%) Foundry
6 1 (0.89%) IBM
6 1 (0.89%) Palantir
6 1 (0.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.89%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.89%) TIBCO