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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 108 125
Rank change year-on-year -26 +17 +67
DemandTrendContract jobs citing IaaS 12 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.48% 0.90% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 3.45% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 21 21
10th Percentile £325 £375 £463
25th Percentile £425 £490 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £588 £688
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -14.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £800 £635 £731
90th Percentile £900 £685 £750
England median daily rate £571 £612 £581
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.29% -0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £86.25
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £93.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year -54.76% -11.06% +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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 753 696 1,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.83% 26.12% 36.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 486 809
10th Percentile £297 £205 £213
25th Percentile £395 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £575
90th Percentile £644 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 28
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.56 £16.63 £14.20
Median hourly rate £21.39 £25.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% +31.58% +0.66%
75th Percentile £32.91 £33.93 £29.06
90th Percentile £42.68 £48.52 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.58 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.30% -23.08% +51.16%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS

IaaS
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands -23 10 £700 +17.94% 9
East Midlands -1 2 £450 -23.40% 6
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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP GRC
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) PaaS
2 9 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (33.33%) SaaS
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
5 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (25.00%) Serverless
5 3 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (16.67%) Azure App Service
6 2 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Storage
7 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 2 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SAP HANA
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Basis
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Key Management
4 3 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (25.00%) Workflow
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
5 2 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (16.67%) RBAC
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Ariba
3 1 (8.33%) Concur
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) SAP