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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 253 247
Rank change year-on-year -77 -6 -30
Contract jobs citing IaaS 119 122 147
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.90% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 2.09% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 72 96
10th Percentile £385 £419 £400
25th Percentile £450 £490 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £691
90th Percentile £689 £831 £780
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +76.84% -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 8,363 5,830 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.14% 43.21% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,714 3,966 4,714
10th Percentile £360 £344 £350
25th Percentile £447 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £749 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 94 48
10th Percentile £18.30 £23.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £23.08 £25.15 £24.06
Median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £78.75 £69.08
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.38 £30.88
% change year-on-year +28.87% -14.57% -6.44%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -25 15 £590 -1.67% 3
South London -8 1 £525 +16.67% 1
West London - 1 £475 -
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 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.20%) Apache
3 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.84%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.68%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 94 (78.99%) PaaS
2 92 (77.31%) Azure
3 47 (39.50%) SaaS
4 27 (22.69%) AWS
5 25 (21.01%) Entra ID
6 23 (19.33%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.24%) GitHub
7 11 (9.24%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (9.24%) Serverless
8 9 (7.56%) Azure AKS
8 9 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (6.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.88%) OCI
11 6 (5.04%) GCP
12 5 (4.20%) Azure Functions
12 5 (4.20%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (4.20%) Datadog
12 5 (4.20%) SuccessFactors
13 4 (3.36%) Azure App Service
13 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.85%) DNS
1 26 (21.85%) Firewall
2 18 (15.13%) DHCP
3 15 (12.61%) VPN
4 13 (10.92%) SAN
5 7 (5.88%) NAS
5 7 (5.88%) VLAN
6 6 (5.04%) SMTP
6 6 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (3.36%) Kerberos
7 4 (3.36%) Network Security
8 3 (2.52%) IPv4
9 2 (1.68%) Internet
9 2 (1.68%) SSL
10 1 (0.84%) HTTP
10 1 (0.84%) SNMP
10 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.84%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.20%) Db2
4 5 (4.20%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.52%) Big Data
6 3 (2.52%) Power BI
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.68%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Git
2 8 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.20%) Chocolatey
4 4 (3.36%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (3.36%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.52%) GitLab
5 3 (2.52%) JIRA
General
1 28 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.81%) Finance
3 14 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.40%) Banking
6 5 (4.20%) Legal
7 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Law
9 1 (0.84%) Legal Technology
9 1 (0.84%) Local Government
9 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.84%) Military
9 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.05%) Architect
2 25 (21.01%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (15.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (13.45%) Azure Architect
6 15 (12.61%) Senior
7 10 (8.40%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (7.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.72%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (6.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Developer
10 6 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Incident Manager
11 5 (4.20%) Lead
11 5 (4.20%) Major Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.53%) Terraform
2 12 (10.08%) REST
3 11 (9.24%) Middleware
4 7 (5.88%) .NET
5 5 (4.20%) Entity Framework
5 5 (4.20%) JSON
5 5 (4.20%) XML
6 4 (3.36%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.36%) LDAP
6 4 (3.36%) React
6 4 (3.36%) Web Services
7 3 (2.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.52%) SOAP
8 2 (1.68%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.68%) OAuth
8 2 (1.68%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.68%) SAML
8 2 (1.68%) XSLT
9 1 (0.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.08%) Data Centre
3 11 (9.24%) PKI
4 8 (6.72%) Private Cloud
4 8 (6.72%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (5.04%) Clustering
6 6 (5.04%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (4.20%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (4.20%) Mainframe
7 5 (4.20%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.52%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.68%) IoT
9 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.21%) Windows
2 21 (17.65%) Linux
3 14 (11.76%) Unix
4 12 (10.08%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.36%) VMS
7 3 (2.52%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.68%) Android
8 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.84%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.45%) DevOps
2 38 (31.93%) CI/CD
3 36 (30.25%) Migration
4 29 (24.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (21.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
8 15 (12.61%) ITIL
9 14 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (10.92%) Containerisation
11 12 (10.08%) IT Strategy
11 12 (10.08%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (9.24%) Agile
13 10 (8.40%) Analytics
13 10 (8.40%) Configuration Management
14 9 (7.56%) Infrastructure Automation
14 9 (7.56%) Roadmaps
14 9 (7.56%) Service Delivery
15 8 (6.72%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 21 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 18 (15.13%) Python
3 16 (13.45%) SQL
4 13 (10.92%) Bicep
5 8 (6.72%) Bash
6 7 (5.88%) Perl
7 6 (5.04%) C#
8 5 (4.20%) C
8 5 (4.20%) C++
9 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.52%) Groovy
10 3 (2.52%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.52%) Ruby
10 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 36 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.81%) Azure Certification
4 15 (12.61%) Degree
5 10 (8.40%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.52%) CISSP
7 3 (2.52%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CCNP
8 2 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.68%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.68%) GIAC
8 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.68%) OSCP
8 2 (1.68%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.84%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
9 1 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.88%) SLA
2 4 (3.36%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.52%) NCSC
4 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (18.49%) Active Directory
2 13 (10.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.40%) Docker
4 8 (6.72%) NFS
5 6 (5.04%) Hyper-V
6 5 (4.20%) BitLocker
6 5 (4.20%) Microsoft App-V
6 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.36%) Postfix
7 4 (3.36%) Varnish
7 4 (3.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.52%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.52%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (13.45%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Ansible
2 10 (8.40%) Puppet
3 9 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 6 (5.04%) SCCM
6 5 (4.20%) vCenter Server
6 5 (4.20%) vMotion
7 4 (3.36%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (3.36%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.52%) Nagios
9 1 (0.84%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.84%) Grafana
9 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.84%) QRadar
Vendors
1 41 (34.45%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.13%) VMware
3 9 (7.56%) Oracle
4 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.20%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.20%) Citrix
5 5 (4.20%) Dynatrace
5 5 (4.20%) Greenplum
5 5 (4.20%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.20%) SaltStack
5 5 (4.20%) SAP
5 5 (4.20%) Splunk
5 5 (4.20%) Sybase
5 5 (4.20%) Tenable
6 3 (2.52%) Cisco
6 3 (2.52%) Google
6 3 (2.52%) HP
6 3 (2.52%) iManage
6 3 (2.52%) Litera
6 3 (2.52%) Symantec