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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 804 434 479
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 3.13% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 3.47% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 284 354
10th Percentile £383 £409 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £595
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -1.68% -6.67%
75th Percentile £639 £664 £680
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 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
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 222 152 259
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 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £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 13 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 13 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 +29 101 £550 - 65
West London +8 32 £603 +26.84% 15
South London +7 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 25 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.49%) Confluence
4 18 (2.24%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) SAS
5 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Summit
2 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 418 (51.99%) AWS
2 386 (48.01%) Azure
3 217 (26.99%) GitHub
4 157 (19.53%) GitHub Actions
5 146 (18.16%) GCP
6 138 (17.16%) Serverless
7 137 (17.04%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (16.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 115 (14.30%) Amazon S3
10 95 (11.82%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
13 58 (7.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (6.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (6.09%) Azure AKS
16 49 (6.09%) Entra ID
17 45 (5.60%) Power Platform
18 38 (4.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 38 (4.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (10.07%) Firewall
2 41 (5.10%) VPN
3 40 (4.98%) Network Security
4 37 (4.60%) DNS
5 17 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.74%) SSL
7 13 (1.62%) WAN
8 11 (1.37%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.00%) BGP
10 6 (0.75%) tcpdump
11 5 (0.62%) Multicast
11 5 (0.62%) OSPF
11 5 (0.62%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.62%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.50%) HTTP
12 4 (0.50%) MPLS
12 4 (0.50%) VLAN
13 3 (0.37%) DHCP
13 3 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.97%) Data Lake
3 46 (5.72%) Amazon RDS
4 36 (4.48%) Power BI
5 28 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.48%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
6 27 (3.36%) DynamoDB
7 22 (2.74%) NoSQL
8 20 (2.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (2.49%) Redis
9 19 (2.36%) BigQuery
10 17 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
12 14 (1.74%) MySQL
12 14 (1.74%) Relational Database
13 12 (1.49%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.24%) OLTP
15 9 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 152 (18.91%) Jenkins
2 117 (14.55%) GitLab
3 80 (9.95%) Git
4 34 (4.23%) JIRA
5 17 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.87%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.12%) 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 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.37%) JUnit
General
1 169 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 130 (16.17%) Finance
3 89 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 57 (7.09%) Banking
5 48 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.87%) Front Office
7 15 (1.87%) Retail
8 14 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.24%) Marketing
12 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.12%) Publishing
13 8 (1.00%) Military
13 8 (1.00%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.75%) Electronics
16 4 (0.50%) Legal
16 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (21.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 127 (15.80%) Senior
3 92 (11.44%) Developer
4 79 (9.83%) Architect
5 74 (9.20%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (9.08%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
8 66 (8.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 65 (8.08%) Data Engineer
10 55 (6.84%) Lead
11 38 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (4.60%) Security Engineer
13 35 (4.35%) Software Engineer
14 32 (3.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.86%) GCP Engineer
16 28 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.48%) Senior Developer
16 28 (3.48%) Site Engineer
17 26 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (11.44%) Kafka
2 62 (7.71%) Node.js
3 44 (5.47%) React
4 41 (5.10%) Spring
4 41 (5.10%) YAML
5 39 (4.85%) ARM Templates
6 38 (4.73%) REST
7 37 (4.60%) Spring Boot
8 33 (4.10%) OAuth
9 31 (3.86%) .NET
9 31 (3.86%) AngularJS
10 30 (3.73%) RESTful
11 27 (3.36%) GraphQL
12 24 (2.99%) AWS CDK
12 24 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
13 23 (2.86%) Playwright
14 22 (2.74%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (2.74%) gRPC
14 22 (2.74%) PySpark
15 19 (2.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 201 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.36%) Public Cloud
4 24 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.87%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.62%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.62%) Replication
9 12 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (12.81%) Linux
2 44 (5.47%) Windows
3 23 (2.86%) VMS
4 19 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.99%) Unix
6 10 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.62%) Solaris
8 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (73.76%) CI/CD
2 493 (61.32%) DevOps
3 198 (24.63%) Containerisation
4 197 (24.50%) Agile
5 176 (21.89%) Observability
6 122 (15.17%) Software Engineering
7 121 (15.05%) AI
7 121 (15.05%) Migration
8 120 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
9 109 (13.56%) Microservices
10 108 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
11 104 (12.94%) Analytics
12 97 (12.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 89 (11.07%) DevSecOps
14 85 (10.57%) Test Automation
15 84 (10.45%) Cloud Security
16 75 (9.33%) Infrastructure Automation
17 73 (9.08%) Machine Learning
18 71 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
19 70 (8.71%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 379 (47.14%) Python
2 142 (17.66%) SQL
3 124 (15.42%) Bash
4 97 (12.06%) Java
5 91 (11.32%) PowerShell
6 64 (7.96%) TypeScript
7 56 (6.97%) Bicep
8 47 (5.85%) Go
9 41 (5.10%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.85%) C#
11 12 (1.49%) Ruby
12 10 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.12%) Scala
14 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.62%) C++
15 5 (0.62%) Groovy
15 5 (0.62%) Rust
16 4 (0.50%) C
17 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 212 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 197 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.59%) Azure Certification
4 48 (5.97%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.35%) Degree
6 23 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.24%) CISSP
10 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (1.00%) MCP
11 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) OSCP
13 4 (0.50%) GPEN
13 4 (0.50%) SANS
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.34%) GDPR
2 38 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.60%) NIST
4 32 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.86%) QA
6 11 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.12%) NCSC
7 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.75%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.62%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.37%) 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 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 245 (30.47%) Docker
2 39 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.00%) zsh
6 6 (0.75%) Squid
7 5 (0.62%) Snort
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.37%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) etcd
11 1 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 603 (75.00%) Terraform
2 288 (35.82%) Kubernetes
3 143 (17.79%) Ansible
4 106 (13.18%) Grafana
5 91 (11.32%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.11%) Argo
7 19 (2.36%) Puppet
8 15 (1.87%) Kibana
9 14 (1.74%) Istio
10 13 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (1.24%) Rancher
13 9 (1.12%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.75%) Nessus
15 5 (0.62%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.62%) logstash
16 4 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 131 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.45%) Google
3 66 (8.21%) Databricks
4 34 (4.23%) Splunk
5 20 (2.49%) Palo Alto
5 20 (2.49%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.36%) Cisco
7 17 (2.11%) VMware
8 14 (1.74%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.74%) Oracle
9 12 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.49%) Solace
10 10 (1.24%) PagerDuty
11 9 (1.12%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.12%) Qualys
11 9 (1.12%) TIBCO
12 8 (1.00%) F5
12 8 (1.00%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.00%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.87%) SAP