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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 46 89
Rank change year-on-year +13 +43 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,288 719 451
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.36% 5.40% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 5.84% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 928 486 293
10th Percentile £414 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.95 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.63 -
90th Percentile - £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +13.60% -13.19% -5.92%

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +29 141 £590 -5.60% 144
South London +22 35 £535 -4.46% 5
West London -13 17 £725 +70.59% 28
East London +3 6 £600 - 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 56 (4.35%) Confluence
2 48 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.48%) Apache
4 21 (1.63%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.93%) nginx
7 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.54%) CMS
9 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.078%) IIS
12 1 (0.078%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.078%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 682 (52.95%) AWS
2 648 (50.31%) Azure
3 340 (26.40%) GitHub
4 241 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
5 239 (18.56%) GCP
6 223 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (16.54%) Serverless
8 179 (13.90%) Amazon S3
9 152 (11.80%) Amazon EKS
10 144 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
10 144 (11.18%) AWS Lambda
11 128 (9.94%) Entra ID
12 125 (9.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 103 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
14 89 (6.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 83 (6.44%) Azure AKS
16 80 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
17 74 (5.75%) Azure Monitor
18 65 (5.05%) dbt
19 60 (4.66%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.44%) Firewall
2 67 (5.20%) DNS
3 55 (4.27%) Network Security
4 50 (3.88%) VPN
5 23 (1.79%) WAN
6 17 (1.32%) BGP
6 17 (1.32%) Internet
6 17 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.24%) DHCP
8 15 (1.16%) SSL
9 10 (0.78%) HTTP
10 9 (0.70%) SSH
11 8 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.62%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.62%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.54%) VLAN
12 7 (0.54%) X.509
13 6 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (0.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (6.68%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (3.88%) Power BI
4 47 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 44 (3.42%) SQL Server
6 38 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
6 38 (2.95%) Delta Lake
7 37 (2.87%) Redis
8 36 (2.80%) Metadata
9 35 (2.72%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.72%) MySQL
10 34 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 32 (2.48%) Data Lake
13 29 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.25%) NoSQL
14 27 (2.10%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.24%) Big Data
15 16 (1.24%) Relational Database
16 14 (1.09%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 211 (16.38%) GitLab
2 204 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 193 (14.98%) Git
4 66 (5.12%) JIRA
5 20 (1.55%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.09%) Snyk
8 13 (1.01%) Selenium
9 12 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 12 (0.93%) Terragrunt
10 10 (0.78%) JMeter
11 9 (0.70%) JUnit
11 9 (0.70%) MLflow
11 9 (0.70%) Postman
11 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.62%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.47%) Cucumber
15 4 (0.31%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 304 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 242 (18.79%) Finance
3 182 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (5.82%) Banking
6 29 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.55%) Retail
8 14 (1.09%) Law
8 14 (1.09%) Local Government
9 13 (1.01%) Military
10 12 (0.93%) Back Office
10 12 (0.93%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (0.85%) Police
12 10 (0.78%) Front Office
12 10 (0.78%) Legal
12 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 296 (22.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 208 (16.15%) Senior
3 191 (14.83%) Architect
4 132 (10.25%) Lead
5 125 (9.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 122 (9.47%) Azure Engineer
7 113 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (8.39%) Platform Engineer
9 93 (7.22%) Data Engineer
10 77 (5.98%) Developer
11 75 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 62 (4.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
14 57 (4.43%) Senior DevOps
15 55 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 54 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 52 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 42 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
20 40 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 969 (75.23%) Terraform
2 113 (8.77%) Kafka
3 102 (7.92%) REST
4 57 (4.43%) PySpark
5 53 (4.11%) RESTful
6 52 (4.04%) OAuth
7 50 (3.88%) React
8 47 (3.65%) .NET
9 43 (3.34%) FastAPI
10 41 (3.18%) ARM Templates
11 40 (3.11%) OpenID
12 37 (2.87%) OAuth2
13 35 (2.72%) YAML
14 34 (2.64%) Node.js
15 32 (2.48%) Spring
16 31 (2.41%) Spring Boot
17 30 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
18 26 (2.02%) Flask
19 25 (1.94%) JSON
20 24 (1.86%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 345 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 82 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.74%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
6 43 (3.34%) Security Posture
7 37 (2.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 36 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.80%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.56%) Product Ownership
10 31 (2.41%) PKI
11 30 (2.33%) Replication
12 27 (2.10%) Data Centre
13 19 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.32%) NHS
14 17 (1.32%) Private Cloud
15 16 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 156 (12.11%) Linux
2 103 (8.00%) Windows
3 35 (2.72%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.63%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.48%) VMS
7 16 (1.24%) Unix
8 15 (1.16%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.23%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Android
13 2 (0.16%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.078%) AIX
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (74.53%) CI/CD
2 778 (60.40%) DevOps
3 343 (26.63%) Observability
4 325 (25.23%) Containerisation
5 311 (24.15%) Agile
6 301 (23.37%) Platform Engineering
7 278 (21.58%) AI
8 201 (15.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 197 (15.30%) Software Engineering
10 191 (14.83%) Test Automation
11 186 (14.44%) Migration
12 175 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
13 161 (12.50%) Cloud Security
14 160 (12.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 160 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
15 159 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
16 152 (11.80%) Deployment Automation
17 142 (11.02%) Event-Driven
17 142 (11.02%) Microservices
18 139 (10.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 583 (45.26%) Python
2 214 (16.61%) Bash
3 213 (16.54%) PowerShell
4 211 (16.38%) SQL
5 149 (11.57%) Bicep
6 137 (10.64%) Java
7 73 (5.67%) C#
7 73 (5.67%) JavaScript
8 70 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 54 (4.19%) Go
10 26 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.63%) Groovy
12 18 (1.40%) Scala
13 11 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.62%) Korn
15 7 (0.54%) Perl
16 6 (0.47%) C++
17 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 457 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 408 (31.68%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.07%) AWS Certification
4 90 (6.99%) Azure Certification
5 67 (5.20%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.88%) Degree
7 36 (2.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 36 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.48%) CISSP
9 28 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.48%) CISM
13 15 (1.16%) CCNP
14 13 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.85%) GIAC
16 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 6 (0.47%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 56 (4.35%) QA
3 38 (2.95%) NIST
4 37 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.48%) GDPR
6 18 (1.40%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.32%) NCSC
8 14 (1.09%) SOC 2
9 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.31%) SLA
10 4 (0.31%) WCAG
11 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.23%) COBIT
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.078%) SEPA
System Software
1 346 (26.86%) Docker
2 66 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.78%) vSphere
7 9 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.23%) Squid
12 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.16%) IAG
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.16%) Postfix
13 1 (0.078%) NFS
13 1 (0.078%) Samba
13 1 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 520 (40.37%) Kubernetes
2 214 (16.61%) Ansible
3 167 (12.97%) Grafana
4 135 (10.48%) Prometheus
5 33 (2.56%) Argo
5 33 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (2.25%) Puppet
7 20 (1.55%) Kubeflow
8 15 (1.16%) Packer
9 14 (1.09%) Kibana
10 12 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.78%) systemd
13 9 (0.70%) SCCM
14 8 (0.62%) Control-M
14 8 (0.62%) Istio
15 7 (0.54%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.39%) logstash
17 4 (0.31%) Salt
Vendors
1 272 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 110 (8.54%) Google
3 100 (7.76%) Databricks
4 77 (5.98%) Splunk
5 53 (4.11%) VMware
6 52 (4.04%) Oracle
7 40 (3.11%) Dynatrace
8 38 (2.95%) Cisco
9 30 (2.33%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.94%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.40%) Okta
12 18 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.16%) Foundry
13 15 (1.16%) Informatica
14 14 (1.09%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.93%) Arista
15 12 (0.93%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.70%) Fortinet
16 9 (0.70%) Juniper