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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 59 96
Rank change year-on-year +20 +37 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 918 487 427
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.54% 3.79% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 4.15% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 331 305
10th Percentile £394 £400 £390
25th Percentile £453 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
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 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 £61.25
% change year-on-year +171.82% -55.10% -21.47%

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 14,871 11,726 15,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.30% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,969 7,878 11,440
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 165 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.52 £15.98
25th Percentile £21.73 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +17.67% -21.54%
75th Percentile £56.98 £52.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.15 £70.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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 23 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 23 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 +28 127 £550 - 93
West London +9 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London 0 22 £530 +1.44% 2
East London -1 5 £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 44 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.38%) Apache
2 31 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.18%) Confluence
4 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.33%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.33%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Traefik
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 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
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
1 483 (52.61%) AWS
2 461 (50.22%) Azure
3 258 (28.10%) GitHub
4 181 (19.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 180 (19.61%) GCP
6 178 (19.39%) Serverless
7 167 (18.19%) Azure DevOps
7 167 (18.19%) GitHub Actions
8 144 (15.69%) Amazon S3
9 119 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (9.80%) Amazon EKS
11 88 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (7.73%) Power Platform
13 69 (7.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 56 (6.10%) Azure AKS
14 56 (6.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 55 (5.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 53 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
17 52 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 78 (8.50%) Firewall
2 43 (4.68%) Network Security
3 37 (4.03%) DNS
4 32 (3.49%) VPN
5 19 (2.07%) WAN
6 15 (1.63%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.63%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.42%) BGP
8 9 (0.98%) OSPF
8 9 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.87%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.65%) Multicast
11 5 (0.54%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.54%) DHCP
11 5 (0.54%) IOS XR
11 5 (0.54%) MPLS
11 5 (0.54%) NX-OS
11 5 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.73%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.56%) Power BI
3 50 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (5.12%) Amazon Athena
5 45 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (3.38%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.27%) BigQuery
10 29 (3.16%) DynamoDB
11 25 (2.72%) Delta Lake
12 24 (2.61%) Redis
13 20 (2.18%) NoSQL
14 19 (2.07%) MongoDB
14 19 (2.07%) OLTP
15 18 (1.96%) Mixpanel
16 17 (1.85%) OLAP
17 14 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
17 14 (1.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 164 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 126 (13.73%) GitLab
3 114 (12.42%) Git
4 33 (3.59%) JIRA
5 20 (2.18%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.63%) MLflow
7 7 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.76%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.54%) Snyk
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.44%) JUnit
10 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.33%) git-flow
11 3 (0.33%) Mockito
11 3 (0.33%) RStudio
General
1 195 (21.24%) Social Skills
2 148 (16.12%) Finance
3 122 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.34%) Banking
5 47 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.53%) Retail
9 12 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.87%) Front Office
11 8 (0.87%) Legal
12 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.65%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.44%) Marketing
14 4 (0.44%) Military
15 3 (0.33%) Electronics
15 3 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 168 (18.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 147 (16.01%) Senior
3 126 (13.73%) Architect
4 100 (10.89%) Azure Engineer
5 99 (10.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 97 (10.57%) Data Engineer
7 85 (9.26%) Lead
8 82 (8.93%) Developer
9 74 (8.06%) Platform Engineer
10 68 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
11 37 (4.03%) Security Engineer
11 37 (4.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
13 34 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (3.70%) Software Engineer
14 30 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
14 30 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.16%) Site Engineer
16 28 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (10.68%) Kafka
2 71 (7.73%) Node.js
3 50 (5.45%) React
4 44 (4.79%) PySpark
5 43 (4.68%) REST
6 42 (4.58%) OAuth
7 40 (4.36%) .NET
7 40 (4.36%) ARM Templates
8 38 (4.14%) YAML
9 35 (3.81%) AngularJS
9 35 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 34 (3.70%) Spring
11 32 (3.49%) RESTful
12 29 (3.16%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.05%) OpenID
13 28 (3.05%) Playwright
14 26 (2.83%) AWS CDK
15 24 (2.61%) GraphQL
16 23 (2.51%) Elastic Stack
17 21 (2.29%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 248 (27.02%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.49%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 24 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.18%) Security Posture
8 15 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.63%) Private Cloud
9 12 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.20%) Replication
11 10 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 9 (0.98%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.87%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.48%) Linux
2 41 (4.47%) Windows
3 22 (2.40%) VMS
4 14 (1.53%) Unix
5 8 (0.87%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) 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%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (75.49%) CI/CD
2 560 (61.00%) DevOps
3 252 (27.45%) Containerisation
4 211 (22.98%) Observability
5 199 (21.68%) Agile
6 162 (17.65%) Analytics
7 159 (17.32%) AI
8 143 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
9 130 (14.16%) Migration
10 125 (13.62%) Microservices
11 111 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (11.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 107 (11.66%) Test Automation
14 106 (11.55%) Data Modelling
15 105 (11.44%) Cloud Security
15 105 (11.44%) Problem-Solving
15 105 (11.44%) Software Engineering
16 101 (11.00%) Mentoring
17 98 (10.68%) Data Engineering
18 91 (9.91%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 429 (46.73%) Python
2 192 (20.92%) SQL
3 118 (12.85%) Bash
4 108 (11.76%) Java
5 99 (10.78%) PowerShell
6 71 (7.73%) Bicep
7 59 (6.43%) TypeScript
8 46 (5.01%) C#
9 40 (4.36%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.25%) Go
11 21 (2.29%) Ruby
11 21 (2.29%) Scala
12 12 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.76%) C
14 5 (0.54%) C++
14 5 (0.54%) Rust
15 4 (0.44%) Groovy
15 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.33%) Cypher
16 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 297 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 277 (30.17%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.63%) Azure Certification
4 60 (6.54%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.14%) Degree
6 32 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.18%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.31%) CISSP
11 12 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.09%) CCNP
12 10 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.65%) CCSP
16 5 (0.54%) CCIE
16 5 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.63%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.32%) GDPR
3 45 (4.90%) NIST
4 35 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.70%) QA
6 26 (2.83%) NCSC
7 21 (2.29%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.65%) SLA
10 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.22%) PSD2
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 264 (28.76%) Docker
2 31 (3.38%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.33%) Squid
9 2 (0.22%) 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
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 709 (77.23%) Terraform
2 320 (34.86%) Kubernetes
3 139 (15.14%) Ansible
4 98 (10.68%) Grafana
5 95 (10.35%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.72%) Argo
7 18 (1.96%) Puppet
7 18 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (1.53%) Istio
9 10 (1.09%) Progress Chef
9 10 (1.09%) Rancher
10 8 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
11 7 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.76%) Kibana
12 5 (0.54%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.54%) Karpenter
12 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (0.44%) Opsgenie
14 3 (0.33%) Packer
14 3 (0.33%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 144 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 88 (9.59%) Databricks
2 88 (9.59%) Google
3 49 (5.34%) Splunk
4 19 (2.07%) VMware
5 16 (1.74%) Cisco
6 14 (1.53%) Dynatrace
6 14 (1.53%) Oracle
6 14 (1.53%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.42%) CyberArk
8 12 (1.31%) Palo Alto
9 11 (1.20%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.09%) PagerDuty
11 8 (0.87%) IBM
11 8 (0.87%) Qualys
12 7 (0.76%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.76%) Salesforce
12 7 (0.76%) Solace
13 6 (0.65%) New Relic
13 6 (0.65%) Rapid7