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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 85 87
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 750 461 552
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.52% 2.95% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.97% 3.31% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 297 411
10th Percentile £394 £425 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% -8.73%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £749 £775
England median daily rate £540 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.76% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £53.95 - -
25th Percentile £55.38 £56.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £59.25 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -8.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £61.63 £58.75 £90.00
90th Percentile £62.15 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.69 £77.27
% change year-on-year -11.58% -8.51% +6.57%

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 12,561 13,945 18,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.18% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 8,980 13,172
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 168 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.42
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.17 £21.44
Median hourly rate £30.50 £38.75 £39.09
Median % change year-on-year -21.29% -0.86% +4.23%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.23 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +27.14%

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 2 November 2025.

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 2 November 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 +13 75 £610 +6.09% 143
West London -3 12 £603 +26.84% 13
East London +8 5 - - 16
South London - 3 £515 - 6
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 28 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (2.40%) Confluence
3 15 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.87%) Apache
5 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.53%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.40%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.40%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.40%) SAS
7 3 (0.40%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) nginx
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.27%) Traefik
9 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.13%) CMS
9 1 (0.13%) DataSynapse
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.53%) Fidessa
1 4 (0.53%) thinkFolio
2 3 (0.40%) Endur
3 2 (0.27%) Shopify
4 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 394 (52.53%) AWS
2 358 (47.73%) Azure
3 192 (25.60%) GitHub
4 146 (19.47%) GCP
5 131 (17.47%) GitHub Actions
6 124 (16.53%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (13.33%) Serverless
8 99 (13.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (10.93%) Amazon S3
10 62 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (7.33%) Entra ID
12 42 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
14 39 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
15 38 (5.07%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (5.07%) Azure AKS
16 36 (4.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 35 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
18 33 (4.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 32 (4.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (9.47%) Firewall
2 42 (5.60%) Network Security
2 42 (5.60%) VPN
3 34 (4.53%) DNS
4 22 (2.93%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.27%) SSL
6 11 (1.47%) WAN
7 10 (1.33%) BGP
7 10 (1.33%) SD-WAN
8 9 (1.20%) tcpdump
9 7 (0.93%) HTTP
9 7 (0.93%) Multicast
9 7 (0.93%) VXLAN
9 7 (0.93%) Wireshark
10 6 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.80%) OSPF
11 4 (0.53%) Internet
11 4 (0.53%) VLAN
12 3 (0.40%) HTTPS
12 3 (0.40%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.87%) Data Lake
2 36 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
3 28 (3.73%) DynamoDB
4 25 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (3.07%) Power BI
6 22 (2.93%) SQL Server
7 17 (2.27%) BigQuery
8 16 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 16 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 16 (2.13%) NoSQL
9 15 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (1.87%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (1.60%) Metadata
11 12 (1.60%) Redis
12 11 (1.47%) Big Data
12 11 (1.47%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 125 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 101 (13.47%) GitLab
3 72 (9.60%) Git
4 39 (5.20%) SonarQube
5 34 (4.53%) JIRA
6 17 (2.27%) CircleCI
7 16 (2.13%) Burp Suite
7 16 (2.13%) Metasploit
8 15 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.20%) Maven
9 9 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 8 (1.07%) Gradle
11 7 (0.93%) Selenium
11 7 (0.93%) Snyk
12 5 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.67%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.67%) MLflow
13 4 (0.53%) Postman
14 3 (0.40%) Bitbucket
General
1 182 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 128 (17.07%) Finance
3 83 (11.07%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (7.60%) Banking
6 20 (2.67%) Front Office
7 15 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.87%) Retail
8 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.73%) Publishing
10 12 (1.60%) Military
11 10 (1.33%) Law
12 9 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.20%) Marketing
13 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.80%) Legal
14 6 (0.80%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.67%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 131 (17.47%) Senior
3 81 (10.80%) Architect
4 77 (10.27%) Developer
5 74 (9.87%) Platform Engineer
6 70 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
7 65 (8.67%) Data Engineer
8 62 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
10 54 (7.20%) Security Engineer
11 48 (6.40%) Lead
12 34 (4.53%) AWS DevOps
13 31 (4.13%) GCP Engineer
14 30 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.73%) Software Engineer
16 27 (3.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 27 (3.60%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.40%) Kafka
2 43 (5.73%) Node.js
3 42 (5.60%) ARM Templates
4 37 (4.93%) React
5 32 (4.27%) .NET
5 32 (4.27%) YAML
6 30 (4.00%) RESTful
7 29 (3.87%) REST
8 24 (3.20%) AWS CDK
8 24 (3.20%) Elastic Stack
8 24 (3.20%) OAuth
9 21 (2.80%) GraphQL
10 20 (2.67%) FIX Protocol
11 19 (2.53%) Spring
12 18 (2.40%) gRPC
12 18 (2.40%) Middleware
12 18 (2.40%) PySpark
12 18 (2.40%) Spring Boot
13 17 (2.27%) AngularJS
14 14 (1.87%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 161 (21.47%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (4.53%) Public Cloud
4 24 (3.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 22 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.40%) Product Ownership
8 17 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (2.27%) Security Posture
9 16 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.47%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.47%) Private Cloud
12 10 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.33%) Replication
13 8 (1.07%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
13 8 (1.07%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 94 (12.53%) Linux
2 38 (5.07%) Windows
3 19 (2.53%) Unix
4 18 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.33%) VMS
7 6 (0.80%) Solaris
8 4 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.27%) CentOS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Android
10 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (72.40%) CI/CD
2 434 (57.87%) DevOps
3 189 (25.20%) Agile
4 178 (23.73%) Containerisation
5 138 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
6 127 (16.93%) Observability
7 105 (14.00%) Cloud Security
8 103 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
9 102 (13.60%) DevSecOps
10 99 (13.20%) Infrastructure Automation
11 92 (12.27%) Migration
11 92 (12.27%) Software Engineering
12 88 (11.73%) AI
13 86 (11.47%) Microservices
14 84 (11.20%) Analytics
15 76 (10.13%) Data Pipeline
16 74 (9.87%) Machine Learning
17 72 (9.60%) Test Automation
18 67 (8.93%) Data Engineering
18 67 (8.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 385 (51.33%) Python
2 155 (20.67%) Bash
3 131 (17.47%) SQL
4 112 (14.93%) PowerShell
5 92 (12.27%) Java
6 60 (8.00%) Go
7 56 (7.47%) Bicep
8 50 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 43 (5.73%) JavaScript
10 39 (5.20%) C#
11 11 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.20%) Groovy
13 8 (1.07%) Scala
14 7 (0.93%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.80%) C++
15 6 (0.80%) PromQL
16 4 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.40%) C
17 3 (0.40%) Ruby
18 2 (0.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 167 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 150 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.33%) Azure Certification
4 35 (4.67%) AWS Certification
5 30 (4.00%) Degree
6 18 (2.40%) OSCP
7 17 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 14 (1.87%) CREST Certified
9 13 (1.73%) Tigerscheme
10 11 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.33%) CHECK Team Member
11 10 (1.33%) CISSP
11 10 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (0.67%) CCNP
14 4 (0.53%) CCIE
14 4 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (6.80%) GDPR
2 38 (5.07%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.07%) NIST
3 31 (4.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.13%) QA
5 14 (1.87%) HIPAA
6 12 (1.60%) NCSC
7 11 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (1.47%) SOC 2
8 9 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.53%) MiFID
10 4 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.40%) EU AI Act
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.27%) SLA
13 1 (0.13%) GRC
13 1 (0.13%) HL7
13 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 223 (29.73%) Docker
2 40 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (1.33%) zsh
6 5 (0.67%) Snort
6 5 (0.67%) Squid
7 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.40%) vSphere
9 2 (0.27%) KVM
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) etcd
10 1 (0.13%) iptables
Systems Management
1 543 (72.40%) Terraform
2 275 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 135 (18.00%) Ansible
4 98 (13.07%) Grafana
5 94 (12.53%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.67%) Puppet
7 19 (2.53%) Argo
8 16 (2.13%) Nmap
8 16 (2.13%) Progress Chef
9 13 (1.73%) Kibana
10 12 (1.60%) ITRS Geneos
11 11 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (1.20%) Nessus
13 8 (1.07%) Istio
13 8 (1.07%) Rancher
14 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.80%) logstash
16 4 (0.53%) Nexpose
16 4 (0.53%) Suricata
17 3 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 113 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.53%) Google
3 57 (7.60%) Databricks
4 30 (4.00%) Splunk
5 23 (3.07%) Palo Alto
6 19 (2.53%) Cisco
7 17 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 15 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 15 (2.00%) Solace
9 14 (1.87%) Veracode
9 14 (1.87%) VMware
10 12 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.47%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.33%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.33%) TIBCO
13 9 (1.20%) F5
13 9 (1.20%) Oracle
13 9 (1.20%) SAP
14 8 (1.07%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.07%) Qualys