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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 81 86
Rank change year-on-year +44 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 825 444 469
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.75% 3.17% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 3.51% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 290 348
10th Percentile £384 £407 £425
25th Percentile £449 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £679
90th Percentile £725 £734 £786
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -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 £77.00 £27.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +180.00% -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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 January 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 January 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 +34 102 £550 - 65
West London +6 32 £603 +26.84% 8
South London +8 15 £530 -22.63% 7
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 27 (3.27%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.42%) Confluence
4 18 (2.18%) Apache
5 5 (0.61%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Summit
2 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 429 (52.00%) AWS
2 393 (47.64%) Azure
3 229 (27.76%) GitHub
4 161 (19.52%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (18.55%) GCP
6 146 (17.70%) Serverless
7 145 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (17.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 119 (14.42%) Amazon S3
10 100 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
11 78 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
12 72 (8.73%) Amazon ECS
13 63 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (6.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (5.94%) Entra ID
17 48 (5.82%) Azure AKS
17 48 (5.82%) Power Platform
18 41 (4.97%) Datadog
18 41 (4.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.82%) Firewall
2 41 (4.97%) Network Security
2 41 (4.97%) VPN
3 34 (4.12%) DNS
4 16 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.82%) SSL
6 14 (1.70%) WAN
7 12 (1.45%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.97%) BGP
9 6 (0.73%) Multicast
9 6 (0.73%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.61%) OSPF
10 5 (0.61%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.61%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.48%) MPLS
11 4 (0.48%) VLAN
12 3 (0.36%) DHCP
12 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.94%) Data Lake
2 47 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
4 38 (4.61%) Power BI
5 31 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
7 29 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.39%) DynamoDB
9 22 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.67%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (2.30%) Redis
11 18 (2.18%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.82%) MySQL
13 13 (1.58%) MongoDB
14 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
14 11 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.33%) Relational Database
15 10 (1.21%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 155 (18.79%) Jenkins
2 124 (15.03%) GitLab
3 86 (10.42%) Git
4 34 (4.12%) JIRA
5 17 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 16 (1.94%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.97%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.85%) MLflow
9 7 (0.85%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.73%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.73%) Gradle
10 6 (0.73%) Maven
10 6 (0.73%) Selenium
11 5 (0.61%) Snyk
12 4 (0.48%) Postman
12 4 (0.48%) RStudio
13 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.36%) GoCD
General
1 179 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 131 (15.88%) Finance
3 93 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.91%) Banking
5 50 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (1.82%) Retail
8 14 (1.70%) Front Office
9 12 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.21%) Marketing
10 10 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.09%) Publishing
12 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.85%) Military
14 6 (0.73%) Electronics
15 4 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 182 (22.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 127 (15.39%) Senior
3 87 (10.55%) Developer
4 84 (10.18%) Architect
5 74 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (8.85%) AWS Engineer
7 72 (8.73%) Data Engineer
8 70 (8.48%) Platform Engineer
9 67 (8.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 52 (6.30%) Lead
11 42 (5.09%) Security Engineer
12 40 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
13 39 (4.73%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 35 (4.24%) Software Engineer
15 32 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
16 29 (3.52%) Site Engineer
17 28 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
18 27 (3.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.03%) Kafka
2 61 (7.39%) Node.js
3 42 (5.09%) React
4 41 (4.97%) YAML
5 39 (4.73%) Spring
6 38 (4.61%) ARM Templates
7 37 (4.48%) REST
8 35 (4.24%) .NET
8 35 (4.24%) Spring Boot
9 34 (4.12%) OAuth
10 31 (3.76%) AngularJS
10 31 (3.76%) RESTful
11 28 (3.39%) AWS CDK
11 28 (3.39%) PySpark
12 25 (3.03%) GraphQL
12 25 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
13 23 (2.79%) Elastic Stack
13 23 (2.79%) Playwright
14 20 (2.42%) gRPC
15 19 (2.30%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 207 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.27%) Public Cloud
4 26 (3.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.18%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.70%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.58%) Replication
11 12 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.33%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
16 7 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 110 (13.33%) Linux
2 49 (5.94%) Windows
3 23 (2.79%) VMS
4 18 (2.18%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.06%) Unix
6 11 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.61%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (74.79%) CI/CD
2 508 (61.58%) DevOps
3 209 (25.33%) Containerisation
4 200 (24.24%) Agile
5 181 (21.94%) Observability
6 125 (15.15%) AI
7 121 (14.67%) Migration
8 119 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
9 118 (14.30%) Software Engineering
10 112 (13.58%) Analytics
11 110 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
12 108 (13.09%) Microservices
13 99 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 93 (11.27%) DevSecOps
15 89 (10.79%) Cloud Security
16 82 (9.94%) Test Automation
17 80 (9.70%) Infrastructure Automation
18 78 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
19 73 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
20 71 (8.61%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 395 (47.88%) Python
2 145 (17.58%) SQL
3 128 (15.52%) Bash
4 104 (12.61%) Java
5 93 (11.27%) PowerShell
6 63 (7.64%) TypeScript
7 58 (7.03%) Bicep
8 46 (5.58%) Go
9 40 (4.85%) C#
9 40 (4.85%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.45%) Ruby
11 11 (1.33%) Scala
12 10 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.61%) C++
14 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Rust
15 4 (0.48%) C
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 224 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 208 (25.21%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.55%) Azure Certification
4 52 (6.30%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.48%) Degree
6 25 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (1.33%) CISSP
10 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.09%) MCP
12 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.85%) OSCP
14 6 (0.73%) CCSP
14 6 (0.73%) SANS
15 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.67%) GDPR
2 40 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.61%) NIST
4 32 (3.88%) QA
5 29 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.58%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.33%) NCSC
9 9 (1.09%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.24%) MiFID
13 2 (0.24%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 252 (30.55%) Docker
2 39 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 28 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.85%) zsh
6 6 (0.73%) Squid
7 5 (0.61%) Snort
8 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.36%) vSphere
10 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) etcd
11 1 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 619 (75.03%) Terraform
2 299 (36.24%) Kubernetes
3 153 (18.55%) Ansible
4 102 (12.36%) Grafana
5 89 (10.79%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.15%) Argo
7 20 (2.42%) Puppet
8 15 (1.82%) Kibana
9 14 (1.70%) Istio
9 14 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
10 12 (1.45%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.33%) Rancher
12 6 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.73%) Nessus
13 5 (0.61%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.61%) logstash
14 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 137 (16.61%) Microsoft
2 79 (9.58%) Google
3 67 (8.12%) Databricks
4 36 (4.36%) Splunk
5 21 (2.55%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.30%) Cisco
8 18 (2.18%) VMware
9 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.45%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.45%) Solace
11 11 (1.33%) Oracle
12 10 (1.21%) PagerDuty
12 10 (1.21%) Qualys
12 10 (1.21%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.09%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.09%) F5
13 9 (1.09%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.85%) SAP