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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 53 103
Rank change year-on-year +17 +50 -13
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,113 608 437
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.65% 4.50% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 4.89% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 388 307
10th Percentile £413 £393 £376
25th Percentile £464 £439 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £750 £750 £749
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
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% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +24 135 £585 -6.44% 60
West London -5 18 £625 +26.26% 8
South London 0 14 £503 +1.52% 1
East London +1 5 £512 - 12
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 45 (4.04%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.77%) Confluence
3 33 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (2.70%) Apache
5 13 (1.17%) Jupyter
6 12 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.36%) 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 (0.090%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.090%) Traefik
Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) Maximo
2 1 (0.090%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.090%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 598 (53.73%) AWS
2 563 (50.58%) Azure
3 301 (27.04%) GitHub
4 211 (18.96%) GitHub Actions
5 200 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
6 199 (17.88%) Serverless
7 193 (17.34%) GCP
8 170 (15.27%) Amazon S3
9 168 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
10 135 (12.13%) AWS Lambda
11 110 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
12 90 (8.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 88 (7.91%) Amazon ECS
14 74 (6.65%) Azure AKS
14 74 (6.65%) Power Platform
15 73 (6.56%) Entra ID
16 65 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 63 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
18 57 (5.12%) Azure Monitor
19 53 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 79 (7.10%) Firewall
2 48 (4.31%) DNS
3 47 (4.22%) Network Security
4 38 (3.41%) VPN
5 29 (2.61%) WAN
6 19 (1.71%) BGP
7 12 (1.08%) SSL
7 12 (1.08%) TCP/IP
8 11 (0.99%) Internet
8 11 (0.99%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
9 10 (0.90%) IOS XR
9 10 (0.90%) NX-OS
10 9 (0.81%) OSPF
11 8 (0.72%) HTTP
12 7 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
12 7 (0.63%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.54%) NAS
13 6 (0.54%) SAN
14 5 (0.45%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
2 57 (5.12%) Data Lake
3 56 (5.03%) Power BI
4 48 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
5 43 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (3.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 37 (3.32%) Delta Lake
8 35 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
9 33 (2.96%) MongoDB
10 32 (2.88%) SQL Server
11 29 (2.61%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.52%) DynamoDB
13 23 (2.07%) Azure SQL Database
13 23 (2.07%) NoSQL
14 21 (1.89%) Redis
15 20 (1.80%) Metadata
16 16 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
17 15 (1.35%) Tableau
18 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
18 13 (1.17%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 180 (16.17%) Jenkins
2 162 (14.56%) GitLab
3 159 (14.29%) Git
4 58 (5.21%) JIRA
5 14 (1.26%) Artifactory
5 14 (1.26%) Snyk
6 13 (1.17%) MLflow
6 13 (1.17%) SonarQube
7 12 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.90%) CircleCI
8 10 (0.90%) JUnit
9 8 (0.72%) JMeter
9 8 (0.72%) Mockito
10 6 (0.54%) Postman
11 5 (0.45%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.36%) git-flow
12 4 (0.36%) Terragrunt
13 3 (0.27%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.27%) Vite
General
1 228 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 190 (17.07%) Finance
3 158 (14.20%) Public Sector
4 64 (5.75%) Banking
5 57 (5.12%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 27 (2.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.17%) Law
9 13 (1.17%) Retail
10 11 (0.99%) Legal
11 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
12 7 (0.63%) Local Government
13 6 (0.54%) Police
14 5 (0.45%) Front Office
14 5 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 241 (21.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 190 (17.07%) Architect
3 172 (15.45%) Senior
4 124 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 124 (11.14%) Lead
5 118 (10.60%) Azure Engineer
6 103 (9.25%) Data Engineer
7 97 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
8 86 (7.73%) Platform Engineer
9 73 (6.56%) Developer
10 58 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 48 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
12 47 (4.22%) Senior DevOps
12 47 (4.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 46 (4.13%) Solutions Architect
14 45 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 44 (3.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 41 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (3.14%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.19%) Kafka
2 65 (5.84%) PySpark
2 65 (5.84%) REST
3 50 (4.49%) RESTful
4 48 (4.31%) Node.js
5 44 (3.95%) OAuth
5 44 (3.95%) React
6 40 (3.59%) .NET
7 35 (3.14%) OAuth2
7 35 (3.14%) OpenID
8 30 (2.70%) ARM Templates
8 30 (2.70%) YAML
9 27 (2.43%) Spring
10 26 (2.34%) AngularJS
11 24 (2.16%) OpenTelemetry
11 24 (2.16%) SAML
11 24 (2.16%) Spring Boot
12 23 (2.07%) AWS CDK
12 23 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (1.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 330 (29.65%) Cloud Native
2 78 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (4.58%) Onboarding
4 34 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (3.05%) Security Posture
5 31 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
8 22 (1.98%) Public Cloud
9 20 (1.80%) Enterprise Cloud
10 17 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.26%) AI Agents
13 13 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (1.08%) PKI
14 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.99%) NHS
15 11 (0.99%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 109 (9.79%) Linux
2 74 (6.65%) Windows
3 22 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.44%) Unix
5 13 (1.17%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.99%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 4 (0.36%) Alpine Linux
8 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.18%) Android
10 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.18%) CentOS
10 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.090%) AIX
11 1 (0.090%) Debian
11 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (76.37%) CI/CD
2 701 (62.98%) DevOps
3 320 (28.75%) Containerisation
4 247 (22.19%) Agile
5 244 (21.92%) Platform Engineering
6 235 (21.11%) Observability
7 205 (18.42%) AI
8 156 (14.02%) Analytics
9 152 (13.66%) Test Automation
10 142 (12.76%) Migration
11 138 (12.40%) Microservices
12 137 (12.31%) Software Engineering
13 130 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
14 119 (10.69%) Cloud Security
14 119 (10.69%) Mentoring
15 112 (10.06%) Data Modelling
16 110 (9.88%) Event-Driven
17 108 (9.70%) Data Engineering
17 108 (9.70%) Machine Learning
17 108 (9.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 489 (43.94%) Python
2 190 (17.07%) SQL
3 160 (14.38%) Bash
4 151 (13.57%) PowerShell
5 119 (10.69%) Java
6 111 (9.97%) Bicep
7 65 (5.84%) C#
8 61 (5.48%) TypeScript
9 52 (4.67%) JavaScript
10 42 (3.77%) Go
11 24 (2.16%) Scala
12 17 (1.53%) Ruby
12 17 (1.53%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.72%) Groovy
14 6 (0.54%) C
15 4 (0.36%) Cypher
16 3 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.27%) Perl
16 3 (0.27%) SAS Macro
17 2 (0.18%) PHP
Qualifications
1 417 (37.47%) Security Cleared
2 393 (35.31%) SC Cleared
3 75 (6.74%) Azure Certification
4 54 (4.85%) AWS Certification
5 44 (3.95%) Degree
6 43 (3.86%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
10 20 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (1.53%) CISSP
13 16 (1.44%) CCNP
14 13 (1.17%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 9 (0.81%) CISM
16 8 (0.72%) GIAC
16 8 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
17 7 (0.63%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (7.55%) Data Quality
2 44 (3.95%) NIST
3 41 (3.68%) GDPR
4 40 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (2.88%) NCSC
6 31 (2.79%) QA
7 20 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.72%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.45%) SLA
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
11 4 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.27%) GRC
13 2 (0.18%) FedRAMP
13 2 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.090%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 284 (25.52%) Docker
2 42 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.54%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.27%) vSphere
10 2 (0.18%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.090%) NFS
11 1 (0.090%) Samba
11 1 (0.090%) Squid
11 1 (0.090%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 867 (77.90%) Terraform
2 431 (38.72%) Kubernetes
3 170 (15.27%) Ansible
4 120 (10.78%) Grafana
5 119 (10.69%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.43%) Puppet
7 24 (2.16%) Argo
8 16 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.17%) Packer
10 11 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 11 (0.99%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.90%) Kubeflow
12 6 (0.54%) Istio
12 6 (0.54%) Kibana
13 5 (0.45%) Salt
13 5 (0.45%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.27%) Rancher
14 3 (0.27%) systemd
14 3 (0.27%) yum
Vendors
1 172 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 89 (8.00%) Databricks
3 79 (7.10%) Google
4 65 (5.84%) Splunk
5 36 (3.23%) Oracle
6 31 (2.79%) VMware
7 23 (2.07%) Cisco
8 22 (1.98%) Dynatrace
9 20 (1.80%) OpenAI
10 19 (1.71%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.62%) CyberArk
12 15 (1.35%) ServiceNow
13 13 (1.17%) Fortinet
13 13 (1.17%) Okta
14 12 (1.08%) Arista
14 12 (1.08%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.99%) Foundry
15 11 (0.99%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.90%) AppDynamics
16 10 (0.90%) Informatica