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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 76 88
Rank change year-on-year +37 +12 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 834 452 466
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.74% 3.28% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 3.62% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 296 351
10th Percentile £375 £407 £425
25th Percentile £438 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £677
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 13,214 12,475 16,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.00% 90.45% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,766 7,927 11,738
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 £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 320
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.24
25th Percentile £24.89 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.20 £79.50 £72.84
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

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 26 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 26 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 +30 99 £550 - 80
West London +10 33 £603 +26.84% 24
South London +5 15 £530 -22.63% 24
East London -1 2 £675 +15.38% 19
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 29 (3.48%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.40%) Apache
4 19 (2.28%) Confluence
5 5 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.36%) 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%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.36%) 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
1 423 (50.72%) AWS
2 395 (47.36%) Azure
3 231 (27.70%) GitHub
4 159 (19.06%) GitHub Actions
5 155 (18.59%) GCP
6 148 (17.75%) Azure DevOps
6 148 (17.75%) Serverless
7 147 (17.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 128 (15.35%) Amazon S3
9 104 (12.47%) AWS Lambda
10 79 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
11 74 (8.87%) Amazon ECS
12 68 (8.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (6.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 55 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (6.00%) Entra ID
16 49 (5.88%) Power Platform
17 45 (5.40%) Azure AKS
18 44 (5.28%) PaaS
19 41 (4.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.59%) Firewall
2 44 (5.28%) Network Security
3 43 (5.16%) VPN
4 36 (4.32%) DNS
5 17 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.68%) SSL
6 14 (1.68%) WAN
7 12 (1.44%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.84%) BGP
8 7 (0.84%) Multicast
9 6 (0.72%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.60%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.48%) OSPF
11 4 (0.48%) SAN
11 4 (0.48%) VLAN
12 3 (0.36%) DHCP
12 3 (0.36%) LAN
12 3 (0.36%) NAS
12 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.35%) Data Lake
2 50 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (4.56%) Power BI
5 31 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.24%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 21 (2.52%) Redis
10 19 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.80%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.80%) MySQL
13 14 (1.68%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.44%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.32%) OLTP
15 11 (1.32%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 166 (19.90%) Jenkins
2 123 (14.75%) GitLab
3 85 (10.19%) Git
4 34 (4.08%) JIRA
5 19 (2.28%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.80%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.96%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.84%) MLflow
9 7 (0.84%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.60%) Gradle
10 5 (0.60%) Maven
10 5 (0.60%) Selenium
11 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.48%) Postman
11 4 (0.48%) RStudio
12 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.36%) Snyk
12 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 193 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 138 (16.55%) Finance
3 91 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.71%) Banking
5 50 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 31 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.80%) Retail
9 14 (1.68%) Front Office
10 12 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.20%) Marketing
13 9 (1.08%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.96%) Publishing
14 8 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.84%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.84%) Military
16 6 (0.72%) Electronics
17 5 (0.60%) Legal
Job Titles
1 181 (21.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 124 (14.87%) Senior
3 97 (11.63%) Architect
4 84 (10.07%) Developer
5 80 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
6 75 (8.99%) Data Engineer
7 71 (8.51%) AWS Engineer
7 71 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 68 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
9 53 (6.35%) Lead
10 42 (5.04%) Security Engineer
11 40 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 35 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 35 (4.20%) Software Engineer
14 33 (3.96%) GCP Engineer
15 30 (3.60%) Cloud Architect
15 30 (3.60%) Site Engineer
16 29 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 27 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.67%) Kafka
2 61 (7.31%) Node.js
3 41 (4.92%) React
4 38 (4.56%) ARM Templates
4 38 (4.56%) YAML
5 37 (4.44%) Spring
6 36 (4.32%) .NET
7 35 (4.20%) OAuth
8 34 (4.08%) REST
9 33 (3.96%) Spring Boot
10 31 (3.72%) AngularJS
11 30 (3.60%) PySpark
11 30 (3.60%) RESTful
12 27 (3.24%) OpenID
13 26 (3.12%) AWS CDK
14 25 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (2.88%) GraphQL
16 23 (2.76%) Playwright
17 22 (2.64%) SAML
18 21 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 220 (26.38%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.31%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.60%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.48%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.40%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.28%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.56%) Replication
10 12 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.32%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
14 7 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (12.71%) Linux
2 48 (5.76%) Windows
3 23 (2.76%) VMS
4 18 (2.16%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.04%) Unix
6 11 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.60%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) 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
1 624 (74.82%) CI/CD
2 520 (62.35%) DevOps
3 213 (25.54%) Containerisation
4 197 (23.62%) Agile
5 178 (21.34%) Observability
6 129 (15.47%) AI
7 121 (14.51%) Migration
8 120 (14.39%) Analytics
9 118 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
10 115 (13.79%) Software Engineering
11 110 (13.19%) Platform Engineering
12 106 (12.71%) Microservices
13 100 (11.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 93 (11.15%) Cloud Security
15 92 (11.03%) DevSecOps
16 84 (10.07%) Infrastructure Automation
17 81 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
17 81 (9.71%) Test Automation
18 74 (8.87%) ETL
19 73 (8.75%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 390 (46.76%) Python
2 149 (17.87%) SQL
3 125 (14.99%) Bash
4 98 (11.75%) Java
5 92 (11.03%) PowerShell
6 62 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 58 (6.95%) Bicep
8 42 (5.04%) Go
9 40 (4.80%) C#
10 39 (4.68%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.44%) Scala
12 11 (1.32%) Ruby
13 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.60%) C++
15 5 (0.60%) Groovy
15 5 (0.60%) Rust
16 4 (0.48%) C
17 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 240 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 225 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.95%) AWS Certification
4 56 (6.71%) Azure Certification
5 38 (4.56%) Degree
6 26 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.56%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.44%) CISSP
11 10 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.08%) MCP
13 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.84%) OSCP
15 6 (0.72%) CCSP
15 6 (0.72%) SANS
16 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.71%) GDPR
2 47 (5.64%) NIST
3 42 (5.04%) Data Quality
4 38 (4.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (3.84%) QA
6 21 (2.52%) NCSC
7 16 (1.92%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.56%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.08%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.84%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.36%) 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 (30.22%) Docker
2 38 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.48%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.72%) Squid
5 6 (0.72%) zsh
6 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.60%) Snort
7 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.36%) 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
1 620 (74.34%) Terraform
2 302 (36.21%) Kubernetes
3 146 (17.51%) Ansible
4 96 (11.51%) Grafana
5 90 (10.79%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.00%) Argo
7 19 (2.28%) Puppet
8 15 (1.80%) Istio
8 15 (1.80%) Kibana
9 14 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.44%) ITRS Geneos
11 11 (1.32%) Rancher
12 10 (1.20%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.72%) Nessus
14 5 (0.60%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.60%) logstash
15 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 137 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.83%) Google
3 70 (8.39%) Databricks
4 46 (5.52%) Splunk
5 20 (2.40%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.28%) Palo Alto
7 18 (2.16%) VMware
8 16 (1.92%) Cisco
9 14 (1.68%) CyberArk
9 14 (1.68%) Solace
10 13 (1.56%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.32%) Oracle
11 11 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 10 (1.20%) F5
12 10 (1.20%) PagerDuty
12 10 (1.20%) Qualys
12 10 (1.20%) Salesforce
13 9 (1.08%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.08%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.96%) SAP