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 citing IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 360 265 255
Rank change year-on-year -95 -10 -30
Contract jobs citing IaaS 99 115 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.48% 0.84% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.90% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 78 73
10th Percentile £375 £442 £403
25th Percentile £450 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £560
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +20.54% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £650
90th Percentile £675 - £738
England median daily rate £531 £572 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% -4.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.25 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +107.90% -54.76% -11.06%

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 citing cloud computing skills in London.

6 months to
4 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 8,452 6,064 6,372
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 41.38% 44.22% 41.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,863 4,105 4,326
10th Percentile £363 £349 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.54% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 112 38
10th Percentile £18.86 £18.31 £21.70
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.94 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.23 £26.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.90% -25.29% -8.79%
75th Percentile £61.00 £46.19 £55.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £35.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% -29.15% +29.09%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -36 12 £590 -12.59% 4
South London - 1 £525 - 1
West London - 1 £475 - 1
IaaS
England

IaaS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure77.8%77
2PaaS75.8%75
3SaaS34.3%34
4Entra ID30.3%30
5Azure DevOps24.2%24
6AWS23.2%23
7Azure Monitor13.1%13
7Serverless13.1%13
9Azure AKS11.1%11
9GitHub11.1%11
9Microsoft 36511.1%11
12Azure Key Vault7.1%7
13Azure Functions6.1%6
13GCP6.1%6
15Amazon EC25.1%5
15Azure Logic Apps5.1%5
15OCI5.1%5
15OpenShift5.1%5
19Amazon EKS4.0%4
19Azure App Service4.0%4