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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 59 76
Rank change year-on-year +26 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 123 63 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.61% 3.62% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 3.92% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 37 43
10th Percentile £356 £399 £450
25th Percentile £413 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -13.56%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £648
90th Percentile £688 £735 £700
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -15.38%
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 1,908 1,606 2,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.04% 92.30% 89.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,035 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 6 April 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 4 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 61 (49.59%) AWS
2 52 (42.28%) Azure
3 36 (29.27%) GitHub
4 31 (25.20%) GCP
5 27 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (21.14%) Serverless
7 21 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (11.38%) Amazon S3
11 12 (9.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (7.32%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.32%) Azure AKS
13 7 (5.69%) OpenShift
14 6 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (4.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (4.07%) Amazon SageMaker
15 5 (4.07%) IaaS
15 5 (4.07%) Power Platform
15 5 (4.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.69%) Network Security
2 5 (4.07%) Firewall
3 3 (2.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.81%) BGP
4 1 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.81%) IPsec
4 1 (0.81%) OSPF
4 1 (0.81%) SAN
4 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.81%) SSL
4 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.81%) VPN
4 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.07%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.44%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.63%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.63%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.63%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.63%) Data Mining
4 2 (1.63%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.63%) MySQL
4 2 (1.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.63%) Pinecone
4 2 (1.63%) Redis
4 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (10.57%) Git
2 9 (7.32%) GitLab
3 6 (4.88%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.07%) JIRA
5 2 (1.63%) Gatling
5 2 (1.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.81%) MLflow
6 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.81%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (17.07%) Finance
2 17 (13.82%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.38%) Public Sector
4 8 (6.50%) Banking
4 8 (6.50%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.63%) Marketing
8 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.81%) Games
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.89%) Architect
3 12 (9.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (9.76%) Developer
4 11 (8.94%) GCP Engineer
5 10 (8.13%) Lead
6 9 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.50%) Senior
8 7 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Consultant
11 4 (3.25%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.32%) React
2 8 (6.50%) Node.js
2 8 (6.50%) OAuth
2 8 (6.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (4.88%) Kafka
3 6 (4.88%) Spring
4 5 (4.07%) boto
4 5 (4.07%) REST
4 5 (4.07%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.25%) AWS CDK
5 4 (3.25%) Next.js
6 3 (2.44%) .NET
6 3 (2.44%) Django
6 3 (2.44%) Flask
6 3 (2.44%) LangGraph
6 3 (2.44%) Model Context Protocol
6 3 (2.44%) Playwright
7 2 (1.63%) JSON
7 2 (1.63%) OpenID
7 2 (1.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (30.89%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.94%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.44%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.44%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.63%) Equities
6 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 2 (1.63%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Clustering
7 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.81%) LIMS
7 1 (0.81%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.81%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Linux
2 5 (4.07%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.04%) CI/CD
2 69 (56.10%) DevOps
3 36 (29.27%) AI
4 27 (21.95%) Containerisation
4 27 (21.95%) Observability
5 22 (17.89%) Migration
6 20 (16.26%) Platform Engineering
7 18 (14.63%) Agile
8 16 (13.01%) Cloud Security
9 15 (12.20%) Analytics
9 15 (12.20%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (11.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.38%) Test Automation
11 13 (10.57%) Microservices
11 13 (10.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (9.76%) Generative AI
12 12 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (9.76%) Roadmaps
13 11 (8.94%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (8.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.96%) Python
2 15 (12.20%) Java
3 14 (11.38%) SQL
4 13 (10.57%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.94%) Bash
6 7 (5.69%) Bicep
6 7 (5.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.88%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.07%) Go
9 4 (3.25%) C#
9 4 (3.25%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) C
10 1 (0.81%) Perl
10 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.81%) ProC
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.81%) VB
Qualifications
1 47 (38.21%) Security Cleared
2 46 (37.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.63%) CISSP
7 2 (1.63%) Degree
8 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.81%) CCNA
8 1 (0.81%) CCNP
8 1 (0.81%) CCSP
8 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.81%) SANS
8 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.81%) VCAP
8 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.69%) GDPR
2 7 (5.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.07%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.25%) QA
5 3 (2.44%) SLA
6 2 (1.63%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.63%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.63%) NCSC
6 2 (1.63%) NIST
6 2 (1.63%) PSD2
6 2 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.63%) SEPA
7 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 21 (17.07%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.63%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.63%) vSphere
5 1 (0.81%) Firmware
5 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (72.36%) Terraform
2 41 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 22 (17.89%) Ansible
4 6 (4.88%) Grafana
5 5 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.25%) Argo
7 3 (2.44%) Istio
8 2 (1.63%) vRealize
8 2 (1.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
9 1 (0.81%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.81%) Kibana
9 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.81%) Packer
9 1 (0.81%) Podman
9 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.81%) QRadar
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (12.20%) Google
2 12 (9.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Databricks
4 6 (4.88%) VMware
5 5 (4.07%) Splunk
6 3 (2.44%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.44%) Oracle
7 2 (1.63%) Confluent
7 2 (1.63%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.63%) SimCorp
7 2 (1.63%) Vermilion
8 1 (0.81%) Amplitude
8 1 (0.81%) Brocade
8 1 (0.81%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.81%) Foundry
8 1 (0.81%) IBM
8 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (0.81%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.81%) Palantir
8 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds