Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in South London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +6
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 10 1 16
As % of all contract jobs in South London 4.93% 0.44% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 0.50% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 16
10th Percentile £506 - £431
25th Percentile £513 - £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £544
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.32%
75th Percentile £550 - £591
90th Percentile £571 - £619
London median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% -9.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 202 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.21% 88.60% 84.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 132 157
10th Percentile £279 £226 £188
25th Percentile £450 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £528 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +1.44% -5.45%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £594
90th Percentile £643 £768 £675
London median daily rate £527 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 18
10th Percentile £17.98 - £18.46
25th Percentile £54.41 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £19.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +213.94% -52.43% -7.06%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £55.00
90th Percentile £66.62 £81.28 £69.00
London median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Infrastructure as Code relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in South London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Sutton - 5 £530 -
Croydon 0 4 £533 - 2
Infrastructure as Code
London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (70.00%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (70.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (50.00%) IaaS
5 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (30.00%) Serverless
6 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (10.00%) AWS KMS
7 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (10.00%) Azure
7 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub
7 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Senior
4 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) CloudOps Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (70.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Agile
5 5 (50.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (50.00%) DevOps
6 4 (40.00%) Analytics
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
9 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
9 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
9 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
9 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
9 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 7 (70.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
2 7 (70.00%) Ansible
3 6 (60.00%) Grafana
4 5 (50.00%) Puppet
5 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
6 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) PagerDuty
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft