Infrastructure as Code Contracts in London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 88 87
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +48
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 388 774 1,191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.19% 2.86% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 3.14% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 538 874
10th Percentile £385 £493 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £713
90th Percentile £780 £793 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £25.80 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 - -
90th Percentile £58.38 £95.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -26.28% +52.38% -14.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 -2 48 £550 -14.73% 14
South London +1 11 £375 -46.43% 1
West London +6 6 £525 -12.50% 5
East London -2 4 £569 +13.75% 11
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (6.96%) OpenStack
2 12 (3.09%) Confluence
3 11 (2.84%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.80%) Apache
4 7 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.29%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.29%) nginx
6 4 (1.03%) Luigi
7 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (47.42%) AWS
2 157 (40.46%) Azure
3 85 (21.91%) GCP
4 75 (19.33%) Serverless
5 58 (14.95%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (13.40%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (12.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (11.86%) Amazon EC2
9 44 (11.34%) IaaS
10 43 (11.08%) Amazon S3
10 43 (11.08%) PaaS
11 40 (10.31%) SaaS
12 36 (9.28%) GitHub
13 28 (7.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (6.44%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (6.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (4.38%) Slack
18 14 (3.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 57 (14.69%) Firewall
2 28 (7.22%) DNS
2 28 (7.22%) VPN
3 23 (5.93%) LAN
4 21 (5.41%) WAN
4 21 (5.41%) WLAN
5 19 (4.90%) TCP/IP
5 19 (4.90%) Wireless
6 17 (4.38%) DHCP
6 17 (4.38%) IPsec
7 14 (3.61%) BGP
7 14 (3.61%) OSPF
8 12 (3.09%) Network Security
9 10 (2.58%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (2.58%) Kerberos
9 10 (2.58%) VLAN
10 9 (2.32%) HTTP
11 8 (2.06%) Cisco Wireless
11 8 (2.06%) NAS
11 8 (2.06%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (4.64%) BigQuery
4 17 (4.38%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.84%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.58%) Big Data
8 9 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.32%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.32%) MySQL
9 8 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.80%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.29%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.03%) Redis
12 4 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.52%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 104 (26.80%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.59%) Git
3 56 (14.43%) GitLab
4 14 (3.61%) JIRA
5 13 (3.35%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.55%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.29%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.29%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.03%) Maven
8 4 (1.03%) Selenium
8 4 (1.03%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.03%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.77%) Subversion
10 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.52%) GoCD
10 2 (0.52%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 96 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.95%) Finance
3 26 (6.70%) Public Sector
4 20 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.90%) Banking
6 12 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.06%) Retail
8 6 (1.55%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.55%) Law
9 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.29%) Marketing
10 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.52%) Billing
12 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.52%) Legal
13 1 (0.26%) Electronics
13 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.26%) Military
13 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (21.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (18.56%) Architect
3 46 (11.86%) AWS Engineer
4 43 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 42 (10.82%) Senior
6 40 (10.31%) Azure Engineer
7 31 (7.99%) AWS DevOps
8 30 (7.73%) Cloud Architect
8 30 (7.73%) Developer
8 30 (7.73%) Lead
9 28 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 23 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 19 (4.90%) GCP Engineer
12 18 (4.64%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 18 (4.64%) Security Architect
13 16 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (3.87%) DevSecOps Engineer
14 15 (3.87%) Network Specialist
15 14 (3.61%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (10.31%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (5.67%) YAML
3 21 (5.41%) REST
4 16 (4.12%) Kafka
5 15 (3.87%) .NET
6 14 (3.61%) ARM Templates
6 14 (3.61%) Node.js
7 12 (3.09%) SOAP
8 11 (2.84%) GraphQL
8 11 (2.84%) LDAP
9 10 (2.58%) AWS CDK
10 8 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (1.80%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.80%) Lambda Expressions
11 7 (1.80%) OAuth
11 7 (1.80%) RESTful
11 7 (1.80%) Swagger
12 6 (1.55%) OpenAPI
12 6 (1.55%) React
12 6 (1.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.96%) PKI
2 22 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 16 (4.12%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.61%) IoT
6 13 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (2.32%) Clustering
8 9 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (2.32%) Replication
9 7 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.55%) Tandem
11 5 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.29%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.03%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 99 (25.52%) Linux
2 41 (10.57%) Windows
3 32 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (6.19%) CentOS
5 23 (5.93%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.06%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.06%) Solaris
7 7 (1.80%) Unix
8 6 (1.55%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.03%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.26%) VMS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (56.19%) DevOps
2 215 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 101 (26.03%) Agile
4 80 (20.62%) Containerisation
5 70 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (15.72%) Cloud Security
7 55 (14.18%) Microservices
8 51 (13.14%) Continuous Integration
9 49 (12.63%) DevSecOps
10 38 (9.79%) Analytics
10 38 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (9.79%) Observability
11 37 (9.54%) Computer Science
12 35 (9.02%) Software Engineering
13 31 (7.99%) Migration
13 31 (7.99%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (7.47%) Scrum
15 28 (7.22%) Deployment Automation
15 28 (7.22%) Security Testing
16 27 (6.96%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (48.20%) Python
2 75 (19.33%) PowerShell
3 73 (18.81%) Bash
4 40 (10.31%) SQL
5 35 (9.02%) Java
6 28 (7.22%) Shell Script
7 26 (6.70%) C#
8 21 (5.41%) Bicep
9 19 (4.90%) Go
10 17 (4.38%) TypeScript
11 16 (4.12%) JavaScript
12 9 (2.32%) Ruby
13 3 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.77%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) Groovy
14 2 (0.52%) PHP
15 1 (0.26%) C
15 1 (0.26%) C++
15 1 (0.26%) Rust
15 1 (0.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 87 (22.42%) Security Cleared
2 77 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 40 (10.31%) Degree
4 35 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.35%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.58%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.06%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.55%) CISSP
10 4 (1.03%) OSCP
11 3 (0.77%) CCIE
11 3 (0.77%) CCNP
11 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.52%) GIAC
12 2 (0.52%) SANS
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.15%) NIST
2 9 (2.32%) PCI DSS
2 9 (2.32%) QA
3 8 (2.06%) GDPR
3 8 (2.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 118 (30.41%) Docker
2 29 (7.47%) Active Directory
3 21 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.29%) Firmware
7 2 (0.52%) Squid
8 1 (0.26%) Ceph
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) KVM
8 1 (0.26%) NFS
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) XenApp
8 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 285 (73.45%) Terraform
2 123 (31.70%) Kubernetes
3 103 (26.55%) Ansible
4 50 (12.89%) Grafana
5 47 (12.11%) Prometheus
6 34 (8.76%) Puppet
7 26 (6.70%) Progress Chef
8 24 (6.19%) Kibana
8 24 (6.19%) logstash
9 14 (3.61%) FortiGate
10 9 (2.32%) Packer
11 8 (2.06%) EMC NetWorker
11 8 (2.06%) Netcool
11 8 (2.06%) Tivoli
11 8 (2.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 7 (1.80%) vRealize
13 6 (1.55%) Consul
14 5 (1.29%) Dell DRAC
14 5 (1.29%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.77%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.25%) Google
3 31 (7.99%) Cisco
4 29 (7.47%) VMware
5 22 (5.67%) Palo Alto
6 21 (5.41%) Oracle
7 19 (4.90%) Dell
7 19 (4.90%) Red Hat
8 18 (4.64%) Splunk
9 16 (4.12%) Amdocs
9 16 (4.12%) Fortinet
10 15 (3.87%) Juniper
11 12 (3.09%) ServiceNow
12 11 (2.84%) Databricks
12 11 (2.84%) Extreme Networks
13 10 (2.58%) CyberArk
13 10 (2.58%) HP
13 10 (2.58%) Salesforce
14 9 (2.32%) SAP
15 8 (2.06%) IBM