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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 52 87
Rank change year-on-year +17 +35 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,171 649 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.83% 4.82% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.54% 5.22% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 819 438 301
10th Percentile £425 £393 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £662 £675
90th Percentile £740 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -12.26%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +13 140 £575 -5.74% 37
South London +13 26 £535 +8.08% 5
West London -11 14 £725 +46.46% 10
East London +2 7 £588 - 13
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 (4.44%) Confluence
2 44 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 38 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.56%) Apache
5 16 (1.37%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.085%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.085%) IIS
12 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.085%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.085%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.085%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.085%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.085%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 624 (53.29%) AWS
2 594 (50.73%) Azure
3 305 (26.05%) GitHub
4 223 (19.04%) GitHub Actions
5 221 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
6 210 (17.93%) GCP
7 190 (16.23%) Serverless
8 155 (13.24%) Amazon S3
9 150 (12.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 132 (11.27%) AWS Lambda
11 113 (9.65%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (7.86%) Entra ID
14 83 (7.09%) Azure AKS
15 74 (6.32%) Amazon EC2
16 71 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
17 67 (5.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 62 (5.29%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (5.12%) Power Platform
20 56 (4.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.09%) Firewall
2 55 (4.70%) DNS
3 46 (3.93%) Network Security
4 43 (3.67%) VPN
5 30 (2.56%) WAN
6 23 (1.96%) BGP
7 15 (1.28%) Internet
8 14 (1.20%) NX-OS
9 13 (1.11%) DHCP
9 13 (1.11%) SSL
9 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.11%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.85%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.68%) OSPF
12 7 (0.60%) HTTP
13 6 (0.51%) VLAN
14 5 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
3 52 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
4 47 (4.01%) Power BI
5 40 (3.42%) Data Lake
5 40 (3.42%) MongoDB
5 40 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 34 (2.90%) Delta Lake
7 33 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
8 30 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (2.48%) BigQuery
9 29 (2.48%) DynamoDB
10 28 (2.39%) Metadata
10 28 (2.39%) Redis
11 23 (1.96%) NoSQL
12 22 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
12 22 (1.88%) MySQL
13 18 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (1.28%) Big Data
15 12 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 185 (15.80%) Jenkins
2 172 (14.69%) GitLab
3 171 (14.60%) Git
4 63 (5.38%) JIRA
5 15 (1.28%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.20%) Snyk
7 12 (1.02%) MLflow
8 11 (0.94%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.85%) JUnit
10 9 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.68%) JMeter
11 8 (0.68%) Mockito
12 6 (0.51%) Postman
13 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.43%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 248 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 203 (17.34%) Finance
3 177 (15.12%) Public Sector
4 72 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (5.21%) Banking
6 29 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.54%) Retail
9 14 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.02%) Law
10 12 (1.02%) Legal
11 11 (0.94%) Local Government
12 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.60%) Front Office
15 6 (0.51%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.51%) Police
16 5 (0.43%) Back Office
16 5 (0.43%) Military
16 5 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 253 (21.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (16.14%) Architect
3 186 (15.88%) Senior
4 138 (11.78%) Lead
5 125 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 123 (10.50%) Azure Engineer
7 102 (8.71%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
9 85 (7.26%) Data Engineer
10 81 (6.92%) Developer
11 70 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 54 (4.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 49 (4.18%) AWS DevOps
14 46 (3.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 46 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 46 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 46 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
15 39 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
16 36 (3.07%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.51%) Kafka
2 80 (6.83%) REST
3 55 (4.70%) RESTful
4 53 (4.53%) PySpark
5 43 (3.67%) React
6 40 (3.42%) ARM Templates
6 40 (3.42%) Node.js
7 38 (3.25%) .NET
8 36 (3.07%) OAuth
9 35 (2.99%) YAML
10 33 (2.82%) Spring
11 31 (2.65%) OAuth2
12 30 (2.56%) Spring Boot
13 27 (2.31%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.05%) FastAPI
14 24 (2.05%) OpenID
15 22 (1.88%) JSON
16 21 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (1.71%) Django
18 17 (1.45%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 333 (28.44%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.10%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 29 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.39%) Enterprise Cloud
8 28 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.96%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.71%) PKI
12 20 (1.71%) Replication
13 17 (1.45%) NHS
14 16 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.28%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 13 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (10.25%) Linux
2 85 (7.26%) Windows
3 30 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.62%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.20%) Unix
7 12 (1.02%) VMS
8 11 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.26%) CentOS
12 2 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.085%) AIX
13 1 (0.085%) Debian
13 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.085%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 876 (74.81%) CI/CD
2 714 (60.97%) DevOps
3 324 (27.67%) Containerisation
4 282 (24.08%) Agile
5 267 (22.80%) Platform Engineering
6 266 (22.72%) Observability
7 229 (19.56%) AI
8 170 (14.52%) Test Automation
9 160 (13.66%) Migration
10 157 (13.41%) Software Engineering
11 149 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 144 (12.30%) Microservices
13 142 (12.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 139 (11.87%) Analytics
15 133 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
16 131 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 129 (11.02%) Mentoring
18 128 (10.93%) Cloud Security
19 126 (10.76%) Technical Leadership
20 124 (10.59%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 506 (43.21%) Python
2 186 (15.88%) SQL
3 185 (15.80%) PowerShell
4 179 (15.29%) Bash
5 132 (11.27%) Java
6 131 (11.19%) Bicep
7 71 (6.06%) C#
8 61 (5.21%) JavaScript
9 59 (5.04%) TypeScript
10 40 (3.42%) Go
11 18 (1.54%) Scala
12 16 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.28%) Ruby
14 11 (0.94%) Groovy
15 6 (0.51%) Korn
15 6 (0.51%) Perl
16 4 (0.34%) C++
16 4 (0.34%) R
17 3 (0.26%) Cypher
17 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 427 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 395 (33.73%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.34%) Azure Certification
4 59 (5.04%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.78%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.42%) Degree
7 27 (2.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.88%) CCNP
10 22 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (1.71%) CISSP
12 13 (1.11%) CISM
13 10 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.77%) GIAC
15 8 (0.68%) CCIE
15 8 (0.68%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.60%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.23%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.50%) QA
3 38 (3.25%) GDPR
4 33 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (2.82%) NIST
5 22 (1.88%) NCSC
6 16 (1.37%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.68%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.51%) SLA
10 4 (0.34%) COBIT
10 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.26%) WCAG
12 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.085%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.085%) NIST 800
System Software
1 299 (25.53%) Docker
2 50 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 37 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.77%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.68%) vSphere
8 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.085%) NFS
11 1 (0.085%) Samba
11 1 (0.085%) Squid
11 1 (0.085%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 890 (76.00%) Terraform
2 460 (39.28%) Kubernetes
3 184 (15.71%) Ansible
4 134 (11.44%) Grafana
5 124 (10.59%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.39%) Puppet
7 23 (1.96%) Argo
8 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.37%) Packer
10 13 (1.11%) Kubeflow
10 13 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.94%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.68%) Control-M
12 8 (0.68%) Kibana
12 8 (0.68%) systemd
13 7 (0.60%) Istio
13 7 (0.60%) SCCM
14 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 212 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.20%) Google
3 87 (7.43%) Databricks
4 67 (5.72%) Splunk
5 46 (3.93%) Oracle
6 43 (3.67%) VMware
7 35 (2.99%) Cisco
8 24 (2.05%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.96%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.54%) Okta
10 18 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.37%) Arista
12 15 (1.28%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.11%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.11%) Foundry
13 13 (1.11%) Informatica
14 11 (0.94%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.77%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.77%) CyberArk