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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -22 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 10 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.43% 0.91% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.03% 2.09% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 13
10th Percentile £512 £503 £465
25th Percentile £513 £559 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £663 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +20.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £751 £656
90th Percentile £740 £765 £702
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 971 860 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.44% 43.46% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 692 562 687
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% +1.85% -6.09%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £725 £747
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.56 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £41.88 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £100.00 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -15 10 £563 -22.41% 7
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 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) PaaS
3 6 (60.00%) SaaS
4 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) OCI
5 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Postman
1 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) JWT
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bicep
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (10.00%) CCSP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) OSCP
3 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) NCSC
2 2 (20.00%) GRC
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
2 2 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow