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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 233 242
Rank change year-on-year -58 +9 -36
Contract jobs citing IaaS 137 122 169
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.97% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 2.27% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 68 112
10th Percentile £406 £423 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £775
90th Percentile £725 £761 £780
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £32.77 £26.00
% change year-on-year +67.84% +26.04% -66.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 8,029 5,373 6,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.05% 42.83% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,515 3,647 5,103
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 69 70
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.90 £17.63
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% +20.82% -48.32%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £68.75 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +67.03% +15.91% -31.89%

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 23 June 2026.

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 23 June 2026. 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 -22 12 £625 +4.17% 4
West London - 1 £475 - 3
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 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.65%) Apache
4 3 (2.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.19%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.73%) Confluence
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.46%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.73%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 123 (89.78%) PaaS
2 105 (76.64%) Azure
3 58 (42.34%) SaaS
4 29 (21.17%) AWS
5 23 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (13.14%) Entra ID
6 18 (13.14%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (13.14%) OCI
7 15 (10.95%) Azure AKS
8 14 (10.22%) GitHub
8 14 (10.22%) Serverless
9 12 (8.76%) Azure Key Vault
10 11 (8.03%) GCP
11 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
12 7 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (5.11%) Datadog
12 7 (5.11%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.65%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 31 (22.63%) DNS
2 26 (18.98%) Firewall
3 19 (13.87%) VPN
4 18 (13.14%) DHCP
5 9 (6.57%) SAN
6 8 (5.84%) SMTP
7 6 (4.38%) VLAN
7 6 (4.38%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (3.65%) Network Security
9 4 (2.92%) Internet
10 3 (2.19%) IPv4
10 3 (2.19%) MPLS
11 2 (1.46%) NAS
12 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.49%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.84%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (3.65%) Power BI
5 3 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.19%) Big Data
5 3 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.19%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.46%) Db2
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.46%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.76%) Git
2 7 (5.11%) Chocolatey
3 6 (4.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.92%) Postman
4 4 (2.92%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.73%) JetBrains Rider
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (22.63%) Finance
2 26 (18.98%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.14%) Banking
4 15 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.03%) Legal
6 9 (6.57%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.65%) Law
10 3 (2.19%) Military
11 2 (1.46%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.46%) Japanese Language
11 2 (1.46%) Legal Technology
11 2 (1.46%) Local Government
12 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.73%) French Language
12 1 (0.73%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (28.47%) Architect
2 38 (27.74%) Azure Engineer
3 30 (21.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (16.06%) Senior
5 19 (13.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (10.95%) Azure Architect
7 12 (8.76%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (8.03%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) IT Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Senior IT Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Lead
11 8 (5.84%) Principal Cloud Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Principal Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Applications Architect
13 5 (3.65%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) .NET
1 9 (6.57%) REST
2 8 (5.84%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (5.84%) XML
3 6 (4.38%) Middleware
3 6 (4.38%) OAuth
4 5 (3.65%) JSON
4 5 (3.65%) SOAP
4 5 (3.65%) Web Services
5 4 (2.92%) JWT
5 4 (2.92%) XSLT
6 3 (2.19%) XML Messaging
6 3 (2.19%) YAML
7 2 (1.46%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.46%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.73%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.73%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.73%) Kafka
8 1 (0.73%) LDAP
8 1 (0.73%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.95%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Data Centre
2 12 (8.76%) Public Cloud
3 10 (7.30%) PKI
4 9 (6.57%) Clustering
4 9 (6.57%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.84%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (5.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (3.65%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.65%) Virtual Team
8 4 (2.92%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (2.92%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.46%) Augmented Reality
10 2 (1.46%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.09%) Windows
2 22 (16.06%) Linux
3 17 (12.41%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.84%) Unix
5 6 (4.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.46%) Android
6 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.73%) CentOS
7 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.73%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.04%) DevOps
1 48 (35.04%) Migration
2 35 (25.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (24.09%) CI/CD
4 29 (21.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (19.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 27 (19.71%) TOGAF
6 23 (16.79%) Containerisation
7 18 (13.14%) Roadmaps
8 17 (12.41%) Cloud Security
8 17 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (12.41%) Technical Leadership
9 16 (11.68%) Cybersecurity
9 16 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (10.95%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (10.22%) ITIL
11 14 (10.22%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.49%) DevSecOps
12 13 (9.49%) Project Delivery
13 12 (8.76%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.71%) PowerShell
2 18 (13.14%) Python
2 18 (13.14%) SQL
3 13 (9.49%) Bicep
4 9 (6.57%) Bash
5 5 (3.65%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.92%) Java
6 4 (2.92%) Ruby
7 3 (2.19%) C#
7 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.46%) Groovy
8 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.46%) Perl
9 1 (0.73%) C
9 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (25.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.36%) Azure Certification
3 20 (14.60%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.49%) Degree
4 13 (9.49%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.38%) CISSP
8 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.46%) CCSP
9 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.46%) OSCP
9 2 (1.46%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.46%) PMP
9 2 (1.46%) SANS
10 1 (0.73%) CISM
10 1 (0.73%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) SLA
2 7 (5.11%) GDPR
3 4 (2.92%) NIST
3 4 (2.92%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.19%) NCSC
5 2 (1.46%) Basel III
5 2 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.46%) GAAP
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.46%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.73%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.87%) Docker
3 10 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.84%) BitLocker
4 8 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.84%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (5.84%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.38%) NFS
5 6 (4.38%) Postfix
5 6 (4.38%) Varnish
6 4 (2.92%) Sendmail
7 3 (2.19%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.46%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 44 (32.12%) Terraform
2 27 (19.71%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.22%) Ansible
4 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.84%) Puppet
5 8 (5.84%) vCenter Server
5 8 (5.84%) vMotion
6 7 (5.11%) SCCM
7 6 (4.38%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.19%) Control-M
8 3 (2.19%) Nagios
9 2 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.73%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.73%) QRadar
10 1 (0.73%) SCOM
Vendors
1 58 (42.34%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.87%) VMware
3 18 (13.14%) Oracle
4 12 (8.76%) Citrix
5 10 (7.30%) SAP
6 7 (5.11%) AppDynamics
6 7 (5.11%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.11%) Google
6 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.11%) Tenable
7 5 (3.65%) iManage
7 5 (3.65%) Intapp
7 5 (3.65%) Litera
7 5 (3.65%) NetApp
7 5 (3.65%) Workday
8 4 (2.92%) Databricks
8 4 (2.92%) Rapid7
9 3 (2.19%) Aderant
9 3 (2.19%) Informatica
9 3 (2.19%) Symantec