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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 62 108
Rank change year-on-year +24 +46 -22
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 978 491 387
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.42% 3.97% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 4.31% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 334 276
10th Percentile £400 £394 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £759
England median daily rate £541 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.66% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £58.03 - £55.13
25th Percentile £59.94 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £73.94 - £57.81
90th Percentile £75.63 - £58.38
England median hourly rate £65.07 £53.10 £62.50
% change year-on-year +22.54% -15.04% -19.87%

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 15,948 11,394 15,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 92.23% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,673 7,685 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 187 308
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £15.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +21.78% -25.23%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.83
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +25 137 £550 -8.33% 81
West London -2 29 £603 +6.64% 17
South London -3 19 £534 +2.15% 18
East London - 5 £575 - 25
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 51 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.07%) Apache
3 26 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.25%) Confluence
5 13 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.51%) SAS
8 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Actimize
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 512 (52.35%) AWS
2 511 (52.25%) Azure
3 271 (27.71%) GitHub
4 180 (18.40%) Serverless
5 178 (18.20%) GitHub Actions
6 176 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
7 174 (17.79%) GCP
8 170 (17.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 147 (15.03%) Amazon S3
10 124 (12.68%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (8.59%) Amazon ECS
12 83 (8.49%) Amazon EKS
13 70 (7.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 70 (7.16%) Power Platform
14 61 (6.24%) Azure AKS
15 55 (5.62%) Entra ID
15 55 (5.62%) PaaS
16 52 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
16 52 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (7.36%) Firewall
2 44 (4.50%) DNS
3 40 (4.09%) Network Security
4 25 (2.56%) VPN
5 21 (2.15%) WAN
6 16 (1.64%) BGP
7 11 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.92%) OSPF
8 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (0.82%) IOS XR
9 8 (0.82%) NX-OS
9 8 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.72%) DHCP
10 7 (0.72%) Internet
10 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.61%) SAN
11 6 (0.61%) SSL
12 5 (0.51%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (6.54%) Data Lake
2 59 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (4.81%) Power BI
4 44 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (3.99%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.48%) Delta Lake
7 33 (3.37%) BigQuery
8 31 (3.17%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (2.76%) DynamoDB
10 27 (2.76%) MongoDB
11 23 (2.35%) NoSQL
12 20 (2.04%) Redis
13 19 (1.94%) OLTP
14 16 (1.64%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.64%) Mixpanel
14 16 (1.64%) Tableau
15 15 (1.53%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 161 (16.46%) Jenkins
2 132 (13.50%) Git
3 131 (13.39%) GitLab
4 36 (3.68%) JIRA
5 22 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.53%) MLflow
7 11 (1.12%) Snyk
8 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.82%) JMeter
10 8 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.72%) JUnit
12 6 (0.61%) Mockito
12 6 (0.61%) Postman
13 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.41%) git-flow
14 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 180 (18.40%) Social Skills
2 140 (14.31%) Finance
3 131 (13.39%) Public Sector
4 51 (5.21%) Banking
5 40 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 35 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.43%) Retail
10 11 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.02%) Legal
12 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.51%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Police
14 4 (0.41%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Games
15 3 (0.31%) Military
15 3 (0.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (19.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 170 (17.38%) Architect
3 142 (14.52%) Senior
4 117 (11.96%) Azure Engineer
5 110 (11.25%) Cloud Engineer
6 98 (10.02%) Data Engineer
7 93 (9.51%) Lead
8 83 (8.49%) Developer
9 72 (7.36%) AWS Engineer
10 64 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
11 45 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 39 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
13 36 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
15 34 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
16 32 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) GCP Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Senior DevOps
16 32 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 32 (3.27%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.79%) Kafka
2 57 (5.83%) Node.js
3 52 (5.32%) React
4 51 (5.21%) PySpark
5 48 (4.91%) RESTful
6 46 (4.70%) REST
7 45 (4.60%) .NET
8 39 (3.99%) OAuth
9 37 (3.78%) ARM Templates
10 36 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
11 35 (3.58%) YAML
12 34 (3.48%) AngularJS
13 33 (3.37%) OpenID
13 33 (3.37%) Spring
14 31 (3.17%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.76%) OAuth2
16 26 (2.66%) AWS CDK
17 22 (2.25%) Great Expectations
18 21 (2.15%) SAML
19 19 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 282 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
11 12 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.12%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.12%) PKI
13 9 (0.92%) Private Cloud
14 8 (0.82%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 86 (8.79%) Linux
2 51 (5.21%) Windows
3 18 (1.84%) VMS
4 15 (1.53%) Unix
5 13 (1.33%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
9 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (76.69%) CI/CD
2 612 (62.58%) DevOps
3 271 (27.71%) Containerisation
4 214 (21.88%) Observability
5 206 (21.06%) Agile
6 180 (18.40%) AI
7 171 (17.48%) Platform Engineering
8 155 (15.85%) Analytics
9 146 (14.93%) Migration
10 136 (13.91%) Microservices
11 125 (12.78%) Test Automation
12 111 (11.35%) Data Modelling
13 110 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 110 (11.25%) Software Engineering
14 109 (11.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 103 (10.53%) Mentoring
16 92 (9.41%) Data Engineering
17 90 (9.20%) Cloud Security
18 88 (9.00%) Data Pipeline
19 86 (8.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 403 (41.21%) Python
2 193 (19.73%) SQL
3 118 (12.07%) PowerShell
4 108 (11.04%) Bash
5 98 (10.02%) Java
6 86 (8.79%) Bicep
7 61 (6.24%) C#
8 51 (5.21%) JavaScript
8 51 (5.21%) TypeScript
9 31 (3.17%) Go
10 26 (2.66%) Scala
11 22 (2.25%) Ruby
12 15 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.61%) C
14 5 (0.51%) Groovy
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 370 (37.83%) Security Cleared
2 351 (35.89%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.57%) Azure Certification
4 45 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.17%) Degree
6 30 (3.07%) DV Cleared
7 26 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (1.43%) CCNP
12 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.12%) CISSP
14 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.92%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.61%) CISM
16 6 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (0.51%) CEH
17 5 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.40%) NIST
3 41 (4.19%) GDPR
4 37 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.37%) QA
6 28 (2.86%) NCSC
7 20 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.43%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.82%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) COBIT
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) GRC
13 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) NIST 800
System Software
1 245 (25.05%) Docker
2 37 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 12 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.31%) Squid
6 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.20%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) Snort
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.10%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 740 (75.66%) Terraform
2 350 (35.79%) Kubernetes
3 137 (14.01%) Ansible
4 96 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 94 (9.61%) Grafana
6 19 (1.94%) Puppet
7 18 (1.84%) Argo
7 18 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.02%) Istio
8 10 (1.02%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.92%) Kibana
10 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.72%) Packer
11 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.41%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.31%) Pingdom
12 3 (0.31%) Rancher
12 3 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 153 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.10%) Databricks
3 80 (8.18%) Google
4 50 (5.11%) Splunk
5 25 (2.56%) Oracle
6 22 (2.25%) VMware
7 20 (2.04%) Cisco
8 15 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 14 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.23%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.02%) Arista
13 9 (0.92%) Salesforce
14 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.72%) AppDynamics
15 7 (0.72%) Zscaler
16 6 (0.61%) IBM
17 5 (0.51%) Qualys