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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 258 212
Rank change year-on-year -5 -46 +11
Contract jobs citing IaaS 111 134 233
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 0.84% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 2.04% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 77 151
10th Percentile £423 £413 £378
25th Percentile £499 £506 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £740 £663 £725
90th Percentile £850 £777 £775
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £82.75
% change year-on-year -54.76% -16.16% +37.92%

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 5,824 6,566 8,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.82% 41.06% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,962 4,507 6,002
10th Percentile £346 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.73% -2.65% -3.42%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 40 61
10th Percentile £22.45 £23.62 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.77 £24.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% -22.84% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.40 £67.03 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 21 £638 +13.84% 6
North London - 2 £550 -
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 11 (9.91%) Confluence
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) nginx
3 2 (1.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.90%) CICS
4 1 (0.90%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) Luigi
4 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.90%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 75 (67.57%) Azure
2 66 (59.46%) PaaS
3 55 (49.55%) SaaS
4 32 (28.83%) AWS
4 32 (28.83%) Entra ID
5 31 (27.93%) GCP
6 20 (18.02%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (16.22%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (9.01%) Azure AKS
8 10 (9.01%) GitHub
8 10 (9.01%) Serverless
9 9 (8.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (7.21%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (7.21%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (5.41%) OpenShift
11 6 (5.41%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.50%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 27 (24.32%) Firewall
2 12 (10.81%) VPN
3 9 (8.11%) DNS
4 5 (4.50%) DHCP
4 5 (4.50%) HTTPS
4 5 (4.50%) Network Security
4 5 (4.50%) SSL
5 3 (2.70%) MPLS
5 3 (2.70%) WAN
6 2 (1.80%) Internet
6 2 (1.80%) NGFW
6 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.90%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.90%) BGP
7 1 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.90%) PSTN
7 1 (0.90%) SAN
7 1 (0.90%) SMTP
7 1 (0.90%) VoIP
7 1 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.60%) Power BI
4 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.80%) Big Data
5 2 (1.80%) MySQL
5 2 (1.80%) Tableau
6 1 (0.90%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.90%) Azkaban
6 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.90%) MemSQL
6 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.90%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 14 (12.61%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) ScriptRunner
3 6 (5.41%) Git
4 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.70%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.80%) GitLab
7 1 (0.90%) ERwin
7 1 (0.90%) Postman
7 1 (0.90%) Selenium
7 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (22.52%) Finance
2 20 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.91%) Banking
4 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.11%) Marketing
6 6 (5.41%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.70%) General Ledger
8 3 (2.70%) Legal
8 3 (2.70%) Local Government
8 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.80%) Military
9 2 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.90%) International Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (37.84%) Architect
2 17 (15.32%) Azure Architect
3 13 (11.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (11.71%) Senior
4 12 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (8.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Lead
7 6 (5.41%) Security Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Senior Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Consultant
9 4 (3.60%) JIRA Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) ARM Templates
2 6 (5.41%) REST
3 5 (4.50%) YAML
4 4 (3.60%) Middleware
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.70%) .NET
5 3 (2.70%) FastAPI
5 3 (2.70%) pytest
5 3 (2.70%) XML
6 2 (1.80%) ADO
6 2 (1.80%) JSON
6 2 (1.80%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.80%) OAuth
6 2 (1.80%) pydantic
6 2 (1.80%) React
6 2 (1.80%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.90%) Django
7 1 (0.90%) SAML
7 1 (0.90%) SOAP
7 1 (0.90%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (6.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.60%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.70%) Genomics
6 3 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.80%) Life Science
7 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.90%) CMDB
8 1 (0.90%) PKI
8 1 (0.90%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.90%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.52%) Windows
2 21 (18.92%) Linux
3 15 (13.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.70%) VMS
5 2 (1.80%) Debian
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.90%) AIX
6 1 (0.90%) CentOS
6 1 (0.90%) Solaris
6 1 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.90%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (38.74%) DevOps
2 34 (30.63%) Agile
3 28 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (25.23%) Migration
4 26 (23.42%) Cloud Security
5 21 (18.92%) CI/CD
6 17 (15.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (14.41%) Containerisation
7 16 (14.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (11.71%) Analytics
8 13 (11.71%) Enterprise Architecture
8 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
9 12 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
9 12 (10.81%) RBAC
9 12 (10.81%) Security Architecture
10 11 (9.91%) TOGAF
11 10 (9.01%) ETL
11 10 (9.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (9.01%) Zero Trust
12 9 (8.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.72%) PowerShell
2 22 (19.82%) Bicep
3 16 (14.41%) Python
4 14 (12.61%) SQL
5 8 (7.21%) Groovy
6 7 (6.31%) Bash
7 3 (2.70%) C#
7 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.80%) Java
8 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.90%) C
9 1 (0.90%) COBOL
9 1 (0.90%) Go
9 1 (0.90%) Scala
9 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 22 (19.82%) Azure Certification
4 11 (9.91%) Degree
5 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.70%) CISSP
7 3 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.80%) MCITP
8 2 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.90%) CCIE
9 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.90%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.51%) GDPR
2 13 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.41%) SOC 2
4 5 (4.50%) QA
5 3 (2.70%) GAAP
5 3 (2.70%) NIST
5 3 (2.70%) SLA
6 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.80%) GRC
6 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.90%) IFRS
7 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Active Directory
2 16 (14.41%) Docker
3 5 (4.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.80%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.90%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.90%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (34.23%) Terraform
2 28 (25.23%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (9.01%) Ansible
5 5 (4.50%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.60%) Packer
7 2 (1.80%) Control-M
7 2 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.80%) Puppet
7 2 (1.80%) SCOM
8 1 (0.90%) Argo
8 1 (0.90%) Grafana
8 1 (0.90%) Istio
8 1 (0.90%) Nagios
8 1 (0.90%) SCCM
8 1 (0.90%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.90%) vMotion
Vendors
1 49 (44.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) Google
3 9 (8.11%) Oracle
3 9 (8.11%) VMware
4 8 (7.21%) Atlassian
5 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.60%) Cisco
7 4 (3.60%) HP
7 4 (3.60%) SAP
8 3 (2.70%) Citrix
8 3 (2.70%) IBM
8 3 (2.70%) Informatica
9 2 (1.80%) Databricks
9 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.80%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.90%) Arista
10 1 (0.90%) Okta