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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 240 236
Rank change year-on-year -51 -4 -31
Contract jobs citing IaaS 140 124 172
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.91% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 2.14% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 73 115
10th Percentile £411 £420 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £763
90th Percentile £725 £758 £785
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -71.11%
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £26.00
% change year-on-year +75.24% +20.71% -66.67%

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 8,210 5,799 6,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 42.76% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,621 3,948 5,111
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 81 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.01 £22.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +7.79% -50.96%
75th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £67.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -30 12 £625 +4.17% 6
South London -13 1 £525 +16.67%
West London - 1 £475 - 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 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.29%) Apache
2 6 (4.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.71%) CloudStack
3 1 (0.71%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (3.57%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 123 (87.86%) PaaS
2 113 (80.71%) Azure
3 59 (42.14%) SaaS
4 30 (21.43%) AWS
5 24 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (16.43%) Entra ID
7 19 (13.57%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (10.71%) Azure AKS
9 14 (10.00%) GitHub
10 12 (8.57%) OCI
11 11 (7.86%) Serverless
12 10 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
12 10 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
13 8 (5.71%) Datadog
13 8 (5.71%) GCP
14 7 (5.00%) Power Platform
14 7 (5.00%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
17 4 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 34 (24.29%) DNS
2 32 (22.86%) Firewall
3 21 (15.00%) DHCP
4 19 (13.57%) VPN
5 14 (10.00%) SAN
6 7 (5.00%) SMTP
6 7 (5.00%) VLAN
6 7 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (4.29%) NAS
8 5 (3.57%) Network Security
9 4 (2.86%) Internet
9 4 (2.86%) Kerberos
10 3 (2.14%) IPv4
10 3 (2.14%) MPLS
11 1 (0.71%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.57%) Db2
6 4 (2.86%) Power BI
7 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.43%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Git
2 8 (5.71%) Chocolatey
3 4 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.86%) JetBrains Rider
3 4 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 3 (2.14%) JIRA
4 3 (2.14%) Postman
4 3 (2.14%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (22.86%) Finance
2 27 (19.29%) Social Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Banking
4 13 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (7.86%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.14%) Legal
7 6 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.57%) Law
9 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.43%) Legal Technology
11 2 (1.43%) Local Government
11 2 (1.43%) Military
12 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.71%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Architect
2 36 (25.71%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (17.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (16.43%) Senior
5 19 (13.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (12.86%) Azure Architect
7 12 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.86%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) IT Engineer
10 9 (6.43%) Senior IT Engineer
11 8 (5.71%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (4.29%) Applications Architect
13 6 (4.29%) Developer
14 5 (3.57%) Incident Manager
14 5 (3.57%) Major Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.86%) REST
2 10 (7.14%) Middleware
3 9 (6.43%) .NET
4 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
4 5 (3.57%) OAuth
5 4 (2.86%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.86%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.86%) JSON
5 4 (2.86%) LDAP
5 4 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (2.86%) React
5 4 (2.86%) SOAP
5 4 (2.86%) Web Services
5 4 (2.86%) XML
6 3 (2.14%) JWT
6 3 (2.14%) XSLT
6 3 (2.14%) YAML
7 2 (1.43%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 12 (8.57%) PKI
3 12 (8.57%) Public Cloud
4 9 (6.43%) Cyber Threat
4 9 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (5.71%) Clustering
6 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (3.57%) Mainframe
8 5 (3.57%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
10 3 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
11 2 (1.43%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
11 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.00%) Windows
2 20 (14.29%) Linux
3 16 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 11 (7.86%) Unix
5 5 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.43%) Android
6 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.71%) CentOS
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.71%) DevOps
2 45 (32.14%) Migration
3 34 (24.29%) CI/CD
4 30 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (20.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (15.00%) TOGAF
7 18 (12.86%) Containerisation
7 18 (12.86%) ITIL
7 18 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (12.86%) Roadmaps
7 18 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 18 (12.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 17 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (10.71%) Cloud Security
9 15 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (9.29%) ITSM
11 12 (8.57%) IT Strategy
11 12 (8.57%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 16 (11.43%) SQL
3 15 (10.71%) Python
4 14 (10.00%) Bicep
5 9 (6.43%) Bash
6 6 (4.29%) C#
7 5 (3.57%) Shell Script
8 4 (2.86%) Ruby
8 4 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.43%) Groovy
9 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.43%) Perl
9 2 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) C
10 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.14%) Azure Certification
3 23 (16.43%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.14%) Degree
6 9 (6.43%) TOGAF Certification
7 5 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.86%) CISSP
8 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.71%) CCNP
10 1 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.71%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.71%) OSCP
10 1 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.71%) RHCE
10 1 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.43%) SLA
2 5 (3.57%) GDPR
3 3 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.14%) NCSC
4 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.71%) NIST
5 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 28 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (10.71%) Docker
3 10 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.43%) NFS
5 7 (5.00%) BitLocker
5 7 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (4.29%) Postfix
6 6 (4.29%) Varnish
7 4 (2.86%) Sendmail
8 3 (2.14%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (27.14%) Terraform
2 22 (15.71%) Kubernetes
3 14 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (9.29%) Ansible
5 8 (5.71%) SCCM
6 7 (5.00%) Puppet
6 7 (5.00%) vCenter Server
6 7 (5.00%) vMotion
7 6 (4.29%) HAProxy
8 4 (2.86%) CA Single Sign-On
9 3 (2.14%) Nagios
10 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.71%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.71%) Grafana
11 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.71%) QRadar
11 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.29%) VMware
3 14 (10.00%) Oracle
4 11 (7.86%) Citrix
5 8 (5.71%) AppDynamics
5 8 (5.71%) Dynatrace
5 8 (5.71%) Tenable
6 7 (5.00%) SAP
7 6 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.57%) Greenplum
8 5 (3.57%) iManage
8 5 (3.57%) Intapp
8 5 (3.57%) Litera
8 5 (3.57%) Sybase
9 4 (2.86%) Databricks
9 4 (2.86%) Google
9 4 (2.86%) NetApp
10 3 (2.14%) Aderant
10 3 (2.14%) HP
10 3 (2.14%) Symantec