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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 - 101
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing IaaS 5 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.38% - 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% - 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £622 - £410
25th Percentile £655 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £792 - £613
90th Percentile £831 - £680
England median daily rate £574 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.38% - +4.35%

All Cloud 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 352 277 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.04% 18.21% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 162 319
10th Percentile £220 £213 £189
25th Percentile £407 £291 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £420 £470
Median % change year-on-year +20.24% -10.64% -6.00%
75th Percentile £579 £552 £588
90th Percentile £688 £636 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £26.55 £71.71
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS 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 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the East of England

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 17 September 2025. 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 - 3 £600 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £838 - 5
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (20.00%) NAS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (60.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) PowerCenter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
1 1 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) BCP
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam
2 1 (20.00%) VMware