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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 61 93
Rank change year-on-year +22 +32 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 895 488 441
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.46% 3.74% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.08% 4.11% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 332 319
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -9.45%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £750 £738 £776
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +75.88% -32.00% +10.13%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 +29 123 £550 - 80
West London +11 34 £603 +26.84% 8
South London +2 22 £530 -3.64% 5
East London +1 3 £562 -3.93% 5
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 43 (4.80%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.58%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.35%) Apache
4 17 (1.90%) Confluence
5 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 466 (52.07%) AWS
2 446 (49.83%) Azure
3 256 (28.60%) GitHub
4 176 (19.66%) AWS CloudFormation
5 175 (19.55%) GCP
6 172 (19.22%) Serverless
7 166 (18.55%) GitHub Actions
8 164 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (15.87%) Amazon S3
10 117 (13.07%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (9.83%) Amazon EKS
12 85 (9.50%) Amazon ECS
13 69 (7.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 69 (7.71%) Power Platform
14 58 (6.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (6.03%) Azure AKS
16 53 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
16 53 (5.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 52 (5.81%) Azure Monitor
18 48 (5.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.49%) Firewall
2 44 (4.92%) Network Security
3 36 (4.02%) DNS
4 31 (3.46%) VPN
5 18 (2.01%) WAN
6 15 (1.68%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.23%) BGP
8 9 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.89%) OSPF
10 7 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.67%) Multicast
12 5 (0.56%) DHCP
12 5 (0.56%) MPLS
12 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.45%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.45%) LAN
13 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
13 4 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.93%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (5.59%) Power BI
4 46 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
6 38 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (3.58%) Azure SQL Database
9 31 (3.46%) SQL Server
10 29 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 28 (3.13%) DynamoDB
12 26 (2.91%) Delta Lake
13 24 (2.68%) Redis
14 19 (2.12%) NoSQL
15 18 (2.01%) MongoDB
15 18 (2.01%) OLTP
16 17 (1.90%) Mixpanel
17 16 (1.79%) OLAP
18 15 (1.68%) MySQL
19 14 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 160 (17.88%) Jenkins
2 127 (14.19%) GitLab
3 107 (11.96%) Git
4 31 (3.46%) JIRA
5 20 (2.23%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.68%) MLflow
7 7 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.78%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.56%) Snyk
9 5 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.34%) git-flow
11 3 (0.34%) JUnit
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) RStudio
General
1 189 (21.12%) Social Skills
2 143 (15.98%) Finance
3 116 (12.96%) Public Sector
4 48 (5.36%) Banking
5 46 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.56%) Retail
9 12 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.01%) Front Office
10 9 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.78%) Legal
11 7 (0.78%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.56%) Marketing
13 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.45%) Electronics
14 4 (0.45%) Military
15 3 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 162 (18.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (15.64%) Senior
3 125 (13.97%) Architect
4 100 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 99 (11.06%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (10.95%) Data Engineer
7 80 (8.94%) Lead
8 76 (8.49%) Developer
9 69 (7.71%) AWS Engineer
9 69 (7.71%) Platform Engineer
10 38 (4.25%) Security Engineer
11 37 (4.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (4.02%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
14 34 (3.80%) Software Engineer
15 30 (3.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.35%) Cloud Architect
16 29 (3.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 29 (3.24%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (10.73%) Kafka
2 70 (7.82%) Node.js
3 46 (5.14%) PySpark
3 46 (5.14%) React
4 42 (4.69%) .NET
4 42 (4.69%) OAuth
5 40 (4.47%) ARM Templates
6 39 (4.36%) REST
7 35 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
7 35 (3.91%) YAML
8 32 (3.58%) RESTful
8 32 (3.58%) Spring
9 31 (3.46%) AngularJS
10 28 (3.13%) OpenID
11 27 (3.02%) Playwright
11 27 (3.02%) Spring Boot
12 25 (2.79%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.68%) GraphQL
14 20 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (2.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 247 (27.60%) Cloud Native
2 52 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 27 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 23 (2.57%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.57%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.46%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.56%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.12%) Replication
12 9 (1.01%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.01%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.78%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.67%) AI Agents
15 6 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.39%) Linux
2 39 (4.36%) Windows
3 22 (2.46%) VMS
4 14 (1.56%) Unix
5 7 (0.78%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (75.53%) CI/CD
2 550 (61.45%) DevOps
3 238 (26.59%) Containerisation
4 203 (22.68%) Observability
5 190 (21.23%) Agile
6 167 (18.66%) Analytics
7 162 (18.10%) AI
8 133 (14.86%) Migration
9 130 (14.53%) Platform Engineering
10 118 (13.18%) Microservices
11 105 (11.73%) Test Automation
12 104 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (11.51%) Cloud Security
13 103 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 103 (11.51%) Software Engineering
14 102 (11.40%) Data Modelling
15 101 (11.28%) Data Engineering
16 98 (10.95%) Problem-Solving
17 94 (10.50%) Mentoring
18 92 (10.28%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 415 (46.37%) Python
2 194 (21.68%) SQL
3 109 (12.18%) Bash
4 101 (11.28%) Java
5 96 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 71 (7.93%) Bicep
7 59 (6.59%) TypeScript
8 44 (4.92%) C#
9 40 (4.47%) JavaScript
10 38 (4.25%) Go
11 21 (2.35%) Scala
12 15 (1.68%) Ruby
13 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.78%) C
15 5 (0.56%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) Groovy
16 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.34%) Cypher
17 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 278 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 259 (28.94%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.49%) Azure Certification
4 60 (6.70%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.25%) Degree
6 29 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.56%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.34%) CISSP
12 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (1.01%) CCNP
15 7 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.67%) CCSP
17 5 (0.56%) CCIE
17 5 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.26%) GDPR
3 43 (4.80%) NIST
4 34 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.69%) QA
6 26 (2.91%) NCSC
7 21 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.67%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.34%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.22%) PSD2
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 253 (28.27%) Docker
2 32 (3.58%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (3.46%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.45%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) Squid
10 2 (0.22%) Snort
10 2 (0.22%) zsh
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
1 691 (77.21%) Terraform
2 309 (34.53%) Kubernetes
3 135 (15.08%) Ansible
4 93 (10.39%) Grafana
5 90 (10.06%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.68%) Argo
7 18 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.68%) Puppet
9 14 (1.56%) Istio
10 10 (1.12%) Rancher
11 9 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.89%) Kibana
13 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.78%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.56%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
16 3 (0.34%) Packer
16 3 (0.34%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 143 (15.98%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.94%) Databricks
3 87 (9.72%) Google
4 44 (4.92%) Splunk
5 18 (2.01%) VMware
6 15 (1.68%) Cisco
6 15 (1.68%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.56%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.45%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.23%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.12%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.12%) Oracle
10 10 (1.12%) PagerDuty
11 8 (0.89%) IBM
11 8 (0.89%) Qualys
11 8 (0.89%) Solace
12 7 (0.78%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.67%) New Relic
13 6 (0.67%) Rapid7
13 6 (0.67%) Salesforce