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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 +23
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 87 61 75
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.72% 2.97% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 3.22% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 32 61
10th Percentile £363 £460 £450
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £654 £678 £680
90th Percentile £710 £730 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -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 1,666 1,894 2,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.40% 92.17% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,158 1,603
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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 26 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 (2.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) Apache
2 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.15%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 42 (48.28%) Azure
2 40 (45.98%) AWS
3 30 (34.48%) GitHub
4 25 (28.74%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (27.59%) GCP
6 17 (19.54%) Serverless
7 15 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (14.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
9 12 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (8.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (6.90%) Azure AKS
13 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
14 5 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (5.75%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (4.60%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.05%) Firewall
2 6 (6.90%) DNS
3 5 (5.75%) Network Security
4 2 (2.30%) VPN
5 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.15%) NGFW
5 1 (1.15%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.15%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.75%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.60%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.60%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.45%) MySQL
4 3 (3.45%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.30%) Big Data
5 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.30%) Redis
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.15%) CockroachDB
6 1 (1.15%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.15%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.15%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (10.34%) GitLab
3 6 (6.90%) Git
3 6 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 3 (3.45%) Gradle
4 3 (3.45%) JIRA
4 3 (3.45%) Maven
4 3 (3.45%) Selenium
5 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.15%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.15%) Gatling
6 1 (1.15%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.15%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (1.15%) Snyk
6 1 (1.15%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (22.99%) Finance
2 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.75%) Banking
4 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.15%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.99%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (12.64%) Architect
2 11 (12.64%) Developer
3 9 (10.34%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Lead
5 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Lead Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior
7 4 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) AWS Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Lead Java Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Principal Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) OAuth
1 7 (8.05%) Spring
2 6 (6.90%) Node.js
2 6 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.75%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (5.75%) React
4 4 (4.60%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.45%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.45%) Kafka
5 3 (3.45%) LangChain
5 3 (3.45%) Loki
5 3 (3.45%) REST
6 2 (2.30%) .NET
6 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.30%) Faiss
6 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.30%) LangGraph
6 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.60%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (2.30%) Replication
6 2 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.15%) Derivative
7 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.15%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.15%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) Android
4 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 50 (57.47%) DevOps
3 20 (22.99%) Containerisation
4 17 (19.54%) Migration
5 15 (17.24%) Cloud Security
5 15 (17.24%) Observability
6 14 (16.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (14.94%) AI
8 12 (13.79%) Microservices
9 10 (11.49%) Agile
9 10 (11.49%) DevSecOps
9 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (9.20%) Software Engineering
11 7 (8.05%) Analytics
11 7 (8.05%) Cloud Operations
11 7 (8.05%) High Availability
11 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (8.05%) Roadmaps
12 6 (6.90%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (44.83%) Python
2 15 (17.24%) Java
3 13 (14.94%) SQL
4 10 (11.49%) Bash
5 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.60%) Go
7 3 (3.45%) C#
7 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.45%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.30%) Bicep
8 2 (2.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.15%) C
9 1 (1.15%) Perl
9 1 (1.15%) PHP
9 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) ProC
9 1 (1.15%) PromQL
9 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.60%) CISSP
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.45%) MCP
5 2 (2.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) CCNA
6 1 (1.15%) CCSP
6 1 (1.15%) Degree
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) OSCP
6 1 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.75%) GDPR
3 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.30%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.30%) QA
4 2 (2.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.15%) GRC
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.15%) MiFID
5 1 (1.15%) NCSC
5 1 (1.15%) PSD2
5 1 (1.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) Firmware
3 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 70 (80.46%) Terraform
2 29 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 17 (19.54%) Ansible
4 9 (10.34%) Grafana
5 8 (9.20%) Argo
6 7 (8.05%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.60%) Istio
8 2 (2.30%) Kibana
8 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.30%) Podman
8 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.15%) Icinga
9 1 (1.15%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.15%) logstash
9 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.15%) Opsgenie
9 1 (1.15%) Packer
9 1 (1.15%) Puppet
9 1 (1.15%) vRealize
9 1 (1.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) Databricks
3 4 (4.60%) Splunk
3 4 (4.60%) VMware
4 2 (2.30%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.15%) Brocade
5 1 (1.15%) Citrix
5 1 (1.15%) IBM
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle
5 1 (1.15%) Portware
5 1 (1.15%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.15%) SAP
5 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.15%) TIBCO