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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 59 92
Rank change year-on-year +19 +33 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 882 481 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.46% 3.72% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 4.08% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 326 323
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £477 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £677
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%
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 £74.75 £27.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +171.82% -59.26% +18.94%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £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 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 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 11 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 +27 122 £550 - 40
West London +10 34 £603 +26.84% 15
South London +1 22 £530 -3.64% 3
East London +2 3 £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 42 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.40%) Apache
4 17 (1.93%) Confluence
5 5 (0.57%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) 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
1 462 (52.38%) AWS
2 432 (48.98%) Azure
3 247 (28.00%) GitHub
4 174 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 172 (19.50%) GCP
6 168 (19.05%) Serverless
7 160 (18.14%) GitHub Actions
8 159 (18.03%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (16.10%) Amazon S3
10 115 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (9.98%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (7.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 66 (7.48%) Power Platform
15 57 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 53 (6.01%) Azure AKS
17 52 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (5.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 49 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
19 46 (5.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 74 (8.39%) Firewall
2 42 (4.76%) Network Security
3 35 (3.97%) DNS
4 31 (3.51%) VPN
5 18 (2.04%) WAN
6 15 (1.70%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.25%) BGP
8 9 (1.02%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.91%) OSPF
10 7 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.68%) Multicast
12 5 (0.57%) DHCP
12 5 (0.57%) MPLS
12 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.45%) LAN
13 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
13 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.94%) Data Lake
2 50 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (5.56%) Power BI
4 46 (5.22%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
6 37 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 30 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.29%) BigQuery
9 29 (3.29%) DynamoDB
10 26 (2.95%) Delta Lake
11 24 (2.72%) Redis
12 18 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 18 (2.04%) OLTP
13 17 (1.93%) Mixpanel
13 17 (1.93%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.81%) OLAP
15 15 (1.70%) MySQL
16 14 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 156 (17.69%) Jenkins
2 124 (14.06%) GitLab
3 103 (11.68%) Git
4 30 (3.40%) JIRA
5 19 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.70%) MLflow
7 7 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.57%) Snyk
9 5 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.34%) git-flow
11 3 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) RStudio
11 3 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 185 (20.98%) Social Skills
2 142 (16.10%) Finance
3 113 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 47 (5.33%) Banking
5 43 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.70%) Retail
9 12 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.02%) Front Office
10 9 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.68%) Legal
11 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.57%) Marketing
12 5 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.57%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.45%) Military
14 3 (0.34%) Electronics
14 3 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 161 (18.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 136 (15.42%) Senior
3 120 (13.61%) Architect
4 101 (11.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 98 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (10.88%) Data Engineer
7 80 (9.07%) Lead
8 75 (8.50%) Developer
9 72 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (7.82%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (4.31%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 35 (3.97%) GCP Engineer
14 34 (3.85%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
17 29 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 29 (3.29%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (10.66%) Kafka
2 68 (7.71%) Node.js
3 45 (5.10%) PySpark
3 45 (5.10%) React
4 42 (4.76%) .NET
4 42 (4.76%) OAuth
5 37 (4.20%) ARM Templates
6 35 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
6 35 (3.97%) REST
7 34 (3.85%) YAML
8 30 (3.40%) AngularJS
8 30 (3.40%) Spring
9 29 (3.29%) RESTful
10 28 (3.17%) OpenID
11 27 (3.06%) AWS CDK
11 27 (3.06%) Playwright
12 26 (2.95%) Spring Boot
13 24 (2.72%) GraphQL
14 20 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (2.27%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 240 (27.21%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.63%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (2.95%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.38%) Security Posture
7 16 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.47%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.02%) Management Information System
11 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.91%) Replication
12 7 (0.79%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.68%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.41%) Linux
2 40 (4.54%) Windows
3 21 (2.38%) VMS
4 14 (1.59%) Unix
5 8 (0.91%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (75.28%) CI/CD
2 538 (61.00%) DevOps
3 232 (26.30%) Containerisation
4 199 (22.56%) Observability
5 186 (21.09%) Agile
6 163 (18.48%) Analytics
7 159 (18.03%) AI
8 131 (14.85%) Migration
9 126 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 113 (12.81%) Microservices
11 103 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (11.45%) Cloud Security
12 101 (11.45%) Data Modelling
12 101 (11.45%) Software Engineering
12 101 (11.45%) Test Automation
13 100 (11.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 99 (11.22%) Data Engineering
15 97 (11.00%) Problem-Solving
16 94 (10.66%) Mentoring
17 90 (10.20%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 408 (46.26%) Python
2 190 (21.54%) SQL
3 109 (12.36%) Bash
4 96 (10.88%) Java
5 93 (10.54%) PowerShell
6 69 (7.82%) Bicep
7 59 (6.69%) TypeScript
8 44 (4.99%) C#
9 40 (4.54%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.42%) Go
11 20 (2.27%) Scala
12 13 (1.47%) Ruby
13 11 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.79%) C
15 5 (0.57%) C++
15 5 (0.57%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) Groovy
16 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.34%) Cypher
17 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 257 (29.14%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.37%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.08%) Degree
6 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.15%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.25%) CISSP
11 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.02%) CCNP
13 9 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.68%) CCSP
16 5 (0.57%) CCIE
17 4 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.60%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.24%) GDPR
3 43 (4.88%) NIST
4 34 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.74%) QA
6 25 (2.83%) NCSC
7 20 (2.27%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.25%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.13%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.57%) SLA
11 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.23%) GRC
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.23%) PSD2
13 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.23%) SEPA
14 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 248 (28.12%) Docker
2 31 (3.51%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
3 9 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 9 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) Squid
6 3 (0.34%) vSphere
7 2 (0.23%) Snort
7 2 (0.23%) zsh
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
Systems Management
1 681 (77.21%) Terraform
2 305 (34.58%) Kubernetes
3 133 (15.08%) Ansible
4 93 (10.54%) Grafana
5 89 (10.09%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.72%) Argo
7 17 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.70%) Puppet
9 14 (1.59%) Istio
10 9 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (1.02%) Rancher
11 8 (0.91%) Kibana
12 7 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.79%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.57%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.57%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.34%) Packer
15 3 (0.34%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 139 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 90 (10.20%) Databricks
3 87 (9.86%) Google
4 43 (4.88%) Splunk
5 17 (1.93%) VMware
6 15 (1.70%) Cisco
6 15 (1.70%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
7 13 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.13%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.13%) PagerDuty
10 8 (0.91%) IBM
10 8 (0.91%) Oracle
10 8 (0.91%) Qualys
10 8 (0.91%) Solace
11 6 (0.68%) New Relic
11 6 (0.68%) Rapid7
11 6 (0.68%) Salesforce
11 6 (0.68%) TIBCO