IaaS Contracts in England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 249 217
Rank change year-on-year -9 -32 -21
Contract jobs citing IaaS 240 350 624
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 0.94% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.65% 2.95% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 204 432
10th Percentile £425 £400 £444
25th Percentile £500 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £703 £689
90th Percentile £684 £780 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 9
10th Percentile - - £52.50
25th Percentile - £25.50 £70.50
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.67% +3.31%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £80.00
90th Percentile - - £86.09
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in England.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in England.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in England

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +9 144 £585 -2.50% 106
South East +35 46 £575 +15.00% 62
North of England +1 30 £522 +1.85% 30
North West +2 20 £500 -3.85% 17
Midlands +18 9 £556 +39.06% 17
North East +7 9 £600 +4.35% 2
West Midlands +12 8 £538 +36.51% 10
Yorkshire +4 7 £650 +33.33% 11
South West +7 5 £560 -13.85% 16
East of England - 3 £751 - 3
East Midlands +8 1 £575 -2.13% 5
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 43 (17.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (10.42%) Confluence
3 9 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.83%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.83%) SAS
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 166 (69.17%) PaaS
2 142 (59.17%) Azure
3 101 (42.08%) SaaS
4 90 (37.50%) AWS
5 64 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (22.92%) Entra ID
7 37 (15.42%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (15.00%) GCP
9 26 (10.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 24 (10.00%) Serverless
11 17 (7.08%) Snowflake
12 14 (5.83%) Cloud Computing
12 14 (5.83%) OpenShift
13 13 (5.42%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.42%) GitHub
14 10 (4.17%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.92%) Azure Storage
17 6 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 56 (23.33%) Firewall
2 36 (15.00%) DNS
3 19 (7.92%) VPN
4 17 (7.08%) DHCP
5 16 (6.67%) Network Security
6 13 (5.42%) MPLS
6 13 (5.42%) VSAN
7 11 (4.58%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (3.75%) SAN
8 9 (3.75%) SMTP
9 4 (1.67%) Kerberos
9 4 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (0.83%) IPsec
11 2 (0.83%) NAS
11 2 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
11 2 (0.83%) SSL
11 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
12 1 (0.42%) HTTP
12 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (7.92%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 16 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.75%) Big Data
6 9 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.92%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.25%) MySQL
9 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.83%) Power BI
10 2 (0.83%) Sybase ASE
11 1 (0.42%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.42%) Parquet
11 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (11.25%) JIRA
2 14 (5.83%) ScriptRunner
3 10 (4.17%) Git
4 8 (3.33%) GitLab
4 8 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.83%) Maven
5 2 (0.83%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.42%) MLflow
6 1 (0.42%) MSI
6 1 (0.42%) Serena SBM
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
6 1 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 36 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.42%) Finance
3 22 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.42%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.33%) Legal
6 8 (3.33%) Marketing
7 5 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Spanish Language
8 4 (1.67%) Banking
8 4 (1.67%) Local Government
9 3 (1.25%) Military
9 3 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Dutch Language
11 1 (0.42%) French Language
11 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (26.25%) Architect
2 39 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 36 (15.00%) Senior
4 33 (13.75%) Azure Engineer
5 22 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 19 (7.92%) Azure Architect
7 19 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (6.67%) Lead
9 14 (5.83%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (5.83%) Senior Architect
10 12 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
11 11 (4.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support
11 11 (4.58%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 8 (3.33%) CSS
2 8 (3.33%) HTML
3 6 (2.50%) OAuth
3 6 (2.50%) SAML
4 5 (2.08%) OpenID
5 4 (1.67%) .NET
5 4 (1.67%) ADO
5 4 (1.67%) Azure Blueprints
5 4 (1.67%) React
5 4 (1.67%) REST
5 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.25%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.25%) Kafka
6 3 (1.25%) Spring
6 3 (1.25%) YAML
7 2 (0.83%) Entity Framework
7 2 (0.83%) Node.js
7 2 (0.83%) RESTful
7 2 (0.83%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 20 (8.33%) PKI
3 16 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 14 (5.83%) Public Cloud
5 13 (5.42%) Clustering
5 13 (5.42%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.67%) Replication
8 4 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.25%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.25%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 63 (26.25%) Windows
2 48 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 27 (11.25%) Linux
4 5 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.67%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (1.25%) Solaris
6 3 (1.25%) VMS
7 2 (0.83%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (35.42%) DevOps
2 73 (30.42%) Infrastructure as Code
3 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (22.92%) Migration
6 51 (21.25%) Agile
7 47 (19.58%) CI/CD
8 42 (17.50%) Cloud Security
9 41 (17.08%) Containerisation
10 38 (15.83%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (14.17%) Project Delivery
12 26 (10.83%) Analytics
12 26 (10.83%) Roadmaps
13 25 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
14 23 (9.58%) ITIL
14 23 (9.58%) TOGAF
15 22 (9.17%) Problem Management
16 21 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
16 21 (8.75%) Microservices
17 20 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.25%) Python
2 47 (19.58%) PowerShell
3 35 (14.58%) SQL
4 16 (6.67%) Bicep
5 15 (6.25%) Bash
6 14 (5.83%) Groovy
7 11 (4.58%) JavaScript
8 10 (4.17%) Java
9 8 (3.33%) Ruby
10 7 (2.92%) C#
11 6 (2.50%) PHP
12 2 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.83%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.42%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.42%) Go
13 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.42%) R
13 1 (0.42%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (19.17%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.58%) Azure Certification
3 33 (13.75%) SC Cleared
4 30 (12.50%) Degree
5 22 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.33%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.33%) MCSE
10 7 (2.92%) CREST Certified
11 5 (2.08%) CCNA
11 5 (2.08%) CCSAS
11 5 (2.08%) CEH
11 5 (2.08%) GIAC
11 5 (2.08%) GPEN
11 5 (2.08%) GWAPT
11 5 (2.08%) OSCP
12 4 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.58%) NCSC
2 10 (4.17%) GDPR
2 10 (4.17%) NIST
3 9 (3.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.75%) SLA
4 7 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.08%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.67%) PMO
7 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.42%) GRC
9 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 78 (32.50%) Active Directory
2 48 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (14.17%) Docker
4 27 (11.25%) vSphere
5 15 (6.25%) VMware NSX
6 12 (5.00%) Hyper-V
7 11 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (3.75%) BitLocker
9 9 (3.75%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (3.75%) Terminal Services
10 6 (2.50%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.83%) RACF
12 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 58 (24.17%) Terraform
2 42 (17.50%) Kubernetes
3 36 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (11.25%) Ansible
5 12 (5.00%) Puppet
6 10 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (3.75%) Nagios
7 9 (3.75%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.75%) vMotion
8 7 (2.92%) SCCM
9 5 (2.08%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.67%) Grafana
10 4 (1.67%) Packer
11 3 (1.25%) Nessus
12 2 (0.83%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.83%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (0.83%) vRealize
12 2 (0.83%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.83%) VxRail
Vendors
1 106 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 56 (23.33%) VMware
3 17 (7.08%) Google
4 16 (6.67%) Cisco
5 14 (5.83%) Atlassian
6 13 (5.42%) Palo Alto
7 10 (4.17%) Oracle
8 9 (3.75%) Citrix
8 9 (3.75%) HP
8 9 (3.75%) Red Hat
8 9 (3.75%) Symantec
9 8 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.08%) Dell
10 5 (2.08%) EMC
10 5 (2.08%) Qualys
10 5 (2.08%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.67%) SAP
12 3 (1.25%) IBM
12 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.25%) Veeam