IaaS Contracts in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 232 230 204
Rank change year-on-year -2 -26 -5
Contract jobs citing IaaS 124 172 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.95% 0.98% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 2.46% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 114 215
10th Percentile £419 £400 £425
25th Percentile £513 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -2.13% -0.42%
75th Percentile £695 £756 £694
90th Percentile £751 £780 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £82.00
25th Percentile - £25.50 £85.00
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.11% +20.81%
75th Percentile - £26.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +26.04% -66.67% +4.00%

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 5,566 7,001 10,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.85% 39.75% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,774 5,148 7,376
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 63 74
10th Percentile £22.70 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in London

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 2 July 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 -1 23 £600 +9.09% 51
South London - 4 £450 - 2
North London -2 2 £550 +29.41%
East London - 1 £495 - 10
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (15.32%) Confluence
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.61%) nginx
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.61%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
4 1 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.81%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 84 (67.74%) Azure
2 83 (66.94%) PaaS
3 65 (52.42%) SaaS
4 43 (34.68%) AWS
5 38 (30.65%) Entra ID
6 30 (24.19%) GCP
6 30 (24.19%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (20.97%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (14.52%) Serverless
9 11 (8.87%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (8.87%) GitHub
10 10 (8.06%) Azure AKS
11 8 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.65%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (4.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (4.84%) OpenShift
14 5 (4.03%) Azure Storage
14 5 (4.03%) Power Platform
15 4 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 4 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (23.39%) Firewall
2 12 (9.68%) DNS
2 12 (9.68%) VPN
3 8 (6.45%) MPLS
4 5 (4.03%) HTTPS
4 5 (4.03%) SSL
4 5 (4.03%) VSAN
5 4 (3.23%) SAN
5 4 (3.23%) WAN
6 3 (2.42%) Network Security
6 3 (2.42%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.61%) DHCP
7 2 (1.61%) NAS
7 2 (1.61%) NGFW
7 2 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.81%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.81%) LAN
8 1 (0.81%) SMTP
8 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.65%) Data Lake
2 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (3.23%) Power BI
4 3 (2.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.61%) MySQL
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.81%) Big Data
6 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Spanner
6 1 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.81%) Looker
6 1 (0.81%) Metadata
6 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.81%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.81%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (17.74%) JIRA
2 9 (7.26%) ScriptRunner
3 7 (5.65%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.84%) Git
5 5 (4.03%) GitLab
6 3 (2.42%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.81%) MSI
7 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (24.19%) Finance
2 17 (13.71%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.26%) Marketing
4 8 (6.45%) Banking
5 7 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.03%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.23%) Spanish Language
8 3 (2.42%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.42%) Law
8 3 (2.42%) Legal
8 3 (2.42%) Local Government
8 3 (2.42%) Military
8 3 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.81%) International Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.81%) Police
10 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (41.13%) Architect
2 22 (17.74%) Azure Architect
3 15 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (12.10%) Senior
3 15 (12.10%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (9.68%) Cloud Architect
5 9 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.45%) Enterprise Architect
6 8 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
7 7 (5.65%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.84%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.84%) Lead
8 6 (4.84%) Security Architect
8 6 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.03%) Analyst
9 5 (4.03%) Consultant
9 5 (4.03%) Microsoft 365 Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Senior Architect
9 5 (4.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.87%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.84%) REST
3 4 (3.23%) .NET
3 4 (3.23%) Middleware
4 3 (2.42%) Azure Blueprints
4 3 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.61%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.61%) ADO
5 2 (1.61%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.61%) React
5 2 (1.61%) Software Packaging
5 2 (1.61%) XML
5 2 (1.61%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.81%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.81%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.81%) Express.js
6 1 (0.81%) LAMP
6 1 (0.81%) LDAP
6 1 (0.81%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.81%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.65%) Private Cloud
4 6 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (3.23%) Clustering
6 4 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.42%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.42%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.42%) PKI
7 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.42%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.42%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.61%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.81%) EFT
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.35%) Windows
2 20 (16.13%) Linux
3 15 (12.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.42%) VMS
5 2 (1.61%) Debian
5 2 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.61%) Unix
5 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.81%) CentOS
6 1 (0.81%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.94%) DevOps
2 38 (30.65%) Agile
3 37 (29.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (29.03%) Migration
5 33 (26.61%) Cloud Security
6 22 (17.74%) CI/CD
7 21 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (14.52%) Analytics
9 16 (12.90%) Project Delivery
9 16 (12.90%) Roadmaps
10 15 (12.10%) Containerisation
11 14 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (11.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (11.29%) Zero Trust
12 13 (10.48%) Data Loss Prevention
12 13 (10.48%) ETL
12 13 (10.48%) RBAC
12 13 (10.48%) Scrum
13 12 (9.68%) Microservices
14 11 (8.87%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.55%) PowerShell
2 21 (16.94%) Bicep
3 16 (12.90%) SQL
4 12 (9.68%) Python
5 9 (7.26%) Bash
5 9 (7.26%) Groovy
6 4 (3.23%) C#
7 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.81%) Java
8 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 23 (18.55%) Security Cleared
3 20 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.06%) Degree
5 8 (6.45%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.61%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.81%) CCNP
9 1 (0.81%) CISM
9 1 (0.81%) CISSP
9 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.71%) GDPR
2 10 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.65%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.23%) QA
5 3 (2.42%) GAAP
5 3 (2.42%) NIST
6 2 (1.61%) SLA
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.81%) GRC
7 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.81%) IFRS
7 1 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.81%) PMO
7 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 32 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 19 (15.32%) Docker
3 10 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.65%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (4.03%) VMware NSX
5 5 (4.03%) vSphere
6 4 (3.23%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.81%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 42 (33.87%) Terraform
2 32 (25.81%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (12.90%) Ansible
5 8 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.23%) Grafana
6 4 (3.23%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.42%) SCCM
8 2 (1.61%) Control-M
8 2 (1.61%) Istio
8 2 (1.61%) Nessus
8 2 (1.61%) Puppet
9 1 (0.81%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.81%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.81%) Nagios
9 1 (0.81%) Netcool
9 1 (0.81%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.81%) vMotion
Vendors
1 59 (47.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.48%) VMware
3 10 (8.06%) Google
4 9 (7.26%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.45%) Oracle
6 6 (4.84%) ServiceNow
7 5 (4.03%) Dell
8 4 (3.23%) IBM
8 4 (3.23%) Qualys
8 4 (3.23%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.42%) Cisco
10 2 (1.61%) Citrix
10 2 (1.61%) EMC
10 2 (1.61%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.61%) HP
10 2 (1.61%) Informatica
10 2 (1.61%) Nokia
10 2 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.61%) SAP
10 2 (1.61%) SolarWinds