IaaS Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) England / London
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	265	244	348
Rank change year-on-year	-21	+104
Contract jobs citing IaaS	169	187	94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	0.81%	0.87%	0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category	5.25%	7.14%	5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted	124	143	65
Median daily rate	£539	£550	£525
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-2.09%	+4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£338	£428	£328
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£668	£668	£615
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£470	£475
% change year-on-year	+1.06%	-1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	1	7
Median hourly rate	-	£47.25	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+35.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£50.00	-	-

IaaS is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract Cloud Computing Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	3219	2618	1739
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	15.51%	12.25%	7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted	2296	1950	1191
Median daily rate	£500	£475	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£325	£330	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£613	£620	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£390
% change year-on-year	-	+15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	27	26
Median hourly rate	£22.62	£22.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.81%	-37.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£13.66	£17.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£122.50	£44.45	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£16.50	£26.75
% change year-on-year	+75.75%	-38.31%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing IaaS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing IaaS in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing IaaS in London over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS in London.

Contractor 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 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+1	23	£518	-8.00%	4
Kingston Upon Thames	-	6	£825	-
Wimbledon	-	1	£315	-
IaaS England

IaaS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing IaaS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for IaaS.

1	214 (59.94%)	PaaS
2	186 (52.10%)	Microsoft Azure
3	145 (40.62%)	DevOps
4	132 (36.97%)	Amazon AWS
5	119 (33.33%)	Microsoft
6	116 (32.49%)	Windows
7	115 (32.21%)	Agile Software Development
8	108 (30.25%)	Linux
9	87 (24.37%)	Java
10	86 (24.09%)	Opscode Chef
11	80 (22.41%)	SaaS
12	75 (21.01%)	Finance
13	73 (20.45%)	Configuration Management
13	73 (20.45%)	Continuous Integration
14	72 (20.17%)	Python

15	66 (18.49%)	Active Directory
15	66 (18.49%)	Puppet
16	59 (16.53%)	Migration
17	55 (15.41%)	Ansible
17	55 (15.41%)	SQL Server
18	51 (14.29%)	PowerShell
19	50 (14.01%)	SQL
20	49 (13.73%)	Ruby
20	49 (13.73%)	Jenkins
21	47 (13.17%)	Git (software)
22	46 (12.89%)	Data Centre
23	44 (12.32%)	Web Services
24	43 (12.04%)	VMware
25	41 (11.48%)	DNS
25	41 (11.48%)	Security Cleared

IaaS
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	35 (9.80%)	SharePoint
2	34 (9.52%)	OpenStack
3	32 (8.96%)	IIS
4	23 (6.44%)	BizTalk Server
5	22 (6.16%)	Cloud Foundry
6	15 (4.20%)	Exchange Server 2013
7	14 (3.92%)	MS Exchange
7	14 (3.92%)	Oracle SOA Suite
7	14 (3.92%)	Skype for Business
8	10 (2.80%)	Hubot
8	10 (2.80%)	nginx
9	9 (2.52%)	Exchange Server 2010
10	8 (2.24%)	Tomcat
11	7 (1.96%)	Apache
11	7 (1.96%)	Confluence
11	7 (1.96%)	Oracle Coherence
11	7 (1.96%)	WebLogic
12	5 (1.40%)	CMS
12	5 (1.40%)	Exchange Server 2007
13	4 (1.12%)	JBoss

Applications
1	10 (2.80%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (0.56%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	23 (6.44%)	Dynamics CRM
2	19 (5.32%)	Dynamics AX
3	7 (1.96%)	Oracle iRecruitment
4	4 (1.12%)	Oracle Retail
5	3 (0.84%)	Dynamics NAV
6	2 (0.56%)	Oracle EBS
6	2 (0.56%)	Oracle ERP
6	2 (0.56%)	Oracle Payables
6	2 (0.56%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	1 (0.28%)	Oracle Financials

Cloud Services
1	214 (59.94%)	PaaS
2	186 (52.10%)	Microsoft Azure
3	132 (36.97%)	Amazon AWS
4	80 (22.41%)	SaaS
5	39 (10.92%)	Office 365
6	29 (8.12%)	Azure Active Directory
7	15 (4.20%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	13 (3.64%)	Cloud Computing
9	12 (3.36%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	10 (2.80%)	IBM Cloud
11	8 (2.24%)	Bluemix
12	7 (1.96%)	OpenShift
12	7 (1.96%)	Oracle CX
12	7 (1.96%)	Oracle Service Cloud
13	6 (1.68%)	GitHub
14	5 (1.40%)	Azure Data Factory
14	5 (1.40%)	Data Lake Analytics
14	5 (1.40%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	4 (1.12%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
15	4 (1.12%)	Google Compute Engine

Communications & Networking
1	41 (11.48%)	DNS
1	41 (11.48%)	Network Security
2	40 (11.20%)	Firewall
3	29 (8.12%)	WAN
4	26 (7.28%)	LAN
5	25 (7.00%)	VPN
6	24 (6.72%)	IPsec
7	23 (6.44%)	TCP/IP
8	18 (5.04%)	HTTP
9	15 (4.20%)	DHCP
9	15 (4.20%)	SAN
10	13 (3.64%)	HTTPS
11	12 (3.36%)	SSL
12	9 (2.52%)	Skype
12	9 (2.52%)	VoIP
13	8 (2.24%)	VLAN
14	6 (1.68%)	DMZ
14	6 (1.68%)	LDAP
15	4 (1.12%)	MPLS
15	4 (1.12%)	SSH

Database & Business Intelligence
1	55 (15.41%)	SQL Server
2	25 (7.00%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	21 (5.88%)	SQL Server 2008
4	17 (4.76%)	Azure SQL Database
5	13 (3.64%)	SQL Server 2012
6	11 (3.08%)	Big Data
7	10 (2.80%)	Power BI
8	8 (2.24%)	Data Lake
9	7 (1.96%)	Oracle ODI
9	7 (1.96%)	Relational Database
9	7 (1.96%)	SQL Server 2016
10	6 (1.68%)	Data Warehouse
10	6 (1.68%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
10	6 (1.68%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
11	5 (1.40%)	Amazon RDS
11	5 (1.40%)	Hadoop
11	5 (1.40%)	Microsoft Analysis Services
11	5 (1.40%)	NoSQL
11	5 (1.40%)	OLAP
11	5 (1.40%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	49 (13.73%)	Jenkins
2	47 (13.17%)	Git (software)
3	30 (8.40%)	JIRA
4	25 (7.00%)	Team Foundation Server
5	13 (3.64%)	Maven
6	11 (3.08%)	Selenium
7	9 (2.52%)	Ant
8	8 (2.24%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	8 (2.24%)	Travis CI
8	8 (2.24%)	Visual Studio
8	8 (2.24%)	Visual Studio Team System
9	7 (1.96%)	Gradle
9	7 (1.96%)	SonarQube
10	6 (1.68%)	IBM UrbanCode
11	5 (1.40%)	Grunt
11	5 (1.40%)	Subversion
12	4 (1.12%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	4 (1.12%)	Gerrit
12	4 (1.12%)	JBehave
12	4 (1.12%)	JUnit

General
1	75 (21.01%)	Finance
2	19 (5.32%)	Banking
3	14 (3.92%)	Advertising
3	14 (3.92%)	Retail
4	10 (2.80%)	Legal
5	9 (2.52%)	Law
6	8 (2.24%)	Investment Banking
6	8 (2.24%)	Telecoms
7	6 (1.68%)	Marketing
8	4 (1.12%)	Billing
9	3 (0.84%)	Financial Institution
9	3 (0.84%)	Manufacturing
10	2 (0.56%)	Electronics
10	2 (0.56%)	French Language
10	2 (0.56%)	Front Office
10	2 (0.56%)	Music Industry
11	1 (0.28%)	Back Office
11	1 (0.28%)	Multimedia
11	1 (0.28%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.28%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	101 (28.29%)	Architect
2	56 (15.69%)	DevOps Engineer
3	52 (14.57%)	Cloud Architect
4	43 (12.04%)	Developer
5	38 (10.64%)	Consultant
6	32 (8.96%)	Azure Architect
7	30 (8.40%)	Azure Engineer
8	29 (8.12%)	Cloud Engineer
9	26 (7.28%)	Technical Architect
10	19 (5.32%)	AWS Architect
10	19 (5.32%)	AWS DevOps
10	19 (5.32%)	AWS Engineer
10	19 (5.32%)	Dynamics AX Developer
10	19 (5.32%)	Microsoft Developer
10	19 (5.32%)	Security Engineer
11	18 (5.04%)	Azure Consultant
11	18 (5.04%)	Infrastructure Architect
12	16 (4.48%)	Azure DevOps
12	16 (4.48%)	Solutions Architect
13	15 (4.20%)	AWS DevOps Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	44 (12.32%)	Web Services
2	25 (7.00%)	.NET
3	22 (6.16%)	Middleware
4	20 (5.60%)	Node.js
5	19 (5.32%)	WCF
6	15 (4.20%)	JSON
7	11 (3.08%)	J2EE
8	10 (2.80%)	HTML
9	9 (2.52%)	CSS
9	9 (2.52%)	Spring
10	8 (2.24%)	SOAP
10	8 (2.24%)	XML
11	7 (1.96%)	REST
12	6 (1.68%)	AngularJS
12	6 (1.68%)	HTML5
13	5 (1.40%)	COM
13	5 (1.40%)	jQuery
13	5 (1.40%)	RESTful
13	5 (1.40%)	WAP
14	4 (1.12%)	JMS

Miscellaneous
1	46 (12.89%)	Data Centre
2	40 (11.20%)	Analytical Skills
3	16 (4.48%)	Hybrid Cloud
4	15 (4.20%)	Private Cloud
5	14 (3.92%)	Virtual Team
6	13 (3.64%)	Public Cloud
7	12 (3.36%)	Cloud Native
8	10 (2.80%)	Clustering
9	9 (2.52%)	PKI
9	9 (2.52%)	Replication
10	8 (2.24%)	Mobile App
11	6 (1.68%)	Computer Science
11	6 (1.68%)	Greenfield Project
11	6 (1.68%)	User Experience
11	6 (1.68%)	Video Conferencing
12	5 (1.40%)	CMDB
12	5 (1.40%)	Enterprise Cloud
12	5 (1.40%)	Management Information System
13	4 (1.12%)	Enterprise Storage
14	3 (0.84%)	Blog

Operating Systems
1	116 (32.49%)	Windows
2	108 (30.25%)	Linux
3	38 (10.64%)	Windows Server
4	22 (6.16%)	Unix
5	18 (5.04%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	17 (4.76%)	Windows Server 2012
7	10 (2.80%)	Windows 10
7	10 (2.80%)	Windows Server 2008
8	9 (2.52%)	CentOS
9	8 (2.24%)	Fedora
10	6 (1.68%)	Windows 7
11	5 (1.40%)	Solaris
12	3 (0.84%)	Windows Server 2003
13	2 (0.56%)	VMS
14	1 (0.28%)	Android
14	1 (0.28%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	145 (40.62%)	DevOps
2	115 (32.21%)	Agile Software Development
3	73 (20.45%)	Configuration Management
3	73 (20.45%)	Continuous Integration
4	59 (16.53%)	Migration
5	40 (11.20%)	Business Intelligence
5	40 (11.20%)	Continuous Delivery
6	39 (10.92%)	Open Source
7	38 (10.64%)	Scrum
8	33 (9.24%)	SOA
9	28 (7.84%)	Project Management
9	28 (7.84%)	TDD
10	26 (7.28%)	Penetration Testing
11	24 (6.72%)	ERP
11	24 (6.72%)	TOGAF
12	23 (6.44%)	CRM
12	23 (6.44%)	Disaster Recovery
12	23 (6.44%)	Security Monitoring
12	23 (6.44%)	Security Operations
13	22 (6.16%)	ITIL

Programming Languages
1	87 (24.37%)	Java
2	72 (20.17%)	Python
3	51 (14.29%)	PowerShell
4	50 (14.01%)	SQL
5	49 (13.73%)	Ruby
6	32 (8.96%)	C#
7	29 (8.12%)	Bash Shell
8	20 (5.60%)	Go
9	17 (4.76%)	Perl
10	14 (3.92%)	JavaScript
10	14 (3.92%)	PHP
11	13 (3.64%)	C-shell
11	13 (3.64%)	Korn
12	10 (2.80%)	CoffeeScript
13	7 (1.96%)	C
14	6 (1.68%)	C++
15	3 (0.84%)	ES6
15	3 (0.84%)	T-SQL
15	3 (0.84%)	TypeScript
16	2 (0.56%)	PL/SQL

Qualifications
1	41 (11.48%)	Security Cleared
2	35 (9.80%)	SC Cleared
3	20 (5.60%)	CISSP
4	17 (4.76%)	Microsoft Certification
5	14 (3.92%)	CEH
5	14 (3.92%)	SANS
6	13 (3.64%)	CREST Certified
6	13 (3.64%)	GIAC
7	12 (3.36%)	MCSE
8	11 (3.08%)	Degree
9	8 (2.24%)	Cisco Certification
10	6 (1.68%)	ITIL Certification
11	5 (1.40%)	MCSA
12	4 (1.12%)	AWS Certification
12	4 (1.12%)	CCIE
12	4 (1.12%)	CISA
12	4 (1.12%)	CISM
13	3 (0.84%)	CCNA
13	3 (0.84%)	PMP
13	3 (0.84%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	10 (2.80%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	3 (0.84%)	COBIT
2	3 (0.84%)	PCI DSS
2	3 (0.84%)	QA
3	2 (0.56%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
3	2 (0.56%)	RMADS
4	1 (0.28%)	PA-DSS
4	1 (0.28%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
4	1 (0.28%)	SAS 70
4	1 (0.28%)	SLA
4	1 (0.28%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	66 (18.49%)	Active Directory
2	32 (8.96%)	Docker
3	30 (8.40%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	24 (6.72%)	Virtual Machines
5	15 (4.20%)	Hyper-V
6	7 (1.96%)	vCloud
7	5 (1.40%)	NFS
8	3 (0.84%)	Forefront TMG
8	3 (0.84%)	ISA Server
8	3 (0.84%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
8	3 (0.84%)	Virtual Servers
9	2 (0.56%)	BitLocker
9	2 (0.56%)	KVM
9	2 (0.56%)	UAG
9	2 (0.56%)	XenApp
10	1 (0.28%)	Postfix
10	1 (0.28%)	VirtualBox

Systems Management
1	86 (24.09%)	Opscode Chef
2	66 (18.49%)	Puppet
3	55 (15.41%)	Ansible
4	28 (7.84%)	SCOM
5	21 (5.88%)	Kubernetes
5	21 (5.88%)	SCCM
6	17 (4.76%)	Terraform
7	10 (2.80%)	Consul
7	10 (2.80%)	SCOrch
8	9 (2.52%)	Microsoft Intune
9	8 (2.24%)	Nagios
10	7 (1.96%)	Packer
10	7 (1.96%)	SCVMM
11	6 (1.68%)	AirWatch
11	6 (1.68%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12	4 (1.12%)	Failover Clustering
12	4 (1.12%)	FortiGate
13	3 (0.84%)	Microsoft Clustering
13	3 (0.84%)	vCenter Server
13	3 (0.84%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	119 (33.33%)	Microsoft
2	43 (12.04%)	VMware
3	36 (10.08%)	Oracle
4	17 (4.76%)	Red Hat
5	15 (4.20%)	Cisco
5	15 (4.20%)	Google
6	14 (3.92%)	CheckPoint
7	11 (3.08%)	Citrix
8	10 (2.80%)	ServiceNow
9	9 (2.52%)	EMC
10	8 (2.24%)	New Relic
10	8 (2.24%)	SaltStack
10	8 (2.24%)	Splunk
10	8 (2.24%)	Tableau
11	7 (1.96%)	HP
11	7 (1.96%)	Kronos
12	6 (1.68%)	IBM
12	6 (1.68%)	Symantec
13	5 (1.40%)	ATG
13	5 (1.40%)	SAP