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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 48 88
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -2
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,257 681 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.21% 5.06% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.99% 5.47% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 462 297
10th Percentile £415 £396 £413
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.18% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £655 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £57.18 £53.95 -
25th Percentile £57.81 £55.38 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £59.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +7.73% -27.87%
75th Percentile £69.81 £61.63 -
90th Percentile £71.73 £62.15 -
England median hourly rate £71.00 £62.50 £69.38
% change year-on-year +13.60% -9.91% -11.06%

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 17,985 12,452 14,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.52% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,227 9,667
10th Percentile £360 £331 £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 £675 £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 306 252 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.13% -10.01% -7.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 20 September 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 +18 144 £590 -5.60% 119
South London +22 34 £535 -13.71% 7
West London -20 13 £725 +70.59% 34
East London +5 7 £588 - 18
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 57 (4.53%) Confluence
2 50 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 47 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (2.70%) Apache
5 20 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.72%) nginx
8 8 (0.64%) CMS
9 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.24%) SAS
13 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
13 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
14 1 (0.080%) Apache Synapse
14 1 (0.080%) Headless CMS
14 1 (0.080%) IIS
14 1 (0.080%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.080%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 4 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.080%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.080%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.080%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 667 (53.06%) AWS
2 627 (49.88%) Azure
3 331 (26.33%) GitHub
4 244 (19.41%) GitHub Actions
5 235 (18.70%) GCP
6 217 (17.26%) Azure DevOps
7 211 (16.79%) Serverless
8 179 (14.24%) Amazon S3
9 148 (11.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 148 (11.77%) AWS Lambda
10 136 (10.82%) Amazon EKS
11 121 (9.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 113 (8.99%) Entra ID
13 97 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
14 83 (6.60%) Azure AKS
14 83 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 77 (6.13%) Amazon ECS
16 69 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
17 65 (5.17%) dbt
18 57 (4.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 81 (6.44%) Firewall
2 58 (4.61%) DNS
3 47 (3.74%) Network Security
4 46 (3.66%) VPN
5 27 (2.15%) WAN
6 20 (1.59%) BGP
7 14 (1.11%) Internet
7 14 (1.11%) TCP/IP
8 13 (1.03%) DHCP
8 13 (1.03%) SSL
9 10 (0.80%) HTTP
9 10 (0.80%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.72%) SSH
11 8 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (0.56%) IOS XR
12 7 (0.56%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.56%) VLAN
13 6 (0.48%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (5.73%) Amazon RDS
3 47 (3.74%) Power BI
4 46 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (3.50%) MongoDB
6 39 (3.10%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 36 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.86%) Delta Lake
7 36 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 34 (2.70%) Redis
9 32 (2.55%) Metadata
10 31 (2.47%) MySQL
11 30 (2.39%) BigQuery
12 29 (2.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 29 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 29 (2.31%) NoSQL
13 16 (1.27%) Big Data
14 14 (1.11%) Relational Database
15 13 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 203 (16.15%) GitLab
2 200 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 188 (14.96%) Git
4 66 (5.25%) JIRA
5 21 (1.67%) SonarQube
6 19 (1.51%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.27%) Snyk
8 12 (0.95%) Selenium
8 12 (0.95%) Terragrunt
9 11 (0.88%) JUnit
10 10 (0.80%) Artifactory
11 9 (0.72%) JMeter
11 9 (0.72%) MLflow
12 8 (0.64%) Postman
13 7 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (0.56%) CircleCI
13 7 (0.56%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.48%) Mockito
14 6 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
15 5 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 296 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 225 (17.90%) Finance
3 174 (13.84%) Public Sector
4 89 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (5.81%) Banking
6 32 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 21 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.59%) Retail
9 14 (1.11%) Law
10 13 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.03%) Local Government
11 12 (0.95%) Military
12 11 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.80%) Front Office
13 10 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.72%) Back Office
14 9 (0.72%) Legal
14 9 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.56%) Police
16 6 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (22.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 197 (15.67%) Senior
3 196 (15.59%) Architect
4 135 (10.74%) Lead
5 126 (10.02%) Azure Engineer
6 122 (9.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 111 (8.83%) AWS Engineer
8 109 (8.67%) Platform Engineer
9 98 (7.80%) Data Engineer
10 82 (6.52%) Developer
11 69 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (4.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 58 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
14 54 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 52 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
16 49 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
17 48 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 47 (3.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 41 (3.26%) GCP Engineer
20 39 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 952 (75.74%) Terraform
2 106 (8.43%) Kafka
3 86 (6.84%) REST
4 64 (5.09%) PySpark
5 58 (4.61%) RESTful
6 49 (3.90%) React
7 43 (3.42%) .NET
8 42 (3.34%) ARM Templates
8 42 (3.34%) OAuth
9 38 (3.02%) Node.js
10 37 (2.94%) FastAPI
11 36 (2.86%) YAML
12 34 (2.70%) OAuth2
13 33 (2.63%) Spring
14 32 (2.55%) OpenID
14 32 (2.55%) Spring Boot
15 26 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (1.83%) Flask
17 22 (1.75%) AngularJS
17 22 (1.75%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 337 (26.81%) Cloud Native
2 79 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 41 (3.26%) Security Posture
6 37 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
7 36 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 32 (2.55%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.47%) AI Agents
9 31 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (2.23%) Data Centre
11 27 (2.15%) Replication
12 23 (1.83%) PKI
13 18 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.35%) NHS
15 16 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (1.27%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (11.22%) Linux
2 91 (7.24%) Windows
3 31 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 21 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.19%) Unix
6 15 (1.19%) VMS
7 14 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.32%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.080%) AIX
13 1 (0.080%) Debian
13 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.080%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 944 (75.10%) CI/CD
2 752 (59.82%) DevOps
3 329 (26.17%) Containerisation
4 325 (25.86%) Observability
5 308 (24.50%) Agile
6 287 (22.83%) Platform Engineering
7 270 (21.48%) AI
8 187 (14.88%) Software Engineering
9 186 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 184 (14.64%) Test Automation
11 176 (14.00%) Migration
12 164 (13.05%) Continuous Improvement
13 162 (12.89%) Technical Leadership
14 161 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
15 151 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 147 (11.69%) Microservices
17 139 (11.06%) Cloud Security
18 138 (10.98%) Analytics
19 133 (10.58%) Data Engineering
20 131 (10.42%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 566 (45.03%) Python
2 203 (16.15%) PowerShell
3 198 (15.75%) SQL
4 197 (15.67%) Bash
5 143 (11.38%) Bicep
6 136 (10.82%) Java
7 71 (5.65%) C#
7 71 (5.65%) JavaScript
8 66 (5.25%) TypeScript
9 51 (4.06%) Go
10 24 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.51%) Groovy
12 18 (1.43%) Scala
13 9 (0.72%) Ruby
14 8 (0.64%) Korn
14 8 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.56%) Perl
16 5 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 446 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 408 (32.46%) SC Cleared
3 96 (7.64%) Azure Certification
4 86 (6.84%) AWS Certification
5 61 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 51 (4.06%) Degree
7 38 (3.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 33 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 31 (2.47%) CISSP
10 29 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 29 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.59%) CISM
13 19 (1.51%) CCNP
14 13 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.88%) GIAC
16 9 (0.72%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.64%) Master's Degree
18 7 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 53 (4.22%) QA
3 38 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (3.02%) NIST
4 31 (2.47%) GDPR
5 20 (1.59%) NCSC
6 16 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 12 (0.95%) SOC 2
8 10 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.32%) COBIT
9 4 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.32%) SLA
9 4 (0.32%) WCAG
10 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.16%) GRC
10 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.080%) PMO
System Software
1 337 (26.81%) Docker
2 60 (4.77%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.02%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.64%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.64%) vSphere
7 6 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
10 2 (0.16%) Postfix
11 1 (0.080%) IAG
11 1 (0.080%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.080%) NFS
11 1 (0.080%) Samba
11 1 (0.080%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 502 (39.94%) Kubernetes
2 207 (16.47%) Ansible
3 153 (12.17%) Grafana
4 131 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 31 (2.47%) Puppet
6 28 (2.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (2.07%) Argo
8 17 (1.35%) Kubeflow
9 16 (1.27%) Packer
10 14 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.80%) Kibana
13 9 (0.72%) systemd
14 8 (0.64%) Control-M
14 8 (0.64%) SCCM
15 7 (0.56%) vCenter Server
16 6 (0.48%) Istio
17 4 (0.32%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 252 (20.05%) Microsoft
2 103 (8.19%) Google
3 99 (7.88%) Databricks
4 77 (6.13%) Splunk
5 51 (4.06%) Oracle
6 49 (3.90%) VMware
7 39 (3.10%) Cisco
8 35 (2.78%) Dynatrace
9 30 (2.39%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.99%) OpenAI
11 21 (1.67%) Palo Alto
12 18 (1.43%) Okta
13 17 (1.35%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.27%) Arista
15 15 (1.19%) Foundry
16 14 (1.11%) Informatica
16 14 (1.11%) Zscaler
17 12 (0.95%) CyberArk
18 11 (0.88%) Fortinet
19 8 (0.64%) Juniper