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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 107 105
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +46
Contract jobs citing IaaS 20 21 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.02% 0.90% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 2.28% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 33
10th Percentile £459 £409 £438
25th Percentile £499 £508 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £621 £568 £600
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.42% +1.69%
75th Percentile £771 £663 £725
90th Percentile £826 £755 £855
London median daily rate £700 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% +0.84%

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 805 921 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.20% 39.29% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 601 832
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

IaaS job vacancy trend 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 November 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 November 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 -6 19 £621 +10.94% 24
City of Westminster +1 1 - -
West End of London - 1 - -
IaaS
London

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 19 (95.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) PaaS
2 12 (60.00%) SaaS
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) AWS
7 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (10.00%) Boomi
7 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
7 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (5.00%) DKIM
3 1 (5.00%) DMARC
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) MPLS
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) TOGAF
6 2 (10.00%) Business Development
6 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bicep
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) Python
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) COBOL
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) MCITP
4 1 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) CCSP
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) OSCP
4 1 (5.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (15.00%) GDPR
3 2 (10.00%) GRC
3 2 (10.00%) NCSC
3 2 (10.00%) NIST
3 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (10.00%) SLA
3 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
4 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) SCOM
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Istio
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp
6 1 (5.00%) Rapid7