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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 70 94
Rank change year-on-year +30 +24 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 890 454 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.73% 3.37% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 3.71% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 299 320
10th Percentile £375 £405 £413
25th Percentile £447 £497 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -1.29% -8.63%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.00 £27.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +187.27% -63.70% +37.75%

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 14,067 12,226 16,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.56% 90.66% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 7,826 11,604
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 343
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.00 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +24.34% -17.37%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.68 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 February 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 18 February 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 +27 109 £550 -4.35% 68
West London +11 36 £603 +26.84% 12
South London +4 21 £530 -22.63% 5
East London -2 2 £675 +15.38% 8
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 36 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.92%) Apache
3 25 (2.81%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.02%) Confluence
5 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.34%) nginx
6 3 (0.34%) Traefik
7 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.22%) SAS
7 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 458 (51.46%) AWS
2 443 (49.78%) Azure
3 247 (27.75%) GitHub
4 170 (19.10%) GCP
5 165 (18.54%) GitHub Actions
5 165 (18.54%) Serverless
6 163 (18.31%) AWS CloudFormation
7 155 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
8 137 (15.39%) Amazon S3
9 111 (12.47%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (10.11%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (9.33%) Amazon ECS
12 72 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 63 (7.08%) Power Platform
14 57 (6.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 51 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (5.62%) Azure AKS
16 50 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 49 (5.51%) Entra ID
18 48 (5.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.54%) Firewall
2 48 (5.39%) Network Security
3 39 (4.38%) VPN
4 37 (4.16%) DNS
5 19 (2.13%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.46%) SSL
6 13 (1.46%) WAN
7 11 (1.24%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.90%) BGP
10 7 (0.79%) Multicast
11 5 (0.56%) OSPF
11 5 (0.56%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.45%) DHCP
12 4 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.45%) SAN
12 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.45%) VLAN
13 3 (0.34%) HTTP
13 3 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (7.30%) Data Lake
2 50 (5.62%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (5.62%) Power BI
3 47 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (4.27%) Amazon Athena
5 37 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.71%) SQL Server
7 29 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 27 (3.03%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.81%) BigQuery
9 25 (2.81%) Redis
10 24 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 20 (2.25%) Delta Lake
12 19 (2.13%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.91%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.69%) MySQL
14 15 (1.69%) OLTP
15 14 (1.57%) Amazon Aurora
15 14 (1.57%) Mixpanel
15 14 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 159 (17.87%) Jenkins
2 134 (15.06%) GitLab
3 92 (10.34%) Git
4 33 (3.71%) JIRA
5 19 (2.13%) Artifactory
6 10 (1.12%) MLflow
7 9 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.79%) Terragrunt
9 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.45%) Gradle
11 4 (0.45%) Maven
11 4 (0.45%) Postman
11 4 (0.45%) RStudio
11 4 (0.45%) Selenium
11 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 197 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 137 (15.39%) Finance
3 109 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 54 (6.07%) Analytical Skills
5 50 (5.62%) Banking
6 34 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.80%) Retail
9 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.24%) Front Office
10 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 8 (0.90%) Marketing
13 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.79%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.67%) Military
15 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.45%) Electronics
16 4 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 180 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (15.73%) Senior
3 108 (12.13%) Architect
4 97 (10.90%) Azure Engineer
5 95 (10.67%) Data Engineer
6 87 (9.78%) Cloud Engineer
7 84 (9.44%) Developer
8 72 (8.09%) AWS Engineer
9 66 (7.42%) Platform Engineer
10 64 (7.19%) Lead
11 42 (4.72%) Security Engineer
12 38 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
12 38 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 37 (4.16%) Software Engineer
14 33 (3.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
16 30 (3.37%) Site Engineer
17 29 (3.26%) Cloud Architect
18 28 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (10.11%) Kafka
2 70 (7.87%) Node.js
3 47 (5.28%) React
4 43 (4.83%) PySpark
5 42 (4.72%) .NET
6 41 (4.61%) OAuth
6 41 (4.61%) YAML
7 40 (4.49%) ARM Templates
8 35 (3.93%) REST
9 33 (3.71%) Spring
10 32 (3.60%) AngularJS
11 31 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
12 29 (3.26%) RESTful
12 29 (3.26%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.15%) AWS CDK
14 27 (3.03%) OpenID
14 27 (3.03%) Playwright
15 25 (2.81%) GraphQL
16 23 (2.58%) SAML
17 20 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 229 (25.73%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.93%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.15%) Public Cloud
5 27 (3.03%) Security Posture
6 24 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.91%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.57%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.12%) Replication
14 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
15 7 (0.79%) AI Agents
15 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (0.79%) Fixed Income
15 7 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 102 (11.46%) Linux
2 46 (5.17%) Windows
3 23 (2.58%) VMS
4 19 (2.13%) Unix
5 13 (1.46%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.56%) Solaris
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.22%) Android
9 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.22%) CentOS
9 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.22%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 663 (74.49%) CI/CD
2 546 (61.35%) DevOps
3 229 (25.73%) Containerisation
4 201 (22.58%) Agile
5 193 (21.69%) Observability
6 149 (16.74%) AI
7 144 (16.18%) Analytics
8 128 (14.38%) Migration
9 117 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
10 115 (12.92%) Software Engineering
11 114 (12.81%) Microservices
12 111 (12.47%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (11.57%) Cloud Security
14 102 (11.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 101 (11.35%) Test Automation
16 92 (10.34%) Data Engineering
17 90 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
17 90 (10.11%) DevSecOps
18 89 (10.00%) Data Modelling
19 87 (9.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 411 (46.18%) Python
2 175 (19.66%) SQL
3 122 (13.71%) Bash
4 99 (11.12%) Java
5 92 (10.34%) PowerShell
6 67 (7.53%) Bicep
7 63 (7.08%) TypeScript
8 48 (5.39%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.06%) C#
10 42 (4.72%) Go
11 17 (1.91%) Scala
12 13 (1.46%) Ruby
12 13 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.79%) C
14 6 (0.67%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) Groovy
17 3 (0.34%) Cypher
18 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 276 (31.01%) Security Cleared
2 259 (29.10%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.08%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.85%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.49%) Degree
6 29 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.57%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.46%) CISSP
11 10 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
12 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.79%) OSCP
13 6 (0.67%) CCSP
13 6 (0.67%) SANS
14 5 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 59 (6.63%) GDPR
3 48 (5.39%) NIST
4 37 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.37%) QA
6 20 (2.25%) NCSC
7 16 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.35%) HIPAA
9 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.90%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.45%) SLA
12 3 (0.34%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.34%) GRC
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.22%) MiFID
13 2 (0.22%) PSD2
13 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 261 (29.33%) Docker
2 36 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.67%) zsh
7 5 (0.56%) Squid
8 4 (0.45%) Snort
8 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.45%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.22%) KVM
10 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.11%) etcd
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) Lustre
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 674 (75.73%) Terraform
2 319 (35.84%) Kubernetes
3 139 (15.62%) Ansible
4 93 (10.45%) Grafana
5 86 (9.66%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.03%) Argo
7 18 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.69%) Puppet
9 14 (1.57%) Istio
10 11 (1.24%) Kibana
11 10 (1.12%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (1.01%) Rancher
13 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.67%) Nessus
16 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
16 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
17 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
17 4 (0.45%) vRealize
Vendors
1 142 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.55%) Databricks
3 79 (8.88%) Google
4 45 (5.06%) Splunk
5 19 (2.13%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.13%) VMware
6 18 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 15 (1.69%) Cisco
8 14 (1.57%) CyberArk
8 14 (1.57%) Dynatrace
9 11 (1.24%) Oracle
10 10 (1.12%) PagerDuty
11 9 (1.01%) Qualys
11 9 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.01%) Solace
12 8 (0.90%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.90%) F5
12 8 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.90%) IBM