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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 105 100
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing IaaS 8 18 29
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.36% 0.90% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 2.13% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 16
10th Percentile £523 £503 £450
25th Percentile £541 £559 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.49% +20.45% -5.38%
75th Percentile £688 £751 £657
90th Percentile £755 £765 £744
London median daily rate £625 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +6.84% -2.50% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing 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 936 847 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.56% 42.24% 38.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 552 703
10th Percentile £343 £375 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -48.57%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.25 £29.07 £29.72
% change year-on-year +21.26% -2.19% -15.09%

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 20 March 2026.

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 20 March 2026. 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 -27 8 £606 -16.38% 6
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) PaaS
3 4 (50.00%) SaaS
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (25.00%) GitHub
5 2 (25.00%) OCI
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (37.50%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) OSCP
2 1 (12.50%) SANS
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GRC
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
1 2 (25.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow