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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 255 276
Rank change year-on-year -100 +21 -53
Contract jobs citing IaaS 301 294 360
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.62% 1.03% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.74% 2.73% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 186 225
10th Percentile £408 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £485 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £838 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £544 £615
% change year-on-year +10.34% -11.59% +11.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £52.00 - -
25th Percentile £53.13 - £25.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
75th Percentile £55.25 - £26.50
90th Percentile £55.40 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -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 17,253 10,771 13,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 37.65% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,607 7,395 9,878
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £633
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 535 236 346
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.88 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +29.12% +30.46% -38.94%
75th Percentile £64.00 £47.22 £39.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £66.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.89 £17.72
% change year-on-year +79.51% +17.89% -29.47%

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 23 May 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 17 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 23 May 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 -71 272 £575 - 96
London -69 138 £538 -10.42% 43
UK excluding London -75 138 £600 +10.34% 77
Work from Home -58 89 £600 - 38
South East -47 57 £700 +21.74% 35
North of England -59 45 £518 -0.86% 11
Yorkshire -40 28 £600 -7.69% 6
North West -39 17 £425 -16.67% 5
South West -25 13 £575 +15.00% 11
Midlands -68 11 £444 -22.83% 10
East of England -29 8 £575 -14.88% 6
West Midlands -62 8 £463 -18.68% 6
Scotland -25 6 £650 +23.81% 5
North East -33 4 £638 +19.38%
East Midlands -28 3 £418 -27.39% 4
Wales -12 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 (5.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.66%) Apache
2 8 (2.66%) Confluence
3 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.66%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.66%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Mendix
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 9 (2.99%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 229 (76.08%) PaaS
2 189 (62.79%) Azure
3 92 (30.56%) SaaS
4 68 (22.59%) AWS
5 49 (16.28%) Entra ID
6 38 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (11.96%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (9.97%) Serverless
9 24 (7.97%) OCI
10 16 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (5.32%) GCP
10 16 (5.32%) GitHub
11 14 (4.65%) Azure AKS
11 14 (4.65%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
13 10 (3.32%) Power Platform
14 9 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (2.66%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 57 (18.94%) Firewall
2 56 (18.60%) DNS
3 25 (8.31%) DHCP
4 24 (7.97%) VPN
5 15 (4.98%) SAN
6 9 (2.99%) SSL
7 8 (2.66%) MPLS
8 7 (2.33%) SMTP
8 7 (2.33%) VLAN
8 7 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.99%) Internet
9 6 (1.99%) IPsec
9 6 (1.99%) Network Security
9 6 (1.99%) WAN
10 5 (1.66%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.66%) LAN
10 5 (1.66%) SD-WAN
11 4 (1.33%) BIG-IP
11 4 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (2.33%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.66%) Power BI
7 4 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.33%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.00%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (0.66%) Big Data
9 2 (0.66%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.66%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.66%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 21 (6.98%) Git
2 20 (6.64%) JIRA
3 13 (4.32%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.65%) Postman
5 8 (2.66%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.33%) Chocolatey
7 3 (1.00%) GitLab
8 2 (0.66%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.33%) Selenium
9 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.33%) Subversion
9 1 (0.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.33%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (14.29%) Finance
3 22 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.31%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.98%) Banking
5 12 (3.99%) Legal
6 10 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Military
8 5 (1.66%) Law
9 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.00%) Marketing
10 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.66%) Japanese Language
10 2 (0.66%) Local Government
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (27.24%) Architect
2 53 (17.61%) Azure Engineer
3 51 (16.94%) Senior
4 39 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 36 (11.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (8.31%) Lead
7 22 (7.31%) Technical Architect
8 20 (6.64%) Azure Architect
8 20 (6.64%) Senior Manager
9 15 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (4.65%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.65%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (4.32%) IT Manager
11 13 (4.32%) Service Manager
11 13 (4.32%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.99%) IT Services Manager
12 12 (3.99%) Oracle Specialist
12 12 (3.99%) Senior IT Manager
12 12 (3.99%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.31%) OAuth
2 17 (5.65%) Web Services
3 16 (5.32%) ARM Templates
3 16 (5.32%) REST
4 14 (4.65%) .NET
4 14 (4.65%) XML
5 13 (4.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 12 (3.99%) JSON
6 12 (3.99%) SOAP
7 10 (3.32%) JWT
7 10 (3.32%) XSLT
8 8 (2.66%) YAML
9 7 (2.33%) OpenID
9 7 (2.33%) SAML
10 6 (1.99%) Entity Framework
10 6 (1.99%) OAuth2
11 5 (1.66%) Kafka
11 5 (1.66%) Middleware
11 5 (1.66%) XACML
12 4 (1.33%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 30 (9.97%) Cloud Native
2 26 (8.64%) Data Centre
3 24 (7.97%) Public Cloud
4 20 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 10 (3.32%) Enterprise Storage
7 10 (3.32%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.99%) Clustering
9 8 (2.66%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (2.33%) PKI
11 6 (1.99%) Operational Technology
11 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
12 5 (1.66%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.66%) Management Information System
13 4 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (1.33%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.59%) Windows
2 46 (15.28%) Linux
3 30 (9.97%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.98%) Unix
5 7 (2.33%) Android
5 7 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 7 (2.33%) VMS
5 7 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.33%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.33%) CentOS
9 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (37.21%) DevOps
2 95 (31.56%) CI/CD
3 82 (27.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (22.92%) Migration
5 61 (20.27%) Roadmaps
6 60 (19.93%) Agile
7 56 (18.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 40 (13.29%) Technical Leadership
9 39 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (12.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 34 (11.30%) Architectural Patterns
11 34 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
12 32 (10.63%) Containerisation
12 32 (10.63%) TOGAF
13 30 (9.97%) ITIL
14 28 (9.30%) Microservices
15 27 (8.97%) Identity Access Management
15 27 (8.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 26 (8.64%) Cloud Security
17 23 (7.64%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.62%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.95%) SQL
3 34 (11.30%) Bicep
3 34 (11.30%) Python
4 13 (4.32%) Bash
5 10 (3.32%) Java
6 9 (2.99%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.66%) C#
7 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.33%) ActionScript
8 4 (1.33%) Ruby
9 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.66%) Perl
11 1 (0.33%) C
11 1 (0.33%) C++
11 1 (0.33%) VBA
11 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 116 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 73 (24.25%) SC Cleared
3 50 (16.61%) Azure Certification
4 44 (14.62%) DV Cleared
5 28 (9.30%) Degree
6 17 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (4.32%) CISSP
9 11 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.99%) AWS Certification
10 9 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (2.99%) Master's Degree
11 8 (2.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (2.33%) CISM
12 7 (2.33%) SANS
13 6 (1.99%) GIAC
14 5 (1.66%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.66%) CRISC
14 5 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (1.66%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.65%) SLA
2 11 (3.65%) GDPR
3 10 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (3.32%) NIST
4 9 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (2.99%) NCSC
5 6 (1.99%) ISO 31000
6 5 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.33%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) Basel III
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.66%) GAAP
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 55 (18.27%) Active Directory
2 28 (9.30%) Docker
3 26 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (4.65%) Hyper-V
5 12 (3.99%) vCloud
6 8 (2.66%) BitLocker
7 7 (2.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (1.99%) Postfix
8 6 (1.99%) Varnish
8 6 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.99%) vSphere
9 5 (1.66%) NFS
9 5 (1.66%) RACF
10 4 (1.33%) Sendmail
11 3 (1.00%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 82 (27.24%) Terraform
2 36 (11.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (7.64%) Ansible
4 21 (6.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (6.31%) vCenter Server
6 10 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (2.99%) Puppet
8 8 (2.66%) SCCM
9 7 (2.33%) vMotion
10 6 (1.99%) Grafana
10 6 (1.99%) HAProxy
11 3 (1.00%) Control-M
12 2 (0.66%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.66%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.66%) Nessus
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.66%) Packer
12 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.66%) systemd
Vendors
1 112 (37.21%) Microsoft
2 50 (16.61%) VMware
3 31 (10.30%) Oracle
4 13 (4.32%) SAP
5 11 (3.65%) Citrix
6 10 (3.32%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.66%) Cisco
7 8 (2.66%) NetApp
7 8 (2.66%) Tenable
8 7 (2.33%) AppDynamics
8 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.99%) Google
9 6 (1.99%) iManage
9 6 (1.99%) Intapp
10 5 (1.66%) Databricks
10 5 (1.66%) Workday
11 4 (1.33%) Aderant
11 4 (1.33%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.33%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.33%) Thales