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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 65 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 904 460 447
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.63% 3.50% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 3.85% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 309 324
10th Percentile £381 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £679
90th Percentile £740 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £569
% change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £27.50 £71.13
% change year-on-year +172.73% -61.34% +25.34%

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 14,498 11,963 16,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.24% 90.92% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,728 7,826 11,476
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £78.04 £71.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +25 118 £550 -2.22% 66
West London +8 36 £603 +26.84% 11
South London 0 22 £530 -3.64% 7
East London +1 3 £562 -3.93% 5
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 40 (4.42%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.32%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (3.21%) Apache
4 17 (1.88%) Confluence
5 5 (0.55%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.44%) SAS
7 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.33%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.33%) nginx
7 3 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 471 (52.10%) AWS
2 443 (49.00%) Azure
3 251 (27.77%) GitHub
4 178 (19.69%) GCP
5 169 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 166 (18.36%) Serverless
7 163 (18.03%) GitHub Actions
8 161 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (15.82%) Amazon S3
10 111 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.96%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (9.29%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (7.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 68 (7.52%) Power Platform
15 58 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 56 (6.19%) Azure AKS
17 54 (5.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (5.75%) Amazon EC2
19 50 (5.53%) Azure Monitor
20 48 (5.31%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.74%) Firewall
2 46 (5.09%) Network Security
3 40 (4.42%) DNS
4 37 (4.09%) VPN
5 19 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.66%) WAN
7 13 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.22%) SSL
9 9 (1.00%) BGP
9 9 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.66%) Multicast
10 6 (0.66%) OSPF
11 5 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.55%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.44%) DHCP
12 4 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.44%) SAN
12 4 (0.44%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.44%) VXLAN
13 3 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.85%) Data Lake
2 52 (5.75%) Power BI
3 49 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (3.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (3.32%) SQL Server
9 28 (3.10%) BigQuery
9 28 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.77%) Redis
11 24 (2.65%) Delta Lake
12 18 (1.99%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.88%) MongoDB
13 17 (1.88%) OLTP
14 16 (1.77%) Mixpanel
15 15 (1.66%) MySQL
15 15 (1.66%) OLAP
16 14 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 162 (17.92%) Jenkins
2 133 (14.71%) GitLab
3 103 (11.39%) Git
4 34 (3.76%) JIRA
5 19 (2.10%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.44%) MLflow
7 7 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.77%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.66%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.66%) Maven
9 5 (0.55%) Snyk
9 5 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.44%) Gradle
10 4 (0.44%) Postman
10 4 (0.44%) RStudio
10 4 (0.44%) Selenium
10 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.33%) git-flow
General
1 195 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 142 (15.71%) Finance
3 113 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 48 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.20%) Banking
6 36 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.88%) Retail
9 12 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.00%) Front Office
10 9 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.77%) Marketing
12 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.55%) Military
13 5 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.44%) Electronics
14 4 (0.44%) Legal
14 4 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 177 (19.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 142 (15.71%) Senior
3 114 (12.61%) Architect
4 97 (10.73%) Azure Engineer
4 97 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 96 (10.62%) Data Engineer
6 81 (8.96%) Lead
7 80 (8.85%) Developer
8 74 (8.19%) AWS Engineer
9 68 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
10 39 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
10 39 (4.31%) Security Engineer
11 38 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 34 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 34 (3.76%) GCP Engineer
12 34 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 30 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
13 30 (3.32%) Site Engineer
14 28 (3.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (10.18%) Kafka
2 70 (7.74%) Node.js
3 48 (5.31%) React
4 46 (5.09%) PySpark
5 42 (4.65%) OAuth
6 41 (4.54%) .NET
7 40 (4.42%) ARM Templates
8 37 (4.09%) YAML
9 34 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 34 (3.76%) REST
10 33 (3.65%) RESTful
10 33 (3.65%) Spring
11 30 (3.32%) AngularJS
12 29 (3.21%) OpenID
12 29 (3.21%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.10%) AWS CDK
13 28 (3.10%) Playwright
14 24 (2.65%) GraphQL
15 22 (2.43%) SAML
16 20 (2.21%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 247 (27.32%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.86%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 27 (2.99%) Security Posture
6 25 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.32%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.21%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.11%) Replication
13 8 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (0.88%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
15 6 (0.66%) Fixed Income
15 6 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.62%) Linux
2 43 (4.76%) Windows
3 22 (2.43%) VMS
4 19 (2.10%) Unix
5 8 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.44%) Solaris
8 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
9 2 (0.22%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (75.55%) CI/CD
2 557 (61.62%) DevOps
3 234 (25.88%) Containerisation
4 200 (22.12%) Observability
5 198 (21.90%) Agile
6 159 (17.59%) Analytics
7 155 (17.15%) AI
8 131 (14.49%) Migration
9 128 (14.16%) Platform Engineering
10 117 (12.94%) Microservices
11 107 (11.84%) Cloud Security
12 106 (11.73%) Software Engineering
12 106 (11.73%) Test Automation
13 105 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 100 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 100 (11.06%) Data Engineering
15 100 (11.06%) Data Modelling
16 90 (9.96%) Mentoring
17 88 (9.73%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 421 (46.57%) Python
2 189 (20.91%) SQL
3 125 (13.83%) Bash
4 100 (11.06%) Java
5 96 (10.62%) PowerShell
6 69 (7.63%) Bicep
7 62 (6.86%) TypeScript
8 46 (5.09%) C#
9 44 (4.87%) JavaScript
10 42 (4.65%) Go
11 19 (2.10%) Scala
12 13 (1.44%) Ruby
13 11 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.77%) C
15 5 (0.55%) C++
15 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.55%) Rust
16 4 (0.44%) Groovy
17 3 (0.33%) Cypher
17 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 286 (31.64%) Security Cleared
2 270 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.19%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.75%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.09%) Degree
6 28 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.44%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.33%) CISSP
12 10 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.77%) OSCP
14 6 (0.66%) CCNP
14 6 (0.66%) CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 57 (6.31%) GDPR
3 45 (4.98%) NIST
4 33 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.65%) QA
5 25 (2.77%) NCSC
6 18 (1.99%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.33%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.55%) SLA
10 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
12 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) SEPA
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 264 (29.20%) Docker
2 35 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (3.76%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.44%) Squid
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.44%) vSphere
7 3 (0.33%) Snort
7 3 (0.33%) zsh
8 1 (0.11%) etcd
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) GPFS
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) Lustre
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 685 (75.77%) Terraform
2 322 (35.62%) Kubernetes
3 142 (15.71%) Ansible
4 98 (10.84%) Grafana
5 92 (10.18%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.99%) Argo
7 18 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.66%) Puppet
9 14 (1.55%) Istio
10 11 (1.22%) Kibana
11 10 (1.11%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (1.00%) Rancher
13 7 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.77%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.66%) Nessus
15 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.44%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 140 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.96%) Databricks
3 84 (9.29%) Google
4 47 (5.20%) Splunk
5 20 (2.21%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.10%) VMware
7 17 (1.88%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.55%) Cisco
9 13 (1.44%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.22%) Oracle
11 10 (1.11%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.11%) PagerDuty
12 9 (1.00%) Qualys
12 9 (1.00%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.00%) Solace
13 8 (0.88%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.88%) IBM
13 8 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.77%) TIBCO