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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 229 221
Rank change year-on-year -28 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing IaaS 142 122 175
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.92% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 2.20% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 58 103
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £513 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.97% -2.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £758
90th Percentile - £751 £779
England median daily rate £600 £585 £600
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -52.73%

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 6,928 5,534 6,796
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.96% 41.76% 37.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,750 3,750 4,984
10th Percentile £350 £356 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 47 77
10th Percentile £18.00 £22.27 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.35 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +5.47% -12.59%
75th Percentile £52.56 £57.25 £53.25
90th Percentile £72.75 £75.25 £63.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 -12 8 £609 -16.03% 13
South London -17 5 £530 -
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 (8.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.11%) Apache
3 3 (2.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (2.11%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.70%) CMS
5 1 (0.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 86 (60.56%) PaaS
2 79 (55.63%) Azure
3 46 (32.39%) SaaS
4 22 (15.49%) OCI
5 21 (14.79%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (14.79%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (14.08%) AWS
6 20 (14.08%) Entra ID
7 13 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 11 (7.75%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (7.75%) GitHub
8 11 (7.75%) Serverless
9 10 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (7.04%) Azure AKS
9 10 (7.04%) GCP
10 7 (4.93%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.49%) Firewall
2 19 (13.38%) DNS
3 14 (9.86%) VPN
4 10 (7.04%) DHCP
5 8 (5.63%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (4.93%) MPLS
7 6 (4.23%) VLAN
8 5 (3.52%) SAN
9 4 (2.82%) Network Security
9 4 (2.82%) SMTP
10 2 (1.41%) WAN
11 1 (0.70%) BGP
11 1 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.70%) DMVPN
11 1 (0.70%) Internet
11 1 (0.70%) IPsec
11 1 (0.70%) LAN
11 1 (0.70%) OSPF
11 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.11%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (1.41%) Big Data
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.70%) Flink
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.70%) Power BI
8 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (9.86%) Git
2 10 (7.04%) Postman
3 5 (3.52%) Chocolatey
3 5 (3.52%) SoapUI
4 4 (2.82%) JIRA
5 3 (2.11%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (30.99%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.08%) Finance
4 11 (7.75%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.52%) Legal
8 5 (3.52%) Marketing
9 3 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Local Government
9 3 (2.11%) Military
10 2 (1.41%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.41%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.70%) Billing
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Front Office
11 1 (0.70%) Law
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (35.21%) Architect
2 22 (15.49%) Cloud Engineer
2 22 (15.49%) Senior
3 19 (13.38%) Azure Engineer
4 15 (10.56%) Azure Architect
5 11 (7.75%) Integration Engineer
6 9 (6.34%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) IT Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Principal Cloud Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Senior IT Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Cloud Specialist
8 6 (4.23%) Integration Specialist
8 6 (4.23%) Lead
8 6 (4.23%) Oracle Specialist
8 6 (4.23%) Site Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Consultant
9 5 (3.52%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.82%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (26.06%) REST
2 35 (24.65%) JSON
3 12 (8.45%) OAuth
3 12 (8.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (8.45%) XML
4 10 (7.04%) SOAP
5 9 (6.34%) JWT
5 9 (6.34%) Web Services
5 9 (6.34%) XSLT
6 8 (5.63%) .NET
7 7 (4.93%) ARM Templates
7 7 (4.93%) YAML
8 4 (2.82%) Kafka
9 3 (2.11%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.11%) Entity Framework
9 3 (2.11%) Node.js
9 3 (2.11%) React
9 3 (2.11%) XML Messaging
10 2 (1.41%) EDI
10 2 (1.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (21.13%) PKI
2 27 (19.01%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (11.27%) Cloud Native
4 14 (9.86%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.93%) Virtual Team
6 6 (4.23%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.82%) Clustering
8 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.82%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.41%) Genomics
10 2 (1.41%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Windows
2 16 (11.27%) Linux
3 13 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.41%) CentOS
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.41%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (31.69%) DevOps
2 42 (29.58%) Agile
3 36 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (24.65%) Migration
5 34 (23.94%) Configuration Management
6 31 (21.83%) CI/CD
7 26 (18.31%) Key Management
8 24 (16.90%) Containerisation
9 19 (13.38%) Cloud Security
9 19 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (13.38%) TOGAF
10 18 (12.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (12.68%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.97%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
14 14 (9.86%) ERP
14 14 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (9.86%) Project Delivery
15 13 (9.15%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.17%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.08%) Python
2 20 (14.08%) SQL
3 9 (6.34%) Java
4 8 (5.63%) Bash
4 8 (5.63%) Bicep
5 4 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.82%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.70%) C#
7 1 (0.70%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.70%) Ruby
7 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 55 (38.73%) Security Cleared
2 47 (33.10%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.20%) Azure Certification
4 18 (12.68%) Degree
5 13 (9.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (7.04%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (4.93%) DV Cleared
8 6 (4.23%) CISSP
8 6 (4.23%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.82%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.11%) CCSP
10 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.11%) OSCP
10 3 (2.11%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.11%) SANS
11 2 (1.41%) PMP
12 1 (0.70%) CCIE
12 1 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.23%) GDPR
1 6 (4.23%) NIST
2 5 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.52%) PCI DSS
2 5 (3.52%) SLA
3 4 (2.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.41%) Basel III
5 2 (1.41%) GAAP
5 2 (1.41%) GRC
5 2 (1.41%) IFRS
5 2 (1.41%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.41%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 22 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 21 (14.79%) Docker
3 7 (4.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.82%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.82%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 4 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.41%) Postfix
5 2 (1.41%) Varnish
5 2 (1.41%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) NFS
6 1 (0.70%) Sendmail
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (29.58%) Terraform
2 22 (15.49%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (8.45%) Ansible
5 10 (7.04%) Puppet
6 6 (4.23%) Grafana
7 5 (3.52%) SCCM
8 4 (2.82%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.82%) vMotion
9 3 (2.11%) Control-M
9 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.41%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.70%) Argo
11 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (35.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (13.38%) Oracle
3 16 (11.27%) VMware
4 8 (5.63%) Citrix
4 8 (5.63%) Google
5 7 (4.93%) SAP
6 6 (4.23%) PagerDuty
7 5 (3.52%) AppDynamics
7 5 (3.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.52%) Rapid7
7 5 (3.52%) Tenable
8 4 (2.82%) NetApp
9 3 (2.11%) Aderant
9 3 (2.11%) iManage
9 3 (2.11%) Informatica
9 3 (2.11%) Intapp
9 3 (2.11%) Workday
10 2 (1.41%) Databricks
10 2 (1.41%) IBM
11 1 (0.70%) Cisco