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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 56 103
Rank change year-on-year +23 +47 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,080 521 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.70% 4.19% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 4.54% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 740 345 302
10th Percentile £406 £389 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £747
England median daily rate £549 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.13% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -11.05% +16.59% -13.46%

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 16,816 11,468 15,660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.31% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,190 7,694 11,171
10th Percentile £360 £340 £343
25th Percentile £436 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.23% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 206 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +11.48% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +71.53% -26.93% +5.19%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +19 139 £563 -10.00% 33
West London -11 18 £625 +26.26% 8
South London +4 16 £513 +8.47%
East London - 5 £575 - 11
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 46 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (3.06%) Confluence
3 26 (2.41%) Apache
4 13 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 11 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.19%) Camunda
9 2 (0.19%) nginx
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.093%) Maximo
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.093%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 581 (53.80%) AWS
2 548 (50.74%) Azure
3 292 (27.04%) GitHub
4 202 (18.70%) Serverless
5 199 (18.43%) GitHub Actions
6 192 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
7 183 (16.94%) GCP
8 168 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 163 (15.09%) Amazon S3
10 140 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 89 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (7.31%) Power Platform
15 71 (6.57%) Entra ID
16 70 (6.48%) Azure AKS
17 65 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 58 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
18 58 (5.37%) PaaS
19 53 (4.91%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.41%) Firewall
2 51 (4.72%) Network Security
3 47 (4.35%) DNS
4 33 (3.06%) VPN
5 26 (2.41%) WAN
6 19 (1.76%) BGP
7 13 (1.20%) SSL
8 11 (1.02%) Internet
8 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.93%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.93%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.83%) OSPF
11 8 (0.74%) HTTP
12 7 (0.65%) DHCP
12 7 (0.65%) SAN
12 7 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.65%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (5.46%) Data Lake
3 57 (5.28%) Power BI
4 46 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 46 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (3.24%) Delta Lake
8 34 (3.15%) SQL Server
9 32 (2.96%) MongoDB
10 31 (2.87%) DynamoDB
11 29 (2.69%) BigQuery
12 26 (2.41%) Redis
13 25 (2.31%) NoSQL
14 22 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (1.57%) Metadata
16 16 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (1.48%) Tableau
17 14 (1.30%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 175 (16.20%) Jenkins
2 157 (14.54%) GitLab
3 151 (13.98%) Git
4 51 (4.72%) JIRA
5 18 (1.67%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.30%) MLflow
6 14 (1.30%) Snyk
7 13 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.83%) JUnit
10 8 (0.74%) JMeter
10 8 (0.74%) Mockito
11 6 (0.56%) Postman
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 207 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 170 (15.74%) Finance
3 153 (14.17%) Public Sector
4 61 (5.65%) Banking
5 43 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.30%) Retail
10 13 (1.20%) Law
11 11 (1.02%) Legal
11 11 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.56%) Local Government
14 6 (0.56%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.46%) Military
15 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 232 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 187 (17.31%) Architect
3 160 (14.81%) Senior
4 126 (11.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 124 (11.48%) Azure Engineer
6 104 (9.63%) Lead
7 101 (9.35%) Data Engineer
8 96 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
9 83 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 77 (7.13%) Developer
11 51 (4.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (4.44%) AWS DevOps
13 46 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (4.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 39 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
17 39 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 35 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (3.24%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (7.87%) Kafka
2 59 (5.46%) PySpark
2 59 (5.46%) REST
3 54 (5.00%) React
4 53 (4.91%) OAuth
5 51 (4.72%) RESTful
6 47 (4.35%) Node.js
7 41 (3.80%) OpenID
8 40 (3.70%) OAuth2
9 39 (3.61%) .NET
9 39 (3.61%) ARM Templates
10 36 (3.33%) YAML
11 31 (2.87%) Spring
12 29 (2.69%) AngularJS
12 29 (2.69%) Spring Boot
13 28 (2.59%) OpenTelemetry
13 28 (2.59%) SAML
14 25 (2.31%) AWS CDK
15 21 (1.94%) FastAPI
16 18 (1.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 323 (29.91%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.59%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.41%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
10 16 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.30%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.11%) PKI
13 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.74%) Replication
17 7 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.70%) Linux
2 67 (6.20%) Windows
3 21 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.48%) VMS
6 14 (1.30%) Unix
7 12 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.19%) Android
11 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.19%) CentOS
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.093%) AIX
12 1 (0.093%) Debian
12 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 824 (76.30%) CI/CD
2 680 (62.96%) DevOps
3 308 (28.52%) Containerisation
4 230 (21.30%) Agile
5 228 (21.11%) Observability
6 227 (21.02%) Platform Engineering
7 213 (19.72%) AI
8 157 (14.54%) Analytics
9 149 (13.80%) Microservices
10 146 (13.52%) Test Automation
11 145 (13.43%) Migration
12 124 (11.48%) Software Engineering
13 123 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 116 (10.74%) Data Modelling
15 113 (10.46%) Mentoring
16 111 (10.28%) Cloud Security
17 110 (10.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 105 (9.72%) Event-Driven
18 105 (9.72%) Machine Learning
19 101 (9.35%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 466 (43.15%) Python
2 198 (18.33%) SQL
3 137 (12.69%) PowerShell
4 135 (12.50%) Bash
5 111 (10.28%) Java
6 104 (9.63%) Bicep
7 59 (5.46%) C#
8 58 (5.37%) TypeScript
9 52 (4.81%) JavaScript
10 38 (3.52%) Go
11 24 (2.22%) Scala
12 17 (1.57%) Ruby
13 16 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) C
14 6 (0.56%) Groovy
15 4 (0.37%) Cypher
15 4 (0.37%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 402 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 379 (35.09%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.31%) Azure Certification
4 57 (5.28%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.80%) Degree
6 37 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.57%) CISSP
12 16 (1.48%) CCNP
12 16 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.83%) CISM
16 8 (0.74%) GIAC
17 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.44%) NIST
3 44 (4.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.70%) GDPR
5 36 (3.33%) QA
6 30 (2.78%) NCSC
7 23 (2.13%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.57%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
9 7 (0.65%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.37%) COBIT
11 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.28%) GRC
13 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.19%) PSD2
13 2 (0.19%) SEPA
14 1 (0.093%) NIST 800
System Software
1 276 (25.56%) Docker
2 42 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.19%) Squid
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.093%) Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 828 (76.67%) Terraform
2 403 (37.31%) Kubernetes
3 166 (15.37%) Ansible
4 113 (10.46%) Prometheus
5 106 (9.81%) Grafana
6 23 (2.13%) Puppet
7 21 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.48%) Argo
9 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.93%) Packer
9 10 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.65%) Istio
13 6 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.46%) Kibana
14 5 (0.46%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) systemd
15 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 160 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.33%) Databricks
3 83 (7.69%) Google
4 56 (5.19%) Splunk
5 28 (2.59%) VMware
6 25 (2.31%) Oracle
7 23 (2.13%) Cisco
8 21 (1.94%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.39%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.11%) Arista
14 11 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.93%) ServiceNow
16 9 (0.83%) Okta
17 8 (0.74%) AppDynamics
17 8 (0.74%) Foundry
17 8 (0.74%) Rapid7
17 8 (0.74%) Zscaler