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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 46 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +44 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,301 727 456
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.44% 5.41% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.24% 5.85% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 491 295
10th Percentile £415 £400 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £681
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £53.95 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £59.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.63 -
90th Percentile - £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £62.50 £72.00
% change year-on-year +13.94% -13.19% -5.92%

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 17,972 12,434 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.55% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,197 9,428
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £664 £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 333 243 184
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.01 £24.06
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -16.67% -9.62%
75th Percentile £60.75 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £64.55 £78.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +25 144 £590 -5.60% 143
South London +20 35 £535 -4.46% 6
West London -7 18 £725 +70.59% 29
East London +5 6 £600 - 14
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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 50 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.54%) Apache
5 20 (1.54%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.15%) nginx
8 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.54%) CMS
10 5 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.23%) SAS
13 2 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.15%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.077%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.077%) IIS
14 1 (0.077%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.077%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.077%) Gliffy
3 1 (0.077%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.077%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.077%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 691 (53.11%) AWS
2 656 (50.42%) Azure
3 340 (26.13%) GitHub
4 246 (18.91%) GitHub Actions
5 244 (18.75%) GCP
6 219 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (16.30%) Serverless
8 178 (13.68%) Amazon S3
9 153 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
10 145 (11.15%) AWS CloudFormation
11 143 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
12 127 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 127 (9.76%) Entra ID
13 102 (7.84%) Amazon EC2
14 88 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 85 (6.53%) Azure AKS
16 82 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
17 76 (5.84%) Azure Monitor
18 66 (5.07%) dbt
19 60 (4.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.38%) Firewall
2 72 (5.53%) DNS
3 54 (4.15%) Network Security
3 54 (4.15%) VPN
4 23 (1.77%) WAN
5 22 (1.69%) BGP
6 21 (1.61%) Internet
7 18 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 17 (1.31%) DHCP
9 15 (1.15%) SSL
10 10 (0.77%) HTTP
11 8 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.61%) Multicast
11 8 (0.61%) NX-OS
11 8 (0.61%) OSPF
11 8 (0.61%) VLAN
11 8 (0.61%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.54%) SSH
13 6 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.46%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (3.84%) Power BI
4 47 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 47 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 39 (3.00%) Delta Lake
6 38 (2.92%) Metadata
7 37 (2.84%) Redis
8 36 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
8 36 (2.77%) DynamoDB
9 35 (2.69%) MySQL
10 34 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
11 33 (2.54%) Amazon Aurora
12 31 (2.38%) Data Lake
13 28 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 27 (2.08%) BigQuery
14 27 (2.08%) NoSQL
15 17 (1.31%) Big Data
16 16 (1.23%) Relational Database
17 15 (1.15%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 212 (16.30%) GitLab
2 207 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 192 (14.76%) Git
4 64 (4.92%) JIRA
5 19 (1.46%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 13 (1.00%) Selenium
7 13 (1.00%) Snyk
8 12 (0.92%) Terragrunt
9 10 (0.77%) JMeter
10 9 (0.69%) Artifactory
10 9 (0.69%) JUnit
10 9 (0.69%) MLflow
10 9 (0.69%) Postman
10 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (0.61%) Claude Code
12 7 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.31%) Mockito
General
1 310 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 246 (18.91%) Finance
3 183 (14.07%) Public Sector
4 100 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (5.92%) Banking
6 29 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.54%) Retail
8 14 (1.08%) Law
8 14 (1.08%) Local Government
9 13 (1.00%) Back Office
10 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (0.85%) Legal
11 11 (0.85%) Military
11 11 (0.85%) Police
12 10 (0.77%) Front Office
12 10 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.69%) Marketing
14 8 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 298 (22.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 211 (16.22%) Senior
3 193 (14.83%) Architect
4 136 (10.45%) Lead
5 126 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 121 (9.30%) Azure Engineer
7 115 (8.84%) AWS Engineer
8 107 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
9 95 (7.30%) Data Engineer
10 75 (5.76%) Developer
10 75 (5.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 61 (4.69%) AWS DevOps
11 61 (4.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 58 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
13 57 (4.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 55 (4.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 52 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
16 45 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 42 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
18 40 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 977 (75.10%) Terraform
2 116 (8.92%) Kafka
3 106 (8.15%) REST
4 58 (4.46%) PySpark
5 54 (4.15%) OAuth
5 54 (4.15%) React
6 52 (4.00%) RESTful
7 50 (3.84%) .NET
8 43 (3.31%) FastAPI
9 42 (3.23%) OpenID
10 41 (3.15%) ARM Templates
11 38 (2.92%) OAuth2
12 34 (2.61%) Spring
12 34 (2.61%) YAML
13 33 (2.54%) Spring Boot
14 32 (2.46%) Node.js
15 30 (2.31%) Elastic Stack
16 26 (2.00%) Flask
17 24 (1.84%) AWS CDK
18 23 (1.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 344 (26.44%) Cloud Native
2 81 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (4.53%) Onboarding
4 54 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 47 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
6 44 (3.38%) Security Posture
7 41 (3.15%) Enterprise Cloud
8 36 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.77%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.61%) AI Agents
10 33 (2.54%) Product Ownership
11 31 (2.38%) Data Centre
12 30 (2.31%) Replication
13 29 (2.23%) PKI
14 20 (1.54%) Management Information System
15 17 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.31%) NHS
15 17 (1.31%) Private Cloud
16 15 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 159 (12.22%) Linux
2 106 (8.15%) Windows
3 36 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.46%) VMS
7 16 (1.23%) Unix
8 15 (1.15%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
11 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.23%) CentOS
13 2 (0.15%) Android
13 2 (0.15%) Windows 10
14 1 (0.077%) AIX
14 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.077%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 963 (74.02%) CI/CD
2 780 (59.95%) DevOps
3 351 (26.98%) Observability
4 325 (24.98%) Containerisation
5 314 (24.14%) Agile
6 306 (23.52%) Platform Engineering
7 283 (21.75%) AI
8 207 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
9 199 (15.30%) Software Engineering
10 195 (14.99%) Test Automation
11 189 (14.53%) Migration
12 182 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 168 (12.91%) Technical Leadership
14 165 (12.68%) Cloud Security
15 163 (12.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 159 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
17 158 (12.14%) Deployment Automation
18 147 (11.30%) Event-Driven
19 144 (11.07%) Microservices
20 143 (10.99%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 587 (45.12%) Python
2 213 (16.37%) PowerShell
3 212 (16.30%) SQL
4 210 (16.14%) Bash
5 150 (11.53%) Bicep
6 140 (10.76%) Java
7 75 (5.76%) JavaScript
8 74 (5.69%) C#
9 71 (5.46%) TypeScript
10 53 (4.07%) Go
11 26 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.84%) Groovy
13 18 (1.38%) Scala
14 11 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.61%) Korn
16 7 (0.54%) Perl
17 6 (0.46%) C++
18 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 5 (0.38%) Kotlin
19 4 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 461 (35.43%) Security Cleared
2 411 (31.59%) SC Cleared
3 92 (7.07%) AWS Certification
4 88 (6.76%) Azure Certification
5 64 (4.92%) DV Cleared
6 52 (4.00%) Degree
7 37 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 37 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.46%) CISSP
9 28 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.46%) CISM
13 15 (1.15%) CCNP
14 14 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.85%) GIAC
16 9 (0.69%) DBS Check
17 7 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 6 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 56 (4.30%) QA
3 38 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.69%) NIST
5 33 (2.54%) GDPR
6 17 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.31%) NCSC
7 14 (1.08%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.31%) WCAG
10 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.23%) COBIT
10 3 (0.23%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.23%) SLA
11 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.077%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.077%) SEPA
System Software
1 347 (26.67%) Docker
2 64 (4.92%) Active Directory
3 39 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
4 38 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 29 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.92%) vSphere
7 9 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 8 (0.61%) VMware NSX
9 6 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.23%) Squid
12 2 (0.15%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.15%) IAG
12 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.15%) Postfix
13 1 (0.077%) NFS
13 1 (0.077%) Samba
13 1 (0.077%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.077%) zsh
Systems Management
1 516 (39.66%) Kubernetes
2 213 (16.37%) Ansible
3 165 (12.68%) Grafana
4 132 (10.15%) Prometheus
5 33 (2.54%) Argo
6 32 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (2.15%) Puppet
8 20 (1.54%) Kubeflow
9 17 (1.31%) Kibana
10 14 (1.08%) Packer
11 13 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
13 11 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.77%) SCCM
14 10 (0.77%) systemd
15 9 (0.69%) Istio
16 8 (0.61%) Control-M
17 7 (0.54%) vCenter Server
18 5 (0.38%) Kustomize
18 5 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 282 (21.68%) Microsoft
2 111 (8.53%) Google
3 102 (7.84%) Databricks
4 78 (6.00%) Splunk
5 58 (4.46%) Oracle
6 54 (4.15%) VMware
7 42 (3.23%) Dynatrace
8 39 (3.00%) Cisco
9 33 (2.54%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.92%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 18 (1.38%) Okta
13 15 (1.15%) Foundry
13 15 (1.15%) Informatica
14 14 (1.08%) Zscaler
15 13 (1.00%) Arista
16 12 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.69%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.69%) Juniper