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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 58 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +37 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 929 484 431
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.50% 3.83% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.14% 4.19% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 332 307
10th Percentile £400 £400 £380
25th Percentile £455 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
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 3 1 4
10th Percentile £58.90 - £55.38
25th Percentile £62.13 £56.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -2.13% -30.88%
75th Percentile £74.63 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.90 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +154.55% -54.17% -23.08%

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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
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 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £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 £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 1 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

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 1 April 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 +30 130 £550 - 87
West London +6 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London -1 22 £530 +1.44% 2
East London +3 4 £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 47 (5.06%) Apache Spark
2 34 (3.66%) Apache
3 32 (3.44%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.48%) Confluence
5 5 (0.54%) SAS
5 5 (0.54%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.32%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) Apache Synapse
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
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 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.43%) 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
1 496 (53.39%) AWS
2 478 (51.45%) Azure
3 260 (27.99%) GitHub
4 184 (19.81%) AWS CloudFormation
5 180 (19.38%) GCP
6 174 (18.73%) Serverless
7 173 (18.62%) Azure DevOps
8 170 (18.30%) GitHub Actions
9 142 (15.29%) Amazon S3
10 117 (12.59%) AWS Lambda
11 88 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (9.26%) Amazon ECS
13 72 (7.75%) Power Platform
14 68 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 60 (6.46%) Azure AKS
16 57 (6.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 54 (5.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 53 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
18 53 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
19 51 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 79 (8.50%) Firewall
2 41 (4.41%) Network Security
3 38 (4.09%) DNS
4 32 (3.44%) VPN
5 22 (2.37%) WAN
6 16 (1.72%) SD-WAN
7 15 (1.61%) BGP
8 11 (1.18%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.97%) OSPF
10 8 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.65%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.65%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.54%) DHCP
13 5 (0.54%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.54%) MPLS
13 5 (0.54%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.43%) Internet
14 4 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (7.21%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.49%) Power BI
3 48 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
3 48 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
4 43 (4.63%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 33 (3.55%) BigQuery
7 32 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 32 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
7 32 (3.44%) SQL Server
8 28 (3.01%) DynamoDB
9 26 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 23 (2.48%) Redis
11 21 (2.26%) MongoDB
12 20 (2.15%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.05%) OLTP
14 18 (1.94%) Mixpanel
15 17 (1.83%) OLAP
16 15 (1.61%) Relational Database
17 14 (1.51%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 164 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 125 (13.46%) GitLab
3 124 (13.35%) Git
4 36 (3.88%) JIRA
5 20 (2.15%) Artifactory
6 17 (1.83%) MLflow
7 8 (0.86%) CircleCI
7 8 (0.86%) Snyk
8 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (0.75%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) JUnit
9 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.43%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.43%) Mockito
10 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.32%) git-flow
11 3 (0.32%) Liquibase
General
1 188 (20.24%) Social Skills
2 145 (15.61%) Finance
3 124 (13.35%) Public Sector
4 53 (5.71%) Banking
5 45 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.51%) Retail
9 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.18%) Legal
11 6 (0.65%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.65%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.54%) Front Office
12 5 (0.54%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.43%) Games
13 4 (0.43%) Marketing
14 3 (0.32%) Electronics
14 3 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 170 (18.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 148 (15.93%) Senior
3 136 (14.64%) Architect
4 108 (11.63%) Azure Engineer
5 99 (10.66%) Cloud Engineer
5 99 (10.66%) Data Engineer
6 90 (9.69%) Lead
7 86 (9.26%) Developer
8 72 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
9 68 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
10 39 (4.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 36 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
12 35 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 32 (3.44%) GCP Engineer
13 32 (3.44%) Site Engineer
14 30 (3.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 30 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
14 30 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (3.01%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (10.98%) Kafka
2 75 (8.07%) Node.js
3 49 (5.27%) React
4 46 (4.95%) PySpark
5 45 (4.84%) REST
6 42 (4.52%) ARM Templates
6 42 (4.52%) OAuth
7 40 (4.31%) .NET
8 39 (4.20%) AngularJS
8 39 (4.20%) YAML
9 37 (3.98%) RESTful
10 36 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
10 36 (3.88%) Spring
11 31 (3.34%) Spring Boot
12 28 (3.01%) OpenID
13 27 (2.91%) AWS CDK
13 27 (2.91%) Playwright
14 24 (2.58%) GraphQL
15 22 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
16 21 (2.26%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 255 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 26 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 20 (2.15%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.29%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.97%) Replication
12 8 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 8 (0.86%) Data Structures
12 8 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
13 7 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
13 7 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.65%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 85 (9.15%) Linux
2 38 (4.09%) Windows
3 22 (2.37%) VMS
4 15 (1.61%) Unix
5 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (76.64%) CI/CD
2 574 (61.79%) DevOps
3 260 (27.99%) Containerisation
4 218 (23.47%) Observability
5 215 (23.14%) Agile
6 166 (17.87%) AI
7 165 (17.76%) Analytics
8 147 (15.82%) Platform Engineering
9 137 (14.75%) Microservices
10 133 (14.32%) Migration
11 118 (12.70%) Software Engineering
12 115 (12.38%) Test Automation
13 112 (12.06%) Data Modelling
14 108 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 107 (11.52%) Mentoring
16 106 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 103 (11.09%) Problem-Solving
18 101 (10.87%) Data Engineering
19 97 (10.44%) Cloud Security
20 93 (10.01%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 422 (45.43%) Python
2 194 (20.88%) SQL
3 111 (11.95%) Java
4 110 (11.84%) Bash
5 99 (10.66%) PowerShell
6 73 (7.86%) Bicep
7 62 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 47 (5.06%) C#
9 39 (4.20%) Go
9 39 (4.20%) JavaScript
10 24 (2.58%) Ruby
11 21 (2.26%) Scala
12 14 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.75%) C
14 5 (0.54%) Rust
15 4 (0.43%) C++
15 4 (0.43%) Groovy
15 4 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.32%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.32%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 311 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 291 (31.32%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 61 (6.57%) AWS Certification
5 40 (4.31%) Degree
6 34 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (2.48%) DV Cleared
8 21 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (1.51%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.29%) CCNP
12 12 (1.29%) CISSP
13 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 10 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.65%) CCSP
15 5 (0.54%) CCIE
15 5 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (7.86%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.49%) GDPR
3 39 (4.20%) NIST
4 37 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (3.66%) QA
6 28 (3.01%) NCSC
7 21 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.18%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.65%) SLA
10 4 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.22%) GRC
12 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.22%) PSD2
12 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 266 (28.63%) Docker
2 30 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 30 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 10 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.43%) vSphere
7 3 (0.32%) Squid
8 2 (0.22%) Snort
9 1 (0.11%) Firmware
9 1 (0.11%) GPFS
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) Lustre
9 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 721 (77.61%) Terraform
2 328 (35.31%) Kubernetes
3 138 (14.85%) Ansible
4 93 (10.01%) Grafana
5 91 (9.80%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.58%) Argo
7 19 (2.05%) Puppet
8 17 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.40%) Istio
10 11 (1.18%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.97%) Rancher
12 7 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.75%) Kibana
13 5 (0.54%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.43%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.43%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
15 3 (0.32%) Nessus
15 3 (0.32%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 149 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.69%) Databricks
3 84 (9.04%) Google
4 47 (5.06%) Splunk
5 20 (2.15%) Oracle
6 19 (2.05%) Cisco
7 17 (1.83%) VMware
8 14 (1.51%) Dynatrace
9 13 (1.40%) CyberArk
9 13 (1.40%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.29%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.08%) PagerDuty
11 10 (1.08%) Palo Alto
12 9 (0.97%) Arista
13 8 (0.86%) IBM
13 8 (0.86%) Qualys
14 7 (0.75%) New Relic
14 7 (0.75%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.75%) Salesforce
15 6 (0.65%) Rapid7