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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 237 225
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing IaaS 130 126 176
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.90% 0.90% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.18% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 59 103
10th Percentile £458 £431 £394
25th Percentile £513 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £731
90th Percentile - £738 £775
England median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £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 6,415 5,776 6,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.43% 41.19% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,402 3,870 5,042
10th Percentile £343 £351 £325
25th Percentile £420 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 46 68
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.76 £17.55
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £20.19
Median hourly rate £26.50 £30.80 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -10.74% +38.00%
75th Percentile £56.00 £47.72 £58.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £64.38 £67.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.21 £23.22
% change year-on-year +6.36% +21.49% +1.75%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +6 15 £563 -8.16% 5
South London 0 5 £530 +11.58% 2
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 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.31%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.31%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.54%) Apache
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.77%) CMS
4 1 (0.77%) Luigi
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (2.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.77%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 68 (52.31%) Azure
2 62 (47.69%) PaaS
3 38 (29.23%) SaaS
4 22 (16.92%) Entra ID
5 18 (13.85%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (13.85%) OCI
6 16 (12.31%) AWS
7 15 (11.54%) GCP
8 13 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (9.23%) GitHub
10 11 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (7.69%) Serverless
12 8 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
13 7 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (4.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 6 (4.62%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (4.62%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (12.31%) Firewall
2 12 (9.23%) DNS
3 10 (7.69%) VPN
4 7 (5.38%) Network Security
5 6 (4.62%) DHCP
6 5 (3.85%) MPLS
7 3 (2.31%) SMTP
7 3 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.54%) WAN
9 1 (0.77%) BGP
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (0.77%) Internet
9 1 (0.77%) IPsec
9 1 (0.77%) LAN
9 1 (0.77%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.77%) OSPF
9 1 (0.77%) PSTN
9 1 (0.77%) VLAN
9 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.31%) Big Data
5 3 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (0.77%) AllegroGraph
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.77%) ArangoDB
7 1 (0.77%) CrateDB
7 1 (0.77%) Flink
7 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.77%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Git
2 9 (6.92%) Postman
3 4 (3.08%) JIRA
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle APEX
4 3 (2.31%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.77%) ERwin
5 1 (0.77%) GitLab
5 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.77%) Selenium
5 1 (0.77%) TeamCity
General
1 38 (29.23%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (17.69%) Social Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.62%) Marketing
7 5 (3.85%) Banking
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Legal
10 2 (1.54%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.54%) Japanese Language
10 2 (1.54%) Local Government
10 2 (1.54%) Military
11 1 (0.77%) Billing
11 1 (0.77%) French Language
11 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (35.38%) Architect
2 18 (13.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (11.54%) Senior
4 13 (10.00%) Azure Architect
5 11 (8.46%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Consultant
9 6 (4.62%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Lead
11 4 (3.08%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Cloud Specialist
11 4 (3.08%) Integration Specialist
11 4 (3.08%) Oracle Consultant
11 4 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Security Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.08%) Service Manager
11 4 (3.08%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (27.69%) REST
2 35 (26.92%) JSON
3 11 (8.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 11 (8.46%) XML
4 10 (7.69%) YAML
5 9 (6.92%) OAuth
5 9 (6.92%) SOAP
6 8 (6.15%) .NET
6 8 (6.15%) JWT
6 8 (6.15%) Web Services
6 8 (6.15%) XSLT
7 7 (5.38%) ARM Templates
8 5 (3.85%) Kafka
9 4 (3.08%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.08%) pytest
10 3 (2.31%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.31%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.31%) Node.js
10 3 (2.31%) React
10 3 (2.31%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.31%) PKI
2 26 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (12.31%) Cloud Native
4 11 (8.46%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.08%) Genomics
6 4 (3.08%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.31%) Clustering
7 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.31%) Life Science
7 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.77%) PMI
9 1 (0.77%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.38%) Windows
2 19 (14.62%) Linux
3 18 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.54%) CentOS
5 2 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.54%) VMS
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (36.92%) Agile
2 43 (33.08%) DevOps
3 36 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (25.38%) Configuration Management
5 31 (23.85%) CI/CD
6 26 (20.00%) Key Management
7 24 (18.46%) Containerisation
8 20 (15.38%) Migration
9 17 (13.08%) Cloud Security
10 16 (12.31%) Identity Access Management
11 14 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (10.00%) AI
12 13 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.00%) ERP
12 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps
13 12 (9.23%) Data Protection
13 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (9.23%) Project Delivery
13 12 (9.23%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.23%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (33.08%) PowerShell
2 24 (18.46%) Python
3 21 (16.15%) SQL
4 13 (10.00%) Bicep
5 10 (7.69%) Bash
6 9 (6.92%) Java
7 4 (3.08%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.54%) C#
8 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.77%) Go
9 1 (0.77%) Scala
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (43.08%) Security Cleared
2 49 (37.69%) SC Cleared
3 21 (16.15%) Degree
4 15 (11.54%) Azure Certification
5 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.85%) CISSP
8 4 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (3.08%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.31%) CCSP
9 3 (2.31%) OSCP
9 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.31%) SANS
10 2 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.54%) MCITP
10 2 (1.54%) PMP
11 1 (0.77%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) GDPR
1 8 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.85%) NIST
3 4 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 4 (3.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.31%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.54%) Basel III
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.54%) GAAP
5 2 (1.54%) GRC
5 2 (1.54%) IFRS
5 2 (1.54%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.54%) IFRS 9
5 2 (1.54%) NCSC
5 2 (1.54%) SLA
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 25 (19.23%) Docker
2 19 (14.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.31%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.31%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.31%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.77%) Firmware
7 1 (0.77%) Postfix
7 1 (0.77%) Varnish
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (33.85%) Terraform
2 21 (16.15%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.23%) Ansible
4 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (7.69%) Puppet
5 6 (4.62%) Grafana
6 3 (2.31%) Control-M
6 3 (2.31%) Packer
6 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.31%) vMotion
7 2 (1.54%) SCOM
7 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.77%) Argo
8 1 (0.77%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (32.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.08%) Oracle
3 15 (11.54%) Google
4 8 (6.15%) VMware
5 6 (4.62%) PagerDuty
5 6 (4.62%) SAP
6 4 (3.08%) Cisco
6 4 (3.08%) Informatica
6 4 (3.08%) Rapid7
7 3 (2.31%) Citrix
7 3 (2.31%) Databricks
7 3 (2.31%) NetApp
7 3 (2.31%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.31%) Workday
8 2 (1.54%) HP
8 2 (1.54%) IBM
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe