IaaS Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 129 129
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 -7
Contract jobs citing IaaS 36 31 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.30% 0.97% 1.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.06% 2.59% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 40
10th Percentile £306 £435 £400
25th Percentile £431 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +2.44%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £696
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
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 West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,198 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.50% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 887 1,070
10th Percentile £284 £311 £213
25th Percentile £393 £419 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Manchester +26 30 £615 +29.47% 6
Merseyside +17 3 £438 -18.60% 1
Lancashire -3 1 £540 -28.00%
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (63.89%) PaaS
2 22 (61.11%) SaaS
3 11 (30.56%) AWS
3 11 (30.56%) Azure
4 6 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.11%) Google Workspace
6 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (5.56%) Kong
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) BGP
2 2 (5.56%) OSPF
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 10 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 8 (22.22%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Telecoms
5 4 (11.11%) Legal
6 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Electronics
6 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.33%) Marketing
7 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) AWS Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.56%) IT Support
6 1 (2.78%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (5.56%) CMDB
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.78%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.22%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Agile
2 7 (19.44%) Information Security
3 6 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 6 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (16.67%) Service Management
4 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) ITIL
4 5 (13.89%) TOGAF
5 4 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 4 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 4 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (8.33%) IT Strategy
6 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.33%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
1 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (19.44%) Degree
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) APMP
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 4 (11.11%) PMP
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.33%) CISM
5 2 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (5.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.33%) SAP
4 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco
5 1 (2.78%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.78%) Remedy
5 1 (2.78%) Sophos
5 1 (2.78%) VMware