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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 247 233 230
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing IaaS 147 125 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.92% 0.96% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.09% 2.28% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 60 104
10th Percentile £450 £432 £425
25th Percentile £513 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £766
90th Percentile - £751 £780
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
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 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -52.73%

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 7,024 5,486 6,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.79% 42.02% 37.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,820 3,786 4,985
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 44 78
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.09 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.07 £30.11
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -3.45% -12.72%
75th Percentile £50.75 £55.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £71.88 £62.88
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -18 8 £650 -10.34% 6
South London -13 5 £530 - 2
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 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.04%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.36%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.68%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.08%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 93 (63.27%) PaaS
2 84 (57.14%) Azure
3 51 (34.69%) SaaS
4 23 (15.65%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (14.97%) OCI
6 21 (14.29%) AWS
6 21 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 13 (8.84%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (8.16%) GitHub
9 11 (7.48%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (7.48%) Azure AKS
9 11 (7.48%) Serverless
10 10 (6.80%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (6.80%) GCP
11 7 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.76%) Datadog
12 6 (4.08%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.33%) Firewall
2 21 (14.29%) DNS
3 15 (10.20%) VPN
4 11 (7.48%) DHCP
5 8 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.76%) MPLS
7 6 (4.08%) SAN
7 6 (4.08%) VLAN
8 5 (3.40%) Network Security
8 5 (3.40%) SMTP
9 2 (1.36%) Internet
9 2 (1.36%) WAN
10 1 (0.68%) BGP
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.68%) IPsec
10 1 (0.68%) LAN
10 1 (0.68%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.68%) OSPF
10 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.40%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle ODI
6 2 (1.36%) Big Data
6 2 (1.36%) Power BI
6 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.68%) Flink
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.52%) Git
2 10 (6.80%) Postman
3 6 (4.08%) Chocolatey
4 5 (3.40%) JIRA
4 5 (3.40%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.04%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
General
1 42 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 25 (17.01%) Finance
4 11 (7.48%) Banking
4 11 (7.48%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.76%) Legal
7 6 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Marketing
9 3 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.04%) Local Government
9 3 (2.04%) Military
10 2 (1.36%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.36%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.36%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.36%) Law
10 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) French Language
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (36.73%) Architect
2 24 (16.33%) Senior
3 23 (15.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (14.97%) Azure Engineer
5 16 (10.88%) Azure Architect
6 11 (7.48%) Integration Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) IT Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (6.12%) Senior IT Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Principal Cloud Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Lead
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Architect
10 6 (4.08%) Cloud Specialist
10 6 (4.08%) Integration Specialist
10 6 (4.08%) Oracle Specialist
10 6 (4.08%) Site Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) NetApp Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (25.17%) REST
2 35 (23.81%) JSON
3 12 (8.16%) OAuth
3 12 (8.16%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (8.16%) XML
4 10 (6.80%) SOAP
5 9 (6.12%) .NET
5 9 (6.12%) JWT
5 9 (6.12%) Web Services
5 9 (6.12%) XSLT
6 7 (4.76%) ARM Templates
6 7 (4.76%) YAML
7 4 (2.72%) Kafka
8 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.04%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.04%) Node.js
8 3 (2.04%) XML Messaging
9 2 (1.36%) EDI
9 2 (1.36%) Middleware
9 2 (1.36%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 31 (21.09%) PKI
2 27 (18.37%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (11.56%) Cloud Native
4 13 (8.84%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.76%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (3.40%) Clustering
7 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (3.40%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.72%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.36%) Genomics
10 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.36%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.97%) Windows
2 16 (10.88%) Linux
3 14 (9.52%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.40%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.36%) Unix
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (31.97%) DevOps
2 43 (29.25%) Agile
3 38 (25.85%) Migration
4 37 (25.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (23.13%) Configuration Management
6 31 (21.09%) CI/CD
7 27 (18.37%) Key Management
8 26 (17.69%) Containerisation
9 21 (14.29%) TOGAF
10 20 (13.61%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (12.93%) Cloud Security
11 19 (12.93%) Roadmaps
12 18 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 18 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
13 15 (10.20%) Project Delivery
14 14 (9.52%) DevSecOps
14 14 (9.52%) ERP
14 14 (9.52%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 41 (27.89%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.29%) SQL
3 19 (12.93%) Python
4 10 (6.80%) Bicep
5 8 (5.44%) Bash
5 8 (5.44%) Java
6 4 (2.72%) Kusto Query Language
6 4 (2.72%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.68%) C
8 1 (0.68%) Ruby
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (36.73%) Security Cleared
2 46 (31.29%) SC Cleared
3 28 (19.05%) Azure Certification
4 19 (12.93%) Degree
5 14 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (6.80%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (4.76%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.08%) CISSP
8 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.04%) CCSP
10 3 (2.04%) OSCP
10 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.04%) SANS
11 2 (1.36%) PMP
12 1 (0.68%) CCNP
12 1 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.68%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) GDPR
1 6 (4.08%) NIST
1 6 (4.08%) SLA
2 5 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.40%) PCI DSS
3 4 (2.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.36%) Basel III
5 2 (1.36%) GAAP
5 2 (1.36%) GRC
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.36%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.36%) NCSC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 24 (16.33%) Docker
2 23 (15.65%) Active Directory
3 8 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.40%) BitLocker
4 5 (3.40%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.40%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.36%) Postfix
5 2 (1.36%) Varnish
5 2 (1.36%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.68%) Firmware
6 1 (0.68%) NFS
6 1 (0.68%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 43 (29.25%) Terraform
2 23 (15.65%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (8.16%) Ansible
5 11 (7.48%) Puppet
6 6 (4.08%) Grafana
6 6 (4.08%) SCCM
7 5 (3.40%) vCenter Server
7 5 (3.40%) vMotion
8 3 (2.04%) Control-M
8 3 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.36%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.68%) SCOM
Vendors
1 56 (38.10%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.93%) Oracle
3 16 (10.88%) VMware
4 9 (6.12%) Citrix
5 8 (5.44%) Google
6 7 (4.76%) SAP
7 6 (4.08%) AppDynamics
7 6 (4.08%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.08%) PagerDuty
7 6 (4.08%) Tenable
8 5 (3.40%) NetApp
8 5 (3.40%) Rapid7
9 3 (2.04%) Aderant
9 3 (2.04%) Databricks
9 3 (2.04%) iManage
9 3 (2.04%) Informatica
9 3 (2.04%) Intapp
9 3 (2.04%) Workday
10 2 (1.36%) IBM
11 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint