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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 99 118
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +9
Contract jobs citing IaaS 22 26 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.22% 1.22% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 2.95% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 33
10th Percentile £552 £406 £450
25th Percentile £575 £498 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +0.84%
75th Percentile £751 £596 £675
90th Percentile £776 £700 £800
Central London median daily rate £600 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +1.69%

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 763 882 1,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.46% 41.31% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 618 908
10th Percentile £363 £363 £286
25th Percentile £462 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £591
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +2.83%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £700
90th Percentile £751 £770 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

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 July 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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) PaaS
3 11 (50.00%) SaaS
4 10 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (22.73%) AWS
5 5 (22.73%) Entra ID
6 3 (13.64%) Azure AKS
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 3 (13.64%) Serverless
7 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Storage
8 1 (4.55%) Datadog
8 1 (4.55%) GitHub
8 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) DNS
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
1 3 (13.64%) MPLS
2 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
1 3 (13.64%) ScriptRunner
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Spanish Language
4 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.55%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.55%) International Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Architect
2 6 (27.27%) Azure Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Consultant
6 2 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) JIRA Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) ARM Templates
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.55%) ADO
3 1 (4.55%) Middleware
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Private Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (9.09%) Reinsurance
5 1 (4.55%) PKI
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
1 5 (22.73%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Migration
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 4 (18.18%) Service Migration
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
5 3 (13.64%) High Availability
5 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
5 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.64%) Time Management
5 3 (13.64%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (9.09%) Cost Management
6 2 (9.09%) Observability
6 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Bicep
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Groovy
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.55%) Bash
3 1 (4.55%) C#
3 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) GDPR
1 3 (13.64%) SOC 2
2 1 (4.55%) GAAP
2 1 (4.55%) IFRS
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Nessus
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.55%) Ericsson
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Mavenir
3 1 (4.55%) Nokia
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Qualys
3 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.55%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) Tripwire
3 1 (4.55%) VMware