Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 29 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 4 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.76% 1.71% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.33% 1.83% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile £502 - £396
25th Percentile £506 £805 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £820 £525
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +56.19% -25.00%
75th Percentile £570 £835 £581
90th Percentile £606 - £604
South London median daily rate £530 £685 £544
% change year-on-year -22.63% +25.98% -22.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 75 109 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 89.29% 93.16% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 72 94
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £494 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £529
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +1.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £626 £675
South London median daily rate £510 £528 £523
% change year-on-year -3.32% +0.96% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
% change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in Croydon

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Prometheus