IaaS Contracts in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 238 217
Rank change year-on-year -18 -21 -4
Contract jobs citing IaaS 117 152 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.87% 0.94% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.01% 2.31% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 107 176
10th Percentile £434 £400 £408
25th Percentile £499 £505 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £713 £738 £683
90th Percentile £775 £780 £775
England median daily rate £571 £609 £580
% change year-on-year -6.24% +4.91% +0.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £82.00
25th Percentile - - £85.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year -54.76% -11.06% +3.31%

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 5,819 6,591 9,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.05% 40.72% 39.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 4,779 6,949
10th Percentile £337 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 47 62
10th Percentile £22.95 £20.30 £16.61
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -52.00% +35.54%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £72.68 £60.90 £90.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £23.80 £32.31
% change year-on-year +9.24% -26.34% +50.28%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in London

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 15 August 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 -6 20 £600 +7.14% 10
North London - 2 £550 -
East London +12 1 £495 -8.33% 3
South London -2 1 £450 -5.26%
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (15.38%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.71%) nginx
4 2 (1.71%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.85%) CICS
5 1 (0.85%) Luigi
5 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.71%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 84 (71.79%) Azure
2 79 (67.52%) PaaS
3 64 (54.70%) SaaS
4 39 (33.33%) AWS
5 35 (29.91%) Entra ID
6 31 (26.50%) GCP
7 27 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (18.80%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (9.40%) GitHub
9 11 (9.40%) Serverless
10 10 (8.55%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (6.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (6.84%) Power Platform
13 7 (5.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (5.98%) Azure AKS
14 5 (4.27%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (4.27%) OpenShift
15 3 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.64%) Firewall
2 15 (12.82%) VPN
3 9 (7.69%) DNS
4 5 (4.27%) DHCP
4 5 (4.27%) HTTPS
4 5 (4.27%) SSL
5 4 (3.42%) WAN
6 3 (2.56%) MPLS
6 3 (2.56%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.71%) NAS
7 2 (1.71%) Network Security
7 2 (1.71%) NGFW
7 2 (1.71%) SAN
8 1 (0.85%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.85%) BGP
8 1 (0.85%) Internet
8 1 (0.85%) PSTN
8 1 (0.85%) SMTP
8 1 (0.85%) VoIP
8 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.98%) Data Lake
1 7 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (4.27%) Power BI
3 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.71%) Big Data
4 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.71%) MySQL
4 2 (1.71%) Tableau
5 1 (0.85%) AllegroGraph
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.85%) ArangoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) JIRA
2 9 (7.69%) ScriptRunner
3 6 (5.13%) Git
4 3 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.56%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 31 (26.50%) Finance
2 15 (12.82%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.55%) Banking
4 9 (7.69%) Marketing
4 9 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.56%) General Ledger
7 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Local Government
7 3 (2.56%) Military
8 2 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.71%) Legal
8 2 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (42.74%) Architect
2 19 (16.24%) Azure Architect
3 15 (12.82%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (11.11%) Senior
5 11 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (6.84%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (5.98%) Project Manager
8 7 (5.98%) Security Architect
9 6 (5.13%) Lead
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Architect
10 5 (4.27%) Analyst
10 5 (4.27%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Technical Manager
10 5 (4.27%) Technical Project Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.84%) ARM Templates
2 6 (5.13%) REST
3 4 (3.42%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) Middleware
3 4 (3.42%) YAML
4 3 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.71%) ADO
5 2 (1.71%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.71%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.71%) pydantic
5 2 (1.71%) pytest
5 2 (1.71%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.71%) XML
5 2 (1.71%) XML Messaging
6 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.85%) eBPF
6 1 (0.85%) EDI
6 1 (0.85%) Kafka
6 1 (0.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.53%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (4.27%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.56%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.56%) PKI
5 3 (2.56%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.56%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.71%) Genomics
6 2 (1.71%) Life Science
6 2 (1.71%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.85%) Clustering
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.80%) Windows
2 18 (15.38%) Linux
3 12 (10.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.71%) Debian
5 1 (0.85%) AIX
5 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Solaris
5 1 (0.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.85%) VMS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.88%) DevOps
2 38 (32.48%) Agile
3 33 (28.21%) Migration
4 30 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (23.93%) Cloud Security
6 20 (17.09%) Analytics
6 20 (17.09%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (12.82%) Containerisation
8 15 (12.82%) Enterprise Architecture
8 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 15 (12.82%) RBAC
9 14 (11.97%) ETL
10 13 (11.11%) Scrum
11 12 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (10.26%) TOGAF
11 12 (10.26%) Zero Trust
12 11 (9.40%) Project Delivery
12 11 (9.40%) Roadmaps
13 10 (8.55%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.66%) Bicep
2 22 (18.80%) PowerShell
3 14 (11.97%) Python
4 13 (11.11%) SQL
5 9 (7.69%) Groovy
6 7 (5.98%) Bash
7 3 (2.56%) C#
7 3 (2.56%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) COBOL
9 1 (0.85%) Java
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (24.79%) Azure Certification
2 25 (21.37%) Security Cleared
3 20 (17.09%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.69%) Degree
5 6 (5.13%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (2.56%) CISSP
8 3 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.71%) MCITP
9 2 (1.71%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.85%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.85%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) GDPR
2 13 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.27%) SLA
3 5 (4.27%) SOC 2
4 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (3.42%) QA
5 3 (2.56%) GAAP
5 3 (2.56%) NIST
6 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.85%) GRC
7 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.85%) IFRS
7 1 (0.85%) NCSC
7 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 27 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 18 (15.38%) Docker
3 7 (5.98%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (5.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.85%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.85%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (33.33%) Terraform
2 30 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (10.26%) Ansible
5 8 (6.84%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (3.42%) Packer
7 3 (2.56%) Puppet
8 2 (1.71%) Control-M
8 2 (1.71%) Istio
8 2 (1.71%) Nessus
8 2 (1.71%) SCOM
9 1 (0.85%) Grafana
9 1 (0.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.85%) SCCM
9 1 (0.85%) SysTrack
9 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.85%) vMotion
Vendors
1 51 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.97%) Google
3 10 (8.55%) VMware
4 9 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 8 (6.84%) Oracle
6 7 (5.98%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.42%) Cisco
7 4 (3.42%) Dell
7 4 (3.42%) HP
7 4 (3.42%) Qualys
8 3 (2.56%) Citrix
8 3 (2.56%) IBM
8 3 (2.56%) Informatica
9 2 (1.71%) Databricks
9 2 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.71%) SAP
9 2 (1.71%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.71%) Tripwire
9 2 (1.71%) Wind River