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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 83 83
Rank change year-on-year +41 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 796 484 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.66% 3.04% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 3.40% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 310 406
10th Percentile £400 £449 £421
25th Percentile £447 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -9.31%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
England median daily rate £538 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -5.70% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £53.95 - £57.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year -3.85% -15.07% +16.84%

All Process and 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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +20 82 £569 -2.57% 38
West London -1 19 £603 +26.84% 8
South London +1 7 £528 - 1
East London +8 5 - - 14
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 30 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.39%) Confluence
3 16 (2.01%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.76%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.50%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.50%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.38%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 417 (52.39%) AWS
2 374 (46.98%) Azure
3 213 (26.76%) GitHub
4 149 (18.72%) GCP
4 149 (18.72%) GitHub Actions
5 135 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
6 115 (14.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 110 (13.82%) Serverless
8 93 (11.68%) Amazon S3
9 69 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (6.91%) Amazon EKS
11 54 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
12 49 (6.16%) Azure AKS
13 48 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (5.90%) Entra ID
15 44 (5.53%) Amazon EC2
16 42 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
17 40 (5.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 39 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 34 (4.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 79 (9.92%) Firewall
2 47 (5.90%) Network Security
3 45 (5.65%) VPN
4 37 (4.65%) DNS
5 22 (2.76%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.88%) SSL
7 13 (1.63%) WAN
8 11 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.26%) BGP
10 9 (1.13%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.88%) Multicast
11 7 (0.88%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.75%) OSPF
13 5 (0.63%) HTTP
14 4 (0.50%) MPLS
14 4 (0.50%) VLAN
15 3 (0.38%) Internet
15 3 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.65%) Data Lake
2 42 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
3 39 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.14%) DynamoDB
6 25 (3.14%) Power BI
7 20 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 19 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (2.26%) MongoDB
10 17 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.76%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.63%) Delta Lake
13 13 (1.63%) Redis
14 12 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.51%) Metadata
15 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
16 10 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (1.26%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 140 (17.59%) Jenkins
2 107 (13.44%) GitLab
3 81 (10.18%) Git
4 36 (4.52%) SonarQube
5 34 (4.27%) JIRA
6 16 (2.01%) Burp Suite
6 16 (2.01%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.01%) Metasploit
7 14 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.13%) Maven
9 8 (1.01%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.01%) Gradle
9 8 (1.01%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.88%) Selenium
10 7 (0.88%) Snyk
11 5 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.63%) MLflow
12 4 (0.50%) Postman
13 3 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 198 (24.87%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.58%) Finance
3 92 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.67%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.16%) Banking
6 20 (2.51%) Front Office
7 19 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.63%) Publishing
10 13 (1.63%) Retail
10 13 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.38%) Military
12 9 (1.13%) Law
12 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.13%) Marketing
13 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.75%) Electronics
14 6 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 147 (18.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 139 (17.46%) Senior
3 85 (10.68%) Developer
4 82 (10.30%) Architect
5 79 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
6 76 (9.55%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (8.17%) Cloud Engineer
8 62 (7.79%) Data Engineer
9 61 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (6.91%) Security Engineer
11 54 (6.78%) Lead
12 38 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
13 32 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.02%) Software Engineer
14 31 (3.89%) GCP Engineer
14 31 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 30 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 29 (3.64%) Senior Developer
17 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
17 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (9.42%) Kafka
2 53 (6.66%) Node.js
3 40 (5.03%) React
4 38 (4.77%) YAML
5 35 (4.40%) ARM Templates
6 33 (4.15%) .NET
6 33 (4.15%) RESTful
7 31 (3.89%) Spring
8 30 (3.77%) REST
9 27 (3.39%) GraphQL
9 27 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 25 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.14%) OAuth
11 24 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
12 23 (2.89%) AWS CDK
13 21 (2.64%) gRPC
14 20 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
15 18 (2.26%) Playwright
15 18 (2.26%) PySpark
16 17 (2.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 174 (21.86%) Cloud Native
2 68 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.89%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.02%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.51%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.14%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.88%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
12 14 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
13 12 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.51%) Replication
14 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
15 8 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
15 8 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 102 (12.81%) Linux
2 40 (5.03%) Windows
3 19 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.26%) Unix
5 12 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.38%) VMS
7 6 (0.75%) Solaris
8 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 587 (73.74%) CI/CD
2 465 (58.42%) DevOps
3 204 (25.63%) Agile
4 196 (24.62%) Containerisation
5 146 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (18.09%) Observability
7 111 (13.94%) Platform Engineering
8 109 (13.69%) Software Engineering
9 108 (13.57%) DevSecOps
10 106 (13.32%) Cloud Security
11 99 (12.44%) Microservices
12 97 (12.19%) Analytics
13 94 (11.81%) AI
13 94 (11.81%) Migration
14 88 (11.06%) Infrastructure Automation
15 84 (10.55%) Test Automation
16 80 (10.05%) Machine Learning
17 76 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
18 74 (9.30%) Mentoring
19 69 (8.67%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 410 (51.51%) Python
2 163 (20.48%) Bash
3 135 (16.96%) SQL
4 111 (13.94%) Java
5 106 (13.32%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.17%) TypeScript
7 63 (7.91%) Go
8 61 (7.66%) Bicep
9 42 (5.28%) JavaScript
10 41 (5.15%) C#
11 10 (1.26%) Scala
11 10 (1.26%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.88%) Groovy
13 6 (0.75%) C++
13 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.75%) PromQL
13 6 (0.75%) Ruby
14 5 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.38%) C
16 2 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 188 (23.62%) Security Cleared
2 169 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.65%) AWS Certification
4 42 (5.28%) Azure Certification
5 35 (4.40%) Degree
6 23 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.39%) OSCP
8 16 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 14 (1.76%) CREST Certified
10 13 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.63%) Tigerscheme
11 12 (1.51%) CISSP
12 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
12 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.26%) CHECK Team Member
14 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 5 (0.63%) CCNP
17 5 (0.63%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.91%) GDPR
2 37 (4.65%) NIST
3 35 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (4.27%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.51%) QA
6 15 (1.88%) NCSC
7 14 (1.76%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.50%) MiFID
12 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
13 2 (0.25%) GRC
13 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.25%) SLA
14 1 (0.13%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 246 (30.90%) Docker
2 37 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.13%) zsh
6 5 (0.63%) Snort
6 5 (0.63%) Squid
7 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.25%) KVM
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 585 (73.49%) Terraform
2 293 (36.81%) Kubernetes
3 139 (17.46%) Ansible
4 113 (14.20%) Grafana
5 103 (12.94%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.89%) Argo
7 22 (2.76%) Puppet
8 16 (2.01%) Nmap
9 15 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
9 15 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 13 (1.63%) Kibana
11 10 (1.26%) Istio
11 10 (1.26%) Rancher
12 8 (1.01%) Nessus
12 8 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.75%) logstash
15 4 (0.50%) Nexpose
15 4 (0.50%) Suricata
16 3 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 124 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.17%) Google
3 61 (7.66%) Databricks
4 34 (4.27%) Splunk
5 24 (3.02%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.51%) Cisco
7 18 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.01%) VMware
9 15 (1.88%) Solace
9 15 (1.88%) Veracode
10 14 (1.76%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.51%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.26%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.26%) SAP
12 10 (1.26%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.13%) F5
13 9 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.13%) Oracle