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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 51 95
Rank change year-on-year +16 +44 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,213 660 448
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.99% 4.90% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.73% 5.30% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 444 301
10th Percentile £417 £394 £413
25th Percentile £463 £447 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £657 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.60% -7.41% -13.46%

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 18,024 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £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 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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
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 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 +22 145 £575 -8.00% 36
South London +14 31 £535 - 7
West London -11 14 £725 +46.46% 43
East London +6 7 £600 - 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 59 (4.86%) Confluence
2 47 (3.87%) Apache Spark
3 40 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.47%) Apache
5 18 (1.48%) Jupyter
6 13 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.58%) nginx
8 6 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.41%) CMS
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.25%) SAS
12 2 (0.16%) Camunda
12 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.082%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.082%) IIS
13 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.082%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.082%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.082%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.082%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 652 (53.75%) AWS
2 620 (51.11%) Azure
3 315 (25.97%) GitHub
4 233 (19.21%) GitHub Actions
5 222 (18.30%) Azure DevOps
6 215 (17.72%) GCP
7 208 (17.15%) Serverless
8 167 (13.77%) Amazon S3
9 148 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 143 (11.79%) AWS Lambda
11 118 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
12 106 (8.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 98 (8.08%) Entra ID
14 87 (7.17%) Azure AKS
15 83 (6.84%) Amazon EC2
16 74 (6.10%) Amazon ECS
17 73 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 68 (5.61%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (5.28%) Power Platform
20 55 (4.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (6.92%) Firewall
2 57 (4.70%) DNS
3 48 (3.96%) Network Security
4 45 (3.71%) VPN
5 28 (2.31%) WAN
6 23 (1.90%) BGP
7 16 (1.32%) Internet
8 14 (1.15%) DHCP
8 14 (1.15%) TCP/IP
9 13 (1.07%) SSL
10 12 (0.99%) NX-OS
10 12 (0.99%) VXLAN
11 10 (0.82%) HTTP
12 9 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.66%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (0.66%) IOS XR
13 8 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.66%) SSH
14 7 (0.58%) VLAN
15 6 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 51 (4.20%) Power BI
4 48 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (3.54%) MongoDB
6 42 (3.46%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.97%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.89%) Delta Lake
9 33 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 32 (2.64%) Metadata
11 30 (2.47%) Redis
12 29 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.39%) BigQuery
13 26 (2.14%) NoSQL
14 25 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
14 25 (2.06%) MySQL
15 17 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
16 15 (1.24%) Big Data
17 13 (1.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 191 (15.75%) Jenkins
2 181 (14.92%) GitLab
3 174 (14.34%) Git
4 69 (5.69%) JIRA
5 16 (1.32%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 12 (0.99%) Snyk
8 11 (0.91%) JUnit
8 11 (0.91%) MLflow
8 11 (0.91%) Terragrunt
9 9 (0.74%) JMeter
9 9 (0.74%) Selenium
10 8 (0.66%) Mockito
10 8 (0.66%) Postman
11 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.58%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.49%) Claude Code
12 6 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 6 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 273 (22.51%) Social Skills
2 205 (16.90%) Finance
3 181 (14.92%) Public Sector
4 80 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (5.36%) Banking
6 30 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 27 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (1.48%) Retail
9 15 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.99%) Law
10 12 (0.99%) Legal
10 12 (0.99%) Local Government
11 10 (0.82%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.74%) Military
12 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.66%) Front Office
13 8 (0.66%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.58%) Police
15 6 (0.49%) Back Office
15 6 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 269 (22.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 196 (16.16%) Architect
3 191 (15.75%) Senior
4 134 (11.05%) Lead
5 126 (10.39%) Azure Engineer
6 120 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 109 (8.99%) Platform Engineer
8 106 (8.74%) AWS Engineer
9 94 (7.75%) Data Engineer
10 83 (6.84%) Developer
11 74 (6.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 57 (4.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 54 (4.45%) AWS DevOps
14 51 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 50 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 49 (4.04%) Senior DevOps
16 49 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 47 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
18 38 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
19 36 (2.97%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 920 (75.85%) Terraform
2 101 (8.33%) Kafka
3 83 (6.84%) REST
4 58 (4.78%) PySpark
5 53 (4.37%) RESTful
6 43 (3.54%) ARM Templates
6 43 (3.54%) React
7 40 (3.30%) .NET
7 40 (3.30%) Node.js
8 37 (3.05%) YAML
9 36 (2.97%) OAuth
10 35 (2.89%) Spring
11 32 (2.64%) Spring Boot
12 30 (2.47%) FastAPI
12 30 (2.47%) OAuth2
13 28 (2.31%) AngularJS
14 25 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
15 24 (1.98%) OpenID
16 22 (1.81%) JSON
17 21 (1.73%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 336 (27.70%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 46 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.72%) Security Posture
7 30 (2.47%) Enterprise Cloud
8 28 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 28 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (2.14%) Replication
11 23 (1.90%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.81%) PKI
13 18 (1.48%) NHS
14 16 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.24%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.55%) Linux
2 88 (7.25%) Windows
3 32 (2.64%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.32%) VMS
7 14 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.15%) Unix
8 7 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.082%) AIX
13 1 (0.082%) Debian
13 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 907 (74.77%) CI/CD
2 737 (60.76%) DevOps
3 331 (27.29%) Containerisation
4 298 (24.57%) Agile
5 297 (24.48%) Observability
6 283 (23.33%) Platform Engineering
7 249 (20.53%) AI
8 178 (14.67%) Test Automation
9 175 (14.43%) Software Engineering
10 164 (13.52%) Migration
11 161 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
12 155 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 148 (12.20%) Microservices
14 147 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
15 140 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
16 139 (11.46%) Analytics
17 138 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 133 (10.96%) Cloud Security
19 132 (10.88%) Mentoring
20 130 (10.72%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 534 (44.02%) Python
2 197 (16.24%) SQL
3 195 (16.08%) PowerShell
4 189 (15.58%) Bash
5 136 (11.21%) Bicep
5 136 (11.21%) Java
6 72 (5.94%) C#
7 62 (5.11%) JavaScript
8 57 (4.70%) TypeScript
9 43 (3.54%) Go
10 20 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.40%) Scala
12 16 (1.32%) Ruby
13 15 (1.24%) Groovy
14 7 (0.58%) Korn
14 7 (0.58%) Perl
15 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.33%) C++
16 4 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 443 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 407 (33.55%) SC Cleared
3 92 (7.58%) Azure Certification
4 71 (5.85%) AWS Certification
5 56 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 49 (4.04%) Degree
7 30 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 28 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.98%) CISSP
12 23 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (1.73%) CCNP
14 16 (1.32%) CISM
15 12 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.82%) GIAC
17 8 (0.66%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.66%) Master's Degree
18 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 6 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 46 (3.79%) QA
3 37 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (2.97%) GDPR
4 36 (2.97%) NIST
5 20 (1.65%) NCSC
6 16 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.41%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) COBIT
11 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.082%) PMO
System Software
1 322 (26.55%) Docker
2 55 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.22%) Virtual Machines
4 34 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.66%) vSphere
9 7 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) Squid
12 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.16%) Postfix
13 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.082%) NFS
13 1 (0.082%) Samba
13 1 (0.082%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 481 (39.65%) Kubernetes
2 190 (15.66%) Ansible
3 142 (11.71%) Grafana
4 127 (10.47%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.23%) Puppet
6 26 (2.14%) Argo
7 18 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 16 (1.32%) Packer
9 15 (1.24%) Kubeflow
10 11 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.91%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.74%) Kibana
12 8 (0.66%) Control-M
12 8 (0.66%) Istio
12 8 (0.66%) systemd
13 7 (0.58%) SCCM
13 7 (0.58%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.33%) Nessus
14 4 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 235 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 95 (7.83%) Databricks
2 95 (7.83%) Google
3 70 (5.77%) Splunk
4 51 (4.20%) Oracle
5 45 (3.71%) VMware
6 36 (2.97%) Cisco
7 26 (2.14%) Dynatrace
8 25 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 24 (1.98%) OpenAI
10 18 (1.48%) Palo Alto
11 17 (1.40%) Okta
11 17 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 16 (1.32%) Arista
13 14 (1.15%) Foundry
13 14 (1.15%) Informatica
14 11 (0.91%) Fortinet
14 11 (0.91%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.74%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.74%) CyberArk