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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 55 104
Rank change year-on-year +21 +49 -9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,084 527 419
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.69% 4.20% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 4.55% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 345 295
10th Percentile £406 £394 £375
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £749
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £58.03 - -
25th Percentile £59.94 - -
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £78.70 £68.44
% change year-on-year -11.05% +15.00% -12.26%

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 16,924 11,578 15,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,273 7,758 11,151
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 212 313
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +19.30% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.85 £50.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +21 140 £563 -10.00% 29
West London -12 18 £625 +26.26% 7
South London +5 15 £523 +10.67%
East London - 5 £512 - 12
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 (4.34%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.04%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (2.95%) Confluence
4 27 (2.49%) Apache
5 13 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.37%) SAS
9 3 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.18%) Camunda
10 2 (0.18%) nginx
10 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.092%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.092%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.092%) Maximo
2 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 587 (54.15%) AWS
2 551 (50.83%) Azure
3 290 (26.75%) GitHub
4 205 (18.91%) Serverless
5 199 (18.36%) GitHub Actions
6 194 (17.90%) Azure DevOps
7 189 (17.44%) GCP
8 169 (15.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 166 (15.31%) Amazon S3
10 143 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
11 102 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
12 91 (8.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 90 (8.30%) Amazon ECS
14 81 (7.47%) Power Platform
15 70 (6.46%) Azure AKS
15 70 (6.46%) Entra ID
16 67 (6.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 60 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (5.26%) PaaS
19 53 (4.89%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 83 (7.66%) Firewall
2 51 (4.70%) Network Security
3 48 (4.43%) DNS
4 35 (3.23%) VPN
5 28 (2.58%) WAN
6 19 (1.75%) BGP
7 12 (1.11%) SSL
8 11 (1.01%) Internet
8 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 11 (1.01%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.92%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.92%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.83%) OSPF
11 8 (0.74%) HTTP
12 7 (0.65%) DHCP
12 7 (0.65%) SAN
12 7 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.65%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.55%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.72%) Amazon Athena
2 59 (5.44%) Data Lake
2 59 (5.44%) Power BI
3 47 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
4 44 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 37 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
7 35 (3.23%) Delta Lake
8 33 (3.04%) SQL Server
9 32 (2.95%) MongoDB
10 31 (2.86%) DynamoDB
11 29 (2.68%) BigQuery
12 26 (2.40%) Redis
13 25 (2.31%) NoSQL
14 22 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
15 17 (1.57%) Metadata
16 16 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
16 16 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (1.48%) Tableau
17 14 (1.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 179 (16.51%) Jenkins
2 160 (14.76%) GitLab
3 152 (14.02%) Git
4 51 (4.70%) JIRA
5 17 (1.57%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.29%) MLflow
6 14 (1.29%) Snyk
7 13 (1.20%) SonarQube
8 10 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.83%) CircleCI
10 8 (0.74%) JMeter
10 8 (0.74%) JUnit
10 8 (0.74%) Mockito
11 6 (0.55%) Postman
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.46%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.46%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 207 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 168 (15.50%) Finance
3 154 (14.21%) Public Sector
4 60 (5.54%) Banking
5 43 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
6 40 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.20%) Law
9 13 (1.20%) Retail
10 11 (1.01%) Legal
10 11 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (0.65%) Telecoms
13 6 (0.55%) Local Government
13 6 (0.55%) Police
14 5 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.46%) Military
14 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 234 (21.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 188 (17.34%) Architect
3 160 (14.76%) Senior
4 128 (11.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 125 (11.53%) Azure Engineer
6 105 (9.69%) Lead
7 100 (9.23%) Data Engineer
8 97 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
9 84 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
10 73 (6.73%) Developer
11 55 (5.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 49 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
13 46 (4.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 46 (4.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 45 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 40 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
16 40 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 36 (3.32%) AWS Architect
17 36 (3.32%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (7.84%) Kafka
2 60 (5.54%) PySpark
3 57 (5.26%) REST
4 53 (4.89%) React
5 52 (4.80%) OAuth
6 51 (4.70%) RESTful
7 46 (4.24%) Node.js
8 41 (3.78%) OpenID
9 39 (3.60%) OAuth2
10 37 (3.41%) ARM Templates
11 36 (3.32%) .NET
12 34 (3.14%) YAML
13 30 (2.77%) Spring
14 28 (2.58%) AngularJS
14 28 (2.58%) Spring Boot
15 27 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
15 27 (2.49%) SAML
16 23 (2.12%) AWS CDK
17 21 (1.94%) FastAPI
18 18 (1.66%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 323 (29.80%) Cloud Native
2 72 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (4.34%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.77%) Data Centre
7 28 (2.58%) Security Posture
8 26 (2.40%) Public Cloud
9 17 (1.57%) Enterprise Cloud
9 17 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 14 (1.29%) AI Agents
12 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.01%) PKI
14 10 (0.92%) Private Cloud
15 9 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (0.74%) Replication
17 7 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.86%) Linux
2 69 (6.37%) Windows
3 22 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.48%) VMS
6 14 (1.29%) Unix
7 12 (1.11%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.55%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Android
10 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.092%) AIX
11 1 (0.092%) Debian
11 1 (0.092%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 826 (76.20%) CI/CD
2 683 (63.01%) DevOps
3 305 (28.14%) Containerisation
4 231 (21.31%) Agile
5 230 (21.22%) Observability
5 230 (21.22%) Platform Engineering
6 210 (19.37%) AI
7 158 (14.58%) Analytics
8 147 (13.56%) Microservices
9 144 (13.28%) Migration
10 143 (13.19%) Test Automation
11 128 (11.81%) Software Engineering
12 124 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 113 (10.42%) Data Modelling
13 113 (10.42%) Mentoring
14 112 (10.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 111 (10.24%) Cloud Security
16 105 (9.69%) Machine Learning
17 103 (9.50%) Event-Driven
18 101 (9.32%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 470 (43.36%) Python
2 195 (17.99%) SQL
3 137 (12.64%) Bash
4 135 (12.45%) PowerShell
5 113 (10.42%) Java
6 104 (9.59%) Bicep
7 59 (5.44%) C#
8 58 (5.35%) TypeScript
9 54 (4.98%) JavaScript
10 39 (3.60%) Go
11 23 (2.12%) Scala
12 17 (1.57%) Ruby
13 16 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.55%) C
14 6 (0.55%) Groovy
15 4 (0.37%) Cypher
15 4 (0.37%) Rust
16 3 (0.28%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.28%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.18%) R
Qualifications
1 404 (37.27%) Security Cleared
2 378 (34.87%) SC Cleared
3 78 (7.20%) Azure Certification
4 56 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 42 (3.87%) Degree
6 40 (3.69%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 17 (1.57%) CISSP
12 16 (1.48%) CCNP
12 16 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (1.11%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.83%) CISM
16 8 (0.74%) GIAC
17 7 (0.65%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.84%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.43%) NIST
3 44 (4.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (3.78%) GDPR
5 36 (3.32%) QA
6 30 (2.77%) NCSC
7 23 (2.12%) PCI DSS
8 16 (1.48%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.74%) SOC 2
10 7 (0.65%) SLA
11 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.37%) COBIT
12 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) GRC
14 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
14 2 (0.18%) ISO 8583
14 2 (0.18%) PSD2
14 2 (0.18%) SEPA
15 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 273 (25.18%) Docker
2 42 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.28%) vSphere
9 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
9 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.092%) Firmware
10 1 (0.092%) Squid
10 1 (0.092%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 837 (77.21%) Terraform
2 405 (37.36%) Kubernetes
3 172 (15.87%) Ansible
4 115 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 108 (9.96%) Grafana
6 24 (2.21%) Puppet
7 21 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.38%) Argo
9 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.01%) Packer
10 10 (0.92%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.74%) Kubeflow
13 6 (0.55%) Istio
13 6 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.46%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.46%) Kibana
14 5 (0.46%) Salt
15 3 (0.28%) systemd
15 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 161 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.21%) Databricks
3 83 (7.66%) Google
4 57 (5.26%) Splunk
5 28 (2.58%) VMware
6 24 (2.21%) Oracle
7 23 (2.12%) Cisco
8 22 (2.03%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 18 (1.66%) OpenAI
11 16 (1.48%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.38%) Fortinet
13 12 (1.11%) Arista
13 12 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.92%) ServiceNow
15 9 (0.83%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.83%) Okta
16 8 (0.74%) Foundry
16 8 (0.74%) Rapid7
16 8 (0.74%) Zscaler