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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 50 93
Rank change year-on-year +15 +43 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,237 680 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.08% 5.04% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 5.44% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 458 294
10th Percentile £417 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £62.19
% change year-on-year +13.60% +0.50% -20.27%

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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +24 144 £575 -8.00% 76
South London +25 33 £535 - 10
West London -18 11 £725 +70.59% 27
East London +6 8 £600 - 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 57 (4.61%) Confluence
2 48 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 44 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.51%) Apache
5 18 (1.46%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.37%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.57%) CMS
7 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.57%) nginx
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.081%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.081%) Camunda
12 1 (0.081%) IIS
12 1 (0.081%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.081%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.081%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 658 (53.19%) AWS
2 630 (50.93%) Azure
3 332 (26.84%) GitHub
4 242 (19.56%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (17.95%) GCP
6 219 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
7 214 (17.30%) Serverless
8 172 (13.90%) Amazon S3
9 147 (11.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 147 (11.88%) AWS Lambda
10 127 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
11 113 (9.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 101 (8.16%) Entra ID
13 89 (7.19%) Amazon EC2
14 82 (6.63%) Azure AKS
15 76 (6.14%) Amazon ECS
16 75 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 66 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
18 61 (4.93%) dbt
18 61 (4.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.63%) Firewall
2 57 (4.61%) DNS
3 47 (3.80%) Network Security
4 45 (3.64%) VPN
5 25 (2.02%) WAN
6 20 (1.62%) BGP
7 14 (1.13%) Internet
8 13 (1.05%) DHCP
8 13 (1.05%) SSL
8 13 (1.05%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.81%) HTTP
9 10 (0.81%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.73%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.65%) SSH
12 7 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (0.57%) VLAN
13 6 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.49%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.49%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.88%) Power BI
4 45 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 41 (3.31%) SQL Server
7 38 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.83%) Data Lake
9 34 (2.75%) Delta Lake
10 33 (2.67%) DynamoDB
11 32 (2.59%) Metadata
11 32 (2.59%) Redis
12 30 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.34%) MySQL
13 29 (2.34%) NoSQL
14 28 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
14 28 (2.26%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.37%) Big Data
16 13 (1.05%) Spark SQL
17 12 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 195 (15.76%) Jenkins
2 190 (15.36%) GitLab
3 183 (14.79%) Git
4 66 (5.34%) JIRA
5 19 (1.54%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.21%) Snyk
8 12 (0.97%) Terragrunt
9 11 (0.89%) JUnit
10 9 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.73%) JMeter
10 9 (0.73%) MLflow
10 9 (0.73%) Selenium
11 8 (0.65%) Mockito
11 8 (0.65%) Postman
12 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.49%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 284 (22.96%) Social Skills
2 216 (17.46%) Finance
3 176 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 88 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (5.66%) Banking
6 31 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (1.70%) Retail
9 15 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.97%) Law
10 12 (0.97%) Local Government
11 11 (0.89%) Legal
11 11 (0.89%) Military
12 10 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (0.81%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.73%) Front Office
13 9 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.57%) Back Office
14 7 (0.57%) Police
15 6 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 275 (22.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 200 (16.17%) Senior
3 194 (15.68%) Architect
4 133 (10.75%) Lead
5 123 (9.94%) Azure Engineer
6 115 (9.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 108 (8.73%) AWS Engineer
7 108 (8.73%) Platform Engineer
8 96 (7.76%) Data Engineer
9 87 (7.03%) Developer
10 69 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 59 (4.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 54 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
13 51 (4.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 50 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 50 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
14 50 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 49 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (3.15%) GCP Engineer
17 35 (2.83%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 934 (75.51%) Terraform
2 106 (8.57%) Kafka
3 86 (6.95%) REST
4 62 (5.01%) PySpark
5 60 (4.85%) RESTful
6 46 (3.72%) React
7 41 (3.31%) .NET
7 41 (3.31%) ARM Templates
8 39 (3.15%) OAuth
9 38 (3.07%) Node.js
10 37 (2.99%) Spring
11 35 (2.83%) FastAPI
11 35 (2.83%) Spring Boot
11 35 (2.83%) YAML
12 33 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.26%) OpenID
14 26 (2.10%) AngularJS
15 25 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
16 24 (1.94%) Django
17 22 (1.78%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 340 (27.49%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 54 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 48 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (3.40%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 29 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 29 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (2.34%) Replication
9 25 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.02%) Public Cloud
10 23 (1.86%) PKI
11 17 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.37%) NHS
11 17 (1.37%) Private Cloud
11 17 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 133 (10.75%) Linux
2 86 (6.95%) Windows
3 31 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.29%) Unix
7 15 (1.21%) VMS
8 14 (1.13%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Android
14 1 (0.081%) AIX
14 1 (0.081%) Debian
14 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (75.34%) CI/CD
2 750 (60.63%) DevOps
3 336 (27.16%) Containerisation
4 315 (25.46%) Observability
5 303 (24.49%) Agile
6 286 (23.12%) Platform Engineering
7 259 (20.94%) AI
8 184 (14.87%) Software Engineering
9 179 (14.47%) Test Automation
10 175 (14.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 167 (13.50%) Migration
12 160 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
13 159 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
14 154 (12.45%) Microservices
15 149 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
16 141 (11.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 135 (10.91%) Event-Driven
18 134 (10.83%) Analytics
19 131 (10.59%) Cloud Security
20 124 (10.02%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 546 (44.14%) Python
2 198 (16.01%) SQL
3 195 (15.76%) PowerShell
4 190 (15.36%) Bash
5 141 (11.40%) Java
6 138 (11.16%) Bicep
7 70 (5.66%) C#
8 67 (5.42%) JavaScript
9 60 (4.85%) TypeScript
10 43 (3.48%) Go
11 22 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.46%) Scala
13 16 (1.29%) Groovy
13 16 (1.29%) Ruby
14 7 (0.57%) Korn
15 6 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.49%) Perl
16 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.32%) C++
17 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 447 (36.14%) Security Cleared
2 406 (32.82%) SC Cleared
3 93 (7.52%) Azure Certification
4 77 (6.22%) AWS Certification
5 60 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.20%) Degree
7 31 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (2.18%) CISSP
10 24 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (1.46%) CCNP
12 18 (1.46%) CISM
13 13 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.97%) GIAC
15 9 (0.73%) DBS Check
15 9 (0.73%) Master's Degree
16 8 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.04%) QA
3 37 (2.99%) NIST
4 34 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.59%) GDPR
6 18 (1.46%) NCSC
7 16 (1.29%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.89%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.40%) COBIT
10 5 (0.40%) SLA
11 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.32%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.081%) PMO
System Software
1 333 (26.92%) Docker
2 54 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.73%) vSphere
7 7 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.16%) Postfix
11 1 (0.081%) IAG
11 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.081%) NFS
11 1 (0.081%) Samba
11 1 (0.081%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 492 (39.77%) Kubernetes
2 196 (15.84%) Ansible
3 146 (11.80%) Grafana
4 128 (10.35%) Prometheus
5 29 (2.34%) Puppet
6 27 (2.18%) Argo
7 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.21%) Kubeflow
8 15 (1.21%) Packer
9 13 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.73%) Kibana
12 8 (0.65%) Control-M
12 8 (0.65%) SCCM
12 8 (0.65%) systemd
12 8 (0.65%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.49%) Istio
14 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 243 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 97 (7.84%) Databricks
3 92 (7.44%) Google
4 73 (5.90%) Splunk
5 54 (4.37%) Oracle
6 49 (3.96%) VMware
7 37 (2.99%) Cisco
8 31 (2.51%) Dynatrace
9 27 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.10%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.37%) Okta
13 15 (1.21%) Arista
13 15 (1.21%) Foundry
14 14 (1.13%) Informatica
14 14 (1.13%) Zscaler
15 11 (0.89%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.73%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.65%) New Relic