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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 238 221
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 128 132 181
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 0.90% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.00% 2.20% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 108
10th Percentile £461 £446 £392
25th Percentile £514 £500 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.25% -2.50% +1.69%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £725
90th Percentile - £749 £775
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £87.50
% change year-on-year - - +59.09%

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 6,386 5,996 6,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.29% 41.02% 38.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 4,049 5,099
10th Percentile £348 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 44 65
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.56 £17.40
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £31.17 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% -12.51% +30.75%
75th Percentile £50.63 £54.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.33 £65.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.41 £23.61
% change year-on-year -3.20% +20.33% +4.33%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +4 17 £565 -9.60% 8
South London -3 5 £530 +11.58% 1
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 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.34%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.34%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.78%) CICS
4 1 (0.78%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Luigi
4 1 (0.78%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 3 (2.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 67 (52.34%) Azure
2 58 (45.31%) PaaS
3 39 (30.47%) SaaS
4 24 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 17 (13.28%) AWS
6 16 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (11.72%) OCI
8 14 (10.94%) GCP
8 14 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.03%) GitHub
9 9 (7.03%) Serverless
10 8 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
11 7 (5.47%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (5.47%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.28%) Firewall
2 12 (9.38%) DNS
3 10 (7.81%) VPN
4 7 (5.47%) Network Security
5 6 (4.69%) DHCP
6 5 (3.91%) MPLS
7 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.56%) BGP
8 2 (1.56%) SMTP
8 2 (1.56%) WAN
9 1 (0.78%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.78%) Internet
9 1 (0.78%) IPsec
9 1 (0.78%) LAN
9 1 (0.78%) NAS
9 1 (0.78%) OSPF
9 1 (0.78%) PSTN
9 1 (0.78%) VLAN
9 1 (0.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.16%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (2.34%) Big Data
4 3 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle ODI
4 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.56%) Power BI
5 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.78%) AllegroGraph
6 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.78%) ArangoDB
6 1 (0.78%) Azkaban
6 1 (0.78%) CrateDB
6 1 (0.78%) Flink
6 1 (0.78%) MemSQL
6 1 (0.78%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Git
2 8 (6.25%) Postman
3 4 (3.13%) JIRA
4 3 (2.34%) Oracle APEX
5 2 (1.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.78%) ERwin
6 1 (0.78%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (19.53%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.50%) Finance
4 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.69%) Banking
5 6 (4.69%) Marketing
6 4 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.34%) Legal
7 3 (2.34%) Local Government
8 2 (1.56%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.56%) Japanese Language
9 1 (0.78%) Billing
9 1 (0.78%) French Language
9 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (36.72%) Architect
2 16 (12.50%) Senior
3 14 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (7.81%) Azure Architect
5 9 (7.03%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.03%) Integration Engineer
6 8 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) Consultant
8 6 (4.69%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.91%) Lead
9 5 (3.91%) Senior Architect
10 4 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Oracle Consultant
10 4 (3.13%) Service Manager
10 4 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.13%) Technical Architect
11 3 (2.34%) Oracle Technical Consultant
11 3 (2.34%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (27.34%) REST
2 34 (26.56%) JSON
3 11 (8.59%) YAML
4 10 (7.81%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (7.81%) XML
5 8 (6.25%) OAuth
5 8 (6.25%) SOAP
6 7 (5.47%) ARM Templates
6 7 (5.47%) JWT
6 7 (5.47%) Web Services
6 7 (5.47%) XSLT
7 5 (3.91%) .NET
7 5 (3.91%) Kafka
8 4 (3.13%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.13%) pytest
9 3 (2.34%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.34%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.34%) Node.js
9 3 (2.34%) React
9 3 (2.34%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.88%) PKI
2 26 (20.31%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 10 (7.81%) Public Cloud
5 6 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.13%) Genomics
6 4 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.34%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.34%) Life Science
7 3 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.56%) Clustering
8 2 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.19%) Windows
2 19 (14.84%) Linux
2 19 (14.84%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.56%) VMS
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.78%) AIX
4 1 (0.78%) CentOS
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) Solaris
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (37.50%) Agile
2 42 (32.81%) DevOps
3 33 (25.78%) Configuration Management
4 32 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (22.66%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.31%) Key Management
7 20 (15.63%) Containerisation
8 17 (13.28%) Migration
9 15 (11.72%) Cloud Security
10 14 (10.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (10.16%) Identity Access Management
11 13 (10.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (9.38%) ERP
12 12 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.38%) Project Delivery
12 12 (9.38%) Roadmaps
12 12 (9.38%) Software Engineering
13 11 (8.59%) Computer Science
13 11 (8.59%) Unit Testing
14 10 (7.81%) AI
Programming Languages
1 42 (32.81%) PowerShell
2 23 (17.97%) Python
3 20 (15.63%) SQL
4 14 (10.94%) Bicep
5 10 (7.81%) Bash
6 6 (4.69%) Java
7 4 (3.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.56%) C#
8 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.78%) C
9 1 (0.78%) COBOL
9 1 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (39.84%) Security Cleared
2 46 (35.94%) SC Cleared
3 19 (14.84%) Degree
4 14 (10.94%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.13%) CISSP
6 4 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.34%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.56%) CCIE
8 2 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.56%) MCITP
8 2 (1.56%) PMP
8 2 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.78%) OSCP
9 1 (0.78%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.91%) GDPR
3 4 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.34%) SLA
4 3 (2.34%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.56%) Basel III
5 2 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.56%) GAAP
5 2 (1.56%) GRC
5 2 (1.56%) IFRS
5 2 (1.56%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.56%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.56%) NCSC
5 2 (1.56%) NIST
6 1 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.78%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 21 (16.41%) Docker
2 20 (15.63%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.34%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.34%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.56%) BitLocker
5 2 (1.56%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.78%) Firmware
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (30.47%) Terraform
2 16 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.38%) Ansible
4 11 (8.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (7.03%) Puppet
6 6 (4.69%) Grafana
7 4 (3.13%) Packer
8 3 (2.34%) Control-M
9 2 (1.56%) SCOM
9 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.56%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.56%) vMotion
10 1 (0.78%) Argo
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.50%) Oracle
3 12 (9.38%) Google
4 8 (6.25%) VMware
5 6 (4.69%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.69%) SAP
6 5 (3.91%) Cisco
7 4 (3.13%) Informatica
8 3 (2.34%) Citrix
8 3 (2.34%) Databricks
8 3 (2.34%) NetApp
8 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.34%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.34%) Workday
9 2 (1.56%) HP
9 2 (1.56%) IBM
9 2 (1.56%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
35 IaaS jobs in London