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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 69 91
Rank change year-on-year +30 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 888 463 441
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.82% 3.40% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 3.76% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 307 323
10th Percentile £380 £405 £413
25th Percentile £447 £500 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -9.80%
75th Percentile £643 £653 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -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 £79.00 £27.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +187.27% -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 13,833 12,324 16,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.73% 90.63% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,202 7,872 11,677
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 152 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.56 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.38 £51.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +30 106 £550 -4.35% 60
West London +12 36 £603 +26.84% 15
South London +3 19 £530 -22.63% 3
East London +3 2 £675 +15.38% 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 36 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.93%) Apache
3 24 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (2.14%) Confluence
5 6 (0.68%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.34%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.34%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.23%) nginx
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.23%) SAS
7 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.23%) Traefik
7 2 (0.23%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.11%) Actimize
1 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.11%) Maximo
1 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.11%) Summit
1 1 (0.11%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 455 (51.24%) AWS
2 437 (49.21%) Azure
3 245 (27.59%) GitHub
4 167 (18.81%) GCP
5 163 (18.36%) AWS CloudFormation
6 162 (18.24%) GitHub Actions
6 162 (18.24%) Serverless
7 156 (17.57%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (15.54%) Amazon S3
9 111 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
10 91 (10.25%) Amazon EKS
11 82 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
12 71 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 60 (6.76%) Power Platform
14 57 (6.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 54 (6.08%) Entra ID
16 51 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (5.74%) Azure AKS
17 48 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
17 48 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (8.67%) Firewall
2 45 (5.07%) Network Security
3 41 (4.62%) VPN
4 37 (4.17%) DNS
5 18 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.58%) WAN
7 13 (1.46%) SSL
8 12 (1.35%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
10 8 (0.90%) BGP
11 7 (0.79%) Multicast
12 5 (0.56%) OSPF
12 5 (0.56%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.45%) SAN
13 4 (0.45%) tcpdump
13 4 (0.45%) VLAN
14 3 (0.34%) DHCP
14 3 (0.34%) HTTP
14 3 (0.34%) LAN
14 3 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.09%) Data Lake
2 53 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (5.41%) Power BI
5 37 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 35 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
7 33 (3.72%) SQL Server
8 29 (3.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 29 (3.27%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.93%) Redis
10 24 (2.70%) BigQuery
11 23 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (2.36%) NoSQL
13 18 (2.03%) Delta Lake
14 17 (1.91%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.91%) MongoDB
15 15 (1.69%) MySQL
15 15 (1.69%) OLTP
16 14 (1.58%) Mixpanel
16 14 (1.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 163 (18.36%) Jenkins
2 133 (14.98%) GitLab
3 94 (10.59%) Git
4 34 (3.83%) JIRA
5 20 (2.25%) Artifactory
6 9 (1.01%) MLflow
6 9 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.79%) Terragrunt
8 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.45%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.45%) Gradle
9 4 (0.45%) Maven
9 4 (0.45%) Postman
9 4 (0.45%) RStudio
9 4 (0.45%) Selenium
9 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.34%) Snyk
10 3 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 196 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.88%) Finance
3 109 (12.27%) Public Sector
4 51 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
5 48 (5.41%) Banking
6 34 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
8 16 (1.80%) Retail
9 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.24%) Front Office
10 11 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.13%) Marketing
12 9 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.68%) Electronics
14 6 (0.68%) Military
15 5 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (20.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 139 (15.65%) Senior
3 104 (11.71%) Architect
4 95 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
5 94 (10.59%) Data Engineer
6 86 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
7 85 (9.57%) Developer
8 75 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
9 67 (7.55%) Platform Engineer
10 65 (7.32%) Lead
11 42 (4.73%) Security Engineer
12 40 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
13 38 (4.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 36 (4.05%) Software Engineer
15 34 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 30 (3.38%) Site Engineer
17 29 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
18 28 (3.15%) Senior DevOps
18 28 (3.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (10.59%) Kafka
2 72 (8.11%) Node.js
3 48 (5.41%) React
4 42 (4.73%) .NET
5 41 (4.62%) OAuth
6 40 (4.50%) ARM Templates
6 40 (4.50%) PySpark
6 40 (4.50%) YAML
7 35 (3.94%) REST
8 33 (3.72%) Spring
9 32 (3.60%) AngularJS
10 31 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
11 29 (3.27%) RESTful
11 29 (3.27%) Spring Boot
12 28 (3.15%) AWS CDK
13 27 (3.04%) OpenID
14 26 (2.93%) Playwright
15 24 (2.70%) GraphQL
16 23 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (2.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 228 (25.68%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.87%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 25 (2.82%) Security Posture
7 18 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.03%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.58%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.46%) Replication
10 12 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
13 8 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.79%) Enterprise Cloud
14 7 (0.79%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 106 (11.94%) Linux
2 48 (5.41%) Windows
3 22 (2.48%) VMS
4 19 (2.14%) Unix
5 14 (1.58%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.56%) Solaris
8 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.23%) Android
9 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.23%) CentOS
9 2 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.23%) zOS
10 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (74.10%) CI/CD
2 543 (61.15%) DevOps
3 227 (25.56%) Containerisation
4 203 (22.86%) Agile
5 192 (21.62%) Observability
6 142 (15.99%) Analytics
7 140 (15.77%) AI
8 124 (13.96%) Migration
9 118 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
10 112 (12.61%) Software Engineering
11 111 (12.50%) Microservices
12 110 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (11.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 99 (11.15%) Cloud Security
15 98 (11.04%) Test Automation
16 91 (10.25%) DevSecOps
17 90 (10.14%) Data Engineering
18 85 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 84 (9.46%) Data Modelling
20 83 (9.35%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 413 (46.51%) Python
2 174 (19.59%) SQL
3 126 (14.19%) Bash
4 100 (11.26%) Java
5 98 (11.04%) PowerShell
6 67 (7.55%) Bicep
7 64 (7.21%) TypeScript
8 47 (5.29%) JavaScript
9 45 (5.07%) C#
10 42 (4.73%) Go
11 17 (1.91%) Scala
12 14 (1.58%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.46%) Ruby
14 7 (0.79%) C
15 6 (0.68%) C++
15 6 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.56%) Groovy
16 5 (0.56%) Rust
17 3 (0.34%) Cypher
18 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 258 (29.05%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.09%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 41 (4.62%) Degree
6 29 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 19 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 16 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.58%) CISSP
9 14 (1.58%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.90%) TOGAF Certification
13 7 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.79%) OSCP
14 6 (0.68%) CCSP
14 6 (0.68%) SANS
15 5 (0.56%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (6.53%) Data Quality
1 58 (6.53%) GDPR
2 48 (5.41%) NIST
3 37 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (3.38%) QA
5 20 (2.25%) NCSC
6 15 (1.69%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.35%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 3 (0.34%) EU AI Act
10 3 (0.34%) GRC
10 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.23%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.23%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.23%) MiFID
11 2 (0.23%) PSD2
11 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 260 (29.28%) Docker
2 40 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 35 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.68%) Squid
6 6 (0.68%) zsh
7 5 (0.56%) Snort
7 5 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.45%) vSphere
9 2 (0.23%) KVM
9 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.11%) etcd
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
1 664 (74.77%) Terraform
2 320 (36.04%) Kubernetes
3 142 (15.99%) Ansible
4 96 (10.81%) Grafana
5 89 (10.02%) Prometheus
6 29 (3.27%) Argo
7 17 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.69%) Puppet
9 14 (1.58%) Kibana
10 13 (1.46%) Istio
11 12 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
12 10 (1.13%) Rancher
13 8 (0.90%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.79%) Nessus
15 5 (0.56%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.56%) logstash
15 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
16 4 (0.45%) FortiGate
16 4 (0.45%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 146 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 82 (9.23%) Databricks
3 80 (9.01%) Google
4 48 (5.41%) Splunk
5 19 (2.14%) Palo Alto
5 19 (2.14%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.14%) VMware
6 17 (1.91%) Cisco
7 15 (1.69%) Dynatrace
8 14 (1.58%) CyberArk
9 11 (1.24%) Oracle
9 11 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.24%) Solace
10 10 (1.13%) PagerDuty
10 10 (1.13%) Qualys
11 9 (1.01%) Salesforce
11 9 (1.01%) TIBCO
12 8 (0.90%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.90%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.90%) IBM