Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 54 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 +51 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,095 584 424
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 4.46% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 4.83% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 374 300
10th Percentile £407 £388 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £748
England median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -35.29%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -12.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
Central London +19 133 £575 -8.00% 87
West London -8 18 £625 +26.26% 12
South London +1 13 £503 +1.52%
East London +1 5 £512 - 8
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 44 (4.02%) Apache Spark
2 38 (3.47%) Confluence
3 33 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.56%) Apache
5 12 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.00%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.091%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.091%) Maximo
2 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 590 (53.88%) AWS
2 557 (50.87%) Azure
3 293 (26.76%) GitHub
4 205 (18.72%) GitHub Actions
5 198 (18.08%) Serverless
6 197 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
7 193 (17.63%) GCP
8 168 (15.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 166 (15.16%) Amazon S3
10 133 (12.15%) AWS Lambda
11 106 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (7.95%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (6.85%) Azure AKS
14 75 (6.85%) Power Platform
15 70 (6.39%) Entra ID
16 64 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 60 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
18 56 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (4.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (7.21%) Firewall
2 50 (4.57%) Network Security
3 47 (4.29%) DNS
4 36 (3.29%) VPN
5 29 (2.65%) WAN
6 19 (1.74%) BGP
7 12 (1.10%) SSL
7 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.00%) Internet
8 11 (1.00%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.91%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.91%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.82%) OSPF
11 8 (0.73%) HTTP
12 7 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.64%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.55%) NAS
13 6 (0.55%) SAN
14 5 (0.46%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.39%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (5.21%) Data Lake
3 55 (5.02%) Power BI
4 46 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (3.38%) Delta Lake
8 35 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 33 (3.01%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 28 (2.56%) DynamoDB
12 23 (2.10%) NoSQL
13 22 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (2.01%) Redis
14 19 (1.74%) Metadata
15 16 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (1.46%) Tableau
16 13 (1.19%) Big Data
17 12 (1.10%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 180 (16.44%) Jenkins
2 162 (14.79%) GitLab
3 158 (14.43%) Git
4 56 (5.11%) JIRA
5 15 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.28%) Snyk
7 13 (1.19%) MLflow
7 13 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.91%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.91%) JUnit
9 8 (0.73%) JMeter
9 8 (0.73%) Mockito
10 6 (0.55%) Postman
11 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.37%) git-flow
12 4 (0.37%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 215 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 183 (16.71%) Finance
3 156 (14.25%) Public Sector
4 63 (5.75%) Banking
5 50 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.19%) Law
9 13 (1.19%) Retail
10 11 (1.00%) Legal
11 10 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.55%) Local Government
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Front Office
15 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 236 (21.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (17.08%) Architect
3 164 (14.98%) Senior
4 125 (11.42%) Cloud Engineer
5 121 (11.05%) Lead
6 119 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
7 101 (9.22%) Data Engineer
8 97 (8.86%) AWS Engineer
9 82 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
10 72 (6.58%) Developer
11 57 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (4.02%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
16 42 (3.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 41 (3.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 37 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
19 34 (3.11%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.21%) Kafka
2 64 (5.84%) PySpark
3 63 (5.75%) REST
4 50 (4.57%) RESTful
5 48 (4.38%) Node.js
6 45 (4.11%) OAuth
6 45 (4.11%) React
7 40 (3.65%) .NET
8 36 (3.29%) OpenID
9 35 (3.20%) OAuth2
10 31 (2.83%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.74%) YAML
12 27 (2.47%) Spring
13 26 (2.37%) AngularJS
13 26 (2.37%) SAML
14 24 (2.19%) OpenTelemetry
14 24 (2.19%) Spring Boot
15 23 (2.10%) AWS CDK
16 21 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.64%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 328 (29.95%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 33 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 30 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 23 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
11 17 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.00%) PKI
16 11 (1.00%) Private Cloud
16 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
17 10 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 104 (9.50%) Linux
2 72 (6.58%) Windows
3 22 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.92%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.46%) Unix
6 13 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.82%) VMS
8 8 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Android
10 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.091%) AIX
11 1 (0.091%) Debian
11 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (76.16%) CI/CD
2 690 (63.01%) DevOps
3 313 (28.58%) Containerisation
4 238 (21.74%) Agile
4 238 (21.74%) Platform Engineering
5 229 (20.91%) Observability
6 203 (18.54%) AI
7 158 (14.43%) Analytics
8 149 (13.61%) Test Automation
9 144 (13.15%) Migration
10 137 (12.51%) Microservices
11 130 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (11.78%) Software Engineering
13 118 (10.78%) Mentoring
14 117 (10.68%) Cloud Security
15 109 (9.95%) Data Modelling
15 109 (9.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 106 (9.68%) Data Engineering
16 106 (9.68%) Machine Learning
17 105 (9.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 480 (43.84%) Python
2 185 (16.89%) SQL
3 157 (14.34%) Bash
4 148 (13.52%) PowerShell
5 115 (10.50%) Java
6 111 (10.14%) Bicep
7 64 (5.84%) C#
8 60 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 53 (4.84%) JavaScript
10 40 (3.65%) Go
11 22 (2.01%) Scala
12 17 (1.55%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.46%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) C
16 4 (0.37%) Cypher
17 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.27%) Rust
17 3 (0.27%) SAS Macro
18 2 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 406 (37.08%) Security Cleared
2 381 (34.79%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 52 (4.75%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.11%) Degree
6 42 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.55%) CISSP
10 17 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.46%) CCNP
12 13 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.82%) CISM
13 9 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.73%) GIAC
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.11%) NIST
3 41 (3.74%) GDPR
3 41 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (2.92%) QA
5 31 (2.83%) NCSC
6 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.55%) SLA
10 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.37%) COBIT
11 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.27%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.091%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 281 (25.66%) Docker
2 39 (3.56%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.091%) NFS
11 1 (0.091%) Samba
11 1 (0.091%) Squid
11 1 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 854 (77.99%) Terraform
2 423 (38.63%) Kubernetes
3 172 (15.71%) Ansible
4 117 (10.68%) Grafana
4 117 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.47%) Puppet
6 22 (2.01%) Argo
7 16 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.10%) Packer
9 11 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.00%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.73%) Kubeflow
11 6 (0.55%) Istio
12 5 (0.46%) Kibana
12 5 (0.46%) Salt
12 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 3 (0.27%) Kustomize
13 3 (0.27%) Rancher
13 3 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 168 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.13%) Databricks
3 82 (7.49%) Google
4 62 (5.66%) Splunk
5 33 (3.01%) Oracle
6 30 (2.74%) VMware
7 23 (2.10%) Cisco
8 22 (2.01%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.64%) CyberArk
12 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.19%) Okta
14 12 (1.10%) Arista
14 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.00%) Foundry
16 10 (0.91%) Informatica
16 10 (0.91%) Zscaler
17 9 (0.82%) AppDynamics