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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 212 228
Rank change year-on-year -59 +16 -23
Contract jobs citing IaaS 142 142 168
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.14% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 2.67% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 74 99
10th Percentile £408 £440 £400
25th Percentile £450 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% - +3.67%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £775
90th Percentile £725 £748 £782
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 7,637 5,315 6,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.36% 42.49% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,279 3,669 4,962
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 53 70
10th Percentile £20.84 £22.57 £17.63
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.90 £72.50 £59.13
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -34.04%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -29 8 £606 +1.04% 5
South London -13 2 £530 +17.78%
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 16 (11.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.93%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.82%) Apache
4 3 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (2.11%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.70%) Confluence
6 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 120 (84.51%) PaaS
2 103 (72.54%) Azure
3 57 (40.14%) SaaS
4 23 (16.20%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (16.20%) OCI
5 22 (15.49%) AWS
6 21 (14.79%) Entra ID
7 20 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (9.15%) Serverless
9 11 (7.75%) Azure AKS
10 10 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (7.04%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (7.04%) GitHub
11 9 (6.34%) GCP
12 8 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (5.63%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (4.93%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (4.93%) Datadog
13 7 (4.93%) Power Platform
14 6 (4.23%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.42%) DNS
2 26 (18.31%) Firewall
3 15 (10.56%) VPN
4 14 (9.86%) DHCP
5 8 (5.63%) SAN
6 7 (4.93%) MPLS
6 7 (4.93%) SMTP
7 6 (4.23%) VLAN
7 6 (4.23%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (2.82%) Internet
8 4 (2.82%) Network Security
9 1 (0.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.93%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.82%) Power BI
5 3 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.41%) Big Data
6 2 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.41%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.70%) DB2
7 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (11.27%) Git
2 10 (7.04%) Postman
3 7 (4.93%) Chocolatey
4 6 (4.23%) JIRA
4 6 (4.23%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.11%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (20.42%) Social Skills
2 28 (19.72%) Finance
3 17 (11.97%) Banking
4 15 (10.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.75%) Legal
6 10 (7.04%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.34%) Public Sector
8 6 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (3.52%) Law
10 4 (2.82%) Military
11 3 (2.11%) Marketing
12 2 (1.41%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.41%) Japanese Language
12 2 (1.41%) Local Government
13 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.70%) French Language
13 1 (0.70%) Front Office
13 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (26.06%) Architect
2 32 (22.54%) Azure Engineer
3 25 (17.61%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (15.49%) Senior
5 18 (12.68%) Azure Architect
6 15 (10.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.04%) Integration Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) IT Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (6.34%) Senior IT Engineer
9 8 (5.63%) Oracle Specialist
9 8 (5.63%) Principal Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Applications Architect
10 7 (4.93%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Lead
10 7 (4.93%) NetApp Engineer
10 7 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.93%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (4.23%) Integration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) REST
2 13 (9.15%) XML
3 12 (8.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (7.75%) .NET
4 11 (7.75%) OAuth
5 10 (7.04%) JSON
5 10 (7.04%) SOAP
5 10 (7.04%) Web Services
6 9 (6.34%) JWT
6 9 (6.34%) XSLT
7 8 (5.63%) ARM Templates
8 6 (4.23%) YAML
9 4 (2.82%) Entity Framework
9 4 (2.82%) Middleware
10 3 (2.11%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.11%) XML Messaging
11 2 (1.41%) Kafka
11 2 (1.41%) Spring
12 1 (0.70%) EDI
12 1 (0.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Public Cloud
2 13 (9.15%) Cloud Native
3 8 (5.63%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.93%) Clustering
4 7 (4.93%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (4.93%) PKI
4 7 (4.93%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.23%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.52%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (1.41%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.41%) IoT
9 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.41%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 30 (21.13%) Windows
2 20 (14.08%) Linux
3 17 (11.97%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.93%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (4.23%) Unix
6 2 (1.41%) Android
6 2 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.70%) CentOS
7 1 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.80%) DevOps
2 45 (31.69%) Migration
3 37 (26.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (23.24%) CI/CD
5 28 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (18.31%) TOGAF
7 25 (17.61%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (15.49%) Containerisation
9 21 (14.79%) Roadmaps
10 19 (13.38%) Cloud Security
11 18 (12.68%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (11.97%) Identity Access Management
12 17 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (11.27%) ERP
14 15 (10.56%) DevSecOps
14 15 (10.56%) Project Delivery
15 14 (9.86%) Architectural Patterns
15 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (9.86%) ITSM
16 13 (9.15%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.90%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.08%) SQL
3 19 (13.38%) Python
4 13 (9.15%) Bicep
5 8 (5.63%) Bash
5 8 (5.63%) Java
6 5 (3.52%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.11%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.11%) Ruby
8 2 (1.41%) C#
8 2 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.83%) Azure Certification
3 26 (18.31%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.86%) Degree
5 12 (8.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (7.75%) DV Cleared
6 11 (7.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (4.93%) CISSP
8 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.11%) CCSP
9 3 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.11%) OSCP
9 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.11%) SANS
10 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.41%) PMP
11 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.70%) RHCE
11 1 (0.70%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.63%) SLA
2 7 (4.93%) GDPR
3 5 (3.52%) NIST
3 5 (3.52%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.41%) Basel III
6 2 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.41%) GAAP
6 2 (1.41%) IFRS
6 2 (1.41%) IFRS 17
6 2 (1.41%) IFRS 9
6 2 (1.41%) NCSC
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (18.31%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.49%) Docker
3 9 (6.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.93%) BitLocker
4 7 (4.93%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.93%) Microsoft App-V
4 7 (4.93%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (3.52%) NFS
5 5 (3.52%) Postfix
5 5 (3.52%) Varnish
6 4 (2.82%) Sendmail
7 2 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.41%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 42 (29.58%) Terraform
2 24 (16.90%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (8.45%) Ansible
5 9 (6.34%) Puppet
6 7 (4.93%) SCCM
6 7 (4.93%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.93%) vMotion
7 5 (3.52%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.11%) Control-M
9 2 (1.41%) Grafana
9 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.70%) QRadar
10 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (42.25%) Microsoft
2 22 (15.49%) Oracle
3 17 (11.97%) VMware
4 11 (7.75%) Citrix
4 11 (7.75%) SAP
5 7 (4.93%) AppDynamics
5 7 (4.93%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.93%) NetApp
5 7 (4.93%) Tenable
6 6 (4.23%) iManage
6 6 (4.23%) Intapp
7 5 (3.52%) Databricks
7 5 (3.52%) Google
7 5 (3.52%) Rapid7
7 5 (3.52%) Workday
8 4 (2.82%) Aderant
8 4 (2.82%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.11%) Informatica
10 2 (1.41%) Ariba
10 2 (1.41%) IBM