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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 68 88
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 0
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 914 463 444
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.62% 3.49% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.24% 3.84% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 311 323
10th Percentile £383 £400 £400
25th Percentile £453 £488 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £679
90th Percentile £742 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £27.50 £71.13
% change year-on-year +172.73% -61.34% +25.34%

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 14,657 12,070 15,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.19% 90.95% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,833 7,901 11,413
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 222 156 343
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.21
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.44 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £77.95 £72.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 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 5 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 +26 120 £550 -2.22% 124
West London +10 36 £603 +26.84% 11
South London -1 22 £530 -3.64% 5
East London +1 3 £562 -3.93% 5
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 41 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 30 (3.28%) Apache
2 30 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (1.86%) Confluence
4 5 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.33%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.33%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.33%) nginx
6 3 (0.33%) Traefik
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 476 (52.08%) AWS
2 447 (48.91%) Azure
3 254 (27.79%) GitHub
4 179 (19.58%) GCP
5 172 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 169 (18.49%) Serverless
7 166 (18.16%) GitHub Actions
8 163 (17.83%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (15.75%) Amazon S3
10 113 (12.36%) AWS Lambda
11 90 (9.85%) Amazon EKS
12 84 (9.19%) Amazon ECS
13 71 (7.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 68 (7.44%) Power Platform
15 59 (6.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 57 (6.24%) Azure AKS
17 54 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
17 54 (5.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 52 (5.69%) Azure Monitor
19 49 (5.36%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 81 (8.86%) Firewall
2 46 (5.03%) Network Security
3 41 (4.49%) DNS
4 37 (4.05%) VPN
5 19 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.75%) WAN
7 14 (1.53%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.20%) SSL
9 10 (1.09%) BGP
10 9 (0.98%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (0.77%) OSPF
12 6 (0.66%) Multicast
13 5 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.55%) VXLAN
13 5 (0.55%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.44%) DHCP
14 4 (0.44%) MPLS
14 4 (0.44%) SAN
14 4 (0.44%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.77%) Data Lake
2 52 (5.69%) Power BI
3 50 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
4 47 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (4.81%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 31 (3.39%) SQL Server
9 30 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 29 (3.17%) DynamoDB
11 28 (3.06%) BigQuery
12 25 (2.74%) Redis
13 24 (2.63%) Delta Lake
14 19 (2.08%) NoSQL
15 17 (1.86%) MongoDB
15 17 (1.86%) OLTP
16 16 (1.75%) Mixpanel
17 15 (1.64%) MySQL
17 15 (1.64%) OLAP
18 14 (1.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 164 (17.94%) Jenkins
2 132 (14.44%) GitLab
3 105 (11.49%) Git
4 35 (3.83%) JIRA
5 20 (2.19%) Artifactory
6 13 (1.42%) MLflow
7 7 (0.77%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.77%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.66%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.55%) Maven
9 5 (0.55%) Snyk
9 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.44%) Postman
10 4 (0.44%) RStudio
10 4 (0.44%) Selenium
11 3 (0.33%) git-flow
11 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 197 (21.55%) Social Skills
2 144 (15.75%) Finance
3 115 (12.58%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (5.14%) Banking
6 37 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (1.86%) Retail
9 12 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (0.98%) Front Office
10 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (0.77%) Marketing
12 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.55%) Legal
13 5 (0.55%) Military
13 5 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.44%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 177 (19.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 144 (15.75%) Senior
3 117 (12.80%) Architect
4 100 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 98 (10.72%) Azure Engineer
6 96 (10.50%) Data Engineer
7 81 (8.86%) Lead
8 80 (8.75%) Developer
9 74 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
10 70 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
11 40 (4.38%) AWS DevOps
12 39 (4.27%) Security Engineer
13 38 (4.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 35 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 34 (3.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 34 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
16 31 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
17 30 (3.28%) Site Engineer
18 28 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 28 (3.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (10.18%) Kafka
2 70 (7.66%) Node.js
3 48 (5.25%) React
4 46 (5.03%) PySpark
5 42 (4.60%) .NET
5 42 (4.60%) OAuth
6 39 (4.27%) ARM Templates
7 37 (4.05%) YAML
8 34 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
8 34 (3.72%) REST
9 33 (3.61%) RESTful
9 33 (3.61%) Spring
10 30 (3.28%) AngularJS
11 29 (3.17%) OpenID
11 29 (3.17%) Spring Boot
12 28 (3.06%) AWS CDK
12 28 (3.06%) Playwright
13 24 (2.63%) GraphQL
14 22 (2.41%) SAML
15 21 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 249 (27.24%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (3.72%) Onboarding
4 28 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 27 (2.95%) Security Posture
6 26 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 22 (2.41%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 17 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.20%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.09%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.09%) Replication
13 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.88%) Data Structures
15 7 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
15 7 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
15 7 (0.77%) Security Operations Centre
15 7 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.50%) Linux
2 45 (4.92%) Windows
3 22 (2.41%) VMS
4 18 (1.97%) Unix
5 8 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Solaris
7 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) zOS
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Android
9 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (75.38%) CI/CD
2 564 (61.71%) DevOps
3 238 (26.04%) Containerisation
4 202 (22.10%) Agile
4 202 (22.10%) Observability
5 162 (17.72%) Analytics
6 156 (17.07%) AI
7 133 (14.55%) Migration
8 130 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
9 117 (12.80%) Microservices
10 108 (11.82%) Software Engineering
11 107 (11.71%) Cloud Security
11 107 (11.71%) Test Automation
12 106 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 101 (11.05%) Data Engineering
15 100 (10.94%) Data Modelling
16 94 (10.28%) Mentoring
17 90 (9.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 422 (46.17%) Python
2 191 (20.90%) SQL
3 124 (13.57%) Bash
4 100 (10.94%) Java
5 96 (10.50%) PowerShell
6 70 (7.66%) Bicep
7 62 (6.78%) TypeScript
8 47 (5.14%) C#
9 44 (4.81%) JavaScript
10 42 (4.60%) Go
11 19 (2.08%) Scala
12 13 (1.42%) Ruby
13 12 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.77%) C
15 5 (0.55%) C++
15 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.55%) Rust
16 4 (0.44%) Groovy
17 3 (0.33%) Cypher
17 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (31.62%) Security Cleared
2 273 (29.87%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.22%) Azure Certification
4 62 (6.78%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.05%) Degree
6 28 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 19 (2.08%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 12 (1.31%) CISSP
12 10 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.77%) CCNP
13 7 (0.77%) OSCP
14 6 (0.66%) CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.35%) GDPR
3 46 (5.03%) NIST
4 34 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 34 (3.72%) QA
5 25 (2.74%) NCSC
6 19 (2.08%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.31%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.55%) SLA
10 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.33%) GRC
11 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
12 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) SEPA
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 266 (29.10%) Docker
2 35 (3.83%) Virtual Machines
3 34 (3.72%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.44%) Squid
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.44%) vSphere
7 3 (0.33%) Snort
7 3 (0.33%) zsh
8 1 (0.11%) etcd
8 1 (0.11%) Firmware
8 1 (0.11%) GPFS
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) Lustre
8 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 691 (75.60%) Terraform
2 323 (35.34%) Kubernetes
3 143 (15.65%) Ansible
4 99 (10.83%) Grafana
5 93 (10.18%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.95%) Argo
7 18 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.64%) Puppet
9 14 (1.53%) Istio
10 11 (1.20%) Kibana
11 10 (1.09%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (0.98%) Rancher
13 7 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 7 (0.77%) Progress Chef
14 6 (0.66%) Nessus
15 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.44%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.44%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 141 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.85%) Databricks
3 85 (9.30%) Google
4 47 (5.14%) Splunk
5 20 (2.19%) ServiceNow
6 19 (2.08%) VMware
7 17 (1.86%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.64%) Cisco
9 13 (1.42%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.42%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.20%) Oracle
11 10 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.09%) PagerDuty
12 9 (0.98%) Qualys
12 9 (0.98%) Salesforce
12 9 (0.98%) Solace
13 8 (0.88%) CheckPoint
13 8 (0.88%) IBM
14 7 (0.77%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.77%) TIBCO