Infrastructure as Code Contracts in London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Infrastructure as Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 87 91
Rank change year-on-year -27 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 382 744 1,155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.16% 2.84% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.12% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 513 849
10th Percentile £382 £476 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £710 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £55.13 £30.25 -
25th Percentile £55.31 £60.63 -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% - -
75th Percentile £57.81 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £58.38 £96.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £78.00 £51.19
% change year-on-year -19.87% +52.38% -15.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Infrastructure as Code is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +5 49 £550 -14.73% 14
South London -1 11 £375 -46.43%
West London +3 6 £525 -12.50% 7
East London +2 5 £538 +7.50% 10
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 23 (6.02%) OpenStack
2 11 (2.88%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.88%) Confluence
3 8 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.83%) Apache
5 5 (1.31%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.31%) nginx
6 4 (1.05%) Luigi
7 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.52%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (47.38%) AWS
2 162 (42.41%) Azure
3 84 (21.99%) GCP
4 77 (20.16%) Serverless
5 61 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
6 52 (13.61%) AWS Lambda
7 49 (12.83%) AWS CloudFormation
8 46 (12.04%) Amazon S3
9 45 (11.78%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (11.78%) IaaS
10 43 (11.26%) PaaS
11 41 (10.73%) SaaS
12 34 (8.90%) GitHub
13 29 (7.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 24 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
15 23 (6.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 20 (5.24%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (3.93%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (3.93%) Vertex AI
18 14 (3.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 49 (12.83%) Firewall
2 27 (7.07%) DNS
3 19 (4.97%) TCP/IP
3 19 (4.97%) VPN
4 17 (4.45%) DHCP
5 16 (4.19%) LAN
6 15 (3.93%) WAN
7 13 (3.40%) Network Security
7 13 (3.40%) WLAN
8 11 (2.88%) IPsec
8 11 (2.88%) Wireless
9 10 (2.62%) Kerberos
9 10 (2.62%) VLAN
10 9 (2.36%) HTTP
11 8 (2.09%) BGP
11 8 (2.09%) NAS
11 8 (2.09%) OSPF
11 8 (2.09%) SAN
12 6 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (1.31%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.28%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
3 19 (4.97%) BigQuery
4 16 (4.19%) NoSQL
5 15 (3.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (3.93%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.62%) Big Data
6 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 8 (2.09%) MySQL
9 6 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
9 6 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.05%) Power BI
10 4 (1.05%) Redis
11 2 (0.52%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 100 (26.18%) Jenkins
2 76 (19.90%) Git
3 56 (14.66%) GitLab
4 14 (3.66%) TeamCity
5 13 (3.40%) JIRA
6 6 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.31%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.05%) Maven
8 4 (1.05%) Selenium
8 4 (1.05%) Terragrunt
8 4 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.79%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.79%) Subversion
10 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.52%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.52%) GoCD
10 2 (0.52%) Jaeger
11 1 (0.26%) Darcs
11 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 97 (25.39%) Social Skills
2 58 (15.18%) Finance
3 24 (6.28%) Public Sector
4 19 (4.97%) Banking
5 18 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.09%) Retail
8 7 (1.83%) Law
9 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.31%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.31%) Marketing
11 4 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.79%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.52%) Billing
13 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.52%) Legal
14 1 (0.26%) Electronics
14 1 (0.26%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.26%) Military
14 1 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (23.04%) DevOps Engineer
2 69 (18.06%) Architect
3 48 (12.57%) AWS Engineer
4 44 (11.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 41 (10.73%) Senior
6 38 (9.95%) Azure Engineer
7 32 (8.38%) AWS DevOps
8 31 (8.12%) Cloud Architect
9 30 (7.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 30 (7.85%) Developer
10 23 (6.02%) Lead
11 22 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (5.24%) GCP Engineer
13 18 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.71%) Security Architect
14 17 (4.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 17 (4.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 16 (4.19%) Data Engineer
16 15 (3.93%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.16%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (5.50%) YAML
3 18 (4.71%) REST
4 17 (4.45%) Node.js
5 16 (4.19%) .NET
5 16 (4.19%) Kafka
6 13 (3.40%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.88%) LDAP
8 10 (2.62%) SOAP
9 9 (2.36%) AWS CDK
9 9 (2.36%) GraphQL
10 8 (2.09%) .NET Core
10 8 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (2.09%) React
11 7 (1.83%) OAuth
11 7 (1.83%) Spring
11 7 (1.83%) Swagger
12 6 (1.57%) OpenAPI
13 5 (1.31%) ActiveMQ
13 5 (1.31%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.76%) PKI
2 20 (5.24%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.93%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.66%) IoT
5 14 (3.66%) Public Cloud
6 10 (2.62%) Data Centre
6 10 (2.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (2.36%) Clustering
7 9 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.36%) Replication
8 7 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.57%) Tandem
10 5 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 92 (24.08%) Linux
2 43 (11.26%) Windows
3 28 (7.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (6.54%) Windows Server
5 20 (5.24%) CentOS
6 8 (2.09%) Oracle Linux
6 8 (2.09%) Solaris
6 8 (2.09%) Unix
7 6 (1.57%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.05%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.26%) VMS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (58.64%) DevOps
2 210 (54.97%) CI/CD
3 93 (24.35%) Agile
4 76 (19.90%) Containerisation
5 69 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (15.71%) Cloud Security
7 59 (15.45%) Microservices
8 55 (14.40%) Continuous Integration
9 51 (13.35%) DevSecOps
10 40 (10.47%) Analytics
11 38 (9.95%) Computer Science
12 36 (9.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 35 (9.16%) Software Engineering
14 33 (8.64%) Observability
15 31 (8.12%) Platform Engineering
16 30 (7.85%) Migration
17 29 (7.59%) Test Automation
18 28 (7.33%) Deployment Automation
18 28 (7.33%) SDLC
19 26 (6.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 180 (47.12%) Python
2 75 (19.63%) PowerShell
3 74 (19.37%) Bash
4 41 (10.73%) SQL
5 36 (9.42%) Java
6 27 (7.07%) C#
7 25 (6.54%) Shell Script
8 22 (5.76%) Bicep
9 18 (4.71%) Go
9 18 (4.71%) TypeScript
10 16 (4.19%) JavaScript
11 9 (2.36%) Ruby
12 2 (0.52%) Groovy
12 2 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.52%) Perl
12 2 (0.52%) PHP
13 1 (0.26%) C
13 1 (0.26%) C++
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
13 1 (0.26%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 76 (19.90%) Security Cleared
2 67 (17.54%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.73%) Degree
4 36 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.09%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.09%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (1.57%) CISSP
8 5 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.05%) OSCP
10 3 (0.79%) CCIE
10 3 (0.79%) CCNP
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.52%) GIAC
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.52%) SANS
12 1 (0.26%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.24%) NIST
2 9 (2.36%) PCI DSS
3 8 (2.09%) GDPR
3 8 (2.09%) QA
3 8 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.52%) NCSC
7 1 (0.26%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 116 (30.37%) Docker
2 34 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.45%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (4.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.31%) Firmware
6 5 (1.31%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.52%) Squid
8 1 (0.26%) Ceph
8 1 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.26%) NFS
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.26%) XenApp
8 1 (0.26%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 290 (75.92%) Terraform
2 125 (32.72%) Kubernetes
3 98 (25.65%) Ansible
4 44 (11.52%) Grafana
5 42 (10.99%) Prometheus
6 32 (8.38%) Puppet
7 24 (6.28%) Progress Chef
8 20 (5.24%) Kibana
8 20 (5.24%) logstash
9 10 (2.62%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.09%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (2.09%) Netcool
10 8 (2.09%) Packer
10 8 (2.09%) Tivoli
10 8 (2.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 5 (1.31%) Consul
11 5 (1.31%) Dell DRAC
11 5 (1.31%) vCenter Server
11 5 (1.31%) vRealize
12 3 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 65 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 32 (8.38%) Google
3 28 (7.33%) VMware
4 26 (6.81%) Cisco
5 21 (5.50%) Oracle
6 20 (5.24%) Splunk
7 17 (4.45%) Dell
8 16 (4.19%) Palo Alto
9 15 (3.93%) Red Hat
10 13 (3.40%) Amdocs
11 12 (3.14%) Databricks
12 11 (2.88%) CyberArk
12 11 (2.88%) Fortinet
12 11 (2.88%) Salesforce
13 10 (2.62%) HP
13 10 (2.62%) Juniper
14 9 (2.36%) SAP
14 9 (2.36%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.09%) IBM
15 8 (2.09%) Isilon