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

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 90 101
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +25
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 412 699 1,076
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.35% 2.77% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 3.05% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 493 793
10th Percentile £375 £463 £475
25th Percentile £463 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £601
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -0.08% +9.18%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £700
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +11.63%
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 15,493 22,950 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.26% 90.92% 92.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,091 16,613 26,332
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £445 £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 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 266 397
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +5.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

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 8 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 8 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 +11 52 £550 -15.06% 11
South London 0 9 £375 -46.43% 2
West London +11 7 £463 -22.92% 12
East London 0 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 (4.85%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.18%) Apache Spark
2 9 (2.18%) Confluence
3 7 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.46%) Anypoint
4 6 (1.46%) Apache
4 6 (1.46%) nginx
5 4 (0.97%) Luigi
6 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.73%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.49%) IIS
8 1 (0.24%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 3 (0.73%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 186 (45.15%) Azure
2 175 (42.48%) AWS
3 88 (21.36%) GCP
4 76 (18.45%) Serverless
5 74 (17.96%) Azure DevOps
6 56 (13.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 50 (12.14%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (11.17%) Amazon S3
8 46 (11.17%) IaaS
9 44 (10.68%) PaaS
10 39 (9.47%) SaaS
11 38 (9.22%) GitHub
12 36 (8.74%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (5.34%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (5.34%) Entra ID
15 20 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
18 15 (3.64%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (9.71%) Firewall
2 29 (7.04%) DNS
3 17 (4.13%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.64%) Network Security
5 14 (3.40%) DHCP
6 12 (2.91%) VPN
7 11 (2.67%) LAN
8 10 (2.43%) HTTP
9 9 (2.18%) WAN
10 7 (1.70%) Kerberos
11 6 (1.46%) IPsec
11 6 (1.46%) VLAN
11 6 (1.46%) WLAN
12 5 (1.21%) NAS
12 5 (1.21%) SAN
13 4 (0.97%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.73%) IPv4
14 3 (0.73%) SNA
14 3 (0.73%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (4.61%) BigQuery
3 17 (4.13%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (3.64%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (3.40%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.91%) Relational Database
7 11 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (2.43%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.43%) MySQL
9 6 (1.46%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (1.46%) Big Data
9 6 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.21%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.21%) Redis
11 4 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (0.97%) Power BI
11 4 (0.97%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 101 (24.51%) Jenkins
2 80 (19.42%) Git
3 64 (15.53%) GitLab
4 13 (3.16%) JIRA
5 12 (2.91%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.21%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.97%) Postman
7 4 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.73%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.73%) Selenium
8 3 (0.73%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.73%) Subversion
9 2 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.49%) GoCD
9 2 (0.49%) Jaeger
9 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.49%) Terragrunt
General
1 110 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 64 (15.53%) Finance
3 29 (7.04%) Banking
4 24 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 15 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (1.70%) Law
8 6 (1.46%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.46%) Retail
9 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.97%) Marketing
11 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.49%) Billing
12 2 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.49%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.24%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.24%) Military
13 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 98 (23.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 70 (16.99%) Architect
3 52 (12.62%) Senior
4 51 (12.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 50 (12.14%) Azure Engineer
6 45 (10.92%) AWS Engineer
7 39 (9.47%) Developer
8 30 (7.28%) Cloud Architect
9 28 (6.80%) AWS DevOps
9 28 (6.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 26 (6.31%) Platform Engineer
11 23 (5.58%) GCP Engineer
12 21 (5.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 21 (5.10%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 18 (4.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 18 (4.37%) Lead
13 18 (4.37%) Security Architect
13 18 (4.37%) Security Engineer
14 16 (3.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
15 15 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.80%) Elastic Stack
2 23 (5.58%) YAML
3 21 (5.10%) ARM Templates
3 21 (5.10%) REST
4 18 (4.37%) Node.js
5 17 (4.13%) .NET
6 13 (3.16%) Kafka
7 12 (2.91%) SOAP
8 11 (2.67%) AWS CDK
9 10 (2.43%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (2.18%) GraphQL
10 9 (2.18%) LDAP
11 8 (1.94%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.94%) React
11 8 (1.94%) Spring
12 7 (1.70%) OpenAPI
12 7 (1.70%) SAML
12 7 (1.70%) Swagger
13 6 (1.46%) Apache Camel
13 6 (1.46%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.85%) Public Cloud
2 19 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.37%) Onboarding
4 15 (3.64%) IoT
4 15 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.40%) PKI
6 12 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (2.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.46%) Clustering
10 6 (1.46%) Replication
10 6 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.46%) Tandem
11 5 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.21%) Product Ownership
11 5 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.15%) Linux
2 39 (9.47%) Windows
3 23 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (4.61%) Windows Server
5 15 (3.64%) CentOS
6 9 (2.18%) Unix
7 5 (1.21%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.21%) Solaris
8 4 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.49%) Kali Linux
10 2 (0.49%) VMS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (58.50%) DevOps
2 233 (56.55%) CI/CD
3 104 (25.24%) Agile
4 91 (22.09%) Containerisation
5 79 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (16.99%) Cloud Security
7 69 (16.75%) Microservices
8 60 (14.56%) Continuous Integration
9 56 (13.59%) DevSecOps
10 43 (10.44%) Computer Science
11 42 (10.19%) Analytics
12 39 (9.47%) Platform Engineering
12 39 (9.47%) Software Engineering
13 36 (8.74%) Migration
13 36 (8.74%) Observability
14 34 (8.25%) Test Automation
15 33 (8.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 32 (7.77%) Infrastructure Automation
17 30 (7.28%) SDLC
18 29 (7.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 186 (45.15%) Python
2 79 (19.17%) PowerShell
3 75 (18.20%) Bash
4 42 (10.19%) SQL
5 39 (9.47%) Java
6 29 (7.04%) C#
7 27 (6.55%) Shell Script
8 25 (6.07%) Bicep
9 20 (4.85%) TypeScript
10 19 (4.61%) JavaScript
11 16 (3.88%) Go
12 9 (2.18%) Ruby
13 6 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.49%) C
14 2 (0.49%) C++
14 2 (0.49%) Groovy
14 2 (0.49%) PHP
15 1 (0.24%) Perl
15 1 (0.24%) Scala
15 1 (0.24%) Smalltalk
Qualifications
1 70 (16.99%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.32%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.92%) Degree
4 39 (9.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (5.10%) Azure Certification
6 12 (2.91%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (1.70%) CISSP
9 5 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.73%) CCIE
10 3 (0.73%) CCNP
10 3 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.49%) OSCP
11 2 (0.49%) PhD
11 2 (0.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.10%) NIST
2 10 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 7 (1.70%) GDPR
5 6 (1.46%) QA
6 5 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 131 (31.80%) Docker
2 38 (9.22%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.21%) Firmware
5 5 (1.21%) 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
1 315 (76.46%) Terraform
2 143 (34.71%) Kubernetes
3 101 (24.51%) Ansible
4 41 (9.95%) Grafana
5 39 (9.47%) Prometheus
6 29 (7.04%) Puppet
7 23 (5.58%) Progress Chef
8 17 (4.13%) Kibana
8 17 (4.13%) logstash
9 7 (1.70%) vRealize
10 5 (1.21%) Dell DRAC
10 5 (1.21%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.21%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.21%) Netcool
10 5 (1.21%) Packer
10 5 (1.21%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.21%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.97%) Podman
12 3 (0.73%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 75 (18.20%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.22%) Google
3 26 (6.31%) VMware
4 18 (4.37%) Oracle
4 18 (4.37%) Splunk
5 17 (4.13%) Cisco
6 16 (3.88%) Red Hat
7 15 (3.64%) Databricks
8 13 (3.16%) Amdocs
8 13 (3.16%) Dell
8 13 (3.16%) Salesforce
9 12 (2.91%) CyberArk
10 10 (2.43%) Fortinet
11 9 (2.18%) Palo Alto
11 9 (2.18%) SAP
12 7 (1.70%) HP
12 7 (1.70%) Juniper
13 6 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.46%) WSO2
14 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow