IaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 122 129
Rank change year-on-year +45 +7 -32
Contract jobs citing IaaS 68 29 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.46% 0.98% 1.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 3.42% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 35
10th Percentile £359 £487 £355
25th Percentile £396 £545 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -25.77% +26.83% +13.89%
75th Percentile £719 £719 £591
90th Percentile £786 £795 £628
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £55.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -35.29% -

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 848 1,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.03% 28.56% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 623 847
10th Percentile £265 £300 £170
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 22
10th Percentile £16.00 £16.81 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.50 £17.19
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% +18.91% -0.12%
75th Percentile £60.73 £57.00 £46.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £79.11
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.93% +9.26% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire +29 65 £475 -29.63% 7
Oxfordshire +9 2 £465 -24.08% 2
Buckinghamshire +28 1 £750 +46.98% 1
IaaS
South East

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (1.47%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 63 (92.65%) PaaS
2 62 (91.18%) SaaS
3 11 (16.18%) Azure
4 4 (5.88%) AWS
4 4 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
5 2 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (2.94%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.94%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 54 (79.41%) 5G
1 54 (79.41%) Broadband
2 5 (7.35%) DNS
2 5 (7.35%) Firewall
2 5 (7.35%) VPN
3 3 (4.41%) DHCP
4 2 (2.94%) LAN
4 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) WAN
4 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.94%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (79.41%) Law
1 54 (79.41%) Organisational Skills
2 7 (10.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.47%) Finance
3 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (79.41%) Penetration Tester
1 54 (79.41%) Security Penetration Tester
1 54 (79.41%) Security Specialist
1 54 (79.41%) Security Tester
1 54 (79.41%) Tester
1 54 (79.41%) Testing Specialist
2 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (4.41%) Architect
3 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
3 3 (4.41%) Lead
3 3 (4.41%) Senior
3 3 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (1.47%) Author
5 1 (1.47%) Integration Architect
5 1 (1.47%) IT Consultant
5 1 (1.47%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (1.47%) Scrum Master
5 1 (1.47%) Technical Author
5 1 (1.47%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (82.35%) Web Services
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 54 (79.41%) Mobile App
2 3 (4.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.47%) IoT
4 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Windows
2 5 (7.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.47%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (85.29%) Cybersecurity
2 55 (80.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 54 (79.41%) Application Security
3 54 (79.41%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 54 (79.41%) OWASP
3 54 (79.41%) Penetration Testing
3 54 (79.41%) Security Testing
4 5 (7.35%) Cloud Security
4 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (7.35%) Microservices
4 5 (7.35%) Migration
5 4 (5.88%) API Management
5 4 (5.88%) DevOps
5 4 (5.88%) DevSecOps
5 4 (5.88%) Network Architecture
6 3 (4.41%) Cryptography
6 3 (4.41%) Customer Service
6 3 (4.41%) Key Management
6 3 (4.41%) Mobile Device Management
6 3 (4.41%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.94%) C#
1 2 (2.94%) Java
1 2 (2.94%) PHP
1 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.94%) Python
1 2 (2.94%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (79.41%) CREST Certified
1 54 (79.41%) GIAC
1 54 (79.41%) GPEN
1 54 (79.41%) OSCP
1 54 (79.41%) SANS
1 54 (79.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (79.41%) GDPR
1 54 (79.41%) NCSC
1 54 (79.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.94%) Docker
4 2 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
1 3 (4.41%) WSUS
2 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.94%) SCCM
2 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 54 (79.41%) Virgin Media
2 8 (11.76%) VMware
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco
4 2 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Meraki