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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 59 118
Rank change year-on-year +21 +59 -29
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 981 489 373
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 3.95% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.22% 4.28% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 332 263
10th Percentile £400 £396 £378
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £542 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.51% - -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 £70.00 £27.38 £62.50
% change year-on-year +155.71% -56.20% -19.87%

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 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +26 141 £556 -5.32% 80
West London +5 32 £603 +6.64% 8
South London +1 19 £538 +2.87%
East London - 4 £562 - 16
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 (5.20%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.06%) Apache
3 26 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (2.24%) Confluence
5 11 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.51%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
8 2 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
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
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
1 513 (52.29%) AWS
2 511 (52.09%) Azure
3 278 (28.34%) GitHub
4 185 (18.86%) Serverless
5 184 (18.76%) GitHub Actions
6 178 (18.14%) GCP
7 175 (17.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 174 (17.74%) Azure DevOps
9 150 (15.29%) Amazon S3
10 129 (13.15%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.17%) Amazon ECS
12 88 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
13 75 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 72 (7.34%) Power Platform
15 66 (6.73%) Azure AKS
16 56 (5.71%) PaaS
17 55 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
17 55 (5.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 52 (5.30%) Entra ID
19 51 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.54%) Firewall
2 43 (4.38%) DNS
3 40 (4.08%) Network Security
4 26 (2.65%) VPN
5 20 (2.04%) WAN
6 16 (1.63%) BGP
7 11 (1.12%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.92%) OSPF
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
9 8 (0.82%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.71%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.61%) DHCP
11 6 (0.61%) Internet
11 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 6 (0.61%) SAN
12 5 (0.51%) NAS
12 5 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (6.73%) Data Lake
2 59 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
3 49 (4.99%) Power BI
4 46 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (3.47%) Delta Lake
7 33 (3.36%) BigQuery
8 32 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 30 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
10 28 (2.85%) DynamoDB
11 27 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 25 (2.55%) MongoDB
13 23 (2.34%) NoSQL
14 21 (2.14%) Redis
15 19 (1.94%) OLTP
16 18 (1.83%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (1.63%) Big Data
17 16 (1.63%) Mixpanel
17 16 (1.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (17.33%) Jenkins
2 134 (13.66%) Git
3 130 (13.25%) GitLab
4 36 (3.67%) JIRA
5 22 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.53%) MLflow
7 11 (1.12%) Snyk
8 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.71%) JUnit
12 6 (0.61%) JMeter
12 6 (0.61%) Mockito
13 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.51%) Postman
13 5 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.31%) Cucumber
General
1 178 (18.14%) Social Skills
2 145 (14.78%) Finance
3 131 (13.35%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.30%) Banking
5 40 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.33%) Retail
10 12 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.02%) Legal
12 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.51%) Law
13 5 (0.51%) Police
14 4 (0.41%) Front Office
14 4 (0.41%) Games
14 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.31%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 186 (18.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 168 (17.13%) Architect
3 144 (14.68%) Senior
4 119 (12.13%) Azure Engineer
5 111 (11.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 97 (9.89%) Data Engineer
7 94 (9.58%) Lead
8 86 (8.77%) Developer
9 68 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (6.42%) Platform Engineer
11 41 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 34 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 33 (3.36%) Software Engineer
16 32 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
17 31 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 31 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
18 30 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (8.97%) Kafka
2 61 (6.22%) Node.js
3 51 (5.20%) PySpark
4 50 (5.10%) React
5 49 (4.99%) RESTful
6 47 (4.79%) REST
7 46 (4.69%) .NET
8 38 (3.87%) OAuth
8 38 (3.87%) Spring
9 37 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 36 (3.67%) AngularJS
10 36 (3.67%) ARM Templates
10 36 (3.67%) YAML
11 35 (3.57%) Spring Boot
12 32 (3.26%) OpenID
13 27 (2.75%) AWS CDK
14 26 (2.65%) OAuth2
15 22 (2.24%) Great Expectations
16 21 (2.14%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 282 (28.75%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.63%) Distributed Systems
3 40 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.55%) Data Centre
6 25 (2.55%) Public Cloud
7 21 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 18 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.02%) PKI
11 10 (1.02%) Private Cloud
12 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.82%) Replication
12 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 90 (9.17%) Linux
2 49 (4.99%) Windows
3 18 (1.83%) VMS
4 15 (1.53%) Unix
5 11 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) AIX
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (77.47%) CI/CD
2 615 (62.69%) DevOps
3 275 (28.03%) Containerisation
4 219 (22.32%) Observability
5 213 (21.71%) Agile
6 177 (18.04%) AI
7 167 (17.02%) Platform Engineering
8 160 (16.31%) Analytics
9 147 (14.98%) Migration
10 144 (14.68%) Microservices
11 132 (13.46%) Test Automation
12 115 (11.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 114 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (11.62%) Software Engineering
14 110 (11.21%) Data Modelling
15 104 (10.60%) Mentoring
16 94 (9.58%) Data Engineering
17 90 (9.17%) Cloud Security
17 90 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
18 88 (8.97%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 412 (42.00%) Python
2 193 (19.67%) SQL
3 116 (11.82%) PowerShell
4 111 (11.31%) Bash
5 108 (11.01%) Java
6 83 (8.46%) Bicep
7 60 (6.12%) C#
8 56 (5.71%) TypeScript
9 52 (5.30%) JavaScript
10 32 (3.26%) Go
11 26 (2.65%) Scala
12 22 (2.24%) Ruby
13 15 (1.53%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.61%) C
14 6 (0.61%) Groovy
15 4 (0.41%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 371 (37.82%) Security Cleared
2 352 (35.88%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 49 (4.99%) AWS Certification
5 34 (3.47%) Degree
6 29 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (2.75%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.33%) CCNP
11 12 (1.22%) CISSP
12 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.61%) CISM
14 6 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.51%) CCIE
15 5 (0.51%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.95%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.49%) NIST
3 42 (4.28%) GDPR
4 39 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (3.67%) QA
6 29 (2.96%) NCSC
7 22 (2.24%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.33%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.71%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.41%) COBIT
12 3 (0.31%) GRC
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.20%) PSD2
13 2 (0.20%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 252 (25.69%) Docker
2 36 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 31 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.31%) Squid
6 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.20%) OpenSSH
7 2 (0.20%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) Snort
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 743 (75.74%) Terraform
2 352 (35.88%) Kubernetes
3 134 (13.66%) Ansible
4 97 (9.89%) Prometheus
5 96 (9.79%) Grafana
6 19 (1.94%) Puppet
7 18 (1.83%) Argo
7 18 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.12%) Istio
8 11 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 9 (0.92%) Kibana
10 7 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.71%) Packer
11 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
11 4 (0.41%) Rancher
12 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.31%) Pingdom
12 3 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 153 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.97%) Databricks
3 81 (8.26%) Google
4 51 (5.20%) Splunk
5 24 (2.45%) Oracle
6 20 (2.04%) VMware
7 16 (1.63%) Cisco
8 15 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
9 14 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.02%) Arista
11 10 (1.02%) OpenAI
12 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.82%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.71%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.71%) Zscaler
14 6 (0.61%) IBM
14 6 (0.61%) Rapid7