IaaS Contracts in Manchester

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 61 67 99
Rank change year-on-year +6 +32 +13
Contract jobs citing IaaS 18 29 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 1.91% 1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.74% 5.20% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 17 15
10th Percentile - £300 £428
25th Percentile £425 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +29.47% -9.52%
75th Percentile £560 £738 £575
90th Percentile £633 £783 £654
North West median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £26.00 -

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 13 (72.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (72.22%) Entra ID
4 7 (38.89%) SaaS
5 5 (27.78%) PaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
1 10 (55.56%) Intrusion Detection
1 10 (55.56%) Network Security
2 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Telecoms
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Automotive
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.56%) IoT
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
2 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
1 10 (55.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Business Continuity
1 10 (55.56%) Change Management
1 10 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
1 10 (55.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (44.44%) BCP
3 8 (44.44%) Business Continuity Planning
3 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (44.44%) Information Security
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (38.89%) High Availability
4 7 (38.89%) Line Management
4 7 (38.89%) Web Operations
5 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 2 (11.11%) Red Team
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Azure Certification
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) CREST Certified
2 2 (11.11%) OSCE
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
1 10 (55.56%) vSphere
2 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks