IaaS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 102 105
Rank change year-on-year -17 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing IaaS 13 23 29
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 1.23% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 2.93% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 20
10th Percentile £567 £561 £411
25th Percentile £607 £575 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £740 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +34.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £656 £768 £661
90th Percentile £727 £838 £756
Central London median daily rate £625 £670 £560
% change year-on-year -6.72% +19.64% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 944 786 886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.22% 42.08% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 513 618
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £462 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £755 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 5
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £18.45
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £50.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £75.60
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the City of London

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the City of London

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing IaaS

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) PaaS
2 7 (53.85%) SaaS
3 6 (46.15%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) AWS
5 4 (30.77%) GCP
5 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
6 3 (23.08%) OpenShift
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.69%) OCI
7 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) SMTP
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) JWT
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
2 1 (7.69%) XML
2 1 (7.69%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Android
3 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) DevOps
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (38.46%) TOGAF
2 4 (30.77%) Sprint Planning
2 4 (30.77%) Sprint Retrospective
2 4 (30.77%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
3 3 (23.08%) Software Deployment
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (15.38%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 1 (7.69%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.69%) DevSecOps
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) BitLocker
2 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (23.08%) Terminal Services
2 3 (23.08%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Nagios
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) vMotion
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Databricks
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Citrix
2 3 (23.08%) Google
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) Symantec
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow