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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 227 238
Rank change year-on-year -58 +11 -34
Contract jobs citing IaaS 140 125 174
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.73% 0.98% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.27% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 71 114
10th Percentile £406 £419 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £701 £756
90th Percentile £725 £760 £780
England median daily rate £560 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -2.61% -4.17% +4.35%
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 £32.77 £26.00
% change year-on-year +67.84% +26.04% -66.67%

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 8,052 5,500 6,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 42.93% 39.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,533 3,728 5,118
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £788
England median daily rate £518 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 74 66
10th Percentile £21.68 £22.65 £18.89
25th Percentile £27.00 £24.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.25 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +19.58% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.75 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £77.47 £67.50 £56.25
England median hourly rate £42.59 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +69.35% +14.32% -31.89%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -27 12 £625 +4.17% 4
West London - 1 £475 - 3
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 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.29%) Apache
2 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.43%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.71%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.71%) Confluence
4 1 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 124 (88.57%) PaaS
2 108 (77.14%) Azure
3 59 (42.14%) SaaS
4 31 (22.14%) AWS
5 24 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (14.29%) Entra ID
7 18 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (12.14%) OCI
9 15 (10.71%) Azure AKS
9 15 (10.71%) GitHub
10 13 (9.29%) Serverless
11 12 (8.57%) Azure Key Vault
12 11 (7.86%) GCP
13 8 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (5.00%) Datadog
14 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
14 7 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.86%) DNS
2 29 (20.71%) Firewall
3 19 (13.57%) DHCP
3 19 (13.57%) VPN
4 11 (7.86%) SAN
5 8 (5.71%) SMTP
6 6 (4.29%) VLAN
6 6 (4.29%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (3.57%) Network Security
8 4 (2.86%) Internet
8 4 (2.86%) NAS
9 3 (2.14%) IPv4
9 3 (2.14%) MPLS
10 2 (1.43%) Kerberos
11 1 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (2.86%) Power BI
4 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.14%) Big Data
5 3 (2.14%) Db2
5 3 (2.14%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) Chocolatey
3 5 (3.57%) JIRA
4 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.86%) Postman
4 4 (2.86%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.43%) JetBrains Rider
5 2 (1.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (22.14%) Finance
2 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 17 (12.14%) Banking
4 15 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Legal
6 8 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Law
9 3 (2.14%) Military
10 2 (1.43%) Legal Technology
10 2 (1.43%) Local Government
11 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.71%) French Language
11 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Japanese Language
11 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (28.57%) Architect
2 37 (26.43%) Azure Engineer
3 29 (20.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (15.71%) Senior
5 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (11.43%) Azure Architect
7 12 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) IT Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Senior IT Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Lead
12 7 (5.00%) Principal Cloud Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) Principal Engineer
13 6 (4.29%) Applications Architect
14 5 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.14%) .NET
1 10 (7.14%) REST
2 7 (5.00%) Middleware
2 7 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (5.00%) XML
3 6 (4.29%) OAuth
4 5 (3.57%) JSON
4 5 (3.57%) SOAP
4 5 (3.57%) Web Services
5 4 (2.86%) JWT
5 4 (2.86%) XSLT
6 3 (2.14%) Entity Framework
6 3 (2.14%) YAML
7 2 (1.43%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.43%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
7 2 (1.43%) LDAP
7 2 (1.43%) React
7 2 (1.43%) XML Messaging
8 1 (0.71%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (9.29%) Public Cloud
4 11 (7.86%) PKI
5 9 (6.43%) Clustering
5 9 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.71%) Cyber Threat
7 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
8 6 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
10 4 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
11 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (2.14%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.29%) Windows
2 22 (15.71%) Linux
3 17 (12.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.43%) Unix
5 6 (4.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.43%) Android
6 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.71%) CentOS
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (36.43%) DevOps
2 47 (33.57%) Migration
3 35 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 26 (18.57%) TOGAF
7 22 (15.71%) Containerisation
8 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
9 17 (12.14%) Cloud Security
9 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (10.71%) ITIL
11 15 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.29%) DevSecOps
12 13 (9.29%) Project Delivery
13 12 (8.57%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.29%) PowerShell
2 18 (12.86%) Python
2 18 (12.86%) SQL
3 14 (10.00%) Bicep
4 9 (6.43%) Bash
5 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.86%) C#
6 4 (2.86%) Java
6 4 (2.86%) Ruby
7 2 (1.43%) Groovy
7 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.43%) Perl
7 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.71%) C
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 32 (22.86%) Azure Certification
3 21 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.57%) Degree
6 11 (7.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 7 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (4.29%) CISSP
9 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 3 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.14%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.43%) CCSP
11 2 (1.43%) OSCP
11 2 (1.43%) SANS
12 1 (0.71%) CCNP
12 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.71%) PMP
12 1 (0.71%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) GDPR
1 8 (5.71%) SLA
2 4 (2.86%) NIST
2 4 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.14%) NCSC
3 3 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) Basel III
5 1 (0.71%) GAAP
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 26 (18.57%) Active Directory
2 19 (13.57%) Docker
3 11 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.71%) BitLocker
4 8 (5.71%) Hyper-V
4 8 (5.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (5.00%) NFS
6 6 (4.29%) Postfix
6 6 (4.29%) Varnish
7 4 (2.86%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.14%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (31.43%) Terraform
2 27 (19.29%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.00%) Ansible
4 13 (9.29%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (5.71%) Puppet
5 8 (5.71%) vCenter Server
5 8 (5.71%) vMotion
6 7 (5.00%) SCCM
7 6 (4.29%) HAProxy
8 3 (2.14%) Nagios
9 2 (1.43%) CA Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.43%) Control-M
9 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.71%) Grafana
10 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.71%) QRadar
10 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 59 (42.14%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.29%) VMware
3 17 (12.14%) Oracle
4 12 (8.57%) Citrix
5 9 (6.43%) SAP
6 7 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 7 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 7 (5.00%) Google
6 7 (5.00%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.00%) Tenable
7 5 (3.57%) iManage
7 5 (3.57%) Intapp
7 5 (3.57%) Litera
7 5 (3.57%) NetApp
8 4 (2.86%) Databricks
8 4 (2.86%) Rapid7
8 4 (2.86%) Workday
9 3 (2.14%) Aderant
9 3 (2.14%) HP
9 3 (2.14%) Sybase