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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 254 243
Rank change year-on-year -55 -11 -31
Contract jobs citing IaaS 135 115 155
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.86% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.62% 1.99% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 68 108
10th Percentile £406 £434 £400
25th Percentile £450 £499 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £728
90th Percentile £700 £794 £780
England median daily rate £544 £573 £612
% change year-on-year -5.02% -6.45% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.25 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +76.04% -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 8,337 5,789 6,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.56% 43.10% 40.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,706 3,960 4,768
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 90 48
10th Percentile £19.18 £22.95 £21.55
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £39.69 £39.25
90th Percentile £77.29 £67.95 £60.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.86%

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 August 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 20 August 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 -13 16 £590 -1.67% 5
South London -5 1 £525 +16.67%
West London - 1 £475 -
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 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.44%) Apache
3 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.74%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 111 (82.22%) PaaS
2 107 (79.26%) Azure
3 56 (41.48%) SaaS
4 28 (20.74%) AWS
5 26 (19.26%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (19.26%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (9.63%) Azure AKS
8 12 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
8 12 (8.89%) GitHub
8 12 (8.89%) Serverless
9 9 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 9 (6.67%) OCI
10 8 (5.93%) Datadog
11 6 (4.44%) GCP
11 6 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.70%) DNS
2 31 (22.96%) Firewall
3 21 (15.56%) DHCP
4 18 (13.33%) VPN
5 16 (11.85%) SAN
6 8 (5.93%) VLAN
6 8 (5.93%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (5.19%) NAS
8 6 (4.44%) Network Security
8 6 (4.44%) SMTP
9 4 (2.96%) Internet
9 4 (2.96%) Kerberos
10 3 (2.22%) IPv4
11 2 (1.48%) MPLS
11 2 (1.48%) SSL
12 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.70%) Db2
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (2.96%) Power BI
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.22%) Big Data
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) Git
2 8 (5.93%) Chocolatey
2 8 (5.93%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.70%) JIRA
4 4 (2.96%) JetBrains Rider
4 4 (2.96%) Visual Studio
5 3 (2.22%) GitLab
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (22.22%) Finance
1 30 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Banking
3 14 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.19%) Legal
5 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.96%) Law
6 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.74%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Legal Technology
7 1 (0.74%) Local Government
7 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.74%) Military
7 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (25.93%) Architect
2 34 (25.19%) Azure Engineer
3 21 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (14.81%) Senior
5 19 (14.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 17 (12.59%) Azure Architect
7 12 (8.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (5.19%) Developer
11 7 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) IT Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior IT Engineer
13 5 (3.70%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (23.70%) Terraform
2 13 (9.63%) REST
3 11 (8.15%) Middleware
4 8 (5.93%) .NET
5 6 (4.44%) JSON
5 6 (4.44%) XML
6 5 (3.70%) Entity Framework
7 4 (2.96%) .NET Core
7 4 (2.96%) .NET Framework
7 4 (2.96%) LDAP
7 4 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (2.96%) React
7 4 (2.96%) SOAP
7 4 (2.96%) Web Services
8 3 (2.22%) OAuth
8 3 (2.22%) XSLT
9 2 (1.48%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.48%) SAML
9 2 (1.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.63%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.89%) PKI
4 10 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 9 (6.67%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (5.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (5.19%) Clustering
7 7 (5.19%) Private Cloud
8 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.70%) Mainframe
8 5 (3.70%) Onboarding
9 4 (2.96%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 3 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (23.70%) Windows
2 21 (15.56%) Linux
3 14 (10.37%) Unix
3 14 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.96%) VMS
4 4 (2.96%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (1.48%) Android
5 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.48%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (34.07%) DevOps
2 45 (33.33%) Migration
3 40 (29.63%) CI/CD
4 32 (23.70%) Infrastructure as Code
5 30 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (19.26%) Disaster Recovery
7 22 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (14.07%) ITIL
9 17 (12.59%) Containerisation
9 17 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (10.37%) IT Strategy
10 14 (10.37%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (9.63%) Agile
11 13 (9.63%) Project Delivery
12 12 (8.89%) ITSM
12 12 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (8.89%) TOGAF
13 11 (8.15%) Analytics
13 11 (8.15%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
2 19 (14.07%) Python
3 17 (12.59%) SQL
4 15 (11.11%) Bicep
5 9 (6.67%) Bash
6 6 (4.44%) C#
6 6 (4.44%) Perl
7 5 (3.70%) C
8 4 (2.96%) C++
8 4 (2.96%) Ruby
8 4 (2.96%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.96%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.22%) Groovy
9 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 38 (28.15%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 22 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 15 (11.11%) Degree
5 12 (8.89%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.96%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.22%) CISSP
9 2 (1.48%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.48%) GIAC
9 2 (1.48%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CEH
10 1 (0.74%) CISM
10 1 (0.74%) GCIA
10 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.74%) SSCP
10 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) SLA
2 4 (2.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.22%) NCSC
4 2 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 25 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (9.63%) Docker
4 9 (6.67%) NFS
5 6 (4.44%) BitLocker
5 6 (4.44%) Hyper-V
5 6 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
5 6 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (3.70%) Postfix
6 5 (3.70%) Varnish
6 5 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.96%) Sendmail
7 4 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.22%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (14.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.89%) Ansible
2 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (7.41%) Puppet
4 9 (6.67%) SCCM
5 6 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 6 (4.44%) vCenter Server
5 6 (4.44%) vMotion
6 5 (3.70%) HAProxy
7 4 (2.96%) CA Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.22%) Nagios
9 1 (0.74%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.74%) Grafana
9 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.74%) QRadar
9 1 (0.74%) SCOM
Vendors
1 56 (41.48%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.78%) VMware
3 11 (8.15%) Oracle
4 8 (5.93%) AppDynamics
4 8 (5.93%) Citrix
4 8 (5.93%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.93%) Tenable
5 6 (4.44%) SAP
5 6 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.70%) Greenplum
6 5 (3.70%) Splunk
6 5 (3.70%) Sybase
7 4 (2.96%) Databricks
7 4 (2.96%) iManage
7 4 (2.96%) Intapp
7 4 (2.96%) Litera
7 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.96%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.22%) HP
8 3 (2.22%) NetApp