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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 59 104
Rank change year-on-year +23 +45 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,086 558 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 4.38% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 4.74% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 363 295
10th Percentile £413 £391 £375
25th Percentile £463 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £744
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.60% +13.64% -35.29%
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +20 136 £575 -8.00% 34
West London -10 17 £625 +26.26% 7
South London +1 14 £500 +1.01%
East London +2 5 £512 - 10
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 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 35 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.95%) Confluence
4 28 (2.58%) Apache
5 13 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) SAS
10 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.092%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.092%) Maximo
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 590 (54.33%) AWS
2 552 (50.83%) Azure
3 288 (26.52%) GitHub
4 203 (18.69%) Serverless
5 198 (18.23%) GitHub Actions
6 197 (18.14%) Azure DevOps
7 189 (17.40%) GCP
8 171 (15.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 163 (15.01%) Amazon S3
10 138 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
11 100 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (7.18%) Power Platform
15 74 (6.81%) Azure AKS
16 67 (6.17%) Entra ID
16 67 (6.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 58 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
18 55 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
19 52 (4.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.37%) Firewall
2 50 (4.60%) DNS
3 48 (4.42%) Network Security
4 36 (3.31%) VPN
5 28 (2.58%) WAN
6 19 (1.75%) BGP
7 12 (1.10%) SSL
7 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.01%) Internet
8 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.92%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.92%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.83%) OSPF
11 8 (0.74%) HTTP
12 7 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.64%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.55%) DHCP
13 6 (0.55%) NAS
13 6 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (5.25%) Data Lake
2 57 (5.25%) Power BI
3 48 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
5 39 (3.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (3.31%) Delta Lake
7 34 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 33 (3.04%) MongoDB
9 31 (2.85%) DynamoDB
10 29 (2.67%) BigQuery
11 26 (2.39%) NoSQL
12 25 (2.30%) Redis
13 22 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (1.66%) Metadata
15 16 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 16 (1.47%) Tableau
16 15 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
17 13 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 178 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 163 (15.01%) GitLab
3 155 (14.27%) Git
4 53 (4.88%) JIRA
5 16 (1.47%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.29%) MLflow
6 14 (1.29%) Snyk
7 13 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.92%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.83%) JUnit
10 8 (0.74%) JMeter
10 8 (0.74%) Mockito
11 6 (0.55%) Postman
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
14 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 178 (16.39%) Finance
3 154 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 62 (5.71%) Banking
5 45 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.29%) Retail
10 13 (1.20%) Law
11 11 (1.01%) Legal
12 10 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.55%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.55%) Local Government
15 6 (0.55%) Police
16 5 (0.46%) Front Office
16 5 (0.46%) Military
16 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (20.90%) DevOps Engineer
2 191 (17.59%) Architect
3 161 (14.83%) Senior
4 125 (11.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 122 (11.23%) Azure Engineer
6 109 (10.04%) Lead
7 101 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 98 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
9 84 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
10 75 (6.91%) Developer
11 55 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
16 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (3.31%) AWS Architect
18 35 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (7.64%) Kafka
2 64 (5.89%) PySpark
3 63 (5.80%) REST
4 53 (4.88%) RESTful
5 52 (4.79%) OAuth
6 50 (4.60%) React
7 47 (4.33%) Node.js
8 41 (3.78%) .NET
8 41 (3.78%) OpenID
9 40 (3.68%) OAuth2
10 31 (2.85%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.76%) Spring
12 28 (2.58%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.58%) YAML
13 27 (2.49%) AngularJS
13 27 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
13 27 (2.49%) SAML
14 23 (2.12%) AWS CDK
15 19 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
15 19 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 328 (30.20%) Cloud Native
2 77 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 31 (2.85%) Security Posture
6 30 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 24 (2.21%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 17 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.01%) PKI
13 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.92%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.83%) NHS
15 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.21%) Linux
2 70 (6.45%) Windows
3 22 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.47%) Unix
6 13 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.10%) VMS
8 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.18%) 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
11 1 (0.092%) AIX
11 1 (0.092%) Debian
11 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (76.15%) CI/CD
2 681 (62.71%) DevOps
3 310 (28.55%) Containerisation
4 233 (21.45%) Agile
4 233 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
5 227 (20.90%) Observability
6 212 (19.52%) AI
7 158 (14.55%) Analytics
8 146 (13.44%) Test Automation
9 143 (13.17%) Microservices
10 142 (13.08%) Migration
11 128 (11.79%) Software Engineering
12 125 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 114 (10.50%) Cloud Security
14 113 (10.41%) Mentoring
14 113 (10.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 112 (10.31%) Data Modelling
16 107 (9.85%) Event-Driven
16 107 (9.85%) Machine Learning
17 106 (9.76%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 479 (44.11%) Python
2 190 (17.50%) SQL
3 146 (13.44%) Bash
4 140 (12.89%) PowerShell
5 115 (10.59%) Java
6 109 (10.04%) Bicep
7 64 (5.89%) C#
8 59 (5.43%) TypeScript
9 53 (4.88%) JavaScript
10 41 (3.78%) Go
11 22 (2.03%) Scala
12 17 (1.57%) Ruby
12 17 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.64%) Groovy
14 6 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.46%) Cypher
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 400 (36.83%) Security Cleared
2 375 (34.53%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.00%) Azure Certification
4 54 (4.97%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.05%) Degree
6 39 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.57%) CISSP
12 16 (1.47%) CCNP
12 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.20%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.83%) CISM
14 9 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
15 8 (0.74%) GIAC
16 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.83%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.42%) NIST
3 44 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (3.78%) GDPR
5 35 (3.22%) QA
6 31 (2.85%) NCSC
7 23 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.55%) SLA
11 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.37%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) GRC
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
15 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
15 1 (0.092%) NIST 800
15 1 (0.092%) PSD2
15 1 (0.092%) SEPA
System Software
1 277 (25.51%) Docker
2 37 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.092%) Squid
10 1 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 844 (77.72%) Terraform
2 418 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 169 (15.56%) Ansible
4 115 (10.59%) Prometheus
5 109 (10.04%) Grafana
6 25 (2.30%) Puppet
7 18 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.38%) Argo
9 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.01%) Packer
9 11 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
11 7 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.55%) Istio
13 5 (0.46%) Kibana
13 5 (0.46%) Salt
14 4 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 3 (0.28%) Kustomize
15 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 161 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.29%) Databricks
3 80 (7.37%) Google
4 59 (5.43%) Splunk
5 28 (2.58%) Oracle
5 28 (2.58%) VMware
6 23 (2.12%) Cisco
6 23 (2.12%) Dynatrace
7 20 (1.84%) OpenAI
8 19 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 16 (1.47%) CyberArk
10 14 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 13 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.10%) Arista
12 12 (1.10%) Okta
12 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 10 (0.92%) Informatica
14 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
14 9 (0.83%) Foundry
14 9 (0.83%) Zscaler