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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 78 85
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 774 488 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.55% 3.10% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 3.48% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 315 414
10th Percentile £400 £421 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £682
90th Percentile £734 £750 £800
England median daily rate £538 £561 £585
% change year-on-year -4.23% -4.06% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £53.95 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -6.12% -15.52%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 £70.31
90th Percentile £62.15 - £82.13
England median hourly rate £59.25 £67.19 £76.53
% change year-on-year -11.81% -12.21% +16.84%

All Process and 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 12,878 14,024 18,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.35% 89.20% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,465 9,048 13,116
10th Percentile £333 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.06% -2.84%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 166 254
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.52
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.79 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +1.65% -0.88%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.94 £61.31
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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 16 November 2025.

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 16 November 2025. 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 +11 77 £575 - 279
West London -6 15 £603 +26.84% 17
South London - 6 £528 - 2
East London +7 5 - - 15
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 30 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.33%) Confluence
3 15 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.81%) Apache
5 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.39%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.39%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.39%) SAS
6 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.26%) nginx
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.26%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.26%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) DataSynapse
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.52%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.52%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.39%) Endur
3 2 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 408 (52.71%) AWS
2 369 (47.67%) Azure
3 204 (26.36%) GitHub
4 147 (18.99%) GCP
5 142 (18.35%) GitHub Actions
6 135 (17.44%) Azure DevOps
7 112 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 105 (13.57%) Serverless
9 88 (11.37%) Amazon S3
10 63 (8.14%) AWS Lambda
11 50 (6.46%) Entra ID
12 47 (6.07%) Amazon ECS
13 45 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (5.56%) Azure AKS
16 42 (5.43%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (5.17%) Amazon EC2
18 38 (4.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 33 (4.26%) SaaS
19 33 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (9.95%) Firewall
2 45 (5.81%) VPN
3 44 (5.68%) Network Security
4 37 (4.78%) DNS
5 22 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.07%) SSL
7 13 (1.68%) WAN
8 11 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.29%) BGP
10 9 (1.16%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.90%) Multicast
11 7 (0.90%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.90%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.78%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.78%) OSPF
13 5 (0.65%) HTTP
14 4 (0.52%) MPLS
14 4 (0.52%) VLAN
15 3 (0.39%) Internet
15 3 (0.39%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 40 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.49%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 24 (3.10%) Power BI
8 19 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (2.45%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 17 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.81%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.68%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.55%) Metadata
14 12 (1.55%) Redis
15 10 (1.29%) Relational Database
16 9 (1.16%) MySQL
17 8 (1.03%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 132 (17.05%) Jenkins
2 103 (13.31%) GitLab
3 80 (10.34%) Git
4 37 (4.78%) SonarQube
5 33 (4.26%) JIRA
6 16 (2.07%) Burp Suite
6 16 (2.07%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.07%) Metasploit
7 14 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.29%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.16%) Maven
10 8 (1.03%) Gradle
10 8 (1.03%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.90%) Selenium
11 7 (0.90%) Snyk
12 5 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.65%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.65%) MLflow
13 4 (0.52%) Postman
14 3 (0.39%) Bitbucket
General
1 194 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 128 (16.54%) Finance
3 88 (11.37%) Public Sector
4 70 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 56 (7.24%) Banking
6 20 (2.58%) Front Office
7 18 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.94%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.68%) Publishing
10 13 (1.68%) Retail
10 13 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.42%) Military
12 9 (1.16%) Law
12 9 (1.16%) Marketing
13 8 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.78%) Legal
16 5 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 145 (18.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 134 (17.31%) Senior
3 83 (10.72%) Architect
4 82 (10.59%) Developer
5 79 (10.21%) Platform Engineer
6 75 (9.69%) AWS Engineer
7 62 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 61 (7.88%) Data Engineer
9 60 (7.75%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (6.85%) Security Engineer
11 51 (6.59%) Lead
12 36 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
13 31 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (3.88%) Software Engineer
15 29 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
16 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 26 (3.36%) Senior Developer
17 26 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (9.17%) Kafka
2 50 (6.46%) Node.js
3 38 (4.91%) ARM Templates
3 38 (4.91%) React
4 35 (4.52%) YAML
5 32 (4.13%) .NET
6 31 (4.01%) RESTful
7 30 (3.88%) REST
8 26 (3.36%) GraphQL
8 26 (3.36%) Spring
9 25 (3.23%) OAuth
10 23 (2.97%) Spring Boot
11 22 (2.84%) AWS CDK
11 22 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
12 21 (2.71%) AngularJS
13 20 (2.58%) FIX Protocol
13 20 (2.58%) gRPC
14 18 (2.33%) PySpark
15 17 (2.20%) Middleware
16 15 (1.94%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 166 (21.45%) Cloud Native
2 63 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (4.01%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 24 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.58%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.45%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.20%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
11 14 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.68%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.42%) Replication
14 9 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.03%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 100 (12.92%) Linux
2 40 (5.17%) Windows
3 19 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.33%) Unix
5 12 (1.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.55%) VMS
6 6 (0.78%) Solaris
7 4 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) Android
9 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.13%) Debian
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (73.13%) CI/CD
2 450 (58.14%) DevOps
3 199 (25.71%) Agile
4 189 (24.42%) Containerisation
5 141 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
6 137 (17.70%) Observability
7 107 (13.82%) Platform Engineering
8 106 (13.70%) Cloud Security
9 104 (13.44%) DevSecOps
10 103 (13.31%) Software Engineering
11 92 (11.89%) Analytics
12 91 (11.76%) AI
12 91 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
12 91 (11.76%) Microservices
13 90 (11.63%) Migration
14 78 (10.08%) Machine Learning
15 77 (9.95%) Test Automation
16 74 (9.56%) Data Pipeline
17 73 (9.43%) Mentoring
18 65 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 399 (51.55%) Python
2 161 (20.80%) Bash
3 134 (17.31%) SQL
4 111 (14.34%) PowerShell
5 100 (12.92%) Java
6 63 (8.14%) Go
7 61 (7.88%) Bicep
8 58 (7.49%) TypeScript
9 43 (5.56%) JavaScript
10 40 (5.17%) C#
11 10 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.16%) Scala
13 8 (1.03%) Groovy
14 6 (0.78%) C++
14 6 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.78%) PromQL
14 6 (0.78%) Ruby
15 5 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.39%) C
17 2 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 178 (23.00%) Security Cleared
2 160 (20.67%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 41 (5.30%) AWS Certification
5 32 (4.13%) Degree
6 20 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.33%) OSCP
8 14 (1.81%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 13 (1.68%) Tigerscheme
10 12 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.42%) CISSP
11 11 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.29%) CHECK Team Member
12 10 (1.29%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 5 (0.65%) CCNP
15 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.85%) GDPR
2 36 (4.65%) NIST
3 35 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 33 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.94%) QA
6 14 (1.81%) HIPAA
6 14 (1.81%) NCSC
7 11 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 9 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (1.16%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.52%) MiFID
11 3 (0.39%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 237 (30.62%) Docker
2 39 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.29%) zsh
6 5 (0.65%) Snort
6 5 (0.65%) Squid
7 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.39%) vSphere
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 565 (73.00%) Terraform
2 286 (36.95%) Kubernetes
3 145 (18.73%) Ansible
4 109 (14.08%) Grafana
5 100 (12.92%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.97%) Argo
6 23 (2.97%) Puppet
7 16 (2.07%) Nmap
8 14 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.68%) Kibana
10 12 (1.55%) ITRS Geneos
11 10 (1.29%) Rancher
12 9 (1.16%) Istio
12 9 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
13 8 (1.03%) Nessus
14 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.78%) logstash
16 4 (0.52%) Nexpose
16 4 (0.52%) Suricata
17 3 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 121 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.14%) Google
3 61 (7.88%) Databricks
4 33 (4.26%) Splunk
5 23 (2.97%) Palo Alto
6 19 (2.45%) Cisco
7 17 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.07%) VMware
9 15 (1.94%) Solace
9 15 (1.94%) Veracode
10 14 (1.81%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.55%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.55%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.42%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.29%) TIBCO
14 9 (1.16%) F5
14 9 (1.16%) Oracle
14 9 (1.16%) Qualys
14 9 (1.16%) SAP
15 8 (1.03%) Fortinet