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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 +32
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 684 456 601
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.08% 2.80% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 3.13% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 297 452
10th Percentile £394 £413 £450
25th Percentile £450 £500 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -5.26%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £755 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £53.95 - £23.98
25th Percentile £55.38 - £47.94
Median hourly rate £59.25 £55.00 £76.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -27.87% +2.35%
75th Percentile £61.63 - £90.00
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.19 £78.00
% change year-on-year +0.50% -20.27% +2.63%

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 12,460 14,546 19,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.52% 89.21% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,243 9,682 14,351
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 179 228
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £37.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -7.28% +4.86%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.66%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +10 75 £625 +11.11% 59
West London -2 10 £425 -10.53% 7
East London +11 4 - - 3
South London -4 1 £620 +65.33% 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (1.90%) Confluence
3 10 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.32%) Apache
5 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.73%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.58%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.44%) SAS
7 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.29%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.29%) Traefik
9 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.15%) IIS
9 1 (0.15%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.15%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.58%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.44%) Endur
2 3 (0.44%) Shopify
3 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 363 (53.07%) AWS
2 335 (48.98%) Azure
3 171 (25.00%) GitHub
4 134 (19.59%) GCP
5 120 (17.54%) GitHub Actions
6 114 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 93 (13.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 89 (13.01%) Serverless
9 60 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 53 (7.75%) Entra ID
11 46 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (5.99%) Azure AKS
13 38 (5.56%) PaaS
14 37 (5.41%) SaaS
15 36 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
16 35 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (4.97%) Amazon EKS
18 33 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (4.82%) Amazon ECS
19 31 (4.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (11.11%) Firewall
2 48 (7.02%) DNS
3 46 (6.73%) VPN
4 38 (5.56%) Network Security
5 24 (3.51%) TCP/IP
6 19 (2.78%) SSL
7 14 (2.05%) HTTP
8 8 (1.17%) BGP
8 8 (1.17%) Internet
9 7 (1.02%) NGFW
10 6 (0.88%) OSPF
10 6 (0.88%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.73%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.73%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.58%) VLAN
12 4 (0.58%) WAN
13 3 (0.44%) DHCP
13 3 (0.44%) FTP
13 3 (0.44%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (4.68%) Data Lake
1 32 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (3.51%) DynamoDB
4 22 (3.22%) SQL Server
5 21 (3.07%) Power BI
6 19 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (2.19%) BigQuery
8 15 (2.19%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.75%) Big Data
9 12 (1.75%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.46%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.32%) Metadata
12 9 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 6 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 108 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 89 (13.01%) GitLab
3 68 (9.94%) Git
4 39 (5.70%) SonarQube
5 27 (3.95%) JIRA
6 16 (2.34%) Burp Suite
6 16 (2.34%) CircleCI
6 16 (2.34%) Metasploit
7 15 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.46%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.32%) Maven
9 9 (1.32%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.17%) Gradle
11 7 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (1.02%) Snyk
12 6 (0.88%) Selenium
13 5 (0.73%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.44%) Bitbucket
14 3 (0.44%) MLflow
14 3 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 158 (23.10%) Social Skills
2 115 (16.81%) Finance
3 65 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (9.50%) Public Sector
4 56 (8.19%) Banking
5 15 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (2.19%) Investment Banking
6 14 (2.05%) Marketing
7 13 (1.90%) Publishing
7 13 (1.90%) Retail
7 13 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.75%) Front Office
9 10 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.32%) Law
10 9 (1.32%) Military
10 9 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.73%) Legal
12 5 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 132 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 119 (17.40%) Senior
3 78 (11.40%) Architect
4 74 (10.82%) Azure Engineer
5 70 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
5 70 (10.23%) Platform Engineer
6 69 (10.09%) Developer
7 58 (8.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (7.75%) Data Engineer
9 40 (5.85%) Security Engineer
10 38 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
11 37 (5.41%) Lead
12 31 (4.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.95%) Software Engineer
15 26 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
15 26 (3.80%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (6.43%) Kafka
2 41 (5.99%) ARM Templates
3 35 (5.12%) .NET
4 32 (4.68%) React
4 32 (4.68%) RESTful
4 32 (4.68%) YAML
5 30 (4.39%) Node.js
6 29 (4.24%) REST
7 24 (3.51%) AWS CDK
7 24 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (3.07%) GraphQL
8 21 (3.07%) Spring
9 20 (2.92%) Spring Boot
10 17 (2.49%) ADO
11 16 (2.34%) JSON
11 16 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (2.19%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.19%) FIX Protocol
12 15 (2.19%) Middleware
13 14 (2.05%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 156 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 56 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (4.39%) Public Cloud
4 23 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 22 (3.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.34%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 15 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.61%) Onboarding
12 10 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.17%) Private Cloud
14 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (1.02%) Anti-Spyware
14 7 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 105 (15.35%) Linux
2 34 (4.97%) Windows
3 21 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.49%) Unix
5 13 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.02%) VMS
7 6 (0.88%) Solaris
8 3 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.29%) CentOS
9 2 (0.29%) SUSE
10 1 (0.15%) Android
10 1 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Debian
10 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 407 (59.50%) DevOps
3 182 (26.61%) Agile
4 168 (24.56%) Containerisation
5 136 (19.88%) Problem-Solving
6 104 (15.20%) Migration
7 102 (14.91%) Observability
8 94 (13.74%) DevSecOps
9 91 (13.30%) Microservices
9 91 (13.30%) Platform Engineering
10 90 (13.16%) Cloud Security
11 87 (12.72%) Infrastructure Automation
12 82 (11.99%) Software Engineering
13 69 (10.09%) Analytics
14 68 (9.94%) Artificial Intelligence
15 67 (9.80%) Mentoring
16 65 (9.50%) Test Automation
17 63 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
18 56 (8.19%) Event-Driven
19 54 (7.89%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 341 (49.85%) Python
2 136 (19.88%) Bash
3 114 (16.67%) SQL
4 106 (15.50%) PowerShell
5 83 (12.13%) Java
6 65 (9.50%) Bicep
7 59 (8.63%) Go
8 48 (7.02%) C#
9 45 (6.58%) TypeScript
10 44 (6.43%) JavaScript
11 14 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.32%) Groovy
13 8 (1.17%) PromQL
14 7 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.73%) Scala
17 3 (0.44%) C++
17 3 (0.44%) RPG
17 3 (0.44%) Ruby
18 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 149 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 134 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 35 (5.12%) Azure Certification
4 32 (4.68%) AWS Certification
5 28 (4.09%) Degree
6 18 (2.63%) OSCP
7 15 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 15 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (2.05%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.90%) Tigerscheme
10 10 (1.46%) CHECK Team Member
11 9 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.17%) DV Cleared
13 7 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (1.02%) CISSP
13 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.73%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
15 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
15 4 (0.58%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (6.29%) GDPR
2 36 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 31 (4.53%) NIST
5 14 (2.05%) QA
6 13 (1.90%) SOC 2
7 12 (1.75%) NCSC
8 11 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.32%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 5 (0.73%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.58%) MiFID
13 3 (0.44%) EU AI Act
14 2 (0.29%) SLA
15 1 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
15 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.15%) GRC
15 1 (0.15%) GxP
15 1 (0.15%) HL7
System Software
1 208 (30.41%) Docker
2 42 (6.14%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.32%) zsh
5 5 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.58%) Snort
6 4 (0.58%) Squid
7 3 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.29%) KVM
8 2 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.15%) Ceph
9 1 (0.15%) etcd
9 1 (0.15%) iptables
9 1 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 502 (73.39%) Terraform
2 283 (41.37%) Kubernetes
3 125 (18.27%) Ansible
4 85 (12.43%) Grafana
5 82 (11.99%) Prometheus
6 28 (4.09%) Puppet
7 23 (3.36%) Progress Chef
8 21 (3.07%) Argo
9 16 (2.34%) Nmap
10 14 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (1.61%) Rancher
12 10 (1.46%) Kibana
13 8 (1.17%) Nessus
14 7 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
14 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.88%) Istio
16 5 (0.73%) logstash
17 4 (0.58%) Podman
18 3 (0.44%) HP Fortify
18 3 (0.44%) Suricata
Vendors
1 101 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.33%) Google
3 41 (5.99%) Databricks
4 25 (3.65%) Palo Alto
5 22 (3.22%) Splunk
6 19 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.19%) Cisco
8 14 (2.05%) Veracode
9 13 (1.90%) CheckPoint
9 13 (1.90%) Oracle
9 13 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.75%) Solace
11 11 (1.61%) SAP
12 10 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.32%) VMware
14 8 (1.17%) F5
15 7 (1.02%) Infoblox
15 7 (1.02%) Qualys
15 7 (1.02%) Zscaler