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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 258 251
Rank change year-on-year -90 -7 -40
Contract jobs citing IaaS 106 111 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.52% 0.83% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.90% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 67 78
10th Percentile £375 £423 £413
25th Percentile £450 £498 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £740 £672
90th Percentile £675 £902 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +76.84% -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 8,270 5,849 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.92% 43.67% 40.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,710 3,957 4,544
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 97 41
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £22.65 £25.01 £24.15
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.40 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% -11.61% -23.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £44.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £79.25 £66.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.29%

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 October 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 October 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 -28 13 £590 -1.67% 13
South London - 1 £525 -
West London - 1 £475 - 5
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 3 (2.83%) Apache
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.94%) CloudStack
2 1 (0.94%) Confluence
2 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.89%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 80 (75.47%) Azure
1 80 (75.47%) PaaS
2 37 (34.91%) SaaS
3 26 (24.53%) Entra ID
4 23 (21.70%) AWS
4 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.38%) GitHub
5 11 (10.38%) Serverless
6 10 (9.43%) Azure AKS
6 10 (9.43%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (6.60%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (4.72%) OCI
8 5 (4.72%) OpenShift
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.77%) Azure App Service
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.77%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (20.75%) Firewall
2 21 (19.81%) DNS
3 15 (14.15%) DHCP
4 12 (11.32%) VPN
5 11 (10.38%) SAN
6 6 (5.66%) NAS
6 6 (5.66%) VLAN
7 5 (4.72%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (3.77%) Kerberos
8 4 (3.77%) SMTP
9 3 (2.83%) IPv4
9 3 (2.83%) Network Security
10 2 (1.89%) SSL
11 1 (0.94%) HTTP
11 1 (0.94%) Internet
11 1 (0.94%) SNMP
11 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
11 1 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.94%) TCP/IP
11 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.77%) Db2
4 4 (3.77%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.83%) Big Data
5 3 (2.83%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (1.89%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.89%) Power BI
6 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Git
2 7 (6.60%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.77%) Chocolatey
3 4 (3.77%) GitLab
3 4 (3.77%) JetBrains Rider
3 4 (3.77%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.83%) JIRA
General
1 25 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.92%) Finance
3 13 (12.26%) Public Sector
4 10 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.94%) Law
8 1 (0.94%) Legal Technology
8 1 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Architect
2 21 (19.81%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (15.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) Senior
5 13 (12.26%) Azure Architect
6 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.49%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (7.55%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
9 8 (7.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.66%) Lead
12 5 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (4.72%) Developer
12 5 (4.72%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (3.77%) Consultant
13 4 (3.77%) Incident Manager
13 4 (3.77%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.53%) Terraform
2 13 (12.26%) REST
3 11 (10.38%) Middleware
4 6 (5.66%) .NET
5 5 (4.72%) Entity Framework
5 5 (4.72%) JSON
5 5 (4.72%) XML
6 4 (3.77%) .NET Core
6 4 (3.77%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.77%) LDAP
6 4 (3.77%) React
7 3 (2.83%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (2.83%) SOAP
7 3 (2.83%) Web Services
8 2 (1.89%) ARM Templates
8 2 (1.89%) OAuth
8 2 (1.89%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.89%) SAML
8 2 (1.89%) XSLT
9 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.49%) PKI
4 8 (7.55%) Private Cloud
5 7 (6.60%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.72%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (4.72%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.77%) Clustering
7 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.77%) Mainframe
7 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.89%) IoT
9 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.64%) Windows
2 17 (16.04%) Linux
3 11 (10.38%) Unix
4 10 (9.43%) Windows Server
5 5 (4.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (4.72%) VMS
6 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.94%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.94%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) DevOps
2 39 (36.79%) CI/CD
3 33 (31.13%) Migration
4 28 (26.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (13.21%) Agile
8 14 (13.21%) Containerisation
8 14 (13.21%) ITIL
9 12 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (10.38%) Analytics
11 10 (9.43%) AI
11 10 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (9.43%) IT Strategy
11 10 (9.43%) Project Delivery
12 9 (8.49%) Configuration Management
13 8 (7.55%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.98%) Python
2 16 (15.09%) PowerShell
2 16 (15.09%) SQL
3 10 (9.43%) Bicep
4 7 (6.60%) Bash
4 7 (6.60%) Perl
5 6 (5.66%) C#
6 5 (4.72%) C
6 5 (4.72%) C++
7 4 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.83%) Groovy
8 3 (2.83%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.89%) Ruby
10 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.94%) Scala
10 1 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (15.09%) Azure Certification
4 15 (14.15%) Degree
5 7 (6.60%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.83%) CISSP
7 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.89%) CCNP
8 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.89%) GIAC
8 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.89%) OSCP
8 2 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.94%) GCIA
9 1 (0.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) SLA
2 4 (3.77%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.89%) NCSC
4 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (17.92%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.49%) Docker
4 6 (5.66%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.72%) NFS
6 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
6 4 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (2.83%) BitLocker
7 3 (2.83%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (2.83%) Terminal Services
7 3 (2.83%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.89%) Postfix
8 2 (1.89%) Varnish
9 1 (0.94%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.94%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (14.15%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.55%) Puppet
3 7 (6.60%) Ansible
3 7 (6.60%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.72%) SCCM
5 4 (3.77%) CA Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.83%) Nagios
6 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.83%) vMotion
7 2 (1.89%) Grafana
7 2 (1.89%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.94%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.94%) QRadar
Vendors
1 34 (32.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.09%) VMware
3 8 (7.55%) Oracle
4 6 (5.66%) Splunk
5 5 (4.72%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.72%) SaltStack
5 5 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.77%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.77%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.77%) Google
6 4 (3.77%) Greenplum
6 4 (3.77%) Okta
6 4 (3.77%) Sybase
6 4 (3.77%) Tenable
7 3 (2.83%) Cisco
7 3 (2.83%) Citrix
7 3 (2.83%) Databricks
7 3 (2.83%) HP
7 3 (2.83%) Symantec
8 2 (1.89%) Ariba