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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 51 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 +48 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,147 643 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.69% 4.73% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.39% 5.12% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 435 295
10th Percentile £415 £392 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -12.26%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 12 August 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 12 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 +14 139 £575 -8.00% 67
South London +14 28 £535 +8.08% 12
West London -8 14 £725 +46.46% 19
East London +7 7 £588 - 10
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 54 (4.71%) Confluence
2 41 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 37 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.53%) Apache
5 16 (1.39%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.44%) nginx
9 4 (0.35%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.087%) IIS
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.087%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 608 (53.01%) AWS
2 585 (51.00%) Azure
3 307 (26.77%) GitHub
4 225 (19.62%) GitHub Actions
5 216 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
6 204 (17.79%) GCP
7 192 (16.74%) Serverless
8 156 (13.60%) Amazon S3
9 150 (13.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 131 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
11 112 (9.76%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 91 (7.93%) Entra ID
14 79 (6.89%) Azure AKS
15 76 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
16 73 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
17 68 (5.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 62 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
19 61 (5.32%) Power Platform
20 56 (4.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (7.32%) Firewall
2 54 (4.71%) DNS
3 48 (4.18%) Network Security
4 44 (3.84%) VPN
5 28 (2.44%) WAN
6 18 (1.57%) BGP
7 15 (1.31%) Internet
8 13 (1.13%) DHCP
8 13 (1.13%) SSL
8 13 (1.13%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.96%) NX-OS
10 10 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.87%) IOS XR
11 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.78%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.61%) HTTP
12 7 (0.61%) OSPF
13 6 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (4.45%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (4.18%) Power BI
5 41 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 39 (3.40%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.14%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.05%) Delta Lake
9 33 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 28 (2.44%) BigQuery
11 28 (2.44%) DynamoDB
11 28 (2.44%) Redis
12 23 (2.01%) Metadata
12 23 (2.01%) NoSQL
13 21 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 19 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (1.66%) MySQL
15 15 (1.31%) Big Data
16 12 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 185 (16.13%) Jenkins
2 173 (15.08%) GitLab
3 165 (14.39%) Git
4 65 (5.67%) JIRA
5 17 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.31%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.22%) Snyk
8 12 (1.05%) MLflow
9 10 (0.87%) JUnit
10 9 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.78%) Terragrunt
11 8 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.70%) JMeter
11 8 (0.70%) Mockito
12 6 (0.52%) Postman
13 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.44%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 241 (21.01%) Social Skills
2 193 (16.83%) Finance
3 175 (15.26%) Public Sector
4 71 (6.19%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (5.41%) Banking
6 27 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (1.48%) Retail
9 16 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.05%) Law
10 12 (1.05%) Legal
11 11 (0.96%) Local Government
12 9 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.52%) Front Office
14 6 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.52%) Police
15 5 (0.44%) Back Office
15 5 (0.44%) Military
15 5 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 184 (16.04%) Architect
3 181 (15.78%) Senior
4 130 (11.33%) Lead
5 126 (10.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
7 100 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
8 96 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
9 86 (7.50%) Data Engineer
10 79 (6.89%) Developer
11 68 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 53 (4.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 49 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
14 47 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (4.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 40 (3.49%) GCP Engineer
18 32 (2.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (7.24%) Kafka
2 77 (6.71%) REST
3 55 (4.80%) PySpark
4 54 (4.71%) RESTful
5 44 (3.84%) React
6 41 (3.57%) Node.js
7 40 (3.49%) ARM Templates
8 37 (3.23%) OAuth
9 35 (3.05%) .NET
10 34 (2.96%) YAML
11 32 (2.79%) OAuth2
11 32 (2.79%) Spring
12 29 (2.53%) Spring Boot
13 27 (2.35%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.09%) FastAPI
14 24 (2.09%) OpenID
15 20 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
15 20 (1.74%) JSON
16 18 (1.57%) Django
17 17 (1.48%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 326 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 81 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.01%) Onboarding
4 42 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.79%) Security Posture
7 27 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (2.18%) Data Centre
8 25 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
9 24 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (2.01%) Public Cloud
11 21 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.74%) PKI
13 18 (1.57%) Replication
14 16 (1.39%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.31%) NHS
16 13 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.13%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (10.11%) Linux
2 78 (6.80%) Windows
3 27 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 12 (1.05%) Unix
6 12 (1.05%) VMS
7 11 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) Android
11 2 (0.17%) CentOS
12 1 (0.087%) AIX
12 1 (0.087%) Debian
12 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (75.41%) CI/CD
2 715 (62.34%) DevOps
3 322 (28.07%) Containerisation
4 282 (24.59%) Agile
5 263 (22.93%) Platform Engineering
6 259 (22.58%) Observability
7 224 (19.53%) AI
8 168 (14.65%) Test Automation
9 158 (13.78%) Software Engineering
10 156 (13.60%) Migration
11 149 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 143 (12.47%) Microservices
13 141 (12.29%) Analytics
14 135 (11.77%) Stakeholder Management
15 129 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
16 126 (10.99%) Cloud Security
16 126 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 125 (10.90%) Mentoring
18 121 (10.55%) Event-Driven
19 117 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 497 (43.33%) Python
2 186 (16.22%) SQL
3 179 (15.61%) Bash
4 177 (15.43%) PowerShell
5 127 (11.07%) Bicep
5 127 (11.07%) Java
6 66 (5.75%) C#
7 62 (5.41%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.06%) JavaScript
9 40 (3.49%) Go
10 19 (1.66%) Scala
10 19 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.31%) Ruby
12 11 (0.96%) Groovy
13 6 (0.52%) Korn
13 6 (0.52%) Perl
14 4 (0.35%) C
14 4 (0.35%) C++
14 4 (0.35%) R
15 3 (0.26%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 429 (37.40%) Security Cleared
2 399 (34.79%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 58 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 55 (4.80%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.49%) Degree
7 28 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 23 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.66%) CCNP
12 17 (1.48%) CISSP
13 10 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.87%) CISM
14 9 (0.78%) GIAC
15 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.44%) CCIE
17 5 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.63%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.57%) QA
3 36 (3.14%) GDPR
4 31 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.62%) NIST
6 22 (1.92%) NCSC
7 17 (1.48%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.70%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.44%) SLA
12 4 (0.35%) COBIT
12 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.17%) WCAG
14 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.087%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 304 (26.50%) Docker
2 49 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.66%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.52%) vSphere
8 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.087%) NFS
10 1 (0.087%) Samba
10 1 (0.087%) Squid
10 1 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 883 (76.98%) Terraform
2 455 (39.67%) Kubernetes
3 173 (15.08%) Ansible
4 131 (11.42%) Grafana
5 121 (10.55%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.35%) Puppet
7 23 (2.01%) Argo
8 17 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.39%) Packer
10 15 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.13%) Kubeflow
12 11 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.70%) Kibana
14 8 (0.70%) systemd
15 7 (0.61%) Control-M
15 7 (0.61%) Istio
16 6 (0.52%) SCCM
16 6 (0.52%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 204 (17.79%) Microsoft
2 93 (8.11%) Google
3 83 (7.24%) Databricks
4 62 (5.41%) Splunk
5 41 (3.57%) Oracle
5 41 (3.57%) VMware
6 28 (2.44%) Cisco
7 23 (2.01%) Dynatrace
7 23 (2.01%) OpenAI
8 21 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 17 (1.48%) Okta
9 17 (1.48%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.13%) Arista
10 13 (1.13%) Fortinet
10 13 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.05%) Foundry
12 11 (0.96%) Informatica
12 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
13 9 (0.78%) AppDynamics
14 8 (0.70%) New Relic