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 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 63 93
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 887 485 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.50% 3.68% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 4.05% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 328 322
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £456 £475 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £569 £563
% change year-on-year -7.65% +1.07% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £27.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +171.82% -59.26% +18.94%

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 14,518 11,989 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.05% 90.98% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,761 7,892 11,520
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 162 352
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £56.25 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £77.25 £69.95
England median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 +28 118 £550 - 72
West London +9 35 £603 +26.84% 20
South London +1 22 £530 -3.64% 5
East London +1 3 £562 -3.93% 12
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 40 (4.51%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.38%) Apache
2 30 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.92%) Confluence
4 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.45%) SAS
6 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Traefik
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 464 (52.31%) AWS
2 434 (48.93%) Azure
3 248 (27.96%) GitHub
4 180 (20.29%) GCP
5 173 (19.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 167 (18.83%) Serverless
7 160 (18.04%) GitHub Actions
8 157 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (15.78%) Amazon S3
10 113 (12.74%) AWS Lambda
11 89 (10.03%) Amazon EKS
12 82 (9.24%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (7.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 65 (7.33%) Power Platform
15 56 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 54 (6.09%) Azure AKS
17 51 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
18 50 (5.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 49 (5.52%) Azure Monitor
20 48 (5.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.57%) Firewall
2 42 (4.74%) Network Security
3 36 (4.06%) DNS
4 32 (3.61%) VPN
5 17 (1.92%) WAN
6 15 (1.69%) SD-WAN
7 14 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 10 (1.13%) BGP
9 9 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.79%) OSPF
11 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.68%) Multicast
11 6 (0.68%) SSL
11 6 (0.68%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.56%) MPLS
12 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.45%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
13 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (7.78%) Data Lake
2 49 (5.52%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (5.41%) Power BI
4 44 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 29 (3.27%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.16%) BigQuery
9 28 (3.16%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.82%) Delta Lake
10 25 (2.82%) Redis
11 20 (2.25%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.92%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.92%) OLTP
13 16 (1.80%) Mixpanel
14 15 (1.69%) MySQL
14 15 (1.69%) OLAP
15 14 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 158 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 127 (14.32%) GitLab
3 100 (11.27%) Git
4 33 (3.72%) JIRA
5 19 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.58%) MLflow
7 7 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.56%) Snyk
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.34%) git-flow
11 3 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) Vite
12 2 (0.23%) REST Assured
General
1 186 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.90%) Finance
3 111 (12.51%) Public Sector
4 48 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (5.41%) Banking
5 37 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (1.69%) Retail
8 12 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.01%) Front Office
11 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.56%) Legal
12 5 (0.56%) Marketing
12 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.45%) Military
13 4 (0.45%) Publishing
13 4 (0.45%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 164 (18.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 136 (15.33%) Senior
3 119 (13.42%) Architect
4 98 (11.05%) Cloud Engineer
5 94 (10.60%) Azure Engineer
6 93 (10.48%) Data Engineer
7 80 (9.02%) Lead
8 76 (8.57%) Developer
9 72 (8.12%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (4.28%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 35 (3.95%) Software Engineer
14 34 (3.83%) GCP Engineer
15 31 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
16 29 (3.27%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 27 (3.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (10.26%) Kafka
2 71 (8.00%) Node.js
3 46 (5.19%) React
4 44 (4.96%) PySpark
5 41 (4.62%) .NET
5 41 (4.62%) OAuth
6 37 (4.17%) ARM Templates
7 35 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
7 35 (3.95%) YAML
8 33 (3.72%) REST
9 31 (3.49%) Spring
10 30 (3.38%) RESTful
11 29 (3.27%) AngularJS
12 28 (3.16%) AWS CDK
12 28 (3.16%) OpenID
13 27 (3.04%) Playwright
13 27 (3.04%) Spring Boot
14 24 (2.71%) GraphQL
15 21 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (2.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 244 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.16%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (2.82%) Security Posture
6 22 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.69%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.13%) Replication
11 9 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.68%) Omics
13 6 (0.68%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.92%) Linux
2 40 (4.51%) Windows
3 23 (2.59%) VMS
4 16 (1.80%) Unix
5 6 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 669 (75.42%) CI/CD
2 544 (61.33%) DevOps
3 234 (26.38%) Containerisation
4 200 (22.55%) Observability
5 195 (21.98%) Agile
6 160 (18.04%) Analytics
7 158 (17.81%) AI
8 129 (14.54%) Migration
9 126 (14.21%) Platform Engineering
10 117 (13.19%) Microservices
11 105 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (11.72%) Cloud Security
12 104 (11.72%) Software Engineering
12 104 (11.72%) Test Automation
13 101 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
13 101 (11.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 97 (10.94%) Data Engineering
14 97 (10.94%) Data Modelling
15 92 (10.37%) Mentoring
16 87 (9.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 410 (46.22%) Python
2 187 (21.08%) SQL
3 113 (12.74%) Bash
4 97 (10.94%) Java
5 89 (10.03%) PowerShell
6 70 (7.89%) Bicep
7 60 (6.76%) TypeScript
8 43 (4.85%) C#
9 42 (4.74%) Go
10 40 (4.51%) JavaScript
11 20 (2.25%) Scala
12 13 (1.47%) Ruby
13 11 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.79%) C
15 5 (0.56%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
16 3 (0.34%) Cypher
16 3 (0.34%) Groovy
16 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 274 (30.89%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.99%) Azure Certification
4 60 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.06%) Degree
6 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.14%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.24%) CISSP
13 10 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.90%) CCNP
16 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.79%) OSCP
17 6 (0.68%) CCSP
18 5 (0.56%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.98%) GDPR
3 43 (4.85%) NIST
4 33 (3.72%) QA
5 32 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.82%) NCSC
7 20 (2.25%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.24%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.13%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.56%) SLA
11 3 (0.34%) GRC
11 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.23%) PSD2
12 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.23%) SEPA
13 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 258 (29.09%) Docker
2 34 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 33 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 9 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.90%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.45%) Squid
7 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.34%) Snort
8 3 (0.34%) vSphere
9 2 (0.23%) zsh
10 1 (0.11%) etcd
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 673 (75.87%) Terraform
2 314 (35.40%) Kubernetes
3 137 (15.45%) Ansible
4 97 (10.94%) Grafana
5 91 (10.26%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.93%) Argo
7 17 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.69%) Istio
8 15 (1.69%) Puppet
9 11 (1.24%) Kibana
10 10 (1.13%) ITRS Geneos
10 10 (1.13%) Rancher
11 7 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.79%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.68%) Nessus
13 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.34%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 137 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.92%) Databricks
3 86 (9.70%) Google
4 45 (5.07%) Splunk
5 20 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 17 (1.92%) VMware
7 16 (1.80%) Cisco
8 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
8 13 (1.47%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.13%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.13%) Oracle
10 10 (1.13%) PagerDuty
11 9 (1.01%) Qualys
11 9 (1.01%) Solace
12 8 (0.90%) IBM
13 7 (0.79%) TIBCO
14 6 (0.68%) Aruba
14 6 (0.68%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.68%) Salesforce