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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +39 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 799 436 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.69% 3.13% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 3.47% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 286 354
10th Percentile £385 £410 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +0.43% -8.12%
75th Percentile £640 £673 £677
90th Percentile £725 £738 £779
England median daily rate £530 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £57.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +33.91% -24.11% +29.51%

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 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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
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 12 January 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 +27 99 £550 - 69
West London +6 31 £603 +26.84% 16
South London +4 15 £530 -22.63% 14
East London -3 2 £675 +15.38% 17
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 24 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.50%) Confluence
4 17 (2.13%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) SAS
5 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.38%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
7 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.13%) Summit
2 1 (0.13%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 415 (51.94%) AWS
2 383 (47.93%) Azure
3 217 (27.16%) GitHub
4 157 (19.65%) GitHub Actions
5 144 (18.02%) GCP
6 136 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (17.02%) Serverless
7 129 (16.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 114 (14.27%) Amazon S3
9 94 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
10 74 (9.26%) Amazon EKS
11 63 (7.88%) Amazon ECS
12 58 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (6.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (6.13%) Entra ID
16 48 (6.01%) Azure AKS
17 43 (5.38%) Power Platform
18 38 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 37 (4.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 81 (10.14%) Firewall
2 41 (5.13%) VPN
3 40 (5.01%) Network Security
4 37 (4.63%) DNS
5 17 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.75%) SSL
7 13 (1.63%) WAN
8 11 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.00%) BGP
10 6 (0.75%) tcpdump
11 5 (0.63%) Multicast
11 5 (0.63%) OSPF
11 5 (0.63%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.63%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.50%) HTTP
12 4 (0.50%) MPLS
12 4 (0.50%) VLAN
13 3 (0.38%) DHCP
13 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 46 (5.76%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (4.26%) Power BI
5 28 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.38%) DynamoDB
7 26 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
8 22 (2.75%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (2.50%) Redis
10 18 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 17 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 14 (1.75%) MySQL
14 13 (1.63%) Relational Database
15 12 (1.50%) MongoDB
16 10 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
17 9 (1.13%) Delta Lake
17 9 (1.13%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 152 (19.02%) Jenkins
2 117 (14.64%) GitLab
3 79 (9.89%) Git
4 33 (4.13%) JIRA
5 17 (2.13%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.88%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.13%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.00%) Snyk
9 8 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.75%) Gradle
10 6 (0.75%) Maven
10 6 (0.75%) MLflow
10 6 (0.75%) Selenium
10 6 (0.75%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.50%) Postman
12 3 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.38%) JUnit
General
1 169 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 128 (16.02%) Finance
3 89 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 56 (7.01%) Banking
5 48 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.88%) Front Office
7 15 (1.88%) Retail
8 13 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.25%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.13%) Marketing
11 9 (1.13%) Publishing
12 8 (1.00%) Military
12 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.75%) Electronics
15 4 (0.50%) Legal
15 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (21.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (16.02%) Senior
3 92 (11.51%) Developer
4 79 (9.89%) Architect
5 74 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
5 74 (9.26%) Platform Engineer
6 68 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (8.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 63 (7.88%) Data Engineer
9 54 (6.76%) Lead
10 37 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
10 37 (4.63%) Security Engineer
10 37 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 32 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 31 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
14 28 (3.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.50%) Senior Developer
15 27 (3.38%) Site Engineer
16 26 (3.25%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.39%) Kafka
2 62 (7.76%) Node.js
3 44 (5.51%) React
4 41 (5.13%) Spring
4 41 (5.13%) YAML
5 38 (4.76%) ARM Templates
6 37 (4.63%) REST
6 37 (4.63%) Spring Boot
7 33 (4.13%) OAuth
8 31 (3.88%) .NET
8 31 (3.88%) AngularJS
9 30 (3.75%) RESTful
10 27 (3.38%) GraphQL
11 24 (3.00%) AWS CDK
11 24 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
12 23 (2.88%) Playwright
13 22 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
13 22 (2.75%) gRPC
13 22 (2.75%) PySpark
14 19 (2.38%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 198 (24.78%) Cloud Native
2 65 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.63%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.63%) Replication
9 12 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.88%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (12.89%) Linux
2 44 (5.51%) Windows
3 23 (2.88%) VMS
4 19 (2.38%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.88%) Unix
6 10 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.63%) Solaris
8 3 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (73.72%) CI/CD
2 491 (61.45%) DevOps
3 197 (24.66%) Containerisation
4 195 (24.41%) Agile
5 172 (21.53%) Observability
6 121 (15.14%) Migration
6 121 (15.14%) Software Engineering
7 120 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
8 117 (14.64%) AI
9 108 (13.52%) Microservices
9 108 (13.52%) Platform Engineering
10 100 (12.52%) Analytics
11 95 (11.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 89 (11.14%) DevSecOps
13 84 (10.51%) Cloud Security
13 84 (10.51%) Test Automation
14 75 (9.39%) Infrastructure Automation
15 71 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (8.89%) Machine Learning
16 70 (8.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 376 (47.06%) Python
2 140 (17.52%) SQL
3 124 (15.52%) Bash
4 97 (12.14%) Java
5 91 (11.39%) PowerShell
6 64 (8.01%) TypeScript
7 55 (6.88%) Bicep
8 47 (5.88%) Go
9 41 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 38 (4.76%) C#
11 12 (1.50%) Ruby
12 9 (1.13%) Scala
12 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.63%) C++
14 5 (0.63%) Groovy
14 5 (0.63%) Rust
15 4 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 212 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 197 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.51%) Azure Certification
4 48 (6.01%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.38%) Degree
6 23 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.25%) CISSP
10 10 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.88%) MCP
13 5 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.63%) OSCP
14 4 (0.50%) GPEN
14 4 (0.50%) PhD
14 4 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.26%) GDPR
2 38 (4.76%) NIST
3 37 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 32 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.88%) QA
6 11 (1.38%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.13%) NCSC
7 9 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.38%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
11 2 (0.25%) PSD2
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.25%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
System Software
1 243 (30.41%) Docker
2 39 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.00%) zsh
6 6 (0.75%) Squid
7 5 (0.63%) Snort
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.38%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) etcd
11 1 (0.13%) Firmware
11 1 (0.13%) GPFS
11 1 (0.13%) HDFS
11 1 (0.13%) Lustre
11 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 598 (74.84%) Terraform
2 285 (35.67%) Kubernetes
3 143 (17.90%) Ansible
4 106 (13.27%) Grafana
5 91 (11.39%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.13%) Argo
7 18 (2.25%) Puppet
8 15 (1.88%) Kibana
9 14 (1.75%) Istio
10 13 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.50%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (1.25%) Rancher
13 9 (1.13%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.75%) Nessus
15 5 (0.63%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.63%) logstash
16 4 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 131 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.39%) Google
3 65 (8.14%) Databricks
4 34 (4.26%) Splunk
5 20 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 20 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.38%) Cisco
7 17 (2.13%) VMware
8 14 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.75%) Oracle
9 12 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.50%) Solace
10 10 (1.25%) PagerDuty
11 9 (1.13%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.13%) Qualys
11 9 (1.13%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.00%) F5
12 8 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.88%) SAP