IaaS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 188 186
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 -32
Contract jobs citing IaaS 148 324 659
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.98% 1.29% 1.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 3.26% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 233 490
10th Percentile £413 £434 £413
25th Percentile £472 £503 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £52.50 £73.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £55.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% -26.17% +21.13%
75th Percentile £26.50 £80.00 £75.84
90th Percentile - £93.50 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +24.28%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

IaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS.

IaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IaaS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

IaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS.

IaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.73%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.03%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.35%) CMS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (8.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (70.27%) PaaS
2 92 (62.16%) Azure
3 75 (50.68%) SaaS
4 45 (30.41%) AWS
5 22 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (14.19%) Entra ID
7 17 (11.49%) GCP
8 14 (9.46%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (8.78%) GitHub
9 13 (8.78%) Google Workspace
10 11 (7.43%) Cloud Computing
10 11 (7.43%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.73%) Nutanix
12 7 (4.73%) Rubrik
13 6 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (4.05%) Serverless
14 5 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.38%) Mimecast
14 5 (3.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.22%) Firewall
2 21 (14.19%) DNS
3 16 (10.81%) DHCP
4 13 (8.78%) TCP/IP
5 11 (7.43%) VPN
6 8 (5.41%) Kerberos
7 7 (4.73%) NAS
7 7 (4.73%) SAN
7 7 (4.73%) VLAN
8 5 (3.38%) LAN
9 4 (2.70%) Network Security
10 3 (2.03%) WAN
11 2 (1.35%) BGP
11 2 (1.35%) OSPF
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
12 1 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.68%) NaaS
12 1 (0.68%) Wireless
12 1 (0.68%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.35%) Redis
2 2 (1.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 14 (9.46%) Git
3 13 (8.78%) JIRA
4 12 (8.11%) SonarQube
5 8 (5.41%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.70%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.35%) GitLab
7 2 (1.35%) Maven
7 2 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.68%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.68%) Subversion
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 39 (26.35%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.95%) Finance
3 14 (9.46%) Legal
4 10 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.73%) Banking
5 7 (4.73%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.05%) Marketing
6 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Electronics
9 3 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.35%) Law
10 2 (1.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Back Office
11 1 (0.68%) Front Office
11 1 (0.68%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 40 (27.03%) Architect
2 15 (10.14%) Consultant
3 14 (9.46%) Senior
4 12 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.76%) Cloud Architect
5 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (5.41%) AWS Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Azure Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Developer
7 8 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Azure Consultant
8 7 (4.73%) Lead
9 6 (4.05%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.38%) Integration Architect
10 5 (3.38%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.70%) Business Architect
11 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Architect
11 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) .NET
1 13 (8.78%) ARM Templates
2 10 (6.76%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (6.08%) REST
4 8 (5.41%) LDAP
4 8 (5.41%) Middleware
5 7 (4.73%) OAuth
5 7 (4.73%) SAML
6 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.05%) OpenID
7 5 (3.38%) JSON
8 4 (2.70%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.70%) YAML
9 3 (2.03%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.03%) SOAP
9 3 (2.03%) Web Services
10 2 (1.35%) Kafka
10 2 (1.35%) Node.js
10 2 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.14%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (8.78%) Virtual Team
4 12 (8.11%) Data Centre
5 10 (6.76%) Onboarding
6 8 (5.41%) Replication
7 7 (4.73%) Clustering
7 7 (4.73%) CMDB
8 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.70%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.70%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Embedded Systems
10 3 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (2.03%) Tandem
11 2 (1.35%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.30%) Windows
2 32 (21.62%) Linux
3 16 (10.81%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (7.43%) Solaris
5 11 (7.43%) Unix
6 7 (4.73%) Oracle Linux
7 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 4 (2.70%) VMS
8 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.68%) CentOS
9 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.43%) DevOps
2 37 (25.00%) Agile
3 26 (17.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
5 21 (14.19%) Migration
6 19 (12.84%) CI/CD
7 18 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (12.16%) ITIL
8 17 (11.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (11.49%) Deployment Automation
9 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
9 16 (10.81%) Software Engineering
10 15 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (10.14%) DevSecOps
10 15 (10.14%) Test Automation
11 14 (9.46%) Cloud Security
11 14 (9.46%) Mentoring
11 14 (9.46%) Microservices
11 14 (9.46%) Service Management
12 13 (8.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.84%) Python
2 17 (11.49%) PowerShell
3 15 (10.14%) Bash
4 7 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.05%) Perl
6 5 (3.38%) C#
6 5 (3.38%) SQL
7 3 (2.03%) Java
8 2 (1.35%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
9 1 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 18 (12.16%) Degree
4 14 (9.46%) PMI Certification
4 14 (9.46%) PMP
5 13 (8.78%) APMP
6 12 (8.11%) Azure Certification
7 10 (6.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (2.70%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.70%) CISSP
9 4 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.03%) CISM
10 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.68%) CCSP
12 1 (0.68%) CISA
12 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.68%) ISEB
12 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.76%) NCSC
2 8 (5.41%) GDPR
3 7 (4.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.03%) QA
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.68%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (18.24%) Docker
2 26 (17.57%) Active Directory
3 20 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.03%) Firmware
6 3 (2.03%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.35%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.35%) vSphere
8 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (30.41%) Terraform
2 34 (22.97%) Kubernetes
3 29 (19.59%) Ansible
4 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (4.73%) EMC NetWorker
5 7 (4.73%) Netcool
5 7 (4.73%) Tivoli
5 7 (4.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (2.70%) Grafana
7 3 (2.03%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.03%) WSUS
8 2 (1.35%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.68%) Nessus
9 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.68%) Puppet
9 1 (0.68%) QRadar
Vendors
1 55 (37.16%) Microsoft
2 29 (19.59%) Oracle
3 21 (14.19%) VMware
4 16 (10.81%) Salesforce
5 14 (9.46%) Google
6 9 (6.08%) Cisco
6 9 (6.08%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.41%) CyberArk
7 8 (5.41%) HP
7 8 (5.41%) IBM
7 8 (5.41%) ServiceNow
8 7 (4.73%) Dell
8 7 (4.73%) EMC
8 7 (4.73%) Isilon
8 7 (4.73%) Qualys
8 7 (4.73%) Serena
8 7 (4.73%) Splunk
9 6 (4.05%) MuleSoft
10 5 (3.38%) Citrix
10 5 (3.38%) SAP