IaaS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.98% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £443 - -
North West median daily rate £428 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -14.42% -4.76% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 252 138 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.39% 32.17% 36.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 100 123
10th Percentile £340 £291 £267
25th Percentile £375 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% -10.53% -7.68%
75th Percentile £579 £568 £525
90th Percentile £647 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.71% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £15.50 - £17.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +36.46% -16.43%
75th Percentile £25.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.63 £56.17 -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £28.75 £17.29
% change year-on-year +115.65% +66.33% -50.61%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Knutsford - 5 £426 - 1
Warrington - 1 - -
IaaS
North West

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) PaaS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) DocumentDB
1 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
3 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Network Segmentation
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
3 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft