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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 56 109
Rank change year-on-year +21 +53 -19
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,085 535 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 4.25% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% 4.60% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 741 349 294
10th Percentile £406 £394 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £745
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £78.70 £68.44
% change year-on-year -11.05% +15.00% -12.26%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +21 141 £575 -8.00% 32
West London -15 17 £625 +26.26% 7
South London -3 13 £496 +4.97%
East London - 5 £512 - 10
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 46 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.95%) Confluence
4 26 (2.40%) Apache
5 13 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) SAS
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.092%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.092%) Maximo
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 586 (54.01%) AWS
2 553 (50.97%) Azure
3 293 (27.00%) GitHub
4 203 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (18.53%) Serverless
6 197 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
7 190 (17.51%) GCP
8 169 (15.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 161 (14.84%) Amazon S3
10 137 (12.63%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (7.37%) Power Platform
15 72 (6.64%) Azure AKS
16 67 (6.18%) Entra ID
16 67 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
18 53 (4.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.65%) Firewall
2 51 (4.70%) Network Security
3 50 (4.61%) DNS
4 36 (3.32%) VPN
5 28 (2.58%) WAN
6 19 (1.75%) BGP
7 12 (1.11%) SSL
7 12 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.01%) Internet
8 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.92%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.92%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.83%) OSPF
11 8 (0.74%) HTTP
12 7 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.55%) DHCP
13 6 (0.55%) NAS
13 6 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
2 58 (5.35%) Data Lake
2 58 (5.35%) Power BI
3 45 (4.15%) Amazon RDS
3 45 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 37 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (3.32%) Delta Lake
7 33 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 32 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 31 (2.86%) DynamoDB
10 28 (2.58%) BigQuery
11 27 (2.49%) Redis
12 26 (2.40%) NoSQL
13 22 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 17 (1.57%) Metadata
15 16 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (1.38%) Tableau
17 13 (1.20%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 181 (16.68%) Jenkins
2 161 (14.84%) GitLab
3 152 (14.01%) Git
4 54 (4.98%) JIRA
5 16 (1.47%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.29%) MLflow
6 14 (1.29%) Snyk
7 13 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.74%) JMeter
10 8 (0.74%) JUnit
10 8 (0.74%) Mockito
11 6 (0.55%) Postman
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 206 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 174 (16.04%) Finance
3 153 (14.10%) Public Sector
4 64 (5.90%) Banking
5 45 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.29%) Retail
10 13 (1.20%) Law
11 11 (1.01%) Legal
11 11 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.65%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.55%) Local Government
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Front Office
15 5 (0.46%) Military
15 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 231 (21.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (17.33%) Architect
3 160 (14.75%) Senior
4 128 (11.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 124 (11.43%) Azure Engineer
6 107 (9.86%) Lead
7 101 (9.31%) Data Engineer
8 96 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
9 83 (7.65%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (6.54%) Developer
11 55 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 46 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.15%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (3.32%) AWS Architect
18 34 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (7.93%) Kafka
2 63 (5.81%) PySpark
3 60 (5.53%) REST
4 53 (4.88%) OAuth
5 52 (4.79%) RESTful
6 50 (4.61%) React
7 46 (4.24%) Node.js
8 42 (3.87%) OpenID
9 41 (3.78%) OAuth2
10 38 (3.50%) .NET
11 32 (2.95%) ARM Templates
12 30 (2.76%) Spring
13 29 (2.67%) YAML
14 28 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
14 28 (2.58%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.49%) SAML
16 24 (2.21%) AngularJS
17 23 (2.12%) AWS CDK
18 19 (1.75%) FastAPI
18 19 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 326 (30.05%) Cloud Native
2 76 (7.00%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (2.76%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.76%) Security Posture
6 27 (2.49%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 17 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.01%) PKI
11 10 (0.92%) Private Cloud
11 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.74%) Replication
12 8 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.12%) Linux
2 68 (6.27%) Windows
3 22 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.47%) Unix
6 14 (1.29%) VMS
7 13 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Android
10 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.092%) AIX
11 1 (0.092%) Debian
11 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (75.85%) CI/CD
2 681 (62.76%) DevOps
3 307 (28.29%) Containerisation
4 232 (21.38%) Agile
4 232 (21.38%) Observability
4 232 (21.38%) Platform Engineering
5 213 (19.63%) AI
6 155 (14.29%) Analytics
7 146 (13.46%) Test Automation
8 145 (13.36%) Microservices
9 142 (13.09%) Migration
10 128 (11.80%) Software Engineering
11 126 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (10.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 114 (10.51%) Data Modelling
14 113 (10.41%) Cloud Security
15 112 (10.32%) Mentoring
16 106 (9.77%) Machine Learning
17 105 (9.68%) Event-Driven
18 102 (9.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 475 (43.78%) Python
2 190 (17.51%) SQL
3 141 (13.00%) Bash
4 138 (12.72%) PowerShell
5 116 (10.69%) Java
6 108 (9.95%) Bicep
7 60 (5.53%) C#
8 56 (5.16%) TypeScript
9 53 (4.88%) JavaScript
10 41 (3.78%) Go
11 22 (2.03%) Scala
12 18 (1.66%) Ruby
13 16 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.65%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) C
16 4 (0.37%) Cypher
16 4 (0.37%) Rust
17 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
18 2 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 399 (36.77%) Security Cleared
2 373 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.19%) Azure Certification
4 55 (5.07%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.06%) Degree
6 38 (3.50%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.57%) CISSP
12 16 (1.47%) CCNP
12 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.83%) CISM
16 8 (0.74%) GIAC
17 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.42%) NIST
3 44 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.69%) GDPR
5 36 (3.32%) QA
6 31 (2.86%) NCSC
7 23 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.47%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.65%) SLA
11 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.37%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.37%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.18%) PSD2
14 2 (0.18%) SEPA
15 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 271 (24.98%) Docker
2 38 (3.50%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.092%) Squid
10 1 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 840 (77.42%) Terraform
2 409 (37.70%) Kubernetes
3 172 (15.85%) Ansible
4 116 (10.69%) Prometheus
5 109 (10.05%) Grafana
6 24 (2.21%) Puppet
7 19 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.38%) Argo
9 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.01%) Packer
10 10 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
13 6 (0.55%) Istio
14 5 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.46%) Kibana
14 5 (0.46%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.28%) systemd
Vendors
1 161 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.20%) Databricks
3 83 (7.65%) Google
4 59 (5.44%) Splunk
5 28 (2.58%) VMware
6 27 (2.49%) Oracle
7 24 (2.21%) Dynatrace
8 23 (2.12%) Cisco
9 21 (1.94%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.75%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.47%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.20%) ServiceNow
14 12 (1.11%) Arista
14 12 (1.11%) Okta
14 12 (1.11%) Red Hat
15 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.83%) Foundry
15 9 (0.83%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.74%) Rapid7