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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 62 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 -21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 979 496 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.57% 3.91% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 4.25% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 340 278
10th Percentile £400 £400 £386
25th Percentile £456 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £651 £673
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 15,599 11,674 15,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.69% 92.11% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,450 7,939 11,295
10th Percentile £355 £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 £757 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 173 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +20.00% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £47.34
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.25
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +19 140 £563 -2.17% 73
West London +4 34 £603 +26.84% 9
South London -1 20 £530 +1.44%
East London -3 4 £562 -3.93% 10
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 54 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.58%) Apache
2 35 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.04%) Confluence
4 6 (0.61%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.51%) SAS
6 4 (0.41%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) 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 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 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
1 524 (53.52%) AWS
2 503 (51.38%) Azure
3 270 (27.58%) GitHub
4 192 (19.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 189 (19.31%) Serverless
6 180 (18.39%) GCP
7 177 (18.08%) Azure DevOps
7 177 (18.08%) GitHub Actions
8 161 (16.45%) Amazon S3
9 132 (13.48%) AWS Lambda
10 95 (9.70%) Amazon ECS
11 86 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
12 73 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 73 (7.46%) Power Platform
13 69 (7.05%) Azure AKS
14 57 (5.82%) Azure Monitor
15 55 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 55 (5.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 54 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (5.52%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (7.66%) Firewall
2 43 (4.39%) Network Security
3 39 (3.98%) DNS
4 26 (2.66%) VPN
5 18 (1.84%) WAN
6 16 (1.63%) BGP
7 10 (1.02%) 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 5 (0.51%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.51%) MPLS
11 5 (0.51%) SAN
12 4 (0.41%) Internet
12 4 (0.41%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.25%) Data Lake
2 60 (6.13%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (5.11%) Power BI
4 47 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
5 46 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
6 41 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
7 38 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 34 (3.47%) BigQuery
10 32 (3.27%) DynamoDB
11 30 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (2.96%) Delta Lake
13 27 (2.76%) NoSQL
14 24 (2.45%) MongoDB
15 20 (2.04%) OLTP
15 20 (2.04%) Tableau
16 19 (1.94%) Redis
17 17 (1.74%) Amazon Aurora
17 17 (1.74%) Mixpanel
18 16 (1.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 164 (16.75%) Jenkins
2 133 (13.59%) Git
3 125 (12.77%) GitLab
4 32 (3.27%) JIRA
5 23 (2.35%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.63%) MLflow
7 11 (1.12%) CircleCI
7 11 (1.12%) Snyk
8 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.72%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.61%) JUnit
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.51%) Mockito
11 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.31%) git-flow
General
1 192 (19.61%) Social Skills
2 150 (15.32%) Finance
3 136 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 50 (5.11%) Banking
5 49 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.33%) Retail
10 12 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.92%) Legal
12 6 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Games
14 4 (0.41%) Law
14 4 (0.41%) Marketing
14 4 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 177 (18.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (16.85%) Architect
3 146 (14.91%) Senior
4 114 (11.64%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
6 103 (10.52%) Data Engineer
7 92 (9.40%) Developer
7 92 (9.40%) Lead
8 74 (7.56%) AWS Engineer
9 68 (6.95%) Platform Engineer
10 38 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
10 38 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 38 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (3.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 34 (3.47%) Cloud Architect
12 33 (3.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 33 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
13 32 (3.27%) GCP Engineer
13 32 (3.27%) Software Engineer
14 31 (3.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (9.70%) Kafka
2 73 (7.46%) Node.js
3 51 (5.21%) PySpark
4 50 (5.11%) React
5 48 (4.90%) REST
6 47 (4.80%) RESTful
7 43 (4.39%) .NET
8 42 (4.29%) Spring
9 41 (4.19%) OAuth
10 38 (3.88%) AngularJS
10 38 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 38 (3.88%) YAML
11 37 (3.78%) ARM Templates
11 37 (3.78%) Spring Boot
12 29 (2.96%) OpenID
13 28 (2.86%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.45%) Playwright
15 23 (2.35%) GraphQL
15 23 (2.35%) Great Expectations
16 22 (2.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 282 (28.80%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.78%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.45%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.23%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Replication
12 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.72%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 91 (9.30%) Linux
2 44 (4.49%) Windows
3 19 (1.94%) VMS
4 14 (1.43%) Unix
5 9 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) 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
1 751 (76.71%) CI/CD
2 601 (61.39%) DevOps
3 275 (28.09%) Containerisation
4 224 (22.88%) Agile
5 218 (22.27%) Observability
6 176 (17.98%) Analytics
7 174 (17.77%) AI
8 156 (15.93%) Platform Engineering
9 149 (15.22%) Microservices
10 143 (14.61%) Migration
11 127 (12.97%) Test Automation
12 120 (12.26%) Software Engineering
13 118 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 117 (11.95%) Data Modelling
15 111 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
16 110 (11.24%) Mentoring
17 104 (10.62%) Problem-Solving
18 100 (10.21%) Data Engineering
19 94 (9.60%) Cloud Security
19 94 (9.60%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 431 (44.02%) Python
2 207 (21.14%) SQL
3 114 (11.64%) Java
4 105 (10.73%) Bash
5 104 (10.62%) PowerShell
6 85 (8.68%) Bicep
7 61 (6.23%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.92%) C#
9 51 (5.21%) JavaScript
10 37 (3.78%) Go
11 27 (2.76%) Scala
12 25 (2.55%) Ruby
13 14 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.61%) C
15 4 (0.41%) Groovy
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 358 (36.57%) Security Cleared
2 340 (34.73%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.66%) Azure Certification
4 60 (6.13%) AWS Certification
5 38 (3.88%) Degree
6 34 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 25 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (1.33%) CCNP
12 12 (1.23%) CISSP
13 10 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.61%) CCSP
16 5 (0.51%) CCIE
16 5 (0.51%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.11%) GDPR
3 42 (4.29%) NIST
4 39 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (3.68%) QA
6 29 (2.96%) NCSC
7 22 (2.25%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.02%) 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 (0.20%) COBIT
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 267 (27.27%) Docker
2 34 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 30 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.31%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.20%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) GPFS
9 1 (0.10%) HDFS
9 1 (0.10%) Lustre
9 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.10%) Snort
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 746 (76.20%) Terraform
2 345 (35.24%) Kubernetes
3 138 (14.10%) Ansible
4 95 (9.70%) Grafana
5 93 (9.50%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.35%) Puppet
7 22 (2.25%) Argo
8 18 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.23%) Istio
10 11 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.92%) Kibana
12 8 (0.82%) Packer
13 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.72%) Rancher
14 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.41%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.41%) Salt
15 3 (0.31%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 160 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.09%) Databricks
3 84 (8.58%) Google
4 54 (5.52%) Splunk
5 20 (2.04%) Oracle
6 18 (1.84%) VMware
7 16 (1.63%) Cisco
8 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 11 (1.12%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.02%) Arista
11 10 (1.02%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.02%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.82%) IBM
14 7 (0.72%) Qualys
14 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.72%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.72%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.61%) Rapid7