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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 82 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 9 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.40% 0.52% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.84% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £416 £615 -
25th Percentile £422 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £676 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.13% - -
75th Percentile £623 £713 -
90th Percentile £643 £736 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £55.05 - -
25th Percentile £55.13 - -
Median hourly rate £55.25 - -
75th Percentile £55.38 - -
90th Percentile £55.45 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £31.39 £26.00
% change year-on-year +75.24% +20.71% -66.67%

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 490 355 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 21.54% 30.76% 15.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 199 168
10th Percentile £191 £200 £220
25th Percentile £384 £389 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £569
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 39 56
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £27.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +43.46% +15.46% -25.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £31.64 £21.37
90th Percentile £75.00 £56.94 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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
Essex -10 3 £425 - 1
Norfolk -18 3 £638 +6.25%
Hertfordshire -21 3 £513 - 3
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 2 (22.22%) NetWeaver
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) PaaS
2 7 (77.78%) Azure
3 6 (66.67%) SaaS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS
4 3 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MaxDB
1 2 (22.22%) SAP HANA
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 2 (22.22%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Basis Support
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Support
1 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Basis
1 2 (22.22%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (22.22%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 2 (22.22%) Web Conferencing
3 1 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Android
2 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (33.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
4 1 (11.11%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) High Availability
2 3 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) CRM
3 2 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (22.22%) Emotional Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (22.22%) Service Catalogue
3 2 (22.22%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team Management
3 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
3 2 (22.22%) PMP
4 1 (11.11%) Degree
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 2 (22.22%) Sybase
3 1 (11.11%) NetApp