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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 106 105
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +36
Contract jobs citing IaaS 20 24 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.13% 1.14% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.82% 2.83% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 38
10th Percentile £454 £409 £471
25th Percentile £495 £501 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £760 £656 £719
90th Percentile £825 £792 £840
Central London median daily rate £600 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +2.56%

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 708 847 1,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.16% 40.37% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 562 846
10th Percentile £339 £388 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.10% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £751 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 6
10th Percentile £23.84 - £14.63
25th Percentile £26.23 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.33 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.13% +30.12% -38.97%
75th Percentile £58.96 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £86.43 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%

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
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 18 September 2025.

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 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CICS
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) PaaS
2 11 (55.00%) SaaS
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) Boomi
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.00%) iPaaS
5 2 (10.00%) Mimecast
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) MPLS
2 1 (5.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
1 3 (15.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Banking
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Head of Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Platform Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) ADO
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.00%) AIX
3 1 (5.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) Agile
3 3 (15.00%) Change Management
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (15.00%) ITIL
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (15.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (10.00%) Business Development
4 2 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (10.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Bicep
1 3 (15.00%) Groovy
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) COBOL
2 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.00%) MCITP
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) GAAP
3 1 (5.00%) IFRS
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.00%) SCOM
5 1 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (5.00%) Istio
5 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Google
3 3 (15.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) VMware