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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 93
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,189 651 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.91% 4.86% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 5.26% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 435 300
10th Percentile £420 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £740 £745 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.60% -7.41% -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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 +18 141 £575 -8.00% 50
South London +14 28 £535 - 5
West London -11 14 £725 +46.46% 43
East London +6 7 £600 - 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 59 (4.96%) Confluence
2 47 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 39 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.44%) Apache
5 17 (1.43%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.59%) nginx
8 6 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.42%) CMS
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.084%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.084%) IIS
13 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.084%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.084%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.084%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.084%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 634 (53.32%) AWS
2 608 (51.14%) Azure
3 309 (25.99%) GitHub
4 227 (19.09%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (18.67%) Azure DevOps
6 208 (17.49%) GCP
7 203 (17.07%) Serverless
8 162 (13.62%) Amazon S3
9 147 (12.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 138 (11.61%) AWS Lambda
11 116 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
12 101 (8.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (7.74%) Entra ID
14 86 (7.23%) Azure AKS
15 81 (6.81%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 70 (5.89%) Amazon ECS
18 67 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
19 63 (5.30%) Power Platform
20 54 (4.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.73%) Firewall
2 55 (4.63%) DNS
3 47 (3.95%) Network Security
4 42 (3.53%) VPN
5 29 (2.44%) WAN
6 24 (2.02%) BGP
7 16 (1.35%) Internet
8 14 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.09%) DHCP
9 13 (1.09%) NX-OS
9 13 (1.09%) SSL
9 13 (1.09%) VXLAN
10 10 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.84%) HTTP
11 9 (0.76%) Cisco IOS
11 9 (0.76%) IOS XR
11 9 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.67%) SSH
13 7 (0.59%) OSPF
14 6 (0.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (4.21%) Power BI
4 47 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (3.62%) MongoDB
6 41 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 36 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (3.03%) Delta Lake
8 34 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 32 (2.69%) DynamoDB
10 30 (2.52%) Metadata
10 30 (2.52%) Redis
11 29 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (2.35%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 24 (2.02%) MySQL
14 24 (2.02%) NoSQL
15 17 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.26%) Big Data
17 12 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 189 (15.90%) Jenkins
2 179 (15.05%) GitLab
3 173 (14.55%) Git
4 68 (5.72%) JIRA
5 15 (1.26%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.26%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.01%) Snyk
7 11 (0.93%) MLflow
7 11 (0.93%) Terragrunt
8 10 (0.84%) JUnit
9 9 (0.76%) JMeter
10 8 (0.67%) Mockito
11 7 (0.59%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.59%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.59%) Postman
11 7 (0.59%) Selenium
12 6 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.50%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 266 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 203 (17.07%) Finance
3 178 (14.97%) Public Sector
4 78 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.30%) Banking
6 30 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.51%) Retail
9 15 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.01%) Law
10 12 (1.01%) Legal
11 11 (0.93%) Local Government
12 10 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.67%) Military
13 8 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.59%) Front Office
14 7 (0.59%) Police
15 5 (0.42%) Back Office
15 5 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 266 (22.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 198 (16.65%) Architect
3 190 (15.98%) Senior
4 129 (10.85%) Lead
5 125 (10.51%) Azure Engineer
6 119 (10.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 106 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
8 102 (8.58%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (7.65%) Data Engineer
10 82 (6.90%) Developer
11 72 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (4.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 53 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
14 50 (4.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 49 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 48 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
16 48 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (3.11%) GCP Engineer
19 36 (3.03%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 903 (75.95%) Terraform
2 98 (8.24%) Kafka
3 82 (6.90%) REST
4 58 (4.88%) PySpark
5 51 (4.29%) RESTful
6 43 (3.62%) ARM Templates
6 43 (3.62%) React
7 39 (3.28%) Node.js
7 39 (3.28%) YAML
8 38 (3.20%) .NET
9 35 (2.94%) OAuth
10 34 (2.86%) Spring
11 31 (2.61%) Spring Boot
12 29 (2.44%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.35%) AngularJS
14 27 (2.27%) FastAPI
15 25 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (1.93%) OpenID
17 22 (1.85%) JSON
18 21 (1.77%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 330 (27.75%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 29 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
8 28 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 26 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.10%) Replication
11 23 (1.93%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.85%) PKI
13 18 (1.51%) NHS
14 16 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.26%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 126 (10.60%) Linux
2 85 (7.15%) Windows
3 30 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.35%) VMS
7 14 (1.18%) Unix
8 12 (1.01%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.17%) Android
14 1 (0.084%) AIX
14 1 (0.084%) Debian
14 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (74.77%) CI/CD
2 726 (61.06%) DevOps
3 323 (27.17%) Containerisation
4 292 (24.56%) Agile
5 284 (23.89%) Observability
6 276 (23.21%) Platform Engineering
7 239 (20.10%) AI
8 174 (14.63%) Test Automation
9 167 (14.05%) Software Engineering
10 164 (13.79%) Migration
11 159 (13.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 151 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 145 (12.20%) Microservices
14 142 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
15 138 (11.61%) Analytics
16 136 (11.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 134 (11.27%) Technical Leadership
18 133 (11.19%) Cloud Security
19 131 (11.02%) Mentoring
20 127 (10.68%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 520 (43.73%) Python
2 192 (16.15%) PowerShell
2 192 (16.15%) SQL
3 184 (15.48%) Bash
4 135 (11.35%) Bicep
5 133 (11.19%) Java
6 70 (5.89%) C#
7 60 (5.05%) JavaScript
8 57 (4.79%) TypeScript
9 42 (3.53%) Go
10 19 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.51%) Scala
12 16 (1.35%) Ruby
13 15 (1.26%) Groovy
14 7 (0.59%) Korn
14 7 (0.59%) Perl
15 4 (0.34%) C++
15 4 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.34%) R
16 3 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 432 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 397 (33.39%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 67 (5.63%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.71%) DV Cleared
6 46 (3.87%) Degree
7 30 (2.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.93%) CISSP
11 22 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.77%) CCNP
13 16 (1.35%) CISM
14 11 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.76%) GIAC
16 8 (0.67%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.59%) CCIE
18 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.73%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.78%) QA
3 36 (3.03%) GDPR
4 34 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (2.86%) NIST
5 20 (1.68%) NCSC
6 16 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.34%) COBIT
11 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.34%) WCAG
12 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.084%) FedRAMP
13 1 (0.084%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 311 (26.16%) Docker
2 50 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.67%) vSphere
8 7 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.25%) Squid
11 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.17%) Postfix
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.084%) NFS
12 1 (0.084%) Samba
12 1 (0.084%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 469 (39.44%) Kubernetes
2 188 (15.81%) Ansible
3 141 (11.86%) Grafana
4 127 (10.68%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.27%) Puppet
6 24 (2.02%) Argo
7 17 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.35%) Packer
9 14 (1.18%) Kubeflow
10 11 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.76%) Kibana
12 8 (0.67%) Control-M
12 8 (0.67%) Istio
12 8 (0.67%) systemd
13 7 (0.59%) SCCM
13 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.34%) logstash
14 4 (0.34%) Salt
Vendors
1 225 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 97 (8.16%) Databricks
3 90 (7.57%) Google
4 69 (5.80%) Splunk
5 49 (4.12%) Oracle
6 44 (3.70%) VMware
7 35 (2.94%) Cisco
8 25 (2.10%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 23 (1.93%) OpenAI
10 17 (1.43%) Arista
10 17 (1.43%) Okta
10 17 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.43%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.18%) Foundry
11 14 (1.18%) Informatica
12 11 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 11 (0.93%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.76%) AppDynamics
13 9 (0.76%) CyberArk