IaaS Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 4 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.78% 4.88% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 11.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £628 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% - -
75th Percentile £538 £630 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £628 -
% change year-on-year -16.41% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 143 86 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 27.82% 41.95% 27.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 67 95
10th Percentile £375 £269 £191
25th Percentile £413 £366 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £640 £675 £643
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £488 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.85
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile - - £23.82
90th Percentile - - £24.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +200.00% -41.46% -14.58%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing IaaS

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 3 (75.00%) PaaS
1 3 (75.00%) SaaS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SNMP
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) CCDA
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) vCloud
2 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Aruba
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Zscaler