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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 47 90
Rank change year-on-year +13 +43 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,265 685 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.22% 5.10% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 5.51% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 461 291
10th Percentile £418 £394 £413
25th Percentile £474 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £62.19
% change year-on-year +13.60% +0.50% -20.27%

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 18,089 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,828 8,226 9,619
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 251 180
10th Percentile £16.68 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +20 148 £575 -8.00% 143
South London +21 34 £535 - 13
West London -18 13 £725 +70.59% 33
East London +6 8 £600 - 18
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 56 (4.43%) Confluence
2 50 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 47 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (2.69%) Apache
5 20 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.71%) nginx
8 8 (0.63%) CMS
9 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.24%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.079%) Camunda
14 1 (0.079%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.079%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.079%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.079%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.079%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.079%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 670 (52.96%) AWS
2 633 (50.04%) Azure
3 332 (26.25%) GitHub
4 244 (19.29%) GitHub Actions
5 229 (18.10%) GCP
6 218 (17.23%) Azure DevOps
7 213 (16.84%) Serverless
8 176 (13.91%) Amazon S3
9 147 (11.62%) AWS Lambda
10 143 (11.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 132 (10.43%) Amazon EKS
12 120 (9.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 108 (8.54%) Entra ID
14 94 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
15 82 (6.48%) Azure AKS
16 79 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 77 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
18 68 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
19 65 (5.14%) dbt
20 58 (4.58%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.48%) Firewall
2 59 (4.66%) DNS
3 46 (3.64%) Network Security
3 46 (3.64%) VPN
4 27 (2.13%) WAN
5 21 (1.66%) BGP
6 14 (1.11%) Internet
6 14 (1.11%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.03%) DHCP
7 13 (1.03%) SSL
8 10 (0.79%) HTTP
8 10 (0.79%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.71%) SSH
9 9 (0.71%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.55%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (0.55%) IOS XR
11 7 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.55%) VLAN
12 6 (0.47%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (5.61%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (3.72%) Power BI
4 46 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (3.48%) MongoDB
6 40 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 37 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
8 36 (2.85%) Data Lake
8 36 (2.85%) Delta Lake
8 36 (2.85%) DynamoDB
9 33 (2.61%) Metadata
9 33 (2.61%) Redis
10 31 (2.45%) MySQL
11 30 (2.37%) BigQuery
12 29 (2.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.29%) NoSQL
13 28 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
14 16 (1.26%) Big Data
15 14 (1.11%) Relational Database
16 13 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 199 (15.73%) Jenkins
2 198 (15.65%) GitLab
3 190 (15.02%) Git
4 64 (5.06%) JIRA
5 21 (1.66%) SonarQube
6 18 (1.42%) Bitbucket
7 15 (1.19%) Snyk
8 12 (0.95%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 10 (0.79%) JUnit
9 10 (0.79%) Selenium
10 9 (0.71%) JMeter
10 9 (0.71%) MLflow
11 8 (0.63%) Postman
12 7 (0.55%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.55%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.55%) Mockito
13 6 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 293 (23.16%) Social Skills
2 225 (17.79%) Finance
3 180 (14.23%) Public Sector
4 89 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (5.69%) Banking
6 31 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.58%) Retail
9 14 (1.11%) Law
10 13 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.03%) Local Government
11 12 (0.95%) Military
12 11 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.79%) Front Office
13 10 (0.79%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.79%) Legal
14 9 (0.71%) Back Office
14 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.55%) Police
16 6 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 284 (22.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 203 (16.05%) Senior
3 197 (15.57%) Architect
4 137 (10.83%) Lead
5 126 (9.96%) Azure Engineer
6 122 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 109 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
7 109 (8.62%) Platform Engineer
8 98 (7.75%) Data Engineer
9 86 (6.80%) Developer
10 68 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 61 (4.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 55 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 53 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
14 51 (4.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 51 (4.03%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (4.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 49 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 41 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
17 39 (3.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 950 (75.10%) Terraform
2 105 (8.30%) Kafka
3 88 (6.96%) REST
4 65 (5.14%) PySpark
5 60 (4.74%) RESTful
6 50 (3.95%) React
7 45 (3.56%) .NET
8 43 (3.40%) OAuth
9 41 (3.24%) ARM Templates
10 39 (3.08%) Node.js
11 37 (2.92%) FastAPI
12 36 (2.85%) YAML
13 35 (2.77%) OAuth2
13 35 (2.77%) Spring
14 34 (2.69%) Spring Boot
15 32 (2.53%) OpenID
16 27 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
17 25 (1.98%) AngularJS
18 24 (1.90%) Django
18 24 (1.90%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 343 (27.11%) Cloud Native
2 86 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 45 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (3.16%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.92%) Security Posture
7 36 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 31 (2.45%) AI Agents
10 28 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (2.13%) Replication
12 26 (2.06%) Data Centre
13 25 (1.98%) Public Cloud
14 23 (1.82%) PKI
15 17 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.34%) NHS
15 17 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (1.26%) Private Cloud
17 15 (1.19%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 140 (11.07%) Linux
2 89 (7.04%) Windows
3 30 (2.37%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.66%) Ubuntu
6 16 (1.26%) Unix
7 14 (1.11%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.11%) VMS
8 7 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.079%) Debian
13 1 (0.079%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (75.34%) CI/CD
2 762 (60.24%) DevOps
3 339 (26.80%) Containerisation
4 324 (25.61%) Observability
5 312 (24.66%) Agile
6 290 (22.92%) Platform Engineering
7 270 (21.34%) AI
8 192 (15.18%) Software Engineering
9 182 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 181 (14.31%) Test Automation
11 174 (13.75%) Migration
12 164 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 160 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
14 158 (12.49%) Technical Leadership
15 153 (12.09%) Microservices
16 142 (11.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 139 (10.99%) Analytics
17 139 (10.99%) Event-Driven
18 135 (10.67%) Cloud Security
19 134 (10.59%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 568 (44.90%) Python
2 202 (15.97%) SQL
3 200 (15.81%) PowerShell
4 198 (15.65%) Bash
5 141 (11.15%) Bicep
6 139 (10.99%) Java
7 73 (5.77%) C#
8 71 (5.61%) JavaScript
9 66 (5.22%) TypeScript
10 47 (3.72%) Go
11 23 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.42%) Scala
13 17 (1.34%) Groovy
14 14 (1.11%) Ruby
15 8 (0.63%) Korn
15 8 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.47%) Perl
17 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 4 (0.32%) C++
18 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 456 (36.05%) Security Cleared
2 417 (32.96%) SC Cleared
3 94 (7.43%) Azure Certification
4 78 (6.17%) AWS Certification
5 61 (4.82%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.11%) Degree
7 33 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 32 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
9 26 (2.06%) CISSP
10 25 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.50%) CCNP
12 17 (1.34%) CISM
13 13 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (0.87%) GIAC
15 9 (0.71%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.63%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 51 (4.03%) QA
3 34 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (2.69%) NIST
4 31 (2.45%) GDPR
5 20 (1.58%) NCSC
6 17 (1.34%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.87%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.32%) COBIT
10 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.32%) SLA
10 4 (0.32%) WCAG
11 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.16%) GRC
11 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.079%) PMO
System Software
1 339 (26.80%) Docker
2 57 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.63%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.63%) vSphere
7 6 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.16%) Postfix
11 1 (0.079%) IAG
11 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.079%) NFS
11 1 (0.079%) Samba
11 1 (0.079%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 502 (39.68%) Kubernetes
2 201 (15.89%) Ansible
3 151 (11.94%) Grafana
4 130 (10.28%) Prometheus
5 29 (2.29%) Puppet
6 27 (2.13%) Argo
7 26 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (1.34%) Kubeflow
9 15 (1.19%) Packer
10 13 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.79%) Kibana
13 9 (0.71%) systemd
14 8 (0.63%) Control-M
14 8 (0.63%) SCCM
15 7 (0.55%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.47%) Istio
17 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 249 (19.68%) Microsoft
2 99 (7.83%) Databricks
3 96 (7.59%) Google
4 74 (5.85%) Splunk
5 53 (4.19%) Oracle
6 48 (3.79%) VMware
7 39 (3.08%) Cisco
8 32 (2.53%) Dynatrace
9 29 (2.29%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.98%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.66%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.42%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.34%) Okta
14 16 (1.26%) Arista
15 15 (1.19%) Foundry
16 14 (1.11%) Informatica
16 14 (1.11%) Zscaler
17 11 (0.87%) Fortinet
18 9 (0.71%) CyberArk
19 8 (0.63%) New Relic