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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 78 86
Rank change year-on-year +38 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 806 438 477
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.71% 3.12% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.25% 3.46% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 288 353
10th Percentile £395 £411 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £590
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% -0.85% -6.35%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £678
90th Percentile £725 £738 £796
England median daily rate £530 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -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% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £57.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +33.91% -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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 11 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 11 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 +24 99 £550 - 57
West London +6 31 £603 +26.84% 9
South London +4 15 £530 -22.63% 10
East London -2 2 £675 +15.38% 11
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 24 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.48%) Confluence
4 17 (2.11%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) SAS
5 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.50%) 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%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Summit
2 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 419 (51.99%) AWS
2 385 (47.77%) Azure
3 220 (27.30%) GitHub
4 160 (19.85%) GitHub Actions
5 144 (17.87%) GCP
6 137 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
7 136 (16.87%) Serverless
8 129 (16.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 114 (14.14%) Amazon S3
10 94 (11.66%) AWS Lambda
11 74 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
12 63 (7.82%) Amazon ECS
13 59 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (6.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 49 (6.08%) Entra ID
17 48 (5.96%) Azure AKS
18 43 (5.33%) Power Platform
19 38 (4.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 37 (4.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 84 (10.42%) Firewall
2 42 (5.21%) Network Security
2 42 (5.21%) VPN
3 38 (4.71%) DNS
4 17 (2.11%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.86%) SSL
6 13 (1.61%) WAN
7 11 (1.36%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.99%) BGP
9 6 (0.74%) tcpdump
10 5 (0.62%) Multicast
10 5 (0.62%) OSPF
10 5 (0.62%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.62%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (0.50%) HTTP
11 4 (0.50%) MPLS
11 4 (0.50%) VLAN
12 3 (0.37%) DHCP
12 3 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.83%) Data Lake
3 46 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (4.22%) Power BI
5 30 (3.72%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 26 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (2.85%) NoSQL
10 20 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 20 (2.48%) Redis
11 18 (2.23%) BigQuery
12 17 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
13 16 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
14 14 (1.74%) MySQL
15 13 (1.61%) Relational Database
16 12 (1.49%) MongoDB
17 10 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
18 9 (1.12%) Delta Lake
18 9 (1.12%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 153 (18.98%) Jenkins
2 117 (14.52%) GitLab
3 79 (9.80%) Git
4 33 (4.09%) JIRA
5 17 (2.11%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.86%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.36%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.99%) Snyk
9 8 (0.99%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.74%) Gradle
10 6 (0.74%) Maven
10 6 (0.74%) MLflow
10 6 (0.74%) Selenium
10 6 (0.74%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.50%) Postman
12 3 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.37%) GoCD
12 3 (0.37%) RStudio
General
1 169 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 128 (15.88%) Finance
3 90 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.95%) Banking
5 49 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.86%) Front Office
7 15 (1.86%) Retail
8 13 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.24%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.12%) Marketing
11 9 (1.12%) Publishing
12 8 (0.99%) Military
12 8 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.87%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.74%) Electronics
15 4 (0.50%) Legal
15 4 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 171 (21.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (16.00%) Senior
3 91 (11.29%) Developer
4 81 (10.05%) Architect
5 75 (9.31%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (9.18%) Platform Engineer
7 69 (8.56%) AWS Engineer
8 65 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 64 (7.94%) Data Engineer
10 56 (6.95%) Lead
11 40 (4.96%) Security Engineer
12 37 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
12 37 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 35 (4.34%) Software Engineer
14 32 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.85%) GCP Engineer
16 28 (3.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.47%) Senior Developer
17 27 (3.35%) Site Engineer
18 26 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.29%) Kafka
2 63 (7.82%) Node.js
3 44 (5.46%) React
4 41 (5.09%) Spring
4 41 (5.09%) YAML
5 39 (4.84%) ARM Templates
6 37 (4.59%) REST
6 37 (4.59%) Spring Boot
7 33 (4.09%) OAuth
8 32 (3.97%) .NET
9 31 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 30 (3.72%) RESTful
11 27 (3.35%) GraphQL
12 25 (3.10%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.98%) OpenTelemetry
14 23 (2.85%) Playwright
15 22 (2.73%) Elastic Stack
15 22 (2.73%) gRPC
15 22 (2.73%) PySpark
16 19 (2.36%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 199 (24.69%) Cloud Native
2 65 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 15 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.61%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.61%) Replication
9 12 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.24%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.87%) Cyber Threat
13 7 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 103 (12.78%) Linux
2 44 (5.46%) Windows
3 23 (2.85%) VMS
4 19 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.86%) Unix
6 10 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.62%) Solaris
8 3 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.25%) Android
9 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (73.70%) CI/CD
2 493 (61.17%) DevOps
3 197 (24.44%) Agile
3 197 (24.44%) Containerisation
4 172 (21.34%) Observability
5 122 (15.14%) Migration
5 122 (15.14%) Software Engineering
6 121 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
7 117 (14.52%) AI
8 109 (13.52%) Microservices
9 108 (13.40%) Platform Engineering
10 101 (12.53%) Analytics
11 95 (11.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 89 (11.04%) DevSecOps
13 85 (10.55%) Cloud Security
13 85 (10.55%) Test Automation
14 74 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
15 71 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (8.81%) Data Pipeline
15 71 (8.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 378 (46.90%) Python
2 142 (17.62%) SQL
3 124 (15.38%) Bash
4 97 (12.03%) Java
5 91 (11.29%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.19%) TypeScript
7 56 (6.95%) Bicep
8 47 (5.83%) Go
9 42 (5.21%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.84%) C#
11 12 (1.49%) Ruby
12 9 (1.12%) Scala
12 9 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.62%) C++
14 5 (0.62%) Groovy
14 5 (0.62%) Rust
15 4 (0.50%) C
16 2 (0.25%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 213 (26.43%) Security Cleared
2 198 (24.57%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 49 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.34%) Degree
6 23 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.24%) CISSP
10 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.87%) MCP
13 5 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.62%) OSCP
14 4 (0.50%) CCSP
14 4 (0.50%) PhD
14 4 (0.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (6.20%) GDPR
2 38 (4.71%) NIST
3 37 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 32 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 31 (3.85%) QA
6 11 (1.36%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.12%) NCSC
7 9 (1.12%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.74%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.50%) SLA
10 3 (0.37%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
11 2 (0.25%) PSD2
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.25%) SEPA
12 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 243 (30.15%) Docker
2 39 (4.84%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.10%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.99%) zsh
6 6 (0.74%) Squid
7 5 (0.62%) Snort
8 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.37%) vSphere
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
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
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 605 (75.06%) Terraform
2 287 (35.61%) Kubernetes
3 144 (17.87%) Ansible
4 108 (13.40%) Grafana
5 93 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 25 (3.10%) Argo
7 18 (2.23%) Puppet
8 15 (1.86%) Kibana
9 14 (1.74%) Istio
10 13 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (1.24%) Rancher
13 9 (1.12%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.74%) Nessus
15 5 (0.62%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.62%) logstash
16 4 (0.50%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.50%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 131 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.31%) Google
3 65 (8.06%) Databricks
4 34 (4.22%) Splunk
5 23 (2.85%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.36%) Cisco
8 17 (2.11%) VMware
9 16 (1.99%) Oracle
10 14 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.49%) Solace
12 10 (1.24%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.24%) Fortinet
12 10 (1.24%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.12%) Qualys
13 9 (1.12%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.99%) F5
14 8 (0.99%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.87%) SAP