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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +36 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 842 458 475
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.76% 3.28% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.32% 3.63% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 301 354
10th Percentile £375 £408 £425
25th Percentile £438 £494 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £677
90th Percentile £736 £734 £779
England median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -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 13,327 12,620 16,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.12% 90.43% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,848 8,052 11,585
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
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 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 158 302
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.53 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.73 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.40% -15.16%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £53.44
90th Percentile £70.20 £80.23 £73.56
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.03% -9.93% +8.51%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +28 102 £550 - 72
West London +6 33 £603 +26.84% 26
South London +7 15 £530 -22.63% 24
East London -1 2 £675 +15.38% 15
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 29 (3.44%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.38%) Apache
4 19 (2.26%) Confluence
5 5 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) SAS
7 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.24%) nginx
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.12%) FileNet
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 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
1 433 (51.43%) AWS
2 401 (47.62%) Azure
3 234 (27.79%) GitHub
4 160 (19.00%) GitHub Actions
5 156 (18.53%) GCP
6 151 (17.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 151 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
7 150 (17.81%) Serverless
8 127 (15.08%) Amazon S3
9 104 (12.35%) AWS Lambda
10 81 (9.62%) Amazon EKS
11 77 (9.14%) Amazon ECS
12 68 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 57 (6.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 55 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (5.94%) Entra ID
15 50 (5.94%) Power Platform
16 46 (5.46%) Azure AKS
17 44 (5.23%) PaaS
18 41 (4.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (9.50%) Firewall
2 43 (5.11%) Network Security
2 43 (5.11%) VPN
3 36 (4.28%) DNS
4 16 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.66%) SSL
5 14 (1.66%) WAN
6 12 (1.43%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.95%) BGP
8 6 (0.71%) Multicast
8 6 (0.71%) tcpdump
9 5 (0.59%) OSPF
9 5 (0.59%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.48%) VLAN
11 3 (0.36%) DHCP
11 3 (0.36%) LAN
11 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.36%) SAN
11 3 (0.36%) VXLAN
12 2 (0.24%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.29%) Data Lake
2 50 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (4.63%) Power BI
5 31 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
5 31 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 29 (3.44%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.21%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (2.61%) NoSQL
9 21 (2.49%) Redis
10 20 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (1.78%) MySQL
13 14 (1.66%) MongoDB
14 12 (1.43%) Delta Lake
15 11 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (1.31%) OLTP
15 11 (1.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 163 (19.36%) Jenkins
2 124 (14.73%) GitLab
3 87 (10.33%) Git
4 33 (3.92%) JIRA
5 19 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.90%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (0.95%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.83%) MLflow
9 7 (0.83%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.71%) Gradle
10 6 (0.71%) Maven
10 6 (0.71%) Selenium
11 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.48%) Postman
11 4 (0.48%) RStudio
12 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.36%) Snyk
12 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 190 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 137 (16.27%) Finance
3 92 (10.93%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.65%) Banking
5 52 (6.18%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (1.78%) Retail
9 14 (1.66%) Front Office
10 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.19%) Marketing
13 9 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.95%) Publishing
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.83%) Military
16 6 (0.71%) Electronics
17 5 (0.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 183 (21.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 126 (14.96%) Senior
3 93 (11.05%) Architect
4 85 (10.10%) Developer
5 82 (9.74%) Azure Engineer
6 76 (9.03%) Data Engineer
7 73 (8.67%) AWS Engineer
7 73 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
8 71 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (6.29%) Lead
10 42 (4.99%) Security Engineer
11 40 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
11 40 (4.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 35 (4.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 35 (4.16%) Software Engineer
13 34 (4.04%) GCP Engineer
14 31 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.56%) Cloud Architect
15 30 (3.56%) Site Engineer
16 26 (3.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (10.81%) Kafka
2 62 (7.36%) Node.js
3 42 (4.99%) React
4 41 (4.87%) YAML
5 39 (4.63%) ARM Templates
6 37 (4.39%) Spring
7 36 (4.28%) .NET
8 35 (4.16%) OAuth
8 35 (4.16%) REST
9 33 (3.92%) Spring Boot
10 31 (3.68%) AngularJS
11 30 (3.56%) PySpark
11 30 (3.56%) RESTful
12 28 (3.33%) AWS CDK
13 25 (2.97%) GraphQL
13 25 (2.97%) OpenTelemetry
14 24 (2.85%) OpenID
15 23 (2.73%) Playwright
16 22 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (2.38%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 218 (25.89%) Cloud Native
2 62 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 27 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 24 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.73%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.38%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.54%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.54%) Replication
10 12 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.31%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
15 7 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 108 (12.83%) Linux
2 49 (5.82%) Windows
3 23 (2.73%) VMS
4 18 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.02%) Unix
6 11 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.59%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (75.18%) CI/CD
2 523 (62.11%) DevOps
3 216 (25.65%) Containerisation
4 198 (23.52%) Agile
5 181 (21.50%) Observability
6 131 (15.56%) AI
7 123 (14.61%) Migration
8 121 (14.37%) Problem-Solving
9 120 (14.25%) Analytics
10 118 (14.01%) Software Engineering
11 114 (13.54%) Platform Engineering
12 109 (12.95%) Microservices
13 104 (12.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 95 (11.28%) Cloud Security
15 92 (10.93%) DevSecOps
16 83 (9.86%) Infrastructure Automation
16 83 (9.86%) Test Automation
17 81 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 74 (8.79%) ETL
19 73 (8.67%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 396 (47.03%) Python
2 151 (17.93%) SQL
3 126 (14.96%) Bash
4 100 (11.88%) Java
5 93 (11.05%) PowerShell
6 62 (7.36%) TypeScript
7 59 (7.01%) Bicep
8 45 (5.34%) Go
9 41 (4.87%) C#
10 40 (4.75%) JavaScript
11 12 (1.43%) Scala
12 11 (1.31%) Ruby
13 9 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.59%) C++
15 5 (0.59%) Groovy
15 5 (0.59%) Rust
16 4 (0.48%) C
17 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 238 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 222 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.89%) AWS Certification
4 56 (6.65%) Azure Certification
5 39 (4.63%) Degree
6 27 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 15 (1.78%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.54%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.43%) CISSP
11 10 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.07%) MCP
13 8 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.83%) OSCP
15 6 (0.71%) CCSP
15 6 (0.71%) SANS
16 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.65%) GDPR
2 44 (5.23%) NIST
3 43 (5.11%) Data Quality
4 35 (4.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (3.80%) QA
6 18 (2.14%) NCSC
7 16 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.54%) HIPAA
9 9 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.48%) SLA
12 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.24%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.24%) GRC
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
1 255 (30.29%) Docker
2 38 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 29 (3.44%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.83%) zsh
6 6 (0.71%) Squid
7 5 (0.59%) Snort
8 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.36%) vSphere
10 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) etcd
11 1 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 630 (74.82%) Terraform
2 305 (36.22%) Kubernetes
3 148 (17.58%) Ansible
4 99 (11.76%) Grafana
5 90 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.09%) Argo
7 20 (2.38%) Puppet
8 15 (1.78%) Kibana
9 14 (1.66%) Istio
9 14 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 12 (1.43%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.31%) Rancher
12 6 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.71%) Nessus
13 5 (0.59%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.59%) logstash
14 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 139 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.74%) Google
3 72 (8.55%) Databricks
4 43 (5.11%) Splunk
5 20 (2.38%) Palo Alto
5 20 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.14%) VMware
7 17 (2.02%) Cisco
8 14 (1.66%) Solace
9 13 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.43%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.31%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.31%) Oracle
12 10 (1.19%) PagerDuty
12 10 (1.19%) Qualys
12 10 (1.19%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.07%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.07%) F5
13 9 (1.07%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.95%) SAP