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

6 months to
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 101 119
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 19 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.02% 1.30% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.46% 3.20% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 28
10th Percentile £495 £411 £471
25th Percentile £513 £494 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £544 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -9.38% +1.69%
75th Percentile £775 £661 £655
90th Percentile £858 £756 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £560 £600
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +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 771 843 1,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.32% 40.57% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 587 901
10th Percentile £355 £383 £325
25th Percentile £447 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £760 £765 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £23.93 - £16.75
25th Percentile £24.66 - £24.69
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% -26.03% -27.00%
75th Percentile £65.57 £59.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £97.75 £79.40 £68.13
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +25.93% -26.03% -12.05%

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 13 August 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 (15.79%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) CICS
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
1 13 (68.42%) PaaS
2 12 (63.16%) SaaS
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (21.05%) AWS
5 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Table
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) MPLS
2 1 (5.26%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) JIRA
1 3 (15.79%) ScriptRunner
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) General Ledger
4 1 (5.26%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Head of Technology
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.26%) ADO
2 1 (5.26%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (21.05%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
4 1 (5.26%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) AIX
3 1 (5.26%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Migration
2 4 (21.05%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (15.79%) Service Migration
3 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (15.79%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) Observability
4 2 (10.53%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Bicep
1 3 (15.79%) Groovy
1 3 (15.79%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Bash
2 1 (5.26%) C#
2 1 (5.26%) COBOL
2 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.53%) MCITP
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 2 (10.53%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.26%) GAAP
3 1 (5.26%) IFRS
3 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.53%) SCOM
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Istio
4 1 (5.26%) Nessus
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) HP
4 1 (5.26%) NetApp
4 1 (5.26%) Qualys
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) Tenable
4 1 (5.26%) Tripwire