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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 - 104
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing IaaS 2 0 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% - 0.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.55% - 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £819 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £838 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.29%
75th Percentile £856 - £613
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £563 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% +0.21%

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 363 282 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.15% 23.06% 22.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 167 256
10th Percentile £213 £217 £186
25th Percentile £353 £308 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £583 £572
90th Percentile £698 £671 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 35
10th Percentile £6.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.74% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.88 £55.00 £62.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £67.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

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 December 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £838 - 19
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) BCP
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aruba
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam
1 1 (50.00%) VMware