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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 81 82
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 +18
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 822 435 478
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.73% 3.06% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 3.39% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 288 353
10th Percentile £397 £416 £425
25th Percentile £450 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +1.74% -8.73%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £678
90th Percentile £725 £738 £796
England median daily rate £530 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - £56.25 £58.13
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile - £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £77.00 £57.50 £75.77
% change year-on-year +33.91% -24.11% +29.51%

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 13,120 12,835 16,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.25% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,679 8,213 11,461
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 159 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.08 £17.04
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.50 £54.56
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +26 100 £550 -2.22% 71
West London +6 31 £603 +26.84% 9
South London +7 15 £530 -22.63% 10
East London +3 3 £675 +15.38% 10
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 24 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
3 20 (2.43%) Confluence
4 17 (2.07%) Apache
5 4 (0.49%) SAS
5 4 (0.49%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.49%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (0.36%) Ethereum
6 3 (0.36%) Hyperledger
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.36%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.24%) nginx
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 1 (0.12%) FileNet
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.24%) Fidessa
1 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.24%) thinkFolio
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Endur
2 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 424 (51.58%) AWS
2 397 (48.30%) Azure
3 227 (27.62%) GitHub
4 165 (20.07%) GitHub Actions
5 146 (17.76%) GCP
6 142 (17.27%) Azure DevOps
7 138 (16.79%) Serverless
8 129 (15.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 115 (13.99%) Amazon S3
10 94 (11.44%) AWS Lambda
11 73 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
12 64 (7.79%) Amazon ECS
13 60 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
15 50 (6.08%) Entra ID
16 49 (5.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 48 (5.84%) Azure AKS
18 43 (5.23%) Power Platform
19 39 (4.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 38 (4.62%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 86 (10.46%) Firewall
2 43 (5.23%) VPN
3 42 (5.11%) Network Security
4 38 (4.62%) DNS
5 17 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.82%) SSL
7 13 (1.58%) WAN
8 11 (1.34%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.97%) BGP
10 7 (0.85%) tcpdump
11 6 (0.73%) Wireshark
12 5 (0.61%) Multicast
12 5 (0.61%) OSPF
12 5 (0.61%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
13 4 (0.49%) HTTP
13 4 (0.49%) MPLS
13 4 (0.49%) VLAN
14 3 (0.36%) DHCP
14 3 (0.36%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.84%) Data Lake
3 46 (5.60%) Amazon RDS
4 34 (4.14%) Power BI
5 31 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
7 27 (3.28%) DynamoDB
8 22 (2.68%) NoSQL
9 20 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 19 (2.31%) Redis
11 18 (2.19%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.82%) Amazon Aurora
13 13 (1.58%) MongoDB
13 13 (1.58%) MySQL
13 13 (1.58%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.34%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.09%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 153 (18.61%) Jenkins
2 118 (14.36%) GitLab
3 81 (9.85%) Git
4 33 (4.01%) JIRA
5 18 (2.19%) SonarQube
6 15 (1.82%) Artifactory
7 12 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (1.34%) CircleCI
9 8 (0.97%) Snyk
9 8 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 7 (0.85%) Gradle
10 7 (0.85%) Maven
10 7 (0.85%) Selenium
11 6 (0.73%) MLflow
11 6 (0.73%) Terragrunt
12 5 (0.61%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.49%) Postman
14 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.36%) JUnit
14 3 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
General
1 171 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 129 (15.69%) Finance
3 92 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 57 (6.93%) Banking
5 52 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.19%) Front Office
8 15 (1.82%) Retail
9 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.09%) Publishing
11 9 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.97%) Marketing
12 8 (0.97%) Military
13 7 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.73%) Electronics
15 5 (0.61%) Legal
16 4 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (20.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 133 (16.18%) Senior
3 93 (11.31%) Developer
4 85 (10.34%) Architect
5 76 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
5 76 (9.25%) Platform Engineer
6 71 (8.64%) AWS Engineer
7 67 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 65 (7.91%) Data Engineer
9 55 (6.69%) Lead
10 40 (4.87%) Security Engineer
11 39 (4.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 37 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
13 36 (4.38%) Software Engineer
14 32 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.89%) GCP Engineer
15 28 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 28 (3.41%) Site Engineer
16 26 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (11.07%) Kafka
2 64 (7.79%) Node.js
3 47 (5.72%) React
4 41 (4.99%) YAML
5 40 (4.87%) ARM Templates
5 40 (4.87%) Spring
6 38 (4.62%) REST
7 36 (4.38%) Spring Boot
8 34 (4.14%) .NET
9 32 (3.89%) AngularJS
9 32 (3.89%) OAuth
10 30 (3.65%) GraphQL
10 30 (3.65%) RESTful
11 26 (3.16%) AWS CDK
12 24 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
13 23 (2.80%) Playwright
14 22 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
15 21 (2.55%) gRPC
15 21 (2.55%) PySpark
16 20 (2.43%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 202 (24.57%) Cloud Native
2 65 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 28 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (3.41%) Public Cloud
4 23 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 19 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 18 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.58%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.58%) Replication
9 12 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 8 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.85%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 104 (12.65%) Linux
2 45 (5.47%) Windows
3 23 (2.80%) VMS
4 19 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.82%) Unix
6 11 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.61%) Solaris
8 3 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.24%) Android
9 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.24%) CentOS
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (73.48%) CI/CD
2 506 (61.56%) DevOps
3 203 (24.70%) Containerisation
4 202 (24.57%) Agile
5 172 (20.92%) Observability
6 126 (15.33%) Migration
7 125 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
7 125 (15.21%) Software Engineering
8 123 (14.96%) AI
9 113 (13.75%) Microservices
10 110 (13.38%) Platform Engineering
11 101 (12.29%) Analytics
12 99 (12.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 90 (10.95%) DevSecOps
14 87 (10.58%) Cloud Security
15 86 (10.46%) Test Automation
16 74 (9.00%) Infrastructure Automation
17 72 (8.76%) Machine Learning
18 71 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
19 70 (8.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 386 (46.96%) Python
2 144 (17.52%) SQL
3 127 (15.45%) Bash
4 101 (12.29%) Java
5 95 (11.56%) PowerShell
6 66 (8.03%) TypeScript
7 59 (7.18%) Bicep
8 51 (6.20%) Go
9 43 (5.23%) JavaScript
10 42 (5.11%) C#
11 12 (1.46%) Ruby
12 9 (1.09%) Scala
12 9 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.61%) C++
14 5 (0.61%) Groovy
14 5 (0.61%) Rust
15 4 (0.49%) C
16 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Perl
Qualifications
1 213 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 197 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.69%) Azure Certification
4 50 (6.08%) AWS Certification
5 37 (4.50%) Degree
6 25 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.46%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.22%) CISSP
10 10 (1.22%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 8 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.85%) MCP
13 5 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (0.61%) OSCP
14 4 (0.49%) GPEN
14 4 (0.49%) PhD
14 4 (0.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (6.33%) GDPR
2 38 (4.62%) NIST
3 37 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 33 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (3.65%) QA
6 11 (1.34%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.97%) NCSC
8 8 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.73%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.49%) SLA
11 3 (0.36%) EU AI Act
11 3 (0.36%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.36%) MiFID
12 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.24%) GRC
12 2 (0.24%) ISO 8583
12 2 (0.24%) PSD2
12 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 247 (30.05%) Docker
2 40 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.97%) zsh
6 6 (0.73%) Squid
7 5 (0.61%) Snort
8 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.36%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.36%) vSphere
10 2 (0.24%) KVM
10 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) etcd
11 1 (0.12%) Firmware
11 1 (0.12%) GPFS
11 1 (0.12%) HDFS
11 1 (0.12%) Lustre
11 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 619 (75.30%) Terraform
2 294 (35.77%) Kubernetes
3 145 (17.64%) Ansible
4 110 (13.38%) Grafana
5 96 (11.68%) Prometheus
6 26 (3.16%) Argo
7 18 (2.19%) Puppet
8 15 (1.82%) Kibana
9 14 (1.70%) Istio
9 14 (1.70%) ITRS Geneos
10 13 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (1.22%) Rancher
12 9 (1.09%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.73%) Nessus
14 5 (0.61%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.61%) logstash
15 4 (0.49%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
15 4 (0.49%) Nexpose
Vendors
1 136 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.25%) Google
3 69 (8.39%) Databricks
4 33 (4.01%) Splunk
5 23 (2.80%) Palo Alto
6 20 (2.43%) ServiceNow
7 19 (2.31%) Cisco
8 16 (1.95%) Oracle
8 16 (1.95%) VMware
9 14 (1.70%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.70%) Solace
10 12 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.22%) CheckPoint
11 10 (1.22%) Fortinet
11 10 (1.22%) PagerDuty
12 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.09%) Qualys
12 9 (1.09%) TIBCO
13 8 (0.97%) F5
13 8 (0.97%) Red Hat