IaaS Contracts in the North of England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 144 152
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -21
Contract jobs citing IaaS 33 46 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.95% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.78% 3.11% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 30 41
10th Percentile £358 £356 £463
25th Percentile £431 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £675
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.50 £41.50
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.53% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £44.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +26.04% -66.67% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,187 1,481 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.83% 30.46% 35.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 1,032 1,430
10th Percentile £300 £268 £288
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £486 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -5.12% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £594
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 76 43
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.13 £16.04
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.72% +12.65%
75th Percentile £46.19 £26.50 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.50 £46.18 £61.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year +15.63% -32.66% +53.81%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North West -8 20 £474 -5.25% 33
North East +9 11 £534 -7.13% 3
Yorkshire +2 8 £650 +23.81% 11
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (39.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
3 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.06%) SAS
5 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (72.73%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) PaaS
3 15 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 15 (45.45%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (30.30%) SaaS
5 5 (15.15%) OpenShift
6 4 (12.12%) AWS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.03%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) Firewall
1 13 (39.39%) Network Security
2 10 (30.30%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (15.15%) DNS
4 1 (3.03%) SAN
4 1 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
1 4 (12.12%) ScriptRunner
General
1 10 (30.30%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Local Government
3 1 (3.03%) Automotive
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 6 (18.18%) Senior
2 5 (15.15%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Lead
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Project Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Project Consultant
6 1 (3.03%) Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.03%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
1 5 (15.15%) Node.js
2 1 (3.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.03%) NHS
2 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
2 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 21 (63.64%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (30.30%) Business Continuity
2 10 (30.30%) Change Management
2 10 (30.30%) Information Security
2 10 (30.30%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 8 (24.24%) BCP
3 8 (24.24%) Business Continuity Planning
3 8 (24.24%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (24.24%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (24.24%) Project Delivery
3 8 (24.24%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (21.21%) High Availability
4 7 (21.21%) Line Management
4 7 (21.21%) Web Operations
5 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 5 (15.15%) Analytics
6 5 (15.15%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 5 (15.15%) PHP
2 5 (15.15%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Groovy
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) CCNA
4 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (6.06%) CISM
5 2 (6.06%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (6.06%) CREST Certified
5 2 (6.06%) CRISC
5 2 (6.06%) OSCE
6 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 19 (57.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (39.39%) vSphere
3 8 (24.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (15.15%) Docker
4 5 (15.15%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (15.15%) Grafana
2 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.09%) SCCM
4 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (42.42%) VMware
3 6 (18.18%) Oracle
4 5 (15.15%) AppDynamics
5 4 (12.12%) Atlassian
5 4 (12.12%) SolarWinds
6 3 (9.09%) Cisco
6 3 (9.09%) Meraki
6 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 3 (9.09%) Veeam
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix
7 1 (3.03%) CloudEndure
7 1 (3.03%) F5
7 1 (3.03%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) IBM