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

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 256 222
Rank change year-on-year -4 -34 +20
Contract jobs citing IaaS 121 123 211
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.79% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.94% 1.92% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 74 139
10th Percentile £450 £413 £381
25th Percentile £513 £506 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% +1.27%
75th Percentile £838 £650 £706
90th Percentile - £738 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +3.45%
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 6,240 6,397 7,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.36% 40.90% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,224 4,352 5,664
10th Percentile £350 £350 £336
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 35 70
10th Percentile £18.28 £22.04 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.19 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.38
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -8.79% +51.98%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £65.10 £85.16
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +45.45%

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 13 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 13 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 +8 20 £675 +17.39% 25
South London -3 3 £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 (1.65%) Apache
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) CICS
2 1 (0.83%) CMS
2 1 (0.83%) Confluence
2 1 (0.83%) Luigi
2 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 68 (56.20%) Azure
2 59 (48.76%) PaaS
3 46 (38.02%) SaaS
4 23 (19.01%) Entra ID
4 23 (19.01%) GCP
5 22 (18.18%) AWS
6 19 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (11.57%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (9.09%) GitHub
9 9 (7.44%) Azure AKS
9 9 (7.44%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (6.61%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (4.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 6 (4.96%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.96%) Serverless
12 5 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.88%) Firewall
2 9 (7.44%) VPN
3 8 (6.61%) DNS
3 8 (6.61%) Network Security
4 4 (3.31%) DHCP
4 4 (3.31%) WAN
5 3 (2.48%) HTTPS
5 3 (2.48%) MPLS
5 3 (2.48%) SSL
5 3 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.65%) BGP
6 2 (1.65%) Internet
6 2 (1.65%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.83%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.83%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.83%) NGFW
7 1 (0.83%) OSPF
7 1 (0.83%) PSTN
7 1 (0.83%) SAN
7 1 (0.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (2.48%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.48%) Oracle ODI
5 3 (2.48%) Power BI
5 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.65%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) AllegroGraph
7 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (6.61%) Git
2 4 (3.31%) JIRA
3 3 (2.48%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (1.65%) GitLab
4 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.65%) Postman
4 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.83%) ERwin
5 1 (0.83%) Selenium
5 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (30.58%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (19.83%) Finance
3 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
4 11 (9.09%) Banking
5 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.96%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.13%) Marketing
8 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.31%) Local Government
8 4 (3.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.48%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Legal
10 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.83%) International Banking
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 58 (47.93%) Architect
2 14 (11.57%) Azure Architect
3 12 (9.92%) Senior
4 11 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Consultant
5 7 (5.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Architect
5 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (4.96%) Cloud Architect
6 6 (4.96%) Senior Architect
6 6 (4.96%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (4.13%) Site Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Oracle Consultant
8 4 (3.31%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.31%) Senior Enterprise Architect
9 3 (2.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 3 (2.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (25.62%) REST
2 29 (23.97%) JSON
3 8 (6.61%) YAML
4 5 (4.13%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.31%) ARM Templates
5 4 (3.31%) FastAPI
5 4 (3.31%) Kafka
5 4 (3.31%) Middleware
5 4 (3.31%) pytest
5 4 (3.31%) XML
6 3 (2.48%) .NET
6 3 (2.48%) Node.js
6 3 (2.48%) OAuth
7 2 (1.65%) ADO
7 2 (1.65%) JWT
7 2 (1.65%) React
7 2 (1.65%) SOAP
7 2 (1.65%) Web Services
7 2 (1.65%) XML Messaging
7 2 (1.65%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.49%) PKI
1 26 (21.49%) Self-Motivation
2 15 (12.40%) Cloud Native
3 8 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.31%) Genomics
4 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.48%) Life Science
5 3 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.48%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.53%) Linux
1 20 (16.53%) Windows
2 14 (11.57%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.48%) VMS
4 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.83%) AIX
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Solaris
5 1 (0.83%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.83%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.80%) Agile
2 43 (35.54%) DevOps
3 34 (28.10%) Configuration Management
4 30 (24.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (21.49%) CI/CD
5 26 (21.49%) Key Management
6 24 (19.83%) Cloud Security
7 20 (16.53%) Containerisation
8 19 (15.70%) Migration
9 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (8.26%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.26%) Roadmaps
12 9 (7.44%) Analytics
12 9 (7.44%) Enterprise Architecture
13 8 (6.61%) Machine Learning
13 8 (6.61%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 44 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 23 (19.01%) Python
3 18 (14.88%) SQL
4 17 (14.05%) Bicep
5 11 (9.09%) Bash
6 6 (4.96%) PL/SQL
7 3 (2.48%) C#
8 2 (1.65%) Java
8 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.65%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.83%) C
9 1 (0.83%) COBOL
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) Scala
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 49 (40.50%) Security Cleared
2 45 (37.19%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.88%) Azure Certification
4 16 (13.22%) Degree
5 6 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.48%) CISSP
7 3 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.65%) MCITP
9 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.83%) CCIE
9 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.83%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) GDPR
1 12 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.96%) SOC 2
3 5 (4.13%) QA
4 3 (2.48%) GAAP
4 3 (2.48%) SLA
5 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.65%) NCSC
5 2 (1.65%) NIST
5 2 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.83%) IFRS
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 18 (14.88%) Active Directory
1 18 (14.88%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (33.06%) Terraform
2 21 (17.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (9.09%) Ansible
4 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (4.13%) Grafana
5 5 (4.13%) Puppet
6 4 (3.31%) Packer
7 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.65%) Control-M
8 2 (1.65%) Prometheus
8 2 (1.65%) SCOM
9 1 (0.83%) Argo
9 1 (0.83%) Istio
9 1 (0.83%) SCCM
9 1 (0.83%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 40 (33.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Google
3 11 (9.09%) Oracle
4 7 (5.79%) VMware
5 5 (4.13%) Cisco
6 4 (3.31%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.48%) HP
7 3 (2.48%) IBM
7 3 (2.48%) Informatica
7 3 (2.48%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.65%) Citrix
8 2 (1.65%) Databricks
8 2 (1.65%) F5
8 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.65%) SAP
9 1 (0.83%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.83%) Splunk