IaaS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 80 109
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.16% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.78% 0.75% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £751 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +30.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £613 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -52.73%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 387 268 325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 20.91% 26.20% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 164 201
10th Percentile £198 £203 £185
25th Percentile £356 £318 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £471 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% +4.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £556
90th Percentile £699 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 54
10th Percentile £11.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.20 £14.48
Median hourly rate £21.36 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +12.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £51.22 £23.21 £23.18
90th Percentile £60.00 £77.75 £67.02
England median hourly rate £37.58 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +40.16% +27.68% -16.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the East of England

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £575 - 5
Essex -4 1 - - 2
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (33.33%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MaxDB
1 1 (33.33%) SAP HANA
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) Sybase ASE
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis Support
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Support
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Basis
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (33.33%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Data ONTAP
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Security
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (33.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase