IaaS Contract Job Trends in the North East

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 27 34
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 3 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.37% 2.55% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 5.93% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £619 £500 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £534 £650
Median % change year-on-year +19.38% -17.85% +23.81%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £574 £600
% change year-on-year -8.50% -4.38% +3.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 284 118 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 35.11% 43.07% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 76 30
10th Percentile £306 £338 £190
25th Percentile £363 £412 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +2.70% -2.12%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £575
90th Percentile £575 £631 £653
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 3 6
10th Percentile £62.25 - £11.44
25th Percentile £62.50 £12.50 £20.13
Median hourly rate £70.00 £13.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +438.46% -71.85% +42.09%
75th Percentile - £24.75 -
90th Percentile - £31.50 -
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the North East

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the North East region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Tyne and Wear -42 3 £638 +19.38% 3
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (66.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware