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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 51 92
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,200 652 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.99% 4.91% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 5.31% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 440 297
10th Percentile £413 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £440 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.60% -7.41% -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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 September 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 2 September 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 +19 142 £575 -8.00% 79
South London +14 31 £535 - 12
West London -10 12 £725 +46.46% 41
East London +7 8 £600 - 13
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 59 (4.92%) Confluence
2 47 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 41 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.33%) Apache
5 18 (1.50%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.58%) nginx
8 6 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.42%) CMS
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) SAS
12 2 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.083%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.083%) IIS
13 1 (0.083%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.083%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.083%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.083%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.083%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.083%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.083%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 648 (54.00%) AWS
2 615 (51.25%) Azure
3 313 (26.08%) GitHub
4 231 (19.25%) GitHub Actions
5 220 (18.33%) Azure DevOps
6 213 (17.75%) GCP
7 208 (17.33%) Serverless
8 167 (13.92%) Amazon S3
9 144 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 143 (11.92%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
12 108 (9.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 97 (8.08%) Entra ID
14 82 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
15 81 (6.75%) Azure AKS
16 75 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
17 74 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 65 (5.42%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (5.00%) Power Platform
20 54 (4.50%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.83%) Firewall
2 55 (4.58%) DNS
3 45 (3.75%) Network Security
3 45 (3.75%) VPN
4 27 (2.25%) WAN
5 22 (1.83%) BGP
6 14 (1.17%) DHCP
6 14 (1.17%) Internet
6 14 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.08%) SSL
8 11 (0.92%) NX-OS
8 11 (0.92%) VXLAN
9 10 (0.83%) HTTP
10 8 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.67%) SSH
11 7 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (0.58%) IOS XR
11 7 (0.58%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.58%) VLAN
12 6 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (4.00%) Power BI
4 46 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
5 42 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 39 (3.25%) SQL Server
7 36 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.92%) Delta Lake
9 33 (2.75%) DynamoDB
10 32 (2.67%) Metadata
11 30 (2.50%) Redis
12 29 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (2.33%) BigQuery
14 27 (2.25%) NoSQL
15 26 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
15 26 (2.17%) MySQL
16 16 (1.33%) Big Data
17 13 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
17 13 (1.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 190 (15.83%) Jenkins
2 182 (15.17%) GitLab
3 175 (14.58%) Git
4 68 (5.67%) JIRA
5 15 (1.25%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.25%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.00%) Snyk
7 11 (0.92%) JUnit
7 11 (0.92%) MLflow
7 11 (0.92%) Terragrunt
8 9 (0.75%) JMeter
8 9 (0.75%) Selenium
9 8 (0.67%) Mockito
9 8 (0.67%) Postman
10 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.50%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.50%) Claude Code
11 6 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 270 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 201 (16.75%) Finance
3 177 (14.75%) Public Sector
4 79 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (5.25%) Banking
6 30 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.50%) Retail
9 15 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.00%) Law
10 12 (1.00%) Local Government
11 11 (0.92%) Legal
12 10 (0.83%) Military
12 10 (0.83%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.67%) Front Office
14 8 (0.67%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.58%) Police
16 6 (0.50%) Back Office
16 6 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 270 (22.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (15.83%) Senior
3 189 (15.75%) Architect
4 129 (10.75%) Lead
5 124 (10.33%) Azure Engineer
6 114 (9.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 107 (8.92%) Platform Engineer
8 106 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
9 94 (7.83%) Data Engineer
10 85 (7.08%) Developer
11 68 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 58 (4.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 52 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
14 50 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 49 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 49 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
15 49 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 48 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (3.17%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (2.92%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (76.08%) Terraform
2 100 (8.33%) Kafka
3 83 (6.92%) REST
4 58 (4.83%) PySpark
5 55 (4.58%) RESTful
6 44 (3.67%) React
7 42 (3.50%) ARM Templates
8 40 (3.33%) .NET
9 39 (3.25%) Node.js
10 38 (3.17%) OAuth
11 37 (3.08%) YAML
12 35 (2.92%) Spring
13 32 (2.67%) FastAPI
13 32 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 32 (2.67%) Spring Boot
14 28 (2.33%) AngularJS
15 26 (2.17%) OpenID
16 24 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (1.83%) Django
17 22 (1.83%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 331 (27.58%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (3.00%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.75%) Security Posture
7 31 (2.58%) Enterprise Cloud
8 28 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 27 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.17%) Replication
11 25 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.92%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.83%) PKI
14 18 (1.50%) NHS
15 16 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.25%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 14 (1.17%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 127 (10.58%) Linux
2 83 (6.92%) Windows
3 32 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.83%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.33%) VMS
7 15 (1.25%) Unix
8 14 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.25%) CentOS
13 2 (0.17%) Android
14 1 (0.083%) AIX
14 1 (0.083%) Debian
14 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.083%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.083%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 725 (60.42%) DevOps
3 329 (27.42%) Containerisation
4 298 (24.83%) Agile
5 297 (24.75%) Observability
6 280 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
7 248 (20.67%) AI
8 175 (14.58%) Software Engineering
8 175 (14.58%) Test Automation
9 160 (13.33%) Migration
10 158 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
12 148 (12.33%) Microservices
13 147 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
14 139 (11.58%) Technical Leadership
15 134 (11.17%) Analytics
15 134 (11.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 130 (10.83%) Event-Driven
17 128 (10.67%) Cloud Security
18 122 (10.17%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 535 (44.58%) Python
2 190 (15.83%) PowerShell
3 187 (15.58%) Bash
3 187 (15.58%) SQL
4 138 (11.50%) Java
5 134 (11.17%) Bicep
6 69 (5.75%) C#
7 63 (5.25%) JavaScript
8 56 (4.67%) TypeScript
9 43 (3.58%) Go
10 21 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.50%) Scala
12 16 (1.33%) Ruby
13 15 (1.25%) Groovy
14 7 (0.58%) Korn
15 6 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.50%) Perl
16 5 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 436 (36.33%) Security Cleared
2 400 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 89 (7.42%) Azure Certification
4 70 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 57 (4.75%) DV Cleared
6 49 (4.08%) Degree
7 30 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 28 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.00%) CISSP
12 23 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.67%) CCNP
14 16 (1.33%) CISM
15 12 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.83%) GIAC
17 8 (0.67%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.67%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.00%) Data Quality
2 45 (3.75%) QA
3 35 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (2.92%) NIST
4 33 (2.75%) GDPR
5 17 (1.42%) NCSC
6 16 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.00%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.83%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.42%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) COBIT
11 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.083%) FedRAMP
System Software
1 321 (26.75%) Docker
2 55 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.75%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.67%) vSphere
9 7 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) Squid
12 2 (0.17%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.17%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.17%) Postfix
13 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.083%) NFS
13 1 (0.083%) Samba
13 1 (0.083%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 476 (39.67%) Kubernetes
2 189 (15.75%) Ansible
3 141 (11.75%) Grafana
4 125 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.25%) Puppet
6 26 (2.17%) Argo
7 19 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.25%) Kubeflow
8 15 (1.25%) Packer
9 11 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.92%) Progress Chef
9 11 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.75%) Kibana
11 8 (0.67%) Control-M
11 8 (0.67%) Istio
11 8 (0.67%) systemd
11 8 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.58%) SCCM
13 4 (0.33%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 232 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 95 (7.92%) Databricks
3 92 (7.67%) Google
4 71 (5.92%) Splunk
5 52 (4.33%) Oracle
6 46 (3.83%) VMware
7 35 (2.92%) Cisco
8 26 (2.17%) Dynatrace
9 25 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 24 (2.00%) OpenAI
11 18 (1.50%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.42%) Okta
12 17 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.25%) Arista
14 14 (1.17%) Foundry
14 14 (1.17%) Informatica
15 11 (0.92%) Fortinet
15 11 (0.92%) Zscaler
16 9 (0.75%) CyberArk
17 8 (0.67%) New Relic