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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 85
Rank change year-on-year +13 +38 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,262 675 452
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.20% 5.05% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% 5.46% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 459 294
10th Percentile £416 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.30% -4.35% -1.92%
75th Percentile £650 £658 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year +13.60% -9.91% -11.06%

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 18,097 12,373 14,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 92.52% 89.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,869 8,168 9,467
10th Percentile £360 £330 £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 £674 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 249 177
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 23 September 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
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 23 September 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 +24 144 £590 -5.60% 120
South London +23 34 £535 -13.71% 7
West London -19 13 £725 +70.59% 45
East London +5 6 £600 - 18
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 58 (4.60%) Confluence
2 50 (3.96%) Apache Spark
3 47 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (2.69%) Apache
5 20 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.79%) nginx
8 8 (0.63%) CMS
9 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.24%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.079%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.079%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.079%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.079%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 671 (53.17%) AWS
2 631 (50.00%) Azure
3 327 (25.91%) GitHub
4 239 (18.94%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (18.62%) GCP
6 215 (17.04%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (16.72%) Serverless
8 179 (14.18%) Amazon S3
9 150 (11.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 148 (11.73%) AWS Lambda
11 139 (11.01%) Amazon EKS
12 124 (9.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 118 (9.35%) Entra ID
14 98 (7.77%) Amazon EC2
15 83 (6.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 82 (6.50%) Azure AKS
17 77 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
18 68 (5.39%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (5.15%) dbt
20 57 (4.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.50%) Firewall
2 61 (4.83%) DNS
3 48 (3.80%) VPN
4 47 (3.72%) Network Security
5 26 (2.06%) WAN
6 19 (1.51%) BGP
7 15 (1.19%) Internet
7 15 (1.19%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.11%) DHCP
8 14 (1.11%) SSL
9 10 (0.79%) HTTP
10 9 (0.71%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.71%) SSH
11 8 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.63%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.55%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.55%) VLAN
13 6 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.48%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (3.72%) Power BI
4 44 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
4 44 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 39 (3.09%) SQL Server
6 36 (2.85%) Data Lake
6 36 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (2.85%) Delta Lake
7 34 (2.69%) DynamoDB
7 34 (2.69%) Redis
8 32 (2.54%) Metadata
8 32 (2.54%) MySQL
9 30 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
9 30 (2.38%) BigQuery
10 29 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (2.30%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.27%) Big Data
12 15 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 13 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 202 (16.01%) GitLab
2 200 (15.85%) Jenkins
3 188 (14.90%) Git
4 67 (5.31%) JIRA
5 21 (1.66%) SonarQube
6 20 (1.58%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.27%) Snyk
8 12 (0.95%) Selenium
8 12 (0.95%) Terragrunt
9 11 (0.87%) Artifactory
9 11 (0.87%) JUnit
10 9 (0.71%) JMeter
10 9 (0.71%) MLflow
11 8 (0.63%) Postman
12 7 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.55%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
13 6 (0.48%) Mockito
14 4 (0.32%) Cucumber
General
1 294 (23.30%) Social Skills
2 224 (17.75%) Finance
3 175 (13.87%) Public Sector
4 89 (7.05%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (5.86%) Banking
6 32 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.58%) Retail
9 14 (1.11%) Law
10 13 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.03%) Local Government
11 12 (0.95%) Military
12 11 (0.87%) Front Office
12 11 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.71%) Back Office
14 9 (0.71%) Legal
14 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.55%) Police
16 6 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (22.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 199 (15.77%) Architect
3 197 (15.61%) Senior
4 135 (10.70%) Lead
5 127 (10.06%) Azure Engineer
6 124 (9.83%) Cloud Engineer
7 112 (8.87%) AWS Engineer
8 108 (8.56%) Platform Engineer
9 98 (7.77%) Data Engineer
10 79 (6.26%) Developer
11 72 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (4.83%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 59 (4.68%) AWS DevOps
14 55 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 53 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
16 51 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
17 50 (3.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 47 (3.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 40 (3.17%) GCP Engineer
20 39 (3.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 954 (75.59%) Terraform
2 109 (8.64%) Kafka
3 88 (6.97%) REST
4 64 (5.07%) PySpark
5 58 (4.60%) RESTful
6 48 (3.80%) React
7 43 (3.41%) .NET
7 43 (3.41%) OAuth
8 40 (3.17%) ARM Templates
9 39 (3.09%) FastAPI
10 38 (3.01%) Node.js
11 34 (2.69%) OAuth2
11 34 (2.69%) OpenID
12 33 (2.61%) Spring
12 33 (2.61%) YAML
13 32 (2.54%) Spring Boot
14 26 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
15 25 (1.98%) Flask
16 23 (1.82%) AngularJS
16 23 (1.82%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 339 (26.86%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.60%) Onboarding
4 49 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 38 (3.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 37 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
8 36 (2.85%) Product Ownership
9 32 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 31 (2.46%) AI Agents
10 31 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (2.22%) Data Centre
12 27 (2.14%) Replication
13 25 (1.98%) PKI
14 18 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.35%) NHS
16 16 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.27%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 144 (11.41%) Linux
2 93 (7.37%) Windows
3 32 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.27%) VMS
7 15 (1.19%) Unix
8 14 (1.11%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.24%) CentOS
13 2 (0.16%) Android
14 1 (0.079%) Debian
14 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 948 (75.12%) CI/CD
2 754 (59.75%) DevOps
3 329 (26.07%) Containerisation
4 327 (25.91%) Observability
5 308 (24.41%) Agile
6 287 (22.74%) Platform Engineering
7 272 (21.55%) AI
8 189 (14.98%) Software Engineering
9 188 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 184 (14.58%) Test Automation
11 179 (14.18%) Migration
12 167 (13.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (13.00%) Technical Leadership
14 159 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
15 156 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 145 (11.49%) Microservices
17 144 (11.41%) Cloud Security
18 138 (10.94%) Analytics
19 134 (10.62%) Event-Driven
20 133 (10.54%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 561 (44.45%) Python
2 203 (16.09%) PowerShell
3 199 (15.77%) SQL
4 193 (15.29%) Bash
5 144 (11.41%) Bicep
6 137 (10.86%) Java
7 72 (5.71%) C#
8 70 (5.55%) JavaScript
9 65 (5.15%) TypeScript
10 51 (4.04%) Go
11 25 (1.98%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.51%) Groovy
13 18 (1.43%) Scala
14 9 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.63%) Korn
15 8 (0.63%) Ruby
16 7 (0.55%) Perl
17 5 (0.40%) C++
17 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 450 (35.66%) Security Cleared
2 410 (32.49%) SC Cleared
3 94 (7.45%) Azure Certification
4 87 (6.89%) AWS Certification
5 65 (5.15%) DV Cleared
6 51 (4.04%) Degree
7 38 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.46%) CISSP
10 29 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.58%) CISM
14 18 (1.43%) CCNP
15 12 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.87%) GIAC
17 9 (0.71%) DBS Check
18 8 (0.63%) Master's Degree
19 7 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
20 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.29%) Data Quality
2 52 (4.12%) QA
3 38 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (3.01%) NIST
4 31 (2.46%) GDPR
5 20 (1.58%) NCSC
6 16 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.32%) COBIT
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.32%) SLA
9 4 (0.32%) WCAG
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.16%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.079%) SEPA
System Software
1 335 (26.55%) Docker
2 62 (4.91%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 26 (2.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.63%) vSphere
7 6 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.16%) Postfix
11 1 (0.079%) IAG
11 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.079%) NFS
11 1 (0.079%) Samba
11 1 (0.079%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 503 (39.86%) Kubernetes
2 206 (16.32%) Ansible
3 152 (12.04%) Grafana
4 130 (10.30%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.22%) Puppet
7 27 (2.14%) Argo
8 17 (1.35%) Kubeflow
9 16 (1.27%) Packer
10 11 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.87%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.79%) Kibana
11 10 (0.79%) systemd
12 8 (0.63%) Control-M
12 8 (0.63%) SCCM
13 7 (0.55%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.48%) Istio
15 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 257 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.08%) Google
3 96 (7.61%) Databricks
4 75 (5.94%) Splunk
5 51 (4.04%) Oracle
5 51 (4.04%) VMware
6 38 (3.01%) Cisco
7 35 (2.77%) Dynatrace
8 30 (2.38%) ServiceNow
9 25 (1.98%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.58%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.43%) Okta
12 17 (1.35%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.19%) Arista
13 15 (1.19%) Foundry
14 14 (1.11%) Informatica
14 14 (1.11%) Zscaler
15 12 (0.95%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.79%) Fortinet
17 8 (0.63%) New Relic