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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 64 79
Rank change year-on-year +22 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 92 50 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.87% 2.71% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 2.95% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 27 48
10th Percentile £356 £445 £450
25th Percentile £400 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +5.50% -16.15%
75th Percentile £632 £691 £650
90th Percentile £699 £730 £756
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 1,682 1,695 2,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.77% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,023 1,531
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.32% -4.62%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £19.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +12.70% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £60.81 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

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 4 February 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 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (52.17%) AWS
2 38 (41.30%) Azure
3 27 (29.35%) GitHub
4 26 (28.26%) GCP
5 22 (23.91%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (20.65%) Serverless
7 15 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (13.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (10.87%) Amazon S3
11 9 (9.78%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (9.78%) OpenShift
12 6 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (6.52%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (4.35%) Apigee
13 4 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.43%) Network Security
2 4 (4.35%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) DNS
4 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.09%) SAN
4 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.09%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.26%) MySQL
2 3 (3.26%) Pinecone
2 3 (3.26%) Redis
2 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.17%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.17%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) GitLab
1 9 (9.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.61%) Git
3 4 (4.35%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.26%) JIRA
5 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.17%) Gatling
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) Gradle
6 1 (1.09%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) MLflow
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.09%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.09%) Selenium
6 1 (1.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (22.83%) Finance
2 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.61%) Banking
3 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Marketing
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (11.96%) Architect
2 11 (11.96%) Developer
2 11 (11.96%) Lead
3 8 (8.70%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) Cloud Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Senior
6 4 (4.35%) AWS Architect
6 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Consultant
6 4 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (3.26%) AWS Security Architect
7 3 (3.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) OAuth
2 6 (6.52%) Node.js
2 6 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (6.52%) React
2 6 (6.52%) Spring
3 5 (5.43%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) Model Context Protocol
3 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 4 (4.35%) boto
5 3 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.26%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.26%) LangGraph
5 3 (3.26%) Loki
6 2 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.17%) JWT
6 2 (2.17%) LangChain
6 2 (2.17%) Micronaut
6 2 (2.17%) Next.js
6 2 (2.17%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.43%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.35%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.26%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.17%) Equities
6 2 (2.17%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Replication
7 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
3 3 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.09%) Android
4 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.09%) Unix
4 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.13%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.09%) DevOps
3 22 (23.91%) AI
4 19 (20.65%) Observability
5 18 (19.57%) Containerisation
6 15 (16.30%) Migration
7 14 (15.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (14.13%) Cloud Security
8 13 (14.13%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (13.04%) Agile
10 10 (10.87%) Microservices
10 10 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.70%) DevSecOps
11 8 (8.70%) Generative AI
11 8 (8.70%) High Availability
11 8 (8.70%) Roadmaps
12 7 (7.61%) Data Governance
12 7 (7.61%) LLM
12 7 (7.61%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.13%) Python
2 12 (13.04%) Java
2 12 (13.04%) SQL
3 10 (10.87%) Bash
3 10 (10.87%) PowerShell
4 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.17%) Bicep
5 2 (2.17%) Go
5 2 (2.17%) Ruby
5 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.09%) C
6 1 (1.09%) C#
6 1 (1.09%) Perl
6 1 (1.09%) PHP
6 1 (1.09%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.09%) ProC
6 1 (1.09%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 28 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.26%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.09%) CCNA
6 1 (1.09%) CCSP
6 1 (1.09%) Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.09%) OSCP
6 1 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) GDPR
2 6 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.26%) NIST
3 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.17%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.17%) PSD2
4 2 (2.17%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.17%) SEPA
4 2 (2.17%) SLA
4 2 (2.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.09%) GRC
5 1 (1.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Firmware
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (76.09%) Terraform
2 31 (33.70%) Kubernetes
3 22 (23.91%) Ansible
4 8 (8.70%) Grafana
5 7 (7.61%) Argo
5 7 (7.61%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Istio
7 2 (2.17%) Kibana
7 2 (2.17%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.17%) vRealize
7 2 (2.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.09%) Icinga
8 1 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.09%) Karpenter
8 1 (1.09%) logstash
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.09%) Opsgenie
8 1 (1.09%) Packer
8 1 (1.09%) Podman
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Google
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) Splunk
5 3 (3.26%) Databricks
5 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.17%) Confluent
6 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.17%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.17%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.09%) Brocade
7 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.09%) IBM
7 1 (1.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.09%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.09%) TIBCO