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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 64 97
Rank change year-on-year +26 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 948 478 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.47% 3.78% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 4.12% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 326 303
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £58.90 - £55.38
25th Percentile £62.13 - £55.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £58.75
75th Percentile £74.63 - £60.00
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £66.57 £27.38 £60.00
% change year-on-year +143.17% -54.38% -23.08%

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 15,475 11,601 15,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 91.69% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,379 7,867 11,338
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £803 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 333
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.03 £34.11
% change year-on-year +24.90% -6.10% -9.05%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 +31 136 £550 -2.22% 87
West London +6 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London -2 21 £530 +1.44% 2
East London -2 4 £562 -3.93% 6
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 48 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.59%) Apache
3 30 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.00%) Confluence
5 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.53%) SAS
7 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 509 (53.69%) AWS
2 483 (50.95%) Azure
3 255 (26.90%) GitHub
4 189 (19.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 188 (19.83%) Serverless
6 179 (18.88%) GCP
7 176 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
8 166 (17.51%) GitHub Actions
9 156 (16.46%) Amazon S3
10 131 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.49%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (9.28%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (7.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 73 (7.70%) Power Platform
14 64 (6.75%) Azure AKS
15 58 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 57 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 54 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 74 (7.81%) Firewall
2 41 (4.32%) Network Security
3 37 (3.90%) DNS
4 26 (2.74%) VPN
5 16 (1.69%) WAN
6 15 (1.58%) BGP
7 10 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.95%) OSPF
8 9 (0.95%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.63%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.63%) IOS XR
11 6 (0.63%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.53%) MPLS
13 4 (0.42%) Internet
13 4 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.38%) Data Lake
2 56 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (5.38%) Power BI
4 49 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
5 44 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
6 43 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (3.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (3.59%) BigQuery
9 32 (3.38%) SQL Server
10 31 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 30 (3.16%) DynamoDB
12 26 (2.74%) Delta Lake
13 22 (2.32%) NoSQL
14 21 (2.22%) MongoDB
14 21 (2.22%) Redis
15 20 (2.11%) Tableau
16 19 (2.00%) OLTP
17 18 (1.90%) Mixpanel
18 17 (1.79%) OLAP
19 16 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 155 (16.35%) Jenkins
2 131 (13.82%) Git
3 124 (13.08%) GitLab
4 32 (3.38%) JIRA
5 23 (2.43%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.58%) MLflow
7 9 (0.95%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.95%) Snyk
8 8 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.63%) JUnit
11 5 (0.53%) Mockito
11 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.32%) git-flow
General
1 195 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 147 (15.51%) Finance
3 130 (13.71%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.49%) Banking
5 48 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.27%) Retail
10 10 (1.05%) Legal
11 6 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.53%) Front Office
12 5 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.42%) Games
13 4 (0.42%) Law
13 4 (0.42%) Military
13 4 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 172 (18.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (15.61%) Architect
3 147 (15.51%) Senior
4 113 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
5 103 (10.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 103 (10.86%) Data Engineer
6 89 (9.39%) Lead
7 88 (9.28%) Developer
8 73 (7.70%) Platform Engineer
9 70 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
10 40 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 37 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
12 34 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 33 (3.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 33 (3.48%) GCP Engineer
14 32 (3.38%) Site Engineer
15 31 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
15 31 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (3.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (10.55%) Kafka
2 77 (8.12%) Node.js
3 50 (5.27%) PySpark
4 49 (5.17%) React
5 45 (4.75%) REST
6 42 (4.43%) OAuth
6 42 (4.43%) RESTful
7 40 (4.22%) .NET
7 40 (4.22%) ARM Templates
8 39 (4.11%) AngularJS
8 39 (4.11%) Spring
9 37 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
9 37 (3.90%) YAML
10 34 (3.59%) Spring Boot
11 28 (2.95%) AWS CDK
11 28 (2.95%) OpenID
12 25 (2.64%) Playwright
13 22 (2.32%) GraphQL
14 21 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
14 21 (2.22%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 270 (28.48%) Cloud Native
2 63 (6.65%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.74%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.43%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.27%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
12 8 (0.84%) Replication
13 7 (0.74%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.18%) Linux
2 38 (4.01%) Windows
3 21 (2.22%) VMS
4 12 (1.27%) Unix
5 7 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.32%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) zOS
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (77.22%) CI/CD
2 590 (62.24%) DevOps
3 263 (27.74%) Containerisation
4 219 (23.10%) Observability
5 216 (22.78%) Agile
6 176 (18.57%) AI
7 175 (18.46%) Analytics
8 153 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
9 147 (15.51%) Microservices
10 141 (14.87%) Migration
11 118 (12.45%) Data Modelling
12 117 (12.34%) Software Engineering
13 114 (12.03%) Test Automation
14 112 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 111 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 107 (11.29%) Mentoring
17 106 (11.18%) Problem-Solving
18 103 (10.86%) Data Engineering
19 96 (10.13%) Cloud Security
20 94 (9.92%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 424 (44.73%) Python
2 199 (20.99%) SQL
3 113 (11.92%) Java
4 111 (11.71%) Bash
5 101 (10.65%) PowerShell
6 79 (8.33%) Bicep
7 59 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 50 (5.27%) C#
9 41 (4.32%) JavaScript
10 37 (3.90%) Go
11 25 (2.64%) Ruby
12 22 (2.32%) Scala
13 14 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.74%) C
15 5 (0.53%) Rust
16 4 (0.42%) Groovy
17 3 (0.32%) C++
17 3 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.32%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 331 (34.92%) Security Cleared
2 313 (33.02%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.91%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.43%) AWS Certification
5 39 (4.11%) Degree
6 35 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.64%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.27%) CCNP
12 11 (1.16%) CISSP
12 11 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.63%) CCSP
15 5 (0.53%) CCIE
15 5 (0.53%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.38%) GDPR
3 42 (4.43%) NIST
4 38 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.69%) QA
6 28 (2.95%) NCSC
7 22 (2.32%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.27%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.74%) SLA
10 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) GRC
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.21%) COBIT
12 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.21%) PSD2
12 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 263 (27.74%) Docker
2 35 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.21%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) GPFS
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Lustre
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) Snort
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 730 (77.00%) Terraform
2 337 (35.55%) Kubernetes
3 134 (14.14%) Ansible
4 88 (9.28%) Grafana
4 88 (9.28%) Prometheus
5 23 (2.43%) Argo
6 22 (2.32%) Puppet
7 18 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.37%) Istio
9 11 (1.16%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.95%) Rancher
11 7 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.74%) Kibana
12 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.53%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.53%) Packer
14 4 (0.42%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.42%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.42%) Salt
15 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 150 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.81%) Databricks
3 86 (9.07%) Google
4 46 (4.85%) Splunk
5 20 (2.11%) Oracle
6 17 (1.79%) VMware
7 14 (1.48%) Cisco
7 14 (1.48%) Dynatrace
8 13 (1.37%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.16%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.05%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 9 (0.95%) Arista
11 9 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.84%) IBM
12 8 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.74%) Qualys
13 7 (0.74%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.63%) Rapid7
14 6 (0.63%) Red Hat