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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 91 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 7 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.37% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £404 £622 -
25th Percentile £409 £655 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £719 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% - -
75th Percentile £520 £792 -
90th Percentile £602 £831 -
England median daily rate £525 £568 £600
% change year-on-year -7.49% -5.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.50 - -
England median hourly rate £55.50 £31.39 £69.38
% change year-on-year +76.84% -54.76% -11.06%

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 552 367 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.00% 27.51% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 212 177
10th Percentile £188 £225 £217
25th Percentile £335 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £508 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +20.83% -11.58%
75th Percentile £574 £580 £563
90th Percentile £638 £688 £625
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 30 18
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £15.81 £16.30 £14.62
Median hourly rate £17.50 £23.78 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -26.41% +45.89% -18.50%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.88 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.50 £67.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the East of England

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Contractor hourly 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 5 October 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
Norfolk -7 3 £638 +6.25% 1
Hertfordshire -18 2 £425 -49.25% 5
Essex - 2 £425 - 1
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 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) NetWeaver
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) PaaS
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) SaaS
4 4 (57.14%) GCP
5 3 (42.86%) AWS
6 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
7 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MaxDB
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis Support
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Basis
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (14.29%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Apple iOS
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (14.29%) ERP
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Information Security
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 1 (14.29%) PMP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase