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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 57 109
Rank change year-on-year +19 +52 -21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 976 493 388
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.53% 3.92% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 4.26% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 335 275
10th Percentile £400 £400 £385
25th Percentile £456 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £58.03 - £55.13
25th Percentile £59.94 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £73.94 - £57.81
90th Percentile £75.63 - £58.38
England median hourly rate £67.00 £27.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year +144.75% -52.39% -26.28%

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 15,645 11,571 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 92.12% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,478 7,850 11,229
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 172 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.70 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.50
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.23% -5.33%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +23 139 £563 -2.17% 80
West London +3 32 £603 +26.84% 9
South London -5 20 £530 +1.44%
East London 0 4 £562 -6.14% 9
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 52 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.28%) Apache
3 31 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (2.05%) Confluence
5 6 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 4 (0.41%) nginx
8 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Actimize
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 517 (52.97%) AWS
2 505 (51.74%) Azure
3 274 (28.07%) GitHub
4 188 (19.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 185 (18.95%) Serverless
6 182 (18.65%) GitHub Actions
7 180 (18.44%) GCP
8 179 (18.34%) Azure DevOps
9 153 (15.68%) Amazon S3
10 128 (13.11%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (9.63%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (9.02%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (7.68%) Power Platform
14 73 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 69 (7.07%) Azure AKS
16 56 (5.74%) Azure Monitor
17 54 (5.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 53 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (5.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 52 (5.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (7.89%) Firewall
2 42 (4.30%) Network Security
3 41 (4.20%) DNS
4 28 (2.87%) VPN
5 18 (1.84%) WAN
6 16 (1.64%) BGP
7 10 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.92%) OSPF
8 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (0.82%) IOS XR
9 8 (0.82%) NX-OS
9 8 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.51%) MPLS
11 5 (0.51%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) DHCP
12 4 (0.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.17%) Data Lake
2 57 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
3 52 (5.33%) Power BI
4 47 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
5 45 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.69%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 33 (3.38%) BigQuery
10 30 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
10 30 (3.07%) Delta Lake
11 29 (2.97%) DynamoDB
12 24 (2.46%) NoSQL
13 21 (2.15%) MongoDB
14 20 (2.05%) Tableau
15 19 (1.95%) OLTP
15 19 (1.95%) Redis
16 17 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (1.64%) Big Data
17 16 (1.64%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 165 (16.91%) Jenkins
2 133 (13.63%) Git
3 128 (13.11%) GitLab
4 32 (3.28%) JIRA
5 23 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.64%) MLflow
7 11 (1.13%) Snyk
8 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.92%) Terragrunt
10 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.72%) JUnit
10 7 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.61%) Mockito
12 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.31%) git-flow
General
1 191 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 148 (15.16%) Finance
3 136 (13.93%) Public Sector
4 50 (5.12%) Banking
5 47 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.33%) Retail
10 12 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
12 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.51%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Police
13 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Games
14 4 (0.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (18.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (16.91%) Architect
3 143 (14.65%) Senior
4 118 (12.09%) Azure Engineer
5 112 (11.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 101 (10.35%) Data Engineer
7 92 (9.43%) Developer
8 91 (9.32%) Lead
9 74 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
11 40 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 38 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
16 33 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (3.28%) GCP Engineer
18 31 (3.18%) Site Engineer
18 31 (3.18%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (9.43%) Kafka
2 68 (6.97%) Node.js
3 52 (5.33%) PySpark
4 50 (5.12%) React
5 48 (4.92%) RESTful
6 47 (4.82%) REST
7 43 (4.41%) .NET
7 43 (4.41%) Spring
8 38 (3.89%) AngularJS
8 38 (3.89%) OAuth
8 38 (3.89%) OpenTelemetry
8 38 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 37 (3.79%) YAML
10 36 (3.69%) ARM Templates
11 30 (3.07%) OpenID
12 26 (2.66%) AWS CDK
13 23 (2.36%) OAuth2
13 23 (2.36%) Playwright
14 22 (2.25%) Great Expectations
15 21 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 277 (28.38%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.05%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
13 9 (0.92%) PKI
14 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.82%) Replication
14 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.73%) Linux
2 47 (4.82%) Windows
3 19 (1.95%) VMS
4 14 (1.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 751 (76.95%) CI/CD
2 604 (61.89%) DevOps
3 276 (28.28%) Containerisation
4 222 (22.75%) Agile
5 217 (22.23%) Observability
6 172 (17.62%) AI
7 170 (17.42%) Analytics
8 157 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
9 148 (15.16%) Microservices
10 145 (14.86%) Migration
11 128 (13.11%) Test Automation
12 119 (12.19%) Software Engineering
13 118 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 116 (11.89%) Data Modelling
15 111 (11.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 108 (11.07%) Mentoring
17 101 (10.35%) Problem-Solving
18 98 (10.04%) Data Engineering
19 93 (9.53%) Cloud Security
20 91 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 423 (43.34%) Python
2 202 (20.70%) SQL
3 113 (11.58%) Java
4 104 (10.66%) Bash
4 104 (10.66%) PowerShell
5 85 (8.71%) Bicep
6 60 (6.15%) TypeScript
7 57 (5.84%) C#
8 51 (5.23%) JavaScript
9 35 (3.59%) Go
10 26 (2.66%) Scala
11 25 (2.56%) Ruby
12 14 (1.43%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.61%) C
14 4 (0.41%) Groovy
14 4 (0.41%) Rust
15 3 (0.31%) Cypher
15 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 360 (36.89%) Security Cleared
2 342 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.68%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.05%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.89%) Degree
6 34 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.33%) CCNP
11 12 (1.23%) CISSP
12 10 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) CCSP
15 5 (0.51%) CCIE
15 5 (0.51%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.20%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.12%) GDPR
3 42 (4.30%) NIST
4 39 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (3.69%) QA
6 29 (2.97%) NCSC
7 22 (2.25%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.72%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.31%) GRC
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) COBIT
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 262 (26.84%) Docker
2 35 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.31%) Squid
6 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.20%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) GPFS
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Lustre
8 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.10%) Snort
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 744 (76.23%) Terraform
2 345 (35.35%) Kubernetes
3 135 (13.83%) Ansible
4 98 (10.04%) Grafana
5 94 (9.63%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.36%) Puppet
7 22 (2.25%) Argo
8 18 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.23%) Istio
10 11 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.92%) Kibana
12 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.82%) Packer
13 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.72%) Rancher
14 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.41%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.41%) Salt
15 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 159 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.02%) Databricks
3 83 (8.50%) Google
4 54 (5.53%) Splunk
5 20 (2.05%) Oracle
6 18 (1.84%) VMware
7 16 (1.64%) Cisco
8 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.02%) Arista
10 10 (1.02%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.02%) Palo Alto
11 9 (0.92%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.82%) IBM
13 7 (0.72%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.72%) Qualys
13 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.72%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.72%) ServiceNow