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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 46 68
Rank change year-on-year +14 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 126 90 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.26% 4.82% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 5.11% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 58 41
10th Percentile £450 £404 £425
25th Percentile £509 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £645
90th Percentile £725 £775 £730
Central London median daily rate £575 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -12.00%
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 2,093 1,760 1,893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.35% 94.22% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 1,155 1,286
10th Percentile £374 £330 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £796
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.69 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.31 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 6 August 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 5 (3.97%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) Apache
2 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.59%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.59%) nginx
4 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 57 (45.24%) Azure
2 55 (43.65%) AWS
3 37 (29.37%) GitHub
4 28 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
5 22 (17.46%) Serverless
6 19 (15.08%) GCP
7 17 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 13 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (10.32%) Power Platform
10 11 (8.73%) PaaS
11 10 (7.94%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (7.94%) Azure AKS
11 10 (7.94%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.35%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (6.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
14 6 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.56%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) DNS
3 4 (3.17%) Network Security
3 4 (3.17%) VPN
4 3 (2.38%) Internet
5 2 (1.59%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.59%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.59%) VSAN
5 2 (1.59%) X.509
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) IPsec
6 1 (0.79%) LAN
6 1 (0.79%) NAS
6 1 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.79%) OSPF
6 1 (0.79%) SAN
6 1 (0.79%) SSH
6 1 (0.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Power BI
2 7 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
2 7 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.97%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.17%) Data Mining
4 4 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.59%) Big Data
6 2 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (1.59%) Metadata
6 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.79%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (12.70%) Git
2 13 (10.32%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.52%) GitLab
3 12 (9.52%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.17%) JMeter
4 4 (3.17%) Postman
5 2 (1.59%) JUnit
6 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.79%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.79%) Maven
6 1 (0.79%) Mockito
6 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (26.19%) Finance
2 29 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.73%) Banking
5 7 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Back Office
9 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) Law
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Police
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (26.19%) Architect
2 17 (13.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (11.11%) Senior
4 11 (8.73%) Developer
5 9 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 9 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) GCP Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) AWS Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Lead
8 6 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Data Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) REST
1 8 (6.35%) Spring
2 7 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.76%) React
4 5 (3.97%) RESTful
5 4 (3.17%) Kafka
5 4 (3.17%) Node.js
5 4 (3.17%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.17%) Swagger
6 3 (2.38%) .NET
6 3 (2.38%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.38%) GraphQL
6 3 (2.38%) HTML
6 3 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (2.38%) Playwright
7 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.59%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.59%) Django
7 2 (1.59%) Web Services
7 2 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (36.51%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.97%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) NHS
7 2 (1.59%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.79%) Anti-Spyware
8 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) LIMS
8 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Windows
2 4 (3.17%) Linux
3 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 65 (51.59%) DevOps
3 50 (39.68%) Containerisation
4 31 (24.60%) Platform Engineering
5 29 (23.02%) Migration
6 27 (21.43%) AI
6 27 (21.43%) Observability
7 23 (18.25%) Test Automation
8 22 (17.46%) Agile
9 21 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 17 (13.49%) Analytics
11 16 (12.70%) Roadmaps
12 14 (11.11%) Data Engineering
12 14 (11.11%) Data Modelling
12 14 (11.11%) Microservices
12 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.32%) Machine Learning
13 13 (10.32%) Mentoring
13 13 (10.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.37%) Python
2 19 (15.08%) Java
3 15 (11.90%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.32%) Bicep
5 12 (9.52%) Bash
5 12 (9.52%) SQL
6 8 (6.35%) C#
7 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.97%) Ruby
8 5 (3.97%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.38%) Go
10 2 (1.59%) Korn
11 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 56 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.97%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) CCNP
6 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.59%) CISSP
6 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.59%) Degree
6 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.79%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.76%) QA
4 4 (3.17%) GDPR
4 4 (3.17%) NIST
4 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.38%) NCSC
6 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (15.87%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.59%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 76 (60.32%) Terraform
2 51 (40.48%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.52%) Ansible
3 12 (9.52%) Grafana
4 11 (8.73%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
6 2 (1.59%) Puppet
6 2 (1.59%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.79%) Bosun
7 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.79%) QRadar
7 1 (0.79%) Salt
7 1 (0.79%) SELinux
Vendors
1 21 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.32%) Databricks
3 11 (8.73%) Google
4 8 (6.35%) VMware
5 7 (5.56%) Splunk
6 5 (3.97%) Oracle
7 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.38%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.38%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.38%) Okta
8 3 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.79%) Apple
10 1 (0.79%) Cisco
10 1 (0.79%) Cloudera
10 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.79%) Foundry
10 1 (0.79%) Palantir
10 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.79%) Zscaler