IaaS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring IaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 103 108
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing IaaS 21 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.08% 1.16% 1.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.86% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 40
10th Percentile £454 £413 £449
25th Percentile £495 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +2.56%
75th Percentile £760 £638 £725
90th Percentile £825 £738 £830
London median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Cloud Skills
Central London

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 769 944 1,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.60% 40.60% 42.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 637 936
10th Percentile £331 £375 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £557 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.17% -1.07% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £763 £788
London median daily rate £530 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 6
10th Percentile £20.33 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.11 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -17.00%
75th Percentile £55.60 - £34.44
90th Percentile £81.80 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Central London

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Central London

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. 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
City of London +7 20 £600 +10.34% 8
City of Westminster -3 1 - -
West End of London - 1 - -
IaaS
London

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) CICS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) PaaS
2 11 (52.38%) SaaS
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Boomi
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.52%) iPaaS
5 2 (9.52%) Mimecast
5 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
5 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Table
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) DKIM
2 1 (4.76%) DMARC
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Power BI
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
1 3 (14.29%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Service Manager
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Head of Technology
4 1 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.76%) ADO
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.76%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) AIX
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Migration
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) ITIL
2 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (9.52%) Business Development
4 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.52%) Observability
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architecture
4 2 (9.52%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Bicep
1 3 (14.29%) Groovy
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) COBOL
3 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.52%) MCITP
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
2 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.76%) GAAP
3 1 (4.76%) IFRS
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 2 (9.52%) SCOM
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Istio
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Google
3 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) HP
4 2 (9.52%) Palo Alto
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 2 (9.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.76%) NetApp
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds