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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 58 97
Rank change year-on-year +19 +39 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 932 483 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.53% 3.82% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.18% 4.19% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 330 306
10th Percentile £400 £399 £379
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% -9.40%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £67.98 - £55.38
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -2.13% -30.88%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +170.91% -54.17% -23.08%

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 15,087 11,541 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.38% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 7,833 11,413
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 170 337
10th Percentile £18.11 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +25 130 £556 +1.14% 87
West London +6 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London -2 22 £530 +1.44% 2
East London +3 5 £562 -3.93% 6
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 46 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.54%) Apache
3 32 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.47%) Confluence
5 5 (0.54%) SAS
5 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 496 (53.22%) AWS
2 474 (50.86%) Azure
3 261 (28.00%) GitHub
4 186 (19.96%) AWS CloudFormation
5 180 (19.31%) GCP
6 173 (18.56%) Serverless
7 172 (18.45%) Azure DevOps
8 170 (18.24%) GitHub Actions
9 143 (15.34%) Amazon S3
10 117 (12.55%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (9.44%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (7.62%) Power Platform
14 69 (7.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 60 (6.44%) Azure AKS
16 56 (6.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 55 (5.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 52 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
18 52 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
18 52 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.48%) Firewall
2 42 (4.51%) Network Security
3 38 (4.08%) DNS
4 33 (3.54%) VPN
5 22 (2.36%) WAN
6 17 (1.82%) SD-WAN
7 14 (1.50%) BGP
7 14 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.97%) OSPF
9 8 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.64%) IOS XR
11 6 (0.64%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.54%) DHCP
12 5 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.54%) MPLS
12 5 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.43%) Internet
13 4 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.19%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.47%) Power BI
3 48 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
3 48 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.54%) BigQuery
7 32 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.00%) DynamoDB
9 25 (2.68%) Delta Lake
10 23 (2.47%) Redis
11 21 (2.25%) MongoDB
12 20 (2.15%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.04%) OLTP
14 18 (1.93%) Mixpanel
15 17 (1.82%) OLAP
16 15 (1.61%) Relational Database
17 14 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 166 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 126 (13.52%) GitLab
3 124 (13.30%) Git
4 36 (3.86%) JIRA
5 20 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 17 (1.82%) MLflow
7 8 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.86%) Snyk
8 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) JUnit
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.43%) Mockito
10 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.32%) git-flow
11 3 (0.32%) Liquibase
General
1 192 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 148 (15.88%) Finance
3 125 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.69%) Banking
5 45 (4.83%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.50%) Retail
9 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.18%) Legal
11 7 (0.75%) Front Office
12 6 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.43%) Games
14 4 (0.43%) Marketing
15 3 (0.32%) Electronics
15 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 171 (18.35%) DevOps Engineer
2 150 (16.09%) Senior
3 136 (14.59%) Architect
4 106 (11.37%) Azure Engineer
5 99 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 99 (10.62%) Data Engineer
6 89 (9.55%) Lead
7 86 (9.23%) Developer
8 72 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
9 69 (7.40%) AWS Engineer
10 38 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 36 (3.86%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (3.76%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.43%) GCP Engineer
13 32 (3.43%) Security Engineer
14 31 (3.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
14 31 (3.33%) Site Engineer
15 30 (3.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.84%) Kafka
2 75 (8.05%) Node.js
3 49 (5.26%) React
4 46 (4.94%) PySpark
4 46 (4.94%) REST
5 42 (4.51%) ARM Templates
5 42 (4.51%) OAuth
6 40 (4.29%) .NET
7 39 (4.18%) AngularJS
7 39 (4.18%) YAML
8 37 (3.97%) RESTful
9 36 (3.86%) OpenTelemetry
9 36 (3.86%) Spring
10 31 (3.33%) Spring Boot
11 28 (3.00%) OpenID
12 27 (2.90%) AWS CDK
12 27 (2.90%) Playwright
13 24 (2.58%) GraphQL
14 22 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (2.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 254 (27.25%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 28 (3.00%) Public Cloud
5 25 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 13 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 13 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.07%) Replication
10 9 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 8 (0.86%) Data Structures
11 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
12 7 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
12 7 (0.75%) Fixed Income
12 7 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 87 (9.33%) Linux
2 39 (4.18%) Windows
3 22 (2.36%) VMS
4 16 (1.72%) Unix
5 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 711 (76.29%) CI/CD
2 572 (61.37%) DevOps
3 259 (27.79%) Containerisation
4 220 (23.61%) Observability
5 215 (23.07%) Agile
6 164 (17.60%) Analytics
7 163 (17.49%) AI
8 145 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
9 136 (14.59%) Microservices
10 132 (14.16%) Migration
11 117 (12.55%) Software Engineering
12 114 (12.23%) Test Automation
13 111 (11.91%) Data Modelling
14 109 (11.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 108 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 108 (11.59%) Mentoring
16 103 (11.05%) Problem-Solving
17 100 (10.73%) Data Engineering
18 99 (10.62%) Cloud Security
19 93 (9.98%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 423 (45.39%) Python
2 194 (20.82%) SQL
3 111 (11.91%) Bash
3 111 (11.91%) Java
4 101 (10.84%) PowerShell
5 72 (7.73%) Bicep
6 62 (6.65%) TypeScript
7 47 (5.04%) C#
8 39 (4.18%) JavaScript
9 38 (4.08%) Go
10 23 (2.47%) Ruby
11 21 (2.25%) Scala
12 14 (1.50%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.75%) C
14 5 (0.54%) Rust
15 4 (0.43%) C++
15 4 (0.43%) Groovy
15 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.32%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 309 (33.15%) Security Cleared
2 289 (31.01%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.40%) Azure Certification
4 63 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.29%) Degree
6 34 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.25%) DV Cleared
8 19 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.50%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.29%) CISSP
12 11 (1.18%) CCNP
13 10 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.07%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 5 (0.54%) CCIE
16 5 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.73%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.69%) GDPR
3 41 (4.40%) NIST
4 37 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.54%) QA
6 27 (2.90%) NCSC
7 21 (2.25%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.64%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) COBIT
11 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 266 (28.54%) Docker
2 30 (3.22%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.07%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.43%) vSphere
7 3 (0.32%) Squid
8 2 (0.21%) Snort
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) GPFS
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Lustre
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 720 (77.25%) Terraform
2 325 (34.87%) Kubernetes
3 138 (14.81%) Ansible
4 94 (10.09%) Grafana
5 92 (9.87%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.58%) Argo
7 19 (2.04%) Puppet
8 17 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.39%) Istio
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.97%) Rancher
12 7 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.75%) Kibana
13 6 (0.64%) ITRS Geneos
14 5 (0.54%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.43%) Opsgenie
16 3 (0.32%) FortiGate
16 3 (0.32%) Nessus
16 3 (0.32%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 147 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.55%) Databricks
3 84 (9.01%) Google
4 47 (5.04%) Splunk
5 20 (2.15%) Oracle
6 17 (1.82%) Cisco
6 17 (1.82%) VMware
7 14 (1.50%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.50%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.39%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.18%) Fortinet
9 11 (1.18%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.07%) PagerDuty
11 8 (0.86%) Arista
11 8 (0.86%) IBM
11 8 (0.86%) Qualys
12 7 (0.75%) New Relic
12 7 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.64%) Rapid7