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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 254 215
Rank change year-on-year +14 -39 +2
Contract jobs citing IaaS 121 144 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.88% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.15% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 94 168
10th Percentile £419 £400 £398
25th Percentile £495 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £739 £688 £711
90th Percentile £838 £780 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £82.00
25th Percentile - - £85.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year -54.76% -11.06% +3.31%

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 5,811 6,709 8,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.19% 41.23% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,947 4,716 6,617
10th Percentile £339 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -1.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £785
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 47 64
10th Percentile £23.00 £22.00 £17.04
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.98 £22.38
Median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -37.25% +39.29%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.10 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.16% -6.06% +53.49%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS 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 September 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 September 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 +5 23 £600 +7.14% 10
North London - 2 £550 -
South London -5 1 £450 -5.26%
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 16 (13.22%) Confluence
2 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.65%) nginx
4 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) CICS
5 1 (0.83%) Luigi
5 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 85 (70.25%) Azure
2 74 (61.16%) PaaS
3 60 (49.59%) SaaS
4 36 (29.75%) AWS
5 33 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 33 (27.27%) GCP
6 25 (20.66%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (17.36%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (9.92%) Cloud Computing
9 11 (9.09%) GitHub
9 11 (9.09%) Serverless
10 8 (6.61%) Azure AKS
10 8 (6.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
11 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
12 5 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (3.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (3.31%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 30 (24.79%) Firewall
2 14 (11.57%) VPN
3 10 (8.26%) DNS
4 6 (4.96%) Network Security
5 5 (4.13%) DHCP
5 5 (4.13%) HTTPS
5 5 (4.13%) SSL
6 4 (3.31%) MPLS
6 4 (3.31%) WAN
7 3 (2.48%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.65%) Internet
8 2 (1.65%) NAS
8 2 (1.65%) NGFW
8 2 (1.65%) SAN
9 1 (0.83%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.83%) BGP
9 1 (0.83%) PSTN
9 1 (0.83%) SMTP
9 1 (0.83%) VoIP
9 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.31%) Power BI
4 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.65%) Big Data
5 2 (1.65%) MySQL
5 2 (1.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.83%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Azkaban
6 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.83%) MemSQL
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 18 (14.88%) JIRA
2 9 (7.44%) ScriptRunner
3 6 (4.96%) Git
4 4 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.65%) GitLab
7 1 (0.83%) ERwin
7 1 (0.83%) Postman
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (23.97%) Finance
2 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.92%) Banking
4 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.26%) Marketing
6 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.31%) Legal
9 3 (2.48%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Local Government
9 3 (2.48%) Military
10 2 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Police
11 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (38.84%) Architect
2 17 (14.05%) Azure Architect
3 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.40%) Senior
5 13 (10.74%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (7.44%) Enterprise Architect
6 9 (7.44%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Senior Architect
9 6 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.96%) Security Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Analyst
10 5 (4.13%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Lead
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Enterprise Architect
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (3.31%) Developer
11 4 (3.31%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.61%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.79%) REST
3 5 (4.13%) YAML
4 4 (3.31%) .NET
4 4 (3.31%) Middleware
4 4 (3.31%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.48%) XML
6 2 (1.65%) ADO
6 2 (1.65%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.65%) JSON
6 2 (1.65%) LangGraph
6 2 (1.65%) pydantic
6 2 (1.65%) pytest
6 2 (1.65%) React
6 2 (1.65%) XML Messaging
7 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.83%) eBPF
7 1 (0.83%) JWT
7 1 (0.83%) Kafka
7 1 (0.83%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.79%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.31%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.31%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.48%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.65%) Genomics
7 2 (1.65%) Life Science
7 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.65%) PKI
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) CMDB
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
8 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.83%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Windows
2 21 (17.36%) Linux
3 17 (14.05%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.65%) Debian
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.65%) VMS
4 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.83%) AIX
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.50%) DevOps
2 38 (31.40%) Agile
3 33 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (27.27%) Migration
4 26 (21.49%) Cloud Security
5 24 (19.83%) CI/CD
6 20 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (14.05%) Analytics
8 16 (13.22%) Containerisation
9 15 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (11.57%) RBAC
10 14 (11.57%) TOGAF
11 13 (10.74%) Enterprise Architecture
11 13 (10.74%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (9.92%) ETL
12 12 (9.92%) Zero Trust
13 11 (9.09%) Project Delivery
13 11 (9.09%) Roadmaps
13 11 (9.09%) Security Architecture
14 10 (8.26%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.01%) Bicep
1 23 (19.01%) PowerShell
2 14 (11.57%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) SQL
4 9 (7.44%) Groovy
5 7 (5.79%) Bash
6 4 (3.31%) C#
7 3 (2.48%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.65%) Java
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) COBOL
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.31%) Azure Certification
3 23 (19.01%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.26%) Degree
5 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.65%) CISSP
9 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.65%) MCITP
9 2 (1.65%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.83%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) GDPR
2 13 (10.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.79%) SOC 2
4 5 (4.13%) SLA
5 4 (3.31%) QA
6 3 (2.48%) GAAP
6 3 (2.48%) NIST
7 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.83%) GRC
8 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.83%) IFRS
8 1 (0.83%) NCSC
8 1 (0.83%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (21.49%) Active Directory
2 18 (14.88%) Docker
3 6 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.13%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.65%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.65%) vSphere
7 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.83%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (35.54%) Terraform
2 30 (24.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (9.92%) Ansible
5 7 (5.79%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.31%) Packer
7 2 (1.65%) Control-M
7 2 (1.65%) Istio
7 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.65%) Puppet
7 2 (1.65%) SCOM
8 1 (0.83%) Argo
8 1 (0.83%) Grafana
8 1 (0.83%) Nagios
8 1 (0.83%) SCCM
8 1 (0.83%) SysTrack
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.83%) vMotion
Vendors
1 53 (43.80%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.22%) Google
3 11 (9.09%) VMware
4 9 (7.44%) Atlassian
4 9 (7.44%) Oracle
5 7 (5.79%) ServiceNow
6 5 (4.13%) Cisco
6 5 (4.13%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.31%) Dell
7 4 (3.31%) HP
7 4 (3.31%) SAP
8 3 (2.48%) Citrix
8 3 (2.48%) Databricks
8 3 (2.48%) IBM
8 3 (2.48%) Informatica
8 3 (2.48%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.65%) Wind River