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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 256 242
Rank change year-on-year -47 -14 -24
Contract jobs citing IaaS 144 117 154
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.86% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 2.01% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 70 109
10th Percentile £406 £436 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £738
90th Percentile £700 £775 £782
England median daily rate £550 £575 £612
% change year-on-year -4.35% -6.05% +5.52%
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 8,409 5,812 6,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 42.81% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,733 3,994 4,801
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £448 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 86 52
10th Percentile £19.15 £22.75 £20.65
25th Percentile £24.38 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £46.00 £41.19
90th Percentile £75.70 £69.75 £65.65
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 16 £625 -15.54% 17
South London -15 1 £525 +16.67%
West London - 1 £475 - 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 12 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.17%) Apache
3 5 (3.47%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.69%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 121 (84.03%) PaaS
2 114 (79.17%) Azure
3 58 (40.28%) SaaS
4 28 (19.44%) AWS
5 27 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (18.06%) Entra ID
7 17 (11.81%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (9.03%) Azure AKS
8 13 (9.03%) GitHub
8 13 (9.03%) OCI
9 12 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (8.33%) Serverless
10 9 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (5.56%) Datadog
12 6 (4.17%) GCP
12 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.17%) Power Platform
12 6 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
13 5 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 33 (22.92%) DNS
1 33 (22.92%) Firewall
2 21 (14.58%) DHCP
3 18 (12.50%) VPN
4 15 (10.42%) SAN
5 7 (4.86%) NAS
5 7 (4.86%) SMTP
5 7 (4.86%) VLAN
5 7 (4.86%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (4.17%) Network Security
7 4 (2.78%) Internet
7 4 (2.78%) Kerberos
8 3 (2.08%) IPv4
8 3 (2.08%) MPLS
9 2 (1.39%) SSL
10 1 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.72%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.47%) Db2
6 4 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (2.78%) Power BI
7 3 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.08%) Big Data
8 2 (1.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 2 (1.39%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (7.64%) Git
2 8 (5.56%) Chocolatey
3 6 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.47%) JIRA
5 4 (2.78%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (2.78%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.39%) GitLab
6 2 (1.39%) Postman
6 2 (1.39%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (22.22%) Finance
2 31 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.50%) Banking
4 14 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Legal
6 5 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.78%) Law
8 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Legal Technology
10 1 (0.69%) Local Government
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (26.39%) Architect
2 35 (24.31%) Azure Engineer
3 22 (15.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Senior
5 17 (11.81%) Azure Architect
6 11 (7.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (6.94%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 10 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Developer
9 7 (4.86%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.86%) Senior IT Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Lead
10 6 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.72%) REST
2 11 (7.64%) Middleware
3 8 (5.56%) .NET
4 7 (4.86%) JSON
4 7 (4.86%) XML
5 5 (3.47%) Entity Framework
5 5 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (3.47%) SOAP
5 5 (3.47%) Web Services
6 4 (2.78%) .NET Core
6 4 (2.78%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.78%) LDAP
6 4 (2.78%) OAuth
6 4 (2.78%) React
6 4 (2.78%) XSLT
7 3 (2.08%) YAML
8 2 (1.39%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.39%) JWT
8 2 (1.39%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.39%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.72%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.03%) PKI
4 12 (8.33%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (5.56%) Clustering
6 8 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.17%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.47%) Mainframe
8 5 (3.47%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.78%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.08%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.39%) Augmented Reality
11 2 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (1.39%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 34 (23.61%) Windows
2 21 (14.58%) Linux
3 16 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.33%) Unix
5 5 (3.47%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.08%) VMS
7 2 (1.39%) Android
7 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.33%) DevOps
2 47 (32.64%) Migration
3 40 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 35 (24.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 29 (20.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (13.19%) ITIL
10 18 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (11.81%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (11.11%) TOGAF
13 15 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (9.72%) IT Strategy
14 14 (9.72%) Project Delivery
15 13 (9.03%) Cloud Security
15 13 (9.03%) Technical Leadership
16 12 (8.33%) Agile
16 12 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.50%) Python
3 17 (11.81%) SQL
4 16 (11.11%) Bicep
5 9 (6.25%) Bash
6 6 (4.17%) C#
7 4 (2.78%) Perl
7 4 (2.78%) Ruby
7 4 (2.78%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.08%) C
8 3 (2.08%) Groovy
8 3 (2.08%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.39%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 42 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 29 (20.14%) Azure Certification
3 24 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.72%) Degree
4 14 (9.72%) DV Cleared
5 7 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.08%) CISSP
9 2 (1.39%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.39%) GIAC
9 2 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.69%) CEH
10 1 (0.69%) CISM
10 1 (0.69%) GCIA
10 1 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.69%) SSCP
10 1 (0.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.25%) SLA
2 4 (2.78%) GDPR
3 3 (2.08%) NCSC
4 2 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.69%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (9.72%) Docker
4 9 (6.25%) NFS
5 7 (4.86%) BitLocker
5 7 (4.86%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.86%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (4.86%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.47%) Postfix
6 5 (3.47%) Varnish
7 4 (2.78%) Sendmail
7 4 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.08%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (25.00%) Terraform
2 19 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (9.03%) Ansible
3 13 (9.03%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.25%) Puppet
5 8 (5.56%) SCCM
6 7 (4.86%) vCenter Server
6 7 (4.86%) vMotion
7 5 (3.47%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.78%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.78%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.08%) Nagios
10 1 (0.69%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.69%) Grafana
10 1 (0.69%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.69%) QRadar
10 1 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.67%) VMware
3 15 (10.42%) Oracle
4 10 (6.94%) Citrix
5 8 (5.56%) AppDynamics
5 8 (5.56%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.56%) Tenable
6 6 (4.17%) SAP
6 6 (4.17%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.47%) Greenplum
7 5 (3.47%) Sybase
8 4 (2.78%) Databricks
8 4 (2.78%) iManage
8 4 (2.78%) Intapp
8 4 (2.78%) Litera
8 4 (2.78%) NetApp
8 4 (2.78%) Splunk
9 3 (2.08%) Google
9 3 (2.08%) HP
9 3 (2.08%) Symantec