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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 268 271
Rank change year-on-year -91 +3 -48
Contract jobs citing IaaS 299 279 355
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.96% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 2.54% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 179 228
10th Percentile £413 £413 £400
25th Percentile £464 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £655 £688
90th Percentile £789 £838 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £566 £600
% change year-on-year +5.96% -5.63% +9.09%
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 17,587 10,998 13,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.61% 37.88% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,796 7,465 9,878
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £634
90th Percentile £712 £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 562 262 352
10th Percentile £15.75 £15.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.00 £28.21 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.18% +31.19% -42.67%
75th Percentile £68.33 £47.41 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.15 £72.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £20.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +82.93% +7.89% -30.91%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -50 274 £600 +4.35% 96
London -48 145 £588 -2.08% 57
UK excluding London -80 133 £600 +5.96% 64
Work from Home -68 79 £600 - 39
South East -46 56 £700 +21.74% 31
North of England -55 46 £520 -0.38% 8
Yorkshire -39 31 £563 -13.46% 4
North West -42 15 £425 -16.67% 2
Midlands -51 10 £444 -36.61% 8
South West -19 9 £575 -11.54% 8
East of England -24 8 £575 -14.88% 3
Scotland -33 8 £625 +18.04% 6
West Midlands -55 7 £463 -42.19% 4
North East -33 4 £638 +19.38% 2
East Midlands -22 3 £418 -27.39% 4

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 18 (6.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.68%) Apache
2 8 (2.68%) Confluence
3 7 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.00%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.67%) CloudStack
5 2 (0.67%) 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 12 (4.01%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 241 (80.60%) PaaS
2 192 (64.21%) Azure
3 101 (33.78%) SaaS
4 69 (23.08%) AWS
5 48 (16.05%) Entra ID
6 40 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (11.37%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (10.03%) Serverless
9 27 (9.03%) OCI
10 23 (7.69%) GitHub
11 19 (6.35%) GCP
12 15 (5.02%) Azure AKS
13 14 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
13 14 (4.68%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (4.01%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (3.68%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (3.68%) Power Platform
16 8 (2.68%) SuccessFactors
17 7 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (2.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 59 (19.73%) Firewall
2 58 (19.40%) DNS
3 24 (8.03%) DHCP
3 24 (8.03%) VPN
4 15 (5.02%) SAN
5 10 (3.34%) SSL
5 10 (3.34%) VLAN
6 9 (3.01%) SMTP
7 8 (2.68%) BIG-IP
7 8 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 8 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (2.34%) MPLS
8 7 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (2.01%) Internet
9 6 (2.01%) IPsec
9 6 (2.01%) Network Security
9 6 (2.01%) WAN
10 5 (1.67%) Kerberos
10 5 (1.67%) LAN
10 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.02%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.34%) NoSQL
3 9 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.34%) Oracle Database
5 6 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.01%) Power BI
6 5 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.34%) Big Data
7 4 (1.34%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.00%) DocumentDB
8 3 (1.00%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.67%) MaxDB
9 2 (0.67%) SAP HANA
9 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.67%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (8.36%) JIRA
2 20 (6.69%) Git
3 18 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.34%) Postman
5 8 (2.68%) SoapUI
6 7 (2.34%) Chocolatey
7 3 (1.00%) GitLab
8 2 (0.67%) 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 66 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.38%) Finance
3 24 (8.03%) Public Sector
4 22 (7.36%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (6.69%) Banking
6 12 (4.01%) Legal
7 10 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.34%) Military
9 5 (1.67%) Law
10 4 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
12 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.67%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.67%) Local Government
12 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.33%) French Language
13 1 (0.33%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 92 (30.77%) Architect
2 57 (19.06%) Azure Engineer
3 40 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 39 (13.04%) Senior
5 37 (12.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 28 (9.36%) Lead
7 25 (8.36%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (7.36%) Technical Architect
9 21 (7.02%) Azure Architect
10 15 (5.02%) Lead Architect
11 14 (4.68%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
11 14 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (4.01%) Oracle Specialist
12 12 (4.01%) Technical Leader
13 9 (3.01%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 9 (3.01%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.02%) OAuth
2 16 (5.35%) ARM Templates
2 16 (5.35%) REST
2 16 (5.35%) Web Services
3 15 (5.02%) .NET
4 14 (4.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (4.35%) XML
6 12 (4.01%) SOAP
7 11 (3.68%) JSON
8 9 (3.01%) JWT
8 9 (3.01%) XSLT
9 8 (2.68%) YAML
10 7 (2.34%) OpenID
10 7 (2.34%) SAML
11 6 (2.01%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.01%) OAuth2
12 5 (1.67%) Middleware
12 5 (1.67%) XACML
13 4 (1.34%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.71%) Data Centre
2 34 (11.37%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.03%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (5.35%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (5.02%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.68%) Clustering
7 11 (3.68%) Virtual Team
8 10 (3.34%) Enterprise Storage
9 9 (3.01%) PKI
10 8 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (2.68%) Product Ownership
11 7 (2.34%) Enterprise Cloud
12 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
12 6 (2.01%) Operational Technology
13 5 (1.67%) Cyber Defence
13 5 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (1.34%) Distributed Applications
14 4 (1.34%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.07%) Windows
2 46 (15.38%) Linux
3 28 (9.36%) Windows Server
4 15 (5.02%) Unix
5 8 (2.68%) VMS
5 8 (2.68%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (2.34%) Android
6 7 (2.34%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.34%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (39.46%) DevOps
2 100 (33.44%) CI/CD
3 83 (27.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (23.08%) Migration
5 67 (22.41%) Agile
6 66 (22.07%) Roadmaps
7 58 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (14.05%) Technical Leadership
9 38 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
11 35 (11.71%) Architectural Patterns
11 35 (11.71%) TOGAF
12 33 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (10.37%) Containerisation
14 30 (10.03%) Microservices
15 29 (9.70%) Cloud Security
15 29 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 28 (9.36%) Identity Access Management
17 25 (8.36%) RBAC
18 24 (8.03%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.72%) PowerShell
1 44 (14.72%) SQL
2 36 (12.04%) Bicep
2 36 (12.04%) Python
3 11 (3.68%) Bash
4 10 (3.34%) Java
5 8 (2.68%) ActionScript
5 8 (2.68%) Shell Script
6 5 (1.67%) C#
6 5 (1.67%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.34%) Ruby
8 3 (1.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.67%) Groovy
9 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.67%) Perl
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) C++
10 1 (0.33%) VBA
10 1 (0.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 107 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 61 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 51 (17.06%) Azure Certification
4 46 (15.38%) DV Cleared
5 30 (10.03%) Degree
6 16 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.35%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (4.35%) CISSP
8 11 (3.68%) AWS Certification
8 11 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.01%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (2.34%) CISM
11 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (2.34%) SANS
12 6 (2.01%) GIAC
13 5 (1.67%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.67%) CRISC
13 5 (1.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.35%) SLA
2 11 (3.68%) GDPR
2 11 (3.68%) NCSC
3 10 (3.34%) NIST
4 9 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 9 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.01%) ISO 31000
6 5 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (1.34%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.67%) Basel III
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.67%) GAAP
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.67%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.33%) PMO
9 1 (0.33%) QA
System Software
1 53 (17.73%) Active Directory
2 28 (9.36%) Docker
3 25 (8.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (4.35%) Hyper-V
5 11 (3.68%) vCloud
6 10 (3.34%) BitLocker
7 9 (3.01%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (2.01%) Postfix
9 6 (2.01%) Varnish
9 6 (2.01%) vSphere
10 5 (1.67%) NFS
10 5 (1.67%) RACF
11 4 (1.34%) Sendmail
12 3 (1.00%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
13 2 (0.67%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 83 (27.76%) Terraform
2 36 (12.04%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.36%) Ansible
4 20 (6.69%) vCenter Server
5 19 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.01%) Puppet
7 9 (3.01%) vMotion
8 8 (2.68%) SCCM
9 6 (2.01%) HAProxy
10 4 (1.34%) Grafana
11 3 (1.00%) Control-M
12 2 (0.67%) Check_MK
12 2 (0.67%) Data Guard
12 2 (0.67%) Nagios
12 2 (0.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 2 (0.67%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.67%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.67%) systemd
Vendors
1 114 (38.13%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.38%) VMware
3 34 (11.37%) Oracle
4 13 (4.35%) Citrix
4 13 (4.35%) SAP
5 11 (3.68%) Dynatrace
6 9 (3.01%) Google
6 9 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.68%) Cisco
7 8 (2.68%) F5
7 8 (2.68%) NetApp
7 8 (2.68%) Tenable
8 7 (2.34%) AppDynamics
9 6 (2.01%) Databricks
9 6 (2.01%) iManage
9 6 (2.01%) Intapp
10 5 (1.67%) HP
10 5 (1.67%) Workday
11 4 (1.34%) Rapid7
11 4 (1.34%) Thales