Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 102 95
Rank change year-on-year +40 -7 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 674 345 471
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 3.71% 2.31% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 2.65% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 243 368
10th Percentile £400 £386 £431
25th Percentile £447 £440 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -0.57%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -4.55% -3.42% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £38.12 £34.57 £62.49
25th Percentile £44.77 £48.80 £75.38
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.00 £76.53
Median % change year-on-year - -2.00% +30.82%
75th Percentile £83.00 £82.50 £77.63
90th Percentile £89.60 £85.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £42.38 £75.00
% change year-on-year +47.49% -43.50% +32.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as Code
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +15 263 £500 +5.26% 101
Yorkshire +5 145 £500 +13.64% 36
Scotland +30 124 £500 +4.17% 12
South East -2 107 £525 -8.70% 136
Midlands +22 96 £545 +9.00% 27
South West +46 85 £581 +1.09% 63
West Midlands +20 80 £550 +10.00% 15
North West 0 79 £525 +6.65% 50
North East +19 40 £494 -17.36% 16
East of England -6 23 £600 -15.79% 13
East Midlands -4 16 £418 +4.38% 12
Wales -1 4 £538 -2.27% 15
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 2
Infrastructure as Code
UK

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 19 (2.82%) Apache
2 15 (2.23%) WebLogic
3 14 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.78%) Confluence
6 11 (1.63%) OpenStack
7 8 (1.19%) JBoss
8 4 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.59%) SAS
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) nginx
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.15%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.15%) Documentum
10 1 (0.15%) Drupal
10 1 (0.15%) Mule
10 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.15%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 432 (64.09%) AWS
2 291 (43.18%) Azure
3 167 (24.78%) GitHub
4 163 (24.18%) Serverless
5 153 (22.70%) GCP
6 136 (20.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 107 (15.88%) GitHub Actions
8 97 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
9 95 (14.09%) AWS Lambda
10 90 (13.35%) Amazon S3
11 88 (13.06%) OpenShift
12 65 (9.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 64 (9.50%) Amazon EKS
14 55 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (7.72%) Amazon ECS
16 48 (7.12%) Entra ID
16 48 (7.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (4.90%) Azure AKS
18 24 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
19 23 (3.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (10.09%) Firewall
2 50 (7.42%) DNS
3 32 (4.75%) VPN
4 28 (4.15%) TCP/IP
5 21 (3.12%) DHCP
6 20 (2.97%) Network Security
7 11 (1.63%) SSL
8 7 (1.04%) AMQP
9 6 (0.89%) HTTP
9 6 (0.89%) VSAN
10 5 (0.74%) SAN
11 3 (0.45%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.45%) NAS
11 3 (0.45%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
11 3 (0.45%) WAN
12 2 (0.30%) Reverse Proxy
13 1 (0.15%) Fibre Channel
13 1 (0.15%) InfiniBand
13 1 (0.15%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (12.46%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 40 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
4 31 (4.60%) MongoDB
5 24 (3.56%) SQL Server
6 21 (3.12%) DynamoDB
7 19 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 18 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.78%) Redis
10 11 (1.63%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 9 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.34%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.19%) Power BI
14 7 (1.04%) Delta Lake
15 6 (0.89%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.89%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 196 (29.08%) Jenkins
2 180 (26.71%) GitLab
3 111 (16.47%) Git
4 32 (4.75%) JIRA
4 32 (4.75%) Liquibase
5 26 (3.86%) CircleCI
6 24 (3.56%) SonarQube
7 18 (2.67%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.67%) JUnit
8 15 (2.23%) Selenium
9 14 (2.08%) Maven
10 10 (1.48%) Bitbucket
10 10 (1.48%) IntelliJ
10 10 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.19%) Artifactory
11 8 (1.19%) Eclipse
11 8 (1.19%) MLflow
12 6 (0.89%) Oracle Forms
12 6 (0.89%) Postman
12 6 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 182 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 116 (17.21%) Public Sector
3 109 (16.17%) Finance
4 71 (10.53%) Banking
5 39 (5.79%) Analytical Skills
6 25 (3.71%) Financial Institution
7 13 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.34%) Law
11 7 (1.04%) Military
12 5 (0.74%) Legal
13 4 (0.59%) Games
13 4 (0.59%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.45%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.30%) Back Office
15 2 (0.30%) Billing
15 2 (0.30%) Police
15 2 (0.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
2 90 (13.35%) AWS Engineer
3 73 (10.83%) Senior
4 72 (10.68%) Architect
5 64 (9.50%) Developer
6 57 (8.46%) Platform Engineer
7 55 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (7.86%) Software Engineer
9 41 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (5.79%) Lead
11 32 (4.75%) AWS DevOps
12 31 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (4.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.86%) GCP Engineer
15 25 (3.71%) Data Engineer
16 23 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 21 (3.12%) DevSecOps Engineer
18 20 (2.97%) Python Engineer
19 19 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 18 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (13.80%) REST
2 65 (9.64%) Elastic Stack
3 59 (8.75%) RESTful
4 50 (7.42%) React
5 41 (6.08%) Node.js
6 35 (5.19%) Spring
7 32 (4.75%) Kafka
7 32 (4.75%) YAML
8 30 (4.45%) AWS CDK
9 29 (4.30%) Spring Boot
10 27 (4.01%) OAuth
11 25 (3.71%) .NET
12 23 (3.41%) ARM Templates
13 21 (3.12%) JSON
14 20 (2.97%) Keycloak
15 17 (2.52%) AngularJS
16 15 (2.23%) HTML
17 14 (2.08%) SOAP
18 12 (1.78%) OpenID
18 12 (1.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (20.03%) Cloud Native
2 62 (9.20%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (7.42%) Public Cloud
4 30 (4.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (4.15%) NHS
6 21 (3.12%) Data Centre
7 18 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.67%) Private Cloud
7 18 (2.67%) Security Posture
8 12 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (1.78%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.48%) PKI
10 10 (1.48%) Replication
11 9 (1.34%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
12 8 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 174 (25.82%) Linux
2 58 (8.61%) Windows
3 31 (4.60%) Unix
4 29 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.89%) CentOS
7 4 (0.59%) VMS
8 3 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (76.85%) CI/CD
2 441 (65.43%) DevOps
3 250 (37.09%) Containerisation
4 203 (30.12%) Agile
5 121 (17.95%) Infrastructure Automation
5 121 (17.95%) Observability
6 105 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
6 105 (15.58%) Software Engineering
6 105 (15.58%) Test Automation
7 103 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
8 101 (14.99%) DevSecOps
8 101 (14.99%) Microservices
9 100 (14.84%) High Availability
10 97 (14.39%) Migration
11 80 (11.87%) Mentoring
12 79 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
13 74 (10.98%) Cloud Security
14 71 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
15 70 (10.39%) Configuration Management
16 66 (9.79%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 344 (51.04%) Python
2 151 (22.40%) Bash
3 109 (16.17%) Java
3 109 (16.17%) PowerShell
4 73 (10.83%) SQL
5 72 (10.68%) Go
6 64 (9.50%) TypeScript
7 52 (7.72%) JavaScript
8 34 (5.04%) Bicep
9 29 (4.30%) C#
10 24 (3.56%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.48%) Perl
11 10 (1.48%) Scala
12 8 (1.19%) Ruby
13 7 (1.04%) Groovy
14 5 (0.74%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.74%) C++
15 4 (0.59%) PHP
16 3 (0.45%) C
17 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 230 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 169 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.64%) AWS Certification
4 60 (8.90%) DV Cleared
5 54 (8.01%) Degree
6 50 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (5.64%) Master's Degree
8 32 (4.75%) Azure Certification
9 29 (4.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.37%) CISSP
11 13 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 12 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (1.34%) CCSP
15 8 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (1.04%) CISM
17 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
18 3 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 2 (0.30%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 32 (4.75%) NIST
3 26 (3.86%) NCSC
4 23 (3.41%) GDPR
5 22 (3.26%) QA
6 20 (2.97%) Accessibility
7 17 (2.52%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.78%) Data Quality
9 7 (1.04%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.04%) PSD2
10 6 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (0.74%) HL7
11 5 (0.74%) SLA
12 3 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
12 3 (0.45%) GRC
12 3 (0.45%) PMO
12 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 269 (39.91%) Docker
2 55 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 49 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (4.01%) vSphere
5 10 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.89%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.59%) KVM
8 4 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.30%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.15%) GPFS
11 1 (0.15%) HDFS
11 1 (0.15%) Lustre
11 1 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 527 (78.19%) Terraform
2 317 (47.03%) Kubernetes
3 240 (35.61%) Ansible
4 157 (23.29%) Grafana
5 132 (19.58%) Prometheus
6 38 (5.64%) Argo
7 31 (4.60%) Puppet
8 25 (3.71%) Istio
9 20 (2.97%) Podman
10 15 (2.23%) Progress Chef
10 15 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (2.08%) Packer
12 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (1.34%) Proxmox
12 9 (1.34%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (1.19%) Fluentd
13 8 (1.19%) Kibana
13 8 (1.19%) Kustomize
14 7 (1.04%) linkerd
15 6 (0.89%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 94 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 85 (12.61%) Splunk
3 62 (9.20%) VMware
4 47 (6.97%) Red Hat
5 38 (5.64%) Google
6 35 (5.19%) Oracle
7 16 (2.37%) F5
8 15 (2.23%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.08%) Databricks
10 13 (1.93%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.78%) Cisco
12 10 (1.48%) Greenplum
12 10 (1.48%) IBM
12 10 (1.48%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.34%) CheckPoint
13 9 (1.34%) Cribl.io
14 8 (1.19%) webMethods
15 6 (0.89%) Avaya
15 6 (0.89%) Dell
15 6 (0.89%) Salesforce