Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 77 89
Rank change year-on-year +28 +12 -37
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 72 47 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.24% 2.18% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 2.41% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 60
10th Percentile £388 £422 £511
25th Percentile £463 £475 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £550 £641
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -14.23% +1.79%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £728
90th Percentile £774 £662 £801
Central London median daily rate £625 £550 £648
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.06% +3.60%

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 1,589 1,953 3,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.58% 90.75% 91.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 1,368 2,128
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £452 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.80%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 23
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.92 £14.45
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.90% -25.00% -13.58%
75th Percentile £41.48 £40.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £59.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -14.63%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure as Code within the City of London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Infrastructure as Code
Central London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (48.61%) Azure
2 34 (47.22%) AWS
3 17 (23.61%) Serverless
4 15 (20.83%) GitHub
5 10 (13.89%) Azure AKS
6 9 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (12.50%) PaaS
7 8 (11.11%) GCP
8 7 (9.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (9.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
9 6 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (8.33%) SaaS
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) DNS
2 12 (16.67%) Firewall
3 11 (15.28%) VPN
4 7 (9.72%) NGFW
5 3 (4.17%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.78%) DHCP
6 2 (2.78%) Network Security
7 1 (1.39%) HTTP
7 1 (1.39%) Internet
7 1 (1.39%) NAS
7 1 (1.39%) SAN
7 1 (1.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.17%) Big Data
3 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.78%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.78%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (2.78%) Power BI
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.39%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.39%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.39%) Metadata
5 1 (1.39%) MySQL
5 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.39%) Redis
5 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) GitLab
1 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (2.78%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.39%) Terragrunt
4 1 (1.39%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (22.22%) Finance
1 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (19.44%) Senior
3 11 (15.28%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (13.89%) Architect
5 7 (9.72%) Network Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Network Support
5 7 (9.72%) Network Support Engineer
5 7 (9.72%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.33%) Azure Architect
6 6 (8.33%) Developer
6 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.94%) Lead
7 5 (6.94%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.11%) ADO
2 7 (9.72%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (8.33%) .NET
3 6 (8.33%) GraphQL
3 6 (8.33%) Node.js
4 5 (6.94%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (6.94%) React
4 5 (6.94%) RESTful
5 4 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 4 (5.56%) ARM Templates
5 4 (5.56%) WebSockets
6 2 (2.78%) AWS CDK
6 2 (2.78%) JSON
6 2 (2.78%) Kafka
6 2 (2.78%) OAuth
6 2 (2.78%) OpenID
6 2 (2.78%) REST
6 2 (2.78%) Spring
6 2 (2.78%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (26.39%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.72%) Anti-Spyware
3 5 (6.94%) Public Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.78%) DataPower
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.78%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.78%) Reinsurance
5 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.39%) AS400
6 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) iSeries
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 2 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.39%) SUSE
5 1 (1.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (68.06%) CI/CD
2 44 (61.11%) DevOps
3 25 (34.72%) Containerisation
4 24 (33.33%) Agile
5 16 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (18.06%) Microservices
7 13 (18.06%) Observability
8 12 (16.67%) Migration
9 11 (15.28%) Configuration Management
10 10 (13.89%) Cloud Security
11 9 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven
12 8 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 8 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 7 (9.72%) High Availability
13 7 (9.72%) Service-Level Objective
13 7 (9.72%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (13.89%) Bash
2 10 (13.89%) SQL
3 9 (12.50%) Bicep
3 9 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.11%) Java
4 8 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.33%) Go
6 5 (6.94%) C#
6 5 (6.94%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (2.78%) Perl
7 2 (2.78%) Rust
8 1 (1.39%) C++
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.39%) PHP
8 1 (1.39%) RPG
8 1 (1.39%) Ruby
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Degree
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) CFA
5 1 (1.39%) CISA
5 1 (1.39%) CISM
5 1 (1.39%) CISSP
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (30.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 55 (76.39%) Terraform
2 38 (52.78%) Kubernetes
3 16 (22.22%) Ansible
4 12 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (11.11%) Grafana
6 4 (5.56%) Progress Chef
6 4 (5.56%) Puppet
7 1 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (1.39%) CASB
7 1 (1.39%) Istio
7 1 (1.39%) Packer
7 1 (1.39%) Podman
7 1 (1.39%) Rancher
7 1 (1.39%) yum
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) Palo Alto
3 7 (9.72%) CheckPoint
3 7 (9.72%) Infoblox
4 3 (4.17%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.39%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.39%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.39%) Confluent
6 1 (1.39%) FNZ
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software