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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 63 70
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 72 63 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.24% 2.99% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 3.27% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 36 59
10th Percentile £400 £425 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% +6.14% -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £682 £684
90th Percentile £790 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £610 £575 £559
% change year-on-year +6.09% +2.91% -14.04%

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 1,601 1,928 2,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.29% 91.63% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,184 1,769
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 18
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.07 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +36.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £51.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £70.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.22%

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 31 October 2025.

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

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Infrastructure as Code
Central 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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.39%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.39%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) AWS
2 32 (44.44%) Azure
3 19 (26.39%) GitHub
4 18 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 16 (22.22%) GCP
6 12 (16.67%) Serverless
7 11 (15.28%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (15.28%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 9 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (6.94%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (6.94%) Datadog
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon Cognito
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
11 4 (5.56%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) DNS
1 6 (8.33%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) Network Security
2 3 (4.17%) VPN
3 2 (2.78%) SSH
3 2 (2.78%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.39%) BGP
4 1 (1.39%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.39%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.39%) IGMP
4 1 (1.39%) Internet
4 1 (1.39%) Multicast
4 1 (1.39%) NAS
4 1 (1.39%) NGFW
4 1 (1.39%) OSPF
4 1 (1.39%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.39%) SAN
4 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) DynamoDB
2 6 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.56%) Big Data
3 4 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.78%) MySQL
5 2 (2.78%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.39%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.39%) DB2
6 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (9.72%) GitLab
3 6 (8.33%) Git
3 6 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.56%) Gradle
4 4 (5.56%) Maven
4 4 (5.56%) Selenium
5 3 (4.17%) JIRA
6 2 (2.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (2.78%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.39%) Snyk
7 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (26.39%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Banking
4 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
5 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (12.50%) Developer
2 9 (12.50%) Senior
3 8 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Lead
4 6 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Architect
5 5 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Lead Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Lead Java Developer
6 4 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Software Design Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.17%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
1 5 (6.94%) GraphQL
1 5 (6.94%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (6.94%) RESTful
2 4 (5.56%) .NET
2 4 (5.56%) OAuth
2 4 (5.56%) Spring
2 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 4 (5.56%) WebSockets
3 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 3 (4.17%) React
3 3 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (2.78%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.78%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.78%) Faiss
4 2 (2.78%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.78%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.78%) LangChain
4 2 (2.78%) Loki
4 2 (2.78%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.06%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) iSeries
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (69.44%) CI/CD
2 46 (63.89%) DevOps
3 15 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 14 (19.44%) Agile
5 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Automation
6 12 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 12 (16.67%) High Availability
6 12 (16.67%) Observability
6 12 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (12.50%) AI
8 9 (12.50%) Migration
8 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.11%) DevSecOps
9 8 (11.11%) Microservices
9 8 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (9.72%) Analytics
10 7 (9.72%) Data Pipeline
10 7 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (8.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (52.78%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) SQL
3 12 (16.67%) Java
4 8 (11.11%) Bash
5 7 (9.72%) PowerShell
6 6 (8.33%) Go
7 4 (5.56%) C#
7 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.17%) Bicep
9 2 (2.78%) PromQL
9 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.39%) COBOL
10 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.39%) PHP
10 1 (1.39%) RPG
Qualifications
1 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (4.17%) CISSP
4 2 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) MCP
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.39%) CCIE
5 1 (1.39%) CCNP
5 1 (1.39%) CFA
5 1 (1.39%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) EU AI Act
2 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
2 2 (2.78%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) MiFID
3 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (70.83%) Terraform
2 23 (31.94%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.28%) Prometheus
4 10 (13.89%) Ansible
5 9 (12.50%) Grafana
6 6 (8.33%) Argo
7 3 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.17%) Puppet
8 2 (2.78%) Istio
8 2 (2.78%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.39%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.39%) Kibana
9 1 (1.39%) logstash
9 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.39%) Packer
9 1 (1.39%) Podman
9 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.39%) vRealize
9 1 (1.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.39%) yum
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.89%) Google
3 5 (6.94%) Databricks
4 3 (4.17%) Splunk
5 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) Arista
6 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.39%) Cisco
6 1 (1.39%) Citrix
6 1 (1.39%) FNZ
6 1 (1.39%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (1.39%) Solace
6 1 (1.39%) Tenable
6 1 (1.39%) TIBCO