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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 64 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 81 60 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.51% 2.86% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.11% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 68
10th Percentile £378 £481 £450
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £653 £681 £682
90th Percentile £695 £730 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%

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 1,634 1,927 2,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.88% 91.98% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,177 1,656
10th Percentile £338 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 11
10th Percentile £19.98 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.36 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £43.33 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £55.25 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +37.25% -40.70%

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 14 December 2025.

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 (2.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.23%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.23%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.15%) Azure
2 37 (45.68%) AWS
3 26 (32.10%) GitHub
4 22 (27.16%) GCP
4 22 (27.16%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (17.28%) Serverless
7 13 (16.05%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (16.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (12.35%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (12.35%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (6.17%) Azure AKS
13 4 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.94%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (4.94%) IaaS
13 4 (4.94%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) Firewall
2 6 (7.41%) DNS
2 6 (7.41%) Network Security
3 2 (2.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.23%) BGP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.23%) IGMP
4 1 (1.23%) Multicast
4 1 (1.23%) NGFW
4 1 (1.23%) OSPF
4 1 (1.23%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.23%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
2 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.70%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.47%) Big Data
5 2 (2.47%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.23%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.23%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.23%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.23%) Redis
6 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) GitLab
2 8 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.64%) Git
3 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
4 4 (4.94%) Gradle
4 4 (4.94%) Maven
4 4 (4.94%) Selenium
5 3 (3.70%) JIRA
6 2 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.23%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.23%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.23%) PowerBuilder
7 1 (1.23%) Snyk
7 1 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (24.69%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Banking
4 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.23%) Games
6 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (12.35%) Architect
3 9 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (9.88%) Developer
4 8 (9.88%) Lead
5 7 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Lead Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Security Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior
8 4 (4.94%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Principal Developer
9 3 (3.70%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Node.js
1 5 (6.17%) OAuth
1 5 (6.17%) Spring
2 4 (4.94%) Spring Boot
3 3 (3.70%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.70%) Loki
3 3 (3.70%) REST
4 2 (2.47%) .NET
4 2 (2.47%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.47%) Faiss
4 2 (2.47%) FastAPI
4 2 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.47%) JWT
4 2 (2.47%) Kafka
4 2 (2.47%) LangChain
4 2 (2.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.47%) React
4 2 (2.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.99%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
5 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.23%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.23%) Derivative
6 1 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Windows
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) Android
4 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) CI/CD
2 49 (60.49%) DevOps
3 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 17 (20.99%) Migration
5 16 (19.75%) Cloud Security
6 14 (17.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (14.81%) Observability
8 11 (13.58%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (12.35%) Agile
9 10 (12.35%) AI
9 10 (12.35%) High Availability
9 10 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (11.11%) DevSecOps
10 9 (11.11%) Microservices
11 7 (8.64%) Cloud Operations
11 7 (8.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (7.41%) Analytics
12 6 (7.41%) GitOps
12 6 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (7.41%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) Python
2 14 (17.28%) Java
3 12 (14.81%) SQL
4 11 (13.58%) Bash
5 10 (12.35%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.41%) Go
7 3 (3.70%) C#
7 3 (3.70%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.47%) PromQL
9 1 (1.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.23%) Perl
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.23%) ProC
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
3 5 (6.17%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.94%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.47%) Degree
5 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.47%) MCP
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.23%) CCIE
6 1 (1.23%) CCNA
6 1 (1.23%) CCNP
6 1 (1.23%) CCSP
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) OSCP
6 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.17%) GDPR
3 3 (3.70%) NIST
3 3 (3.70%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.47%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.47%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) QA
System Software
1 20 (24.69%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (81.48%) Terraform
2 27 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (17.28%) Ansible
4 9 (11.11%) Grafana
5 7 (8.64%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.41%) Argo
7 3 (3.70%) Istio
8 2 (2.47%) Kibana
8 2 (2.47%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.47%) Puppet
9 1 (1.23%) Icinga
9 1 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.23%) logstash
9 1 (1.23%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.23%) Podman
9 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.23%) vRealize
9 1 (1.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.81%) Google
3 4 (4.94%) Databricks
3 4 (4.94%) Splunk
3 4 (4.94%) VMware
4 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.47%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.47%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) Citrix
5 1 (1.23%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.23%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Portware
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) TIBCO