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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 109 109
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +42
Contract jobs citing IaaS 20 23 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.04% 0.99% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.52% 2.50% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 32
10th Percentile £454 £410 £438
25th Percentile £495 £512 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £575 £613
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -6.12% +3.81%
75th Percentile £775 £663 £725
90th Percentile £830 £749 £865
London median daily rate £700 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% +1.27%

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 795 919 1,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.45% 39.49% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 603 840
10th Percentile £344 £400 £344
25th Percentile £428 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 11
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £24.61 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £33.75 £38.38
% change year-on-year -23.75% -12.05% +50.49%

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 12 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 12 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 +3 19 £675 +20.54% 23
City of Westminster -2 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
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 12 (60.00%) PaaS
2 12 (60.00%) SaaS
3 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.00%) Boomi
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub
6 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) iPaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (10.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
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 4 (20.00%) 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
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 10 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (20.00%) 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
5 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) International Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
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%) 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%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.00%) Middleware
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
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%) Migration
3 5 (25.00%) Change Management
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (20.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Operations
5 3 (15.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bicep
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) COBOL
3 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
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%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.00%) GAAP
3 1 (5.00%) GRC
3 1 (5.00%) IFRS
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Docker
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) SCOM
4 1 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (5.00%) Istio
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
4 3 (15.00%) Oracle
5 2 (10.00%) HP
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%) LogRhythm
6 1 (5.00%) NetApp