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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 90 51 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.78% 2.75% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.39% 3.01% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 27 46
10th Percentile £356 £445 £454
25th Percentile £400 £503 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.91% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £629 £691 £650
90th Percentile £706 £730 £769
Central London median daily rate £540 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 1,671 1,697 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.84% 91.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,160 1,014 1,533
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -4.10%

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 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 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 48 (53.33%) AWS
2 37 (41.11%) Azure
3 27 (30.00%) GitHub
4 24 (26.67%) GCP
5 22 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
6 19 (21.11%) Serverless
7 15 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (12.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (11.11%) Amazon S3
11 9 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (10.00%) OpenShift
12 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (6.67%) Azure AKS
12 6 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.44%) IaaS
13 4 (4.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.56%) Network Security
2 4 (4.44%) Firewall
3 3 (3.33%) DNS
4 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.11%) SAN
4 1 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.33%) MySQL
2 3 (3.33%) Pinecone
2 3 (3.33%) Redis
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 2 (2.22%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.22%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
3 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.11%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (8.89%) GitLab
1 8 (8.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) JIRA
3 3 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.22%) Gatling
5 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
5 1 (1.11%) MLflow
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.11%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (1.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (23.33%) Finance
2 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.89%) Banking
4 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Marketing
9 1 (1.11%) Games
9 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.22%) Architect
3 10 (11.11%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Architect
9 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Consultant
9 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Security Architect
10 3 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) OAuth
2 7 (7.78%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (6.67%) Kafka
3 6 (6.67%) Node.js
3 6 (6.67%) React
4 5 (5.56%) Model Context Protocol
4 5 (5.56%) Spring
5 4 (4.44%) AWS CDK
5 4 (4.44%) boto
5 4 (4.44%) Spring Boot
6 3 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.33%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.33%) LangGraph
6 3 (3.33%) Loki
7 2 (2.22%) JWT
7 2 (2.22%) LangChain
7 2 (2.22%) Micronaut
7 2 (2.22%) Next.js
7 2 (2.22%) Quarkus
7 2 (2.22%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.22%) Equities
5 2 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (4.44%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) CI/CD
2 46 (51.11%) DevOps
3 23 (25.56%) AI
4 20 (22.22%) Observability
5 17 (18.89%) Containerisation
6 14 (15.56%) Cloud Security
6 14 (15.56%) Migration
6 14 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (14.44%) Infrastructure Automation
8 11 (12.22%) Agile
9 10 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (10.00%) Generative AI
10 9 (10.00%) Microservices
11 8 (8.89%) DevSecOps
11 8 (8.89%) High Availability
11 8 (8.89%) Machine Learning
11 8 (8.89%) Test Automation
12 7 (7.78%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (7.78%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (13.33%) SQL
3 11 (12.22%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) Bash
4 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.44%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.22%) Bicep
6 2 (2.22%) Go
6 2 (2.22%) Ruby
6 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) C
7 1 (1.11%) C#
7 1 (1.11%) Perl
7 1 (1.11%) PHP
7 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.11%) ProC
7 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 29 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 28 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) CCNA
6 1 (1.11%) CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) Degree
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
6 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) GDPR
2 6 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) NIST
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.22%) EU AI Act
5 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.22%) PSD2
5 2 (2.22%) QA
5 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.22%) SEPA
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
5 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.11%) GRC
6 1 (1.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 17 (18.89%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Firmware
3 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (75.56%) Terraform
2 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 21 (23.33%) Ansible
4 8 (8.89%) Grafana
5 7 (7.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (6.67%) Argo
7 3 (3.33%) Istio
8 2 (2.22%) Kibana
8 2 (2.22%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.22%) vRealize
8 2 (2.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (1.11%) Icinga
9 1 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.11%) Karpenter
9 1 (1.11%) logstash
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.11%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.11%) Packer
9 1 (1.11%) Podman
9 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) Google
2 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.56%) VMware
4 4 (4.44%) Splunk
5 3 (3.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.22%) Confluent
6 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.22%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.22%) Vermilion
7 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.11%) Brocade
7 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) Oracle
7 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.11%) TIBCO