IaaS Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 108 101
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 21 27 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.05% 1.11% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.43% 2.82% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 56
10th Percentile £503 £466 £435
25th Percentile £549 £501 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% -2.54%
75th Percentile £657 £659 £653
90th Percentile £751 £756 £700
London median daily rate £585 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% -

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 864 958 1,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.24% 39.25% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 693 1,015
10th Percentile £365 £351 £313
25th Percentile £458 £430 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £665 £650 £700
90th Percentile £739 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Central London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Central London

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 2 May 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 +1 20 £600 +11.63% 7
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 4 (19.05%) Confluence
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (71.43%) Azure
2 11 (52.38%) PaaS
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (38.10%) SaaS
5 6 (28.57%) AWS
5 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 3 (14.29%) Serverless
7 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Datadog
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub
8 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
8 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
8 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
1 3 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (4.76%) Kerberos
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (4.76%) Serena SBM
3 1 (4.76%) Subversion
3 1 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Spanish Language
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 2 (9.52%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 4 (19.05%) Private Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.52%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
1 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 3 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (14.29%) High Availability
4 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 3 (14.29%) Service Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Time Management
4 3 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Cost Management
5 2 (9.52%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Management
5 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) Groovy
1 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Ruby
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (9.52%) SOC 2
3 1 (4.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Control-M
3 1 (4.76%) Data Guard
3 1 (4.76%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (4.76%) Nessus
3 1 (4.76%) QRadar
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (9.52%) Qualys
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) BMC
4 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
4 1 (4.76%) EMC
4 1 (4.76%) Ericsson
4 1 (4.76%) Mavenir
4 1 (4.76%) Nokia
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Serena
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) Sybase
4 1 (4.76%) Tenable
4 1 (4.76%) Tripwire