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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 45 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +41 +2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,307 722 464
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.46% 5.43% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.27% 5.87% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 491 302
10th Percentile £413 £400 £419
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 £651 £675
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 1
10th Percentile - £53.95 -
25th Percentile £61.00 £55.38 £56.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £59.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.08% +3.04% -24.59%
75th Percentile £73.00 £61.63 £58.75
90th Percentile - £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.22 £62.50 £70.69
% change year-on-year +13.94% -11.58% -9.38%

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 17,983 12,296 14,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.49% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,122 9,357
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 £663 £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 340 243 180
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.94 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.38%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £80.13 £64.95 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 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 12 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 +21 145 £583 -6.80% 149
South London +15 35 £535 -4.46% 8
West London -7 18 £725 +70.59% 26
East London +6 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 (4.28%) Confluence
2 50 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.52%) Apache
5 20 (1.53%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.38%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.15%) nginx
8 9 (0.69%) 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 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (0.38%) MS Visio
2 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.077%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.077%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.077%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.077%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 692 (52.95%) AWS
2 660 (50.50%) Azure
3 343 (26.24%) GitHub
4 248 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
5 244 (18.67%) GCP
6 222 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
7 212 (16.22%) Serverless
8 179 (13.70%) Amazon S3
9 153 (11.71%) Amazon EKS
10 144 (11.02%) AWS CloudFormation
11 143 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
12 129 (9.87%) Entra ID
13 127 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 103 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
15 88 (6.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 87 (6.66%) Azure AKS
17 82 (6.27%) Amazon ECS
18 77 (5.89%) Azure Monitor
19 66 (5.05%) dbt
20 61 (4.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 83 (6.35%) Firewall
2 75 (5.74%) DNS
3 55 (4.21%) Network Security
4 54 (4.13%) VPN
5 23 (1.76%) BGP
5 23 (1.76%) WAN
6 22 (1.68%) Internet
7 18 (1.38%) DHCP
7 18 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 15 (1.15%) SSL
9 10 (0.77%) HTTP
10 9 (0.69%) Multicast
10 9 (0.69%) OSPF
11 8 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.61%) NX-OS
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%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
2 84 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (3.83%) Power BI
4 47 (3.60%) MongoDB
4 47 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 39 (2.98%) Delta Lake
6 37 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (2.83%) Metadata
6 37 (2.83%) Redis
7 36 (2.75%) DynamoDB
8 35 (2.68%) MySQL
9 33 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 33 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 28 (2.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (2.07%) BigQuery
13 26 (1.99%) NoSQL
14 17 (1.30%) Big Data
15 16 (1.22%) Relational Database
16 15 (1.15%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 212 (16.22%) GitLab
2 207 (15.84%) Jenkins
3 192 (14.69%) Git
4 64 (4.90%) JIRA
5 19 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 14 (1.07%) Snyk
8 13 (0.99%) Selenium
9 12 (0.92%) Terragrunt
10 10 (0.77%) JMeter
11 9 (0.69%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.69%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.69%) JUnit
11 9 (0.69%) MLflow
11 9 (0.69%) Postman
11 9 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.38%) CircleCI
15 4 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 308 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 249 (19.05%) Finance
3 181 (13.85%) Public Sector
4 99 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
5 80 (6.12%) Banking
6 29 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.53%) Retail
8 14 (1.07%) Law
8 14 (1.07%) Local Government
9 13 (0.99%) Back Office
10 12 (0.92%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (0.84%) Legal
11 11 (0.84%) Military
11 11 (0.84%) Police
12 10 (0.77%) Front Office
12 10 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.69%) Marketing
14 8 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 298 (22.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 213 (16.30%) Senior
3 193 (14.77%) Architect
4 138 (10.56%) Lead
5 126 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
6 122 (9.33%) Azure Engineer
7 117 (8.95%) AWS Engineer
8 109 (8.34%) Platform Engineer
9 94 (7.19%) Data Engineer
10 76 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 74 (5.66%) Developer
12 61 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
12 61 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 58 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 57 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 55 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 52 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
17 46 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 42 (3.21%) GCP Engineer
19 41 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 984 (75.29%) Terraform
2 116 (8.88%) Kafka
3 107 (8.19%) REST
4 57 (4.36%) PySpark
5 54 (4.13%) OAuth
5 54 (4.13%) React
6 52 (3.98%) .NET
7 51 (3.90%) RESTful
8 43 (3.29%) FastAPI
8 43 (3.29%) OpenID
9 41 (3.14%) ARM Templates
10 38 (2.91%) OAuth2
11 34 (2.60%) Spring
11 34 (2.60%) YAML
12 33 (2.52%) Spring Boot
13 31 (2.37%) Node.js
14 30 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
15 26 (1.99%) Flask
16 24 (1.84%) AWS CDK
17 23 (1.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 342 (26.17%) Cloud Native
2 80 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 58 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 55 (4.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 48 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 45 (3.44%) Security Posture
7 41 (3.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 37 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 36 (2.75%) AI Agents
9 36 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
10 32 (2.45%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.45%) Product Ownership
11 30 (2.30%) Replication
12 29 (2.22%) PKI
13 20 (1.53%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.30%) NHS
14 17 (1.30%) Private Cloud
15 15 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 159 (12.17%) Linux
2 107 (8.19%) Windows
3 37 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.61%) Ubuntu
6 19 (1.45%) VMS
7 16 (1.22%) Unix
8 15 (1.15%) macOS
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
1 969 (74.14%) CI/CD
2 783 (59.91%) DevOps
3 353 (27.01%) Observability
4 326 (24.94%) Containerisation
5 312 (23.87%) Agile
6 308 (23.57%) Platform Engineering
7 286 (21.88%) AI
8 207 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
9 201 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 194 (14.84%) Test Automation
11 190 (14.54%) Migration
12 184 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
13 169 (12.93%) Technical Leadership
14 166 (12.70%) Cloud Security
15 164 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 159 (12.17%) Problem-Solving
17 157 (12.01%) Deployment Automation
18 146 (11.17%) Event-Driven
19 143 (10.94%) Microservices
20 142 (10.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 590 (45.14%) Python
2 216 (16.53%) PowerShell
3 212 (16.22%) SQL
4 210 (16.07%) Bash
5 153 (11.71%) Bicep
6 140 (10.71%) Java
7 75 (5.74%) JavaScript
8 74 (5.66%) C#
9 73 (5.59%) TypeScript
10 53 (4.06%) Go
11 26 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.84%) Groovy
13 18 (1.38%) Scala
14 11 (0.84%) 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
1 463 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 412 (31.52%) SC Cleared
3 92 (7.04%) AWS Certification
4 88 (6.73%) Azure Certification
5 65 (4.97%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.98%) Degree
7 38 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 32 (2.45%) CISSP
10 28 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (1.45%) CISM
14 15 (1.15%) CCNP
15 14 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.84%) GIAC
17 9 (0.69%) DBS Check
18 7 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
18 7 (0.54%) Master's Degree
19 6 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.57%) Data Quality
2 56 (4.28%) QA
3 38 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.68%) NIST
5 33 (2.52%) GDPR
6 17 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.30%) NCSC
7 15 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.84%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.077%) PMO
System Software
1 350 (26.78%) Docker
2 65 (4.97%) Active Directory
3 39 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
3 39 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (0.99%) vSphere
6 9 (0.69%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.23%) Squid
11 2 (0.15%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.15%) IAG
11 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.15%) Postfix
12 1 (0.077%) NFS
12 1 (0.077%) Samba
12 1 (0.077%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.077%) zsh
Systems Management
1 521 (39.86%) Kubernetes
2 215 (16.45%) Ansible
3 165 (12.62%) Grafana
4 132 (10.10%) Prometheus
5 33 (2.52%) Argo
5 33 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (2.14%) Puppet
7 20 (1.53%) Kubeflow
8 17 (1.30%) Kibana
9 14 (1.07%) Packer
10 13 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.84%) SCCM
13 10 (0.77%) systemd
14 9 (0.69%) Istio
15 8 (0.61%) Control-M
16 7 (0.54%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.38%) Kustomize
17 5 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 287 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 112 (8.57%) Google
3 102 (7.80%) Databricks
4 78 (5.97%) Splunk
5 60 (4.59%) Oracle
6 55 (4.21%) VMware
7 42 (3.21%) Dynatrace
8 39 (2.98%) Cisco
9 33 (2.52%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.07%) OpenAI
11 20 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 18 (1.38%) Okta
13 17 (1.30%) Foundry
14 15 (1.15%) Informatica
15 14 (1.07%) Zscaler
16 13 (0.99%) Arista
17 12 (0.92%) CyberArk
18 9 (0.69%) AppDynamics
18 9 (0.69%) Juniper