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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 53 96
Rank change year-on-year +16 +43 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,133 647 423
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.63% 4.75% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 5.15% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 435 288
10th Percentile £413 £394 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £660
90th Percentile £738 £750 £766
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.60 £68.44
% change year-on-year -0.85% +3.16% -12.26%

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 17,923 12,563 14,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.23% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,414 10,214
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% -1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 196
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.97
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.62 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -16.31% -14.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +16 140 £575 -8.00% 88
South London 0 19 £520 +5.05% 8
West London -11 14 £675 +36.36% 16
East London +6 7 £588 - 12
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 54 (4.77%) Confluence
2 41 (3.62%) Apache Spark
3 37 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.56%) Apache
5 14 (1.24%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.44%) nginx
9 4 (0.35%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
12 1 (0.088%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.088%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.088%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.088%) Maximo
2 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.088%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 597 (52.69%) AWS
2 584 (51.54%) Azure
3 302 (26.65%) GitHub
4 218 (19.24%) GitHub Actions
5 214 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
6 203 (17.92%) GCP
7 193 (17.03%) Serverless
8 159 (14.03%) Amazon S3
9 145 (12.80%) AWS CloudFormation
10 130 (11.47%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (7.59%) Entra ID
13 84 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 79 (6.97%) Azure AKS
15 75 (6.62%) Amazon ECS
16 67 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
17 61 (5.38%) Power Platform
18 59 (5.21%) Azure Monitor
19 58 (5.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 54 (4.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.24%) Firewall
2 55 (4.85%) DNS
3 47 (4.15%) Network Security
4 44 (3.88%) VPN
5 28 (2.47%) WAN
6 18 (1.59%) BGP
7 16 (1.41%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.24%) Internet
8 14 (1.24%) SSL
9 13 (1.15%) DHCP
10 10 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.88%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.88%) NX-OS
11 9 (0.79%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.71%) OSPF
12 8 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.62%) HTTP
14 6 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.53%) VLAN
15 5 (0.44%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
2 49 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (4.32%) Power BI
3 43 (3.80%) Data Lake
4 40 (3.53%) Amazon RDS
5 36 (3.18%) Delta Lake
6 34 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 31 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (2.74%) DynamoDB
8 29 (2.56%) BigQuery
9 27 (2.38%) SQL Server
10 23 (2.03%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.94%) Redis
12 21 (1.85%) Metadata
13 20 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.24%) Big Data
15 13 (1.15%) Relational Database
15 13 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 12 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 177 (15.62%) Jenkins
2 170 (15.00%) GitLab
3 166 (14.65%) Git
4 65 (5.74%) JIRA
5 15 (1.32%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.24%) MLflow
6 14 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.15%) Snyk
8 10 (0.88%) JUnit
9 9 (0.79%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 8 (0.71%) JMeter
10 8 (0.71%) Mockito
10 8 (0.71%) Terragrunt
11 6 (0.53%) Postman
12 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.44%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 225 (19.86%) Social Skills
2 190 (16.77%) Finance
3 164 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 67 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.74%) Banking
6 30 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.41%) Retail
10 12 (1.06%) Law
10 12 (1.06%) Legal
11 10 (0.88%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.79%) Local Government
12 9 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.53%) Front Office
14 6 (0.53%) Police
15 5 (0.44%) Back Office
15 5 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 246 (21.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 185 (16.33%) Architect
3 178 (15.71%) Senior
4 130 (11.47%) Lead
5 126 (11.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 125 (11.03%) Azure Engineer
7 97 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
8 94 (8.30%) AWS Engineer
9 90 (7.94%) Data Engineer
10 79 (6.97%) Developer
11 66 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 52 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 47 (4.15%) AWS DevOps
14 46 (4.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 46 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 46 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 40 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
17 35 (3.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.15%) Kafka
2 77 (6.80%) REST
3 55 (4.85%) PySpark
3 55 (4.85%) RESTful
4 50 (4.41%) Node.js
5 42 (3.71%) React
6 39 (3.44%) .NET
6 39 (3.44%) OAuth
7 38 (3.35%) ARM Templates
8 33 (2.91%) OAuth2
8 33 (2.91%) YAML
9 32 (2.82%) Spring
10 29 (2.56%) Spring Boot
11 26 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 24 (2.12%) OpenID
13 20 (1.77%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (1.77%) FastAPI
13 20 (1.77%) JSON
13 20 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
14 18 (1.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 325 (28.68%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (3.97%) Onboarding
4 41 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (3.00%) Security Posture
6 33 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 26 (2.29%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
8 24 (2.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 23 (2.03%) Public Cloud
10 21 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.68%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.68%) PKI
12 16 (1.41%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.15%) Private Cloud
14 12 (1.06%) NHS
14 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 12 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 110 (9.71%) Linux
2 74 (6.53%) Windows
3 26 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.59%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.24%) Unix
7 11 (0.97%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.79%) VMS
9 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Android
12 2 (0.18%) CentOS
13 1 (0.088%) AIX
13 1 (0.088%) Debian
13 1 (0.088%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (75.29%) CI/CD
2 705 (62.22%) DevOps
3 324 (28.60%) Containerisation
4 276 (24.36%) Agile
5 257 (22.68%) Platform Engineering
6 250 (22.07%) Observability
7 216 (19.06%) AI
8 168 (14.83%) Test Automation
9 154 (13.59%) Software Engineering
10 152 (13.42%) Migration
11 144 (12.71%) Microservices
12 140 (12.36%) Analytics
13 135 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (11.03%) Cloud Security
15 124 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 123 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
17 120 (10.59%) Mentoring
18 119 (10.50%) Event-Driven
19 118 (10.41%) Stakeholder Management
20 115 (10.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 494 (43.60%) Python
2 180 (15.89%) SQL
3 176 (15.53%) Bash
4 167 (14.74%) PowerShell
5 126 (11.12%) Java
6 125 (11.03%) Bicep
7 65 (5.74%) C#
8 63 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 59 (5.21%) JavaScript
10 40 (3.53%) Go
11 20 (1.77%) Scala
12 19 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.41%) Ruby
14 10 (0.88%) Groovy
15 6 (0.53%) C
16 5 (0.44%) Korn
16 5 (0.44%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) C++
17 4 (0.35%) Cypher
17 4 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 413 (36.45%) Security Cleared
2 385 (33.98%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.59%) Azure Certification
4 53 (4.68%) DV Cleared
5 52 (4.59%) AWS Certification
6 40 (3.53%) Degree
7 24 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 21 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.77%) CCNP
10 18 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.41%) CISSP
12 10 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.79%) CISM
14 8 (0.71%) GIAC
14 8 (0.71%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
16 6 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (6.44%) Data Quality
2 41 (3.62%) QA
3 36 (3.18%) GDPR
4 32 (2.82%) NIST
5 29 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.85%) NCSC
7 20 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.24%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.71%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.35%) COBIT
11 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.35%) SLA
12 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.18%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.088%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.088%) PMO
System Software
1 301 (26.57%) Docker
2 46 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.79%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.62%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.53%) vSphere
9 5 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.088%) NFS
12 1 (0.088%) Samba
12 1 (0.088%) Squid
12 1 (0.088%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 870 (76.79%) Terraform
2 448 (39.54%) Kubernetes
3 171 (15.09%) Ansible
4 127 (11.21%) Grafana
5 117 (10.33%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.38%) Puppet
7 25 (2.21%) Argo
8 16 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 15 (1.32%) Packer
10 11 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.97%) Kubeflow
11 10 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.71%) systemd
13 7 (0.62%) Control-M
14 6 (0.53%) Kibana
14 6 (0.53%) SCCM
14 6 (0.53%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.44%) Istio
15 5 (0.44%) Salt
Vendors
1 192 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.86%) Google
3 85 (7.50%) Databricks
4 60 (5.30%) Splunk
5 40 (3.53%) Oracle
6 37 (3.27%) VMware
7 27 (2.38%) Cisco
8 23 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.59%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.24%) Okta
12 13 (1.15%) Arista
12 13 (1.15%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.06%) Foundry
14 11 (0.97%) Informatica
14 11 (0.97%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.88%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.79%) AppDynamics
17 8 (0.71%) New Relic