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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 52 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 +44 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,184 645 450
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.90% 4.81% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.61% 5.20% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 436 303
10th Percentile £425 £389 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £740 £738 £775
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% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.50 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.80% -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 17,903 12,394 14,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.46% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,741 8,241 10,033
10th Percentile £361 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 196
10th Percentile £17.16 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +18 141 £590 -5.60% 52
South London +17 27 £535 - 5
West London -11 13 £725 +46.46% 13
East London +4 7 £588 - 14
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 55 (4.65%) Confluence
2 47 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 39 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.36%) Apache
5 17 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.93%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.42%) nginx
9 4 (0.34%) CMS
10 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.17%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.084%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.084%) IIS
12 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.084%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 632 (53.38%) AWS
2 606 (51.18%) Azure
3 309 (26.10%) GitHub
4 225 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
5 223 (18.83%) Azure DevOps
6 210 (17.74%) GCP
7 198 (16.72%) Serverless
8 157 (13.26%) Amazon S3
9 147 (12.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 135 (11.40%) AWS Lambda
11 113 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
12 94 (7.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 91 (7.69%) Entra ID
14 85 (7.18%) Azure AKS
15 77 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
16 69 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
17 67 (5.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 66 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
19 62 (5.24%) Power Platform
20 55 (4.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.93%) Firewall
2 53 (4.48%) DNS
3 47 (3.97%) Network Security
4 43 (3.63%) VPN
5 30 (2.53%) WAN
6 25 (2.11%) BGP
7 16 (1.35%) Internet
8 14 (1.18%) NX-OS
8 14 (1.18%) VXLAN
9 13 (1.10%) DHCP
9 13 (1.10%) SSL
9 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.84%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.84%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.84%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.68%) OSPF
13 7 (0.59%) HTTP
14 6 (0.51%) VLAN
14 6 (0.51%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (4.22%) Amazon Athena
3 50 (4.22%) Power BI
4 41 (3.46%) MongoDB
4 41 (3.46%) SQL Server
5 38 (3.21%) Data Lake
6 37 (3.13%) Delta Lake
7 36 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (2.45%) BigQuery
9 29 (2.45%) DynamoDB
9 29 (2.45%) Metadata
9 29 (2.45%) Redis
10 23 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (1.94%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.86%) MySQL
12 18 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.35%) Big Data
14 12 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 187 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 176 (14.86%) GitLab
3 173 (14.61%) Git
4 66 (5.57%) JIRA
5 16 (1.35%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.10%) Snyk
8 11 (0.93%) MLflow
8 11 (0.93%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.84%) JUnit
10 9 (0.76%) CircleCI
10 9 (0.76%) JMeter
11 8 (0.68%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.68%) Mockito
12 7 (0.59%) Postman
13 6 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.51%) Claude Code
13 6 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.42%) Selenium
14 5 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 256 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 203 (17.15%) Finance
3 180 (15.20%) Public Sector
4 74 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (5.24%) Banking
6 30 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.52%) Retail
9 14 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.01%) Law
10 12 (1.01%) Legal
11 11 (0.93%) Local Government
12 9 (0.76%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.59%) Front Office
14 7 (0.59%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.59%) Police
15 5 (0.42%) Back Office
15 5 (0.42%) Military
15 5 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 261 (22.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 198 (16.72%) Architect
3 190 (16.05%) Senior
4 134 (11.32%) Lead
5 124 (10.47%) Azure Engineer
6 121 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
7 104 (8.78%) Platform Engineer
8 99 (8.36%) AWS Engineer
9 91 (7.69%) Data Engineer
10 81 (6.84%) Developer
11 71 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 56 (4.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 49 (4.14%) AWS DevOps
14 47 (3.97%) Senior DevOps
14 47 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 47 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
15 46 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 46 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 38 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
17 35 (2.96%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 900 (76.01%) Terraform
2 94 (7.94%) Kafka
3 83 (7.01%) REST
4 59 (4.98%) PySpark
5 55 (4.65%) RESTful
6 44 (3.72%) React
7 43 (3.63%) ARM Templates
8 39 (3.29%) Node.js
9 38 (3.21%) .NET
9 38 (3.21%) YAML
10 35 (2.96%) OAuth
11 34 (2.87%) Spring
12 31 (2.62%) Spring Boot
13 30 (2.53%) OAuth2
14 28 (2.36%) AngularJS
15 24 (2.03%) FastAPI
16 23 (1.94%) OpenID
17 22 (1.86%) Elastic Stack
17 22 (1.86%) JSON
18 20 (1.69%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 329 (27.79%) Cloud Native
2 83 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.05%) Onboarding
4 44 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 33 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.70%) Security Posture
7 29 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
8 28 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (2.20%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.94%) Public Cloud
12 21 (1.77%) Replication
13 20 (1.69%) PKI
14 17 (1.44%) NHS
15 16 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
16 15 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
16 15 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 15 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (10.30%) Linux
2 85 (7.18%) Windows
3 30 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (1.60%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.27%) Unix
6 15 (1.27%) VMS
7 11 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.17%) Android
13 1 (0.084%) AIX
13 1 (0.084%) Debian
13 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.084%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (74.58%) CI/CD
2 722 (60.98%) DevOps
3 323 (27.28%) Containerisation
4 290 (24.49%) Agile
5 273 (23.06%) Observability
6 272 (22.97%) Platform Engineering
7 237 (20.02%) AI
8 177 (14.95%) Test Automation
9 162 (13.68%) Migration
9 162 (13.68%) Software Engineering
10 154 (13.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 152 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 145 (12.25%) Analytics
12 145 (12.25%) Microservices
13 137 (11.57%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 133 (11.23%) Technical Leadership
15 130 (10.98%) Mentoring
16 128 (10.81%) Cloud Security
17 126 (10.64%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 515 (43.50%) Python
2 195 (16.47%) SQL
3 188 (15.88%) PowerShell
4 180 (15.20%) Bash
5 132 (11.15%) Bicep
5 132 (11.15%) Java
6 69 (5.83%) C#
7 62 (5.24%) JavaScript
8 59 (4.98%) TypeScript
9 39 (3.29%) Go
10 19 (1.60%) Scala
11 17 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.27%) Ruby
13 13 (1.10%) Groovy
14 7 (0.59%) Perl
15 6 (0.51%) Korn
16 4 (0.34%) C++
16 4 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.34%) R
17 3 (0.25%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 434 (36.66%) Security Cleared
2 400 (33.78%) SC Cleared
3 89 (7.52%) Azure Certification
4 62 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.73%) DV Cleared
6 43 (3.63%) Degree
7 28 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.94%) CCNP
11 22 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (1.77%) CISSP
13 14 (1.18%) CISM
14 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.76%) CCIE
15 9 (0.76%) GIAC
16 8 (0.68%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.59%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.72%) QA
3 36 (3.04%) GDPR
4 33 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.70%) NIST
6 22 (1.86%) NCSC
7 16 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.68%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.51%) SLA
11 4 (0.34%) COBIT
11 4 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.25%) WCAG
13 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.17%) GRC
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 1 (0.084%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.084%) NIST 800
System Software
1 302 (25.51%) Docker
2 51 (4.31%) Active Directory
3 37 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.84%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.68%) vSphere
9 7 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.084%) NFS
12 1 (0.084%) Samba
12 1 (0.084%) Squid
12 1 (0.084%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 463 (39.10%) Kubernetes
2 187 (15.79%) Ansible
3 137 (11.57%) Grafana
4 124 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 28 (2.36%) Puppet
6 23 (1.94%) Argo
7 17 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.35%) Packer
9 14 (1.18%) Kubeflow
10 12 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.93%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.76%) Kibana
13 8 (0.68%) Control-M
13 8 (0.68%) systemd
14 7 (0.59%) Istio
14 7 (0.59%) SCCM
14 7 (0.59%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.42%) Salt
16 4 (0.34%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 219 (18.50%) Microsoft
2 98 (8.28%) Databricks
3 90 (7.60%) Google
4 67 (5.66%) Splunk
5 48 (4.05%) Oracle
6 43 (3.63%) VMware
7 37 (3.13%) Cisco
8 25 (2.11%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.94%) OpenAI
9 23 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.52%) Okta
10 18 (1.52%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.44%) Arista
12 16 (1.35%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.18%) Informatica
14 13 (1.10%) Fortinet
14 13 (1.10%) Foundry
15 11 (0.93%) Zscaler
16 9 (0.76%) AppDynamics
16 9 (0.76%) CyberArk