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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 62 93
Rank change year-on-year +24 +31 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 937 482 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.48% 3.80% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 4.15% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 327 308
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £453 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £58.90 - £55.38
25th Percentile £62.13 £56.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -2.13% -30.88%
75th Percentile £74.63 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +154.55% -54.17% -23.08%

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 15,294 11,605 15,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.42% 91.50% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,270 7,873 11,381
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £753 £806 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 169 333
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.20% -22.77%
75th Percentile £56.50 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £65.00 £67.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.71% -11.83%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +29 137 £550 -2.22% 87
West London +8 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London -3 21 £530 +1.44% 2
East London 0 4 £562 -3.93% 6
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 48 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.63%) Apache
3 30 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.03%) Confluence
5 5 (0.53%) SAS
5 5 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 500 (53.36%) AWS
2 477 (50.91%) Azure
3 253 (27.00%) GitHub
4 188 (20.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 184 (19.64%) Serverless
6 178 (19.00%) GCP
7 169 (18.04%) GitHub Actions
8 168 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (16.22%) Amazon S3
10 128 (13.66%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (9.50%) Amazon ECS
13 74 (7.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 73 (7.79%) Power Platform
15 62 (6.62%) Azure AKS
16 58 (6.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 53 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (5.55%) Azure Data Factory
20 51 (5.44%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 73 (7.79%) Firewall
2 40 (4.27%) Network Security
3 36 (3.84%) DNS
4 26 (2.77%) VPN
5 16 (1.71%) WAN
6 15 (1.60%) BGP
7 10 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.96%) OSPF
8 9 (0.96%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.85%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.64%) IOS XR
11 6 (0.64%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.53%) MPLS
12 5 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.43%) Internet
13 4 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.15%) Data Lake
2 54 (5.76%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (5.44%) Power BI
4 50 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
6 42 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
7 34 (3.63%) BigQuery
8 33 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 32 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 32 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 30 (3.20%) DynamoDB
11 25 (2.67%) Delta Lake
12 21 (2.24%) MongoDB
12 21 (2.24%) Redis
13 20 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 20 (2.13%) Tableau
14 19 (2.03%) OLTP
15 18 (1.92%) Mixpanel
16 17 (1.81%) OLAP
17 16 (1.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 155 (16.54%) Jenkins
2 127 (13.55%) Git
3 120 (12.81%) GitLab
4 30 (3.20%) JIRA
5 20 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.60%) MLflow
7 9 (0.96%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.85%) Snyk
9 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.64%) JUnit
11 5 (0.53%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.53%) Mockito
11 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.32%) git-flow
13 3 (0.32%) Liquibase
General
1 193 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 146 (15.58%) Finance
3 127 (13.55%) Public Sector
4 54 (5.76%) Banking
5 48 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.06%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.28%) Retail
9 11 (1.17%) Legal
10 6 (0.64%) Investment Banking
10 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
10 6 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.53%) Front Office
11 5 (0.53%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.43%) Games
12 4 (0.43%) Marketing
13 3 (0.32%) Electronics
13 3 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (17.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 146 (15.58%) Senior
3 143 (15.26%) Architect
4 112 (11.95%) Azure Engineer
5 102 (10.89%) Data Engineer
6 101 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 92 (9.82%) Lead
8 87 (9.28%) Developer
9 74 (7.90%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (7.26%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (3.63%) Software Engineer
14 33 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
15 32 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.42%) Site Engineer
16 31 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 31 (3.31%) Cloud Architect
17 30 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 30 (3.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.78%) Kafka
2 75 (8.00%) Node.js
3 50 (5.34%) React
4 49 (5.23%) PySpark
5 45 (4.80%) REST
6 43 (4.59%) OAuth
7 40 (4.27%) .NET
7 40 (4.27%) ARM Templates
7 40 (4.27%) RESTful
8 39 (4.16%) AngularJS
8 39 (4.16%) Spring
9 37 (3.95%) YAML
10 36 (3.84%) OpenTelemetry
11 34 (3.63%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.99%) OpenID
13 27 (2.88%) AWS CDK
14 25 (2.67%) Playwright
15 22 (2.35%) GraphQL
16 21 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (2.24%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 263 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.20%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.45%) Public Cloud
8 19 (2.03%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.28%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.85%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.85%) Replication
13 7 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.75%) NHS
13 7 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.07%) Linux
2 37 (3.95%) Windows
3 22 (2.35%) VMS
4 13 (1.39%) Unix
5 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) zOS
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (76.52%) CI/CD
2 575 (61.37%) DevOps
3 261 (27.85%) Containerisation
4 217 (23.16%) Observability
5 212 (22.63%) Agile
6 174 (18.57%) AI
7 171 (18.25%) Analytics
8 150 (16.01%) Platform Engineering
9 142 (15.15%) Microservices
10 140 (14.94%) Migration
11 117 (12.49%) Software Engineering
12 115 (12.27%) Data Modelling
13 110 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (11.74%) Test Automation
14 108 (11.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 106 (11.31%) Mentoring
16 104 (11.10%) Problem-Solving
17 103 (10.99%) Data Engineering
18 97 (10.35%) Cloud Security
19 93 (9.93%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 419 (44.72%) Python
2 195 (20.81%) SQL
3 114 (12.17%) Java
4 108 (11.53%) Bash
5 100 (10.67%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.22%) Bicep
7 60 (6.40%) TypeScript
8 48 (5.12%) C#
9 40 (4.27%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.16%) Go
11 24 (2.56%) Ruby
12 21 (2.24%) Scala
13 14 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.75%) C
15 5 (0.53%) Rust
16 4 (0.43%) Groovy
16 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.32%) C++
17 3 (0.32%) Cypher
17 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 323 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 304 (32.44%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.68%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.51%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.27%) Degree
6 35 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.28%) CCNP
13 11 (1.17%) CISSP
14 10 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 5 (0.53%) CCIE
16 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.44%) GDPR
3 39 (4.16%) NIST
4 38 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.63%) QA
6 28 (2.99%) NCSC
7 22 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.17%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.64%) SLA
10 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) COBIT
12 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.21%) GRC
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) PSD2
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 262 (27.96%) Docker
2 31 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.43%) vSphere
8 3 (0.32%) Squid
9 2 (0.21%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 723 (77.16%) Terraform
2 332 (35.43%) Kubernetes
3 130 (13.87%) Ansible
4 88 (9.39%) Grafana
4 88 (9.39%) Prometheus
5 24 (2.56%) Argo
6 20 (2.13%) Puppet
7 18 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.39%) Istio
9 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.96%) Rancher
11 7 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.75%) Kibana
12 5 (0.53%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.43%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.43%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.43%) Packer
14 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
14 3 (0.32%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 148 (15.80%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.93%) Databricks
3 86 (9.18%) Google
4 47 (5.02%) Splunk
5 20 (2.13%) Oracle
6 17 (1.81%) VMware
7 15 (1.60%) Cisco
8 14 (1.49%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.39%) CyberArk
10 11 (1.17%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.07%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.07%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.96%) Arista
12 9 (0.96%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.85%) IBM
13 8 (0.85%) OpenAI
13 8 (0.85%) Qualys
14 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.64%) Rapid7
15 6 (0.64%) Red Hat