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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 52 79
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 124 69 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.58% 3.91% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.48% 4.22% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 39 42
10th Percentile £356 £406 £449
25th Percentile £413 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -14.73%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £649
90th Percentile £678 £751 £701
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -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 1,914 1,637 2,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.18% 92.70% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,045 1,428
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.44% -4.58%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £803
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 18 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 (3.23%) Apache
1 4 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.81%) nginx
3 1 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.81%) AWS
2 51 (41.13%) Azure
3 35 (28.23%) GitHub
4 29 (23.39%) GCP
5 28 (22.58%) Serverless
6 26 (20.97%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (15.32%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (12.90%) Amazon S3
10 15 (12.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 9 (7.26%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (7.26%) Azure AKS
13 6 (4.84%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (4.84%) Amazon SageMaker
13 6 (4.84%) OpenShift
13 6 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (4.03%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Network Security
2 6 (4.84%) Firewall
3 4 (3.23%) DNS
4 2 (1.61%) SAN
5 1 (0.81%) BGP
5 1 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.81%) IPsec
5 1 (0.81%) NAS
5 1 (0.81%) OSPF
5 1 (0.81%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.81%) SSL
5 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) VPN
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.03%) DynamoDB
2 4 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.23%) Data Mining
2 4 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.42%) Amazon QuickSight
3 3 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.61%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.61%) Hazelcast
4 2 (1.61%) Metadata
4 2 (1.61%) MySQL
4 2 (1.61%) Redis
4 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (12.10%) Git
2 10 (8.06%) GitLab
3 6 (4.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.84%) JIRA
4 2 (1.61%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.61%) Gatling
4 2 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.81%) MLflow
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.81%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (17.74%) Finance
2 17 (13.71%) Public Sector
3 15 (12.10%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.45%) Banking
4 8 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.84%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.61%) Marketing
9 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.81%) Games
9 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.81%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.81%) Law
9 1 (0.81%) Military
9 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.81%) Police
9 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (21.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (20.16%) Architect
3 13 (10.48%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (9.68%) Developer
5 11 (8.87%) GCP Engineer
6 9 (7.26%) Lead
6 9 (7.26%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.45%) Senior
8 7 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.84%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
11 4 (3.23%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.23%) Data Architect
11 4 (3.23%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.23%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.26%) React
2 8 (6.45%) Node.js
2 8 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (5.65%) OAuth
4 6 (4.84%) Kafka
4 6 (4.84%) Spring
5 5 (4.03%) AWS CDK
5 5 (4.03%) boto
5 5 (4.03%) REST
5 5 (4.03%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.23%) Next.js
7 3 (2.42%) .NET
7 3 (2.42%) Django
7 3 (2.42%) Flask
7 3 (2.42%) LangGraph
7 3 (2.42%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (2.42%) Playwright
8 2 (1.61%) FastAPI
8 2 (1.61%) JWT
8 2 (1.61%) Quarkus
Miscellaneous
1 40 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.42%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.42%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.42%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.61%) Equities
7 2 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.61%) NHS
7 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) Replication
8 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.81%) Clustering
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.81%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.45%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.81%) CentOS
3 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) VMS
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (66.13%) CI/CD
2 69 (55.65%) DevOps
3 37 (29.84%) AI
4 30 (24.19%) Containerisation
5 27 (21.77%) Observability
6 22 (17.74%) Migration
7 19 (15.32%) Agile
7 19 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
8 17 (13.71%) Analytics
9 16 (12.90%) Cloud Security
9 16 (12.90%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Automation
11 14 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.29%) Generative AI
11 14 (11.29%) Microservices
12 13 (10.48%) Machine Learning
12 13 (10.48%) Roadmaps
12 13 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (8.87%) Cost Optimisation
13 11 (8.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (34.68%) Python
2 14 (11.29%) Java
2 14 (11.29%) SQL
3 12 (9.68%) Bash
4 11 (8.87%) PowerShell
5 8 (6.45%) Bicep
6 7 (5.65%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.84%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.03%) C#
9 4 (3.23%) Go
9 4 (3.23%) 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 48 (38.71%) SC Cleared
1 48 (38.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.26%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.84%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.23%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.61%) CISSP
6 2 (1.61%) Degree
7 1 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.81%) CCNA
7 1 (0.81%) CCNP
7 1 (0.81%) CCSP
7 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) OSCP
7 1 (0.81%) SANS
7 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.81%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.45%) Data Quality
1 8 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.65%) GDPR
3 5 (4.03%) PCI DSS
3 5 (4.03%) QA
4 3 (2.42%) SLA
5 2 (1.61%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.61%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.61%) NCSC
5 2 (1.61%) NIST
5 2 (1.61%) PSD2
5 2 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.61%) SEPA
6 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.81%) GRC
System Software
1 23 (18.55%) Docker
2 6 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.81%) Firmware
4 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 89 (71.77%) Terraform
2 42 (33.87%) Kubernetes
3 21 (16.94%) Ansible
4 7 (5.65%) Grafana
5 6 (4.84%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.23%) Argo
7 3 (2.42%) Istio
8 2 (1.61%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) Icinga
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%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.81%) QRadar
9 1 (0.81%) Salt
9 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.81%) vRealize
9 1 (0.81%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (12.10%) Google
2 13 (10.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.45%) Databricks
4 6 (4.84%) VMware
5 5 (4.03%) Splunk
6 4 (3.23%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.42%) Oracle
8 2 (1.61%) Confluent
8 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.61%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.61%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.81%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.81%) Brocade
9 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.81%) Foundry
9 1 (0.81%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.81%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.81%) Palantir
9 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.81%) Rapid7