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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 74 86
Rank change year-on-year +26 +12 -27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 79 52 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.35% 2.44% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 2.67% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 61
10th Percentile £420 £424 £513
25th Percentile £489 £472 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £558 £638
Median % change year-on-year +13.23% -12.55% -0.97%
75th Percentile £725 £646 £738
90th Percentile £783 £694 £800
Central London median daily rate £625 £550 £648
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.06% +2.78%

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 1,706 1,950 3,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.42% 91.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 1,346 2,165
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £554 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -7.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 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 1 (1.27%) Apache
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.27%) Confluence
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.27%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.27%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 37 (46.84%) AWS
2 36 (45.57%) Azure
3 20 (25.32%) Serverless
4 17 (21.52%) GitHub
5 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (12.66%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
7 9 (11.39%) GCP
7 9 (11.39%) PaaS
8 8 (10.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon Cognito
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon S3
9 7 (8.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (8.86%) SaaS
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon EventBridge
10 6 (7.59%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (7.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (17.72%) DNS
2 13 (16.46%) Firewall
3 12 (15.19%) VPN
4 7 (8.86%) NGFW
5 3 (3.80%) Network Security
5 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.53%) DHCP
6 2 (2.53%) SSH
7 1 (1.27%) BGP
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.27%) HTTP
7 1 (1.27%) IGMP
7 1 (1.27%) Internet
7 1 (1.27%) Multicast
7 1 (1.27%) NAS
7 1 (1.27%) OSPF
7 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.27%) SAN
7 1 (1.27%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.06%) Big Data
4 3 (3.80%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
6 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.27%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) DB2
6 1 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.27%) Redis
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Jenkins
2 9 (11.39%) GitLab
3 4 (5.06%) Git
4 3 (3.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.27%) Gradle
5 1 (1.27%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Maven
5 1 (1.27%) Selenium
5 1 (1.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.27%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.27%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.78%) Finance
3 7 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Military
7 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) Senior
2 13 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (12.66%) Architect
5 8 (10.13%) Network Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Network Support
6 7 (8.86%) Network Support Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.59%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (6.33%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Lead
9 4 (5.06%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (10.13%) ADO
3 7 (8.86%) .NET
3 7 (8.86%) GraphQL
3 7 (8.86%) RESTful
4 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (6.33%) Node.js
5 5 (6.33%) React
5 5 (6.33%) WebSockets
6 4 (5.06%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.06%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (5.06%) REST
7 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.53%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.53%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (2.53%) JSON
7 2 (2.53%) Kafka
7 2 (2.53%) OAuth
7 2 (2.53%) OpenID
7 2 (2.53%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.85%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.33%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) PKI
6 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
6 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.27%) AS400
7 1 (1.27%) DataPower
7 1 (1.27%) Derivative
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 6 (7.59%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
3 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (67.09%) CI/CD
2 52 (65.82%) DevOps
3 28 (35.44%) Agile
4 24 (30.38%) Containerisation
5 18 (22.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 17 (21.52%) Observability
7 16 (20.25%) Software Engineering
8 15 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (17.72%) Microservices
9 14 (17.72%) Migration
10 12 (15.19%) Cloud Security
10 12 (15.19%) Configuration Management
10 12 (15.19%) Performance Optimisation
11 10 (12.66%) High Availability
11 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Automation
12 9 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven
12 9 (11.39%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 8 (10.13%) Mentoring
13 8 (10.13%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (51.90%) Python
2 11 (13.92%) Bash
2 11 (13.92%) SQL
3 9 (11.39%) Bicep
3 9 (11.39%) Go
3 9 (11.39%) Java
3 9 (11.39%) JavaScript
4 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.59%) Shell Script
6 5 (6.33%) C#
6 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.53%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.53%) Perl
7 2 (2.53%) Rust
8 1 (1.27%) C
8 1 (1.27%) C++
8 1 (1.27%) COBOL
8 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.27%) PHP
8 1 (1.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.80%) Degree
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.27%) CCIE
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) CFA
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CISSP
5 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.06%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.53%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (74.68%) Terraform
2 36 (45.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (21.52%) Ansible
4 14 (17.72%) Prometheus
5 11 (13.92%) Grafana
6 5 (6.33%) Progress Chef
6 5 (6.33%) Puppet
7 2 (2.53%) Argo
7 2 (2.53%) Podman
8 1 (1.27%) CASB
8 1 (1.27%) Istio
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.27%) Packer
8 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.27%) yum
Vendors
1 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.39%) Palo Alto
3 7 (8.86%) CheckPoint
3 7 (8.86%) Infoblox
4 4 (5.06%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Databricks
6 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco
7 1 (1.27%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.27%) F5
7 1 (1.27%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.27%) Oracle
7 1 (1.27%) Portware
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.27%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) TOWER Software