IaaS Contracts in Birmingham

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 61 56
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +26
Contract jobs citing IaaS 7 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.78% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 2.83% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 8
10th Percentile £467 £376 £638
25th Percentile £473 £377 £642
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £394 £688
Median % change year-on-year +28.70% -42.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £564 £417 £731
90th Percentile £601 £422 -
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £394 £688
% change year-on-year +36.51% -42.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £26.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 212 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 32.95% 27.43% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 162 252
10th Percentile £190 £250 £313
25th Percentile £381 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £638
90th Percentile £648 £673 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 4
10th Percentile - £14.05 £15.54
25th Percentile £56.88 £18.49 £15.98
Median hourly rate £58.75 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +125.96% +28.46% +57.45%
75th Percentile £60.63 £33.63 £24.47
90th Percentile - £55.00 £25.31
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
% change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) PaaS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) ScriptRunner
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) IT Manager
1 3 (42.86%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Resilience Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) IT Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Project Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) NumPy
1 1 (14.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) PMI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Requirements Workshops
3 3 (42.86%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Management
4 2 (28.57%) Business Impact Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (28.57%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Supplier Management
4 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) R
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
1 3 (42.86%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks