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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 249 214
Rank change year-on-year -20 -35 +28
Contract jobs citing IaaS 119 128 218
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 0.81% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.99% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 78 142
10th Percentile £450 £400 £378
25th Percentile £513 £506 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% +0.42%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £706
90th Percentile - £711 £775
England median daily rate £563 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year -54.76% -11.06% +41.82%

All Cloud 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 6,274 6,432 7,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.38% 40.90% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,247 4,377 5,594
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 34 67
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.78 £18.56
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -9.68% +40.91%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £76.25 £65.33 £85.62
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -27.23% +17.77% +35.09%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +3 20 £621 +9.47% 22
South London -4 4 £530 +11.58% 1
North London - 2 £550 -
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 2 (1.68%) Apache
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.84%) CICS
2 1 (0.84%) CMS
2 1 (0.84%) Confluence
2 1 (0.84%) Luigi
2 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 66 (55.46%) Azure
2 55 (46.22%) PaaS
3 43 (36.13%) SaaS
4 22 (18.49%) AWS
4 22 (18.49%) GCP
5 19 (15.97%) Entra ID
6 16 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.92%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (9.24%) GitHub
9 9 (7.56%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.72%) Azure AKS
10 8 (6.72%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (5.88%) OCI
12 6 (5.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (5.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (13.45%) Firewall
2 9 (7.56%) VPN
3 8 (6.72%) DNS
3 8 (6.72%) Network Security
4 5 (4.20%) WAN
5 4 (3.36%) DHCP
5 4 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.52%) MPLS
7 2 (1.68%) BGP
7 2 (1.68%) Internet
7 2 (1.68%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.84%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.84%) IPsec
8 1 (0.84%) LAN
8 1 (0.84%) NGFW
8 1 (0.84%) OSPF
8 1 (0.84%) SAN
8 1 (0.84%) SSL
8 1 (0.84%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.36%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (2.52%) Power BI
6 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.68%) MySQL
6 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) Azkaban
7 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.84%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.84%) MemSQL
7 1 (0.84%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.84%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.84%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Git
2 3 (2.52%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Oracle APEX
2 3 (2.52%) Postman
3 2 (1.68%) GitLab
4 1 (0.84%) ERwin
4 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) Selenium
4 1 (0.84%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (31.09%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Finance
3 18 (15.13%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.56%) Banking
6 6 (5.04%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.36%) Local Government
7 4 (3.36%) Marketing
7 4 (3.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Legal
9 2 (1.68%) Retail
10 1 (0.84%) Billing
10 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (45.38%) Architect
2 12 (10.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 12 (10.08%) Senior
3 11 (9.24%) Azure Architect
4 8 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.88%) Consultant
5 7 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Senior Architect
6 6 (5.04%) Site Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Cloud Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (3.36%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Senior Enterprise Architect
8 4 (3.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.05%) REST
2 30 (25.21%) JSON
3 8 (6.72%) YAML
4 4 (3.36%) .NET
4 4 (3.36%) FastAPI
4 4 (3.36%) Kafka
4 4 (3.36%) OAuth
4 4 (3.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (3.36%) pytest
4 4 (3.36%) XML
5 3 (2.52%) ARM Templates
5 3 (2.52%) JWT
5 3 (2.52%) Node.js
5 3 (2.52%) SOAP
5 3 (2.52%) Web Services
5 3 (2.52%) XSLT
6 2 (1.68%) ADO
6 2 (1.68%) Middleware
6 2 (1.68%) pydantic
6 2 (1.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.85%) PKI
1 26 (21.85%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (13.45%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.20%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.36%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.36%) Genomics
6 3 (2.52%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.52%) Life Science
6 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.68%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.68%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Cyber Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Linux
1 19 (15.97%) Windows
2 14 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.52%) VMS
4 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) AIX
5 1 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.84%) Solaris
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.84%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (43.70%) Agile
2 40 (33.61%) DevOps
3 33 (27.73%) Configuration Management
4 30 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (22.69%) CI/CD
6 26 (21.85%) Key Management
7 23 (19.33%) Cloud Security
8 20 (16.81%) Containerisation
9 17 (14.29%) Migration
10 16 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.24%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (8.40%) Roadmaps
13 9 (7.56%) AI
13 9 (7.56%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (7.56%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Architecture
13 9 (7.56%) Identity Access Management
13 9 (7.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.45%) PowerShell
2 25 (21.01%) Python
3 16 (13.45%) Bicep
4 15 (12.61%) SQL
5 12 (10.08%) Bash
6 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.52%) C#
7 3 (2.52%) Java
8 2 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.84%) C
9 1 (0.84%) COBOL
9 1 (0.84%) Go
9 1 (0.84%) Scala
9 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (40.34%) Security Cleared
2 45 (37.82%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.45%) Degree
4 14 (11.76%) Azure Certification
5 6 (5.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.20%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.36%) AWS Certification
7 4 (3.36%) CISSP
8 3 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.68%) CCIE
9 2 (1.68%) CCNP
9 2 (1.68%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.68%) MCITP
10 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.84%) CCDE
10 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.84%) OSCP
10 1 (0.84%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (10.08%) GDPR
3 5 (4.20%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.36%) QA
5 3 (2.52%) NIST
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.68%) GRC
6 2 (1.68%) NCSC
6 2 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.84%) GAAP
7 1 (0.84%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (15.97%) Docker
2 16 (13.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.84%) Firmware
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (32.77%) Terraform
2 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.40%) Ansible
4 8 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.04%) Grafana
5 6 (5.04%) Puppet
6 4 (3.36%) Packer
7 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.68%) SCOM
7 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.84%) Argo
8 1 (0.84%) Control-M
8 1 (0.84%) Istio
8 1 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.84%) SCCM
8 1 (0.84%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 38 (31.93%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.61%) Google
3 10 (8.40%) Oracle
4 7 (5.88%) VMware
5 5 (4.20%) Cisco
5 5 (4.20%) PagerDuty
6 3 (2.52%) HP
6 3 (2.52%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.68%) Citrix
7 2 (1.68%) Databricks
7 2 (1.68%) F5
7 2 (1.68%) IBM
7 2 (1.68%) Informatica
7 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) SAP
8 1 (0.84%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.84%) Splunk