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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 82 85
Rank change year-on-year +45 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 827 442 464
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.76% 3.15% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 3.49% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 289 343
10th Percentile £380 £412 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.74% -9.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £677
90th Percentile £725 £738 £796
England median daily rate £530 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -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 £57.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +33.91% -24.11% +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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 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 15 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 - 53
West London +7 32 £603 +26.84% 7
South London +8 15 £530 -22.63% 7
East London -2 2 £675 +15.38% 9
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 27 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.42%) Confluence
4 18 (2.18%) Apache
5 4 (0.48%) SAS
5 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.24%) Traefik
7 2 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.97%) 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 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.12%) Summit
2 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 433 (52.36%) AWS
2 397 (48.00%) Azure
3 231 (27.93%) GitHub
4 165 (19.95%) GitHub Actions
5 151 (18.26%) GCP
6 143 (17.29%) Azure DevOps
6 143 (17.29%) Serverless
7 140 (16.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 117 (14.15%) Amazon S3
9 99 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
10 77 (9.31%) Amazon EKS
11 70 (8.46%) Amazon ECS
12 62 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (6.41%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (6.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 49 (5.93%) Azure AKS
15 49 (5.93%) Entra ID
16 47 (5.68%) Power Platform
17 40 (4.84%) Datadog
17 40 (4.84%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 81 (9.79%) Firewall
2 41 (4.96%) VPN
3 40 (4.84%) Network Security
4 36 (4.35%) DNS
5 17 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.69%) SSL
7 13 (1.57%) WAN
8 11 (1.33%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.97%) BGP
10 6 (0.73%) tcpdump
11 5 (0.60%) Multicast
11 5 (0.60%) OSPF
11 5 (0.60%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.60%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (0.48%) HTTP
12 4 (0.48%) MPLS
12 4 (0.48%) VLAN
13 3 (0.36%) DHCP
13 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (6.05%) Data Lake
1 50 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (4.47%) Power BI
4 30 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (3.39%) DynamoDB
5 28 (3.39%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (2.66%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.42%) Redis
8 19 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 18 (2.18%) BigQuery
10 16 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 15 (1.81%) MySQL
12 13 (1.57%) MongoDB
12 13 (1.57%) Relational Database
13 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
14 10 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (1.21%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 155 (18.74%) Jenkins
2 122 (14.75%) GitLab
3 84 (10.16%) Git
4 33 (3.99%) JIRA
5 17 (2.06%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.81%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.21%) CircleCI
9 9 (1.09%) Snyk
10 8 (0.97%) TeamCity
11 7 (0.85%) MLflow
12 6 (0.73%) Gradle
12 6 (0.73%) Maven
12 6 (0.73%) Selenium
12 6 (0.73%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.48%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.48%) Postman
13 4 (0.48%) RStudio
14 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.36%) JUnit
General
1 176 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 131 (15.84%) Finance
3 93 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 58 (7.01%) Banking
5 49 (5.93%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (1.81%) Front Office
7 15 (1.81%) Retail
8 14 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.21%) Marketing
12 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.09%) Publishing
13 8 (0.97%) Military
13 8 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.97%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.73%) Electronics
16 4 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 179 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 129 (15.60%) Senior
3 91 (11.00%) Developer
4 82 (9.92%) Architect
5 74 (8.95%) Azure Engineer
6 73 (8.83%) Platform Engineer
7 70 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
7 70 (8.46%) Data Engineer
8 69 (8.34%) Cloud Engineer
9 58 (7.01%) Lead
10 40 (4.84%) Security Engineer
11 39 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 38 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (4.23%) Software Engineer
14 33 (3.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
16 28 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.39%) Senior Developer
16 28 (3.39%) Site Engineer
17 27 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (11.61%) Kafka
2 63 (7.62%) Node.js
3 44 (5.32%) React
4 41 (4.96%) Spring
4 41 (4.96%) YAML
5 39 (4.72%) ARM Templates
5 39 (4.72%) REST
6 37 (4.47%) Spring Boot
7 33 (3.99%) .NET
7 33 (3.99%) OAuth
8 31 (3.75%) AngularJS
8 31 (3.75%) RESTful
9 27 (3.26%) GraphQL
9 27 (3.26%) PySpark
10 26 (3.14%) AWS CDK
11 25 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
12 24 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
13 23 (2.78%) Playwright
14 22 (2.66%) gRPC
15 19 (2.30%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 208 (25.15%) Cloud Native
2 66 (7.98%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (3.26%) Public Cloud
4 25 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 17 (2.06%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.69%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.57%) Replication
10 12 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.33%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.33%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
13 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.85%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 108 (13.06%) Linux
2 48 (5.80%) Windows
3 23 (2.78%) VMS
4 19 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.93%) Unix
6 10 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.60%) 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
1 616 (74.49%) CI/CD
2 508 (61.43%) DevOps
3 208 (25.15%) Containerisation
4 203 (24.55%) Agile
5 180 (21.77%) Observability
6 126 (15.24%) AI
7 123 (14.87%) Migration
8 121 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (14.63%) Software Engineering
9 113 (13.66%) Platform Engineering
10 112 (13.54%) Microservices
11 110 (13.30%) Analytics
12 98 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 95 (11.49%) DevSecOps
14 87 (10.52%) Cloud Security
15 83 (10.04%) Test Automation
16 79 (9.55%) Infrastructure Automation
17 76 (9.19%) Continuous Improvement
18 73 (8.83%) Data Pipeline
19 72 (8.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 393 (47.52%) Python
2 146 (17.65%) SQL
3 127 (15.36%) Bash
4 103 (12.45%) Java
5 92 (11.12%) PowerShell
6 64 (7.74%) TypeScript
7 58 (7.01%) Bicep
8 48 (5.80%) Go
9 40 (4.84%) C#
9 40 (4.84%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.45%) Ruby
11 11 (1.33%) Scala
12 9 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.60%) C++
14 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 5 (0.60%) Rust
15 4 (0.48%) C
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 222 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 206 (24.91%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.53%) Azure Certification
4 51 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 38 (4.59%) Degree
6 26 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 13 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 12 (1.45%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.33%) CISSP
11 9 (1.09%) MCP
12 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.85%) OSCP
14 6 (0.73%) CCSP
14 6 (0.73%) SANS
15 4 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (6.53%) GDPR
2 40 (4.84%) Data Quality
2 40 (4.84%) NIST
3 32 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (3.87%) QA
4 12 (1.45%) HIPAA
4 12 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.21%) NCSC
6 9 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.60%) SLA
9 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
10 2 (0.24%) MiFID
10 2 (0.24%) PSD2
10 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.24%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
System Software
1 254 (30.71%) Docker
2 39 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.14%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.85%) zsh
6 6 (0.73%) Squid
7 5 (0.60%) 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
1 624 (75.45%) Terraform
2 301 (36.40%) Kubernetes
3 151 (18.26%) Ansible
4 107 (12.94%) Grafana
5 95 (11.49%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.14%) Argo
7 20 (2.42%) Puppet
8 15 (1.81%) Kibana
9 14 (1.69%) Istio
9 14 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 11 (1.33%) Progress Chef
11 11 (1.33%) Rancher
12 6 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.73%) Nessus
13 5 (0.60%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.60%) logstash
14 4 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.48%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 136 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.31%) Google
3 67 (8.10%) Databricks
4 36 (4.35%) Splunk
5 20 (2.42%) Palo Alto
5 20 (2.42%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.30%) Cisco
7 18 (2.18%) VMware
8 14 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.69%) Oracle
9 12 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.45%) Solace
10 10 (1.21%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.21%) Qualys
11 9 (1.09%) CheckPoint
11 9 (1.09%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.09%) TIBCO
12 8 (0.97%) F5
12 8 (0.97%) Fortinet
13 7 (0.85%) SAP