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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 58 105
Rank change year-on-year +22 +47 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,086 561 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.64% 4.37% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.34% 4.74% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 362 297
10th Percentile £413 £390 £375
25th Percentile £463 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £740 £750 £742
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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
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 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +23 136 £575 -8.00% 37
West London -4 17 £625 +26.26% 7
South London +3 14 £500 +1.01% 1
East London +2 5 £512 - 9
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 12 (1.10%) 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
1 591 (54.42%) AWS
2 552 (50.83%) Azure
3 288 (26.52%) GitHub
4 205 (18.88%) Serverless
5 198 (18.23%) GitHub Actions
6 196 (18.05%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (17.59%) GCP
8 171 (15.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 164 (15.10%) Amazon S3
10 138 (12.71%) AWS Lambda
11 101 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (8.01%) Amazon ECS
14 77 (7.09%) Power Platform
15 74 (6.81%) Azure AKS
16 67 (6.17%) Entra ID
17 66 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 59 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
19 55 (5.06%) Azure Monitor
20 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 49 (4.51%) 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 33 (3.04%) MongoDB
7 33 (3.04%) SQL Server
8 31 (2.85%) DynamoDB
9 29 (2.67%) BigQuery
10 27 (2.49%) NoSQL
11 25 (2.30%) Redis
12 23 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 18 (1.66%) Metadata
14 16 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.47%) Tableau
15 15 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
16 14 (1.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 178 (16.39%) Jenkins
2 162 (14.92%) GitLab
3 155 (14.27%) Git
4 53 (4.88%) JIRA
5 15 (1.38%) 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
8 10 (0.92%) JUnit
9 8 (0.74%) JMeter
9 8 (0.74%) Mockito
10 6 (0.55%) Postman
11 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.37%) git-flow
12 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 206 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 179 (16.48%) 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
1 226 (20.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 191 (17.59%) Architect
3 163 (15.01%) Senior
4 125 (11.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 121 (11.14%) Azure Engineer
6 109 (10.04%) Lead
7 101 (9.30%) Data Engineer
8 98 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
9 83 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
10 77 (7.09%) Developer
11 55 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 50 (4.60%) AWS DevOps
13 47 (4.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
15 44 (4.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 42 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps
17 41 (3.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 36 (3.31%) AWS Architect
19 35 (3.22%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.73%) Kafka
2 64 (5.89%) PySpark
2 64 (5.89%) REST
3 54 (4.97%) RESTful
4 51 (4.70%) OAuth
5 50 (4.60%) React
6 48 (4.42%) Node.js
7 41 (3.78%) OpenID
8 40 (3.68%) .NET
8 40 (3.68%) OAuth2
9 31 (2.85%) ARM Templates
9 31 (2.85%) Spring
10 29 (2.67%) Spring Boot
11 28 (2.58%) AngularJS
11 28 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
11 28 (2.58%) YAML
12 26 (2.39%) SAML
13 23 (2.12%) AWS CDK
14 19 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
14 19 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 329 (30.29%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.33%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (2.95%) Security Posture
6 31 (2.85%) Product Ownership
7 30 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 21 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
11 17 (1.57%) Management Information System
12 15 (1.38%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (1.01%) PKI
15 11 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.92%) Private Cloud
17 9 (0.83%) NHS
17 9 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 99 (9.12%) 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
1 828 (76.24%) CI/CD
2 679 (62.52%) DevOps
3 312 (28.73%) Containerisation
4 234 (21.55%) Agile
5 233 (21.45%) Platform Engineering
6 227 (20.90%) Observability
7 213 (19.61%) AI
8 159 (14.64%) Analytics
9 148 (13.63%) Test Automation
10 144 (13.26%) Microservices
11 141 (12.98%) Migration
12 129 (11.88%) Software Engineering
13 126 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 115 (10.59%) Cloud Security
15 114 (10.50%) Mentoring
16 113 (10.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 112 (10.31%) Data Modelling
18 108 (9.94%) Event-Driven
18 108 (9.94%) Machine Learning
19 107 (9.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 479 (44.11%) Python
2 192 (17.68%) SQL
3 146 (13.44%) Bash
4 140 (12.89%) PowerShell
5 117 (10.77%) Java
6 109 (10.04%) Bicep
7 64 (5.89%) C#
8 61 (5.62%) TypeScript
9 54 (4.97%) JavaScript
10 40 (3.68%) 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 4 (0.37%) Cypher
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 397 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 372 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.00%) Azure Certification
4 54 (4.97%) AWS Certification
5 45 (4.14%) Degree
6 39 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 30 (2.76%) 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 36 (3.31%) 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
1 278 (25.60%) 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
1 843 (77.62%) Terraform
2 418 (38.49%) Kubernetes
3 169 (15.56%) Ansible
4 114 (10.50%) Prometheus
5 108 (9.94%) 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%) systemd
Vendors
1 161 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.29%) Databricks
3 81 (7.46%) Google
4 59 (5.43%) Splunk
5 28 (2.58%) Oracle
5 28 (2.58%) VMware
6 23 (2.12%) Cisco
7 22 (2.03%) Dynatrace
8 20 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 19 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.47%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 13 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.10%) Arista
13 12 (1.10%) Okta
13 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.92%) Informatica
15 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.83%) Foundry
15 9 (0.83%) Zscaler