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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 80 82
Rank change year-on-year +39 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 782 474 530
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.47% 3.04% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.96% 3.38% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 313 396
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £448 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £713 £738 £825
England median daily rate £530 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.02% -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% -19.46%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £76.53
% change year-on-year +2.04% -19.97% +5.56%

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 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +24 84 £563 -3.64% 42
West London +4 24 £603 +26.84% 10
South London +4 10 £530 - 9
East London +6 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 28 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 19 (2.43%) Confluence
3 17 (2.17%) Apache
4 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.51%) SAS
4 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
5 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
5 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.26%) Traefik
7 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) FileNet
7 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 409 (52.30%) AWS
2 357 (45.65%) Azure
3 202 (25.83%) GitHub
4 145 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
5 138 (17.65%) GCP
6 129 (16.50%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (15.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 115 (14.71%) Serverless
9 103 (13.17%) Amazon S3
10 76 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (7.80%) Amazon ECS
12 57 (7.29%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (6.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 49 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
15 46 (5.88%) Azure AKS
16 44 (5.63%) Entra ID
17 42 (5.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 39 (4.99%) Azure Monitor
19 38 (4.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 35 (4.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (10.23%) Firewall
2 45 (5.75%) VPN
3 42 (5.37%) Network Security
4 37 (4.73%) DNS
5 21 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.79%) SSL
7 13 (1.66%) WAN
8 11 (1.41%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.28%) BGP
10 9 (1.15%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.90%) Multicast
11 7 (0.90%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.90%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.77%) OSPF
13 5 (0.64%) HTTP
14 4 (0.51%) MPLS
14 4 (0.51%) VLAN
15 3 (0.38%) Internet
15 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (6.01%) Data Lake
2 43 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (3.58%) Power BI
5 27 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.32%) DynamoDB
7 20 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (2.43%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (2.30%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.92%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.79%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.66%) Redis
13 11 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 11 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.41%) Metadata
13 11 (1.41%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 138 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 108 (13.81%) GitLab
3 81 (10.36%) Git
4 33 (4.22%) JIRA
5 26 (3.32%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (1.41%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.02%) Maven
8 8 (1.02%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.90%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.90%) Gradle
9 7 (0.90%) Metasploit
9 7 (0.90%) Selenium
9 7 (0.90%) Snyk
10 6 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 5 (0.64%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.64%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.64%) MLflow
12 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.51%) Postman
General
1 185 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.88%) Finance
3 87 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 66 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (7.03%) Banking
6 20 (2.56%) Front Office
7 18 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.66%) Publishing
10 13 (1.66%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.41%) Retail
12 9 (1.15%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.15%) Military
13 8 (1.02%) Marketing
14 7 (0.90%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.77%) Electronics
16 5 (0.64%) Law
16 5 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (18.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (17.90%) Senior
3 85 (10.87%) Developer
4 80 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
5 76 (9.72%) Architect
5 76 (9.72%) AWS Engineer
6 64 (8.18%) Data Engineer
7 62 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 59 (7.54%) Azure Engineer
9 57 (7.29%) Lead
10 47 (6.01%) Security Engineer
11 39 (4.99%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 33 (4.22%) Software Engineer
14 32 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.84%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (3.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 29 (3.71%) Senior Developer
16 29 (3.71%) Site Engineer
17 26 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (10.49%) Kafka
2 54 (6.91%) Node.js
3 37 (4.73%) React
4 34 (4.35%) YAML
5 31 (3.96%) .NET
5 31 (3.96%) RESTful
5 31 (3.96%) Spring
6 28 (3.58%) ARM Templates
7 27 (3.45%) GraphQL
7 27 (3.45%) REST
7 27 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 25 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
9 24 (3.07%) AWS CDK
10 23 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 23 (2.94%) OAuth
11 22 (2.81%) gRPC
12 20 (2.56%) FIX Protocol
12 20 (2.56%) Playwright
13 19 (2.43%) PySpark
14 17 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 180 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.84%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (3.45%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 26 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.92%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.66%) Replication
12 12 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (1.41%) Algorithms
13 11 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.02%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (1.02%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 106 (13.55%) Linux
2 44 (5.63%) Windows
3 20 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.30%) Unix
5 12 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.41%) VMS
7 5 (0.64%) Solaris
8 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.26%) Android
9 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.26%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 577 (73.79%) CI/CD
2 458 (58.57%) DevOps
3 202 (25.83%) Agile
4 198 (25.32%) Containerisation
5 150 (19.18%) Observability
6 137 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (14.96%) Software Engineering
8 113 (14.45%) Platform Engineering
9 99 (12.66%) AI
10 96 (12.28%) Analytics
10 96 (12.28%) Migration
11 94 (12.02%) DevSecOps
11 94 (12.02%) Microservices
12 92 (11.76%) Cloud Security
13 83 (10.61%) Infrastructure Automation
14 78 (9.97%) Machine Learning
14 78 (9.97%) Test Automation
15 75 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
15 75 (9.59%) Mentoring
16 73 (9.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 406 (51.92%) Python
2 145 (18.54%) Bash
3 135 (17.26%) SQL
4 107 (13.68%) Java
5 101 (12.92%) PowerShell
6 65 (8.31%) Go
7 58 (7.42%) TypeScript
8 55 (7.03%) Bicep
9 42 (5.37%) C#
10 40 (5.12%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.28%) Ruby
11 10 (1.28%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.15%) Scala
13 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.77%) PromQL
15 5 (0.64%) C++
15 5 (0.64%) Groovy
16 4 (0.51%) C
17 3 (0.38%) Rust
18 2 (0.26%) Korn
Qualifications
1 179 (22.89%) Security Cleared
2 161 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.14%) AWS Certification
4 41 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 36 (4.60%) Degree
6 23 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.53%) CISSP
10 11 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.28%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.28%) OSCP
12 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.64%) CCSP
13 5 (0.64%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.64%) Tigerscheme
14 4 (0.51%) CCNP
14 4 (0.51%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.16%) GDPR
2 36 (4.60%) NIST
3 33 (4.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (4.09%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.56%) QA
6 13 (1.66%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.15%) NCSC
8 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.02%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.77%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.64%) MiFID
11 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.26%) GRC
12 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 244 (31.20%) Docker
2 34 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.02%) zsh
6 6 (0.77%) Snort
6 6 (0.77%) Squid
7 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.26%) KVM
9 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 589 (75.32%) Terraform
2 284 (36.32%) Kubernetes
3 138 (17.65%) Ansible
4 115 (14.71%) Grafana
5 103 (13.17%) Prometheus
6 21 (2.69%) Argo
6 21 (2.69%) Puppet
7 15 (1.92%) ITRS Geneos
8 14 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.53%) Kibana
10 10 (1.28%) Rancher
11 9 (1.15%) Istio
12 8 (1.02%) Nessus
13 7 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.90%) Nmap
13 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.77%) logstash
15 5 (0.64%) Nexpose
15 5 (0.64%) Suricata
16 4 (0.51%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 122 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.57%) Google
3 63 (8.06%) Databricks
4 37 (4.73%) Splunk
5 25 (3.20%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.81%) Cisco
7 19 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.17%) VMware
9 15 (1.92%) Solace
10 12 (1.53%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.28%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.28%) Oracle
12 10 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.28%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.15%) F5
13 9 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.15%) Qualys
13 9 (1.15%) SAP