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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 94 96
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +30
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 411 703 1,089
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.35% 2.76% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 3.04% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 497 803
10th Percentile £375 £470 £475
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £700
90th Percentile £748 £788 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £78.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.46% - -

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 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +10 51 £550 -14.23% 12
South London -2 9 £375 -46.43% 1
West London +8 6 £525 -12.50% 8
East London -3 5 £538 +7.50% 4
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 20 (4.87%) OpenStack
2 10 (2.43%) Apache Spark
3 9 (2.19%) Confluence
4 8 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.70%) Apache
6 6 (1.46%) Anypoint
6 6 (1.46%) nginx
7 4 (0.97%) Luigi
8 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.49%) IIS
10 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 182 (44.28%) Azure
2 178 (43.31%) AWS
3 86 (20.92%) GCP
4 78 (18.98%) Serverless
5 74 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (12.90%) AWS CloudFormation
7 52 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 44 (10.71%) IaaS
9 42 (10.22%) PaaS
10 39 (9.49%) SaaS
11 38 (9.25%) GitHub
12 37 (9.00%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (5.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (5.35%) Amazon EKS
15 19 (4.62%) Entra ID
15 19 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (4.14%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (3.65%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.19%) Firewall
2 26 (6.33%) DNS
3 17 (4.14%) VPN
4 16 (3.89%) LAN
4 16 (3.89%) TCP/IP
5 15 (3.65%) Network Security
6 14 (3.41%) DHCP
6 14 (3.41%) WAN
7 11 (2.68%) IPsec
7 11 (2.68%) WLAN
8 9 (2.19%) HTTP
9 8 (1.95%) BGP
9 8 (1.95%) OSPF
9 8 (1.95%) Wireless
10 7 (1.70%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.46%) VLAN
12 5 (1.22%) NAS
12 5 (1.22%) SAN
13 4 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (4.62%) BigQuery
3 17 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (3.89%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (3.16%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 11 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.68%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.43%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.43%) MySQL
9 7 (1.70%) Big Data
9 7 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (1.22%) Redis
12 4 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.97%) Power BI
13 3 (0.73%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (24.57%) Jenkins
2 77 (18.73%) Git
3 64 (15.57%) GitLab
4 13 (3.16%) JIRA
5 12 (2.92%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.22%) Burp Suite
6 5 (1.22%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.97%) Postman
7 4 (0.97%) Selenium
7 4 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.73%) Subversion
8 3 (0.73%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.49%) GoCD
9 2 (0.49%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 62 (15.09%) Finance
3 29 (7.06%) Banking
4 22 (5.35%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.70%) Law
7 7 (1.70%) Retail
8 6 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 4 (0.97%) Marketing
10 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.49%) Billing
11 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Legal
11 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.24%) Military
12 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 97 (23.60%) DevOps Engineer
2 72 (17.52%) Architect
3 52 (12.65%) Senior
4 49 (11.92%) Azure Engineer
5 48 (11.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 44 (10.71%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (9.49%) Developer
8 31 (7.54%) Cloud Architect
9 29 (7.06%) AWS DevOps
10 28 (6.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 25 (6.08%) Platform Engineer
12 21 (5.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.11%) GCP Engineer
13 20 (4.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 20 (4.87%) Lead
14 18 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (4.38%) Security Architect
15 17 (4.14%) Security Engineer
16 16 (3.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
17 15 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (5.35%) REST
2 22 (5.35%) YAML
3 20 (4.87%) ARM Templates
4 18 (4.38%) Node.js
5 16 (3.89%) .NET
6 13 (3.16%) Kafka
7 12 (2.92%) SOAP
8 11 (2.68%) AWS CDK
9 10 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.19%) GraphQL
10 9 (2.19%) LDAP
11 8 (1.95%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.95%) React
11 8 (1.95%) Spring
12 7 (1.70%) OAuth
12 7 (1.70%) OpenAPI
12 7 (1.70%) Swagger
13 6 (1.46%) Apache Camel
13 6 (1.46%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.87%) PKI
1 20 (4.87%) Public Cloud
2 18 (4.38%) Cloud Native
2 18 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 14 (3.41%) IoT
5 11 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (2.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (2.19%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.46%) Clustering
9 6 (1.46%) Replication
9 6 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.46%) Tandem
10 5 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.22%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (21.17%) Linux
2 38 (9.25%) Windows
3 23 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.62%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.65%) CentOS
6 8 (1.95%) Unix
7 5 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.22%) Solaris
8 4 (0.97%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.49%) VMS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (57.91%) DevOps
2 229 (55.72%) CI/CD
3 103 (25.06%) Agile
4 91 (22.14%) Containerisation
5 79 (19.22%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (17.03%) Cloud Security
6 70 (17.03%) Microservices
7 57 (13.87%) Continuous Integration
8 54 (13.14%) DevSecOps
9 45 (10.95%) Computer Science
10 44 (10.71%) Analytics
11 39 (9.49%) Software Engineering
12 37 (9.00%) Migration
12 37 (9.00%) Observability
12 37 (9.00%) Platform Engineering
13 35 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 33 (8.03%) Test Automation
15 30 (7.30%) Configuration Management
15 30 (7.30%) Infrastructure Automation
15 30 (7.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 185 (45.01%) Python
2 75 (18.25%) Bash
2 75 (18.25%) PowerShell
3 43 (10.46%) SQL
4 37 (9.00%) Java
5 27 (6.57%) C#
6 26 (6.33%) Shell Script
7 25 (6.08%) Bicep
8 18 (4.38%) TypeScript
9 17 (4.14%) Go
9 17 (4.14%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.70%) Ruby
11 4 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.49%) C
12 2 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) Groovy
13 1 (0.24%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) Rust
13 1 (0.24%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 76 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 65 (15.82%) SC Cleared
3 46 (11.19%) Degree
4 41 (9.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.87%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.68%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.70%) CISSP
9 6 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.97%) OSCP
12 3 (0.73%) CCIE
12 3 (0.73%) CCNP
12 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.49%) GIAC
13 2 (0.49%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.49%) SANS
14 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.11%) NIST
2 10 (2.43%) PCI DSS
3 9 (2.19%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.70%) GDPR
6 6 (1.46%) QA
7 5 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 131 (31.87%) Docker
2 36 (8.76%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.22%) Firmware
5 5 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.49%) Squid
8 1 (0.24%) Ceph
8 1 (0.24%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.24%) NFS
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) XenApp
8 1 (0.24%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 312 (75.91%) Terraform
2 139 (33.82%) Kubernetes
3 99 (24.09%) Ansible
4 43 (10.46%) Grafana
5 39 (9.49%) Prometheus
6 29 (7.06%) Puppet
7 22 (5.35%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.14%) Kibana
8 17 (4.14%) logstash
9 8 (1.95%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (1.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.22%) Netcool
10 5 (1.22%) Packer
10 5 (1.22%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (1.22%) vRealize
11 4 (0.97%) Podman
12 3 (0.73%) Nessus
12 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.00%) Google
3 26 (6.33%) VMware
4 22 (5.35%) Cisco
5 19 (4.62%) Oracle
5 19 (4.62%) Splunk
6 16 (3.89%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.65%) Databricks
7 15 (3.65%) Fortinet
8 14 (3.41%) Palo Alto
9 13 (3.16%) Amdocs
9 13 (3.16%) Dell
9 13 (3.16%) Salesforce
10 12 (2.92%) Juniper
11 10 (2.43%) CyberArk
12 9 (2.19%) SAP
13 7 (1.70%) HP
14 6 (1.46%) Extreme Networks
14 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.46%) WSO2