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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing IaaS 9 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.42% 0.98% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.01% 2.27% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile £523 £550 £465
25th Percentile £541 £575 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% +31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £751 £656
90th Percentile £755 £769 £702
Central London median daily rate £606 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -8.49% +20.45% -4.35%

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 889 750 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.35% 43.08% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 491 629
10th Percentile £350 £394 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £658
90th Percentile £750 £738 £746
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £31.88 - £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.87% +54.00% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £132.00 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%

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 29 March 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) PaaS
3 5 (55.56%) SaaS
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (22.22%) GitHub
5 2 (22.22%) OCI
5 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Migration Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) JWT
3 1 (11.11%) OAuth
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Operations
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 2 (22.22%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) DevSecOps
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) OSCP
2 1 (11.11%) SANS
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GRC
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NCSC
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
1 2 (22.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Rapid7
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow