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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 53 95
Rank change year-on-year +18 +42 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,165 651 437
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.77% 4.82% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 5.21% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 440 300
10th Percentile £425 £393 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -12.26%

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £661 £675 £688
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 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +14 140 £575 -5.74% 67
South London +17 27 £535 +8.08% 12
West London -9 14 £725 +46.46% 19
East London +3 7 £588 - 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 52 (4.46%) Confluence
2 44 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 39 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.58%) Apache
5 16 (1.37%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.94%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.43%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) CMS
9 4 (0.34%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.086%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.086%) IIS
12 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.086%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.086%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.086%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 621 (53.30%) AWS
2 591 (50.73%) Azure
3 310 (26.61%) GitHub
4 226 (19.40%) GitHub Actions
5 219 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
6 209 (17.94%) GCP
7 192 (16.48%) Serverless
8 157 (13.48%) Amazon S3
9 150 (12.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 132 (11.33%) AWS Lambda
11 113 (9.70%) Amazon EKS
12 93 (7.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 92 (7.90%) Entra ID
14 81 (6.95%) Azure AKS
15 75 (6.44%) Amazon EC2
16 72 (6.18%) Amazon ECS
17 68 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 63 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (5.15%) Power Platform
20 56 (4.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (7.21%) Firewall
2 55 (4.72%) DNS
3 47 (4.03%) Network Security
4 44 (3.78%) VPN
5 29 (2.49%) WAN
6 21 (1.80%) BGP
7 15 (1.29%) Internet
8 14 (1.20%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.12%) DHCP
9 13 (1.12%) SSL
10 12 (1.03%) NX-OS
10 12 (1.03%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.86%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.86%) IOS XR
12 9 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
12 9 (0.77%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.60%) HTTP
13 7 (0.60%) OSPF
14 6 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
4 47 (4.03%) Power BI
5 41 (3.52%) Data Lake
6 40 (3.43%) MongoDB
7 37 (3.18%) SQL Server
8 35 (3.00%) Delta Lake
9 33 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
10 31 (2.66%) BigQuery
11 30 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.49%) DynamoDB
13 28 (2.40%) Redis
14 27 (2.32%) Metadata
15 23 (1.97%) NoSQL
16 22 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
17 21 (1.80%) MySQL
18 19 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
19 15 (1.29%) Big Data
20 12 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 184 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 172 (14.76%) GitLab
3 169 (14.51%) Git
4 63 (5.41%) JIRA
5 15 (1.29%) Bitbucket
5 15 (1.29%) SonarQube
6 14 (1.20%) Snyk
7 12 (1.03%) MLflow
8 11 (0.94%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.86%) JUnit
10 9 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.69%) JMeter
11 8 (0.69%) Mockito
12 6 (0.52%) Postman
13 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.43%) Claude Code
13 5 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.34%) Maven
General
1 248 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 198 (17.00%) Finance
3 175 (15.02%) Public Sector
4 75 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
5 61 (5.24%) Banking
6 28 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (1.46%) Retail
8 14 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.03%) Law
9 12 (1.03%) Legal
10 11 (0.94%) Local Government
11 9 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.60%) Front Office
14 6 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.52%) Police
15 5 (0.43%) Back Office
15 5 (0.43%) Military
15 5 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 252 (21.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 184 (15.79%) Architect
2 184 (15.79%) Senior
3 136 (11.67%) Lead
4 125 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
5 122 (10.47%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (8.84%) Platform Engineer
7 98 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
8 88 (7.55%) Data Engineer
9 80 (6.87%) Developer
10 70 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 53 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 49 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 46 (3.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 46 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
14 46 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 45 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
17 34 (2.92%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.55%) Kafka
2 80 (6.87%) REST
3 55 (4.72%) RESTful
4 53 (4.55%) PySpark
5 43 (3.69%) React
6 40 (3.43%) ARM Templates
6 40 (3.43%) Node.js
7 36 (3.09%) .NET
7 36 (3.09%) OAuth
8 33 (2.83%) Spring
8 33 (2.83%) YAML
9 31 (2.66%) OAuth2
10 30 (2.58%) Spring Boot
11 27 (2.32%) AngularJS
12 24 (2.06%) FastAPI
12 24 (2.06%) OpenID
13 21 (1.80%) JSON
14 20 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.63%) Django
16 17 (1.46%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 331 (28.41%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.83%) Security Posture
6 28 (2.40%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.32%) Enterprise Cloud
8 26 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
10 24 (2.06%) Public Cloud
11 23 (1.97%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.72%) PKI
13 19 (1.63%) Replication
14 16 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.29%) NHS
16 14 (1.20%) Management Information System
16 14 (1.20%) Private Cloud
17 13 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (10.04%) Linux
2 81 (6.95%) Windows
3 28 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.55%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.12%) Unix
7 12 (1.03%) VMS
8 11 (0.94%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) CentOS
13 1 (0.086%) AIX
13 1 (0.086%) Debian
13 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.086%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 870 (74.68%) CI/CD
2 713 (61.20%) DevOps
3 322 (27.64%) Containerisation
4 282 (24.21%) Agile
5 269 (23.09%) Platform Engineering
6 266 (22.83%) Observability
7 230 (19.74%) AI
8 169 (14.51%) Test Automation
9 159 (13.65%) Software Engineering
10 157 (13.48%) Migration
11 150 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 143 (12.27%) Microservices
13 140 (12.02%) Analytics
13 140 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
14 134 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
15 131 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 127 (10.90%) Cloud Security
17 126 (10.82%) Mentoring
18 124 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
19 123 (10.56%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 504 (43.26%) Python
2 189 (16.22%) SQL
3 181 (15.54%) PowerShell
4 180 (15.45%) Bash
5 131 (11.24%) Bicep
6 130 (11.16%) Java
7 68 (5.84%) C#
8 61 (5.24%) JavaScript
9 60 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 41 (3.52%) Go
11 19 (1.63%) Scala
12 17 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.29%) Ruby
14 11 (0.94%) Groovy
15 6 (0.52%) Korn
15 6 (0.52%) Perl
16 4 (0.34%) R
17 3 (0.26%) C++
17 3 (0.26%) Cypher
17 3 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 425 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 394 (33.82%) SC Cleared
3 86 (7.38%) Azure Certification
4 59 (5.06%) AWS Certification
5 55 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 40 (3.43%) Degree
7 27 (2.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 26 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.80%) CCNP
13 20 (1.72%) CISSP
14 13 (1.12%) CISM
15 10 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.77%) GIAC
17 8 (0.69%) Master's Degree
18 7 (0.60%) CCIE
18 7 (0.60%) DBS Check
19 5 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.61%) QA
3 38 (3.26%) GDPR
4 33 (2.83%) NIST
5 31 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.89%) NCSC
7 17 (1.46%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.29%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.69%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.43%) SLA
12 4 (0.34%) COBIT
12 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.17%) WCAG
14 1 (0.086%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.086%) NIST 800
System Software
1 299 (25.67%) Docker
2 49 (4.21%) Active Directory
3 37 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.69%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.52%) vSphere
8 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.086%) NFS
10 1 (0.086%) Samba
10 1 (0.086%) Squid
10 1 (0.086%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 891 (76.48%) Terraform
2 460 (39.48%) Kubernetes
3 179 (15.36%) Ansible
4 134 (11.50%) Grafana
5 124 (10.64%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.32%) Puppet
7 23 (1.97%) Argo
8 17 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.37%) Packer
10 14 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 13 (1.12%) Kubeflow
12 11 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.86%) Progress Chef
14 8 (0.69%) Control-M
14 8 (0.69%) Istio
14 8 (0.69%) Kibana
14 8 (0.69%) systemd
15 6 (0.52%) SCCM
15 6 (0.52%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 207 (17.77%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.15%) Google
3 87 (7.47%) Databricks
4 66 (5.67%) Splunk
5 45 (3.86%) Oracle
6 40 (3.43%) VMware
7 33 (2.83%) Cisco
8 24 (2.06%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.97%) OpenAI
10 21 (1.80%) ServiceNow
11 18 (1.55%) Okta
11 18 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.37%) Arista
13 14 (1.20%) Red Hat
14 13 (1.12%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.12%) Informatica
15 12 (1.03%) Foundry
16 11 (0.94%) Zscaler
17 9 (0.77%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.77%) CyberArk