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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 103 108
Rank change year-on-year -27 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing IaaS 8 21 27
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.33% 1.05% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 2.43% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 14
10th Percentile £524 £503 £466
25th Percentile £542 £549 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +11.63% -6.52%
75th Percentile £656 £657 £659
90th Percentile £668 £751 £756
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 974 864 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.66% 43.24% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 560 693
10th Percentile £350 £365 £351
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +3.01% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £650
90th Percentile £749 £739 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.00 £17.39
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £24.56
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £33.98
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -28 8 £606 +1.04% 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 7 (87.50%) PaaS
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 2 (25.00%) OCI
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub
5 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) JWT
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
1 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
2 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) AI
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bicep
1 1 (12.50%) Java
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CCSP
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) OSCP
1 1 (12.50%) SANS
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) NCSC
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Rapid7
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow