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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +38 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 789 466 522
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.53% 3.05% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 3.39% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 306 390
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £596 £580
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +2.80% -8.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £703 £738 £826
England median daily rate £532 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.87% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £53.95 - £57.00
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -4.17% -19.46%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £75.77
% change year-on-year +2.04% -19.16% +4.50%

All Process and 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 13,051 13,742 17,096
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 89.96% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 8,839 12,265
10th Percentile £341 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £764 £800 £792
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 165 233
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.51
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £36.80 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% +8.24% -13.38%
75th Percentile £47.94 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.80 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 +22 86 £550 -4.35% 39
West London +4 26 £603 +26.84% 9
South London +5 10 £530 - 14
East London +6 5 - - 18
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 28 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (2.53%) Confluence
3 18 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 17 (2.15%) Apache
5 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.51%) SAS
5 4 (0.51%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.25%) Traefik
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.51%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.51%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.51%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.13%) Actimize
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 409 (51.84%) AWS
2 371 (47.02%) Azure
3 211 (26.74%) GitHub
4 153 (19.39%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (18.38%) GCP
6 132 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
7 120 (15.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 120 (15.21%) Serverless
8 102 (12.93%) Amazon S3
9 78 (9.89%) AWS Lambda
10 62 (7.86%) Amazon ECS
11 61 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
12 52 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
14 46 (5.83%) Azure AKS
14 46 (5.83%) Entra ID
15 44 (5.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 39 (4.94%) Azure Monitor
17 38 (4.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 35 (4.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (10.90%) Firewall
2 47 (5.96%) VPN
3 41 (5.20%) DNS
3 41 (5.20%) Network Security
4 21 (2.66%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.77%) SSL
6 13 (1.65%) WAN
7 11 (1.39%) SD-WAN
8 10 (1.27%) BGP
9 8 (1.01%) tcpdump
10 7 (0.89%) Multicast
10 7 (0.89%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.89%) Wireshark
11 6 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.76%) OSPF
12 5 (0.63%) HTTP
13 4 (0.51%) MPLS
13 4 (0.51%) VLAN
14 3 (0.38%) Internet
14 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.08%) Data Lake
2 44 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
3 41 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (3.55%) Power BI
4 28 (3.55%) SQL Server
5 26 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 22 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 20 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (2.41%) NoSQL
9 18 (2.28%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.03%) BigQuery
11 14 (1.77%) Delta Lake
12 13 (1.65%) Redis
13 12 (1.52%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 11 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (1.39%) Metadata
15 10 (1.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 147 (18.63%) Jenkins
2 111 (14.07%) GitLab
3 79 (10.01%) Git
4 35 (4.44%) JIRA
5 25 (3.17%) SonarQube
6 13 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (1.39%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.01%) Gradle
8 8 (1.01%) Maven
8 8 (1.01%) Selenium
8 8 (1.01%) Snyk
8 8 (1.01%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.89%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.89%) Burp Suite
9 7 (0.89%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.63%) MLflow
11 4 (0.51%) Postman
11 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 183 (23.19%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.73%) Finance
3 86 (10.90%) Public Sector
4 63 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.22%) Banking
6 20 (2.53%) Front Office
7 19 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.52%) Publishing
9 12 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.27%) Retail
11 9 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.14%) Military
12 8 (1.01%) Marketing
13 7 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.76%) Electronics
15 5 (0.63%) Law
15 5 (0.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 147 (18.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 140 (17.74%) Senior
3 85 (10.77%) Architect
4 84 (10.65%) Developer
5 79 (10.01%) Platform Engineer
6 74 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
7 64 (8.11%) Data Engineer
8 62 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 61 (7.73%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (7.22%) Lead
11 47 (5.96%) Security Engineer
12 38 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
13 37 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 32 (4.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 32 (4.06%) Software Engineer
15 30 (3.80%) GCP Engineer
15 30 (3.80%) Site Engineer
16 28 (3.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 28 (3.55%) Senior Developer
17 26 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (10.52%) Kafka
2 56 (7.10%) Node.js
3 35 (4.44%) React
4 34 (4.31%) YAML
5 33 (4.18%) .NET
6 32 (4.06%) ARM Templates
7 31 (3.93%) Spring
8 30 (3.80%) REST
9 27 (3.42%) Elastic Stack
9 27 (3.42%) GraphQL
9 27 (3.42%) RESTful
9 27 (3.42%) Spring Boot
10 25 (3.17%) AWS CDK
11 23 (2.92%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.92%) OAuth
12 22 (2.79%) Playwright
13 21 (2.66%) gRPC
14 20 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
15 18 (2.28%) PySpark
15 18 (2.28%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 180 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 27 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 27 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.92%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.28%) Security Posture
7 16 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.90%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.65%) Replication
10 12 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 8 (1.01%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.01%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 106 (13.43%) Linux
2 45 (5.70%) Windows
3 20 (2.53%) Windows Server
4 19 (2.41%) Unix
5 16 (2.03%) VMS
6 10 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.63%) Solaris
8 4 (0.51%) 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 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (73.76%) CI/CD
2 467 (59.19%) DevOps
3 199 (25.22%) Containerisation
4 195 (24.71%) Agile
5 150 (19.01%) Observability
6 132 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
7 116 (14.70%) Software Engineering
8 112 (14.20%) Platform Engineering
9 109 (13.81%) Migration
10 102 (12.93%) AI
11 98 (12.42%) Microservices
12 96 (12.17%) Analytics
13 92 (11.66%) Cloud Security
13 92 (11.66%) DevSecOps
14 81 (10.27%) Infrastructure Automation
15 78 (9.89%) Machine Learning
15 78 (9.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 77 (9.76%) Test Automation
17 74 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
18 71 (9.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 393 (49.81%) Python
2 141 (17.87%) Bash
3 136 (17.24%) SQL
4 104 (13.18%) Java
5 102 (12.93%) PowerShell
6 61 (7.73%) Bicep
6 61 (7.73%) Go
6 61 (7.73%) TypeScript
7 41 (5.20%) C#
8 38 (4.82%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.39%) Ruby
9 11 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.01%) Scala
11 7 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.63%) C
12 5 (0.63%) C++
12 5 (0.63%) Groovy
13 3 (0.38%) PromQL
13 3 (0.38%) Rust
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 188 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 172 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.46%) AWS Certification
4 50 (6.34%) Azure Certification
5 39 (4.94%) Degree
6 25 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.52%) CISSP
10 11 (1.39%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (1.27%) OSCP
12 6 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (0.63%) CCSP
13 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.63%) Tigerscheme
14 4 (0.51%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (7.10%) GDPR
2 37 (4.69%) NIST
3 33 (4.18%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.66%) QA
5 13 (1.65%) HIPAA
6 10 (1.27%) NCSC
7 8 (1.01%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.63%) MiFID
10 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
11 2 (0.25%) GRC
11 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.25%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 246 (31.18%) Docker
2 37 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.30%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.01%) zsh
6 6 (0.76%) Snort
6 6 (0.76%) Squid
7 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.38%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.38%) vSphere
9 2 (0.25%) KVM
9 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) GPFS
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 599 (75.92%) Terraform
2 293 (37.14%) Kubernetes
3 144 (18.25%) Ansible
4 111 (14.07%) Grafana
5 98 (12.42%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.79%) Puppet
7 21 (2.66%) Argo
8 15 (1.90%) ITRS Geneos
8 15 (1.90%) Kibana
9 14 (1.77%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.27%) Rancher
11 9 (1.14%) Istio
12 8 (1.01%) Nessus
13 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.89%) Nmap
13 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.76%) logstash
15 5 (0.63%) Nexpose
15 5 (0.63%) Suricata
16 4 (0.51%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 127 (16.10%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.00%) Google
3 65 (8.24%) Databricks
4 34 (4.31%) Splunk
5 25 (3.17%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.79%) Cisco
7 20 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.15%) VMware
9 15 (1.90%) Solace
10 12 (1.52%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.52%) Oracle
10 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.27%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.27%) Qualys
12 10 (1.27%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.14%) F5
13 9 (1.14%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.14%) PagerDuty
13 9 (1.14%) Red Hat