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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +41 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 847 450 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.74% 3.26% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 3.60% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 296 344
10th Percentile £375 £407 £425
25th Percentile £447 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.95%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £676
90th Percentile £738 £736 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £27.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +180.00% -63.70% +33.51%

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 13,441 12,496 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.45% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,906 7,945 11,669
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 155 323
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +16.67% -20.00%
75th Percentile £56.13 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.50 £72.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 28 January 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
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 28 January 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 +27 100 £550 - 77
West London +7 34 £603 +26.84% 20
South London +4 16 £530 -22.63% 30
East London +1 2 £675 +15.38% 20
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 31 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.60%) Apache
4 19 (2.24%) Confluence
5 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.47%) SAS
7 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Actimize
1 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) Summit
1 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 430 (50.77%) AWS
2 402 (47.46%) Azure
3 234 (27.63%) GitHub
4 162 (19.13%) GCP
5 160 (18.89%) GitHub Actions
6 151 (17.83%) AWS CloudFormation
7 150 (17.71%) Serverless
8 148 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
9 132 (15.58%) Amazon S3
10 105 (12.40%) AWS Lambda
11 82 (9.68%) Amazon EKS
12 76 (8.97%) Amazon ECS
13 70 (8.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 58 (6.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 56 (6.61%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (6.14%) Power Platform
17 51 (6.02%) Entra ID
18 47 (5.55%) Azure AKS
19 46 (5.43%) PaaS
20 41 (4.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.45%) Firewall
2 44 (5.19%) Network Security
3 43 (5.08%) VPN
4 36 (4.25%) DNS
5 17 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.65%) SSL
6 14 (1.65%) WAN
7 12 (1.42%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.83%) BGP
8 7 (0.83%) Multicast
9 6 (0.71%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.59%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
11 4 (0.47%) SAN
11 4 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.47%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) DHCP
12 3 (0.35%) LAN
12 3 (0.35%) NAS
12 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.61%) Data Lake
2 51 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (4.84%) Power BI
5 33 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
6 32 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (3.31%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.19%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.60%) NoSQL
9 22 (2.60%) Redis
10 21 (2.48%) BigQuery
11 20 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.77%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.77%) MySQL
13 13 (1.53%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (1.42%) Mixpanel
14 12 (1.42%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 166 (19.60%) Jenkins
2 123 (14.52%) GitLab
3 87 (10.27%) Git
4 34 (4.01%) JIRA
5 20 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.89%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.94%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.83%) MLflow
9 7 (0.83%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.59%) Gradle
10 5 (0.59%) Maven
10 5 (0.59%) Selenium
11 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.47%) Postman
11 4 (0.47%) RStudio
12 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.35%) Snyk
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (22.43%) Social Skills
2 137 (16.17%) Finance
3 92 (10.86%) Public Sector
4 53 (6.26%) Banking
5 50 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.89%) Retail
9 14 (1.65%) Front Office
10 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.18%) Marketing
13 9 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.94%) Publishing
14 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.83%) Military
16 6 (0.71%) Electronics
17 5 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 182 (21.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 127 (14.99%) Senior
3 99 (11.69%) Architect
4 85 (10.04%) Developer
5 83 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
6 77 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 74 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (8.50%) Platform Engineer
10 54 (6.38%) Lead
11 44 (5.19%) Security Engineer
12 40 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
13 39 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.13%) GCP Engineer
14 35 (4.13%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
16 30 (3.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.54%) Site Engineer
17 27 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.51%) Kafka
2 63 (7.44%) Node.js
3 43 (5.08%) React
4 39 (4.60%) ARM Templates
4 39 (4.60%) YAML
5 36 (4.25%) .NET
5 36 (4.25%) Spring
6 34 (4.01%) OAuth
6 34 (4.01%) REST
7 32 (3.78%) AngularJS
7 32 (3.78%) Spring Boot
8 31 (3.66%) PySpark
8 31 (3.66%) RESTful
9 28 (3.31%) AWS CDK
10 26 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
11 25 (2.95%) OpenID
12 24 (2.83%) GraphQL
13 23 (2.72%) Playwright
14 22 (2.60%) SAML
15 21 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 226 (26.68%) Cloud Native
2 59 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 30 (3.54%) Public Cloud
4 25 (2.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.60%) Security Posture
6 21 (2.48%) Data Centre
7 19 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.53%) Replication
9 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.30%) AI Agents
10 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (12.51%) Linux
2 48 (5.67%) Windows
3 23 (2.72%) VMS
4 18 (2.13%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.01%) Unix
6 11 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Solaris
8 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 632 (74.62%) CI/CD
2 528 (62.34%) DevOps
3 214 (25.27%) Containerisation
4 195 (23.02%) Agile
5 180 (21.25%) Observability
6 133 (15.70%) AI
7 124 (14.64%) Analytics
8 123 (14.52%) Migration
9 118 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (13.81%) Platform Engineering
10 117 (13.81%) Software Engineering
11 107 (12.63%) Microservices
12 101 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 96 (11.33%) Cloud Security
14 92 (10.86%) DevSecOps
15 84 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 84 (9.92%) Infrastructure Automation
16 82 (9.68%) Test Automation
17 76 (8.97%) ETL
18 75 (8.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 395 (46.64%) Python
2 153 (18.06%) SQL
3 124 (14.64%) Bash
4 96 (11.33%) Java
5 94 (11.10%) PowerShell
6 62 (7.32%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.85%) Bicep
8 43 (5.08%) Go
9 42 (4.96%) C#
10 40 (4.72%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.53%) Scala
12 12 (1.42%) Ruby
13 9 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.59%) C++
15 5 (0.59%) Groovy
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) C
17 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (28.93%) Security Cleared
2 230 (27.15%) SC Cleared
3 60 (7.08%) AWS Certification
4 57 (6.73%) Azure Certification
5 39 (4.60%) Degree
6 27 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.42%) CISSP
12 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.06%) MCP
14 8 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.83%) CCSP
15 7 (0.83%) OSCP
16 6 (0.71%) SANS
17 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.85%) GDPR
2 48 (5.67%) NIST
3 45 (5.31%) Data Quality
4 38 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.66%) QA
6 21 (2.48%) NCSC
7 15 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.53%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.47%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.24%) MiFID
13 2 (0.24%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 252 (29.75%) Docker
2 39 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.42%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.71%) Squid
5 6 (0.71%) zsh
6 5 (0.59%) Snort
7 4 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.24%) KVM
9 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.12%) GPFS
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 632 (74.62%) Terraform
2 306 (36.13%) Kubernetes
3 145 (17.12%) Ansible
4 95 (11.22%) Grafana
5 89 (10.51%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.07%) Argo
7 19 (2.24%) Puppet
8 15 (1.77%) Istio
8 15 (1.77%) Kibana
8 15 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 11 (1.30%) Rancher
11 10 (1.18%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.83%) Nessus
13 5 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.59%) logstash
14 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.47%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 138 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.15%) Google
3 73 (8.62%) Databricks
4 47 (5.55%) Splunk
5 20 (2.36%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.24%) Palo Alto
7 18 (2.13%) VMware
8 16 (1.89%) Cisco
9 14 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.65%) Solace
10 11 (1.30%) Oracle
10 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.18%) F5
11 10 (1.18%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.18%) Qualys
11 10 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.06%) CheckPoint
12 9 (1.06%) TIBCO
13 8 (0.94%) SAP