Infrastructure as Code Contracts in London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 113 86
Rank change year-on-year +53 -27 +9
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 495 377 731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.96% 2.16% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 2.43% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 267 511
10th Percentile £395 £371 £481
25th Percentile £450 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% +2.08%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £705
90th Percentile £738 £771 £788
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £55.13 £38.80
25th Percentile - £55.31 -
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.82% -
75th Percentile - £57.81 £90.00
90th Percentile - £58.38 £97.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £62.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% -19.87% +64.64%

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 11,537 15,496 23,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.66% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,810 11,111 16,940
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 307 270
10th Percentile £16.10 £15.77 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.83 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.84 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% -27.22% +2.00%
75th Percentile £50.75 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.85 £82.28
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.69% +45.00%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 18 May 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 +25 74 £588 +6.82% 115
South London +1 8 £523 +39.33% 5
West London +9 4 £565 +7.62% 20
North London - 1 £413 - 2
Infrastructure as Code
England

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.24%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (2.22%) Confluence
3 9 (1.82%) Apache
3 9 (1.82%) nginx
4 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.61%) IIS
5 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.40%) JBoss
6 2 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.40%) Traefik
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 260 (52.53%) AWS
2 242 (48.89%) Azure
3 99 (20.00%) Serverless
4 88 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 85 (17.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 85 (17.17%) GCP
6 76 (15.35%) GitHub
7 53 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 53 (10.71%) PaaS
8 48 (9.70%) Azure AKS
9 44 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 44 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (8.28%) Amazon EKS
10 41 (8.28%) IaaS
11 37 (7.47%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (6.46%) Entra ID
14 30 (6.06%) SaaS
15 28 (5.66%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 27 (5.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 69 (13.94%) Firewall
2 49 (9.90%) DNS
3 46 (9.29%) VPN
4 24 (4.85%) TCP/IP
5 19 (3.84%) HTTP
6 16 (3.23%) Network Security
6 16 (3.23%) NGFW
7 11 (2.22%) WAN
8 10 (2.02%) SD-WAN
9 9 (1.82%) DHCP
10 8 (1.62%) Internet
11 7 (1.41%) BGP
12 6 (1.21%) MPLS
13 5 (1.01%) Kerberos
13 5 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (0.81%) SAN
14 4 (0.81%) SSL
15 3 (0.61%) FTP
15 3 (0.61%) SNMP
15 3 (0.61%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (7.88%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 19 (3.84%) Data Lake
5 18 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (3.64%) DynamoDB
6 17 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.83%) Power BI
8 13 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (2.63%) Big Data
9 12 (2.42%) SQL Server
10 11 (2.22%) Apache Hive
10 11 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 11 (2.22%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
12 8 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.41%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.41%) Parquet
14 6 (1.21%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 89 (17.98%) Jenkins
2 80 (16.16%) GitLab
3 53 (10.71%) Git
4 18 (3.64%) JIRA
5 14 (2.83%) CircleCI
6 12 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.41%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.41%) Terragrunt
8 5 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.01%) Poetry
9 4 (0.81%) Maven
10 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.61%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) MLflow
12 1 (0.20%) Jaeger
12 1 (0.20%) Postman
12 1 (0.20%) Snyk
12 1 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (0.20%) Travis CI
General
1 132 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 96 (19.39%) Finance
3 37 (7.47%) Public Sector
4 35 (7.07%) Banking
5 33 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 13 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.82%) Marketing
8 7 (1.41%) Military
8 7 (1.41%) Retail
8 7 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.61%) Billing
12 3 (0.61%) Legal
12 3 (0.61%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.40%) International Banking
13 2 (0.40%) Law
13 2 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 117 (23.64%) DevOps Engineer
2 81 (16.36%) Senior
3 72 (14.55%) Architect
4 68 (13.74%) AWS Engineer
5 67 (13.54%) Azure Engineer
6 52 (10.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 45 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (8.28%) Developer
9 39 (7.88%) AWS DevOps
10 38 (7.68%) Lead
11 35 (7.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 33 (6.67%) Data Engineer
13 28 (5.66%) Azure Architect
14 25 (5.05%) Cloud Architect
15 24 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 22 (4.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 22 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 20 (4.04%) Network Engineer
19 19 (3.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.27%) ARM Templates
2 31 (6.26%) .NET
3 23 (4.65%) Kafka
4 22 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (4.24%) React
6 19 (3.84%) Node.js
7 18 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
8 17 (3.43%) ADO
8 17 (3.43%) AWS CDK
9 14 (2.83%) .NET Framework
9 14 (2.83%) JSON
10 13 (2.63%) YAML
11 12 (2.42%) Spring
12 11 (2.22%) REST
12 11 (2.22%) RESTful
13 10 (2.02%) Entity Framework
14 9 (1.82%) GraphQL
15 7 (1.41%) AngularJS
15 7 (1.41%) PySpark
16 6 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 82 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 36 (7.27%) Public Cloud
3 21 (4.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (3.23%) Anti-Spyware
5 15 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.02%) Legacy Applications
8 8 (1.62%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.21%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.21%) Hedge funds
9 6 (1.21%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.21%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.21%) PKI
9 6 (1.21%) Replication
10 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.81%) Clustering
11 4 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (0.81%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.81%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (17.37%) Linux
2 26 (5.25%) Windows
3 18 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.42%) Unix
6 8 (1.62%) VMS
7 3 (0.61%) CentOS
7 3 (0.61%) Rocky
7 3 (0.61%) SUSE
8 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (59.60%) DevOps
2 272 (54.95%) CI/CD
3 150 (30.30%) Containerisation
4 118 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
5 115 (23.23%) Agile
6 85 (17.17%) Migration
7 66 (13.33%) Microservices
8 65 (13.13%) Configuration Management
8 65 (13.13%) Infrastructure Automation
9 64 (12.93%) Cloud Security
10 58 (11.72%) Observability
11 51 (10.30%) Continuous Integration
11 51 (10.30%) High Availability
12 48 (9.70%) Platform Engineering
13 47 (9.49%) Software Engineering
14 46 (9.29%) Mentoring
14 46 (9.29%) Test Automation
15 43 (8.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 40 (8.08%) Analytics
17 31 (6.26%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 226 (45.66%) Python
2 79 (15.96%) PowerShell
3 76 (15.35%) SQL
4 71 (14.34%) Bash
5 58 (11.72%) Java
6 53 (10.71%) Bicep
7 44 (8.89%) C#
8 43 (8.69%) Go
9 41 (8.28%) JavaScript
10 31 (6.26%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 9 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.62%) RPG
12 8 (1.62%) RPG IV
13 7 (1.41%) Perl
14 6 (1.21%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.01%) Groovy
16 4 (0.81%) Ruby
16 4 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 93 (18.79%) Security Cleared
2 76 (15.35%) SC Cleared
3 36 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 31 (6.26%) Degree
5 21 (4.24%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
10 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 4 (0.81%) OCP
11 4 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 3 (0.61%) CISA
12 3 (0.61%) CISM
13 2 (0.40%) CCIE
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.40%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.44%) GDPR
2 16 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.83%) QA
4 12 (2.42%) NIST
5 8 (1.62%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.62%) SOC 2
6 5 (1.01%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.81%) NCSC
7 4 (0.81%) SLA
8 2 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 141 (28.48%) Docker
2 29 (5.86%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.61%) FreeRADIUS
5 3 (0.61%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.61%) iptables
6 2 (0.40%) Lustre
6 2 (0.40%) vSphere
7 1 (0.20%) Ceph
7 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 381 (76.97%) Terraform
2 245 (49.49%) Kubernetes
3 118 (23.84%) Ansible
4 58 (11.72%) Grafana
5 56 (11.31%) Prometheus
6 32 (6.46%) Puppet
7 22 (4.44%) Progress Chef
8 14 (2.83%) Rancher
9 11 (2.22%) Argo
10 9 (1.82%) FortiGate
10 9 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (1.82%) Podman
10 9 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (1.62%) Packer
12 6 (1.21%) Istio
12 6 (1.21%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.01%) Nagios
14 4 (0.81%) Netcool
15 3 (0.61%) Cacti
15 3 (0.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 73 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.46%) Google
3 22 (4.44%) Databricks
3 22 (4.44%) Palo Alto
3 22 (4.44%) Splunk
4 18 (3.64%) CheckPoint
4 18 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.23%) Infoblox
6 14 (2.83%) VMware
7 12 (2.42%) Oracle
8 10 (2.02%) Cisco
8 10 (2.02%) Cloudera
9 9 (1.82%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.41%) SAP
11 6 (1.21%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
12 5 (1.01%) Okta
13 4 (0.81%) EMC
13 4 (0.81%) Solace