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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 72 88
Rank change year-on-year +33 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 846 456 469
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.71% 3.30% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 3.64% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 299 351
10th Percentile £375 £407 £413
25th Percentile £447 £497 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.95%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £27.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +180.00% -63.70% +37.75%

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 13,482 12,521 16,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.48% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,929 7,934 11,797
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 155 336
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.90 £24.88 £19.83
Median hourly rate £34.14 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +14.75% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.75 £79.50 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.42
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.80% +4.05%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 +28 100 £550 - 80
West London +6 34 £603 +26.84% 21
South London +7 16 £530 -22.63% 21
East London -1 2 £675 +15.38% 21
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 31 (3.66%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (2.60%) Apache
4 19 (2.25%) Confluence
5 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.35%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.35%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.35%) SAS
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.24%) Traefik
7 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Actimize
1 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.12%) Summit
1 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 432 (51.06%) AWS
2 408 (48.23%) Azure
3 233 (27.54%) GitHub
4 159 (18.79%) GCP
4 159 (18.79%) GitHub Actions
5 153 (18.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 149 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
6 149 (17.61%) Serverless
7 129 (15.25%) Amazon S3
8 105 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
9 85 (10.05%) Amazon EKS
10 77 (9.10%) Amazon ECS
11 68 (8.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 57 (6.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 54 (6.38%) Power Platform
14 53 (6.26%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (6.03%) Entra ID
16 47 (5.56%) Azure AKS
17 46 (5.44%) PaaS
18 42 (4.96%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 78 (9.22%) Firewall
2 44 (5.20%) Network Security
3 41 (4.85%) VPN
4 34 (4.02%) DNS
5 16 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.65%) WAN
7 13 (1.54%) SSL
8 12 (1.42%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.83%) BGP
9 7 (0.83%) Multicast
9 7 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 5 (0.59%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.59%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.47%) OSPF
11 4 (0.47%) SAN
11 4 (0.47%) VLAN
12 3 (0.35%) DHCP
12 3 (0.35%) HTTP
12 3 (0.35%) LAN
12 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (6.74%) Data Lake
2 52 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.08%) Power BI
5 33 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
5 33 (3.90%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.19%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (2.60%) Redis
10 21 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 21 (2.48%) BigQuery
10 21 (2.48%) NoSQL
11 16 (1.89%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.77%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.77%) MySQL
13 14 (1.65%) Delta Lake
14 12 (1.42%) Mixpanel
14 12 (1.42%) OLTP
14 12 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 161 (19.03%) Jenkins
2 124 (14.66%) GitLab
3 85 (10.05%) Git
4 34 (4.02%) JIRA
5 20 (2.36%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.54%) SonarQube
7 9 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 8 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.83%) MLflow
9 7 (0.83%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.59%) Gradle
10 5 (0.59%) Maven
10 5 (0.59%) Selenium
11 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.47%) Postman
11 4 (0.47%) RStudio
12 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.35%) Snyk
12 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 189 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 140 (16.55%) Finance
3 95 (11.23%) Public Sector
4 50 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (5.91%) Banking
5 31 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (1.89%) Retail
8 15 (1.77%) Front Office
9 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.18%) Marketing
12 9 (1.06%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.71%) Electronics
15 6 (0.71%) Military
15 6 (0.71%) Publishing
16 4 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 178 (21.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 127 (15.01%) Senior
3 102 (12.06%) Architect
4 87 (10.28%) Azure Engineer
5 84 (9.93%) Developer
6 79 (9.34%) Data Engineer
7 75 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (8.63%) AWS Engineer
9 70 (8.27%) Platform Engineer
10 55 (6.50%) Lead
11 42 (4.96%) Security Engineer
12 40 (4.73%) AWS DevOps
13 39 (4.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 33 (3.90%) Software Engineer
16 31 (3.66%) Cloud Architect
17 30 (3.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 30 (3.55%) GCP Engineer
17 30 (3.55%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (10.40%) Kafka
2 63 (7.45%) Node.js
3 43 (5.08%) React
4 39 (4.61%) ARM Templates
4 39 (4.61%) YAML
5 36 (4.26%) .NET
6 35 (4.14%) Spring
7 34 (4.02%) OAuth
7 34 (4.02%) REST
8 32 (3.78%) AngularJS
8 32 (3.78%) PySpark
9 31 (3.66%) Spring Boot
10 27 (3.19%) AWS CDK
10 27 (3.19%) RESTful
11 26 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
12 25 (2.96%) OpenID
13 24 (2.84%) GraphQL
14 23 (2.72%) Playwright
15 22 (2.60%) SAML
16 21 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 217 (25.65%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.13%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.54%) Replication
10 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.42%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (12.53%) Linux
2 48 (5.67%) Windows
3 22 (2.60%) VMS
4 17 (2.01%) Unix
5 15 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Solaris
8 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (73.64%) CI/CD
2 522 (61.70%) DevOps
3 214 (25.30%) Containerisation
4 192 (22.70%) Agile
5 178 (21.04%) Observability
6 129 (15.25%) AI
7 128 (15.13%) Analytics
8 122 (14.42%) Migration
9 115 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
10 113 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
11 112 (13.24%) Software Engineering
12 104 (12.29%) Microservices
13 101 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 93 (10.99%) Cloud Security
15 90 (10.64%) DevSecOps
16 82 (9.69%) Test Automation
17 80 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (9.46%) Infrastructure Automation
18 77 (9.10%) ETL
19 76 (8.98%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 387 (45.74%) Python
2 154 (18.20%) SQL
3 122 (14.42%) Bash
4 98 (11.58%) PowerShell
5 96 (11.35%) Java
6 62 (7.33%) Bicep
7 61 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 42 (4.96%) C#
8 42 (4.96%) Go
9 39 (4.61%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.65%) Scala
11 12 (1.42%) Ruby
12 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.59%) C++
14 5 (0.59%) Groovy
14 5 (0.59%) Rust
15 4 (0.47%) C
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 252 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 238 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.86%) AWS Certification
4 57 (6.74%) Azure Certification
5 38 (4.49%) Degree
6 26 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.65%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.42%) CISSP
11 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.83%) OSCP
15 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.71%) SANS
16 5 (0.59%) CCSP
16 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
17 4 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (6.74%) GDPR
2 47 (5.56%) NIST
3 46 (5.44%) Data Quality
4 36 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.66%) QA
6 21 (2.48%) NCSC
7 15 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.54%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.47%) SLA
12 3 (0.35%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.35%) GRC
12 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.24%) MiFID
13 2 (0.24%) PSD2
13 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 247 (29.20%) Docker
2 38 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.71%) Squid
6 6 (0.71%) zsh
7 5 (0.59%) Snort
7 5 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.35%) vSphere
9 2 (0.24%) KVM
9 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.12%) etcd
10 1 (0.12%) Firmware
10 1 (0.12%) GPFS
10 1 (0.12%) HDFS
10 1 (0.12%) Lustre
10 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 634 (74.94%) Terraform
2 301 (35.58%) Kubernetes
3 142 (16.78%) Ansible
4 94 (11.11%) Grafana
5 88 (10.40%) Prometheus
6 27 (3.19%) Argo
7 17 (2.01%) Puppet
8 15 (1.77%) Istio
8 15 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.65%) Kibana
10 12 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
11 11 (1.30%) Rancher
12 9 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.83%) Nessus
14 5 (0.59%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.59%) logstash
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.47%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.47%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 141 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 80 (9.46%) Google
3 74 (8.75%) Databricks
4 47 (5.56%) Splunk
5 19 (2.25%) Palo Alto
5 19 (2.25%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.13%) VMware
7 17 (2.01%) Cisco
8 14 (1.65%) CyberArk
8 14 (1.65%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.65%) Solace
9 11 (1.30%) Oracle
9 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.18%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.18%) Qualys
11 9 (1.06%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.06%) F5
11 9 (1.06%) TIBCO
12 8 (0.95%) Salesforce
12 8 (0.95%) SAP