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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 62 104
Rank change year-on-year +25 +42 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 973 491 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 3.91% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 4.25% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 334 278
10th Percentile £400 £400 £386
25th Percentile £456 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.35% -10.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £673
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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
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 £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 £556 -3.26% 82
West London +6 32 £603 +26.84% 8
South London -4 20 £530 +1.44%
East London -1 4 £562 -10.79% 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 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.29%) Apache
3 30 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.75%) Confluence
5 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) FileNet
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 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
1 514 (52.83%) AWS
2 503 (51.70%) Azure
3 274 (28.16%) GitHub
4 186 (19.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 185 (19.01%) Serverless
6 183 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
7 177 (18.19%) Azure DevOps
7 177 (18.19%) GCP
8 151 (15.52%) Amazon S3
9 127 (13.05%) AWS Lambda
10 92 (9.46%) Amazon ECS
11 88 (9.04%) Amazon EKS
12 74 (7.61%) Power Platform
13 71 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 69 (7.09%) Azure AKS
15 58 (5.96%) Azure Monitor
16 54 (5.55%) Amazon EC2
17 53 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 53 (5.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 52 (5.34%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 78 (8.02%) Firewall
2 44 (4.52%) DNS
3 41 (4.21%) Network Security
4 27 (2.77%) VPN
5 18 (1.85%) WAN
6 16 (1.64%) BGP
7 10 (1.03%) 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 6 (0.62%) DHCP
12 5 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.51%) Internet
12 5 (0.51%) MPLS
12 5 (0.51%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.19%) Data Lake
2 58 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (5.14%) Power BI
4 47 (4.83%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (3.80%) SQL Server
6 35 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (3.39%) BigQuery
8 30 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (3.08%) Delta Lake
9 28 (2.88%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.57%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.26%) MongoDB
12 20 (2.06%) Tableau
13 19 (1.95%) OLTP
13 19 (1.95%) Redis
14 17 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (1.64%) Big Data
15 16 (1.64%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 166 (17.06%) Jenkins
2 131 (13.46%) Git
3 127 (13.05%) GitLab
4 29 (2.98%) JIRA
5 23 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.64%) MLflow
7 11 (1.13%) Snyk
8 10 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.82%) JUnit
10 8 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.72%) Mockito
11 7 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
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
1 188 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 145 (14.90%) Finance
3 136 (13.98%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.04%) Banking
5 45 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.23%) Retail
10 10 (1.03%) Legal
11 6 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.51%) Law
12 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.51%) Police
13 4 (0.41%) Front Office
13 4 (0.41%) Games
13 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.31%) Military
Job Titles
1 177 (18.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (16.75%) Architect
3 144 (14.80%) Senior
4 119 (12.23%) Azure Engineer
5 114 (11.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 100 (10.28%) Data Engineer
7 92 (9.46%) Developer
8 91 (9.35%) Lead
9 73 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
10 66 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
11 41 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.49%) Cloud Architect
16 33 (3.39%) Software Engineer
17 32 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 32 (3.29%) GCP Engineer
17 32 (3.29%) Solutions Architect
18 31 (3.19%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (9.35%) Kafka
2 67 (6.89%) Node.js
3 51 (5.24%) PySpark
3 51 (5.24%) React
4 49 (5.04%) RESTful
5 47 (4.83%) REST
6 44 (4.52%) Spring
7 43 (4.42%) .NET
8 39 (4.01%) AngularJS
8 39 (4.01%) Spring Boot
9 38 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
10 37 (3.80%) YAML
11 36 (3.70%) OAuth
12 35 (3.60%) ARM Templates
13 30 (3.08%) OpenID
14 27 (2.77%) AWS CDK
15 23 (2.36%) OAuth2
15 23 (2.36%) Playwright
16 22 (2.26%) Great Expectations
17 21 (2.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 278 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.60%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.26%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.23%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.03%) 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 94 (9.66%) Linux
2 49 (5.04%) Windows
3 19 (1.95%) VMS
4 15 (1.54%) Unix
5 11 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.21%) 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
1 747 (76.77%) CI/CD
2 603 (61.97%) DevOps
3 277 (28.47%) Containerisation
4 219 (22.51%) Agile
4 219 (22.51%) Observability
5 172 (17.68%) AI
6 168 (17.27%) Analytics
7 155 (15.93%) Platform Engineering
8 148 (15.21%) Microservices
9 143 (14.70%) Migration
10 130 (13.36%) Test Automation
11 119 (12.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 119 (12.23%) Software Engineering
12 114 (11.72%) Data Modelling
13 112 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 108 (11.10%) Mentoring
15 98 (10.07%) Problem-Solving
16 96 (9.87%) Data Engineering
17 93 (9.56%) Cloud Security
18 90 (9.25%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 421 (43.27%) Python
2 201 (20.66%) SQL
3 115 (11.82%) Java
4 109 (11.20%) PowerShell
5 106 (10.89%) Bash
6 86 (8.84%) Bicep
7 63 (6.47%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.96%) C#
9 53 (5.45%) JavaScript
10 34 (3.49%) Go
11 27 (2.77%) Scala
12 25 (2.57%) Ruby
13 15 (1.54%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.62%) C
15 4 (0.41%) Groovy
15 4 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 358 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 340 (34.94%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.71%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.80%) Degree
6 33 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.57%) DV Cleared
9 21 (2.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.34%) CCNP
12 11 (1.13%) CISSP
13 10 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.62%) CCSP
16 5 (0.51%) CCIE
17 4 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.12%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.04%) GDPR
3 42 (4.32%) NIST
4 39 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.49%) QA
6 29 (2.98%) NCSC
7 23 (2.36%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.13%) 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 (0.21%) COBIT
13 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
13 2 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 261 (26.82%) Docker
2 38 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.13%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.31%) Squid
6 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.21%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.21%) 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
1 741 (76.16%) Terraform
2 347 (35.66%) Kubernetes
3 134 (13.77%) Ansible
4 99 (10.17%) Grafana
5 95 (9.76%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.36%) Puppet
7 22 (2.26%) Argo
8 18 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.23%) Istio
10 11 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.92%) Kibana
11 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.72%) Packer
12 7 (0.72%) Rancher
13 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.41%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.41%) Salt
14 3 (0.31%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 163 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.04%) Databricks
3 82 (8.43%) Google
4 54 (5.55%) Splunk
5 20 (2.06%) Oracle
5 20 (2.06%) VMware
6 16 (1.64%) Cisco
7 14 (1.44%) CyberArk
7 14 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.34%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.03%) Arista
9 10 (1.03%) OpenAI
9 10 (1.03%) PagerDuty
9 10 (1.03%) Palo Alto
10 7 (0.72%) AppDynamics
10 7 (0.72%) IBM
10 7 (0.72%) Qualys
10 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
10 7 (0.72%) Salesforce
10 7 (0.72%) ServiceNow