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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 49 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +43 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,236 673 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.13% 5.04% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.91% 5.44% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 453 292
10th Percentile £421 £394 £413
25th Percentile £466 £450 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £774
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 £62.19
% change year-on-year +13.60% +0.50% -20.27%

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 17,900 12,362 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.61% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,695 8,173 9,697
10th Percentile £359 £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 £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 255 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.09 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 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 14 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 +21 142 £575 -8.00% 124
South London +20 34 £535 - 12
West London -19 11 £725 +70.59% 30
East London +6 8 £600 - 18
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 57 (4.61%) Confluence
2 47 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 45 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (2.59%) Apache
5 18 (1.46%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.65%) nginx
8 7 (0.57%) CMS
8 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.081%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.081%) Camunda
12 1 (0.081%) IIS
12 1 (0.081%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.081%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.081%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 662 (53.56%) AWS
2 623 (50.40%) Azure
3 326 (26.38%) GitHub
4 239 (19.34%) GitHub Actions
5 224 (18.12%) GCP
6 216 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (17.15%) Serverless
8 172 (13.92%) Amazon S3
9 147 (11.89%) AWS Lambda
10 146 (11.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 131 (10.60%) Amazon EKS
12 115 (9.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 102 (8.25%) Entra ID
14 89 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
15 82 (6.63%) Azure AKS
16 77 (6.23%) Amazon ECS
17 76 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 63 (5.10%) Azure Monitor
18 63 (5.10%) dbt
19 59 (4.77%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.47%) Firewall
2 56 (4.53%) DNS
3 45 (3.64%) Network Security
3 45 (3.64%) VPN
4 26 (2.10%) WAN
5 21 (1.70%) BGP
6 14 (1.13%) Internet
7 13 (1.05%) DHCP
7 13 (1.05%) SSL
7 13 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.81%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.73%) HTTP
9 9 (0.73%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.65%) SSH
11 7 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (0.57%) IOS XR
11 7 (0.57%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.57%) VLAN
12 5 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (5.50%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.88%) Power BI
4 45 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 40 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.83%) Delta Lake
8 35 (2.83%) DynamoDB
9 34 (2.75%) Data Lake
10 33 (2.67%) Metadata
11 32 (2.59%) Redis
12 30 (2.43%) MySQL
13 29 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.35%) BigQuery
14 28 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
14 28 (2.27%) NoSQL
15 16 (1.29%) Big Data
16 14 (1.13%) Relational Database
17 13 (1.05%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 195 (15.78%) Jenkins
2 189 (15.29%) GitLab
3 183 (14.81%) Git
4 65 (5.26%) JIRA
5 20 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.21%) Snyk
8 12 (0.97%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.81%) JUnit
10 9 (0.73%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.73%) JMeter
10 9 (0.73%) MLflow
10 9 (0.73%) Selenium
11 8 (0.65%) Postman
12 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.57%) Mockito
13 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.49%) Claude Code
14 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 283 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 217 (17.56%) Finance
3 177 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 85 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (5.74%) Banking
6 31 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
8 21 (1.70%) Retail
9 14 (1.13%) Law
10 13 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (0.97%) Local Government
12 11 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.81%) Legal
13 10 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.73%) Front Office
14 9 (0.73%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.73%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.57%) Back Office
15 7 (0.57%) Police
16 6 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 276 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 198 (16.02%) Senior
3 195 (15.78%) Architect
4 133 (10.76%) Lead
5 122 (9.87%) Azure Engineer
6 117 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
7 109 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
8 107 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (7.61%) Data Engineer
10 86 (6.96%) Developer
11 69 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 60 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 55 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
14 51 (4.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 51 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
15 50 (4.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 49 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
16 49 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 39 (3.16%) GCP Engineer
18 36 (2.91%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 935 (75.65%) Terraform
2 104 (8.41%) Kafka
3 83 (6.72%) REST
4 63 (5.10%) PySpark
5 58 (4.69%) RESTful
6 48 (3.88%) React
7 43 (3.48%) .NET
8 39 (3.16%) ARM Templates
8 39 (3.16%) OAuth
9 36 (2.91%) FastAPI
9 36 (2.91%) Node.js
10 35 (2.83%) Spring
10 35 (2.83%) YAML
11 34 (2.75%) Spring Boot
12 33 (2.67%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.27%) OpenID
14 27 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
15 26 (2.10%) AngularJS
16 25 (2.02%) Django
17 23 (1.86%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 335 (27.10%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (4.45%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.80%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (3.24%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.91%) Security Posture
7 32 (2.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 30 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 28 (2.27%) AI Agents
10 27 (2.18%) Replication
11 25 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 25 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (2.02%) Public Cloud
12 23 (1.86%) PKI
13 17 (1.38%) NHS
13 17 (1.38%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
14 16 (1.29%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.21%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 136 (11.00%) Linux
2 87 (7.04%) Windows
3 31 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.70%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.29%) Unix
7 14 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.13%) VMS
8 7 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.081%) AIX
13 1 (0.081%) Debian
13 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.081%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (75.24%) CI/CD
2 743 (60.11%) DevOps
3 339 (27.43%) Containerisation
4 314 (25.40%) Observability
5 303 (24.51%) Agile
6 284 (22.98%) Platform Engineering
7 260 (21.04%) AI
8 186 (15.05%) Software Engineering
9 177 (14.32%) Test Automation
10 176 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 169 (13.67%) Migration
12 159 (12.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 157 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
14 150 (12.14%) Microservices
15 149 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
16 143 (11.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 134 (10.84%) Cloud Security
17 134 (10.84%) Event-Driven
18 132 (10.68%) Analytics
19 124 (10.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 548 (44.34%) Python
2 197 (15.94%) SQL
3 195 (15.78%) PowerShell
4 194 (15.70%) Bash
5 138 (11.17%) Bicep
6 137 (11.08%) Java
7 71 (5.74%) C#
8 70 (5.66%) JavaScript
9 63 (5.10%) TypeScript
10 44 (3.56%) Go
11 22 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.38%) Scala
13 16 (1.29%) Groovy
14 14 (1.13%) Ruby
15 7 (0.57%) Korn
15 7 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.49%) Perl
17 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 452 (36.57%) Security Cleared
2 413 (33.41%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.36%) Azure Certification
4 77 (6.23%) AWS Certification
5 62 (5.02%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.21%) Degree
7 32 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 30 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 27 (2.18%) CISSP
11 25 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.54%) CCNP
14 18 (1.46%) CISM
15 13 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.97%) GIAC
17 9 (0.73%) DBS Check
17 9 (0.73%) Master's Degree
18 8 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 50 (4.05%) QA
3 37 (2.99%) NIST
4 36 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.67%) GDPR
6 20 (1.62%) NCSC
7 15 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.89%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.40%) COBIT
11 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.32%) SLA
11 4 (0.32%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.081%) PSD2
System Software
1 335 (27.10%) Docker
2 55 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.65%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.65%) vSphere
8 6 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.16%) Postfix
12 1 (0.081%) IAG
12 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.081%) NFS
12 1 (0.081%) Samba
12 1 (0.081%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 495 (40.05%) Kubernetes
2 197 (15.94%) Ansible
3 148 (11.97%) Grafana
4 130 (10.52%) Prometheus
5 29 (2.35%) Puppet
6 27 (2.18%) Argo
7 24 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (1.21%) Kubeflow
8 15 (1.21%) Packer
9 13 (1.05%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.73%) Kibana
12 9 (0.73%) systemd
13 8 (0.65%) Control-M
13 8 (0.65%) SCCM
14 7 (0.57%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.49%) Istio
16 4 (0.32%) Cilium
16 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 242 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 98 (7.93%) Databricks
3 94 (7.61%) Google
4 72 (5.83%) Splunk
5 53 (4.29%) Oracle
6 48 (3.88%) VMware
7 38 (3.07%) Cisco
8 30 (2.43%) Dynatrace
9 27 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.02%) OpenAI
11 19 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 19 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.38%) Okta
13 16 (1.29%) Arista
14 15 (1.21%) Foundry
15 14 (1.13%) Informatica
15 14 (1.13%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.89%) Fortinet
17 9 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 8 (0.65%) New Relic