IaaS Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 100 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 -6
Contract jobs citing IaaS 20 35 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 1.27% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 3.96% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 24
10th Percentile - £306 £435
25th Percentile £425 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +2.38%
75th Percentile £560 £653 £661
90th Percentile £633 £738 £775
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £43.75 £70.00
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +6 18 £500 -18.70% 16
Lancashire +4 2 - - 3
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (65.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.00%) Confluence
3 2 (10.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 18 (90.00%) Azure
2 15 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (65.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (35.00%) SaaS
5 5 (25.00%) PaaS
6 2 (10.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
1 10 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 10 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
1 2 (10.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 10 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Automotive
3 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Exchange Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) JIRA Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ADO
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
2 1 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
1 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 10 (50.00%) Change Management
1 10 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 10 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
2 9 (45.00%) Project Delivery
3 8 (40.00%) BCP
3 8 (40.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 8 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (40.00%) Information Security
3 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
4 7 (35.00%) High Availability
4 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Line Management
4 7 (35.00%) Web Operations
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) Ethical Hacking
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Groovy
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (10.00%) OSCE
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (50.00%) vSphere
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.00%) Databricks