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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 62 104
Rank change year-on-year +27 +42 -11
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,028 492 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.61% 4.08% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 4.42% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 327 293
10th Percentile £406 £398 £375
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £748
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -14.87% +16.59% -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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 +22 139 £550 -12.00% 74
West London -5 23 £603 +6.64% 5
South London 0 17 £527 +0.80%
East London - 5 £575 - 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 47 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 29 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (2.63%) Apache
3 27 (2.63%) Confluence
4 12 (1.17%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (0.39%) SAS
7 3 (0.29%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.19%) Camunda
8 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.097%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.097%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.097%) Maximo
2 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.097%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 539 (52.43%) AWS
2 529 (51.46%) Azure
3 282 (27.43%) GitHub
4 194 (18.87%) Serverless
5 188 (18.29%) GitHub Actions
6 185 (18.00%) GCP
7 181 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
8 170 (16.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 156 (15.18%) Amazon S3
10 134 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (8.95%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (8.27%) Amazon ECS
13 83 (8.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (7.00%) Power Platform
15 65 (6.32%) Entra ID
16 63 (6.13%) Azure AKS
17 60 (5.84%) PaaS
18 58 (5.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 55 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
20 52 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 73 (7.10%) Firewall
2 46 (4.47%) DNS
2 46 (4.47%) Network Security
3 28 (2.72%) VPN
4 24 (2.33%) WAN
5 18 (1.75%) BGP
6 11 (1.07%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
7 10 (0.97%) Internet
7 10 (0.97%) IOS XR
7 10 (0.97%) NX-OS
8 9 (0.88%) OSPF
8 9 (0.88%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.68%) DHCP
9 7 (0.68%) SAN
9 7 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.68%) SSL
9 7 (0.68%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.58%) NAS
11 5 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.84%) Data Lake
2 59 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (4.86%) Power BI
4 44 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.31%) Delta Lake
7 33 (3.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 33 (3.21%) BigQuery
8 31 (3.02%) DynamoDB
8 31 (3.02%) SQL Server
9 30 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (2.72%) MongoDB
11 27 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 21 (2.04%) Redis
14 16 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.56%) OLTP
14 16 (1.56%) Tableau
15 15 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (1.36%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 171 (16.63%) Jenkins
2 141 (13.72%) GitLab
3 138 (13.42%) Git
4 42 (4.09%) JIRA
5 23 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.36%) MLflow
7 11 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.07%) Snyk
8 10 (0.97%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.88%) Terragrunt
10 8 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.78%) JMeter
11 7 (0.68%) JUnit
12 6 (0.58%) Mockito
12 6 (0.58%) Postman
13 5 (0.49%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.39%) git-flow
14 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 196 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 151 (14.69%) Finance
3 137 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 57 (5.54%) Banking
5 40 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.46%) Retail
10 11 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (0.97%) Legal
12 9 (0.88%) Law
12 9 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.58%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.49%) Police
15 4 (0.39%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.39%) Front Office
15 4 (0.39%) Military
15 4 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 205 (19.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 186 (18.09%) Architect
3 150 (14.59%) Senior
4 123 (11.96%) Azure Engineer
5 119 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 99 (9.63%) Lead
7 97 (9.44%) Data Engineer
8 82 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
9 80 (7.78%) Developer
10 70 (6.81%) Platform Engineer
11 47 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 42 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
13 40 (3.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 38 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
15 37 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
16 36 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 35 (3.40%) GCP Engineer
18 34 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
18 34 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 33 (3.21%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (8.07%) Kafka
2 53 (5.16%) Node.js
2 53 (5.16%) PySpark
2 53 (5.16%) React
3 51 (4.96%) REST
4 49 (4.77%) RESTful
5 47 (4.57%) OAuth
6 45 (4.38%) .NET
7 41 (3.99%) ARM Templates
8 38 (3.70%) OpenID
9 36 (3.50%) YAML
10 35 (3.40%) OAuth2
11 33 (3.21%) AngularJS
11 33 (3.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 33 (3.21%) Spring
12 31 (3.02%) Spring Boot
13 26 (2.53%) AWS CDK
14 25 (2.43%) SAML
15 20 (1.95%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (1.85%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 312 (30.35%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.02%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.53%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.33%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.26%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.17%) PKI
13 11 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 10 (0.97%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.78%) Replication
15 8 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (0.68%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.85%) Linux
2 60 (5.84%) Windows
3 19 (1.85%) VMS
4 18 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.36%) Unix
7 10 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.39%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.19%) zOS
10 1 (0.097%) AIX
10 1 (0.097%) Android
10 1 (0.097%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.097%) CentOS
10 1 (0.097%) Debian
10 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.097%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (76.07%) CI/CD
2 644 (62.65%) DevOps
3 281 (27.33%) Containerisation
4 220 (21.40%) Observability
5 207 (20.14%) Agile
6 192 (18.68%) AI
7 190 (18.48%) Platform Engineering
8 157 (15.27%) Analytics
8 157 (15.27%) Migration
9 145 (14.11%) Microservices
10 131 (12.74%) Test Automation
11 116 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (11.28%) Mentoring
12 112 (10.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 111 (10.80%) Data Modelling
14 110 (10.70%) Software Engineering
15 104 (10.12%) Cloud Security
16 96 (9.34%) High Availability
17 90 (8.75%) Data Engineering
17 90 (8.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 430 (41.83%) Python
2 193 (18.77%) SQL
3 133 (12.94%) PowerShell
4 121 (11.77%) Bash
5 104 (10.12%) Java
6 98 (9.53%) Bicep
7 58 (5.64%) C#
8 52 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 49 (4.77%) JavaScript
10 33 (3.21%) Go
11 25 (2.43%) Scala
12 19 (1.85%) Ruby
13 15 (1.46%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.58%) C
14 6 (0.58%) Groovy
15 3 (0.29%) Cypher
15 3 (0.29%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.29%) Rust
15 3 (0.29%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 383 (37.26%) Security Cleared
2 361 (35.12%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 50 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 36 (3.50%) Degree
6 32 (3.11%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.56%) CCNP
12 14 (1.36%) CISSP
13 13 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.78%) CISM
16 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 6 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.58%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.38%) NIST
3 40 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (3.79%) GDPR
5 35 (3.40%) QA
6 28 (2.72%) NCSC
7 21 (2.04%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.26%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.78%) SLA
10 5 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.49%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.39%) COBIT
11 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.29%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.19%) PSD2
13 2 (0.19%) SEPA
14 1 (0.097%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 254 (24.71%) Docker
2 38 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 11 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.39%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.29%) vSphere
9 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.19%) Squid
9 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.097%) Firmware
10 1 (0.097%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 781 (75.97%) Terraform
2 372 (36.19%) Kubernetes
3 151 (14.69%) Ansible
4 101 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 98 (9.53%) Grafana
6 19 (1.85%) Argo
6 19 (1.85%) Puppet
6 19 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.07%) Istio
8 10 (0.97%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.88%) Kibana
10 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (0.78%) Packer
11 7 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.58%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.39%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.39%) Salt
14 3 (0.29%) Rancher
14 3 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 156 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.56%) Databricks
2 88 (8.56%) Google
3 54 (5.25%) Splunk
4 28 (2.72%) Oracle
5 25 (2.43%) VMware
6 20 (1.95%) Cisco
7 17 (1.65%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.65%) OpenAI
8 16 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 15 (1.46%) CyberArk
10 14 (1.36%) Fortinet
11 12 (1.17%) Arista
12 10 (0.97%) Red Hat
13 9 (0.88%) Rapid7
13 9 (0.88%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.88%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.78%) Qualys
14 8 (0.78%) Tenable
15 7 (0.68%) Foundry