Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK
The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 | 254 | 223 | 200 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -31 | -23 | -17 |
| Contract jobs citing IaaS | 422 | 730 | 1,322 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK | 0.97% | 1.22% | 1.49% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 3.02% | 3.31% | 3.85% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 240 | 498 | 895 |
| 10th Percentile | £400 | £442 | £413 |
| 25th Percentile | £463 | £506 | £488 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £600 | £575 | £575 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.35% | - | +15.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £689 | £688 | £669 |
| 90th Percentile | £780 | £775 | £750 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £615 | £550 | £550 |
| % change year-on-year | +11.82% | - | +10.00% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 12 | 9 | 6 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £52.50 | £48.00 |
| 25th Percentile | £25.50 | £70.50 | £55.94 |
| Median hourly rate | £26.00 | £78.00 | £75.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -66.67% | +4.00% | +25.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £26.50 | £80.00 | £85.69 |
| 90th Percentile | - | £86.09 | £87.86 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £26.00 | £77.35 | £85.00 |
| % change year-on-year | -66.39% | -9.00% | +129.73% |
All Cloud Skills
UK
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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 13,989 | 22,053 | 34,308 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 32.31% | 36.87% | 38.62% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 9,925 | 15,944 | 24,923 |
| 10th Percentile | £300 | £325 | £353 |
| 25th Percentile | £413 | £450 | £450 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £550 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -4.55% | - | +10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £631 | £650 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £743 | £738 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £490 | £500 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.00% | - | +11.11% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 346 | 355 | 426 |
| 10th Percentile | £14.00 | £15.25 | £13.39 |
| 25th Percentile | £16.02 | £18.38 | £15.25 |
| Median hourly rate | £20.99 | £35.00 | £21.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -40.04% | +62.79% | -5.54% |
| 75th Percentile | £34.69 | £66.00 | £48.75 |
| 90th Percentile | £61.60 | £78.00 | £66.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £17.71 | £24.62 | £18.75 |
| % change year-on-year | -28.09% | +31.31% | -6.25% |
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Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
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Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS.
IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.
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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS.
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Top 15 Contract Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | -12 | 359 | £600 | +4.35% | 149 |
| UK excluding London | +18 | 199 | £615 | +11.82% | 92 |
| Work from Home | +14 | 193 | £594 | +7.95% | 68 |
| 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 |
| Scotland | +33 | 26 | £600 | +9.09% | 13 |
| 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 |
| Wales | +16 | 1 | £425 | +6.25% |
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:
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