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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 81 86
Rank change year-on-year +41 +5 +12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 813 452 490
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 3.07% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 3.41% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 568 298 363
10th Percentile £400 £423 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +1.74% -8.37%
75th Percentile £639 £675 £679
90th Percentile £725 £738 £796
England median daily rate £532 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -5.84% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile £53.00 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £56.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile £59.00 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 £57.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +19.57% -24.11% +29.51%

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 13,087 13,251 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.11% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,493 11,734
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 94 £550 - 209
West London +5 31 £603 +26.84% 10
South London +6 14 £530 -22.63% 33
East London +1 3 £675 +15.38% 12
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 23 (2.83%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.46%) Confluence
4 17 (2.09%) Apache
5 4 (0.49%) SAS
5 4 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.37%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.37%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.49%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.49%) thinkFolio
2 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Actimize
3 1 (0.12%) Endur
3 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 414 (50.92%) AWS
2 393 (48.34%) Azure
3 219 (26.94%) GitHub
4 160 (19.68%) GitHub Actions
5 148 (18.20%) GCP
6 138 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
7 134 (16.48%) Serverless
8 128 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 111 (13.65%) Amazon S3
10 90 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
11 68 (8.36%) Amazon EKS
12 61 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
13 56 (6.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (6.15%) Entra ID
16 47 (5.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 46 (5.66%) Azure AKS
18 40 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 38 (4.67%) Power Platform
20 37 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (10.58%) Firewall
2 46 (5.66%) VPN
3 41 (5.04%) Network Security
4 40 (4.92%) DNS
5 20 (2.46%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.85%) SSL
7 13 (1.60%) WAN
8 11 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.11%) BGP
10 8 (0.98%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.86%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.74%) Multicast
12 6 (0.74%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.62%) HTTP
13 5 (0.62%) OSPF
14 4 (0.49%) MPLS
14 4 (0.49%) VLAN
15 3 (0.37%) Internet
15 3 (0.37%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.15%) Data Lake
2 47 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
3 43 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
4 32 (3.94%) Power BI
5 31 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
8 25 (3.08%) DynamoDB
9 21 (2.58%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.34%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.34%) NoSQL
11 18 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.85%) MongoDB
13 14 (1.72%) Redis
14 13 (1.60%) Delta Lake
15 12 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (1.48%) Relational Database
16 11 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
17 10 (1.23%) Metadata
17 10 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 153 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 114 (14.02%) GitLab
3 80 (9.84%) Git
4 33 (4.06%) JIRA
5 18 (2.21%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.60%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.35%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.98%) Snyk
9 8 (0.98%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.86%) Gradle
10 7 (0.86%) Maven
10 7 (0.86%) Selenium
11 5 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.62%) MLflow
11 5 (0.62%) Terragrunt
12 4 (0.49%) Postman
13 3 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 177 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 130 (15.99%) Finance
3 89 (10.95%) Public Sector
4 59 (7.26%) Banking
5 52 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.46%) Front Office
7 19 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.85%) Retail
9 12 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.11%) Publishing
12 8 (0.98%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.98%) Marketing
13 7 (0.86%) Military
14 6 (0.74%) Electronics
15 4 (0.49%) Law
15 4 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 160 (19.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 137 (16.85%) Senior
3 91 (11.19%) Developer
4 89 (10.95%) Architect
5 75 (9.23%) Platform Engineer
6 71 (8.73%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (8.49%) AWS Engineer
8 65 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 64 (7.87%) Data Engineer
10 56 (6.89%) Lead
11 42 (5.17%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 36 (4.43%) Software Engineer
14 35 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
15 33 (4.06%) GCP Engineer
16 30 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.44%) Senior Developer
17 28 (3.44%) Site Engineer
18 27 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
18 27 (3.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.82%) Kafka
2 64 (7.87%) Node.js
3 43 (5.29%) React
4 42 (5.17%) YAML
5 39 (4.80%) ARM Templates
6 36 (4.43%) .NET
6 36 (4.43%) REST
6 36 (4.43%) Spring
7 32 (3.94%) AngularJS
7 32 (3.94%) Spring Boot
8 29 (3.57%) GraphQL
9 28 (3.44%) RESTful
10 27 (3.32%) AWS CDK
11 26 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
12 25 (3.08%) OAuth
13 23 (2.83%) Playwright
14 21 (2.58%) OpenTelemetry
14 21 (2.58%) PySpark
15 20 (2.46%) FIX Protocol
16 19 (2.34%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 198 (24.35%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.49%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 26 (3.20%) Public Cloud
5 25 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 20 (2.46%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.34%) Onboarding
7 19 (2.34%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.72%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (1.60%) Replication
11 12 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.11%) AI Agents
14 8 (0.98%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 7 (0.86%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 109 (13.41%) Linux
2 45 (5.54%) Windows
3 20 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.21%) Unix
4 18 (2.21%) VMS
5 11 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.62%) Solaris
7 4 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.25%) Android
8 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.25%) CentOS
8 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
9 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (73.55%) CI/CD
2 498 (61.25%) DevOps
3 198 (24.35%) Agile
3 198 (24.35%) Containerisation
4 164 (20.17%) Observability
5 129 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
6 125 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 119 (14.64%) Migration
8 116 (14.27%) AI
9 109 (13.41%) Microservices
10 108 (13.28%) Platform Engineering
11 99 (12.18%) Analytics
12 94 (11.56%) DevSecOps
13 92 (11.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 91 (11.19%) Cloud Security
15 83 (10.21%) Test Automation
16 82 (10.09%) Infrastructure Automation
17 77 (9.47%) Machine Learning
18 70 (8.61%) Data Pipeline
19 68 (8.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 387 (47.60%) Python
2 139 (17.10%) SQL
3 130 (15.99%) Bash
4 101 (12.42%) PowerShell
5 98 (12.05%) Java
6 65 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 61 (7.50%) Bicep
8 54 (6.64%) Go
9 43 (5.29%) C#
10 41 (5.04%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.60%) Ruby
12 11 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.23%) Scala
14 6 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.62%) C
15 5 (0.62%) C++
15 5 (0.62%) Groovy
16 4 (0.49%) Rust
17 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 202 (24.85%) Security Cleared
2 187 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.52%) Azure Certification
4 50 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.67%) Degree
6 26 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.60%) CISSP
9 12 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.48%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.74%) MCP
14 5 (0.62%) CCSP
14 5 (0.62%) OSCP
15 4 (0.49%) CISM
15 4 (0.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.89%) GDPR
2 38 (4.67%) NIST
3 34 (4.18%) Data Quality
4 33 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.95%) QA
6 12 (1.48%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.86%) NCSC
8 7 (0.86%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.62%) MiFID
9 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.37%) SLA
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
12 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 246 (30.26%) Docker
2 39 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.32%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.98%) zsh
6 6 (0.74%) Squid
7 5 (0.62%) Snort
8 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.37%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.12%) etcd
11 1 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 612 (75.28%) Terraform
2 291 (35.79%) Kubernetes
3 148 (18.20%) Ansible
4 113 (13.90%) Grafana
5 99 (12.18%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.08%) Argo
7 20 (2.46%) Puppet
8 16 (1.97%) Kibana
9 15 (1.85%) ITRS Geneos
10 14 (1.72%) Istio
11 13 (1.60%) Progress Chef
12 11 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
13 10 (1.23%) Rancher
14 6 (0.74%) logstash
14 6 (0.74%) Nessus
15 5 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.62%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.49%) NetBackup
16 4 (0.49%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.49%) Suricata
Vendors
1 134 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.23%) Google
3 70 (8.61%) Databricks
4 32 (3.94%) Splunk
5 23 (2.83%) Palo Alto
6 21 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.46%) Cisco
8 17 (2.09%) VMware
9 15 (1.85%) Oracle
9 15 (1.85%) Solace
10 12 (1.48%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.48%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.48%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.23%) CheckPoint
11 10 (1.23%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.23%) TIBCO
12 9 (1.11%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.11%) Qualys
12 9 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.98%) SAP