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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 57 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +40 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,110 613 436
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.62% 4.53% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 4.92% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 397 306
10th Percentile £413 £392 £376
25th Percentile £475 £440 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £658
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
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 £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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 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 15 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 15 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 +21 132 £585 -6.44% 43
South London +1 17 £520 +5.05% 1
West London -2 17 £625 +26.26% 10
East London +4 5 £512 - 16
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 45 (4.05%) Confluence
2 42 (3.78%) Apache Spark
3 32 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.70%) Apache
5 14 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 13 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
10 3 (0.27%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
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
1 594 (53.51%) AWS
2 559 (50.36%) Azure
3 293 (26.40%) GitHub
4 208 (18.74%) GitHub Actions
5 201 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
6 198 (17.84%) Serverless
7 196 (17.66%) GCP
8 172 (15.50%) Amazon S3
9 162 (14.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 135 (12.16%) AWS Lambda
11 110 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 84 (7.57%) Amazon ECS
14 73 (6.58%) Entra ID
15 72 (6.49%) Azure AKS
16 71 (6.40%) Power Platform
17 65 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
18 63 (5.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 56 (5.05%) Azure Monitor
20 50 (4.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (7.39%) Firewall
2 49 (4.41%) DNS
3 48 (4.32%) Network Security
4 39 (3.51%) VPN
5 29 (2.61%) WAN
6 19 (1.71%) BGP
7 14 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.08%) SSL
9 11 (0.99%) Internet
9 11 (0.99%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
10 10 (0.90%) IOS XR
10 10 (0.90%) NX-OS
11 9 (0.81%) OSPF
12 8 (0.72%) HTTP
13 7 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
13 7 (0.63%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.54%) DHCP
14 6 (0.54%) NAS
14 6 (0.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (4.86%) Data Lake
2 54 (4.86%) Power BI
3 47 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (3.78%) Amazon RDS
5 38 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (3.24%) Delta Lake
7 33 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 31 (2.79%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.61%) BigQuery
10 29 (2.61%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.16%) NoSQL
12 21 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (1.80%) Metadata
13 20 (1.80%) Redis
14 16 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
15 14 (1.26%) Tableau
16 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
17 12 (1.08%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 183 (16.49%) Jenkins
2 164 (14.77%) Git
3 162 (14.59%) GitLab
4 59 (5.32%) JIRA
5 14 (1.26%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.17%) MLflow
6 13 (1.17%) Snyk
6 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.90%) JUnit
9 9 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.72%) JMeter
10 8 (0.72%) Mockito
11 6 (0.54%) Postman
12 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.36%) git-flow
13 4 (0.36%) Terragrunt
14 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
14 3 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 222 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 191 (17.21%) Finance
3 159 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 65 (5.86%) Banking
5 61 (5.50%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.17%) Law
9 13 (1.17%) Retail
10 11 (0.99%) Legal
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
14 5 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (22.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (16.94%) Architect
3 175 (15.77%) Senior
4 123 (11.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 122 (10.99%) Lead
6 121 (10.90%) Azure Engineer
7 100 (9.01%) AWS Engineer
8 99 (8.92%) Data Engineer
9 91 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
10 74 (6.67%) Developer
11 59 (5.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
13 48 (4.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 47 (4.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 47 (4.23%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.33%) GCP Engineer
18 34 (3.06%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (7.03%) Kafka
2 64 (5.77%) REST
3 62 (5.59%) PySpark
4 49 (4.41%) RESTful
5 48 (4.32%) Node.js
6 44 (3.96%) React
7 43 (3.87%) OAuth
8 38 (3.42%) .NET
9 34 (3.06%) OAuth2
9 34 (3.06%) OpenID
10 33 (2.97%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.70%) YAML
12 27 (2.43%) Spring
13 26 (2.34%) AngularJS
14 24 (2.16%) SAML
14 24 (2.16%) Spring Boot
15 22 (1.98%) AWS CDK
15 22 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
16 21 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 326 (29.37%) Cloud Native
2 79 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
3 53 (4.77%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (3.06%) Security Posture
5 31 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.25%) Public Cloud
8 24 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 19 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 16 (1.44%) AI Agents
13 14 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.26%) PKI
14 12 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.90%) NHS
16 10 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.64%) Linux
2 71 (6.40%) Windows
3 23 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.26%) Ubuntu
5 14 (1.26%) Unix
6 11 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Android
10 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) zOS
11 1 (0.090%) AIX
11 1 (0.090%) Debian
11 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 841 (75.77%) CI/CD
2 705 (63.51%) DevOps
3 319 (28.74%) Containerisation
4 250 (22.52%) Agile
5 244 (21.98%) Platform Engineering
6 232 (20.90%) Observability
7 204 (18.38%) AI
8 158 (14.23%) Test Automation
9 148 (13.33%) Analytics
10 147 (13.24%) Migration
11 143 (12.88%) Software Engineering
12 140 (12.61%) Microservices
13 127 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (10.81%) Mentoring
15 118 (10.63%) Cloud Security
16 113 (10.18%) Event-Driven
16 113 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
17 112 (10.09%) Machine Learning
18 110 (9.91%) Data Modelling
18 110 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 488 (43.96%) Python
2 187 (16.85%) SQL
3 162 (14.59%) Bash
4 154 (13.87%) PowerShell
5 117 (10.54%) Java
6 109 (9.82%) Bicep
7 63 (5.68%) C#
8 61 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 58 (5.23%) JavaScript
10 42 (3.78%) 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 4 (0.36%) Cypher
16 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.27%) Perl
16 3 (0.27%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 422 (38.02%) Security Cleared
2 399 (35.95%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.03%) Azure Certification
4 56 (5.05%) AWS Certification
5 46 (4.14%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.69%) Degree
7 26 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.53%) CCNP
13 15 (1.35%) CISSP
14 12 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.99%) Master's Degree
16 9 (0.81%) CISM
17 8 (0.72%) GIAC
18 7 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.63%) TOGAF Certification
19 6 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.39%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.60%) NIST
3 39 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (3.33%) GDPR
5 33 (2.97%) QA
6 31 (2.79%) NCSC
7 19 (1.71%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.44%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.72%) 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%) FedRAMP
14 1 (0.090%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 285 (25.68%) Docker
2 42 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.090%) NFS
11 1 (0.090%) Samba
11 1 (0.090%) Squid
11 1 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 860 (77.48%) Terraform
2 432 (38.92%) Kubernetes
3 167 (15.05%) Ansible
4 122 (10.99%) Grafana
5 118 (10.63%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.43%) 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
10 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.54%) Istio
11 6 (0.54%) Kibana
12 5 (0.45%) Salt
12 5 (0.45%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.36%) Control-M
13 4 (0.36%) systemd
14 3 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 175 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.84%) Databricks
3 84 (7.57%) Google
4 65 (5.86%) Splunk
5 37 (3.33%) Oracle
6 29 (2.61%) VMware
7 24 (2.16%) Cisco
8 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 21 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.71%) CyberArk
10 19 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.44%) ServiceNow
12 13 (1.17%) Fortinet
12 13 (1.17%) Okta
13 12 (1.08%) Arista
13 12 (1.08%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.99%) Foundry
14 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
15 10 (0.90%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.90%) Informatica