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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 62 112
Rank change year-on-year +26 +50 -26
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 980 497 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.50% 3.95% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.23% 4.29% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 341 275
10th Percentile £400 £400 £385
25th Percentile £456 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.20%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £671
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £533 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.18% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £58.03 - £55.13
25th Percentile £59.94 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £56.25
75th Percentile £73.94 - £57.81
90th Percentile £75.63 - £58.38
England median hourly rate £68.50 £27.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +149.09% -52.17% -26.28%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

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 6 May 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 +19 140 £550 -4.35% 85
West London +2 32 £603 +26.84% 9
South London -1 21 £530 +1.44%
East London -2 4 £562 -10.79% 10
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 52 (5.31%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.27%) Apache
3 28 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.84%) Confluence
5 8 (0.82%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.51%) SAS
7 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) nginx
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.10%) CMS
10 1 (0.10%) FileNet
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Actimize
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 513 (52.35%) AWS
2 509 (51.94%) Azure
3 276 (28.16%) GitHub
4 185 (18.88%) GitHub Actions
5 184 (18.78%) Serverless
6 181 (18.47%) GCP
7 180 (18.37%) AWS CloudFormation
8 178 (18.16%) Azure DevOps
9 150 (15.31%) Amazon S3
10 126 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (9.39%) Amazon ECS
12 90 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
13 72 (7.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 71 (7.24%) Power Platform
15 69 (7.04%) Azure AKS
16 57 (5.82%) PaaS
17 56 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
18 54 (5.51%) Azure Monitor
18 54 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 53 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.96%) Firewall
2 42 (4.29%) DNS
2 42 (4.29%) Network Security
3 28 (2.86%) VPN
4 20 (2.04%) WAN
5 16 (1.63%) BGP
6 12 (1.22%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.92%) OSPF
7 9 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.82%) Cisco IOS
8 8 (0.82%) IOS XR
8 8 (0.82%) NX-OS
8 8 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (0.71%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.61%) DHCP
10 6 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.51%) Internet
11 5 (0.51%) MPLS
11 5 (0.51%) SAN
11 5 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.94%) Data Lake
2 58 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
3 48 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (4.80%) Power BI
5 46 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (3.78%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (3.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 33 (3.37%) BigQuery
9 32 (3.27%) Delta Lake
10 30 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 27 (2.76%) DynamoDB
12 25 (2.55%) NoSQL
13 24 (2.45%) MongoDB
14 20 (2.04%) Redis
15 19 (1.94%) OLTP
16 17 (1.73%) Tableau
17 16 (1.63%) Amazon Aurora
17 16 (1.63%) Big Data
17 16 (1.63%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 168 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 134 (13.67%) Git
3 128 (13.06%) GitLab
4 30 (3.06%) JIRA
5 23 (2.35%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.63%) MLflow
7 11 (1.12%) Snyk
8 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
9 9 (0.92%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.82%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.82%) JUnit
10 8 (0.82%) Terragrunt
11 7 (0.71%) Mockito
11 7 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.41%) IBM UrbanCode
13 4 (0.41%) JMeter
13 4 (0.41%) Postman
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 185 (18.88%) Social Skills
2 144 (14.69%) Finance
3 133 (13.57%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.00%) Banking
5 41 (4.18%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.22%) Retail
10 10 (1.02%) Legal
11 6 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.51%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.51%) Law
12 5 (0.51%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.51%) Police
13 4 (0.41%) Front Office
13 4 (0.41%) Games
13 4 (0.41%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 179 (18.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 165 (16.84%) Architect
3 145 (14.80%) Senior
4 121 (12.35%) Azure Engineer
5 115 (11.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 98 (10.00%) Data Engineer
7 92 (9.39%) Lead
8 91 (9.29%) Developer
9 68 (6.94%) AWS Engineer
9 68 (6.94%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (4.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 38 (3.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 36 (3.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 34 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
14 33 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
14 33 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
14 33 (3.37%) Software Engineer
15 32 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (3.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.18%) Kafka
2 62 (6.33%) Node.js
3 51 (5.20%) PySpark
4 49 (5.00%) React
5 48 (4.90%) REST
5 48 (4.90%) RESTful
6 45 (4.59%) Spring
7 43 (4.39%) .NET
8 40 (4.08%) Spring Boot
9 38 (3.88%) AngularJS
10 36 (3.67%) ARM Templates
10 36 (3.67%) OAuth
10 36 (3.67%) OpenTelemetry
11 35 (3.57%) YAML
12 30 (3.06%) OpenID
13 27 (2.76%) AWS CDK
14 24 (2.45%) OAuth2
15 22 (2.24%) Great Expectations
16 20 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
16 20 (2.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 280 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 64 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 36 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 27 (2.76%) Data Centre
7 25 (2.55%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.14%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 13 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.22%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.02%) PKI
13 8 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.71%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 92 (9.39%) Linux
2 49 (5.00%) Windows
3 19 (1.94%) VMS
4 15 (1.53%) Unix
5 11 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.20%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 755 (77.04%) CI/CD
2 608 (62.04%) DevOps
3 280 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 220 (22.45%) Observability
5 215 (21.94%) Agile
6 177 (18.06%) AI
7 162 (16.53%) Platform Engineering
8 161 (16.43%) Analytics
9 148 (15.10%) Microservices
10 145 (14.80%) Migration
11 131 (13.37%) Test Automation
12 119 (12.14%) Software Engineering
13 117 (11.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 113 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 112 (11.43%) Data Modelling
16 104 (10.61%) Mentoring
17 96 (9.80%) Data Engineering
18 95 (9.69%) Problem-Solving
19 94 (9.59%) Cloud Security
20 88 (8.98%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 423 (43.16%) Python
2 200 (20.41%) SQL
3 116 (11.84%) Java
3 116 (11.84%) PowerShell
4 113 (11.53%) Bash
5 85 (8.67%) Bicep
6 59 (6.02%) TypeScript
7 58 (5.92%) C#
8 52 (5.31%) JavaScript
9 34 (3.47%) Go
10 27 (2.76%) Scala
11 23 (2.35%) Ruby
12 15 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.61%) C
14 4 (0.41%) Groovy
14 4 (0.41%) Rust
15 3 (0.31%) Cypher
15 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 365 (37.24%) Security Cleared
2 346 (35.31%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.65%) Azure Certification
4 53 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 37 (3.78%) Degree
6 32 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 24 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 20 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.33%) CCNP
11 11 (1.12%) CISSP
12 10 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.61%) CCSP
15 5 (0.51%) CCIE
16 4 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 46 (4.69%) GDPR
3 42 (4.29%) NIST
4 39 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.47%) QA
6 27 (2.76%) NCSC
7 23 (2.35%) PCI DSS
8 10 (1.02%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.71%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.51%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.31%) GRC
11 3 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.20%) COBIT
12 2 (0.20%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.20%) PSD2
12 2 (0.20%) SEPA
13 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 259 (26.43%) Docker
2 37 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 32 (3.27%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 11 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.31%) Squid
5 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) OpenSSH
6 2 (0.20%) vSphere
7 1 (0.10%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) GPFS
7 1 (0.10%) HDFS
7 1 (0.10%) Lustre
7 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.10%) Snort
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 748 (76.33%) Terraform
2 350 (35.71%) Kubernetes
3 133 (13.57%) Ansible
4 102 (10.41%) Grafana
5 98 (10.00%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.45%) Puppet
7 23 (2.35%) Argo
8 18 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.22%) Istio
10 11 (1.12%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.92%) Kibana
11 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.71%) Packer
12 7 (0.71%) Rancher
13 4 (0.41%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.41%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.41%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.41%) Salt
14 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 161 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 88 (8.98%) Databricks
3 83 (8.47%) Google
4 53 (5.41%) Splunk
5 23 (2.35%) Oracle
6 20 (2.04%) VMware
7 16 (1.63%) Cisco
8 14 (1.43%) CyberArk
8 14 (1.43%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 12 (1.22%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.02%) Arista
12 10 (1.02%) PagerDuty
13 7 (0.71%) AppDynamics
13 7 (0.71%) IBM
13 7 (0.71%) Qualys
13 7 (0.71%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.71%) Salesforce
13 7 (0.71%) ServiceNow