IaaS Contracts in England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 226 193
Rank change year-on-year -12 -33 -1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 359 621 1,070
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.97% 1.23% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.05% 3.36% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 431 736
10th Percentile £400 £444 £413
25th Percentile £463 £504 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
75th Percentile £703 £691 £675
90th Percentile £780 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 5
10th Percentile - £52.50 £55.30
25th Percentile £25.50 £70.50 £70.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +26.89%
75th Percentile £26.50 £80.00 £87.50
90th Percentile - £86.09 £87.93
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +4.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -24 173 £600 +4.35% 68
South East +19 68 £500 -13.42% 24
North of England +9 49 £513 -6.82% 23
South West +21 44 £650 +4.63% 16
North West +21 36 £520 -3.26% 8
Midlands +1 13 £400 -40.74% 11
Yorkshire -15 11 £488 -11.36% 11
West Midlands +9 10 £394 -42.73% 6
East Midlands +17 3 £588 +14.63% 5
North East +14 2 £575 -19.30% 4
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (5.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.46%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.06%) Site Server
4 9 (2.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.28%) IIS
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 247 (68.80%) PaaS
2 207 (57.66%) SaaS
3 169 (47.08%) Azure
4 70 (19.50%) AWS
5 57 (15.88%) Cloud Computing
6 47 (13.09%) Entra ID
7 42 (11.70%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (5.57%) Serverless
10 17 (4.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (4.74%) GCP
11 15 (4.18%) Google Workspace
12 13 (3.62%) Amazon S3
13 12 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
14 11 (3.06%) Mimecast
15 9 (2.51%) Nutanix
15 9 (2.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (2.23%) Power Platform
16 8 (2.23%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 56 (15.60%) Firewall
2 42 (11.70%) DNS
3 39 (10.86%) 5G
3 39 (10.86%) Broadband
4 37 (10.31%) LAN
5 36 (10.03%) WAN
6 24 (6.69%) VPN
7 17 (4.74%) DHCP
8 12 (3.34%) Kerberos
9 11 (3.06%) TCP/IP
10 10 (2.79%) MPLS
10 10 (2.79%) SAN
11 9 (2.51%) NAS
12 8 (2.23%) VLAN
13 7 (1.95%) Network Security
14 6 (1.67%) Internet
15 3 (0.84%) SSL
15 3 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
15 3 (0.84%) WLAN
16 2 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.90%) GIS
3 12 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (1.95%) MySQL
6 6 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.39%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.39%) RDBMS
7 5 (1.39%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.11%) Big Data
8 4 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.84%) Power BI
9 3 (0.84%) Redis
9 3 (0.84%) Spatial Data
10 2 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.56%) OLAP
10 2 (0.56%) OLTP
11 1 (0.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (6.13%) Git
2 18 (5.01%) Jenkins
2 18 (5.01%) JIRA
3 10 (2.79%) GitLab
4 8 (2.23%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.56%) Gradle
7 2 (0.56%) Maven
7 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.28%) GoCD
8 1 (0.28%) Hudson
8 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 65 (18.11%) Finance
2 62 (17.27%) Public Sector
3 54 (15.04%) Social Skills
4 44 (12.26%) Law
5 39 (10.86%) Organisational Skills
6 18 (5.01%) Legal
7 17 (4.74%) Telecoms
8 16 (4.46%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.90%) Banking
9 14 (3.90%) Marketing
10 13 (3.62%) Electronics
11 11 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.39%) French Language
15 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.84%) Retail
16 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
16 2 (0.56%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 115 (32.03%) Architect
2 39 (10.86%) Penetration Tester
2 39 (10.86%) Security Penetration Tester
2 39 (10.86%) Security Specialist
2 39 (10.86%) Security Tester
2 39 (10.86%) Tester
2 39 (10.86%) Testing Specialist
3 38 (10.58%) Senior
4 32 (8.91%) Security Architect
5 30 (8.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 27 (7.52%) Cloud Architect
6 27 (7.52%) Network Architect
7 26 (7.24%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.85%) Solutions Architect
9 20 (5.57%) Senior Architect
10 19 (5.29%) Senior Security Architect
11 17 (4.74%) Consultant
12 16 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (4.18%) Azure Architect
13 15 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (12.81%) Web Services
2 23 (6.41%) REST
3 14 (3.90%) Middleware
4 13 (3.62%) LDAP
5 10 (2.79%) .NET
6 9 (2.51%) OAuth
6 9 (2.51%) SAML
7 8 (2.23%) JSON
7 8 (2.23%) OpenID
7 8 (2.23%) YAML
8 6 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.39%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Graph
10 2 (0.56%) Kafka
10 2 (0.56%) Node.js
10 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.56%) Regular Expression
10 2 (0.56%) XACML
11 1 (0.28%) CSS3
11 1 (0.28%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 53 (14.76%) Mobile App
2 44 (12.26%) Data Centre
3 19 (5.29%) Management Information System
4 17 (4.74%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.90%) IoT
5 14 (3.90%) Virtual Team
6 11 (3.06%) Replication
7 10 (2.79%) Clustering
8 9 (2.51%) Public Cloud
9 8 (2.23%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.23%) Enterprise Cloud
10 7 (1.95%) CMDB
11 5 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.11%) Client/Server
12 4 (1.11%) Product Ownership
12 4 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.84%) Smart Meter
13 3 (0.84%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 64 (17.83%) Windows
2 47 (13.09%) Windows Server
3 38 (10.58%) Linux
4 20 (5.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (3.34%) Unix
6 11 (3.06%) Solaris
7 9 (2.51%) VMS
8 8 (2.23%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.39%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.84%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.56%) CentOS
13 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (19.78%) Agile
2 70 (19.50%) DevOps
3 63 (17.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (17.27%) Cybersecurity
5 58 (16.16%) Cloud Security
6 54 (15.04%) Security Testing
7 51 (14.21%) Application Security
8 47 (13.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (12.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 42 (11.70%) Migration
11 40 (11.14%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 39 (10.86%) OWASP
12 39 (10.86%) Penetration Testing
13 38 (10.58%) Information Security
14 37 (10.31%) CI/CD
15 35 (9.75%) Business Strategy
15 35 (9.75%) Open Source
16 32 (8.91%) Security Architecture
16 32 (8.91%) Zero Trust
17 28 (7.80%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.60%) Python
2 53 (14.76%) PowerShell
3 18 (5.01%) Bash
4 17 (4.74%) SQL
5 13 (3.62%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.06%) Korn
7 8 (2.23%) Java
8 6 (1.67%) C#
9 5 (1.39%) Perl
9 5 (1.39%) Ruby
9 5 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.84%) Bicep
10 3 (0.84%) Julia
11 2 (0.56%) Go
11 2 (0.56%) PHP
12 1 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (30.36%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.53%) GIAC
3 42 (11.70%) SANS
4 39 (10.86%) CREST Certified
4 39 (10.86%) GPEN
4 39 (10.86%) OSCP
5 38 (10.58%) Degree
6 35 (9.75%) DV Cleared
7 31 (8.64%) Azure Certification
8 29 (8.08%) SC Cleared
9 14 (3.90%) CISSP
9 14 (3.90%) PMI Certification
9 14 (3.90%) PMP
10 13 (3.62%) APMP
11 7 (1.95%) CISM
11 7 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.32%) GDPR
2 41 (11.42%) PCI DSS
3 40 (11.14%) NCSC
4 22 (6.13%) NIST
5 8 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.67%) SLA
7 5 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 4 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.84%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.56%) GRC
10 2 (0.56%) QA
11 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 56 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 33 (9.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (5.85%) Docker
4 15 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.23%) vSphere
6 5 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.84%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.28%) NFS
9 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 61 (16.99%) Terraform
2 30 (8.36%) Kubernetes
3 27 (7.52%) Ansible
4 26 (7.24%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (2.23%) EMC NetWorker
5 8 (2.23%) Netcool
5 8 (2.23%) Tivoli
5 8 (2.23%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 8 (2.23%) vRealize
6 6 (1.67%) Grafana
6 6 (1.67%) Packer
6 6 (1.67%) SCCM
6 6 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.39%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.39%) Puppet
8 3 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.84%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.84%) WSUS
9 2 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 108 (30.08%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.09%) Oracle
3 41 (11.42%) VMware
4 39 (10.86%) Virgin Media
5 18 (5.01%) Google
6 17 (4.74%) Salesforce
7 15 (4.18%) SAP
8 14 (3.90%) ESRI
9 13 (3.62%) Cisco
9 13 (3.62%) Citrix
10 11 (3.06%) ServiceNow
11 10 (2.79%) HP
12 9 (2.51%) Dell
12 9 (2.51%) IBM
12 9 (2.51%) Splunk
13 8 (2.23%) CyberArk
13 8 (2.23%) EMC
13 8 (2.23%) Isilon
13 8 (2.23%) Qualys
13 8 (2.23%) Serena