IaaS Contract Job Trends

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 388 300 274
Rank change year-on-year -88 -26 -44
Contract jobs citing IaaS 297 276 346
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.84% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.58% 2.26% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 180 247
10th Percentile £413 £401 £400
25th Percentile £459 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £752 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £52.00 £30.28 £38.96
25th Percentile £53.13 £30.69 £43.97
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year +75.24% -40.82% -32.01%
75th Percentile £55.25 £32.08 £61.71
90th Percentile £55.40 £32.49 £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £32.77 £69.38
% change year-on-year +67.84% -52.76% -11.06%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,750 12,222 13,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.39% 37.35% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,376 8,174 9,529
10th Percentile £327 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 618 314 305
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.87 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +34.05% +24.15% -36.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.35 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.24 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +97.35% -10.14% -20.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

IaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 25 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS

IaaS
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England -69 267 £550 -4.35% 89
London -43 141 £550 -8.33% 47
UK excluding London -79 133 £600 +4.35% 67
Work from Home -68 85 £600 +3.67% 31
South East -59 54 £700 +21.74% 40
North of England -63 43 £519 -2.81% 7
Yorkshire -31 27 £525 -19.23% 2
North West -53 16 £464 -3.89% 3
Scotland -32 12 £602 +12.63% 3
Midlands -55 12 £475 -20.83% 6
East of England -16 9 £513 -31.76% 5
East Midlands -11 6 £488 +8.33% 2
South West -32 6 £575 -20.69% 3
West Midlands -59 6 £425 -35.51% 4
North East -47 4 £638 +19.38% 2

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (5.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.03%) Apache
2 9 (3.03%) Confluence
3 8 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.01%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.67%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 223 (75.08%) PaaS
2 210 (70.71%) Azure
3 102 (34.34%) SaaS
4 66 (22.22%) AWS
5 65 (21.89%) Entra ID
6 37 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
8 28 (9.43%) GitHub
9 25 (8.42%) Azure AKS
10 21 (7.07%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (7.07%) Serverless
11 20 (6.73%) OCI
12 16 (5.39%) GCP
13 15 (5.05%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (3.03%) Datadog
14 9 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (2.69%) Azure App Service
15 8 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (2.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 65 (21.89%) Firewall
2 58 (19.53%) DNS
3 29 (9.76%) VPN
4 24 (8.08%) DHCP
5 19 (6.40%) SAN
6 14 (4.71%) VLAN
7 10 (3.37%) BIG-IP
7 10 (3.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 10 (3.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 9 (3.03%) SSL
8 9 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (2.69%) Kerberos
9 8 (2.69%) NAS
9 8 (2.69%) Network Security
10 7 (2.36%) Internet
10 7 (2.36%) SMTP
10 7 (2.36%) TCP/IP
11 6 (2.02%) WAN
12 5 (1.68%) IPsec
12 5 (1.68%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (2.02%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.68%) Db2
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.68%) Power BI
8 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
10 2 (0.67%) MaxDB
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.67%) Parquet
10 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (8.75%) JIRA
2 17 (5.72%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.70%) Git
4 9 (3.03%) Chocolatey
5 4 (1.35%) JetBrains Rider
5 4 (1.35%) Postman
5 4 (1.35%) SoapUI
5 4 (1.35%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (20.20%) Social Skills
2 44 (14.81%) Finance
3 31 (10.44%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.07%) Banking
5 18 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.37%) Legal
7 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (1.68%) Law
9 4 (1.35%) Military
10 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.67%) Legal Technology
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Back Office
12 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.34%) Publishing
12 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 93 (31.31%) Architect
2 63 (21.21%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (16.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 41 (13.80%) Cloud Engineer
4 41 (13.80%) Senior
5 28 (9.43%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (8.75%) Azure Architect
7 25 (8.42%) Lead
8 24 (8.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 19 (6.40%) Technical Architect
10 16 (5.39%) Lead Architect
10 16 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.05%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 15 (5.05%) Cloud Architect
11 15 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.04%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Developer
14 10 (3.37%) IT Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.72%) REST
2 14 (4.71%) OAuth
3 12 (4.04%) .NET
4 10 (3.37%) ARM Templates
4 10 (3.37%) Entity Framework
4 10 (3.37%) Middleware
4 10 (3.37%) Web Services
5 8 (2.69%) .NET Core
5 8 (2.69%) .NET Framework
5 8 (2.69%) OpenID
5 8 (2.69%) Oracle Fusion
5 8 (2.69%) SAML
6 7 (2.36%) JSON
7 6 (2.02%) React
7 6 (2.02%) SOAP
8 5 (1.68%) XML
9 4 (1.35%) LDAP
9 4 (1.35%) XACML
9 4 (1.35%) XSLT
9 4 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 40 (13.47%) Data Centre
3 24 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 19 (6.40%) Public Cloud
5 18 (6.06%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (4.04%) PKI
8 10 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (3.37%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (3.03%) Clustering
9 9 (3.03%) Management Information System
10 8 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.36%) Virtual Team
12 6 (2.02%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.68%) PMI
13 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (21.55%) Windows
2 44 (14.81%) Linux
3 24 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.06%) Unix
5 11 (3.70%) VMS
6 7 (2.36%) Android
6 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (2.02%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
9 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (34.68%) DevOps
2 95 (31.99%) CI/CD
3 78 (26.26%) Migration
4 69 (23.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (20.54%) Agile
7 53 (17.85%) Roadmaps
8 38 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (12.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 37 (12.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (11.78%) Cloud Security
12 34 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (10.44%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (10.10%) ITIL
14 30 (10.10%) RBAC
15 27 (9.09%) Containerisation
15 27 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
16 26 (8.75%) Architectural Patterns
16 26 (8.75%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (15.82%) PowerShell
2 39 (13.13%) Python
3 36 (12.12%) Bicep
4 32 (10.77%) SQL
5 11 (3.70%) Bash
6 10 (3.37%) ActionScript
6 10 (3.37%) C#
7 5 (1.68%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.35%) Ruby
8 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.01%) Java
10 2 (0.67%) Groovy
10 2 (0.67%) Perl
11 1 (0.34%) C
11 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 103 (34.68%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 48 (16.16%) Azure Certification
4 38 (12.79%) DV Cleared
5 28 (9.43%) Degree
6 13 (4.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.70%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.70%) CISSP
9 10 (3.37%) PMI Certification
9 10 (3.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 9 (3.03%) CISM
10 9 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 8 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (2.02%) GIAC
14 5 (1.68%) CRISC
14 5 (1.68%) PMP
14 5 (1.68%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.71%) SLA
2 11 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.03%) GDPR
3 9 (3.03%) NIST
4 8 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (2.69%) NCSC
5 6 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
5 6 (2.02%) ISO 31000
6 3 (1.01%) GRC
6 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (19.53%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.07%) Docker
2 21 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (3.03%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.03%) NFS
5 8 (2.69%) BitLocker
6 7 (2.36%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (2.02%) vCloud
8 5 (1.68%) Postfix
8 5 (1.68%) Varnish
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.35%) RACF
9 4 (1.35%) Sendmail
9 4 (1.35%) vSphere
10 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (23.57%) Terraform
2 32 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.73%) Ansible
3 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (5.39%) vCenter Server
5 10 (3.37%) SCCM
6 9 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.36%) Puppet
7 7 (2.36%) vMotion
8 5 (1.68%) CA Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.68%) Grafana
8 5 (1.68%) HAProxy
9 3 (1.01%) CASB
9 3 (1.01%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.01%) Nagios
9 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
10 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
11 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 120 (40.40%) Microsoft
2 42 (14.14%) VMware
3 27 (9.09%) Oracle
4 12 (4.04%) Dynatrace
5 10 (3.37%) Citrix
5 10 (3.37%) Databricks
5 10 (3.37%) F5
5 10 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.03%) AppDynamics
6 9 (3.03%) SAP
6 9 (3.03%) Tenable
7 8 (2.69%) Cisco
8 7 (2.36%) Sybase
9 6 (2.02%) Google
9 6 (2.02%) HP
10 5 (1.68%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.68%) iManage
10 5 (1.68%) Intapp
10 5 (1.68%) Litera
10 5 (1.68%) NetApp