IaaS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 101 104
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing IaaS 20 26 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 1.19% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 3.03% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 54
10th Percentile £542 £466 £445
25th Percentile £568 £501 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -6.52% -2.54%
75th Percentile £688 £659 £650
90th Percentile £751 £756 £693
Central London median daily rate £600 £538 £581
% change year-on-year +11.63% -7.53% -1.48%

All Cloud 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 762 858 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.39% 39.14% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 612 934
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £460 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £669 £671 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the City of London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the City of London

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 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the City of London

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) PaaS
3 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (40.00%) SaaS
4 6 (30.00%) AWS
5 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
7 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Datadog
8 1 (5.00%) GitHub
8 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
8 1 (5.00%) Rubrik
8 1 (5.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
1 3 (15.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (5.00%) Serena SBM
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Spanish Language
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
1 6 (30.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (15.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Service Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Time Management
4 3 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Cost Management
5 2 (10.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 2 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Groovy
1 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) Perl
3 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Ruby
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Control-M
2 1 (5.00%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 1 (5.00%) Nessus
2 1 (5.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.00%) Qualys
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) BMC
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) EMC
4 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.00%) Mavenir
4 1 (5.00%) Nokia
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (5.00%) Serena
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Sybase
4 1 (5.00%) Tenable
4 1 (5.00%) Tripwire