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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 50 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +47 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,150 647 430
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.67% 4.77% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.36% 5.16% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 438 293
10th Percentile £413 £393 £400
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £668 £669
90th Percentile £738 £741 £775
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.60 £68.44
% change year-on-year -0.85% +3.16% -12.26%

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 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 8 August 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 8 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 +14 148 £575 -8.00% 80
South London +5 23 £535 +8.08% 7
West London -10 14 £675 +36.36% 17
East London +4 7 £588 - 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 54 (4.70%) Confluence
2 41 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 36 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (2.52%) Apache
5 14 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 11 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.43%) nginx
9 4 (0.35%) SAS
10 3 (0.26%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.17%) Camunda
12 1 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.087%) IIS
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.087%) PeopleSoft HCM
2 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 605 (52.61%) AWS
2 592 (51.48%) Azure
3 309 (26.87%) GitHub
4 222 (19.30%) GitHub Actions
5 217 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
6 209 (18.17%) GCP
7 193 (16.78%) Serverless
8 159 (13.83%) Amazon S3
9 150 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 132 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
11 110 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (7.83%) Entra ID
13 88 (7.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 80 (6.96%) Azure AKS
15 75 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
16 69 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
17 64 (5.57%) Azure Monitor
18 62 (5.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 61 (5.30%) Power Platform
20 58 (5.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (7.30%) Firewall
2 57 (4.96%) DNS
3 48 (4.17%) Network Security
4 45 (3.91%) VPN
5 28 (2.43%) WAN
6 19 (1.65%) BGP
7 16 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.30%) Internet
9 14 (1.22%) SSL
10 13 (1.13%) DHCP
11 11 (0.96%) NX-OS
12 10 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
12 10 (0.87%) IOS XR
13 9 (0.78%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.78%) VXLAN
14 8 (0.70%) OSPF
15 7 (0.61%) HTTP
16 6 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
16 6 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
16 6 (0.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
2 53 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (4.26%) Power BI
4 45 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
5 43 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 37 (3.22%) MongoDB
7 36 (3.13%) Delta Lake
8 35 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 31 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
11 30 (2.61%) DynamoDB
12 29 (2.52%) BigQuery
13 25 (2.17%) Redis
14 23 (2.00%) NoSQL
15 22 (1.91%) Metadata
16 20 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 15 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
17 15 (1.30%) MySQL
18 14 (1.22%) Big Data
19 13 (1.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 179 (15.57%) Jenkins
2 174 (15.13%) GitLab
3 168 (14.61%) Git
4 65 (5.65%) JIRA
5 16 (1.39%) Bitbucket
6 15 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.22%) Snyk
8 12 (1.04%) MLflow
9 10 (0.87%) JUnit
10 9 (0.78%) CircleCI
11 8 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.70%) JMeter
11 8 (0.70%) Mockito
11 8 (0.70%) Terragrunt
12 6 (0.52%) Postman
13 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.43%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.35%) git-flow
General
1 234 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 191 (16.61%) Finance
3 173 (15.04%) Public Sector
4 69 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
5 64 (5.57%) Banking
6 30 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (1.48%) Retail
10 12 (1.04%) Law
10 12 (1.04%) Legal
11 11 (0.96%) Local Government
12 10 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.52%) Front Office
14 6 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.52%) Police
15 5 (0.43%) Back Office
15 5 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 185 (16.09%) Architect
3 184 (16.00%) Senior
4 130 (11.30%) Lead
5 129 (11.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 127 (11.04%) Azure Engineer
7 99 (8.61%) Platform Engineer
8 97 (8.43%) AWS Engineer
9 90 (7.83%) Data Engineer
10 80 (6.96%) Developer
11 67 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 52 (4.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 50 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
13 50 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 49 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
15 46 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 46 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 46 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
17 33 (2.87%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (7.13%) Kafka
2 77 (6.70%) REST
3 57 (4.96%) PySpark
4 56 (4.87%) RESTful
5 48 (4.17%) Node.js
6 46 (4.00%) React
7 40 (3.48%) ARM Templates
7 40 (3.48%) OAuth
8 39 (3.39%) .NET
9 34 (2.96%) OAuth2
10 33 (2.87%) YAML
11 32 (2.78%) Spring
12 29 (2.52%) Spring Boot
13 27 (2.35%) AngularJS
14 25 (2.17%) OpenID
15 23 (2.00%) FastAPI
16 21 (1.83%) JSON
17 20 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
18 18 (1.57%) GraphQL
18 18 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 330 (28.70%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.13%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 40 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 34 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 32 (2.78%) Security Posture
7 27 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
10 24 (2.09%) Public Cloud
11 23 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.74%) AI Agents
12 20 (1.74%) PKI
13 16 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.30%) Private Cloud
15 14 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.13%) NHS
16 13 (1.13%) Replication
16 13 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 111 (9.65%) Linux
2 77 (6.70%) Windows
3 27 (2.35%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.57%) Ubuntu
6 14 (1.22%) Unix
7 12 (1.04%) VMS
8 11 (0.96%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.35%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.35%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.26%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) Android
12 2 (0.17%) CentOS
13 1 (0.087%) AIX
13 1 (0.087%) Debian
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (75.57%) CI/CD
2 717 (62.35%) DevOps
3 326 (28.35%) Containerisation
4 282 (24.52%) Agile
5 258 (22.43%) Platform Engineering
6 256 (22.26%) Observability
7 217 (18.87%) AI
8 175 (15.22%) Test Automation
9 158 (13.74%) Software Engineering
10 156 (13.57%) Migration
11 147 (12.78%) Microservices
12 143 (12.43%) Analytics
12 143 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
14 126 (10.96%) Cloud Security
14 126 (10.96%) Mentoring
15 125 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 125 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 120 (10.43%) Event-Driven
17 115 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 504 (43.83%) Python
2 186 (16.17%) SQL
3 177 (15.39%) Bash
4 173 (15.04%) PowerShell
5 129 (11.22%) Java
6 126 (10.96%) Bicep
7 68 (5.91%) C#
8 64 (5.57%) JavaScript
9 62 (5.39%) TypeScript
10 40 (3.48%) Go
11 20 (1.74%) Scala
12 19 (1.65%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.39%) Ruby
14 10 (0.87%) Groovy
15 6 (0.52%) C
15 6 (0.52%) Korn
16 5 (0.43%) Perl
17 4 (0.35%) C++
17 4 (0.35%) Cypher
17 4 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 424 (36.87%) Security Cleared
2 394 (34.26%) SC Cleared
3 89 (7.74%) Azure Certification
4 55 (4.78%) AWS Certification
5 54 (4.70%) DV Cleared
6 41 (3.57%) Degree
7 28 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.74%) CCNP
12 18 (1.57%) CISSP
13 10 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (0.87%) CISM
14 9 (0.78%) GIAC
15 8 (0.70%) Master's Degree
16 7 (0.61%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
18 5 (0.43%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 42 (3.65%) QA
3 36 (3.13%) GDPR
4 31 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 31 (2.70%) NIST
5 22 (1.91%) NCSC
6 20 (1.74%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.70%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.43%) SLA
11 4 (0.35%) COBIT
11 4 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.17%) GRC
12 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.087%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.087%) NIST 800
System Software
1 308 (26.78%) Docker
2 48 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.70%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.52%) vSphere
8 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.17%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.087%) NFS
10 1 (0.087%) Samba
10 1 (0.087%) Squid
10 1 (0.087%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 889 (77.30%) Terraform
2 455 (39.57%) Kubernetes
3 173 (15.04%) Ansible
4 127 (11.04%) Grafana
5 117 (10.17%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.35%) Puppet
7 24 (2.09%) Argo
8 17 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 16 (1.39%) Packer
10 15 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.96%) Kubeflow
12 10 (0.87%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.70%) systemd
14 7 (0.61%) Control-M
14 7 (0.61%) Kibana
15 6 (0.52%) Istio
15 6 (0.52%) SCCM
15 6 (0.52%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 200 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.17%) Google
3 84 (7.30%) Databricks
4 62 (5.39%) Splunk
5 41 (3.57%) VMware
6 40 (3.48%) Oracle
7 28 (2.43%) Cisco
8 23 (2.00%) Dynatrace
8 23 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 19 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 18 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 16 (1.39%) Okta
12 13 (1.13%) Arista
12 13 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.04%) Foundry
14 11 (0.96%) Informatica
14 11 (0.96%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.96%) Zscaler
15 9 (0.78%) AppDynamics
16 8 (0.70%) New Relic