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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 60 94
Rank change year-on-year +21 +34 -6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 887 486 443
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.48% 3.76% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.10% 4.13% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 331 320
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £451 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.30% -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £669
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £27.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +171.82% -59.26% +18.94%

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 14,548 11,757 16,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.83% 91.07% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,771 7,824 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 159 352
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.96 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.68 £69.95
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 March 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
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 March 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 +24 123 £550 - 93
West London +11 34 £603 +26.84% 18
South London +4 22 £530 -3.64% 5
East London +1 3 £562 -3.93% 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 42 (4.74%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (3.38%) Apache
4 17 (1.92%) Confluence
5 5 (0.56%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.45%) SAS
7 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 2 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) FileNet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 463 (52.20%) AWS
2 437 (49.27%) Azure
3 252 (28.41%) GitHub
4 175 (19.73%) AWS CloudFormation
5 172 (19.39%) GCP
6 168 (18.94%) Serverless
7 163 (18.38%) GitHub Actions
8 162 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (16.01%) Amazon S3
10 115 (12.97%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (9.81%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (9.47%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (7.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 68 (7.67%) Power Platform
14 57 (6.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (6.09%) Azure AKS
16 52 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
16 52 (5.86%) Azure Monitor
17 51 (5.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 48 (5.41%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (8.57%) Firewall
2 43 (4.85%) Network Security
3 36 (4.06%) DNS
4 31 (3.49%) VPN
5 18 (2.03%) WAN
6 15 (1.69%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.24%) BGP
8 9 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.90%) OSPF
10 7 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.68%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.68%) Multicast
12 5 (0.56%) DHCP
12 5 (0.56%) MPLS
12 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.45%) Internet
13 4 (0.45%) LAN
13 4 (0.45%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.89%) Data Lake
2 50 (5.64%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (5.64%) Power BI
3 46 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 36 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (3.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 30 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 30 (3.38%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.27%) BigQuery
8 29 (3.27%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.93%) Delta Lake
10 24 (2.71%) Redis
11 19 (2.14%) NoSQL
12 18 (2.03%) MongoDB
12 18 (2.03%) OLTP
13 17 (1.92%) Mixpanel
14 16 (1.80%) OLAP
15 15 (1.69%) MySQL
16 14 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 157 (17.70%) Jenkins
2 125 (14.09%) GitLab
3 105 (11.84%) Git
4 31 (3.49%) JIRA
5 19 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.69%) MLflow
7 7 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.68%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.68%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.56%) Snyk
9 5 (0.56%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.34%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.34%) git-flow
11 3 (0.34%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) RStudio
11 3 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 186 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 143 (16.12%) Finance
3 114 (12.85%) Public Sector
4 48 (5.41%) Banking
5 45 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.58%) Retail
9 12 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.01%) Front Office
10 9 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.79%) Legal
12 6 (0.68%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.56%) Marketing
13 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.56%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.45%) Military
15 3 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.34%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 160 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 137 (15.45%) Senior
3 121 (13.64%) Architect
4 101 (11.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 99 (11.16%) Azure Engineer
6 95 (10.71%) Data Engineer
7 79 (8.91%) Lead
8 77 (8.68%) Developer
9 70 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (7.78%) Platform Engineer
11 38 (4.28%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
14 35 (3.95%) GCP Engineer
15 34 (3.83%) Software Engineer
16 30 (3.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
17 29 (3.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 29 (3.27%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.16%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (10.71%) Kafka
2 69 (7.78%) Node.js
3 46 (5.19%) React
4 44 (4.96%) PySpark
5 42 (4.74%) .NET
5 42 (4.74%) OAuth
6 38 (4.28%) ARM Templates
7 37 (4.17%) REST
8 35 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
8 35 (3.95%) YAML
9 31 (3.49%) AngularJS
9 31 (3.49%) RESTful
9 31 (3.49%) Spring
10 28 (3.16%) OpenID
11 27 (3.04%) Playwright
11 27 (3.04%) Spring Boot
12 26 (2.93%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.71%) GraphQL
14 20 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
14 20 (2.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 244 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 51 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 26 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (2.93%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.59%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.37%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 11 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.01%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.01%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (0.90%) Replication
13 7 (0.79%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.68%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 83 (9.36%) Linux
2 40 (4.51%) Windows
3 21 (2.37%) VMS
4 14 (1.58%) Unix
5 8 (0.90%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Solaris
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (75.20%) CI/CD
2 543 (61.22%) DevOps
3 236 (26.61%) Containerisation
4 201 (22.66%) Observability
5 189 (21.31%) Agile
6 165 (18.60%) Analytics
7 160 (18.04%) AI
8 132 (14.88%) Migration
9 128 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
10 115 (12.97%) Microservices
11 104 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 103 (11.61%) Test Automation
13 102 (11.50%) Cloud Security
13 102 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 102 (11.50%) Software Engineering
14 101 (11.39%) Data Modelling
15 99 (11.16%) Data Engineering
16 98 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
17 95 (10.71%) Mentoring
18 89 (10.03%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 410 (46.22%) Python
2 190 (21.42%) SQL
3 109 (12.29%) Bash
4 98 (11.05%) Java
5 95 (10.71%) PowerShell
6 71 (8.00%) Bicep
7 59 (6.65%) TypeScript
8 44 (4.96%) C#
9 40 (4.51%) JavaScript
10 38 (4.28%) Go
11 20 (2.25%) Scala
12 14 (1.58%) Ruby
13 11 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.79%) C
15 5 (0.56%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) Rust
16 4 (0.45%) Groovy
16 4 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.34%) Cypher
17 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 275 (31.00%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.44%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.65%) AWS Certification
5 36 (4.06%) Degree
6 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 19 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 18 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.47%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.24%) CISSP
11 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (1.01%) CCNP
13 9 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.68%) CCSP
16 5 (0.56%) CCIE
17 4 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.31%) GDPR
3 43 (4.85%) NIST
4 34 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.72%) QA
6 25 (2.82%) NCSC
7 21 (2.37%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.24%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.56%) SLA
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.23%) PSD2
12 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 249 (28.07%) Docker
2 32 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
3 31 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.56%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.45%) vSphere
9 3 (0.34%) Squid
10 2 (0.23%) Snort
10 2 (0.23%) zsh
11 1 (0.11%) Firmware
11 1 (0.11%) GPFS
11 1 (0.11%) HDFS
11 1 (0.11%) Lustre
11 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 684 (77.11%) Terraform
2 306 (34.50%) Kubernetes
3 134 (15.11%) Ansible
4 92 (10.37%) Grafana
5 89 (10.03%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.71%) Argo
7 18 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.69%) Puppet
9 14 (1.58%) Istio
10 9 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (1.01%) Rancher
11 8 (0.90%) Kibana
12 7 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.79%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.56%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.45%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.34%) Packer
15 3 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 143 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 89 (10.03%) Databricks
3 87 (9.81%) Google
4 43 (4.85%) Splunk
5 18 (2.03%) VMware
6 15 (1.69%) Cisco
6 15 (1.69%) ServiceNow
7 13 (1.47%) CyberArk
7 13 (1.47%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.24%) Palo Alto
9 10 (1.13%) Fortinet
9 10 (1.13%) PagerDuty
10 9 (1.01%) Oracle
11 8 (0.90%) IBM
11 8 (0.90%) Qualys
11 8 (0.90%) Solace
12 7 (0.79%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.68%) Aruba
13 6 (0.68%) New Relic
13 6 (0.68%) Rapid7