IaaS Contracts in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 202 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -10 -12
Contract jobs citing IaaS 174 345 614
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.98% 1.29% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.58% 3.30% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 228 425
10th Percentile £415 £429 £427
25th Percentile £500 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £775 £703 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - £60.75 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £73.13 £73.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £85.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.41% +14.10% +20.15%
75th Percentile £26.50 £93.13 £75.84
90th Percentile - £98.75 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +25.83%

All Cloud Skills
London

IaaS is in the Cloud Services 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 cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,749 10,453 16,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.14% 39.01% 41.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 7,630 12,117
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £444 £475 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 88 86
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £21.81 £24.25 £21.65
Median hourly rate £25.00 £41.82 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.21% +12.26% -0.67%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £60.59
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.30 £79.13
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.52% -4.36%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
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 IaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 4 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 -7 26 £525 -8.70% 8
North London - 1 £425 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
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 16 (9.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.75%) Site Server
4 8 (4.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) IIS
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 108 (62.07%) Azure
2 107 (61.49%) PaaS
3 83 (47.70%) SaaS
4 45 (25.86%) AWS
5 35 (20.11%) Entra ID
6 30 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (12.07%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (9.77%) Serverless
10 15 (8.62%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (8.05%) GCP
12 12 (6.90%) Amazon S3
13 11 (6.32%) Mimecast
14 9 (5.17%) Power Platform
15 8 (4.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (4.60%) Nutanix
15 8 (4.60%) Rubrik
16 6 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
16 6 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (25.86%) Firewall
2 24 (13.79%) DNS
3 11 (6.32%) DHCP
4 10 (5.75%) VPN
5 9 (5.17%) Kerberos
5 9 (5.17%) MPLS
5 9 (5.17%) NAS
5 9 (5.17%) SAN
5 9 (5.17%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.60%) VLAN
7 6 (3.45%) LAN
7 6 (3.45%) WAN
8 3 (1.72%) WLAN
9 2 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (1.15%) Internet
9 2 (1.15%) SSL
9 2 (1.15%) Wireless
10 1 (0.57%) IPsec
10 1 (0.57%) Network Security
10 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.47%) GIS
2 12 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.30%) Power BI
7 3 (1.72%) Big Data
7 3 (1.72%) OLAP
7 3 (1.72%) OLTP
7 3 (1.72%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.57%) MySQL
9 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.57%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 14 (8.05%) Git
3 10 (5.75%) JIRA
4 8 (4.60%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.15%) GitLab
7 2 (1.15%) Gradle
7 2 (1.15%) Maven
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.57%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.57%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.57%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (29.89%) Finance
2 30 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 21 (12.07%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.90%) Banking
4 12 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 10 (5.75%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (5.17%) Electronics
6 9 (5.17%) Marketing
7 7 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Legal
9 5 (2.87%) French Language
10 4 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.30%) Law
11 3 (1.72%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
12 2 (1.15%) Italian Language
12 2 (1.15%) Retail
13 1 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 60 (34.48%) Architect
2 26 (14.94%) Security Architect
2 26 (14.94%) Senior
3 21 (12.07%) Cloud Architect
4 18 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (10.34%) Senior Architect
5 17 (9.77%) Senior Security Architect
6 11 (6.32%) Azure Architect
6 11 (6.32%) Developer
6 11 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (5.75%) Cloud Security Architect
7 10 (5.75%) Enterprise Architect
8 9 (5.17%) Consultant
9 8 (4.60%) AWS Architect
9 8 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Senior Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) GIS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.07%) REST
2 10 (5.75%) LDAP
3 8 (4.60%) .NET
4 7 (4.02%) Middleware
5 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
5 6 (3.45%) OAuth
5 6 (3.45%) OpenID
5 6 (3.45%) SAML
6 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (2.30%) YAML
8 3 (1.72%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.15%) JSON
9 2 (1.15%) Kafka
10 1 (0.57%) CSS3
10 1 (0.57%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.57%) HTML5
10 1 (0.57%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.57%) RESTful
10 1 (0.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.05%) Mobile App
2 13 (7.47%) IoT
3 10 (5.75%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.17%) Clustering
4 9 (5.17%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.17%) Replication
5 7 (4.02%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.87%) CMDB
7 5 (2.87%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.30%) Client/Server
8 4 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.72%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.72%) Tandem
10 2 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.15%) PKI
10 2 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (21.26%) Windows
2 28 (16.09%) Windows Server
3 23 (13.22%) Linux
4 14 (8.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (6.32%) Solaris
6 8 (4.60%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (2.87%) Ubuntu
7 5 (2.87%) Unix
7 5 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.72%) VMS
9 2 (1.15%) CentOS
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (27.59%) DevOps
2 44 (25.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (24.14%) Cloud Security
4 37 (21.26%) Agile
5 29 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (15.52%) Security Architecture
7 25 (14.37%) Migration
8 22 (12.64%) Data Loss Prevention
9 20 (11.49%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (10.92%) CI/CD
11 18 (10.34%) Information Security
12 16 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (9.20%) Design Patterns
12 16 (9.20%) Roadmaps
13 15 (8.62%) Architectural Patterns
13 15 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.62%) DevSecOps
13 15 (8.62%) Project Delivery
14 14 (8.05%) SDLC
14 14 (8.05%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.97%) PowerShell
1 33 (18.97%) Python
2 11 (6.32%) JavaScript
2 11 (6.32%) SQL
3 10 (5.75%) Korn
4 9 (5.17%) Bash
5 5 (2.87%) C#
6 3 (1.72%) Java
7 2 (1.15%) Bicep
7 2 (1.15%) Ruby
8 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.57%) Go
8 1 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (11.49%) Security Cleared
2 15 (8.62%) Azure Certification
2 15 (8.62%) Degree
3 11 (6.32%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.87%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.87%) TOGAF Certification
6 4 (2.30%) APMP
6 4 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.30%) PMP
7 3 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.72%) CISSP
7 3 (1.72%) GIAC
8 2 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.15%) CISA
8 2 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.15%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.92%) NIST
2 17 (9.77%) GDPR
3 8 (4.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (2.87%) SLA
5 3 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.15%) GRC
6 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.15%) NIST 800
6 2 (1.15%) QA
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (20.69%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (9.20%) Docker
4 6 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (24.71%) Terraform
2 21 (12.07%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.34%) Ansible
3 18 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.60%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (4.60%) Netcool
4 8 (4.60%) Tivoli
4 8 (4.60%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (2.87%) Grafana
6 4 (2.30%) Puppet
6 4 (2.30%) SCCM
7 3 (1.72%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.15%) Nessus
8 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 65 (37.36%) Microsoft
2 28 (16.09%) Oracle
3 20 (11.49%) VMware
4 13 (7.47%) ESRI
5 11 (6.32%) Citrix
6 10 (5.75%) Cisco
6 10 (5.75%) HP
6 10 (5.75%) SAP
7 9 (5.17%) IBM
8 8 (4.60%) CyberArk
8 8 (4.60%) Dell
8 8 (4.60%) EMC
8 8 (4.60%) Isilon
8 8 (4.60%) Qualys
8 8 (4.60%) Serena
8 8 (4.60%) ServiceNow
8 8 (4.60%) Splunk
9 7 (4.02%) Okta
10 6 (3.45%) MuleSoft
10 6 (3.45%) Red Hat