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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 51 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 +42 -5
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 1,218 660 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.04% 4.96% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.78% 5.36% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 861 447 292
10th Percentile £415 £395 £413
25th Percentile £463 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +13.60% -7.41% -13.46%

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 5 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 5 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 +19 145 £575 -8.00% 77
South London +19 31 £535 - 10
West London -12 12 £725 +70.59% 39
East London +6 8 £600 - 11
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 59 (4.84%) Confluence
2 49 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 44 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (2.63%) Apache
5 18 (1.48%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.57%) CMS
7 7 (0.57%) nginx
8 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.25%) SAS
11 2 (0.16%) Camunda
11 2 (0.16%) PowerExchange
11 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
12 1 (0.082%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.082%) IIS
12 1 (0.082%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.082%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.082%) PeopleSoft HCM
3 1 (0.082%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 654 (53.69%) AWS
2 630 (51.72%) Azure
3 321 (26.35%) GitHub
4 232 (19.05%) GitHub Actions
5 225 (18.47%) Azure DevOps
6 215 (17.65%) GCP
7 212 (17.41%) Serverless
8 169 (13.88%) Amazon S3
9 145 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
10 144 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 119 (9.77%) Amazon EKS
12 109 (8.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 102 (8.37%) Entra ID
14 82 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
14 82 (6.73%) Azure AKS
15 76 (6.24%) Amazon ECS
16 74 (6.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 68 (5.58%) Azure Monitor
18 61 (5.01%) Power Platform
19 57 (4.68%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 82 (6.73%) Firewall
2 57 (4.68%) DNS
3 46 (3.78%) Network Security
3 46 (3.78%) VPN
4 26 (2.13%) WAN
5 21 (1.72%) BGP
6 14 (1.15%) DHCP
6 14 (1.15%) Internet
6 14 (1.15%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.07%) SSL
8 10 (0.82%) HTTP
8 10 (0.82%) NX-OS
8 10 (0.82%) VXLAN
9 8 (0.66%) SSH
10 7 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.57%) VLAN
11 6 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.49%) IOS XR
11 6 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (5.42%) Amazon RDS
3 49 (4.02%) Power BI
4 46 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
5 44 (3.61%) MongoDB
6 41 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 36 (2.96%) Data Lake
7 36 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 35 (2.87%) DynamoDB
9 32 (2.63%) Metadata
10 31 (2.55%) Redis
11 29 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 28 (2.30%) BigQuery
12 28 (2.30%) MySQL
12 28 (2.30%) NoSQL
13 27 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
14 17 (1.40%) Big Data
15 13 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
15 13 (1.07%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 188 (15.44%) Jenkins
2 183 (15.02%) GitLab
3 179 (14.70%) Git
4 68 (5.58%) JIRA
5 16 (1.31%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.23%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.15%) Snyk
8 12 (0.99%) Terragrunt
9 11 (0.90%) JUnit
10 10 (0.82%) MLflow
11 9 (0.74%) JMeter
11 9 (0.74%) Selenium
12 8 (0.66%) Mockito
12 8 (0.66%) Postman
13 7 (0.57%) CircleCI
14 6 (0.49%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 6 (0.49%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.49%) Cypress.io
14 6 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 279 (22.91%) Social Skills
2 206 (16.91%) Finance
3 176 (14.45%) Public Sector
4 82 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
5 66 (5.42%) Banking
6 30 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.64%) Retail
9 14 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (0.99%) Law
10 12 (0.99%) Local Government
11 11 (0.90%) Legal
12 10 (0.82%) Military
12 10 (0.82%) Telecoms
13 9 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.66%) Front Office
14 8 (0.66%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.57%) Police
16 6 (0.49%) Back Office
16 6 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 272 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 196 (16.09%) Senior
3 188 (15.44%) Architect
4 132 (10.84%) Lead
5 128 (10.51%) Azure Engineer
6 115 (9.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 108 (8.87%) Platform Engineer
8 107 (8.78%) AWS Engineer
9 95 (7.80%) Data Engineer
10 88 (7.22%) Developer
11 69 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 61 (5.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 53 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
14 51 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 51 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
14 51 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 50 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 48 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
17 38 (3.12%) GCP Engineer
18 35 (2.87%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 927 (76.11%) Terraform
2 104 (8.54%) Kafka
3 86 (7.06%) REST
4 60 (4.93%) PySpark
5 57 (4.68%) RESTful
6 47 (3.86%) React
7 42 (3.45%) ARM Templates
8 41 (3.37%) .NET
9 39 (3.20%) OAuth
10 37 (3.04%) Node.js
11 36 (2.96%) YAML
12 35 (2.87%) FastAPI
13 34 (2.79%) Spring
14 33 (2.71%) OAuth2
15 32 (2.63%) Spring Boot
16 28 (2.30%) AngularJS
17 27 (2.22%) OpenID
18 25 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
19 24 (1.97%) Django
20 22 (1.81%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 336 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 88 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 39 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.87%) Security Posture
7 31 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
8 29 (2.38%) AI Agents
9 27 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (2.22%) Replication
10 25 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 25 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.89%) Public Cloud
12 22 (1.81%) PKI
13 18 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (1.48%) NHS
14 16 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
15 15 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 15 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 14 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (10.51%) Linux
2 84 (6.90%) Windows
3 32 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 27 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.81%) Ubuntu
6 15 (1.23%) Unix
6 15 (1.23%) VMS
7 14 (1.15%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.57%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.33%) Alpine Linux
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.25%) CentOS
12 2 (0.16%) Android
13 1 (0.082%) AIX
13 1 (0.082%) Debian
13 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.082%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.082%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 912 (74.88%) CI/CD
2 735 (60.34%) DevOps
3 332 (27.26%) Containerisation
4 304 (24.96%) Observability
5 300 (24.63%) Agile
6 282 (23.15%) Platform Engineering
7 254 (20.85%) AI
8 177 (14.53%) Test Automation
9 176 (14.45%) Software Engineering
10 167 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 162 (13.30%) Migration
12 152 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 152 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
13 150 (12.32%) Microservices
14 144 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
15 137 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 135 (11.08%) Analytics
16 135 (11.08%) Event-Driven
17 128 (10.51%) Cloud Security
18 124 (10.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 545 (44.75%) Python
2 195 (16.01%) PowerShell
3 193 (15.85%) SQL
4 190 (15.60%) Bash
5 137 (11.25%) Bicep
6 136 (11.17%) Java
7 71 (5.83%) C#
8 65 (5.34%) JavaScript
9 59 (4.84%) TypeScript
10 42 (3.45%) Go
11 21 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.48%) Scala
13 16 (1.31%) Groovy
13 16 (1.31%) Ruby
14 7 (0.57%) Korn
15 6 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.49%) Perl
16 5 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 4 (0.33%) C++
17 4 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 439 (36.04%) Security Cleared
2 401 (32.92%) SC Cleared
3 92 (7.55%) Azure Certification
4 73 (5.99%) AWS Certification
5 59 (4.84%) DV Cleared
6 50 (4.11%) Degree
7 30 (2.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 30 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (2.05%) CISSP
10 24 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.56%) CCNP
13 17 (1.40%) CISM
14 12 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.82%) GIAC
16 8 (0.66%) DBS Check
16 8 (0.66%) Master's Degree
17 6 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 6 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.22%) Data Quality
2 47 (3.86%) QA
3 36 (2.96%) NIST
4 35 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (2.71%) GDPR
6 17 (1.40%) NCSC
7 16 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.90%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.41%) SLA
11 4 (0.33%) COBIT
11 4 (0.33%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.33%) WCAG
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.16%) GRC
12 2 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.082%) PMO
System Software
1 324 (26.60%) Docker
2 56 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.12%) Virtual Machines
4 35 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 20 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.66%) vSphere
9 7 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.25%) Squid
12 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.16%) OpenSSH
12 2 (0.16%) Postfix
13 1 (0.082%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.082%) NFS
13 1 (0.082%) Samba
13 1 (0.082%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 480 (39.41%) Kubernetes
2 190 (15.60%) Ansible
3 141 (11.58%) Grafana
4 125 (10.26%) Prometheus
5 27 (2.22%) Argo
5 27 (2.22%) Puppet
6 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (1.23%) Kubeflow
7 15 (1.23%) Packer
8 11 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (0.90%) Progress Chef
8 11 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.74%) Kibana
10 8 (0.66%) Control-M
10 8 (0.66%) systemd
10 8 (0.66%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.57%) Istio
11 7 (0.57%) SCCM
12 4 (0.33%) Nessus
12 4 (0.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 240 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.13%) Databricks
3 91 (7.47%) Google
4 72 (5.91%) Splunk
5 52 (4.27%) Oracle
6 48 (3.94%) VMware
7 35 (2.87%) Cisco
8 27 (2.22%) Dynatrace
9 25 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.05%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.56%) Palo Alto
11 18 (1.48%) Red Hat
12 17 (1.40%) Okta
13 15 (1.23%) Foundry
14 14 (1.15%) Arista
14 14 (1.15%) Informatica
15 12 (0.99%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.90%) Fortinet
17 9 (0.74%) CyberArk
18 8 (0.66%) New Relic