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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 +39 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,277 680 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.28% 5.09% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.07% 5.49% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 917 460 296
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% - -
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +13.60% -13.19% -6.81%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +18 145 £583 -6.80% 130
South London +24 34 £535 -13.71% 6
West London -16 17 £725 +70.59% 43
East London +5 6 £600 - 13
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 55 (4.31%) Confluence
2 48 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 47 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (2.51%) Apache
5 22 (1.72%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.41%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.78%) nginx
8 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.55%) CMS
10 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
12 2 (0.16%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.078%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.078%) IIS
13 1 (0.078%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.078%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 678 (53.09%) AWS
2 637 (49.88%) Azure
3 325 (25.45%) GitHub
4 236 (18.48%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (18.40%) GCP
6 216 (16.91%) Serverless
7 214 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
8 182 (14.25%) Amazon S3
9 152 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
10 147 (11.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 143 (11.20%) Amazon EKS
12 129 (10.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 121 (9.48%) Entra ID
14 101 (7.91%) Amazon EC2
15 85 (6.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 79 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
17 78 (6.11%) Azure AKS
18 68 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (5.01%) dbt
20 56 (4.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.42%) Firewall
2 63 (4.93%) DNS
3 52 (4.07%) Network Security
4 49 (3.84%) VPN
5 22 (1.72%) WAN
6 17 (1.33%) BGP
7 16 (1.25%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.17%) Internet
8 15 (1.17%) SSL
9 14 (1.10%) DHCP
10 10 (0.78%) HTTP
11 9 (0.70%) SSH
12 8 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.63%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.63%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.55%) VLAN
14 6 (0.47%) NGFW
15 5 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
15 5 (0.39%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (3.60%) Power BI
4 44 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (3.37%) MongoDB
6 40 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 37 (2.90%) SQL Server
8 36 (2.82%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 34 (2.66%) Redis
11 33 (2.58%) Metadata
11 33 (2.58%) MySQL
12 31 (2.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 30 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (2.27%) NoSQL
15 28 (2.19%) BigQuery
16 15 (1.17%) Big Data
17 13 (1.02%) Apache Iceberg
17 13 (1.02%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 206 (16.13%) GitLab
2 201 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 186 (14.57%) Git
4 64 (5.01%) JIRA
5 20 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 20 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.17%) Snyk
7 13 (1.02%) Selenium
8 12 (0.94%) Artifactory
8 12 (0.94%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.78%) JMeter
9 10 (0.78%) JUnit
10 9 (0.70%) Postman
10 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.63%) Claude Code
11 8 (0.63%) MLflow
12 7 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.47%) CircleCI
14 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.39%) Mockito
General
1 293 (22.94%) Social Skills
2 231 (18.09%) Finance
3 174 (13.63%) Public Sector
4 93 (7.28%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.72%) Banking
6 31 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.57%) Retail
9 13 (1.02%) Law
9 13 (1.02%) Local Government
9 13 (1.02%) Military
10 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (0.86%) Legal
11 10 (0.78%) Back Office
11 10 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.70%) Front Office
13 8 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 287 (22.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 198 (15.51%) Senior
3 191 (14.96%) Architect
4 133 (10.42%) Lead
5 127 (9.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 125 (9.79%) Azure Engineer
7 112 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
8 109 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
9 96 (7.52%) Data Engineer
10 76 (5.95%) Developer
10 76 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 62 (4.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 59 (4.62%) AWS DevOps
13 55 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 54 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
15 52 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 50 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
17 47 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 42 (3.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 41 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 962 (75.33%) Terraform
2 110 (8.61%) Kafka
3 90 (7.05%) REST
4 60 (4.70%) PySpark
5 55 (4.31%) RESTful
6 50 (3.92%) React
7 47 (3.68%) OAuth
8 46 (3.60%) .NET
9 41 (3.21%) FastAPI
10 39 (3.05%) ARM Templates
11 36 (2.82%) OpenID
12 35 (2.74%) OAuth2
13 34 (2.66%) Node.js
14 33 (2.58%) YAML
15 31 (2.43%) Spring
16 30 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (2.35%) Spring Boot
17 25 (1.96%) Flask
18 21 (1.64%) Django
18 21 (1.64%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 342 (26.78%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.34%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 51 (3.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (3.37%) Security Posture
6 38 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 38 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 34 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (2.66%) Product Ownership
7 34 (2.66%) Public Cloud
8 33 (2.58%) AI Agents
9 28 (2.19%) Replication
10 27 (2.11%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.11%) PKI
11 17 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.33%) NHS
11 17 (1.33%) Private Cloud
11 17 (1.33%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 150 (11.75%) Linux
2 98 (7.67%) Windows
3 33 (2.58%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.64%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.49%) VMS
7 16 (1.25%) Unix
8 15 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.23%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Android
14 1 (0.078%) AIX
14 1 (0.078%) Debian
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 949 (74.31%) CI/CD
2 765 (59.91%) DevOps
3 328 (25.69%) Observability
4 327 (25.61%) Containerisation
5 304 (23.81%) Agile
6 298 (23.34%) Platform Engineering
7 280 (21.93%) AI
8 193 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 186 (14.57%) Software Engineering
10 184 (14.41%) Test Automation
11 182 (14.25%) Migration
12 169 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (12.69%) Technical Leadership
14 160 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 160 (12.53%) Problem-Solving
15 150 (11.75%) Cloud Security
16 142 (11.12%) Deployment Automation
16 142 (11.12%) Microservices
17 138 (10.81%) Data Engineering
18 136 (10.65%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 575 (45.03%) Python
2 207 (16.21%) PowerShell
3 205 (16.05%) Bash
4 204 (15.97%) SQL
5 145 (11.35%) Bicep
6 136 (10.65%) Java
7 73 (5.72%) C#
8 71 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 65 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 54 (4.23%) Go
11 26 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.57%) Groovy
13 18 (1.41%) Scala
14 10 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.63%) Korn
16 7 (0.55%) Perl
17 6 (0.47%) C++
17 6 (0.47%) Ruby
18 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 451 (35.32%) Security Cleared
2 406 (31.79%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.13%) Azure Certification
4 86 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 68 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.92%) Degree
7 35 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.51%) CISSP
10 28 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.49%) CISM
14 16 (1.25%) CCNP
15 12 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.86%) GIAC
17 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.44%) Data Quality
2 54 (4.23%) QA
3 38 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.90%) NIST
5 33 (2.58%) GDPR
6 18 (1.41%) NCSC
7 16 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 13 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.31%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) WCAG
11 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.23%) COBIT
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 343 (26.86%) Docker
2 61 (4.78%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.70%) vSphere
7 8 (0.63%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.23%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.16%) IAG
11 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.16%) Postfix
12 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.078%) NFS
12 1 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.078%) zsh
Systems Management
1 516 (40.41%) Kubernetes
2 208 (16.29%) Ansible
3 158 (12.37%) Grafana
4 135 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (2.27%) Argo
7 28 (2.19%) Puppet
8 19 (1.49%) Kubeflow
9 16 (1.25%) Packer
10 13 (1.02%) Kibana
11 12 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.86%) Progress Chef
13 10 (0.78%) systemd
14 8 (0.63%) Control-M
14 8 (0.63%) Istio
14 8 (0.63%) SCCM
15 7 (0.55%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.39%) logstash
17 4 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 258 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.30%) Google
3 98 (7.67%) Databricks
4 76 (5.95%) Splunk
5 52 (4.07%) VMware
6 47 (3.68%) Oracle
7 38 (2.98%) Cisco
8 34 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.35%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.04%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.57%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.41%) Okta
13 17 (1.33%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.17%) Foundry
15 14 (1.10%) Informatica
15 14 (1.10%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.02%) Arista
17 12 (0.94%) CyberArk
18 9 (0.70%) AppDynamics
18 9 (0.70%) Fortinet