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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 59 108
Rank change year-on-year +24 +49 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,076 511 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.69% 4.15% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 4.49% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 339 299
10th Percentile £404 £393 £375
25th Percentile £462 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £747 £750 £748
England median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £78.70 £67.50
% change year-on-year -11.05% +16.59% -13.46%

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 16,789 11,383 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.79% 92.33% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,185 7,624 11,131
10th Percentile £360 £344 £343
25th Percentile £434 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.67% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -24.29%
75th Percentile £58.94 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +70.91% -27.15% +7.43%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 +26 140 £563 -10.89% 56
West London -5 21 £603 +21.72% 14
South London +2 16 £513 -1.91%
East London - 5 £575 - 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 47 (4.37%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.07%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.70%) Confluence
4 27 (2.51%) Apache
5 12 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.02%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.37%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.19%) Camunda
10 2 (0.19%) nginx
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.093%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.093%) Maximo
2 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.093%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.093%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 575 (53.44%) AWS
2 548 (50.93%) Azure
3 298 (27.70%) GitHub
4 202 (18.77%) Serverless
5 201 (18.68%) GitHub Actions
6 190 (17.66%) Azure DevOps
7 186 (17.29%) GCP
8 175 (16.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 163 (15.15%) Amazon S3
10 139 (12.92%) AWS Lambda
11 99 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
12 89 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 86 (7.99%) Amazon ECS
14 78 (7.25%) Power Platform
15 69 (6.41%) Entra ID
16 68 (6.32%) Azure AKS
17 64 (5.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 59 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
19 58 (5.39%) PaaS
20 54 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 79 (7.34%) Firewall
2 50 (4.65%) Network Security
3 47 (4.37%) DNS
4 32 (2.97%) VPN
5 25 (2.32%) WAN
6 18 (1.67%) BGP
7 13 (1.21%) SSL
8 11 (1.02%) Internet
8 11 (1.02%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.93%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.93%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.84%) OSPF
11 8 (0.74%) HTTP
12 7 (0.65%) DHCP
12 7 (0.65%) SAN
12 7 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.56%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.67%) Amazon Athena
2 60 (5.58%) Data Lake
3 56 (5.20%) Power BI
4 46 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
5 45 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
6 36 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 36 (3.35%) SQL Server
7 35 (3.25%) Delta Lake
8 34 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
9 32 (2.97%) BigQuery
9 32 (2.97%) MongoDB
10 30 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 26 (2.42%) Redis
12 23 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 22 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 16 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (1.49%) Tableau
15 15 (1.39%) Metadata
15 15 (1.39%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 176 (16.36%) Jenkins
2 154 (14.31%) GitLab
3 149 (13.85%) Git
4 47 (4.37%) JIRA
5 21 (1.95%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.30%) MLflow
6 14 (1.30%) Snyk
7 13 (1.21%) SonarQube
8 9 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 9 (0.84%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.74%) JMeter
9 8 (0.74%) JUnit
10 7 (0.65%) Mockito
11 6 (0.56%) Postman
11 6 (0.56%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 163 (15.15%) Finance
3 147 (13.66%) Public Sector
4 57 (5.30%) Banking
5 42 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.58%) Retail
10 13 (1.21%) Law
11 11 (1.02%) Legal
11 11 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.56%) Police
14 5 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.46%) Local Government
14 5 (0.46%) Military
14 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.37%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 223 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (17.47%) Architect
3 160 (14.87%) Senior
4 128 (11.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 125 (11.62%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (9.57%) Lead
7 100 (9.29%) Data Engineer
8 91 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
9 81 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
10 79 (7.34%) Developer
11 54 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (4.28%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
16 39 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 38 (3.53%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.81%) Kafka
2 59 (5.48%) PySpark
3 56 (5.20%) React
4 55 (5.11%) REST
5 53 (4.93%) Node.js
6 51 (4.74%) OAuth
7 50 (4.65%) RESTful
8 42 (3.90%) .NET
9 39 (3.62%) ARM Templates
10 38 (3.53%) OAuth2
10 38 (3.53%) OpenID
11 37 (3.44%) YAML
12 34 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
12 34 (3.16%) Spring
13 33 (3.07%) AngularJS
14 32 (2.97%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.51%) AWS CDK
15 27 (2.51%) SAML
16 18 (1.67%) FastAPI
16 18 (1.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 326 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.51%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.79%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.42%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.58%) Enterprise Cloud
11 13 (1.21%) AI Agents
11 13 (1.21%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.12%) PKI
13 11 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.74%) Replication
17 7 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.83%) Linux
2 66 (6.13%) Windows
3 21 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 14 (1.30%) Unix
5 14 (1.30%) VMS
6 12 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.19%) Android
9 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) CentOS
9 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.093%) AIX
10 1 (0.093%) Debian
10 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (76.21%) CI/CD
2 679 (63.10%) DevOps
3 306 (28.44%) Containerisation
4 234 (21.75%) Observability
5 222 (20.63%) Agile
6 218 (20.26%) Platform Engineering
7 213 (19.80%) AI
8 158 (14.68%) Analytics
9 150 (13.94%) Migration
10 148 (13.75%) Microservices
11 142 (13.20%) Test Automation
12 126 (11.71%) Software Engineering
13 122 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (11.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 115 (10.69%) Data Modelling
15 115 (10.69%) Mentoring
16 113 (10.50%) Cloud Security
17 102 (9.48%) Machine Learning
18 101 (9.39%) Data Engineering
19 99 (9.20%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 460 (42.75%) Python
2 196 (18.22%) SQL
3 138 (12.83%) PowerShell
4 132 (12.27%) Bash
5 111 (10.32%) Java
6 100 (9.29%) Bicep
7 61 (5.67%) C#
8 55 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.74%) JavaScript
10 36 (3.35%) Go
11 25 (2.32%) Scala
12 18 (1.67%) Ruby
13 16 (1.49%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.56%) Groovy
15 5 (0.46%) C
16 3 (0.28%) Cypher
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 394 (36.62%) Security Cleared
2 372 (34.57%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.25%) Azure Certification
4 57 (5.30%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.72%) Degree
6 34 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 27 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 22 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (1.58%) CISSP
12 16 (1.49%) CCNP
12 16 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.84%) CISM
16 8 (0.74%) GIAC
17 7 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.46%) NIST
3 43 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 40 (3.72%) GDPR
5 34 (3.16%) QA
6 27 (2.51%) NCSC
7 23 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.19%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.19%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.19%) PSD2
14 2 (0.19%) SEPA
15 1 (0.093%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 273 (25.37%) Docker
2 40 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.28%) vSphere
8 2 (0.19%) OpenSSH
8 2 (0.19%) Squid
8 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.093%) Firmware
9 1 (0.093%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 825 (76.67%) Terraform
2 398 (36.99%) Kubernetes
3 163 (15.15%) Ansible
4 112 (10.41%) Prometheus
5 106 (9.85%) Grafana
6 22 (2.04%) Puppet
7 21 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.86%) Argo
9 11 (1.02%) Istio
10 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.93%) Packer
10 10 (0.93%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.56%) Kibana
14 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.37%) Salt
16 3 (0.28%) SCCM
16 3 (0.28%) systemd
16 3 (0.28%) yum
Vendors
1 159 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.27%) Databricks
3 88 (8.18%) Google
4 57 (5.30%) Splunk
5 28 (2.60%) VMware
6 27 (2.51%) Oracle
7 23 (2.14%) Cisco
8 21 (1.95%) Dynatrace
9 18 (1.67%) OpenAI
9 18 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 16 (1.49%) CyberArk
11 14 (1.30%) Fortinet
12 12 (1.12%) Arista
13 11 (1.02%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.84%) Rapid7
15 8 (0.74%) AppDynamics
15 8 (0.74%) Foundry
15 8 (0.74%) Okta
16 7 (0.65%) Qualys