IaaS Contract Job Trends in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 240 217
Rank change year-on-year -6 -23 +23
Contract jobs citing IaaS 127 134 200
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.89% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 2.16% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 73 123
10th Percentile £454 £438 £383
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £838 £650 £725
90th Percentile - £728 £775
England median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £31.39 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +59.09%

All Cloud Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,290 6,197 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.03% 41.13% 38.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,300 4,194 5,330
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 43 64
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £18.28
25th Percentile £23.25 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.50 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% -13.85% +19.89%
75th Percentile £47.50 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.88 £65.00 £73.38
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £23.24
% change year-on-year -11.67% +29.09% +3.29%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

IaaS job vacancy trend in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +9 18 £565 -9.60% 5
South London +2 5 £530 +11.58% 4
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) CMS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Luigi
4 1 (0.79%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (53.54%) Azure
2 58 (45.67%) PaaS
3 40 (31.50%) SaaS
4 22 (17.32%) Entra ID
5 20 (15.75%) AWS
6 16 (12.60%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (12.60%) GCP
7 14 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (9.45%) OCI
9 10 (7.87%) GitHub
10 9 (7.09%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (6.30%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (6.30%) Serverless
12 7 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (5.51%) Amazon S3
12 7 (5.51%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.72%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.60%) Firewall
2 11 (8.66%) DNS
3 9 (7.09%) VPN
4 8 (6.30%) Network Security
5 5 (3.94%) DHCP
5 5 (3.94%) MPLS
6 3 (2.36%) WAN
6 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.57%) BGP
7 2 (1.57%) Internet
7 2 (1.57%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.79%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.79%) IPsec
8 1 (0.79%) LAN
8 1 (0.79%) NGFW
8 1 (0.79%) OSPF
8 1 (0.79%) PSTN
8 1 (0.79%) SMTP
8 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.36%) Big Data
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.57%) MySQL
6 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.79%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.79%) Azkaban
7 1 (0.79%) CrateDB
7 1 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.79%) Flink
7 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.79%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.79%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (7.87%) Git
2 8 (6.30%) Postman
3 3 (2.36%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.57%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.79%) ERwin
5 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.79%) Selenium
5 1 (0.79%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (29.92%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (18.90%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Finance
4 11 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.72%) Banking
5 6 (4.72%) Marketing
6 4 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.36%) Local Government
8 2 (1.57%) Legal
8 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Billing
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (40.94%) Architect
2 15 (11.81%) Senior
3 14 (11.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (9.45%) Azure Architect
5 7 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Consultant
5 7 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Integration Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) Site Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Senior Architect
8 4 (3.15%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.15%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (3.15%) Service Manager
8 4 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.15%) Technical Architect
9 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 3 (2.36%) DevSecOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (27.56%) REST
2 34 (26.77%) JSON
3 8 (6.30%) OAuth
3 8 (6.30%) SOAP
3 8 (6.30%) YAML
4 7 (5.51%) JWT
4 7 (5.51%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (5.51%) Web Services
4 7 (5.51%) XML
4 7 (5.51%) XSLT
5 6 (4.72%) .NET
6 5 (3.94%) ARM Templates
6 5 (3.94%) Kafka
7 4 (3.15%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.15%) pytest
8 3 (2.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.36%) Node.js
8 3 (2.36%) React
9 2 (1.57%) pydantic
9 2 (1.57%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (21.26%) PKI
2 26 (20.47%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (13.39%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.87%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.15%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.15%) Genomics
6 4 (3.15%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.36%) Life Science
7 3 (2.36%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.57%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.75%) Windows
2 18 (14.17%) Linux
3 17 (13.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.79%) AIX
5 1 (0.79%) CentOS
5 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.79%) Solaris
5 1 (0.79%) Unix
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (38.58%) Agile
2 42 (33.07%) DevOps
3 33 (25.98%) Configuration Management
4 30 (23.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (22.05%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.47%) Key Management
7 19 (14.96%) Containerisation
8 18 (14.17%) Migration
9 16 (12.60%) Cloud Security
10 13 (10.24%) Roadmaps
10 13 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (9.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (9.45%) Problem-Solving
11 12 (9.45%) Software Engineering
12 11 (8.66%) Identity Access Management
12 11 (8.66%) Unit Testing
13 10 (7.87%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (7.87%) Computer Science
14 9 (7.09%) AI
14 9 (7.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.50%) PowerShell
2 24 (18.90%) Python
3 17 (13.39%) SQL
4 16 (12.60%) Bicep
5 11 (8.66%) Bash
6 6 (4.72%) Java
7 3 (2.36%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.57%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.79%) C
9 1 (0.79%) COBOL
9 1 (0.79%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) Scala
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (39.37%) Security Cleared
2 46 (36.22%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.96%) Degree
4 14 (11.02%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.15%) CISSP
8 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.57%) CCIE
9 2 (1.57%) CCNP
9 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.57%) MCITP
10 1 (0.79%) CCDE
10 1 (0.79%) CCSP
10 1 (0.79%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.72%) GDPR
3 3 (2.36%) SLA
3 3 (2.36%) SOC 2
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.57%) GRC
4 2 (1.57%) NCSC
4 2 (1.57%) NIST
4 2 (1.57%) QA
4 2 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (15.75%) Active Directory
2 19 (14.96%) Docker
3 5 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.79%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (29.92%) Terraform
2 16 (12.60%) Kubernetes
3 11 (8.66%) Ansible
4 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (6.30%) Puppet
6 6 (4.72%) Grafana
7 4 (3.15%) Packer
8 2 (1.57%) SCOM
8 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.79%) Argo
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.79%) vMotion
Vendors
1 47 (37.01%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.02%) Oracle
3 12 (9.45%) Google
4 8 (6.30%) VMware
5 6 (4.72%) PagerDuty
6 5 (3.94%) Cisco
7 3 (2.36%) Citrix
7 3 (2.36%) Databricks
7 3 (2.36%) HP
7 3 (2.36%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.36%) SAP
8 2 (1.57%) F5
8 2 (1.57%) NetApp
8 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) Adobe
9 1 (0.79%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.79%) Informatica