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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 67 92
Rank change year-on-year +28 +25 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 896 458 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.66% 3.43% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 3.78% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 307 326
10th Percentile £379 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £677
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £27.50 £71.13
% change year-on-year +172.73% -61.34% +29.33%

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 14,289 12,129 16,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.26% 90.86% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,589 7,891 11,637
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 157 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.63 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.75 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +18.33% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.54 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -18.43% +2.31% -2.92%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +31 116 £550 -2.22% 66
West London +8 35 £603 +26.84% 13
South London 0 22 £530 -3.64% 7
East London +3 3 £562 -3.93% 6
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 39 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (3.13%) Apache
4 17 (1.90%) Confluence
5 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.33%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.33%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.33%) nginx
7 3 (0.33%) Traefik
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 468 (52.23%) AWS
2 438 (48.88%) Azure
3 246 (27.46%) GitHub
4 176 (19.64%) GCP
5 167 (18.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 165 (18.42%) Serverless
7 160 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
8 159 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (15.85%) Amazon S3
10 111 (12.39%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (10.04%) Amazon EKS
12 83 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (7.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 64 (7.14%) Power Platform
15 58 (6.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 52 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (5.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (5.47%) Azure AKS
17 49 (5.47%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (5.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.82%) Firewall
2 43 (4.80%) Network Security
3 39 (4.35%) DNS
4 37 (4.13%) VPN
5 19 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.67%) WAN
7 13 (1.45%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.23%) SSL
9 9 (1.00%) BGP
9 9 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.67%) Multicast
10 6 (0.67%) OSPF
11 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.56%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.45%) DHCP
12 4 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.45%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.45%) VXLAN
13 3 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.81%) Data Lake
2 49 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (5.47%) Power BI
3 46 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (3.24%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.13%) DynamoDB
9 27 (3.01%) BigQuery
10 26 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 25 (2.79%) Redis
12 24 (2.68%) Delta Lake
13 18 (2.01%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.79%) MongoDB
14 16 (1.79%) OLTP
15 15 (1.67%) Mixpanel
15 15 (1.67%) MySQL
16 14 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 161 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 133 (14.84%) GitLab
3 103 (11.50%) Git
4 34 (3.79%) JIRA
5 19 (2.12%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.45%) MLflow
7 7 (0.78%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.78%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.67%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.67%) Maven
9 5 (0.56%) Snyk
9 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.45%) Gradle
10 4 (0.45%) Postman
10 4 (0.45%) RStudio
10 4 (0.45%) Selenium
10 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.33%) git-flow
General
1 193 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 137 (15.29%) Finance
3 111 (12.39%) Public Sector
4 50 (5.58%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (5.02%) Banking
6 35 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.90%) Retail
9 12 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.00%) Front Office
10 9 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.78%) Marketing
12 6 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.67%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.56%) Military
13 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.45%) Electronics
14 4 (0.45%) Legal
14 4 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 176 (19.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (15.63%) Senior
3 109 (12.17%) Architect
4 96 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 94 (10.49%) Azure Engineer
6 93 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 82 (9.15%) Developer
8 76 (8.48%) Lead
9 73 (8.15%) AWS Engineer
10 67 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
11 42 (4.69%) Security Engineer
12 38 (4.24%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (4.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 34 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
13 34 (3.79%) Software Engineer
14 33 (3.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.35%) Site Engineer
16 29 (3.24%) Cloud Architect
17 28 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 26 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (10.16%) Kafka
2 70 (7.81%) Node.js
3 48 (5.36%) React
4 46 (5.13%) PySpark
5 43 (4.80%) OAuth
6 41 (4.58%) .NET
7 39 (4.35%) ARM Templates
8 37 (4.13%) YAML
9 35 (3.91%) REST
10 33 (3.68%) OpenTelemetry
10 33 (3.68%) RESTful
10 33 (3.68%) Spring
11 30 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 29 (3.24%) OpenID
12 29 (3.24%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.13%) AWS CDK
13 28 (3.13%) Playwright
14 24 (2.68%) GraphQL
15 22 (2.46%) SAML
16 20 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 244 (27.23%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.92%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 24 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 21 (2.34%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.23%) Product Ownership
9 15 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.12%) Replication
12 8 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.78%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
14 6 (0.67%) Fixed Income
14 6 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.71%) Linux
2 42 (4.69%) Windows
3 23 (2.57%) VMS
4 19 (2.12%) Unix
5 9 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.45%) Solaris
8 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
9 2 (0.22%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Android
10 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (75.33%) CI/CD
2 550 (61.38%) DevOps
3 232 (25.89%) Containerisation
4 199 (22.21%) Agile
5 198 (22.10%) Observability
6 157 (17.52%) Analytics
7 153 (17.08%) AI
8 127 (14.17%) Migration
9 125 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
10 116 (12.95%) Microservices
11 108 (12.05%) Software Engineering
12 105 (11.72%) Problem-Solving
13 104 (11.61%) Test Automation
14 101 (11.27%) Cloud Security
14 101 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 99 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 99 (11.05%) Data Modelling
16 98 (10.94%) Data Engineering
17 88 (9.82%) DevSecOps
17 88 (9.82%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 418 (46.65%) Python
2 181 (20.20%) SQL
3 123 (13.73%) Bash
4 100 (11.16%) Java
5 89 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 66 (7.37%) Bicep
7 62 (6.92%) TypeScript
8 44 (4.91%) JavaScript
9 43 (4.80%) C#
10 42 (4.69%) Go
11 19 (2.12%) Scala
12 13 (1.45%) Ruby
13 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.67%) C
15 5 (0.56%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) Groovy
17 3 (0.33%) Cypher
17 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 279 (31.14%) Security Cleared
2 263 (29.35%) SC Cleared
3 62 (6.92%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.81%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.13%) Degree
6 28 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.45%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.34%) CISSP
12 10 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.78%) OSCP
14 6 (0.67%) CCNP
14 6 (0.67%) CCSP
14 6 (0.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.25%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.14%) GDPR
3 48 (5.36%) NIST
4 32 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 32 (3.57%) QA
5 22 (2.46%) NCSC
6 16 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.34%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.56%) SLA
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
12 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) SEPA
13 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 262 (29.24%) Docker
2 35 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 34 (3.79%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.45%) Squid
5 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.45%) vSphere
5 4 (0.45%) zsh
6 3 (0.33%) Snort
7 1 (0.11%) etcd
7 1 (0.11%) Firmware
7 1 (0.11%) GPFS
7 1 (0.11%) HDFS
7 1 (0.11%) Lustre
7 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 679 (75.78%) Terraform
2 316 (35.27%) Kubernetes
3 141 (15.74%) Ansible
4 97 (10.83%) Grafana
5 90 (10.04%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.01%) Argo
7 19 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.67%) Puppet
9 14 (1.56%) Istio
10 11 (1.23%) Kibana
11 10 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (1.00%) Rancher
13 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.67%) Nessus
15 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 138 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.93%) Databricks
3 82 (9.15%) Google
4 46 (5.13%) Splunk
5 20 (2.23%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.12%) VMware
7 18 (2.01%) Palo Alto
8 14 (1.56%) Cisco
9 13 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.45%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.23%) Oracle
11 10 (1.12%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.12%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.12%) Qualys
11 10 (1.12%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.00%) Solace
13 8 (0.89%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.89%) IBM
13 8 (0.89%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.78%) Dell