IaaS Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 70 76
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing IaaS 9 4 21
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.68% 0.44% 1.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.04% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 4
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £551 £356 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £491 £625
Median % change year-on-year +35.07% -21.52% +4.17%
75th Percentile £750 £659 £666
90th Percentile £825 £699 £694
South East median daily rate £530 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -15.20% +4.17% -0.83%

All Cloud Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 287 196 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.83% 21.63% 25.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 159 202
10th Percentile £263 £300 £400
25th Percentile £405 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -3.81% -0.46%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £631
90th Percentile £688 £675 £669
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 11
10th Percentile £13.90 - £19.25
25th Percentile £18.88 - £19.87
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.97 £21.35
Median % change year-on-year +25.19% -6.46% +15.41%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £53.75
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.50 £29.66
% change year-on-year -29.82% -3.91% +48.30%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Hampshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Hampshire

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Basingstoke -5 5 £700 +5.66% 4
Southampton +4 2 £530 +48.88% 2
Havant - 1 £625 -
Portsmouth - 1 £325 - 2
IaaS
South East

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
3 1 (11.11%) Google Ads
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Service Transition Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Site Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Architecture Governance
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) High Availability
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
5 1 (11.11%) SIAM
5 1 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Statistics
5 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) OCP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) VCAP
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) vCloud
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) systemd
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize
2 1 (11.11%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat