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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 43 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +42 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,344 725 460
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.55% 5.42% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 5.86% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 490 300
10th Percentile £415 £400 £424
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £652 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £53.95 -
25th Percentile - £55.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £59.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.04% -36.11%
75th Percentile - £61.63 £58.75
90th Percentile - £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.97 £62.50 £70.69
% change year-on-year +15.14% -11.58% -9.38%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +24 151 £575 -8.00% 42
South London +19 35 £535 -4.46% 2
West London -10 18 £725 +70.59% 18
East London +5 6 £600 - 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 55 (4.09%) Confluence
2 46 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 43 (3.20%) Apache Spark
4 32 (2.38%) Apache
5 21 (1.56%) Jupyter
6 19 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 16 (1.19%) nginx
8 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.60%) CMS
10 5 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.22%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.074%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.074%) IIS
14 1 (0.074%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.074%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.074%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.074%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.074%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.074%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.074%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 709 (52.75%) AWS
2 675 (50.22%) Azure
3 357 (26.56%) GitHub
4 256 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 255 (18.97%) GCP
6 230 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
7 219 (16.29%) Serverless
8 177 (13.17%) Amazon S3
9 157 (11.68%) Amazon EKS
10 153 (11.38%) AWS CloudFormation
11 143 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
12 135 (10.04%) Entra ID
13 130 (9.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 107 (7.96%) Amazon EC2
15 93 (6.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 89 (6.62%) Azure AKS
17 82 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
18 79 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
19 66 (4.91%) dbt
20 62 (4.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 85 (6.32%) Firewall
2 78 (5.80%) DNS
3 57 (4.24%) Network Security
4 55 (4.09%) VPN
5 24 (1.79%) BGP
5 24 (1.79%) Internet
5 24 (1.79%) WAN
6 19 (1.41%) TCP/IP
7 18 (1.34%) DHCP
8 15 (1.12%) SSL
9 10 (0.74%) HTTP
10 9 (0.67%) Multicast
10 9 (0.67%) OSPF
11 8 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.60%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.60%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.60%) VLAN
11 8 (0.60%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.52%) SSH
13 6 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (3.72%) Power BI
4 47 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 46 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 41 (3.05%) Delta Lake
7 38 (2.83%) Metadata
8 37 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 37 (2.75%) Redis
9 36 (2.68%) MySQL
10 35 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
11 32 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
12 30 (2.23%) Data Lake
13 29 (2.16%) BigQuery
14 28 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 27 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (1.79%) NoSQL
17 16 (1.19%) Relational Database
18 14 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (1.04%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 217 (16.15%) GitLab
2 206 (15.33%) Jenkins
3 196 (14.58%) Git
4 66 (4.91%) JIRA
5 19 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.26%) SonarQube
7 15 (1.12%) Selenium
8 13 (0.97%) Snyk
9 12 (0.89%) Terragrunt
10 10 (0.74%) Artifactory
10 10 (0.74%) Claude Code
10 10 (0.74%) JMeter
10 10 (0.74%) MLflow
11 9 (0.67%) JUnit
11 9 (0.67%) Postman
11 9 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.52%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.45%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 321 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 260 (19.35%) Finance
3 185 (13.76%) Public Sector
4 101 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 83 (6.18%) Banking
6 29 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.56%) Retail
8 20 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.04%) Law
10 13 (0.97%) Back Office
11 12 (0.89%) Investment Banking
11 12 (0.89%) Local Government
12 11 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (0.82%) Legal
12 11 (0.82%) Military
12 11 (0.82%) Police
13 10 (0.74%) Front Office
13 10 (0.74%) Telecoms
14 9 (0.67%) Marketing
14 9 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 307 (22.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 219 (16.29%) Senior
3 200 (14.88%) Architect
4 139 (10.34%) Lead
5 130 (9.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 128 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
7 121 (9.00%) AWS Engineer
8 117 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (6.99%) Data Engineer
10 78 (5.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 74 (5.51%) Developer
12 63 (4.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 62 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
14 60 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
15 58 (4.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 57 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 53 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
18 51 (3.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 46 (3.42%) GCP Engineer
20 42 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,016 (75.60%) Terraform
2 117 (8.71%) Kafka
3 108 (8.04%) REST
4 58 (4.32%) PySpark
5 57 (4.24%) React
6 54 (4.02%) OAuth
7 53 (3.94%) .NET
8 52 (3.87%) RESTful
9 46 (3.42%) FastAPI
10 44 (3.27%) OpenID
11 42 (3.13%) ARM Templates
12 38 (2.83%) OAuth2
13 35 (2.60%) Node.js
13 35 (2.60%) Spring
13 35 (2.60%) YAML
14 34 (2.53%) Spring Boot
15 31 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
16 29 (2.16%) AWS CDK
17 26 (1.93%) Flask
18 23 (1.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 355 (26.41%) Cloud Native
2 83 (6.18%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 56 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 49 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (3.50%) Security Posture
7 42 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 39 (2.90%) Public Cloud
9 38 (2.83%) AI Agents
9 38 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.46%) Data Centre
11 31 (2.31%) PKI
12 30 (2.23%) Replication
13 28 (2.08%) Product Ownership
14 21 (1.56%) Management Information System
15 18 (1.34%) NHS
16 17 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
16 17 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (1.26%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 162 (12.05%) Linux
2 112 (8.33%) Windows
3 38 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.41%) VMS
7 15 (1.12%) macOS
8 14 (1.04%) Unix
9 7 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
12 4 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.22%) CentOS
14 2 (0.15%) Android
14 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
15 1 (0.074%) AIX
15 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.074%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 997 (74.18%) CI/CD
2 814 (60.57%) DevOps
3 365 (27.16%) Observability
4 335 (24.93%) Containerisation
5 322 (23.96%) Platform Engineering
6 317 (23.59%) Agile
7 298 (22.17%) AI
8 213 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 205 (15.25%) Software Engineering
10 197 (14.66%) Migration
11 196 (14.58%) Test Automation
12 193 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 178 (13.24%) Cloud Security
14 173 (12.87%) Technical Leadership
15 167 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 165 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
17 163 (12.13%) Problem-Solving
18 149 (11.09%) Event-Driven
18 149 (11.09%) Infrastructure Automation
19 146 (10.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 601 (44.72%) Python
2 221 (16.44%) PowerShell
3 215 (16.00%) Bash
4 211 (15.70%) SQL
5 161 (11.98%) Bicep
6 138 (10.27%) Java
7 78 (5.80%) TypeScript
8 74 (5.51%) C#
9 72 (5.36%) JavaScript
10 54 (4.02%) Go
11 27 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 25 (1.86%) Groovy
13 12 (0.89%) Scala
14 11 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.60%) Korn
16 7 (0.52%) Perl
17 6 (0.45%) C++
18 5 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.37%) Kotlin
19 4 (0.30%) R
Qualifications
1 469 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 418 (31.10%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 91 (6.77%) Azure Certification
5 65 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 53 (3.94%) Degree
7 37 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 36 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 34 (2.53%) CISSP
10 29 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.49%) CISM
13 15 (1.12%) CCNP
14 14 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.82%) GIAC
16 9 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.52%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 57 (4.24%) QA
3 41 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.75%) NIST
5 35 (2.60%) GDPR
6 17 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.26%) NCSC
7 16 (1.19%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.30%) WCAG
11 3 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.22%) COBIT
11 3 (0.22%) SLA
12 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.074%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.074%) SEPA
System Software
1 359 (26.71%) Docker
2 66 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
4 39 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 28 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.97%) vSphere
7 9 (0.67%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.60%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.22%) Squid
12 2 (0.15%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.15%) IAG
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.15%) Postfix
13 1 (0.074%) NFS
13 1 (0.074%) Samba
13 1 (0.074%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.074%) zsh
Systems Management
1 540 (40.18%) Kubernetes
2 217 (16.15%) Ansible
3 163 (12.13%) Grafana
4 132 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 36 (2.68%) Argo
6 33 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (2.08%) Puppet
8 21 (1.56%) Kubeflow
9 15 (1.12%) Packer
10 14 (1.04%) Kibana
11 13 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.82%) SCCM
14 10 (0.74%) systemd
15 9 (0.67%) Istio
16 8 (0.60%) Control-M
17 7 (0.52%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.37%) Kustomize
18 5 (0.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 293 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 120 (8.93%) Google
3 108 (8.04%) Databricks
4 77 (5.73%) Splunk
5 61 (4.54%) Oracle
6 55 (4.09%) VMware
7 42 (3.13%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.90%) Cisco
9 33 (2.46%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.08%) OpenAI
11 24 (1.79%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.56%) Palo Alto
13 19 (1.41%) Okta
14 18 (1.34%) Foundry
15 15 (1.12%) Informatica
16 14 (1.04%) Zscaler
17 13 (0.97%) Arista
18 12 (0.89%) CyberArk
19 9 (0.67%) AppDynamics
19 9 (0.67%) Juniper