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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 48 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 +41 -1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,283 713 458
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.30% 5.29% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.10% 5.71% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 479 297
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £654 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.95 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.63 -
90th Percentile - £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +13.60% -13.19% -6.81%

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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +23 145 £590 -5.60% 133
South London +22 35 £535 -4.46% 6
West London -18 17 £725 +70.59% 40
East London +5 6 £600 - 13
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 56 (4.36%) Confluence
2 48 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.49%) Apache
4 22 (1.71%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.86%) nginx
7 8 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.55%) CMS
9 5 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.16%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.078%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.078%) IIS
12 1 (0.078%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.078%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.078%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.078%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 685 (53.39%) AWS
2 641 (49.96%) Azure
3 332 (25.88%) GitHub
4 240 (18.71%) GitHub Actions
5 238 (18.55%) GCP
6 215 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (16.60%) Serverless
8 184 (14.34%) Amazon S3
9 151 (11.77%) Amazon EKS
10 148 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
11 147 (11.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 128 (9.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 121 (9.43%) Entra ID
14 102 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
15 89 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 80 (6.24%) Azure AKS
17 79 (6.16%) Amazon ECS
18 67 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (5.07%) dbt
20 57 (4.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.39%) Firewall
2 66 (5.14%) DNS
3 54 (4.21%) Network Security
4 49 (3.82%) VPN
5 22 (1.71%) WAN
6 17 (1.33%) BGP
6 17 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.25%) Internet
8 15 (1.17%) DHCP
8 15 (1.17%) SSL
9 10 (0.78%) HTTP
10 9 (0.70%) SSH
11 8 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.62%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.62%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.55%) VLAN
13 6 (0.47%) NGFW
13 6 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
13 6 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.47%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (6.24%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (3.82%) Power BI
4 48 (3.74%) MongoDB
5 42 (3.27%) SQL Server
6 41 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
7 38 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 36 (2.81%) MySQL
9 35 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.73%) Metadata
9 35 (2.73%) Redis
10 34 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.57%) Amazon Aurora
11 33 (2.57%) Data Lake
12 30 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 29 (2.26%) NoSQL
14 27 (2.10%) BigQuery
15 16 (1.25%) Big Data
16 14 (1.09%) Data Vault
17 13 (1.01%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 209 (16.29%) GitLab
2 202 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 193 (15.04%) Git
4 66 (5.14%) JIRA
5 20 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.48%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.09%) Snyk
8 13 (1.01%) Selenium
9 12 (0.94%) Artifactory
9 12 (0.94%) Terragrunt
10 10 (0.78%) JMeter
11 9 (0.70%) JUnit
11 9 (0.70%) MLflow
11 9 (0.70%) Postman
11 9 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 8 (0.62%) Claude Code
13 7 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.47%) Cucumber
15 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
16 4 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 302 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 238 (18.55%) Finance
3 176 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 95 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (5.77%) Banking
6 30 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.56%) Retail
8 14 (1.09%) Law
8 14 (1.09%) Local Government
9 13 (1.01%) Military
10 12 (0.94%) Back Office
10 12 (0.94%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.78%) Front Office
12 10 (0.78%) Legal
12 10 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.55%) Marketing
14 7 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 293 (22.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 202 (15.74%) Senior
3 186 (14.50%) Architect
4 134 (10.44%) Lead
5 127 (9.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 123 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
7 113 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (8.42%) Platform Engineer
9 95 (7.40%) Data Engineer
10 77 (6.00%) Developer
11 76 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 62 (4.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
14 56 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
15 55 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 53 (4.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 48 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
18 45 (3.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 41 (3.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 41 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 968 (75.45%) Terraform
2 113 (8.81%) Kafka
3 95 (7.40%) REST
4 58 (4.52%) PySpark
5 53 (4.13%) RESTful
6 49 (3.82%) React
7 48 (3.74%) OAuth
8 46 (3.59%) .NET
9 43 (3.35%) FastAPI
10 41 (3.20%) ARM Templates
11 38 (2.96%) OpenID
12 35 (2.73%) OAuth2
12 35 (2.73%) YAML
13 32 (2.49%) Node.js
14 31 (2.42%) Spring
15 30 (2.34%) Spring Boot
16 29 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
17 26 (2.03%) Flask
18 23 (1.79%) JSON
19 22 (1.71%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 346 (26.97%) Cloud Native
2 79 (6.16%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (4.75%) Onboarding
4 52 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
5 43 (3.35%) Security Posture
6 41 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (2.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 36 (2.81%) Public Cloud
9 33 (2.57%) AI Agents
9 33 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.57%) Product Ownership
10 30 (2.34%) PKI
11 29 (2.26%) Replication
12 27 (2.10%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.33%) NHS
13 17 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 13 (1.01%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 153 (11.93%) Linux
2 100 (7.79%) Windows
3 35 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 30 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.71%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.48%) VMS
7 16 (1.25%) Unix
8 15 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.23%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Android
14 1 (0.078%) AIX
14 1 (0.078%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (74.43%) CI/CD
2 769 (59.94%) DevOps
3 335 (26.11%) Observability
4 325 (25.33%) Containerisation
5 313 (24.40%) Agile
6 299 (23.30%) Platform Engineering
7 282 (21.98%) AI
8 196 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 190 (14.81%) Software Engineering
10 188 (14.65%) Test Automation
11 182 (14.19%) Migration
12 172 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (12.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 161 (12.55%) Problem-Solving
14 161 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
15 154 (12.00%) Cloud Security
16 146 (11.38%) Deployment Automation
17 140 (10.91%) Data Engineering
18 139 (10.83%) Microservices
19 136 (10.60%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 583 (45.44%) Python
2 211 (16.45%) Bash
3 210 (16.37%) PowerShell
4 208 (16.21%) SQL
5 144 (11.22%) Bicep
6 136 (10.60%) Java
7 73 (5.69%) C#
8 72 (5.61%) JavaScript
9 66 (5.14%) TypeScript
10 54 (4.21%) Go
11 26 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.56%) Groovy
13 18 (1.40%) Scala
14 11 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.62%) Korn
16 7 (0.55%) Perl
17 6 (0.47%) C++
18 5 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 451 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 404 (31.49%) SC Cleared
3 90 (7.01%) AWS Certification
4 87 (6.78%) Azure Certification
5 66 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 50 (3.90%) Degree
7 36 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.49%) CISSP
10 28 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.48%) CISM
14 15 (1.17%) CCNP
15 13 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.86%) GIAC
17 9 (0.70%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 55 (4.29%) QA
3 38 (2.96%) NIST
4 37 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.49%) GDPR
6 17 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.33%) NCSC
7 14 (1.09%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.31%) SLA
9 4 (0.31%) WCAG
10 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.23%) COBIT
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.078%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 344 (26.81%) Docker
2 64 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
4 37 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 27 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.78%) vSphere
7 9 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.62%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.23%) Squid
12 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.16%) IAG
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.16%) Postfix
13 1 (0.078%) NFS
13 1 (0.078%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.078%) zsh
Systems Management
1 517 (40.30%) Kubernetes
2 212 (16.52%) Ansible
3 161 (12.55%) Grafana
4 135 (10.52%) Prometheus
5 32 (2.49%) Argo
5 32 (2.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 30 (2.34%) Puppet
7 20 (1.56%) Kubeflow
8 15 (1.17%) Packer
9 12 (0.94%) Kibana
9 12 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.78%) systemd
12 9 (0.70%) SCCM
13 8 (0.62%) Control-M
13 8 (0.62%) Istio
14 7 (0.55%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 263 (20.50%) Microsoft
2 109 (8.50%) Google
3 100 (7.79%) Databricks
4 77 (6.00%) Splunk
5 53 (4.13%) VMware
6 50 (3.90%) Oracle
7 36 (2.81%) Cisco
8 34 (2.65%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.34%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.03%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.40%) Okta
12 18 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.17%) Foundry
13 15 (1.17%) Informatica
14 14 (1.09%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.94%) Arista
15 12 (0.94%) CyberArk
16 9 (0.70%) AppDynamics
17 8 (0.62%) Cloudera