IaaS Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 29 30
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing IaaS 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 0.78% 1.09% 0.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 3.64% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £540
Median % change year-on-year - - -24.21%
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £426 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -16.38% +2.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 55 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 18.29% 30.05% 29.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 41 31
10th Percentile £213 £390 £200
25th Percentile £299 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -10.33% +24.35%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £650
90th Percentile £712 £630 £740
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £484
% change year-on-year - -1.81% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 21
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £38.96 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £42.69 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +48.47% +79.02% -64.34%
75th Percentile £46.08 £30.63 -
90th Percentile £54.21 £37.01 -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £34.67 £16.06
% change year-on-year +80.27% +115.88% -54.11%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Lancashire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 May 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
Burnley - 2 £600 -
IaaS
North West

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architecture