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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 248 229
Rank change year-on-year -48 -19 -20
Contract jobs citing IaaS 143 120 160
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.72% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.72% 2.05% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 72 114
10th Percentile £413 £419 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £583
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.00% -2.92%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £756
90th Percentile £725 £762 £785
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +75.24% -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 requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,310 5,862 6,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 42.91% 40.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,670 4,012 4,921
10th Percentile £363 £343 £350
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 83 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.89 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.67% -49.77%
75th Percentile £55.19 £48.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £72.50 £66.40
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -26 14 £625 -16.67% 8
South London -17 1 £525 +16.67%
West London - 1 £475 - 2
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 13 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.20%) Apache
2 6 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.70%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (3.50%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 122 (85.31%) PaaS
2 114 (79.72%) Azure
3 59 (41.26%) SaaS
4 28 (19.58%) AWS
5 22 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (15.38%) Entra ID
6 19 (13.29%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (9.79%) Azure AKS
7 14 (9.79%) OCI
8 13 (9.09%) GitHub
9 11 (7.69%) Serverless
10 10 (6.99%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (6.29%) Datadog
12 7 (4.90%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (4.90%) GCP
12 7 (4.90%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
14 4 (2.80%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (2.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (23.78%) DNS
1 34 (23.78%) Firewall
2 22 (15.38%) DHCP
3 20 (13.99%) VPN
4 15 (10.49%) SAN
5 8 (5.59%) VLAN
5 8 (5.59%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.90%) SMTP
7 6 (4.20%) NAS
8 5 (3.50%) Network Security
9 4 (2.80%) Internet
9 4 (2.80%) Kerberos
10 3 (2.10%) IPv4
10 3 (2.10%) MPLS
11 2 (1.40%) SSL
12 1 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.49%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.50%) Db2
5 4 (2.80%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.80%) Power BI
6 3 (2.10%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.10%) Big Data
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.40%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.29%) Chocolatey
1 9 (6.29%) Git
2 5 (3.50%) JIRA
3 4 (2.80%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.80%) JetBrains Rider
3 4 (2.80%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.10%) Postman
4 3 (2.10%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (23.08%) Finance
2 27 (18.88%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.29%) Banking
4 13 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.29%) Legal
6 6 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Law
8 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Legal Technology
9 2 (1.40%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.70%) Local Government
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (27.27%) Architect
2 37 (25.87%) Azure Engineer
3 23 (16.08%) Cloud Engineer
3 23 (16.08%) Senior
4 20 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (11.19%) Azure Architect
6 12 (8.39%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (6.29%) IT Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Senior IT Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (4.90%) Developer
11 6 (4.20%) Applications Architect
11 6 (4.20%) Lead
12 5 (3.50%) Principal Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.09%) REST
2 10 (6.99%) Middleware
3 8 (5.59%) .NET
4 6 (4.20%) JSON
4 6 (4.20%) OAuth
4 6 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (4.20%) SOAP
4 6 (4.20%) Web Services
4 6 (4.20%) XML
5 5 (3.50%) Entity Framework
5 5 (3.50%) XSLT
6 4 (2.80%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.80%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.80%) LDAP
6 4 (2.80%) React
7 3 (2.10%) JWT
7 3 (2.10%) YAML
8 2 (1.40%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.40%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.40%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.29%) Cloud Native
2 15 (10.49%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.39%) PKI
3 12 (8.39%) Public Cloud
4 10 (6.99%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (6.29%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.59%) Clustering
7 7 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (4.90%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.50%) Mainframe
9 4 (2.80%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.80%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (2.80%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.40%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.40%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.48%) Windows
2 19 (13.29%) Linux
3 16 (11.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.99%) Unix
5 5 (3.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.40%) Android
6 2 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.87%) DevOps
1 47 (32.87%) Migration
2 35 (24.48%) CI/CD
3 31 (21.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (20.98%) Disaster Recovery
4 30 (20.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (13.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (13.29%) TOGAF
8 18 (12.59%) ITIL
9 17 (11.89%) Containerisation
9 17 (11.89%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (11.19%) Roadmaps
11 15 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (9.09%) Cloud Security
13 13 (9.09%) IT Strategy
13 13 (9.09%) ITSM
13 13 (9.09%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.78%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.19%) SQL
3 14 (9.79%) Bicep
3 14 (9.79%) Python
4 9 (6.29%) Bash
5 6 (4.20%) C#
6 4 (2.80%) Ruby
6 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.10%) Groovy
7 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.40%) Perl
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.68%) Azure Certification
3 22 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.79%) Degree
4 14 (9.79%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.59%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.10%) CISSP
9 2 (1.40%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CCNP
10 1 (0.70%) CEH
10 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.70%) GCIA
10 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.99%) SLA
2 4 (2.80%) GDPR
3 3 (2.10%) NCSC
4 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (19.58%) Active Directory
2 14 (9.79%) Docker
3 12 (8.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.29%) NFS
5 7 (4.90%) BitLocker
5 7 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.50%) Postfix
6 5 (3.50%) Varnish
7 4 (2.80%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.10%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.10%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.40%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (25.17%) Terraform
2 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.09%) Ansible
5 9 (6.29%) SCCM
6 7 (4.90%) Puppet
6 7 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.90%) vMotion
7 5 (3.50%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.80%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.10%) Nagios
10 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.70%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.70%) Grafana
11 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.70%) QRadar
11 1 (0.70%) SCOM
11 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (16.08%) VMware
3 16 (11.19%) Oracle
4 10 (6.99%) Citrix
5 9 (6.29%) AppDynamics
5 9 (6.29%) Dynatrace
5 9 (6.29%) Tenable
6 7 (4.90%) SAP
7 6 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.50%) Greenplum
8 5 (3.50%) iManage
8 5 (3.50%) Intapp
8 5 (3.50%) Litera
8 5 (3.50%) Sybase
9 4 (2.80%) Databricks
9 4 (2.80%) NetApp
10 3 (2.10%) Aderant
10 3 (2.10%) Google
10 3 (2.10%) HP
10 3 (2.10%) Symantec