IaaS Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 102 120 132
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing IaaS 9 13 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.47% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.89% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile £469 - £503
25th Percentile £490 £375 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £400 £675
Median % change year-on-year +39.06% -40.74% +10.20%
75th Percentile £616 £606 £731
90th Percentile £713 £753 -
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +3.31%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +12 8 £538 +36.51% 10
East Midlands +8 1 £575 -2.13% 5
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) PaaS
2 6 (66.67%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) SaaS
4 2 (22.22%) AWS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 3 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Resilience Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) IT Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Project Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) NumPy
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Migration
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
3 3 (33.33%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity Management
4 2 (22.22%) Business Impact Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Impact Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Supplier Management
4 2 (22.22%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Groovy
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) ANSI SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) R
2 1 (11.11%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (11.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks