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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 62 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 +44 -16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 955 495 399
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.48% 3.89% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.17% 4.24% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 337 282
10th Percentile £400 £400 £385
25th Percentile £455 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £666
90th Percentile £750 £738 £780
England median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £58.03 - £55.38
25th Percentile £59.94 - £55.94
Median hourly rate £68.50 - £58.75
75th Percentile £73.94 - £60.00
90th Percentile £75.63 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £27.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +143.64% -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 15,485 11,688 15,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 91.95% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,369 7,938 11,291
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £757 £802 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 334
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.94
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.13 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +24 136 £550 -4.35% 89
West London +4 35 £603 +26.84% 12
South London -2 21 £530 +1.44%
East London -2 4 £562 -3.93% 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 (5.86%) Apache Spark
2 38 (3.98%) Apache
2 38 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (2.20%) Confluence
4 6 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.52%) SAS
6 4 (0.42%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.21%) Apache Synapse
8 2 (0.21%) Camunda
8 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.10%) CMS
9 1 (0.10%) FileNet
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.10%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.10%) Actimize
2 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.10%) Maximo
2 1 (0.10%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 514 (53.82%) AWS
2 480 (50.26%) Azure
3 259 (27.12%) GitHub
4 191 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 188 (19.69%) Serverless
6 177 (18.53%) GCP
7 169 (17.70%) Azure DevOps
8 168 (17.59%) GitHub Actions
9 164 (17.17%) Amazon S3
10 135 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (9.95%) Amazon ECS
12 85 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
13 73 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 73 (7.64%) Power Platform
14 62 (6.49%) Azure AKS
15 56 (5.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 55 (5.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 52 (5.45%) Amazon EC2
18 51 (5.34%) Azure Data Factory
18 51 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 72 (7.54%) Firewall
2 40 (4.19%) Network Security
3 37 (3.87%) DNS
4 24 (2.51%) VPN
5 17 (1.78%) WAN
6 15 (1.57%) BGP
7 10 (1.05%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.94%) OSPF
8 9 (0.94%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
10 7 (0.73%) IOS XR
10 7 (0.73%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (0.73%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.52%) MPLS
11 5 (0.52%) SAN
12 4 (0.42%) DHCP
12 4 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.33%) Data Lake
2 62 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (5.34%) Power BI
4 49 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
4 49 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
6 39 (4.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 35 (3.66%) BigQuery
8 32 (3.35%) DynamoDB
8 32 (3.35%) SQL Server
9 31 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (2.83%) NoSQL
11 26 (2.72%) Delta Lake
12 25 (2.62%) MongoDB
13 21 (2.20%) OLTP
14 20 (2.09%) Redis
14 20 (2.09%) Tableau
15 18 (1.88%) Amazon Aurora
15 18 (1.88%) Mixpanel
16 17 (1.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 161 (16.86%) Jenkins
2 132 (13.82%) Git
3 127 (13.30%) GitLab
4 34 (3.56%) JIRA
5 23 (2.41%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.47%) MLflow
7 10 (1.05%) CircleCI
7 10 (1.05%) Snyk
8 9 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.73%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.63%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.63%) JUnit
11 5 (0.52%) Mockito
11 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.42%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.31%) git-flow
13 3 (0.31%) Liquibase
General
1 189 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 145 (15.18%) Finance
3 131 (13.72%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.13%) Banking
5 47 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
6 38 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (1.36%) Retail
9 12 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.05%) Legal
11 6 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 6 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.52%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.52%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.42%) Front Office
13 4 (0.42%) Games
13 4 (0.42%) Law
13 4 (0.42%) Marketing
13 4 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 169 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 150 (15.71%) Architect
3 146 (15.29%) Senior
4 110 (11.52%) Azure Engineer
5 107 (11.20%) Data Engineer
6 106 (11.10%) Cloud Engineer
7 94 (9.84%) Developer
7 94 (9.84%) Lead
8 73 (7.64%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (7.43%) Platform Engineer
10 38 (3.98%) AWS DevOps
10 38 (3.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 34 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
12 33 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 33 (3.46%) Software Engineer
13 32 (3.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (3.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.25%) Site Engineer
15 29 (3.04%) Cloud Architect
15 29 (3.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.37%) Kafka
2 74 (7.75%) Node.js
3 52 (5.45%) PySpark
4 51 (5.34%) React
5 47 (4.92%) RESTful
6 46 (4.82%) REST
7 43 (4.50%) OAuth
8 42 (4.40%) .NET
9 41 (4.29%) Spring
10 37 (3.87%) AngularJS
10 37 (3.87%) ARM Templates
10 37 (3.87%) YAML
11 36 (3.77%) OpenTelemetry
11 36 (3.77%) Spring Boot
12 28 (2.93%) AWS CDK
12 28 (2.93%) OpenID
13 25 (2.62%) Playwright
14 24 (2.51%) Great Expectations
15 22 (2.30%) GraphQL
16 21 (2.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 269 (28.17%) Cloud Native
2 65 (6.81%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 36 (3.77%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (2.72%) Data Centre
7 22 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.20%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.26%) Private Cloud
12 9 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.73%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.73%) Replication
14 7 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 91 (9.53%) Linux
2 39 (4.08%) Windows
3 19 (1.99%) VMS
4 14 (1.47%) Unix
5 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) zOS
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.10%) Android
9 1 (0.10%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 734 (76.86%) CI/CD
2 583 (61.05%) DevOps
3 262 (27.43%) Containerisation
4 220 (23.04%) Agile
5 214 (22.41%) Observability
6 177 (18.53%) AI
7 176 (18.43%) Analytics
8 152 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
9 147 (15.39%) Microservices
10 142 (14.87%) Migration
11 122 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 119 (12.46%) Data Modelling
13 118 (12.36%) Software Engineering
14 111 (11.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 109 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 109 (11.41%) Mentoring
16 101 (10.58%) Data Engineering
16 101 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
17 93 (9.74%) Cloud Security
17 93 (9.74%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 429 (44.92%) Python
2 208 (21.78%) SQL
3 117 (12.25%) Java
4 105 (10.99%) Bash
5 97 (10.16%) PowerShell
6 77 (8.06%) Bicep
7 59 (6.18%) TypeScript
8 52 (5.45%) C#
9 49 (5.13%) JavaScript
10 36 (3.77%) Go
11 29 (3.04%) Scala
12 25 (2.62%) Ruby
13 14 (1.47%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.63%) C
15 4 (0.42%) Rust
16 3 (0.31%) Cypher
16 3 (0.31%) Groovy
16 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 335 (35.08%) Security Cleared
2 317 (33.19%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.54%) Azure Certification
4 58 (6.07%) AWS Certification
5 39 (4.08%) Degree
6 35 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (2.62%) DV Cleared
8 23 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 19 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (1.26%) CCNP
10 12 (1.26%) CISSP
11 11 (1.15%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 10 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.63%) CCSP
15 5 (0.52%) CCIE
15 5 (0.52%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (8.69%) Data Quality
2 50 (5.24%) GDPR
3 42 (4.40%) NIST
4 39 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.66%) QA
6 28 (2.93%) NCSC
7 22 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.15%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.73%) SLA
10 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.31%) GRC
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) COBIT
13 2 (0.21%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.21%) ISO 8583
13 2 (0.21%) PSD2
13 2 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 263 (27.54%) Docker
2 33 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.31%) Squid
7 3 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.31%) vSphere
8 2 (0.21%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.10%) Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) GPFS
9 1 (0.10%) HDFS
9 1 (0.10%) Lustre
9 1 (0.10%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.10%) Snort
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 733 (76.75%) Terraform
2 332 (34.76%) Kubernetes
3 132 (13.82%) Ansible
4 91 (9.53%) Grafana
5 88 (9.21%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.41%) Puppet
7 22 (2.30%) Argo
8 18 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.36%) Istio
10 11 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.05%) Kibana
12 8 (0.84%) Rancher
13 7 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.63%) Packer
15 4 (0.42%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.42%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.42%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.42%) Salt
16 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 151 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.42%) Databricks
3 85 (8.90%) Google
4 50 (5.24%) Splunk
5 20 (2.09%) Oracle
6 17 (1.78%) VMware
7 15 (1.57%) Cisco
8 14 (1.47%) CyberArk
9 12 (1.26%) Dynatrace
9 12 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.05%) PagerDuty
11 9 (0.94%) Arista
11 9 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 9 (0.94%) Palo Alto
12 8 (0.84%) IBM
12 8 (0.84%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.73%) Qualys
13 7 (0.73%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.73%) Salesforce
14 6 (0.63%) Rapid7