IaaS Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 146 129
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +4
Contract jobs citing IaaS 45 68 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.96% 1.19% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 3.27% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 56 90
10th Percentile £344 £463 £363
25th Percentile £425 £513 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £623 £586 £638
90th Percentile £738 £675 £716
England median daily rate £600 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,368 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.15% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +27 32 £500 -4.76% 4
Yorkshire -4 11 £488 -11.36% 7
North East +11 2 £575 -14.81% 2
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) PaaS
1 31 (68.89%) SaaS
2 19 (42.22%) Azure
3 12 (26.67%) AWS
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (8.89%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.44%) GCP
6 2 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.22%) Miro
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
1 3 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (4.44%) BGP
2 2 (4.44%) OSPF
2 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 8 (17.78%) Finance
1 8 (17.78%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Legal
3 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (4.44%) Electronics
5 2 (4.44%) Law
5 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) ITSM Developer
5 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (4.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Agile Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Cloud Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Agile Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Middleware
2 3 (6.67%) Web Services
3 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.22%) JSON
3 1 (2.22%) REST
3 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.89%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.44%) CMDB
3 2 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
3 2 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (6.67%) Linux
3 3 (6.67%) Unix
4 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (28.89%) Agile
2 11 (24.44%) ITIL
3 9 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
4 8 (17.78%) Waterfall
5 7 (15.56%) Asset Management
5 7 (15.56%) Information Security
5 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (15.56%) Service Management
6 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 5 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (11.11%) ITSM
7 5 (11.11%) Scrum
7 5 (11.11%) TOGAF
8 4 (8.89%) Customer Requirements
8 4 (8.89%) Customer Service
8 4 (8.89%) Design Patterns
8 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
8 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 4 (8.89%) APMP
4 4 (8.89%) CISSP
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (8.89%) PMI Certification
4 4 (8.89%) PMP
5 3 (6.67%) CISM
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (4.44%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Google
2 7 (15.56%) Oracle
3 5 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco
6 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Sophos
6 1 (2.22%) Splunk
6 1 (2.22%) VMware