IaaS Contracts in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 219 203
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 -14
Contract jobs citing IaaS 144 176 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.15% 0.99% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.71% 2.61% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 105 231
10th Percentile £405 £418 £425
25th Percentile £495 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £775 £694
90th Percentile £743 £780 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile - £25.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -67.50% +7.39%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £91.25
90th Percentile - - £98.00
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +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 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in London

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 May 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 -2 21 £600 +11.63% 10
South London - 5 £450 - 2
East London - 1 £495 - 4
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 19 (13.19%) Confluence
2 14 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.08%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.69%) JBoss
5 1 (0.69%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.69%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 100 (69.44%) PaaS
2 78 (54.17%) Azure
3 71 (49.31%) AWS
4 67 (46.53%) SaaS
5 36 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (21.53%) Entra ID
7 25 (17.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (16.67%) GCP
9 23 (15.97%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (13.89%) Serverless
11 17 (11.81%) Snowflake
12 11 (7.64%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (6.94%) Amazon S3
13 10 (6.94%) GitHub
14 6 (4.17%) dbt
15 5 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (3.47%) Amazon EMR
15 5 (3.47%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (3.47%) OpenShift
16 4 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.06%) Firewall
2 19 (13.19%) DNS
3 13 (9.03%) MPLS
4 11 (7.64%) VPN
5 5 (3.47%) VSAN
6 3 (2.08%) DHCP
6 3 (2.08%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.08%) Network Security
6 3 (2.08%) SAN
7 2 (1.39%) NAS
7 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.69%) BGP
8 1 (0.69%) HTTP
8 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.69%) LAN
8 1 (0.69%) OSPF
8 1 (0.69%) SMTP
8 1 (0.69%) SSL
8 1 (0.69%) VoIP
8 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.47%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.39%) MySQL
7 2 (1.39%) Power BI
7 2 (1.39%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.69%) Big Data
8 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (13.89%) JIRA
2 9 (6.25%) ScriptRunner
3 7 (4.86%) GitLab
3 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.17%) Git
5 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.69%) Maven
6 1 (0.69%) MSI
6 1 (0.69%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 23 (15.97%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.89%) Finance
3 9 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.56%) Legal
4 8 (5.56%) Marketing
5 7 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.47%) Spanish Language
7 3 (2.08%) Banking
7 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.08%) Military
7 3 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.39%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Local Government
9 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (29.17%) Architect
2 20 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (13.89%) Senior
3 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (9.72%) Azure Architect
4 14 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (9.03%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (8.33%) Lead
7 11 (7.64%) Cloud Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
8 9 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (5.56%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Architect
11 6 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 6 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) AWS Architect
12 5 (3.47%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 6 (4.17%) CSS
2 6 (4.17%) HTML
3 3 (2.08%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (2.08%) Kafka
4 2 (1.39%) .NET
4 2 (1.39%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.39%) LDAP
4 2 (1.39%) OAuth
4 2 (1.39%) React
4 2 (1.39%) REST
4 2 (1.39%) Spring
4 2 (1.39%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.69%) J2EE
5 1 (0.69%) RESTful
5 1 (0.69%) SOAP
5 1 (0.69%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 12 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 10 (6.94%) Public Cloud
3 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (3.47%) Clustering
5 5 (3.47%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 5 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (2.08%) Low-Code
7 3 (2.08%) PKI
7 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.39%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.39%) Replication
8 2 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.44%) Windows
2 25 (17.36%) Windows Server
3 13 (9.03%) Linux
4 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.08%) VMS
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.39%) Solaris
6 1 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.69%) CentOS
6 1 (0.69%) Unix
6 1 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (34.03%) DevOps
2 46 (31.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (26.39%) Cloud Security
4 37 (25.69%) Migration
5 35 (24.31%) Agile
6 34 (23.61%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (18.06%) Containerisation
9 25 (17.36%) CI/CD
10 22 (15.28%) Project Delivery
11 21 (14.58%) Problem Management
12 19 (13.19%) Roadmaps
13 18 (12.50%) Analytics
14 16 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
15 14 (9.72%) Time Management
16 13 (9.03%) TOGAF
16 13 (9.03%) Zero Trust
17 12 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
17 12 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
18 11 (7.64%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (25.00%) Python
2 23 (15.97%) SQL
3 13 (9.03%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.33%) Bicep
5 9 (6.25%) Bash
5 9 (6.25%) Groovy
6 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.17%) Ruby
8 5 (3.47%) PHP
9 4 (2.78%) C#
9 4 (2.78%) Java
10 1 (0.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.69%) Perl
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (13.89%) Azure Certification
2 16 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.42%) Degree
3 15 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.86%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.47%) CCSAS
5 5 (3.47%) CEH
5 5 (3.47%) CREST Certified
5 5 (3.47%) GIAC
5 5 (3.47%) GPEN
5 5 (3.47%) GWAPT
5 5 (3.47%) OSCP
6 4 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.39%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) GDPR
2 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.78%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 3 (2.08%) SLA
5 2 (1.39%) NIST
5 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.69%) GRC
6 1 (0.69%) PMO
6 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 34 (23.61%) Active Directory
2 20 (13.89%) Docker
3 13 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.47%) VMware NSX
5 5 (3.47%) vSphere
6 4 (2.78%) Hyper-V
7 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.69%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.69%) RACF
8 1 (0.69%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 47 (32.64%) Terraform
2 25 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (9.72%) Ansible
5 9 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.78%) Grafana
6 4 (2.78%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.39%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.39%) Nessus
7 2 (1.39%) Puppet
7 2 (1.39%) SCCM
7 2 (1.39%) Tivoli
7 2 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.39%) VxRail
8 1 (0.69%) Control-M
8 1 (0.69%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.69%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.69%) Nagios
8 1 (0.69%) Netcool
8 1 (0.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 59 (40.97%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.03%) VMware
3 9 (6.25%) Atlassian
3 9 (6.25%) Google
4 8 (5.56%) Oracle
5 7 (4.86%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.47%) Dell
7 5 (3.47%) EMC
7 5 (3.47%) Qualys
8 4 (2.78%) SAP
9 3 (2.08%) Cisco
9 3 (2.08%) CyberArk
9 3 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.08%) Splunk
10 2 (1.39%) Ericsson
10 2 (1.39%) IBM
10 2 (1.39%) Mavenir
10 2 (1.39%) Nokia
10 2 (1.39%) Palo Alto