IaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 99 109 146
Rank change year-on-year +10 +37 -54
Contract jobs citing IaaS 10 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.30% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 3.38% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 24
10th Percentile - £588 £382
25th Percentile £375 £638 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £688 £594
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +15.79% +10.47%
75th Percentile £531 £731 £694
90th Percentile £723 - £838
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 917 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.05% 38.46% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 648 896
10th Percentile £213 £300 £216
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% +1.78% +15.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham -6 6 £394 -42.73% 4
Warwickshire +2 2 £375 -48.28% 4
Coventry +9 1 £750 - 1
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
2 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Google Workspace
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) IPsec
2 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Hudson
2 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) YAML
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) API Management
4 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Management
4 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) PMI Certification
1 4 (40.00%) PMP
2 3 (30.00%) APMP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor