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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 291 277
Rank change year-on-year -95 -14 -44
Contract jobs citing IaaS 297 293 365
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.90% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 2.41% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 192 246
10th Percentile £413 £403 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £598 £569 £615
% change year-on-year +5.10% -7.56% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £52.00 £30.28 -
25th Percentile £53.13 £30.69 £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.24% +20.71% -66.67%
75th Percentile £55.25 £32.08 £26.50
90th Percentile £55.40 £32.49 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £32.77 £26.00
% change year-on-year +67.84% +26.04% -66.67%

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 18,736 12,182 14,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.42% 37.54% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,435 8,156 10,012
10th Percentile £328 £313 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 615 312 354
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.94 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.12 £27.63 £22.23
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% +24.32% -36.50%
75th Percentile £69.10 £47.63 £49.69
90th Percentile £82.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £21.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -10.14% -20.75%

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 11 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 11 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 -71 269 £550 -4.35% 74
London -38 144 £550 -8.33% 33
UK excluding London -95 133 £598 +5.10% 66
Work from Home -74 79 £600 - 33
North of England -51 51 £519 -2.79% 12
South East -61 45 £700 +21.74% 38
Yorkshire -26 32 £563 -13.46% 3
North West -49 19 £437 -9.38% 6
Midlands -58 13 £488 -17.02% 6
Scotland -29 12 £625 +19.05% 3
East of England -22 9 £513 -24.13% 5
South West -33 7 £575 -16.36% 1
West Midlands -68 7 £519 -16.10% 2
East Midlands -17 6 £488 +8.33% 4
North East -38 4 £638 +19.38% 3

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 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.03%) Apache
3 8 (2.69%) 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%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (3.37%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 233 (78.45%) PaaS
2 202 (68.01%) Azure
3 105 (35.35%) SaaS
4 74 (24.92%) AWS
5 57 (19.19%) Entra ID
6 41 (13.80%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (11.45%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (10.77%) GitHub
9 26 (8.75%) Serverless
10 23 (7.74%) Azure AKS
10 23 (7.74%) OCI
11 21 (7.07%) GCP
12 20 (6.73%) Azure Monitor
13 13 (4.38%) Azure Key Vault
14 9 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (3.03%) Power Platform
15 8 (2.69%) Datadog
16 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.36%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 63 (21.21%) Firewall
2 58 (19.53%) DNS
3 28 (9.43%) VPN
4 23 (7.74%) DHCP
5 17 (5.72%) SAN
6 13 (4.38%) 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
9 8 (2.69%) Network Security
9 8 (2.69%) Wi-Fi
10 7 (2.36%) Internet
10 7 (2.36%) Kerberos
10 7 (2.36%) NAS
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 18 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (3.03%) NoSQL
5 8 (2.69%) Relational Database
6 7 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.68%) Power BI
8 4 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.35%) Db2
8 4 (1.35%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.01%) Big Data
9 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.01%) DocumentDB
9 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.67%) MaxDB
10 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 24 (8.08%) JIRA
2 20 (6.73%) Jenkins
3 16 (5.39%) Git
4 8 (2.69%) Chocolatey
5 5 (1.68%) Postman
5 5 (1.68%) SoapUI
6 4 (1.35%) JetBrains Rider
6 4 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 3 (1.01%) GitLab
8 2 (0.67%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.34%) Selenium
9 1 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.34%) Subversion
9 1 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.34%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.16%) Finance
3 28 (9.43%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.07%) Banking
5 12 (4.04%) Legal
6 9 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.02%) Military
10 5 (1.68%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Legal Technology
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Back Office
13 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 96 (32.32%) Architect
2 61 (20.54%) Azure Engineer
3 45 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 42 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 40 (13.47%) Senior
6 27 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (8.75%) Azure Architect
8 24 (8.08%) Lead
9 20 (6.73%) Technical Architect
10 18 (6.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (5.72%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 16 (5.39%) Lead Architect
13 13 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
14 12 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.37%) IT Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
16 9 (3.03%) Senior IT Engineer
16 9 (3.03%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.05%) REST
2 14 (4.71%) .NET
2 14 (4.71%) OAuth
3 12 (4.04%) ARM Templates
4 11 (3.70%) Web Services
5 10 (3.37%) Middleware
6 9 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (2.36%) Entity Framework
7 7 (2.36%) JSON
7 7 (2.36%) SOAP
8 6 (2.02%) OpenID
8 6 (2.02%) SAML
8 6 (2.02%) XML
9 5 (1.68%) .NET Core
9 5 (1.68%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.68%) JWT
9 5 (1.68%) OAuth2
9 5 (1.68%) React
9 5 (1.68%) XSLT
10 4 (1.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.80%) Data Centre
2 40 (13.47%) Cloud Native
3 23 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 20 (6.73%) Public Cloud
5 19 (6.40%) Onboarding
6 16 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.70%) PKI
8 10 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (3.03%) Clustering
9 9 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (3.03%) Virtual Team
10 8 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.02%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.68%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
14 4 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 63 (21.21%) Windows
2 46 (15.49%) Linux
3 24 (8.08%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.06%) Unix
5 11 (3.70%) VMS
6 8 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (2.36%) Android
7 7 (2.36%) Apple iOS
7 7 (2.36%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.68%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.34%) CentOS
12 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (39.06%) DevOps
2 102 (34.34%) CI/CD
3 78 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (24.92%) Migration
5 65 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 63 (21.21%) Agile
7 57 (19.19%) Roadmaps
8 38 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
9 37 (12.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 37 (12.46%) Technical Leadership
10 36 (12.12%) Cloud Security
11 35 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (10.77%) Containerisation
14 31 (10.44%) Architectural Patterns
14 31 (10.44%) TOGAF
15 30 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (9.76%) ITIL
16 29 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
17 26 (8.75%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 41 (13.80%) Python
3 35 (11.78%) SQL
4 34 (11.45%) Bicep
5 12 (4.04%) Bash
6 10 (3.37%) ActionScript
7 8 (2.69%) C#
7 8 (2.69%) Java
8 6 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.35%) Ruby
11 2 (0.67%) Groovy
11 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.34%) C
12 1 (0.34%) C++
12 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.34%) VBA
12 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 101 (34.01%) Security Cleared
2 63 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 47 (15.82%) Azure Certification
4 38 (12.79%) DV Cleared
5 28 (9.43%) Degree
6 13 (4.38%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (4.04%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.70%) CISSP
9 10 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (2.36%) SANS
11 6 (2.02%) CISM
11 6 (2.02%) GIAC
12 5 (1.68%) CESG Certified Professional
12 5 (1.68%) CRISC
12 5 (1.68%) PMI Certification
12 5 (1.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.71%) SLA
2 10 (3.37%) GDPR
2 10 (3.37%) NIST
3 9 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.03%) NCSC
4 6 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (2.02%) ISO 31000
5 4 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.34%) PMO
8 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 52 (17.51%) Active Directory
2 27 (9.09%) Docker
3 19 (6.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (3.03%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.69%) BitLocker
6 8 (2.69%) NFS
7 7 (2.36%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (2.02%) Postfix
8 6 (2.02%) Varnish
8 6 (2.02%) vCloud
9 5 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.35%) RACF
10 4 (1.35%) Sendmail
10 4 (1.35%) vSphere
11 3 (1.01%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 77 (25.93%) Terraform
2 39 (13.13%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.07%) Ansible
4 20 (6.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (5.39%) vCenter Server
6 11 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.03%) SCCM
8 7 (2.36%) Puppet
8 7 (2.36%) vMotion
9 6 (2.02%) HAProxy
10 5 (1.68%) Grafana
11 4 (1.35%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.01%) CASB
12 3 (1.01%) Check_MK
12 3 (1.01%) Nagios
12 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
13 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.34%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 112 (37.71%) Microsoft
2 39 (13.13%) VMware
3 28 (9.43%) Oracle
4 11 (3.70%) Citrix
4 11 (3.70%) Dynatrace
4 11 (3.70%) Google
5 10 (3.37%) F5
5 10 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.03%) SAP
7 8 (2.69%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.69%) Tenable
8 7 (2.36%) Cisco
8 7 (2.36%) Databricks
9 6 (2.02%) HP
9 6 (2.02%) Sybase
10 5 (1.68%) iManage
10 5 (1.68%) Intapp
10 5 (1.68%) Litera
10 5 (1.68%) NetApp
11 4 (1.35%) Thales