IaaS Contracts

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 267 276 226
Rank change year-on-year +9 -50 -12
Contract jobs citing IaaS 295 361 637
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.95% 0.83% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 2.53% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 242 432
10th Percentile £406 £401 £425
25th Percentile £478 £479 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £666 £675 £688
90th Percentile £838 £780 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £569 £615 £550
% change year-on-year -7.56% +11.82% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 11
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - £25.50 £74.71
Median hourly rate £32.77 £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.04% -66.67% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £80.99
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.77 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +26.04% -66.67% +3.31%

All Cloud 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 11,683 14,254 20,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.66% 32.84% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,825 10,021 14,673
10th Percentile £313 £303 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 293 356 334
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.36 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.97 £25.73
% change year-on-year -10.01% -18.48% +33.64%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 16 Contract 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 2 July 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
England -15 223 £575 -4.17% 752
UK excluding London +21 125 £569 -7.56% 428
London -2 124 £600 +4.35% 365
Work from Home +16 105 £600 - 429
South East +59 44 £575 +12.20% 122
Scotland +25 35 £521 -19.85% 24
North of England -6 31 £534 +6.80% 103
North West -4 18 £510 +2.00% 63
North East +8 11 £534 -7.13% 5
Midlands +2 10 £609 +16.00% 67
Yorkshire -6 8 £650 +23.81% 35
West Midlands +6 7 £800 +56.10% 37
South West +4 6 £688 +5.77% 51
East of England - 5 £676 - 47
East Midlands +3 3 £450 -23.40% 30
Wales +7 2 £650 +52.94% 10

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 28 (9.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (9.15%) Confluence
3 9 (3.05%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.68%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
5 2 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.68%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.34%) JBoss
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.34%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 197 (66.78%) PaaS
2 190 (64.41%) Azure
3 134 (45.42%) SaaS
4 92 (31.19%) AWS
5 66 (22.37%) GCP
6 63 (21.36%) Entra ID
7 49 (16.61%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (9.15%) Serverless
10 25 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (8.47%) Azure AKS
11 20 (6.78%) OpenShift
12 17 (5.76%) Azure Storage
12 17 (5.76%) GitHub
13 16 (5.42%) Cloud Computing
14 13 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (4.07%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (2.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 8 (2.71%) Azure Logic Apps
17 7 (2.37%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 75 (25.42%) Firewall
2 58 (19.66%) DNS
3 41 (13.90%) DHCP
4 24 (8.14%) VPN
5 21 (7.12%) HTTPS
6 18 (6.10%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.42%) BGP
7 16 (5.42%) HTTP
7 16 (5.42%) Network Security
7 16 (5.42%) OSPF
7 16 (5.42%) SAN
8 9 (3.05%) SMTP
9 8 (2.71%) MPLS
10 7 (2.37%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (2.03%) SSL
11 6 (2.03%) VSAN
12 5 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
13 4 (1.36%) WAN
14 3 (1.02%) NGFW
14 3 (1.02%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
2 19 (6.44%) SQL Server
3 10 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (3.39%) Data Lake
4 9 (3.05%) Big Data
4 9 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.37%) MongoDB
5 7 (2.37%) MySQL
6 6 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.36%) Power BI
9 3 (1.02%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Exadata
10 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.68%) PowerCenter
11 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (14.24%) JIRA
2 22 (7.46%) Git
3 19 (6.44%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.08%) ScriptRunner
5 9 (3.05%) GitLab
6 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.02%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.68%) Postman
7 2 (0.68%) Selenium
7 2 (0.68%) Subversion
7 2 (0.68%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.34%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.34%) Mockito
8 1 (0.34%) MSI
8 1 (0.34%) Toad
8 1 (0.34%) Vagrant
General
1 53 (17.97%) Finance
2 52 (17.63%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.10%) Banking
6 9 (3.05%) Marketing
6 9 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.37%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.37%) Local Government
8 5 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.36%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.02%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.02%) Law
10 3 (1.02%) Legal
10 3 (1.02%) Military
11 1 (0.34%) International Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.34%) Retail
Job Titles
1 92 (31.19%) Architect
2 39 (13.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (12.20%) Azure Engineer
4 32 (10.85%) Cloud Architect
5 28 (9.49%) Azure Architect
5 28 (9.49%) Senior
6 25 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (8.47%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.44%) Lead
7 19 (6.44%) VMware Engineer
8 17 (5.76%) Technical Architect
9 16 (5.42%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.42%) Cloud Native Architect
10 14 (4.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 14 (4.75%) Infrastructure Architect
10 14 (4.75%) Security Architect
11 13 (4.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (4.41%) Platform Engineer
12 12 (4.07%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.07%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.10%) ARM Templates
2 12 (4.07%) .NET
3 11 (3.73%) ADO
3 11 (3.73%) AngularJS
3 11 (3.73%) REST
4 10 (3.39%) Middleware
5 7 (2.37%) React
6 6 (2.03%) CSS
6 6 (2.03%) HTML
7 5 (1.69%) Node.js
7 5 (1.69%) OAuth
7 5 (1.69%) SAML
8 4 (1.36%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (1.36%) OpenID
8 4 (1.36%) SOAP
9 3 (1.02%) .NET Core
9 3 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.02%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.68%) Entity Framework
10 2 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 17 (5.76%) Data Centre
4 16 (5.42%) Virtual Team
5 15 (5.08%) PKI
6 14 (4.75%) Clustering
6 14 (4.75%) Private Cloud
7 12 (4.07%) Management Information System
8 9 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.71%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.71%) Security Posture
10 7 (2.37%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (2.03%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.69%) Replication
13 4 (1.36%) CMDB
13 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.36%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 74 (25.08%) Windows
2 60 (20.34%) Linux
3 43 (14.58%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.75%) Unix
5 7 (2.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.37%) VMS
6 4 (1.36%) Solaris
6 4 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.02%) AIX
8 2 (0.68%) Debian
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (36.95%) DevOps
2 87 (29.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 82 (27.80%) Agile
4 64 (21.69%) Migration
5 51 (17.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 47 (15.93%) CI/CD
6 47 (15.93%) Cloud Security
7 37 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (11.86%) Containerisation
9 31 (10.51%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (10.51%) High Availability
9 31 (10.51%) Roadmaps
10 29 (9.83%) Scrum
11 27 (9.15%) Project Delivery
12 26 (8.81%) Analytics
13 24 (8.14%) Microservices
14 22 (7.46%) Enterprise Architecture
15 21 (7.12%) ETL
15 21 (7.12%) ITIL
15 21 (7.12%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 56 (18.98%) PowerShell
2 55 (18.64%) SQL
3 49 (16.61%) Bicep
4 42 (14.24%) Python
5 19 (6.44%) Bash
6 15 (5.08%) Groovy
7 11 (3.73%) Java
8 9 (3.05%) C#
8 9 (3.05%) Erlang
8 9 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 9 (3.05%) Perl
8 9 (3.05%) PHP
8 9 (3.05%) Prolog
9 4 (1.36%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.36%) Ruby
10 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.68%) C++
11 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.68%) VBA
11 2 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 54 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.93%) Azure Certification
3 38 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 27 (9.15%) Degree
5 17 (5.76%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.08%) AWS Certification
7 13 (4.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.03%) CISM
11 5 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.69%) CRISC
11 5 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.02%) CCNA
14 2 (0.68%) CCSP
14 2 (0.68%) ISEB
14 2 (0.68%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.44%) GDPR
2 12 (4.07%) SLA
3 10 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.71%) SOC 2
5 7 (2.37%) QA
6 4 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.02%) GAAP
7 3 (1.02%) NIST
8 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.68%) NCSC
8 2 (0.68%) PMO
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 79 (26.78%) Active Directory
2 48 (16.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (13.90%) Docker
4 26 (8.81%) vSphere
5 15 (5.08%) Hyper-V
6 14 (4.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.73%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (3.39%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (3.05%) BitLocker
10 9 (3.05%) DFS Replication
10 9 (3.05%) Terminal Services
10 9 (3.05%) VMware NSX
11 7 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.34%) Firmware
13 1 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 81 (27.46%) Terraform
2 62 (21.02%) Kubernetes
3 36 (12.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (10.17%) Ansible
5 12 (4.07%) Grafana
5 12 (4.07%) Puppet
6 9 (3.05%) Nagios
6 9 (3.05%) vCenter Server
6 9 (3.05%) vMotion
7 8 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.37%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.37%) SCCM
9 3 (1.02%) Nessus
10 2 (0.68%) Control-M
10 2 (0.68%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 2 (0.68%) Oracle Flashback
10 2 (0.68%) vRealize
Vendors
1 117 (39.66%) Microsoft
2 63 (21.36%) VMware
3 25 (8.47%) Oracle
4 23 (7.80%) Cisco
5 20 (6.78%) Palo Alto
6 18 (6.10%) Google
7 17 (5.76%) Fortinet
8 16 (5.42%) Atlassian
8 16 (5.42%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.75%) Citrix
10 13 (4.41%) HP
11 10 (3.39%) ServiceNow
12 9 (3.05%) IBM
12 9 (3.05%) Symantec
13 8 (2.71%) Dell
13 8 (2.71%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.71%) SolarWinds
14 5 (1.69%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.69%) Informatica
15 4 (1.36%) F5