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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 108 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing IaaS 15 21 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.63% 1.12% 1.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.69% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 21
10th Percentile £503 £509 £413
25th Percentile £590 £561 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £740 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.54% +34.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £647 £775 £660
90th Percentile £692 £858 £738
Central London median daily rate £625 £740 £555
% change year-on-year -15.54% +33.33% -7.50%

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 946 781 851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.70% 41.70% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 513 594
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £461 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +28.33% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%

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 4 August 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) PaaS
2 8 (53.33%) SaaS
3 7 (46.67%) Azure
4 5 (33.33%) AWS
5 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Functions
7 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (13.33%) Serverless
8 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
8 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 3 (20.00%) DHCP
2 3 (20.00%) DNS
2 3 (20.00%) SMTP
2 3 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Postman
1 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Architect
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (6.67%) SOAP
3 1 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (6.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (20.00%) PKI
3 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Android
3 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (26.67%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (26.67%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (20.00%) AI
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (6.67%) Disruptive Innovation
6 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (6.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 1 (6.67%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (13.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Nagios
2 3 (20.00%) Puppet
2 3 (20.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (20.00%) vMotion
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (20.00%) Citrix
3 3 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (20.00%) HP
3 3 (20.00%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow