IaaS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 33 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 4 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.66% 3.91% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.45% 9.24% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £628 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% - -
75th Percentile £538 £630 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £575 £575 £500
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 163 119 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 27.08% 42.35% 26.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 97 108
10th Percentile £363 £234 £185
25th Percentile £413 £360 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £556
90th Percentile £640 £664 £639
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.59% -3.33% +34.35%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -17 4 £525 -16.41% 3
IaaS
South East

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) CCDA
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) vCloud
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler