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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 53 60
Rank change year-on-year +18 +7 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 133 69 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.15% 3.99% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% 4.23% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 50 39
10th Percentile £450 £400 £425
25th Percentile £513 £477 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £593
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.49% +1.28%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £738
Central London median daily rate £590 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -5.60% +11.11% -6.25%

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 1,949 1,633 1,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.50% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,096 1,210
10th Percentile £367 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 5 October 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 8 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.01%) Confluence
4 3 (2.26%) Apache
4 3 (2.26%) CMS
5 2 (1.50%) nginx
5 2 (1.50%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.75%) SAS
6 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.75%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (50.38%) Azure
2 58 (43.61%) AWS
3 38 (28.57%) GitHub
4 28 (21.05%) GitHub Actions
5 25 (18.80%) Serverless
6 21 (15.79%) GCP
7 18 (13.53%) Amazon S3
7 18 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (12.03%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
11 9 (6.77%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (6.77%) Azure AKS
11 9 (6.77%) PaaS
12 8 (6.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (6.02%) dbt
13 7 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.52%) Firewall
2 7 (5.26%) Network Security
2 7 (5.26%) VPN
3 5 (3.76%) Internet
4 4 (3.01%) DNS
5 2 (1.50%) BGP
5 2 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.50%) WAN
5 2 (1.50%) X.509
6 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.75%) Multicast
6 1 (0.75%) NAS
6 1 (0.75%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.75%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.75%) SSH
6 1 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.75%) TACACS
6 1 (0.75%) VSAN
6 1 (0.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (7.52%) Power BI
3 9 (6.77%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (4.51%) Metadata
5 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.50%) Big Data
9 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.50%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.75%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) Git
1 18 (13.53%) GitLab
1 18 (13.53%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.02%) JIRA
3 8 (6.02%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.01%) JMeter
4 4 (3.01%) Postman
5 2 (1.50%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.50%) JUnit
5 2 (1.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.75%) Gradle
6 1 (0.75%) Jasmine
6 1 (0.75%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (0.75%) MLflow
6 1 (0.75%) Mockito
6 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (34.59%) Finance
2 38 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.04%) Banking
4 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.77%) Back Office
6 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.51%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.01%) Front Office
8 4 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.50%) Law
10 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.75%) Military
11 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (24.06%) Architect
2 22 (16.54%) Senior
3 15 (11.28%) Developer
3 15 (11.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (9.77%) Data Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
8 8 (6.02%) Azure Architect
8 8 (6.02%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.02%) Lead
8 8 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.26%) AWS Architect
9 7 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.51%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (63.16%) Terraform
2 10 (7.52%) Spring
3 9 (6.77%) Kafka
3 9 (6.77%) REST
3 9 (6.77%) Spring Boot
4 7 (5.26%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (5.26%) RESTful
5 5 (3.76%) .NET
5 5 (3.76%) Node.js
5 5 (3.76%) YAML
6 4 (3.01%) Swagger
7 3 (2.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.26%) FastAPI
7 3 (2.26%) HTML
7 3 (2.26%) JSON
7 3 (2.26%) PySpark
7 3 (2.26%) React
7 3 (2.26%) Spring Security
8 2 (1.50%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 51 (38.35%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.76%) AI Agents
6 5 (3.76%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) CMDB
7 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.50%) PropTech
8 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Windows
2 6 (4.51%) Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Unix
3 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.75%) CentOS
5 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (75.94%) CI/CD
2 62 (46.62%) DevOps
3 45 (33.83%) Containerisation
4 34 (25.56%) Migration
5 32 (24.06%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (22.56%) Observability
7 26 (19.55%) Event-Driven
8 25 (18.80%) Test Automation
9 24 (18.05%) Agile
9 24 (18.05%) AI
10 21 (15.79%) Mentoring
11 20 (15.04%) Data Engineering
12 18 (13.53%) Analytics
12 18 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (12.78%) Microservices
13 17 (12.78%) Software Engineering
14 16 (12.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (12.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 15 (11.28%) Data Modelling
15 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 44 (33.08%) Python
2 27 (20.30%) SQL
3 23 (17.29%) Java
4 18 (13.53%) PowerShell
5 13 (9.77%) C#
6 12 (9.02%) Bicep
7 9 (6.77%) Bash
8 5 (3.76%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.01%) Korn
10 3 (2.26%) Ruby
10 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 45 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 42 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) DBS Check
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) Degree
6 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) CCSP
8 1 (0.75%) CISSP
8 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
8 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.76%) GDPR
4 4 (3.01%) PCI DSS
4 4 (3.01%) QA
5 3 (2.26%) NIST
6 2 (1.50%) NCSC
6 2 (1.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.75%) PSD2
7 1 (0.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (15.79%) Docker
2 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (37.59%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.78%) Ansible
3 15 (11.28%) Grafana
4 11 (8.27%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.75%) Bosun
7 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.75%) Packer
7 1 (0.75%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.75%) Salt
7 1 (0.75%) SCCM
7 1 (0.75%) SELinux
7 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 17 (12.78%) Databricks
3 11 (8.27%) Google
4 9 (6.77%) VMware
5 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.26%) Cisco
6 7 (5.26%) Splunk
7 6 (4.51%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.51%) Oracle
8 4 (3.01%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.26%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.26%) Okta
9 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
9 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.50%) Adyen
10 2 (1.50%) Foundry
11 1 (0.75%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.75%) FIS
11 1 (0.75%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.75%) Zscaler