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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 799 484 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.62% 3.04% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 3.39% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 312 401
10th Percentile £400 £439 £425
25th Percentile £447 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £596 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.85% +3.70% -9.31%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £688
90th Percentile £725 £747 £800
England median daily rate £537 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -4.53% -2.17% -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% -17.24%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £76.53
% change year-on-year +2.04% -19.97% +5.56%

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 13,115 14,259 17,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.27% 89.59% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,616 9,203 12,553
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £799
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 172 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -10.28%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.81 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 +13 85 £569 -1.09% 41
West London +1 21 £603 +26.84% 7
South London +5 8 £530 - 6
East London +7 5 - - 17
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 30 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (2.38%) Confluence
3 18 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 15 (1.88%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.50%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.38%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.38%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 3 (0.38%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
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%) CMS
8 1 (0.13%) FileNet
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) 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 (0.50%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.50%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.50%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.38%) Endur
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Actimize
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 418 (52.32%) AWS
2 367 (45.93%) Azure
3 207 (25.91%) GitHub
4 151 (18.90%) GitHub Actions
5 145 (18.15%) GCP
6 136 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (14.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 114 (14.27%) Serverless
9 96 (12.02%) Amazon S3
10 72 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
11 57 (7.13%) Amazon ECS
11 57 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
12 49 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 47 (5.88%) Azure AKS
14 46 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
15 45 (5.63%) Entra ID
16 42 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 41 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
18 39 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 35 (4.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (10.01%) Firewall
2 47 (5.88%) Network Security
3 45 (5.63%) VPN
4 36 (4.51%) DNS
5 21 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.75%) SSL
7 13 (1.63%) WAN
8 11 (1.38%) SD-WAN
9 10 (1.25%) BGP
10 9 (1.13%) tcpdump
11 7 (0.88%) Multicast
11 7 (0.88%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.88%) Wireshark
12 6 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.75%) OSPF
13 5 (0.63%) HTTP
14 4 (0.50%) MPLS
14 4 (0.50%) VLAN
15 3 (0.38%) Internet
15 3 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 43 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
3 40 (5.01%) Amazon RDS
4 29 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.50%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.25%) Power BI
7 25 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 20 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 19 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
10 18 (2.25%) MongoDB
11 17 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (1.88%) BigQuery
14 14 (1.75%) Delta Lake
15 13 (1.63%) Metadata
15 13 (1.63%) Redis
16 11 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
16 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
17 10 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (1.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 140 (17.52%) Jenkins
2 109 (13.64%) GitLab
3 81 (10.14%) Git
4 34 (4.26%) JIRA
5 26 (3.25%) SonarQube
6 16 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 14 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (1.13%) Maven
9 8 (1.00%) Artifactory
9 8 (1.00%) Gradle
9 8 (1.00%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.88%) Burp Suite
10 7 (0.88%) Metasploit
10 7 (0.88%) Selenium
10 7 (0.88%) Snyk
11 6 (0.75%) MLflow
12 5 (0.63%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (0.50%) Postman
14 3 (0.38%) RStudio
General
1 192 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.77%) Finance
3 89 (11.14%) Public Sector
4 69 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.26%) Banking
6 20 (2.50%) Front Office
7 19 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.63%) Publishing
10 13 (1.63%) Retail
10 13 (1.63%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.25%) Military
13 9 (1.13%) Law
13 9 (1.13%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.13%) Marketing
14 7 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.75%) Electronics
15 6 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 149 (18.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 145 (18.15%) Senior
3 87 (10.89%) Developer
4 83 (10.39%) Architect
5 80 (10.01%) Platform Engineer
6 76 (9.51%) AWS Engineer
7 64 (8.01%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (8.01%) Data Engineer
8 60 (7.51%) Azure Engineer
9 54 (6.76%) Lead
10 47 (5.88%) Security Engineer
11 38 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
12 34 (4.26%) Software Engineer
13 32 (4.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 32 (4.01%) GCP Engineer
13 32 (4.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 30 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (3.75%) Senior Developer
15 27 (3.38%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.38%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (10.01%) Kafka
2 57 (7.13%) Node.js
3 39 (4.88%) React
3 39 (4.88%) YAML
4 35 (4.38%) ARM Templates
5 33 (4.13%) .NET
5 33 (4.13%) RESTful
6 31 (3.88%) Spring
7 29 (3.63%) REST
8 28 (3.50%) GraphQL
9 27 (3.38%) Spring Boot
10 25 (3.13%) AngularJS
10 25 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
10 25 (3.13%) OAuth
11 24 (3.00%) AWS CDK
12 22 (2.75%) gRPC
13 20 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
14 19 (2.38%) Playwright
14 19 (2.38%) PySpark
15 17 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 177 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 70 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 29 (3.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 24 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 19 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.88%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.50%) Replication
15 11 (1.38%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 8 (1.00%) AI Agents
16 8 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (1.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 103 (12.89%) Linux
2 40 (5.01%) Windows
3 19 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.13%) Unix
5 13 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (1.38%) VMS
7 6 (0.75%) Solaris
8 4 (0.50%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (73.97%) CI/CD
2 471 (58.95%) DevOps
3 207 (25.91%) Agile
4 200 (25.03%) Containerisation
5 147 (18.40%) Observability
6 146 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
7 115 (14.39%) Software Engineering
8 113 (14.14%) Platform Engineering
9 100 (12.52%) Microservices
10 99 (12.39%) AI
10 99 (12.39%) Analytics
10 99 (12.39%) Cloud Security
10 99 (12.39%) DevSecOps
11 95 (11.89%) Migration
12 87 (10.89%) Infrastructure Automation
13 85 (10.64%) Test Automation
14 80 (10.01%) Machine Learning
15 78 (9.76%) Data Pipeline
16 77 (9.64%) Mentoring
17 70 (8.76%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 411 (51.44%) Python
2 156 (19.52%) Bash
3 137 (17.15%) SQL
4 112 (14.02%) Java
5 106 (13.27%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.26%) TypeScript
7 64 (8.01%) Go
8 61 (7.63%) Bicep
9 44 (5.51%) JavaScript
10 42 (5.26%) C#
11 10 (1.25%) Scala
11 10 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.88%) Groovy
12 7 (0.88%) Ruby
13 6 (0.75%) C++
13 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.75%) PromQL
14 4 (0.50%) C
15 3 (0.38%) Rust
Qualifications
1 181 (22.65%) Security Cleared
2 163 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 46 (5.76%) AWS Certification
4 41 (5.13%) Azure Certification
5 35 (4.38%) Degree
6 23 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.50%) CISSP
10 11 (1.38%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.25%) OSCP
12 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.63%) CCNP
15 5 (0.63%) CCSP
15 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.63%) Tigerscheme
16 4 (0.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (6.88%) GDPR
2 37 (4.63%) NIST
3 36 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 35 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (2.50%) QA
6 13 (1.63%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.13%) NCSC
7 9 (1.13%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.63%) MiFID
10 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.38%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.25%) GRC
12 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.25%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 250 (31.29%) Docker
2 36 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.38%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.13%) zsh
6 6 (0.75%) Snort
6 6 (0.75%) Squid
7 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.50%) 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%) iptables
10 1 (0.13%) Lustre
10 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 596 (74.59%) Terraform
2 296 (37.05%) Kubernetes
3 141 (17.65%) Ansible
4 117 (14.64%) Grafana
5 106 (13.27%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.88%) Argo
6 23 (2.88%) Puppet
7 15 (1.88%) ITRS Geneos
7 15 (1.88%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.50%) Kibana
9 10 (1.25%) Istio
9 10 (1.25%) Rancher
10 8 (1.00%) Nessus
10 8 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.88%) Nmap
12 6 (0.75%) logstash
13 5 (0.63%) Nexpose
13 5 (0.63%) Suricata
14 3 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 126 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.64%) Google
3 63 (7.88%) Databricks
4 35 (4.38%) Splunk
5 25 (3.13%) Palo Alto
6 22 (2.75%) Cisco
7 18 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 16 (2.00%) VMware
9 15 (1.88%) Solace
10 14 (1.75%) Red Hat
11 12 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.25%) CheckPoint
12 10 (1.25%) Oracle
12 10 (1.25%) SAP
12 10 (1.25%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.13%) F5
13 9 (1.13%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.13%) Qualys