Infrastructure as Code Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 72 104
Rank change year-on-year +29 +32 -12
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 2,310 1,007 944
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 4.60% 3.40% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.43% 3.73% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 687 660
10th Percentile £400 £400 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £653 £638
90th Percentile £718 £750 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 6
10th Percentile £57.76 £26.83 £55.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £57.50 £57.19
Median hourly rate £70.00 £78.85 £69.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.22% +13.05% -10.58%
75th Percentile £76.00 £92.50 £77.13
90th Percentile £76.30 £93.25 £104.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £79.00 £69.75
% change year-on-year -11.39% +13.26% -10.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,531 26,963 37,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.04% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,533 17,106 23,691
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% -3.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,222 2,595
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.01
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.75 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -28.05% +6.23%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.43 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Infrastructure as Code job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Infrastructure as Code
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the UK

Infrastructure as Code
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 June 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
England +30 1,922 £540 -1.82% 519
London +24 1,076 £550 - 223
UK excluding London +40 872 £514 -2.10% 387
Work from Home +15 678 £550 +1.85% 278
North of England +53 363 £500 -2.44% 102
Yorkshire +30 184 £500 -4.76% 20
South East -6 157 £550 +9.89% 139
North West +24 129 £531 +11.87% 62
Midlands +5 108 £508 -8.97% 40
South West +22 106 £574 -8.20% 62
West Midlands -9 87 £525 -12.50% 27
Scotland 0 83 £481 -3.90% 12
North East +12 58 £425 -22.73% 20
East of England +5 50 £500 - 22
East Midlands -12 21 £449 -8.00% 13
Wales -10 12 £450 -14.29% 7
Northern Ireland +7 7 £446 -10.80% 11

Infrastructure as Code
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 91 (3.94%) Confluence
2 87 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 75 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 64 (2.77%) Apache
5 34 (1.47%) Jupyter
6 21 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.35%) nginx
8 8 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.13%) CMS
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.087%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.087%) Camunda
12 2 (0.087%) IIS
12 2 (0.087%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (0.35%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.087%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.087%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.043%) Weka
4 1 (0.043%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.087%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.087%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.043%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.043%) Maximo
6 1 (0.043%) Shopify
6 1 (0.043%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.043%) Summit
6 1 (0.043%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1,244 (53.85%) AWS
2 1,145 (49.57%) Azure
3 606 (26.23%) GitHub
4 473 (20.48%) GCP
5 426 (18.44%) GitHub Actions
6 403 (17.45%) Serverless
7 384 (16.62%) Azure DevOps
8 330 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
9 262 (11.34%) Amazon S3
10 255 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
11 212 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
12 175 (7.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 159 (6.88%) Azure AKS
14 149 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
15 141 (6.10%) Entra ID
16 128 (5.54%) Power Platform
17 125 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 123 (5.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 121 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
20 109 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 195 (8.44%) Firewall
2 119 (5.15%) DNS
3 113 (4.89%) Network Security
4 78 (3.38%) VPN
5 60 (2.60%) BGP
6 58 (2.51%) WAN
7 44 (1.90%) OSPF
8 35 (1.52%) SD-WAN
9 34 (1.47%) VXLAN
10 33 (1.43%) DHCP
11 30 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
12 29 (1.26%) TCP/IP
13 28 (1.21%) SAN
14 21 (0.91%) BIG-IP
15 19 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 19 (0.82%) SSL
16 17 (0.74%) HTTP
16 17 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
17 15 (0.65%) NAS
17 15 (0.65%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
2 93 (4.03%) Power BI
3 89 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 79 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
5 76 (3.29%) Data Lake
5 76 (3.29%) DynamoDB
6 68 (2.94%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.42%) MongoDB
8 54 (2.34%) BigQuery
8 54 (2.34%) Delta Lake
9 53 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 49 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 45 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
12 44 (1.90%) Redis
13 42 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (1.60%) Relational Database
15 34 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
16 31 (1.34%) MySQL
17 27 (1.17%) Big Data
17 27 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 390 (16.88%) GitLab
1 390 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 313 (13.55%) Git
3 127 (5.50%) JIRA
4 37 (1.60%) SonarQube
5 27 (1.17%) Artifactory
6 25 (1.08%) Bitbucket
7 22 (0.95%) Snyk
8 20 (0.87%) MLflow
9 19 (0.82%) JUnit
10 16 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 13 (0.56%) CircleCI
12 12 (0.52%) Claude Code
12 12 (0.52%) Postman
12 12 (0.52%) Terragrunt
13 10 (0.43%) JMeter
13 10 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
14 9 (0.39%) Mockito
15 8 (0.35%) Cucumber
16 7 (0.30%) NUnit
General
1 465 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 363 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 260 (11.26%) Finance
4 109 (4.72%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (4.24%) Banking
6 70 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 48 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (1.39%) Legal
10 25 (1.08%) Retail
11 24 (1.04%) Law
12 19 (0.82%) Military
13 12 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.43%) Telecoms
16 9 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.39%) Police
17 8 (0.35%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.30%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 483 (20.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 358 (15.50%) Senior
3 342 (14.81%) Architect
4 229 (9.91%) Cloud Engineer
5 220 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
6 209 (9.05%) Azure Engineer
7 203 (8.79%) Developer
8 191 (8.27%) Lead
9 185 (8.01%) Platform Engineer
10 158 (6.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 144 (6.23%) Data Engineer
12 122 (5.28%) AWS DevOps
13 113 (4.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 113 (4.89%) GCP Engineer
14 87 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
15 84 (3.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 83 (3.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 79 (3.42%) Senior DevOps
18 76 (3.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 75 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (7.10%) Kafka
2 127 (5.50%) REST
3 123 (5.32%) Node.js
4 103 (4.46%) React
5 97 (4.20%) .NET
6 96 (4.16%) OAuth
7 94 (4.07%) PySpark
8 92 (3.98%) RESTful
9 89 (3.85%) Spring
10 86 (3.72%) AWS CDK
10 86 (3.72%) Spring Boot
11 78 (3.38%) ARM Templates
12 72 (3.12%) OAuth2
13 65 (2.81%) OpenID
14 60 (2.60%) YAML
15 58 (2.51%) OpenTelemetry
16 56 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
17 46 (1.99%) AngularJS
18 44 (1.90%) SAML
19 37 (1.60%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 643 (27.84%) Cloud Native
2 144 (6.23%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (4.89%) Data Centre
4 112 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 110 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 94 (4.07%) Public Cloud
7 70 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 44 (1.90%) Security Posture
9 39 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 37 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
11 35 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.39%) AI Agents
13 32 (1.39%) Private Cloud
14 28 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 27 (1.17%) PKI
16 26 (1.13%) NHS
16 26 (1.13%) Replication
17 25 (1.08%) Management Information System
18 20 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 289 (12.51%) Linux
2 163 (7.06%) Windows
3 55 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 53 (2.29%) Windows Server
5 41 (1.77%) Unix
6 34 (1.47%) VMS
7 17 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) CentOS
9 5 (0.22%) AIX
10 4 (0.17%) Alpine Linux
11 3 (0.13%) Android
11 3 (0.13%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.13%) SUSE
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.087%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
12 2 (0.087%) Debian
12 2 (0.087%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,733 (75.02%) CI/CD
2 1,430 (61.90%) DevOps
3 682 (29.52%) Containerisation
4 549 (23.77%) Agile
5 535 (23.16%) Observability
6 458 (19.83%) Platform Engineering
7 361 (15.63%) AI
8 323 (13.98%) Microservices
9 310 (13.42%) Migration
10 292 (12.64%) Test Automation
11 280 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 276 (11.95%) Analytics
13 269 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
14 262 (11.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 247 (10.69%) Software Engineering
16 242 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
17 241 (10.43%) Cloud Security
18 219 (9.48%) DevSecOps
19 216 (9.35%) Infrastructure Automation
19 216 (9.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 981 (42.47%) Python
2 316 (13.68%) SQL
3 307 (13.29%) Bash
4 264 (11.43%) PowerShell
5 236 (10.22%) Java
6 222 (9.61%) Bicep
7 115 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 108 (4.68%) JavaScript
9 107 (4.63%) C#
10 85 (3.68%) Go
11 44 (1.90%) Shell Script
12 40 (1.73%) Scala
13 33 (1.43%) Ruby
14 19 (0.82%) Groovy
15 9 (0.39%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.35%) Rust
17 7 (0.30%) Search Processing Language
18 6 (0.26%) C
18 6 (0.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 806 (34.89%) Security Cleared
2 699 (30.26%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.93%) Azure Certification
4 127 (5.50%) AWS Certification
5 106 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 83 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 77 (3.33%) Degree
8 52 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 52 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 50 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
10 40 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
11 32 (1.39%) CCNP
12 25 (1.08%) CISSP
13 24 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 19 (0.82%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.56%) CCIE
16 13 (0.56%) CCNA
16 13 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 11 (0.48%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.02%) Data Quality
2 74 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 74 (3.20%) QA
3 73 (3.16%) NIST
4 70 (3.03%) GDPR
4 70 (3.03%) NCSC
5 48 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 25 (1.08%) SLA
8 16 (0.69%) SOC 2
9 15 (0.65%) GRC
9 15 (0.65%) WCAG
10 10 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
11 9 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.26%) HL7
13 6 (0.26%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.17%) COBIT
System Software
1 599 (25.93%) Docker
2 100 (4.33%) Active Directory
3 87 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 54 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (1.86%) Virtual Desktop
6 34 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 29 (1.26%) VMware NSX
8 20 (0.87%) vSphere
9 14 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.30%) Firmware
10 7 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
11 5 (0.22%) NFS
12 4 (0.17%) KVM
12 4 (0.17%) SRDF
13 3 (0.13%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.13%) Squid
13 3 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
14 2 (0.087%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.087%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.087%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 1,752 (75.84%) Terraform
2 865 (37.45%) Kubernetes
3 418 (18.10%) Ansible
4 265 (11.47%) Grafana
5 254 (11.00%) Prometheus
6 82 (3.55%) Argo
7 59 (2.55%) Istio
8 50 (2.16%) Puppet
9 39 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
10 25 (1.08%) Packer
10 25 (1.08%) Progress Chef
11 17 (0.74%) Kustomize
11 17 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
12 14 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 14 (0.61%) Rancher
13 13 (0.56%) linkerd
14 11 (0.48%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.48%) Kibana
14 11 (0.48%) Podman
15 10 (0.43%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 354 (15.32%) Microsoft
2 204 (8.83%) Google
3 142 (6.15%) Databricks
4 116 (5.02%) VMware
5 109 (4.72%) Splunk
6 74 (3.20%) Oracle
7 60 (2.60%) Cisco
8 56 (2.42%) Palo Alto
9 50 (2.16%) Dynatrace
10 43 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 43 (1.86%) ServiceNow
11 35 (1.52%) Arista
12 33 (1.43%) OpenAI
13 27 (1.17%) F5
14 22 (0.95%) Aruba
15 21 (0.91%) Fortinet
15 21 (0.91%) Okta
16 17 (0.74%) Salesforce
17 16 (0.69%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.69%) Zscaler