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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 49 76
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 126 73 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.31% 4.28% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.19% 4.57% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 43 38
10th Percentile £371 £391 £422
25th Percentile £469 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -13.73%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £628
90th Percentile £688 £773 £662
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -14.73%
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 2,034 1,598 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.64% 93.72% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,008 1,378
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 13
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +2.48% -20.54%

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 7 June 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 3 (2.38%) Apache
1 3 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.59%) Confluence
3 1 (0.79%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.79%) nginx
3 1 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.41%) AWS
2 55 (43.65%) Azure
3 34 (26.98%) GitHub
4 26 (20.63%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (19.05%) GCP
5 24 (19.05%) Serverless
6 18 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.32%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.52%) Amazon S3
8 12 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (9.52%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.94%) Azure AKS
10 9 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (4.76%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.76%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.97%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (3.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (3.97%) DNS
3 4 (3.17%) Network Security
4 3 (2.38%) VPN
5 2 (1.59%) SAN
5 2 (1.59%) VSAN
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.79%) Internet
6 1 (0.79%) IPsec
6 1 (0.79%) LAN
6 1 (0.79%) NAS
6 1 (0.79%) OSPF
6 1 (0.79%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.79%) SSL
6 1 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.35%) Power BI
2 5 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.17%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.59%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (1.59%) CockroachDB
5 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.59%) Hazelcast
5 2 (1.59%) Metadata
5 2 (1.59%) Pinecone
5 2 (1.59%) Redis
6 1 (0.79%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (11.11%) Git
1 14 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.73%) GitLab
3 9 (7.14%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) JMeter
4 4 (3.17%) Postman
5 2 (1.59%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.59%) Gatling
5 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.79%) MLflow
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.79%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.79%) Terragrunt
General
1 25 (19.84%) Finance
2 23 (18.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.70%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.94%) Banking
5 8 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Law
9 2 (1.59%) Marketing
10 1 (0.79%) Military
10 1 (0.79%) Police
10 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (26.98%) Architect
2 21 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (10.32%) Developer
4 11 (8.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Lead
5 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.14%) Senior
6 8 (6.35%) AWS Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Azure Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Cloud Architect
7 7 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Platform Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.35%) React
2 7 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (5.56%) Spring
2 7 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 5 (3.97%) Kafka
3 5 (3.97%) REST
4 4 (3.17%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.17%) boto
4 4 (3.17%) Next.js
4 4 (3.17%) Swagger
5 3 (2.38%) Django
5 3 (2.38%) Flask
5 3 (2.38%) HTML
5 3 (2.38%) LangGraph
5 3 (2.38%) Model Context Protocol
5 3 (2.38%) Node.js
5 3 (2.38%) OAuth
5 3 (2.38%) Playwright
6 2 (1.59%) .NET
6 2 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (38.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.17%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.59%) Equities
7 2 (1.59%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.59%) NHS
7 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.79%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) LIMS
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.97%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) CentOS
3 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.79%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) VMS
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.87%) CI/CD
2 70 (55.56%) DevOps
3 45 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 37 (29.37%) AI
5 32 (25.40%) Observability
6 27 (21.43%) Migration
7 25 (19.84%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (15.08%) Roadmaps
8 19 (15.08%) Test Automation
9 18 (14.29%) Agile
10 17 (13.49%) Analytics
11 16 (12.70%) Machine Learning
12 14 (11.11%) Event-Driven
12 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.32%) Generative AI
14 12 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 12 (9.52%) Data Engineering
14 12 (9.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.16%) Python
2 14 (11.11%) Java
3 13 (10.32%) PowerShell
4 12 (9.52%) Bash
4 12 (9.52%) SQL
5 11 (8.73%) Bicep
6 8 (6.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.97%) C#
9 4 (3.17%) Ruby
10 3 (2.38%) Go
11 1 (0.79%) C
11 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) ProC
11 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (46.03%) SC Cleared
1 58 (46.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 6 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 5 (3.97%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.59%) CCNP
6 2 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) CISSP
7 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Degree
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) PMP
7 1 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.97%) QA
4 4 (3.17%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.38%) GDPR
5 3 (2.38%) SLA
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.59%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.59%) NCSC
6 2 (1.59%) PSD2
6 2 (1.59%) SEPA
7 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.79%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (16.67%) Docker
2 6 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.17%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.59%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.59%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 77 (61.11%) Terraform
2 49 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 20 (15.87%) Ansible
4 11 (8.73%) Grafana
5 10 (7.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.17%) Argo
7 2 (1.59%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.59%) Puppet
7 2 (1.59%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.79%) Istio
8 1 (0.79%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.79%) Kibana
8 1 (0.79%) Podman
8 1 (0.79%) QRadar
8 1 (0.79%) Salt
8 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.79%) vRealize
8 1 (0.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.52%) Google
3 11 (8.73%) Databricks
4 6 (4.76%) Splunk
5 5 (3.97%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.97%) VMware
6 4 (3.17%) Oracle
7 2 (1.59%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.59%) Confluent
7 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.59%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.59%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.59%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.79%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.79%) Brocade
8 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.79%) Foundry
8 1 (0.79%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.79%) Palantir
8 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto