IaaS Contracts in London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 202 188
Rank change year-on-year -25 -14 -17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 169 329 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.96% 1.29% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 3.29% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 219 417
10th Percentile £400 £425 £422
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £775 £688 £675
90th Percentile £780 £753 £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - £82.00 -
25th Percentile £25.50 £85.00 £73.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £90.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.11% +20.81% +20.15%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £75.84
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +25.83%

All Cloud Skills
London

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,816 9,993 15,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.89% 39.06% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 7,349 12,037
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 78 67
10th Percentile £17.16 £19.68 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +26.51% +5.06%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £90.00 £80.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in London

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
Central London -3 25 £538 -7.53% 7
North London - 1 £425 - 1
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.51%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.73%) Site Server
4 5 (2.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) IIS
5 1 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 108 (63.91%) Azure
2 106 (62.72%) PaaS
3 75 (44.38%) SaaS
4 34 (20.12%) AWS
5 30 (17.75%) Entra ID
6 26 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (10.06%) Serverless
9 15 (8.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 15 (8.88%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (6.51%) GCP
11 9 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (5.33%) Mimecast
11 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.73%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (3.55%) Azure Storage
14 5 (2.96%) Nutanix
14 5 (2.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 40 (23.67%) Firewall
2 17 (10.06%) DNS
3 11 (6.51%) VPN
4 7 (4.14%) DHCP
4 7 (4.14%) LAN
4 7 (4.14%) WAN
5 6 (3.55%) Kerberos
5 6 (3.55%) NAS
5 6 (3.55%) SAN
5 6 (3.55%) TCP/IP
6 5 (2.96%) MPLS
6 5 (2.96%) VLAN
7 3 (1.78%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.78%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.18%) Internet
8 2 (1.18%) SSL
9 1 (0.59%) IPsec
9 1 (0.59%) Network Security
9 1 (0.59%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.28%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.51%) GIS
3 8 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.55%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.37%) Power BI
7 3 (1.78%) Big Data
7 3 (1.78%) OLAP
7 3 (1.78%) OLTP
7 3 (1.78%) Spatial Data
7 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Git
2 9 (5.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.14%) JIRA
4 5 (2.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (2.96%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.18%) GitLab
5 2 (1.18%) Gradle
5 2 (1.18%) Maven
6 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.59%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.59%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.59%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (26.04%) Finance
2 32 (18.93%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.88%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.10%) Banking
5 9 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.14%) Legal
8 6 (3.55%) Marketing
8 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.96%) Electronics
9 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.96%) Law
9 5 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.96%) Retail
10 4 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.78%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.18%) French Language
13 1 (0.59%) Advertising
13 1 (0.59%) Front Office
13 1 (0.59%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 60 (35.50%) Architect
2 27 (15.98%) Security Architect
2 27 (15.98%) Senior
3 19 (11.24%) Cloud Architect
4 18 (10.65%) Senior Architect
5 17 (10.06%) Senior Security Architect
6 15 (8.88%) Azure Architect
6 15 (8.88%) Developer
6 15 (8.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (7.69%) Consultant
8 11 (6.51%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (5.92%) Cloud Security Architect
9 10 (5.92%) Enterprise Architect
10 9 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (4.73%) Azure Consultant
12 7 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Senior Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.14%) Technical Architect
13 6 (3.55%) GIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (13.02%) REST
2 11 (6.51%) .NET
3 9 (5.33%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.73%) OAuth
4 8 (4.73%) OpenID
4 8 (4.73%) SAML
5 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Graph
5 7 (4.14%) Middleware
6 6 (3.55%) LDAP
7 4 (2.37%) YAML
8 3 (1.78%) ARM Templates
9 2 (1.18%) EDI
9 2 (1.18%) JSON
9 2 (1.18%) React
10 1 (0.59%) .NET Core
10 1 (0.59%) gRPC
10 1 (0.59%) HTML5
10 1 (0.59%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.59%) RESTful
10 1 (0.59%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.06%) Mobile App
2 13 (7.69%) IoT
3 11 (6.51%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.73%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.73%) Public Cloud
4 8 (4.73%) Replication
5 7 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.55%) Clustering
6 6 (3.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.96%) CMDB
8 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.37%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.78%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.78%) Tandem
10 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.18%) PKI
10 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (18.93%) Windows
2 23 (13.61%) Windows Server
3 17 (10.06%) Linux
4 10 (5.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.55%) Solaris
5 6 (3.55%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.96%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (2.96%) VMS
7 4 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 3 (1.78%) Unix
9 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (26.63%) Cloud Security
2 44 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 40 (23.67%) DevOps
4 34 (20.12%) Agile
5 28 (16.57%) Migration
5 28 (16.57%) Security Architecture
6 21 (12.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (11.24%) Data Loss Prevention
7 19 (11.24%) Information Security
8 17 (10.06%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (9.47%) CI/CD
9 16 (9.47%) Design Patterns
10 15 (8.88%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (8.88%) DevSecOps
10 15 (8.88%) ITIL
11 14 (8.28%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (8.28%) SDLC
12 13 (7.69%) Change Management
12 13 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (7.10%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
2 27 (15.98%) Python
3 16 (9.47%) SQL
4 14 (8.28%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.73%) Korn
6 6 (3.55%) Bash
6 6 (3.55%) C#
7 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.18%) Bicep
8 2 (1.18%) Java
9 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.59%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.59%) Ruby
9 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Azure Certification
1 18 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.06%) Degree
3 8 (4.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.37%) APMP
6 4 (2.37%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.37%) PMP
6 4 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (1.78%) CISSP
7 3 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.78%) GIAC
8 2 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.18%) CCSK
8 2 (1.18%) CISA
8 2 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.18%) CRISC
8 2 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.83%) NIST
2 14 (8.28%) GDPR
3 6 (3.55%) SLA
4 5 (2.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.18%) GRC
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (1.18%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.18%) QA
8 1 (0.59%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 29 (17.16%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (7.10%) Docker
4 8 (4.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.78%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.59%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.59%) XenApp
7 1 (0.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (20.71%) Terraform
2 17 (10.06%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (6.51%) Ansible
5 5 (2.96%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (2.96%) Netcool
5 5 (2.96%) Tivoli
5 5 (2.96%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (2.37%) Grafana
7 3 (1.78%) SCCM
7 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.18%) Nessus
9 1 (0.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 65 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.43%) Oracle
3 17 (10.06%) VMware
4 11 (6.51%) ESRI
5 10 (5.92%) Citrix
6 9 (5.33%) MuleSoft
7 7 (4.14%) HP
8 6 (3.55%) IBM
9 5 (2.96%) Cisco
9 5 (2.96%) Databricks
9 5 (2.96%) Dell
9 5 (2.96%) EMC
9 5 (2.96%) Isilon
9 5 (2.96%) Qualys
9 5 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.96%) SAP
9 5 (2.96%) Serena
9 5 (2.96%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.96%) Splunk