IaaS Contract Job Trends in Essex

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.19% 2.20% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 8.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 £676 -
% change year-on-year -14.88% - -
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 - -
East of England median hourly rate £55.25 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 69 25 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 27.38% 27.47% 18.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 14 31
10th Percentile £332 £196 £250
25th Percentile £363 £315 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £320 £500
Median % change year-on-year +43.79% -36.02% -2.72%
75th Percentile £518 £474 £553
90th Percentile £589 £482 £653
East of England median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile £15.25 £64.00 £23.18
25th Percentile £16.50 £115.00 £33.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £200.00 £51.99
Median % change year-on-year -91.25% +284.69% +111.17%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £55.40 - £80.80
East of England median hourly rate £21.72 £18.31 £16.30
% change year-on-year +18.60% +12.33% -25.91%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Essex

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing IaaS

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Essex region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
Basildon -6 2 - -
Chelmsford - 1 £425 - 1
IaaS
East of England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 (66.67%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MaxDB
1 2 (66.67%) SAP HANA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) Sybase ASE
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Basis Support
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Support
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Basis
1 2 (66.67%) SAP Fiori
1 2 (66.67%) SAPUI5
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) SAP Security
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SAP
1 2 (66.67%) Sybase
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft