Infrastructure as Code Contracts in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Infra as Code)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Infrastructure as Code skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure as Code over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 74 91
Rank change year-on-year +9 +17 -14
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure as Code 64 78 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.01% 2.81% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.12% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 62 77
10th Percentile £425 £450 £495
25th Percentile £500 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £701 £680 £738
90th Percentile £738 £794 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £559 £650
% change year-on-year +2.91% -14.04% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - -26.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Infrastructure as Code
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Infrastructure as Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure as Code in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure as Code in the City of London

Infrastructure as Code
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (57.81%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 13 (20.31%) Serverless
4 12 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (17.19%) GCP
6 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
7 9 (14.06%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (14.06%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (12.50%) GitHub
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (7.81%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (7.81%) Entra ID
10 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
11 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (6.25%) CloudFront
11 4 (6.25%) IaaS
11 4 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (6.25%) PaaS
11 4 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (6.25%) Network Security
3 3 (4.69%) VPN
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (3.13%) DNS
4 2 (3.13%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.56%) HTTP
5 1 (1.56%) Internet
5 1 (1.56%) LAN
5 1 (1.56%) SAN
5 1 (1.56%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.56%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.56%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (7.81%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.81%) Power BI
3 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.13%) CockroachDB
4 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.56%) Dremio
5 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 17 (26.56%) GitLab
3 10 (15.63%) Git
4 5 (7.81%) JIRA
5 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.56%) Gerrit
5 1 (1.56%) Gradle
5 1 (1.56%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.56%) Maven
5 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.56%) VisualVM
5 1 (1.56%) YourKit
General
1 16 (25.00%) Finance
1 16 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Banking
3 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.56%) International Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (18.75%) Developer
4 7 (10.94%) Architect
4 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Environment Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Test Environment Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Test Manager
6 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Developer
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) YAML
2 5 (7.81%) React
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Graph
3 3 (4.69%) Node.js
4 2 (3.13%) Django
4 2 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.13%) Kafka
4 2 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (3.13%) RESTful
4 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.56%) boto
5 1 (1.56%) JDBC
5 1 (1.56%) JMS
5 1 (1.56%) LDAP
5 1 (1.56%) Loki
5 1 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.69%) CSOC
2 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
2 3 (4.69%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.56%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 6 (9.38%) Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Unix
3 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Solaris
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) CI/CD
2 33 (51.56%) DevOps
3 20 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.00%) Agile
4 16 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 12 (18.75%) Microservices
6 10 (15.63%) Computer Science
7 9 (14.06%) High Availability
7 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
8 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (10.94%) Machine Learning
8 7 (10.94%) Migration
9 6 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (9.38%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
10 5 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (7.81%) ETL
10 5 (7.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Python
2 17 (26.56%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 7 (10.94%) Bicep
4 7 (10.94%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Java
6 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.25%) Ruby
8 3 (4.69%) Go
9 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.56%) C#
10 1 (1.56%) C++
10 1 (1.56%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Security Cleared
2 12 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) Degree
4 8 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (48.44%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.56%) Ceph
3 1 (1.56%) HDFS
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (64.06%) Terraform
2 29 (45.31%) Kubernetes
3 16 (25.00%) Ansible
4 14 (21.88%) Grafana
4 14 (21.88%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.81%) Progress Chef
6 4 (6.25%) Puppet
7 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (4.69%) Packer
8 2 (3.13%) Netcool
8 2 (3.13%) Salt
9 1 (1.56%) Ambari
9 1 (1.56%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (1.56%) Ganglia
9 1 (1.56%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (1.56%) Kibana
9 1 (1.56%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.56%) Tivoli
9 1 (1.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Splunk
3 5 (7.81%) Google
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 4 (6.25%) Sybase
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco
5 3 (4.69%) Databricks
5 3 (4.69%) Planview
6 2 (3.13%) New Relic
7 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.56%) Aruba
7 1 (1.56%) Brio
7 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
7 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.56%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.56%) Isilon
7 1 (1.56%) Qualys
7 1 (1.56%) Serena
7 1 (1.56%) VMware