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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 66 63
Rank change year-on-year +24 -3 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 93 53 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.07% 2.72% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 2.95% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 28 60
10th Percentile £363 £479 £450
25th Percentile £412 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% -16.92%
75th Percentile £641 £678 £652
90th Percentile £688 £730 £744
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -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 1,655 1,794 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.14% 91.95% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,090 1,553
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.05 £132.40 £74.13
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 6 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 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (49.46%) AWS
1 46 (49.46%) Azure
2 31 (33.33%) GitHub
3 26 (27.96%) GCP
3 26 (27.96%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.20%) Serverless
6 14 (15.05%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (12.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (11.83%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (8.60%) OpenShift
12 7 (7.53%) Azure AKS
13 6 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (5.38%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (4.30%) Apigee
15 4 (4.30%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) Firewall
2 5 (5.38%) DNS
2 5 (5.38%) Network Security
3 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.08%) NGFW
3 1 (1.08%) SAN
3 1 (1.08%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (1.08%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.23%) MySQL
3 3 (3.23%) Pinecone
3 3 (3.23%) Redis
4 2 (2.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.15%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.15%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.08%) Big Data
5 1 (1.08%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (12.90%) GitLab
2 11 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 6 (6.45%) Git
3 6 (6.45%) SonarQube
4 5 (5.38%) JIRA
5 3 (3.23%) Gradle
5 3 (3.23%) Maven
5 3 (3.23%) Selenium
6 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.15%) Gatling
7 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.08%) MLflow
7 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.08%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.08%) Snyk
7 1 (1.08%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (22.58%) Finance
2 11 (11.83%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.45%) Banking
3 6 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Games
7 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (13.98%) Developer
3 10 (10.75%) Architect
3 10 (10.75%) Lead
4 8 (8.60%) GCP Engineer
5 7 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.38%) Senior
8 4 (4.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.30%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) OAuth
1 8 (8.60%) Spring
2 7 (7.53%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.45%) Node.js
3 6 (6.45%) React
4 5 (5.38%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.30%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.30%) Kafka
6 3 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.23%) LangChain
6 3 (3.23%) Loki
7 2 (2.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.15%) boto
7 2 (2.15%) Faiss
7 2 (2.15%) JWT
7 2 (2.15%) LangGraph
7 2 (2.15%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.15%) Next.js
7 2 (2.15%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.30%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.15%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.15%) Replication
5 2 (2.15%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.08%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.08%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.08%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows
3 2 (2.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Android
4 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (62.37%) CI/CD
2 54 (58.06%) DevOps
3 22 (23.66%) Containerisation
4 17 (18.28%) Migration
4 17 (18.28%) Observability
5 16 (17.20%) AI
6 14 (15.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (13.98%) Cloud Security
8 12 (12.90%) Microservices
9 10 (10.75%) Agile
9 10 (10.75%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (9.68%) DevSecOps
10 9 (9.68%) High Availability
10 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.60%) Software Engineering
12 7 (7.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 7 (7.53%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.53%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.94%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) Java
3 15 (16.13%) SQL
4 10 (10.75%) Bash
5 9 (9.68%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.23%) Bicep
7 3 (3.23%) Go
7 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.15%) C#
8 2 (2.15%) Ruby
9 1 (1.08%) C
9 1 (1.08%) Perl
9 1 (1.08%) PHP
9 1 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.08%) ProC
9 1 (1.08%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (24.73%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.23%) CISSP
4 3 (3.23%) MCP
5 2 (2.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.15%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CCNA
6 1 (1.08%) CCSP
6 1 (1.08%) Degree
6 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.08%) OSCP
6 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.38%) GDPR
3 3 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.23%) NIST
3 3 (3.23%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.23%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.15%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.15%) PSD2
4 2 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.15%) SEPA
4 2 (2.15%) SLA
4 2 (2.15%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.08%) GRC
5 1 (1.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (24.73%) Docker
2 2 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (78.49%) Terraform
2 30 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 19 (20.43%) Ansible
4 9 (9.68%) Argo
4 9 (9.68%) Grafana
5 8 (8.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.30%) Istio
7 2 (2.15%) Kibana
7 2 (2.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.08%) Icinga
8 1 (1.08%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.08%) logstash
8 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.08%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.08%) Podman
8 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.08%) Puppet
8 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.08%) vRealize
8 1 (1.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.90%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) Databricks
3 4 (4.30%) Splunk
3 4 (4.30%) VMware
4 3 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.15%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.15%) Confluent
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) Brocade
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle
6 1 (1.08%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) SAP
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.08%) TIBCO