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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +41 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 797 481 542
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.61% 3.02% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 3.37% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 311 404
10th Percentile £400 £438 £425
25th Percentile £447 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £748 £818
England median daily rate £537 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -4.96% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £53.95 - £57.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £76.53
% change year-on-year +2.04% -19.97% +5.56%

All Process and 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 14,255 17,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 89.59% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,612 9,195 12,635
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 174 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.24 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +18 85 £569 -1.09% 42
West London +1 21 £603 +26.84% 7
South London 0 8 £530 - 1
East London +7 5 - - 12
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 30 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.38%) Confluence
3 18 (2.26%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.88%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.50%) SAS
5 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.50%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.50%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.50%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 419 (52.57%) AWS
2 367 (46.05%) Azure
3 207 (25.97%) GitHub
4 150 (18.82%) GitHub Actions
5 142 (17.82%) GCP
6 135 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (14.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 114 (14.30%) Serverless
9 97 (12.17%) Amazon S3
10 72 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 58 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
12 57 (7.15%) Amazon ECS
13 49 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 47 (5.90%) Amazon EC2
14 47 (5.90%) Azure AKS
15 45 (5.65%) Entra ID
16 40 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
16 40 (5.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 40 (5.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 35 (4.39%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (10.04%) Firewall
2 47 (5.90%) Network Security
3 45 (5.65%) VPN
4 36 (4.52%) DNS
5 21 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.76%) SSL
7 13 (1.63%) WAN
8 11 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.25%) BGP
10 9 (1.13%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.88%) Multicast
11 7 (0.88%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.75%) OSPF
13 5 (0.63%) HTTP
14 4 (0.50%) MPLS
14 4 (0.50%) VLAN
15 3 (0.38%) Internet
15 3 (0.38%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.90%) Data Lake
2 43 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.51%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.14%) DynamoDB
6 25 (3.14%) Power BI
7 20 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 18 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 17 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 14 (1.76%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.76%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.63%) Metadata
12 13 (1.63%) Redis
13 11 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
14 10 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (1.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 139 (17.44%) Jenkins
2 109 (13.68%) GitLab
3 81 (10.16%) Git
4 34 (4.27%) JIRA
5 26 (3.26%) SonarQube
6 16 (2.01%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.13%) Maven
9 8 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.00%) Gradle
9 8 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.88%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.88%) Metasploit
10 7 (0.88%) Selenium
10 7 (0.88%) Snyk
11 6 (0.75%) MLflow
12 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.50%) Postman
14 3 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 190 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.81%) Finance
3 89 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 68 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.28%) Banking
6 20 (2.51%) Front Office
7 19 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.63%) Publishing
10 13 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.51%) Retail
12 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.25%) Military
14 9 (1.13%) Law
14 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.00%) Marketing
16 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.75%) Electronics
17 6 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 147 (18.44%) DevOps Engineer
2 145 (18.19%) Senior
3 87 (10.92%) Developer
4 83 (10.41%) Architect
5 81 (10.16%) Platform Engineer
6 76 (9.54%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (8.16%) Data Engineer
8 63 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 59 (7.40%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (6.78%) Lead
11 47 (5.90%) Security Engineer
12 38 (4.77%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (4.27%) Software Engineer
14 32 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) GCP Engineer
15 30 (3.76%) Senior Developer
16 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (10.04%) Kafka
2 57 (7.15%) Node.js
3 39 (4.89%) React
3 39 (4.89%) YAML
4 34 (4.27%) ARM Templates
5 33 (4.14%) RESTful
6 32 (4.02%) .NET
7 31 (3.89%) Spring
8 29 (3.64%) REST
9 28 (3.51%) GraphQL
10 27 (3.39%) Spring Boot
11 25 (3.14%) AngularJS
11 25 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 25 (3.14%) OAuth
12 24 (3.01%) AWS CDK
13 22 (2.76%) gRPC
14 20 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
15 19 (2.38%) Playwright
15 19 (2.38%) PySpark
16 17 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 179 (22.46%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.89%) Public Cloud
4 30 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.26%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.51%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.88%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.51%) Replication
15 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.00%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 104 (13.05%) Linux
2 41 (5.14%) Windows
3 20 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.13%) Unix
5 13 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.38%) VMS
7 6 (0.75%) Solaris
8 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 590 (74.03%) CI/CD
2 469 (58.85%) DevOps
3 207 (25.97%) Agile
4 200 (25.09%) Containerisation
5 145 (18.19%) Observability
6 144 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (14.55%) Software Engineering
8 114 (14.30%) Platform Engineering
9 100 (12.55%) Microservices
10 99 (12.42%) AI
10 99 (12.42%) DevSecOps
11 98 (12.30%) Analytics
11 98 (12.30%) Cloud Security
12 95 (11.92%) Migration
13 87 (10.92%) Infrastructure Automation
14 84 (10.54%) Test Automation
15 80 (10.04%) Machine Learning
16 78 (9.79%) Data Pipeline
17 76 (9.54%) Mentoring
18 70 (8.78%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 411 (51.57%) Python
2 154 (19.32%) Bash
3 136 (17.06%) SQL
4 113 (14.18%) Java
5 106 (13.30%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.28%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.03%) Go
8 60 (7.53%) Bicep
9 44 (5.52%) JavaScript
10 41 (5.14%) C#
11 10 (1.25%) Scala
11 10 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.88%) Groovy
12 7 (0.88%) Ruby
13 6 (0.75%) C++
13 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.75%) PromQL
14 4 (0.50%) C
15 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 181 (22.71%) Security Cleared
2 163 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 40 (5.02%) Azure Certification
5 35 (4.39%) Degree
6 23 (2.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.51%) CISSP
10 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.25%) OSCP
12 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.63%) CCNP
14 5 (0.63%) CCSP
14 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
14 5 (0.63%) Tigerscheme
15 4 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.78%) GDPR
2 37 (4.64%) NIST
3 36 (4.52%) Data Quality
4 34 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.51%) QA
6 13 (1.63%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.13%) NCSC
7 9 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) MiFID
10 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 249 (31.24%) Docker
2 36 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.13%) zsh
6 6 (0.75%) Snort
6 6 (0.75%) Squid
7 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.25%) KVM
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 595 (74.65%) Terraform
2 295 (37.01%) Kubernetes
3 141 (17.69%) Ansible
4 117 (14.68%) Grafana
5 106 (13.30%) Prometheus
6 24 (3.01%) Puppet
7 22 (2.76%) Argo
8 15 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
8 15 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.51%) Kibana
10 10 (1.25%) Rancher
11 9 (1.13%) Istio
12 8 (1.00%) Nessus
12 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.88%) Nmap
14 6 (0.75%) logstash
15 5 (0.63%) Nexpose
15 5 (0.63%) Suricata
16 4 (0.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 124 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.53%) Google
3 63 (7.90%) Databricks
4 36 (4.52%) Splunk
5 25 (3.14%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.76%) Cisco
7 18 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.01%) VMware
9 15 (1.88%) Solace
10 14 (1.76%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.51%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.51%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.38%) Salesforce
13 10 (1.25%) CheckPoint
13 10 (1.25%) Oracle
13 10 (1.25%) TIBCO
14 9 (1.13%) F5
14 9 (1.13%) Fortinet
14 9 (1.13%) Qualys
14 9 (1.13%) SAP