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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 71 84
Rank change year-on-year +32 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 849 451 459
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.71% 3.31% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 3.66% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 587 296 342
10th Percentile £376 £405 £413
25th Percentile £447 £498 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £686
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -7.89% -0.87% -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 13,517 12,331 16,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.89% 90.53% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,968 7,825 11,739
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
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 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +18.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £55.50 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 +29 99 £550 -2.22% 66
West London +8 35 £603 +26.84% 10
South London +1 16 £530 -22.63% 2
East London -1 2 £675 +15.38% 8
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 32 (3.77%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (2.71%) Apache
4 19 (2.24%) Confluence
5 6 (0.71%) 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 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
3 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
1 431 (50.77%) AWS
2 411 (48.41%) Azure
3 234 (27.56%) GitHub
4 160 (18.85%) GCP
5 158 (18.61%) GitHub Actions
6 153 (18.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 151 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
8 149 (17.55%) Serverless
9 129 (15.19%) Amazon S3
10 104 (12.25%) AWS Lambda
11 84 (9.89%) Amazon EKS
12 75 (8.83%) Amazon ECS
13 68 (8.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 57 (6.71%) Power Platform
14 57 (6.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 53 (6.24%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (6.01%) Entra ID
17 45 (5.30%) Azure AKS
17 45 (5.30%) PaaS
18 44 (5.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (9.07%) Firewall
2 43 (5.06%) Network Security
3 40 (4.71%) VPN
4 34 (4.00%) DNS
5 15 (1.77%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.65%) WAN
7 12 (1.41%) SD-WAN
7 12 (1.41%) SSL
8 7 (0.82%) BGP
8 7 (0.82%) Multicast
8 7 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.59%) tcpdump
9 5 (0.59%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.47%) OSPF
10 4 (0.47%) SAN
10 4 (0.47%) VLAN
11 3 (0.35%) DHCP
11 3 (0.35%) HTTP
11 3 (0.35%) LAN
11 3 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (7.07%) Data Lake
2 51 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (5.18%) Power BI
5 34 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 33 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
7 31 (3.65%) SQL Server
8 27 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 26 (3.06%) DynamoDB
10 23 (2.71%) Redis
11 22 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 22 (2.59%) BigQuery
11 22 (2.59%) NoSQL
12 17 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
13 16 (1.88%) MongoDB
14 15 (1.77%) Delta Lake
14 15 (1.77%) MySQL
15 14 (1.65%) OLTP
16 13 (1.53%) Mixpanel
17 12 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 161 (18.96%) Jenkins
2 124 (14.61%) GitLab
3 87 (10.25%) Git
4 34 (4.00%) JIRA
5 19 (2.24%) Artifactory
6 11 (1.30%) SonarQube
7 8 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.94%) TeamCity
8 7 (0.82%) MLflow
8 7 (0.82%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.59%) Gradle
9 5 (0.59%) Maven
9 5 (0.59%) Selenium
10 4 (0.47%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.47%) Postman
10 4 (0.47%) RStudio
10 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.35%) Snyk
General
1 186 (21.91%) Social Skills
2 139 (16.37%) Finance
3 97 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
5 49 (5.77%) Banking
6 31 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.88%) Retail
9 15 (1.77%) Front Office
10 10 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.18%) Marketing
10 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.06%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.82%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.71%) Electronics
14 6 (0.71%) Military
14 6 (0.71%) Publishing
15 4 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 177 (20.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (15.08%) Senior
3 101 (11.90%) Architect
4 87 (10.25%) Azure Engineer
5 84 (9.89%) Data Engineer
5 84 (9.89%) Developer
6 76 (8.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
8 69 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
9 58 (6.83%) Lead
10 41 (4.83%) Security Engineer
11 40 (4.71%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 34 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 33 (3.89%) Software Engineer
15 31 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
16 30 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
16 30 (3.53%) Site Engineer
17 29 (3.42%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 27 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (10.48%) Kafka
2 63 (7.42%) Node.js
3 44 (5.18%) React
4 39 (4.59%) YAML
5 38 (4.48%) ARM Templates
6 37 (4.36%) .NET
7 35 (4.12%) PySpark
7 35 (4.12%) Spring
8 34 (4.00%) OAuth
8 34 (4.00%) REST
9 33 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 31 (3.65%) Spring Boot
11 27 (3.18%) OpenTelemetry
11 27 (3.18%) RESTful
12 26 (3.06%) AWS CDK
13 24 (2.83%) GraphQL
13 24 (2.83%) OpenID
14 23 (2.71%) Playwright
14 23 (2.71%) SAML
15 22 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 221 (26.03%) Cloud Native
2 57 (6.71%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.12%) Onboarding
4 30 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 26 (3.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (2.59%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.24%) Data Centre
8 18 (2.12%) Product Ownership
9 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.53%) Replication
11 12 (1.41%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.18%) Management Information System
14 9 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (0.94%) AI Agents
16 7 (0.82%) Enterprise Cloud
16 7 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.82%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 107 (12.60%) Linux
2 49 (5.77%) Windows
3 22 (2.59%) VMS
4 17 (2.00%) 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
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (73.73%) CI/CD
2 524 (61.72%) DevOps
3 214 (25.21%) Containerisation
4 190 (22.38%) Agile
5 181 (21.32%) Observability
6 132 (15.55%) Analytics
7 130 (15.31%) AI
8 124 (14.61%) Migration
9 116 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
10 112 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (12.96%) Software Engineering
12 103 (12.13%) Microservices
13 100 (11.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 95 (11.19%) Cloud Security
15 87 (10.25%) DevSecOps
16 85 (10.01%) Test Automation
17 80 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
17 80 (9.42%) Data Engineering
17 80 (9.42%) ETL
17 80 (9.42%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 392 (46.17%) Python
2 162 (19.08%) SQL
3 124 (14.61%) Bash
4 97 (11.43%) Java
4 97 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 62 (7.30%) Bicep
6 61 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 43 (5.06%) C#
7 43 (5.06%) Go
8 40 (4.71%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.88%) Scala
10 12 (1.41%) Ruby
11 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.59%) C++
13 5 (0.59%) Groovy
13 5 (0.59%) Rust
14 4 (0.47%) C
15 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 253 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 240 (28.27%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.60%) AWS Certification
3 56 (6.60%) Azure Certification
4 38 (4.48%) Degree
5 26 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.41%) CISSP
9 11 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.82%) OSCP
13 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.71%) SANS
14 5 (0.59%) CCSP
14 5 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.83%) GDPR
2 50 (5.89%) Data Quality
3 47 (5.54%) NIST
4 36 (4.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (3.42%) QA
6 21 (2.47%) NCSC
7 15 (1.77%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.53%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.82%) 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
1 246 (28.98%) Docker
2 39 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.42%) 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 4 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.47%) 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 (74.68%) Terraform
2 302 (35.57%) Kubernetes
3 141 (16.61%) Ansible
4 95 (11.19%) Grafana
5 88 (10.37%) Prometheus
6 28 (3.30%) Argo
7 16 (1.88%) Puppet
8 15 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.65%) Istio
9 14 (1.65%) Kibana
10 12 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
11 11 (1.30%) Rancher
12 9 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.82%) 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
1 139 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 81 (9.54%) Google
3 75 (8.83%) Databricks
4 47 (5.54%) Splunk
5 19 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.24%) VMware
6 18 (2.12%) Palo Alto
7 17 (2.00%) Cisco
8 15 (1.77%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.65%) CyberArk
9 14 (1.65%) Solace
10 11 (1.30%) Oracle
10 11 (1.30%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.18%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.18%) Qualys
12 9 (1.06%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.06%) TIBCO
13 8 (0.94%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.94%) SAP