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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 60 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 +46 -15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,028 503 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.57% 4.10% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 4.45% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 337 293
10th Percentile £406 £398 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.44%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £748
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -14.87% +16.59% -13.46%

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 16,377 11,309 15,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.27% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,582 11,066
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 194 315
10th Percentile £18.28 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +15.18% -29.34%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.23 £63.60 £66.90
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +19 136 £550 -12.00% 36
West London -3 27 £603 +6.64% 3
South London +1 18 £538 +2.87%
East London - 5 £575 - 11
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 49 (4.77%) Apache Spark
2 29 (2.82%) Apache
2 29 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (2.53%) Confluence
4 12 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.39%) SAS
7 3 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.097%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.097%) Maximo
2 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.097%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 540 (52.53%) AWS
2 527 (51.26%) Azure
3 283 (27.53%) GitHub
4 192 (18.68%) Serverless
5 190 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
6 187 (18.19%) GCP
7 180 (17.51%) Azure DevOps
8 171 (16.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 156 (15.18%) Amazon S3
10 133 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (8.85%) Amazon EKS
12 87 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (7.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 70 (6.81%) Power Platform
15 65 (6.32%) Entra ID
16 63 (6.13%) Azure AKS
17 59 (5.74%) PaaS
18 58 (5.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 55 (5.35%) Azure Monitor
20 54 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 72 (7.00%) Firewall
2 47 (4.57%) DNS
3 44 (4.28%) Network Security
4 27 (2.63%) VPN
5 22 (2.14%) WAN
6 17 (1.65%) BGP
7 11 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (0.88%) Internet
8 9 (0.88%) IOS XR
8 9 (0.88%) NX-OS
8 9 (0.88%) OSPF
8 9 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.68%) DHCP
9 7 (0.68%) SAN
9 7 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.68%) SSL
9 7 (0.68%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.58%) NAS
10 6 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.03%) Data Lake
2 60 (5.84%) Amazon Athena
3 48 (4.67%) Power BI
4 44 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 42 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (3.40%) BigQuery
7 34 (3.31%) Delta Lake
8 32 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (3.02%) DynamoDB
9 31 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (2.82%) MongoDB
11 27 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 21 (2.04%) Redis
14 18 (1.75%) OLTP
15 16 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
15 16 (1.56%) Tableau
16 15 (1.46%) Mixpanel
16 15 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 171 (16.63%) Jenkins
2 139 (13.52%) GitLab
3 137 (13.33%) Git
4 40 (3.89%) JIRA
5 23 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.36%) MLflow
7 11 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.07%) Snyk
8 10 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.88%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.88%) Terragrunt
10 8 (0.78%) JMeter
11 7 (0.68%) JUnit
12 6 (0.58%) Mockito
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
13 5 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.39%) git-flow
14 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 193 (18.77%) Social Skills
2 149 (14.49%) Finance
3 139 (13.52%) Public Sector
4 57 (5.54%) Banking
5 40 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.46%) Retail
10 11 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (0.97%) Legal
12 9 (0.88%) Law
13 8 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.58%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.49%) Police
16 4 (0.39%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.39%) Front Office
16 4 (0.39%) Military
16 4 (0.39%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.29%) Games
Job Titles
1 203 (19.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 184 (17.90%) Architect
3 150 (14.59%) Senior
4 122 (11.87%) Azure Engineer
5 119 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 101 (9.82%) Lead
7 97 (9.44%) Data Engineer
8 81 (7.88%) Developer
9 80 (7.78%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
11 48 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
13 39 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 37 (3.60%) AWS DevOps
15 36 (3.50%) Cloud Architect
16 35 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
16 35 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
16 35 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 34 (3.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 33 (3.21%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (8.46%) Kafka
2 54 (5.25%) Node.js
3 53 (5.16%) React
4 52 (5.06%) PySpark
4 52 (5.06%) REST
5 49 (4.77%) RESTful
6 47 (4.57%) OAuth
7 45 (4.38%) .NET
8 41 (3.99%) ARM Templates
9 38 (3.70%) OpenID
10 37 (3.60%) YAML
11 35 (3.40%) OAuth2
11 35 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
12 33 (3.21%) AngularJS
12 33 (3.21%) Spring
13 31 (3.02%) Spring Boot
14 26 (2.53%) AWS CDK
15 25 (2.43%) SAML
16 21 (2.04%) Great Expectations
17 20 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 309 (30.06%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.43%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 24 (2.33%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 13 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.17%) PKI
12 11 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 10 (0.97%) Private Cloud
14 9 (0.88%) Replication
15 8 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.24%) Linux
2 59 (5.74%) Windows
3 19 (1.85%) VMS
4 18 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.46%) Unix
6 10 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.19%) zOS
9 1 (0.097%) AIX
9 1 (0.097%) Android
9 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.097%) CentOS
9 1 (0.097%) Debian
9 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (76.07%) CI/CD
2 644 (62.65%) DevOps
3 283 (27.53%) Containerisation
4 227 (22.08%) Observability
5 206 (20.04%) Agile
6 193 (18.77%) AI
7 191 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
8 160 (15.56%) Analytics
9 157 (15.27%) Migration
10 145 (14.11%) Microservices
11 132 (12.84%) Test Automation
12 116 (11.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 115 (11.19%) Mentoring
14 114 (11.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 114 (11.09%) Software Engineering
15 111 (10.80%) Data Modelling
16 103 (10.02%) Cloud Security
17 96 (9.34%) High Availability
18 90 (8.75%) Data Engineering
19 89 (8.66%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 436 (42.41%) Python
2 194 (18.87%) SQL
3 133 (12.94%) PowerShell
4 120 (11.67%) Bash
5 105 (10.21%) Java
6 99 (9.63%) Bicep
7 60 (5.84%) C#
8 53 (5.16%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.77%) JavaScript
10 34 (3.31%) Go
11 25 (2.43%) Scala
12 22 (2.14%) Ruby
13 15 (1.46%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.58%) C
14 6 (0.58%) Groovy
15 3 (0.29%) Cypher
15 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.29%) Rust
15 3 (0.29%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 382 (37.16%) Security Cleared
2 360 (35.02%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 48 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 35 (3.40%) Degree
6 32 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 15 (1.46%) CCNP
12 14 (1.36%) CISSP
12 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (0.78%) CISM
15 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.58%) GIAC
17 5 (0.49%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.38%) NIST
3 41 (3.99%) GDPR
4 39 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.40%) QA
6 28 (2.72%) NCSC
7 20 (1.95%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.78%) SLA
10 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.39%) COBIT
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.29%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.19%) PSD2
13 2 (0.19%) SEPA
14 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 255 (24.81%) Docker
2 38 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.19%) Squid
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.097%) Firmware
10 1 (0.097%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 783 (76.17%) Terraform
2 373 (36.28%) Kubernetes
3 149 (14.49%) Ansible
4 104 (10.12%) Prometheus
5 100 (9.73%) Grafana
6 19 (1.85%) Argo
6 19 (1.85%) Puppet
6 19 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.07%) Istio
8 10 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.88%) Kibana
10 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.68%) Packer
12 6 (0.58%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.39%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 157 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.85%) Databricks
3 90 (8.75%) Google
4 55 (5.35%) Splunk
5 28 (2.72%) Oracle
6 24 (2.33%) VMware
7 19 (1.85%) Cisco
8 17 (1.65%) OpenAI
9 16 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 15 (1.46%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.36%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 11 (1.07%) Arista
14 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.97%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.88%) Rapid7
15 9 (0.88%) Salesforce
16 8 (0.78%) Qualys
16 8 (0.78%) Tenable
17 7 (0.68%) Foundry