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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 48 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +42 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,258 677 455
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.22% 5.03% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 5.44% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 458 296
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £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 0
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% - -
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £70.69
% change year-on-year +13.60% -11.58% -9.38%

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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
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 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -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 27 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 27 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 +23 144 £575 -8.00% 123
South London +25 34 £535 -13.71% 7
West London -20 13 £725 +70.59% 42
East London +5 6 £600 - 15
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 54 (4.29%) Confluence
2 48 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 48 (3.82%) Apache Spark
3 33 (2.62%) Apache
4 22 (1.75%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.79%) nginx
7 7 (0.56%) CMS
7 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
10 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.079%) IIS
11 1 (0.079%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
11 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 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.079%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 665 (52.86%) AWS
2 624 (49.60%) Azure
3 325 (25.83%) GitHub
4 237 (18.84%) GitHub Actions
5 230 (18.28%) GCP
6 214 (17.01%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (16.93%) Serverless
8 180 (14.31%) Amazon S3
9 150 (11.92%) AWS Lambda
10 143 (11.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 141 (11.21%) Amazon EKS
12 123 (9.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 117 (9.30%) Entra ID
14 99 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
15 82 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 78 (6.20%) Azure AKS
17 77 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
18 67 (5.33%) Azure Monitor
19 64 (5.09%) dbt
20 56 (4.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 80 (6.36%) Firewall
2 61 (4.85%) DNS
3 47 (3.74%) Network Security
4 46 (3.66%) VPN
5 23 (1.83%) WAN
6 18 (1.43%) 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 (0.72%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.72%) SSH
11 8 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.56%) VLAN
13 6 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.48%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
14 5 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (5.72%) Amazon RDS
3 46 (3.66%) Power BI
4 44 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
5 43 (3.42%) MongoDB
6 37 (2.94%) Delta Lake
6 37 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 35 (2.78%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.78%) DynamoDB
9 34 (2.70%) Redis
10 33 (2.62%) Metadata
10 33 (2.62%) MySQL
11 30 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 30 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 28 (2.23%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.19%) Big Data
15 13 (1.03%) Apache Iceberg
15 13 (1.03%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 203 (16.14%) GitLab
2 197 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 182 (14.47%) Git
4 63 (5.01%) JIRA
5 20 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 19 (1.51%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.11%) Snyk
8 13 (1.03%) Selenium
9 12 (0.95%) Terragrunt
10 11 (0.87%) Artifactory
11 10 (0.79%) JMeter
11 10 (0.79%) JUnit
12 9 (0.72%) MLflow
12 9 (0.72%) Postman
13 8 (0.64%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 7 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.48%) CircleCI
16 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
16 5 (0.40%) Mockito
General
1 288 (22.89%) Social Skills
2 227 (18.04%) Finance
3 174 (13.83%) Public Sector
4 92 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.72%) Banking
6 31 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.59%) Retail
9 13 (1.03%) Law
9 13 (1.03%) Local Government
9 13 (1.03%) Military
10 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (0.79%) Back Office
11 10 (0.79%) Investment Banking
12 9 (0.72%) Front Office
12 9 (0.72%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.64%) Legal
13 8 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 282 (22.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 195 (15.50%) Senior
3 191 (15.18%) Architect
4 130 (10.33%) Lead
5 126 (10.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 124 (9.86%) Azure Engineer
7 111 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
8 110 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
9 99 (7.87%) Data Engineer
10 78 (6.20%) Developer
11 74 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 58 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
14 54 (4.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 51 (4.05%) Senior DevOps
16 50 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 50 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
17 47 (3.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 41 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
19 40 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 948 (75.36%) Terraform
2 108 (8.59%) Kafka
3 90 (7.15%) REST
4 61 (4.85%) PySpark
5 55 (4.37%) RESTful
6 49 (3.90%) React
7 46 (3.66%) OAuth
8 45 (3.58%) .NET
9 39 (3.10%) FastAPI
10 38 (3.02%) ARM Templates
11 35 (2.78%) OAuth2
11 35 (2.78%) OpenID
12 34 (2.70%) Node.js
13 32 (2.54%) YAML
14 31 (2.46%) Spring
15 30 (2.38%) Spring Boot
16 27 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (1.99%) Flask
18 22 (1.75%) Django
19 21 (1.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 338 (26.87%) Cloud Native
2 79 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.61%) Onboarding
4 50 (3.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 42 (3.34%) Security Posture
6 39 (3.10%) Enterprise Cloud
7 38 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.70%) Product Ownership
9 32 (2.54%) AI Agents
9 32 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (2.54%) Public Cloud
10 28 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.15%) Replication
12 26 (2.07%) PKI
13 17 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.35%) NHS
13 17 (1.35%) Private Cloud
13 17 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
15 13 (1.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 146 (11.61%) Linux
2 95 (7.55%) Windows
3 32 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 17 (1.35%) VMS
7 15 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.19%) Unix
8 7 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.079%) AIX
13 1 (0.079%) Debian
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 938 (74.56%) CI/CD
2 754 (59.94%) DevOps
3 324 (25.76%) Observability
4 321 (25.52%) Containerisation
5 300 (23.85%) Agile
6 290 (23.05%) Platform Engineering
7 278 (22.10%) AI
8 188 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 185 (14.71%) Software Engineering
10 183 (14.55%) Test Automation
11 177 (14.07%) Migration
12 165 (13.12%) Continuous Improvement
13 161 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
14 158 (12.56%) Technical Leadership
15 157 (12.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 146 (11.61%) Cloud Security
17 141 (11.21%) Microservices
18 138 (10.97%) Deployment Automation
19 136 (10.81%) Data Engineering
20 134 (10.65%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 565 (44.91%) Python
2 202 (16.06%) PowerShell
3 199 (15.82%) SQL
4 198 (15.74%) Bash
5 143 (11.37%) Bicep
6 132 (10.49%) Java
7 73 (5.80%) C#
8 70 (5.56%) JavaScript
9 64 (5.09%) TypeScript
10 53 (4.21%) Go
11 26 (2.07%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.51%) Groovy
13 18 (1.43%) Scala
14 9 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.64%) Korn
16 7 (0.56%) Perl
17 6 (0.48%) Ruby
18 5 (0.40%) C++
18 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 446 (35.45%) Security Cleared
2 403 (32.03%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.23%) Azure Certification
4 85 (6.76%) AWS Certification
5 67 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 49 (3.90%) Degree
7 35 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 34 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (2.54%) CISSP
10 27 (2.15%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.59%) CISM
13 17 (1.35%) CCNP
14 12 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.87%) GIAC
16 9 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 6 (0.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.21%) QA
3 38 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (3.02%) NIST
4 30 (2.38%) GDPR
5 19 (1.51%) 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 3 (0.24%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 336 (26.71%) Docker
2 61 (4.85%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 36 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 25 (1.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.72%) vSphere
7 8 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.24%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.16%) IAG
11 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
11 2 (0.16%) Postfix
12 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.079%) NFS
12 1 (0.079%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.079%) zsh
Systems Management
1 506 (40.22%) Kubernetes
2 205 (16.30%) Ansible
3 153 (12.16%) Grafana
4 131 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (2.15%) Argo
6 27 (2.15%) Puppet
7 19 (1.51%) Kubeflow
8 16 (1.27%) Packer
9 12 (0.95%) Kibana
9 12 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (0.79%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.79%) systemd
12 8 (0.64%) Control-M
12 8 (0.64%) SCCM
13 7 (0.56%) Istio
13 7 (0.56%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 253 (20.11%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.19%) Google
3 97 (7.71%) Databricks
4 76 (6.04%) Splunk
5 52 (4.13%) VMware
6 46 (3.66%) Oracle
7 38 (3.02%) Cisco
8 34 (2.70%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.38%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.43%) Okta
13 17 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.19%) Foundry
15 14 (1.11%) Arista
15 14 (1.11%) Informatica
15 14 (1.11%) Zscaler
16 12 (0.95%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.79%) Fortinet
18 8 (0.64%) Juniper