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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 60 111
Rank change year-on-year +22 +51 -27
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 970 493 391
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.47% 3.92% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 4.25% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 336 276
10th Percentile £400 £400 £385
25th Percentile £456 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £58.03 - £55.13
25th Percentile £59.94 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £73.94 - £57.81
90th Percentile £75.63 - £58.38
England median hourly rate £68.50 £27.38 £57.50
% change year-on-year +150.23% -52.39% -26.28%

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 15,708 11,595 15,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.55% 92.16% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,519 7,858 11,305
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 168 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.08 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +19.30% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.77
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 +23 138 £556 -3.26% 97
West London +2 33 £603 +26.84% 10
South London -4 20 £530 +1.44%
East London 0 4 £562 -10.79% 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 51 (5.26%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.30%) Apache
3 28 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.75%) Confluence
5 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.52%) SAS
7 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) FileNet
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Actimize
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 512 (52.78%) AWS
2 502 (51.75%) Azure
3 273 (28.14%) GitHub
4 184 (18.97%) AWS CloudFormation
4 184 (18.97%) Serverless
5 183 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
6 177 (18.25%) GCP
7 176 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
8 150 (15.46%) Amazon S3
9 126 (12.99%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (9.59%) Amazon ECS
11 89 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
12 71 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 71 (7.32%) Power Platform
13 69 (7.11%) Azure AKS
14 57 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
15 54 (5.57%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (5.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 53 (5.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 52 (5.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 78 (8.04%) Firewall
2 44 (4.54%) DNS
3 40 (4.12%) Network Security
4 26 (2.68%) VPN
5 18 (1.86%) WAN
6 16 (1.65%) BGP
7 10 (1.03%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.93%) OSPF
8 9 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
9 8 (0.82%) IOS XR
9 8 (0.82%) NX-OS
9 8 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.62%) DHCP
12 5 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.52%) Internet
12 5 (0.52%) MPLS
12 5 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (7.01%) Data Lake
2 58 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
3 47 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
3 47 (4.85%) Power BI
4 37 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 35 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 33 (3.40%) BigQuery
7 31 (3.20%) Delta Lake
8 30 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 28 (2.89%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.58%) NoSQL
11 22 (2.27%) MongoDB
12 19 (1.96%) OLTP
12 19 (1.96%) Redis
13 17 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
13 17 (1.75%) Tableau
14 16 (1.65%) Big Data
14 16 (1.65%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 166 (17.11%) Jenkins
2 131 (13.51%) Git
3 126 (12.99%) GitLab
4 29 (2.99%) JIRA
5 23 (2.37%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.65%) MLflow
7 11 (1.13%) Snyk
8 10 (1.03%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.93%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.82%) JUnit
10 8 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.72%) Mockito
11 7 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.31%) git-flow
14 3 (0.31%) Vite
General
1 185 (19.07%) Social Skills
2 143 (14.74%) Finance
3 136 (14.02%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.05%) Banking
5 41 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.24%) Retail
10 10 (1.03%) Legal
11 6 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.52%) Law
12 5 (0.52%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.52%) Police
13 4 (0.41%) Front Office
13 4 (0.41%) Games
13 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 178 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 163 (16.80%) Architect
3 144 (14.85%) Senior
4 119 (12.27%) Azure Engineer
5 113 (11.65%) Cloud Engineer
6 98 (10.10%) Data Engineer
7 92 (9.48%) Developer
7 92 (9.48%) Lead
8 70 (7.22%) AWS Engineer
9 66 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 39 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (3.61%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 33 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (3.40%) Software Engineer
15 32 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
15 32 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (3.20%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (9.18%) Kafka
2 67 (6.91%) Node.js
3 51 (5.26%) PySpark
4 50 (5.15%) React
5 49 (5.05%) RESTful
6 46 (4.74%) REST
7 44 (4.54%) Spring
8 43 (4.43%) .NET
9 39 (4.02%) Spring Boot
10 38 (3.92%) AngularJS
10 38 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 37 (3.81%) YAML
12 36 (3.71%) OAuth
13 34 (3.51%) ARM Templates
14 30 (3.09%) OpenID
15 27 (2.78%) AWS CDK
16 23 (2.37%) OAuth2
16 23 (2.37%) Playwright
17 22 (2.27%) Great Expectations
18 21 (2.16%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 277 (28.56%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.60%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 22 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.44%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.24%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.03%) PKI
14 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.82%) Replication
14 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.72%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 94 (9.69%) Linux
2 49 (5.05%) Windows
3 19 (1.96%) VMS
4 15 (1.55%) Unix
5 11 (1.13%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.21%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (76.91%) CI/CD
2 602 (62.06%) DevOps
3 276 (28.45%) Containerisation
4 220 (22.68%) Observability
5 218 (22.47%) Agile
6 173 (17.84%) AI
7 165 (17.01%) Analytics
8 155 (15.98%) Platform Engineering
9 147 (15.15%) Microservices
10 142 (14.64%) Migration
11 130 (13.40%) Test Automation
12 119 (12.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 117 (12.06%) Software Engineering
14 112 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 112 (11.55%) Data Modelling
15 107 (11.03%) Mentoring
16 96 (9.90%) Data Engineering
17 95 (9.79%) Problem-Solving
18 93 (9.59%) Cloud Security
19 88 (9.07%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 418 (43.09%) Python
2 199 (20.52%) SQL
3 115 (11.86%) Java
4 109 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 106 (10.93%) Bash
6 85 (8.76%) Bicep
7 62 (6.39%) TypeScript
8 58 (5.98%) C#
9 52 (5.36%) JavaScript
10 34 (3.51%) Go
11 27 (2.78%) Scala
12 25 (2.58%) Ruby
13 15 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.62%) C
15 4 (0.41%) Groovy
15 4 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 358 (36.91%) Security Cleared
2 340 (35.05%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.53%) Azure Certification
4 56 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 36 (3.71%) Degree
6 32 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 20 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.34%) CCNP
11 11 (1.13%) CISSP
12 10 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.62%) CCSP
15 5 (0.52%) CCIE
16 4 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.74%) GDPR
3 42 (4.33%) NIST
4 39 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.51%) QA
6 29 (2.99%) NCSC
7 23 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.13%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.72%) SLA
10 5 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) COBIT
12 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) PSD2
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
13 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 260 (26.80%) Docker
2 37 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.13%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) Squid
5 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.21%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.21%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) GPFS
7 1 (0.10%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) Lustre
7 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Snort
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 739 (76.19%) Terraform
2 346 (35.67%) Kubernetes
3 134 (13.81%) Ansible
4 99 (10.21%) Grafana
5 95 (9.79%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.37%) Puppet
7 22 (2.27%) Argo
8 18 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.24%) Istio
10 11 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.93%) Kibana
11 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.72%) Packer
12 7 (0.72%) Rancher
13 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.41%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.41%) Salt
14 3 (0.31%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 161 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.97%) Databricks
3 81 (8.35%) Google
4 53 (5.46%) Splunk
5 20 (2.06%) Oracle
6 19 (1.96%) VMware
7 16 (1.65%) Cisco
8 14 (1.44%) CyberArk
8 14 (1.44%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.34%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.03%) Arista
10 10 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 10 (1.03%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.03%) Palo Alto
11 7 (0.72%) AppDynamics
11 7 (0.72%) IBM
11 7 (0.72%) Qualys
11 7 (0.72%) Red Hat
11 7 (0.72%) Salesforce
11 7 (0.72%) ServiceNow