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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 61 94
Rank change year-on-year +23 +33 -4
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 903 482 435
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 3.77% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 4.14% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 327 314
10th Percentile £389 £400 £400
25th Percentile £456 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -9.45%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £738 £779
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £67.98 - £57.00
25th Percentile £68.69 £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate £72.25 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% -4.17% -29.41%
75th Percentile £75.69 £58.75 -
90th Percentile £76.33 - -
England median hourly rate £74.75 £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +75.88% -32.00% +6.84%

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 14,757 11,654 16,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.76% 91.18% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,899 7,809 11,494
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 162 342
10th Percentile £18.13 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £71.75 £77.25 £69.43
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 +24 126 £550 - 91
West London +11 35 £603 +26.84% 7
South London 0 22 £530 +1.44% 1
East London -1 3 £562 -3.93% 8
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 44 (4.87%) Apache Spark
2 31 (3.43%) Apache
2 31 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (1.99%) Confluence
4 5 (0.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.44%) SAS
6 3 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.33%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.33%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.22%) Camunda
7 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.11%) FileNet
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.11%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.11%) Actimize
2 1 (0.11%) Maximo
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 476 (52.71%) AWS
2 454 (50.28%) Azure
3 252 (27.91%) GitHub
4 180 (19.93%) AWS CloudFormation
5 176 (19.49%) GCP
6 172 (19.05%) Serverless
7 162 (17.94%) Azure DevOps
8 160 (17.72%) GitHub Actions
9 143 (15.84%) Amazon S3
10 117 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (10.08%) Amazon EKS
12 86 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
13 70 (7.75%) Power Platform
14 69 (7.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 57 (6.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 54 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
16 54 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 53 (5.87%) Azure AKS
18 51 (5.65%) Azure Monitor
19 47 (5.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 75 (8.31%) Firewall
2 43 (4.76%) Network Security
3 36 (3.99%) DNS
4 31 (3.43%) VPN
5 18 (1.99%) WAN
6 15 (1.66%) SD-WAN
6 15 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 12 (1.33%) BGP
8 9 (1.00%) OSPF
8 9 (1.00%) Software-Defined Networking
9 8 (0.89%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.66%) Multicast
11 5 (0.55%) DHCP
11 5 (0.55%) MPLS
11 5 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.44%) LAN
12 4 (0.44%) tcpdump
12 4 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (7.86%) Data Lake
2 51 (5.65%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (5.65%) Power BI
3 46 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (4.98%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (4.21%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 31 (3.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 31 (3.43%) SQL Server
8 30 (3.32%) BigQuery
9 28 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 25 (2.77%) Delta Lake
11 24 (2.66%) Redis
12 20 (2.21%) MongoDB
12 20 (2.21%) NoSQL
13 19 (2.10%) OLTP
14 18 (1.99%) Mixpanel
15 17 (1.88%) OLAP
16 15 (1.66%) MySQL
17 14 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 158 (17.50%) Jenkins
2 121 (13.40%) GitLab
3 109 (12.07%) Git
4 31 (3.43%) JIRA
5 20 (2.21%) Artifactory
6 15 (1.66%) MLflow
7 7 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (0.78%) Terragrunt
8 6 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.66%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.55%) Snyk
9 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.44%) IBM UrbanCode
10 4 (0.44%) JUnit
10 4 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.33%) git-flow
11 3 (0.33%) Mockito
11 3 (0.33%) RStudio
General
1 189 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 141 (15.61%) Finance
3 120 (13.29%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.43%) Banking
5 47 (5.20%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.55%) Retail
9 12 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.00%) Front Office
10 9 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.89%) Legal
12 6 (0.66%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.44%) Marketing
14 4 (0.44%) Military
15 3 (0.33%) Electronics
15 3 (0.33%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 162 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 144 (15.95%) Senior
3 126 (13.95%) Architect
4 100 (11.07%) Azure Engineer
5 98 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 98 (10.85%) Data Engineer
6 83 (9.19%) Lead
7 78 (8.64%) Developer
8 73 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
9 68 (7.53%) AWS Engineer
10 37 (4.10%) Security Engineer
10 37 (4.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 35 (3.88%) GCP Engineer
12 34 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
13 33 (3.65%) Software Engineer
14 30 (3.32%) Cloud Architect
14 30 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 29 (3.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (3.21%) Site Engineer
16 28 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (10.85%) Kafka
2 71 (7.86%) Node.js
3 48 (5.32%) React
4 45 (4.98%) PySpark
5 43 (4.76%) OAuth
6 42 (4.65%) REST
7 39 (4.32%) .NET
8 37 (4.10%) ARM Templates
9 35 (3.88%) AngularJS
9 35 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 35 (3.88%) YAML
10 34 (3.77%) Spring
11 32 (3.54%) RESTful
12 29 (3.21%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.10%) OpenID
14 27 (2.99%) Playwright
15 25 (2.77%) AWS CDK
16 24 (2.66%) GraphQL
17 21 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
17 21 (2.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 245 (27.13%) Cloud Native
2 55 (6.09%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (3.43%) Onboarding
4 29 (3.21%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 25 (2.77%) Product Ownership
7 23 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.21%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.66%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.11%) Replication
12 9 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.00%) Management Information System
13 8 (0.89%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
14 7 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
15 6 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 84 (9.30%) Linux
2 41 (4.54%) Windows
3 22 (2.44%) VMS
4 13 (1.44%) Unix
5 8 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.22%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.11%) Android
8 1 (0.11%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (75.19%) CI/CD
2 548 (60.69%) DevOps
3 245 (27.13%) Containerisation
4 206 (22.81%) Observability
5 191 (21.15%) Agile
6 162 (17.94%) Analytics
7 160 (17.72%) AI
8 137 (15.17%) Platform Engineering
9 130 (14.40%) Migration
10 120 (13.29%) Microservices
11 107 (11.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 107 (11.85%) Data Modelling
11 107 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 105 (11.63%) Software Engineering
13 103 (11.41%) Cloud Security
14 102 (11.30%) Test Automation
15 100 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
16 98 (10.85%) Data Engineering
17 97 (10.74%) Mentoring
18 90 (9.97%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 418 (46.29%) Python
2 192 (21.26%) SQL
3 110 (12.18%) Bash
4 108 (11.96%) Java
5 94 (10.41%) PowerShell
6 68 (7.53%) Bicep
7 57 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 45 (4.98%) C#
9 38 (4.21%) Go
9 38 (4.21%) JavaScript
10 21 (2.33%) Scala
11 19 (2.10%) Ruby
12 11 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.78%) C
14 5 (0.55%) C++
14 5 (0.55%) Rust
15 4 (0.44%) Groovy
15 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.33%) Cypher
16 3 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 289 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 270 (29.90%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.31%) Azure Certification
4 59 (6.53%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.10%) Degree
6 31 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.21%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 17 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.33%) CISSP
10 12 (1.33%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
12 9 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 9 (1.00%) CCNP
12 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) CCSP
15 5 (0.55%) CCIE
15 5 (0.55%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 58 (6.42%) GDPR
3 45 (4.98%) NIST
4 35 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.65%) QA
6 26 (2.88%) NCSC
7 21 (2.33%) PCI DSS
8 11 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.22%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.66%) SLA
10 3 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.33%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.22%) FedRAMP
11 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 2 (0.22%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.22%) PSD2
11 2 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.22%) SEPA
System Software
1 253 (28.02%) Docker
2 31 (3.43%) Active Directory
2 31 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.11%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.55%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.44%) vSphere
8 3 (0.33%) Squid
9 2 (0.22%) Snort
10 1 (0.11%) Firmware
10 1 (0.11%) GPFS
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) Lustre
10 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 695 (76.97%) Terraform
2 311 (34.44%) Kubernetes
3 135 (14.95%) Ansible
4 94 (10.41%) Grafana
5 91 (10.08%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.66%) Argo
7 18 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.66%) Puppet
9 14 (1.55%) Istio
10 10 (1.11%) Rancher
11 8 (0.89%) ITRS Geneos
12 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.78%) Kibana
12 7 (0.78%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.55%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.55%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
14 4 (0.44%) Opsgenie
15 3 (0.33%) Packer
15 3 (0.33%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 143 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 87 (9.63%) Databricks
3 86 (9.52%) Google
4 46 (5.09%) Splunk
5 19 (2.10%) VMware
6 15 (1.66%) Cisco
7 14 (1.55%) Dynatrace
7 14 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.44%) CyberArk
8 13 (1.44%) Oracle
9 11 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.11%) Fortinet
10 10 (1.11%) PagerDuty
11 8 (0.89%) IBM
11 8 (0.89%) Qualys
12 7 (0.78%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.78%) Solace
13 6 (0.66%) New Relic
13 6 (0.66%) Rapid7
13 6 (0.66%) Salesforce