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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 56 99
Rank change year-on-year +21 +43 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,109 618 442
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.57% 4.56% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.26% 4.95% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 402 310
10th Percentile £413 £388 £375
25th Percentile £475 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £667 £667
90th Percentile £750 £750 £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% -35.29%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.60 £68.44
% change year-on-year -0.85% +3.16% -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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +15 130 £575 -8.00% 44
South London 0 17 £520 +5.05% 1
West London 0 17 £625 +26.26% 11
East London +4 6 £575 - 15
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 (4.24%) Confluence
2 43 (3.88%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.89%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (2.80%) Apache
5 14 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 12 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
12 1 (0.090%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.090%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) Maximo
2 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 592 (53.38%) AWS
2 558 (50.32%) Azure
3 288 (25.97%) GitHub
4 206 (18.58%) GitHub Actions
5 199 (17.94%) Azure DevOps
6 197 (17.76%) Serverless
7 196 (17.67%) GCP
8 172 (15.51%) Amazon S3
9 159 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 136 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 81 (7.30%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (6.67%) Azure AKS
14 74 (6.67%) Entra ID
15 69 (6.22%) Power Platform
16 66 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
17 63 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 57 (5.14%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (4.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.39%) Firewall
2 50 (4.51%) DNS
3 48 (4.33%) Network Security
4 39 (3.52%) VPN
5 28 (2.52%) WAN
6 19 (1.71%) BGP
7 14 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.08%) Internet
9 11 (0.99%) SSL
10 10 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.90%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.90%) NX-OS
10 10 (0.90%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.81%) OSPF
12 8 (0.72%) HTTP
13 7 (0.63%) DHCP
13 7 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
13 7 (0.63%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (0.45%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (4.87%) Data Lake
3 53 (4.78%) Power BI
4 48 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (3.25%) Delta Lake
8 32 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (2.89%) MongoDB
9 30 (2.71%) BigQuery
9 30 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 29 (2.61%) SQL Server
11 24 (2.16%) NoSQL
12 21 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (1.89%) Redis
13 20 (1.80%) Metadata
14 15 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.26%) Tableau
16 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 181 (16.32%) Jenkins
2 162 (14.61%) Git
3 159 (14.34%) GitLab
4 61 (5.50%) JIRA
5 13 (1.17%) Artifactory
5 13 (1.17%) MLflow
5 13 (1.17%) Snyk
5 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
6 12 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.90%) JUnit
8 9 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.72%) JMeter
9 8 (0.72%) Mockito
10 6 (0.54%) Postman
11 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.36%) git-flow
13 3 (0.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.27%) Maven
13 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 219 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.13%) Finance
3 159 (14.34%) Public Sector
4 65 (5.86%) Banking
5 60 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.17%) Law
10 12 (1.08%) Legal
10 12 (1.08%) Retail
11 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.63%) Local Government
13 6 (0.54%) Front Office
13 6 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.54%) Police
14 5 (0.45%) Military
14 5 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 241 (21.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (17.13%) Architect
3 175 (15.78%) Senior
4 123 (11.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 123 (11.09%) Lead
5 122 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
6 98 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
7 97 (8.75%) Data Engineer
8 91 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
9 74 (6.67%) Developer
10 60 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (4.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 48 (4.33%) AWS DevOps
12 48 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
13 47 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
13 47 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 37 (3.34%) GCP Engineer
17 34 (3.07%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (7.12%) Kafka
2 66 (5.95%) REST
3 61 (5.50%) PySpark
4 50 (4.51%) RESTful
5 49 (4.42%) Node.js
6 45 (4.06%) React
7 42 (3.79%) OAuth
8 36 (3.25%) .NET
9 34 (3.07%) OAuth2
10 33 (2.98%) ARM Templates
10 33 (2.98%) OpenID
11 30 (2.71%) YAML
12 27 (2.43%) Spring
13 26 (2.34%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.16%) Spring Boot
15 22 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
15 22 (1.98%) SAML
16 21 (1.89%) AWS CDK
17 20 (1.80%) Elastic Stack
18 18 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 326 (29.40%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 35 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (3.07%) Security Posture
6 30 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 30 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 25 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.71%) Enterprise Cloud
9 19 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.62%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.53%) AI Agents
12 15 (1.35%) PKI
13 14 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.90%) NHS
17 9 (0.81%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.47%) Linux
2 69 (6.22%) Windows
3 23 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.35%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.17%) Unix
7 11 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 9 (0.81%) VMS
9 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.18%) Android
11 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.18%) CentOS
11 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.18%) zOS
12 1 (0.090%) AIX
12 1 (0.090%) Debian
12 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 836 (75.38%) CI/CD
2 698 (62.94%) DevOps
3 317 (28.58%) Containerisation
4 250 (22.54%) Agile
5 244 (22.00%) Platform Engineering
6 232 (20.92%) Observability
7 206 (18.58%) AI
8 159 (14.34%) Test Automation
9 148 (13.35%) Analytics
9 148 (13.35%) Migration
10 145 (13.07%) Software Engineering
11 140 (12.62%) Microservices
12 124 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (10.73%) Mentoring
14 116 (10.46%) Cloud Security
15 114 (10.28%) Event-Driven
15 114 (10.28%) Machine Learning
16 113 (10.19%) Problem-Solving
17 110 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
18 109 (9.83%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 486 (43.82%) Python
2 186 (16.77%) SQL
3 161 (14.52%) Bash
4 154 (13.89%) PowerShell
5 113 (10.19%) Java
6 109 (9.83%) Bicep
7 62 (5.59%) C#
8 61 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 58 (5.23%) JavaScript
10 42 (3.79%) Go
11 23 (2.07%) Scala
12 17 (1.53%) Ruby
12 17 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.72%) Groovy
14 6 (0.54%) C
15 5 (0.45%) Cypher
16 3 (0.27%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.27%) Perl
16 3 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 417 (37.60%) Security Cleared
2 393 (35.44%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.12%) Azure Certification
4 56 (5.05%) AWS Certification
5 48 (4.33%) DV Cleared
6 42 (3.79%) Degree
7 26 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.62%) CCNP
10 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.44%) CISSP
12 12 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (0.99%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.90%) CISM
15 8 (0.72%) GIAC
16 7 (0.63%) DBS Check
16 7 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.61%) NIST
3 39 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (3.34%) GDPR
5 35 (3.16%) QA
6 30 (2.71%) NCSC
7 20 (1.80%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.81%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
11 4 (0.36%) SLA
12 3 (0.27%) GRC
12 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.090%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 283 (25.52%) Docker
2 43 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.36%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.090%) NFS
10 1 (0.090%) Samba
10 1 (0.090%) Squid
10 1 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 858 (77.37%) Terraform
2 431 (38.86%) Kubernetes
3 164 (14.79%) Ansible
4 123 (11.09%) Grafana
5 117 (10.55%) Prometheus
6 26 (2.34%) Puppet
7 25 (2.25%) Argo
8 16 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.26%) Packer
10 11 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.99%) Kubeflow
10 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
11 9 (0.81%) Progress Chef
12 6 (0.54%) Istio
12 6 (0.54%) Kibana
12 6 (0.54%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.45%) Salt
13 5 (0.45%) systemd
14 4 (0.36%) Control-M
14 4 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 175 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.84%) Databricks
3 84 (7.57%) Google
4 64 (5.77%) Splunk
5 38 (3.43%) Oracle
6 30 (2.71%) VMware
7 25 (2.25%) Cisco
8 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.62%) CyberArk
9 18 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 17 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 14 (1.26%) Okta
12 13 (1.17%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.08%) Arista
13 12 (1.08%) Foundry
14 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.90%) Informatica
15 10 (0.90%) Red Hat