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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 59 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +38 -8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 942 488 431
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.63% 3.86% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.28% 4.22% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 334 306
10th Percentile £400 £400 £392
25th Percentile £453 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £67.98 - £55.38
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -2.13% -30.88%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.50 £27.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +170.91% -55.10% -21.47%

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 14,995 11,556 15,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.68% 91.45% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,050 7,835 11,420
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 169 333
10th Percentile £18.11 £19.16 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £69.90
England median hourly rate £35.91 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.49% -1.52% -12.00%

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 March 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 27 March 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 +27 130 £550 - 87
West London +11 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London -1 22 £530 +1.44% 2
East London -1 5 £562 -3.93% 6
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 46 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.40%) Apache
3 31 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.55%) Confluence
5 5 (0.53%) SAS
5 5 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.32%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.32%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.21%) Camunda
7 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) CMS
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 494 (52.44%) AWS
2 475 (50.42%) Azure
3 263 (27.92%) GitHub
4 186 (19.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 184 (19.53%) GCP
6 176 (18.68%) Serverless
7 173 (18.37%) Azure DevOps
8 171 (18.15%) GitHub Actions
9 145 (15.39%) Amazon S3
10 118 (12.53%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.55%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (9.34%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (7.54%) Power Platform
14 70 (7.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 60 (6.37%) Azure AKS
16 57 (6.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 55 (5.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 54 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
20 51 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 80 (8.49%) Firewall
2 43 (4.56%) Network Security
3 39 (4.14%) DNS
4 34 (3.61%) VPN
5 22 (2.34%) WAN
6 17 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 16 (1.70%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.49%) BGP
9 9 (0.96%) OSPF
9 9 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.85%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.64%) Multicast
12 5 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
12 5 (0.53%) DHCP
12 5 (0.53%) IOS XR
12 5 (0.53%) MPLS
12 5 (0.53%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
13 4 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.54%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.41%) Power BI
3 50 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 48 (5.10%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
6 39 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.50%) BigQuery
8 32 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 32 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 32 (3.40%) SQL Server
9 29 (3.08%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.65%) Redis
11 24 (2.55%) Delta Lake
12 21 (2.23%) MongoDB
12 21 (2.23%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.02%) OLTP
14 18 (1.91%) Mixpanel
15 17 (1.80%) OLAP
16 15 (1.59%) Relational Database
17 14 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 170 (18.05%) Jenkins
2 129 (13.69%) GitLab
3 123 (13.06%) Git
4 37 (3.93%) JIRA
5 20 (2.12%) Artifactory
6 16 (1.70%) MLflow
7 7 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.74%) Snyk
7 7 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.74%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.53%) JUnit
9 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.42%) Mockito
10 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.32%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.32%) RStudio
General
1 202 (21.44%) Social Skills
2 151 (16.03%) Finance
3 128 (13.59%) Public Sector
4 52 (5.52%) Banking
5 46 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.49%) Retail
9 12 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.06%) Front Office
10 10 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.06%) Legal
11 6 (0.64%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.64%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.53%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.42%) Games
13 4 (0.42%) Marketing
13 4 (0.42%) Military
14 3 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 173 (18.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 151 (16.03%) Senior
3 135 (14.33%) Architect
4 106 (11.25%) Azure Engineer
5 101 (10.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 97 (10.30%) Data Engineer
7 91 (9.66%) Lead
8 85 (9.02%) Developer
9 73 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
10 69 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
11 39 (4.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (3.93%) Security Engineer
13 35 (3.72%) AWS DevOps
13 35 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
13 35 (3.72%) Software Engineer
14 31 (3.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.29%) Cloud Architect
14 31 (3.29%) Site Engineer
15 30 (3.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (3.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (10.72%) Kafka
2 75 (7.96%) Node.js
3 51 (5.41%) React
4 46 (4.88%) PySpark
4 46 (4.88%) REST
5 42 (4.46%) ARM Templates
6 41 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 41 (4.35%) OAuth
7 40 (4.25%) .NET
8 39 (4.14%) YAML
9 37 (3.93%) RESTful
10 36 (3.82%) Spring
11 35 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
12 31 (3.29%) Spring Boot
13 28 (2.97%) OpenID
14 27 (2.87%) AWS CDK
14 27 (2.87%) Playwright
15 24 (2.55%) GraphQL
16 23 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
17 20 (2.12%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 255 (27.07%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 31 (3.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 28 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 25 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.12%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.59%) Private Cloud
10 14 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.17%) Replication
14 10 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.96%) Algorithms
16 8 (0.85%) Data Structures
16 8 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
17 7 (0.74%) Fixed Income
17 7 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
18 6 (0.64%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 88 (9.34%) Linux
2 41 (4.35%) Windows
3 22 (2.34%) VMS
4 15 (1.59%) Unix
5 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.21%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (75.80%) CI/CD
2 575 (61.04%) DevOps
3 264 (28.03%) Containerisation
4 221 (23.46%) Observability
5 213 (22.61%) Agile
6 165 (17.52%) Analytics
7 159 (16.88%) AI
8 147 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
9 134 (14.23%) Microservices
10 132 (14.01%) Migration
11 116 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 115 (12.21%) Software Engineering
13 114 (12.10%) Test Automation
14 113 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 109 (11.57%) Data Modelling
16 108 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
17 107 (11.36%) Mentoring
18 106 (11.25%) Cloud Security
19 98 (10.40%) Data Engineering
20 92 (9.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 430 (45.65%) Python
2 193 (20.49%) SQL
3 118 (12.53%) Bash
4 112 (11.89%) Java
5 104 (11.04%) PowerShell
6 74 (7.86%) Bicep
7 62 (6.58%) TypeScript
8 46 (4.88%) C#
9 40 (4.25%) JavaScript
10 39 (4.14%) Go
11 23 (2.44%) Ruby
12 21 (2.23%) Scala
13 13 (1.38%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.74%) C
15 5 (0.53%) Rust
16 4 (0.42%) C++
16 4 (0.42%) Groovy
16 4 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.32%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 310 (32.91%) Security Cleared
2 290 (30.79%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 63 (6.69%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.25%) Degree
6 34 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (2.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 21 (2.23%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.27%) CISSP
12 11 (1.17%) CCNP
13 10 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.64%) CCSP
16 5 (0.53%) CCIE
16 5 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.43%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.16%) GDPR
3 46 (4.88%) NIST
4 35 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.50%) QA
6 27 (2.87%) NCSC
7 21 (2.23%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.17%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.17%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.64%) SLA
10 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.21%) GRC
11 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.21%) PSD2
11 2 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 268 (28.45%) Docker
2 32 (3.40%) Active Directory
2 32 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.06%) Hyper-V
5 8 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.53%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.42%) vSphere
8 3 (0.32%) Squid
9 2 (0.21%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 723 (76.75%) Terraform
2 327 (34.71%) Kubernetes
3 143 (15.18%) Ansible
4 99 (10.51%) Grafana
5 96 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.55%) Argo
7 19 (2.02%) Puppet
8 18 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.38%) Istio
10 11 (1.17%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.06%) Rancher
12 8 (0.85%) ITRS Geneos
13 7 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.74%) Kibana
14 5 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.53%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.42%) Opsgenie
16 3 (0.32%) Packer
16 3 (0.32%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 150 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.45%) Databricks
3 88 (9.34%) Google
4 49 (5.20%) Splunk
5 20 (2.12%) Oracle
6 19 (2.02%) VMware
7 17 (1.80%) Cisco
8 15 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.38%) CyberArk
11 12 (1.27%) Palo Alto
12 11 (1.17%) Fortinet
13 10 (1.06%) PagerDuty
14 8 (0.85%) IBM
14 8 (0.85%) Qualys
15 7 (0.74%) Arista
15 7 (0.74%) New Relic
15 7 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.74%) Salesforce
15 7 (0.74%) Solace