Infrastructure as Code Contracts in London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 104 85
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +3
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 491 393 771
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.91% 2.20% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 2.49% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 278 535
10th Percentile £400 £386 £485
25th Percentile £458 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -10.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £713
90th Percentile £738 £780 £790
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £55.13 £25.80
25th Percentile - £55.31 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.82% -
75th Percentile - £57.81 -
90th Percentile - £58.38 £95.50
England median hourly rate £27.38 £57.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -52.39% -26.28% +52.38%

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +25 72 £575 +4.55% 64
South London +4 8 £523 +39.33% 5
West London +12 6 £475 -9.52% 13
East London +11 1 £630 +17.21% 10
North London - 1 £413 - 1
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 26 (5.30%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.44%) nginx
3 11 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.24%) Confluence
4 7 (1.43%) Apache
5 5 (1.02%) Traefik
6 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.61%) IIS
7 3 (0.61%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) JBoss
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 263 (53.56%) AWS
2 235 (47.86%) Azure
3 96 (19.55%) Serverless
4 93 (18.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 93 (18.94%) Azure DevOps
5 79 (16.09%) GCP
6 77 (15.68%) GitHub
7 62 (12.63%) PaaS
8 53 (10.79%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (9.57%) Amazon S3
9 47 (9.57%) Azure AKS
10 46 (9.37%) IaaS
11 42 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
12 39 (7.94%) Azure Monitor
13 33 (6.72%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (5.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 27 (5.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 66 (13.44%) Firewall
2 51 (10.39%) DNS
3 45 (9.16%) VPN
4 27 (5.50%) TCP/IP
5 17 (3.46%) HTTP
6 16 (3.26%) NGFW
7 15 (3.05%) Network Security
8 11 (2.24%) WAN
9 10 (2.04%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.83%) DHCP
11 7 (1.43%) BGP
11 7 (1.43%) Internet
12 6 (1.22%) MPLS
13 5 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.02%) SAN
14 4 (0.81%) Kerberos
15 3 (0.61%) FTP
15 3 (0.61%) SMTP
15 3 (0.61%) SNMP
15 3 (0.61%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.74%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 25 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 15 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (3.05%) Data Lake
7 15 (3.05%) Power BI
8 13 (2.65%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.44%) Amazon Aurora
9 12 (2.44%) Apache Hive
9 12 (2.44%) Hadoop
10 11 (2.24%) Big Data
11 10 (2.04%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.83%) Apache Iceberg
13 8 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.43%) MongoDB
14 7 (1.43%) Parquet
15 6 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 90 (18.33%) Jenkins
2 85 (17.31%) GitLab
3 52 (10.59%) Git
4 17 (3.46%) JIRA
5 13 (2.65%) CircleCI
6 10 (2.04%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.22%) Terragrunt
9 5 (1.02%) Maven
9 5 (1.02%) Poetry
10 4 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.61%) JMeter
12 1 (0.20%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.20%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.20%) MLflow
12 1 (0.20%) Mocha
12 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.20%) Selenium
12 1 (0.20%) Snyk
General
1 128 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 94 (19.14%) Finance
3 36 (7.33%) Public Sector
4 34 (6.92%) Banking
5 32 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (3.05%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.04%) Marketing
9 7 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.43%) Military
10 6 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.22%) Retail
10 6 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.81%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.61%) Billing
13 3 (0.61%) Legal
14 2 (0.41%) International Banking
14 2 (0.41%) Law
14 2 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 119 (24.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 78 (15.89%) AWS Engineer
3 75 (15.27%) Senior
4 66 (13.44%) Architect
5 65 (13.24%) Azure Engineer
6 51 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 44 (8.96%) Lead
8 42 (8.55%) Developer
9 39 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
10 37 (7.54%) AWS DevOps
11 35 (7.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (6.11%) Data Engineer
13 25 (5.09%) Azure Architect
13 25 (5.09%) Senior DevOps
14 24 (4.89%) Cloud Architect
15 23 (4.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 23 (4.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 20 (4.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 20 (4.07%) Network Engineer
17 19 (3.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (6.72%) ARM Templates
2 30 (6.11%) .NET
2 30 (6.11%) Kafka
3 22 (4.48%) React
4 21 (4.28%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (3.87%) Node.js
6 17 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
7 16 (3.26%) ADO
7 16 (3.26%) AWS CDK
8 15 (3.05%) YAML
9 14 (2.85%) .NET Framework
10 13 (2.65%) Spring
11 11 (2.24%) JSON
12 10 (2.04%) Entity Framework
12 10 (2.04%) REST
12 10 (2.04%) RESTful
13 8 (1.63%) GraphQL
14 7 (1.43%) Keycloak
14 7 (1.43%) PySpark
15 6 (1.22%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 74 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 31 (6.31%) Public Cloud
3 19 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (3.26%) Anti-Spyware
5 14 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.24%) Legacy Applications
7 9 (1.83%) PKI
8 8 (1.63%) Hedge funds
8 8 (1.63%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.63%) Replication
9 7 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.02%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.81%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.31%) Linux
2 27 (5.50%) Windows
3 22 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.05%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.85%) Unix
6 8 (1.63%) VMS
7 6 (1.22%) CentOS
8 3 (0.61%) Rocky
8 3 (0.61%) SUSE
9 2 (0.41%) Solaris
9 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (60.08%) DevOps
2 266 (54.18%) CI/CD
3 151 (30.75%) Containerisation
4 127 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
5 108 (22.00%) Agile
6 81 (16.50%) Migration
7 69 (14.05%) Cloud Security
8 61 (12.42%) Infrastructure Automation
8 61 (12.42%) Microservices
9 60 (12.22%) Configuration Management
10 58 (11.81%) Observability
11 49 (9.98%) Continuous Integration
11 49 (9.98%) High Availability
11 49 (9.98%) Software Engineering
12 45 (9.16%) Analytics
13 44 (8.96%) Mentoring
14 43 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (8.76%) Test Automation
15 41 (8.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 31 (6.31%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 225 (45.82%) Python
2 76 (15.48%) SQL
3 75 (15.27%) PowerShell
4 67 (13.65%) Bash
5 62 (12.63%) Java
6 51 (10.39%) Bicep
7 47 (9.57%) C#
8 43 (8.76%) Go
9 40 (8.15%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.31%) TypeScript
11 11 (2.24%) Kusto Query Language
12 9 (1.83%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.63%) RPG
13 8 (1.63%) RPG IV
13 8 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.43%) Perl
15 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.81%) Ruby
16 4 (0.81%) Scala
17 3 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 90 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 73 (14.87%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 33 (6.72%) Degree
5 18 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.04%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.02%) CISSP
12 4 (0.81%) OCP
12 4 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.61%) CISA
13 3 (0.61%) CISM
13 3 (0.61%) RHCSA
14 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 2 (0.41%) CCIE
14 2 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.07%) GDPR
2 14 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.44%) QA
4 10 (2.04%) NIST
5 8 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.43%) NCSC
7 6 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.81%) SLA
9 3 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.41%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.20%) FedRAMP
11 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 140 (28.51%) Docker
2 26 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.87%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.61%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.61%) iptables
6 2 (0.41%) Lustre
6 2 (0.41%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Ceph
7 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 383 (78.00%) Terraform
2 244 (49.69%) Kubernetes
3 113 (23.01%) Ansible
4 59 (12.02%) Grafana
5 57 (11.61%) Prometheus
6 29 (5.91%) Puppet
7 21 (4.28%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.85%) Rancher
9 11 (2.24%) Argo
9 11 (2.24%) Packer
10 10 (2.04%) Istio
11 9 (1.83%) FortiGate
11 9 (1.83%) ZABBIX
12 8 (1.63%) Podman
12 8 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (1.02%) Consul
14 5 (1.02%) HAProxy
14 5 (1.02%) linkerd
14 5 (1.02%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (13.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.70%) Google
3 26 (5.30%) Databricks
4 25 (5.09%) Splunk
5 22 (4.48%) Palo Alto
6 20 (4.07%) Red Hat
7 18 (3.67%) CheckPoint
8 16 (3.26%) Infoblox
9 15 (3.05%) VMware
10 13 (2.65%) Cloudera
11 12 (2.44%) Oracle
12 11 (2.24%) Cisco
13 9 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 9 (1.83%) ServiceNow
14 7 (1.43%) Salesforce
14 7 (1.43%) SAP
15 6 (1.22%) Okta
16 5 (1.02%) Apple
16 5 (1.02%) ESET
17 4 (0.81%) MicroStrategy