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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 61 104
Rank change year-on-year +27 +43 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,074 505 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.70% 4.12% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 4.47% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 333 298
10th Percentile £403 £388 £375
25th Percentile £463 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £643
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -11.05% +16.59% -13.46%

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 16,716 11,308 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.77% 92.32% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,135 7,565 11,176
10th Percentile £359 £346 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 198 317
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +19.45% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +20 141 £563 -10.00% 43
West London -7 21 £603 +21.72% 13
South London +2 16 £513 -1.91%
East London - 5 £575 - 11
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 47 (4.38%) Apache Spark
2 32 (2.98%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.79%) Confluence
4 27 (2.51%) Apache
5 12 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.19%) Camunda
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.093%) Maximo
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.093%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 570 (53.07%) AWS
2 545 (50.74%) Azure
3 297 (27.65%) GitHub
4 202 (18.81%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (18.72%) Serverless
6 189 (17.60%) Azure DevOps
7 187 (17.41%) GCP
8 174 (16.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 162 (15.08%) Amazon S3
10 140 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (8.10%) Amazon ECS
14 75 (6.98%) Power Platform
15 68 (6.33%) Azure AKS
15 68 (6.33%) Entra ID
16 64 (5.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (5.40%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (5.31%) PaaS
19 53 (4.93%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (7.36%) Firewall
2 47 (4.38%) DNS
2 47 (4.38%) Network Security
3 32 (2.98%) VPN
4 25 (2.33%) WAN
5 18 (1.68%) BGP
6 13 (1.21%) SSL
7 11 (1.02%) Internet
7 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
7 11 (1.02%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (0.93%) IOS XR
8 10 (0.93%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.84%) OSPF
10 7 (0.65%) DHCP
10 7 (0.65%) HTTP
10 7 (0.65%) SAN
10 7 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (5.49%) Data Lake
3 53 (4.93%) Power BI
4 46 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 36 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 34 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 33 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 32 (2.98%) BigQuery
10 32 (2.98%) MongoDB
11 31 (2.89%) DynamoDB
12 26 (2.42%) Redis
13 23 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.14%) NoSQL
14 16 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.49%) Tableau
15 15 (1.40%) OLTP
15 15 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (1.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 176 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 152 (14.15%) GitLab
3 147 (13.69%) Git
4 47 (4.38%) JIRA
5 21 (1.96%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.30%) MLflow
6 14 (1.30%) Snyk
7 12 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.84%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.74%) JMeter
9 8 (0.74%) JUnit
10 7 (0.65%) Mockito
11 6 (0.56%) Postman
11 6 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.47%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.47%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 204 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 160 (14.90%) Finance
3 145 (13.50%) Public Sector
4 57 (5.31%) Banking
5 41 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 23 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.49%) Retail
10 13 (1.21%) Law
11 11 (1.02%) Legal
11 11 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.47%) Military
14 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.37%) Local Government
15 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 224 (20.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 185 (17.23%) Architect
3 162 (15.08%) Senior
4 126 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 125 (11.64%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (9.59%) Lead
7 101 (9.40%) Data Engineer
8 91 (8.47%) AWS Engineer
9 81 (7.54%) Developer
10 79 (7.36%) Platform Engineer
11 54 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 47 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (4.19%) AWS DevOps
14 43 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 42 (3.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 39 (3.63%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.63%) Senior DevOps
16 39 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 38 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
18 34 (3.17%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (7.91%) Kafka
2 58 (5.40%) PySpark
3 57 (5.31%) React
4 56 (5.21%) REST
5 53 (4.93%) Node.js
6 51 (4.75%) OAuth
7 50 (4.66%) RESTful
8 43 (4.00%) .NET
9 39 (3.63%) OpenID
10 38 (3.54%) ARM Templates
10 38 (3.54%) OAuth2
11 37 (3.45%) YAML
12 34 (3.17%) AngularJS
12 34 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 34 (3.17%) Spring
13 32 (2.98%) Spring Boot
14 28 (2.61%) AWS CDK
14 28 (2.61%) SAML
15 19 (1.77%) LDAP
16 18 (1.68%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 325 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 32 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.61%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 18 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.49%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.12%) PKI
13 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.74%) Replication
17 7 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.85%) Linux
2 66 (6.15%) Windows
3 21 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.49%) VMS
6 14 (1.30%) Unix
7 12 (1.12%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.19%) Android
10 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.19%) CentOS
10 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.093%) AIX
11 1 (0.093%) Debian
11 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (76.26%) CI/CD
2 680 (63.31%) DevOps
3 304 (28.31%) Containerisation
4 234 (21.79%) Observability
5 220 (20.48%) Agile
6 216 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
7 212 (19.74%) AI
8 156 (14.53%) Analytics
9 151 (14.06%) Migration
10 149 (13.87%) Microservices
11 142 (13.22%) Test Automation
12 125 (11.64%) Software Engineering
13 120 (11.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 119 (11.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 115 (10.71%) Mentoring
16 113 (10.52%) Data Modelling
17 112 (10.43%) Cloud Security
18 101 (9.40%) Machine Learning
19 99 (9.22%) Event-Driven
19 99 (9.22%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 459 (42.74%) Python
2 196 (18.25%) SQL
3 138 (12.85%) PowerShell
4 132 (12.29%) Bash
5 112 (10.43%) Java
6 98 (9.12%) Bicep
7 62 (5.77%) C#
8 56 (5.21%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.75%) JavaScript
10 36 (3.35%) Go
11 25 (2.33%) Scala
12 18 (1.68%) Ruby
13 16 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Groovy
15 5 (0.47%) C
16 3 (0.28%) Cypher
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.19%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 396 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 374 (34.82%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.17%) Azure Certification
4 57 (5.31%) AWS Certification
5 41 (3.82%) Degree
6 34 (3.17%) DV Cleared
7 28 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (1.49%) CCNP
11 16 (1.49%) CISSP
12 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.93%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.84%) CISM
15 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 7 (0.65%) GIAC
16 6 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 49 (4.56%) NIST
3 42 (3.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.72%) GDPR
5 35 (3.26%) QA
6 28 (2.61%) NCSC
7 22 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.19%) PSD2
14 2 (0.19%) SEPA
15 1 (0.093%) NIST 800
System Software
1 271 (25.23%) Docker
2 39 (3.63%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.19%) Squid
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.093%) Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 822 (76.54%) Terraform
2 398 (37.06%) Kubernetes
3 163 (15.18%) Ansible
4 111 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 105 (9.78%) Grafana
6 22 (2.05%) Puppet
7 20 (1.86%) Argo
7 20 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.02%) Istio
9 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.93%) Packer
9 10 (0.93%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.56%) Kibana
13 5 (0.47%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.37%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) Rancher
15 3 (0.28%) systemd
15 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 156 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.38%) Google
3 89 (8.29%) Databricks
4 58 (5.40%) Splunk
5 28 (2.61%) VMware
6 27 (2.51%) Oracle
7 23 (2.14%) Cisco
8 21 (1.96%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.58%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.12%) Arista
13 11 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.84%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.74%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.74%) Foundry
15 8 (0.74%) Okta
15 8 (0.74%) Qualys