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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 56 100
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 -7
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,093 598 434
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.63% 4.50% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 4.88% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 382 305
10th Percentile £413 £390 £376
25th Percentile £463 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £740 £750 £749
England median daily rate £550 £544 £550
% change year-on-year +1.10% -1.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £58.03 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £59.94 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.50 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.73% -35.29%
75th Percentile £73.94 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £75.63 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £68.44
% change year-on-year +12.00% -8.68% -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 17,258 12,248 15,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.20% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,469 8,175 11,086
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.84% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 229 294
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +8.33% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -3.62%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +17 131 £575 -8.00% 87
West London -8 18 £625 +26.26% 12
South London +2 13 £503 +1.52%
East London +2 5 £512 - 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 (4.03%) Apache Spark
2 38 (3.48%) Confluence
3 33 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.56%) Apache
5 13 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.01%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.37%) SAS
10 3 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
11 2 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.091%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.091%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.091%) Maximo
2 1 (0.091%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.091%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 589 (53.89%) AWS
2 553 (50.59%) Azure
3 294 (26.90%) GitHub
4 206 (18.85%) GitHub Actions
5 198 (18.12%) Serverless
6 196 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
7 191 (17.47%) GCP
8 168 (15.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 167 (15.28%) Amazon S3
10 134 (12.26%) AWS Lambda
11 108 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
12 88 (8.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 87 (7.96%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (6.77%) Azure AKS
15 73 (6.68%) Power Platform
16 72 (6.59%) Entra ID
17 64 (5.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 61 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
19 57 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.95%) Firewall
2 47 (4.30%) DNS
2 47 (4.30%) Network Security
3 37 (3.39%) VPN
4 29 (2.65%) WAN
5 19 (1.74%) BGP
6 12 (1.10%) SSL
6 12 (1.10%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.01%) Internet
7 11 (1.01%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (0.91%) IOS XR
8 10 (0.91%) NX-OS
9 9 (0.82%) OSPF
10 8 (0.73%) HTTP
11 7 (0.64%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.55%) NAS
12 6 (0.55%) SAN
13 5 (0.46%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.49%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (5.22%) Data Lake
3 54 (4.94%) Power BI
4 46 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (3.39%) Delta Lake
8 35 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (3.02%) MongoDB
9 33 (3.02%) SQL Server
10 29 (2.65%) BigQuery
11 28 (2.56%) DynamoDB
12 23 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 23 (2.10%) NoSQL
13 21 (1.92%) Redis
14 19 (1.74%) Metadata
15 16 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (1.37%) Tableau
17 13 (1.19%) Big Data
18 12 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 179 (16.38%) Jenkins
2 160 (14.64%) GitLab
3 157 (14.36%) Git
4 55 (5.03%) JIRA
5 15 (1.37%) Artifactory
6 14 (1.28%) Snyk
7 13 (1.19%) MLflow
7 13 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.01%) Bitbucket
9 10 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.91%) JUnit
10 8 (0.73%) JMeter
10 8 (0.73%) Mockito
11 6 (0.55%) Postman
12 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.37%) git-flow
13 4 (0.37%) Terragrunt
13 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 217 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 186 (17.02%) Finance
3 155 (14.18%) Public Sector
4 63 (5.76%) Banking
5 53 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.19%) Law
9 13 (1.19%) Retail
10 11 (1.01%) Legal
11 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
13 7 (0.64%) Local Government
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 5 (0.46%) Front Office
15 5 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 232 (21.23%) DevOps Engineer
2 189 (17.29%) Architect
3 166 (15.19%) Senior
4 124 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
5 120 (10.98%) Lead
6 117 (10.70%) Azure Engineer
7 101 (9.24%) Data Engineer
8 96 (8.78%) AWS Engineer
9 82 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
10 71 (6.50%) Developer
11 58 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 48 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
13 45 (4.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 45 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 43 (3.93%) Senior DevOps
14 43 (3.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 41 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 37 (3.39%) GCP Engineer
17 34 (3.11%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (7.04%) Kafka
2 64 (5.86%) PySpark
3 63 (5.76%) REST
4 49 (4.48%) RESTful
5 48 (4.39%) Node.js
6 45 (4.12%) OAuth
7 44 (4.03%) React
8 40 (3.66%) .NET
9 36 (3.29%) OpenID
10 35 (3.20%) OAuth2
11 30 (2.74%) ARM Templates
11 30 (2.74%) YAML
12 27 (2.47%) Spring
13 26 (2.38%) AngularJS
13 26 (2.38%) SAML
14 24 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
14 24 (2.20%) Spring Boot
15 23 (2.10%) AWS CDK
16 22 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.65%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 325 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 75 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.11%) Security Posture
5 33 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 31 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 30 (2.74%) Data Centre
8 21 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.74%) Enterprise Cloud
10 17 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.01%) PKI
15 11 (1.01%) Private Cloud
15 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.61%) Linux
2 73 (6.68%) Windows
3 22 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (2.01%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.46%) Unix
5 13 (1.19%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.64%) VMS
8 4 (0.37%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.18%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.18%) Android
9 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.091%) AIX
10 1 (0.091%) Debian
10 1 (0.091%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.091%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 838 (76.67%) CI/CD
2 686 (62.76%) DevOps
3 311 (28.45%) Containerisation
4 237 (21.68%) Agile
4 237 (21.68%) Platform Engineering
5 226 (20.68%) Observability
6 202 (18.48%) AI
7 156 (14.27%) Analytics
8 148 (13.54%) Test Automation
9 141 (12.90%) Migration
10 135 (12.35%) Microservices
11 130 (11.89%) Software Engineering
12 127 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (10.89%) Cloud Security
14 118 (10.80%) Mentoring
15 110 (10.06%) Data Modelling
16 107 (9.79%) Data Engineering
17 106 (9.70%) Machine Learning
18 105 (9.61%) Event-Driven
18 105 (9.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 481 (44.01%) Python
2 187 (17.11%) SQL
3 158 (14.46%) Bash
4 149 (13.63%) PowerShell
5 115 (10.52%) Java
6 111 (10.16%) Bicep
7 64 (5.86%) C#
8 59 (5.40%) TypeScript
9 52 (4.76%) JavaScript
10 40 (3.66%) Go
11 22 (2.01%) Scala
12 17 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.46%) Ruby
14 7 (0.64%) Groovy
15 6 (0.55%) C
16 4 (0.37%) Cypher
17 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.27%) SAS Macro
18 2 (0.18%) Korn
18 2 (0.18%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 407 (37.24%) Security Cleared
2 383 (35.04%) SC Cleared
3 73 (6.68%) Azure Certification
4 52 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 44 (4.03%) Degree
6 42 (3.84%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (1.56%) CISSP
10 17 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (1.46%) CCNP
12 13 (1.19%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.82%) CISM
14 8 (0.73%) GIAC
14 8 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
15 7 (0.64%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.12%) NIST
3 41 (3.75%) GDPR
3 41 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 33 (3.02%) NCSC
5 31 (2.84%) QA
6 20 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 19 (1.74%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.73%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.46%) SLA
10 4 (0.37%) COBIT
10 4 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.27%) GRC
12 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.091%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.091%) NIST 800
System Software
1 281 (25.71%) Docker
2 40 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.091%) NFS
11 1 (0.091%) Samba
11 1 (0.091%) Squid
11 1 (0.091%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 853 (78.04%) Terraform
2 422 (38.61%) Kubernetes
3 168 (15.37%) Ansible
4 116 (10.61%) Grafana
4 116 (10.61%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.47%) Puppet
6 22 (2.01%) Argo
7 16 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (1.10%) Packer
9 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (1.01%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.73%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.55%) Istio
13 5 (0.46%) Kibana
13 5 (0.46%) Salt
13 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.27%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
14 3 (0.27%) systemd
Vendors
1 168 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.14%) Databricks
3 79 (7.23%) Google
4 62 (5.67%) Splunk
5 34 (3.11%) Oracle
6 31 (2.84%) VMware
7 23 (2.10%) Cisco
8 21 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.83%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.74%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.65%) CyberArk
12 14 (1.28%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.19%) Okta
14 12 (1.10%) Arista
14 12 (1.10%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.01%) Foundry
16 10 (0.91%) Informatica
16 10 (0.91%) Zscaler
17 9 (0.82%) AppDynamics