IaaS Contract Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IaaS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 109 112
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -11
Contract jobs citing IaaS 16 10 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.74% 0.42% 1.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.39% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 26
10th Percentile £313 £363 £478
25th Percentile £324 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -40.17% +14.29% +28.99%
75th Percentile £401 £672 £544
90th Percentile £609 £675 £650
England median daily rate £568 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.42% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £78.00
% change year-on-year -54.76% -11.06% +30.00%

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 729 721 1,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.66% 30.07% 36.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 454 777
10th Percentile £313 £313 £265
25th Percentile £375 £386 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -0.51% -2.50%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £532 £550
% change year-on-year -5.97% -3.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 59
10th Percentile £12.82 £17.44 £15.95
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.49 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.18 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% +16.62% +40.18%
75th Percentile £52.50 £70.19 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.77 £74.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.93 £33.00
% change year-on-year -25.88% +2.82% +50.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IaaS

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 28 September 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
Cheshire -12 9 £347 -7.60% 1
Manchester -8 3 £661 +6.87% 1
Lancashire - 2 - - 1
Merseyside +4 1 £500 - 1
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 3 (18.75%) WebSphere
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) PaaS
1 13 (81.25%) SaaS
2 10 (62.50%) OpenShift
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Lead
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) AngularJS
1 10 (62.50%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Linux
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Containerisation
2 10 (62.50%) ETL
2 10 (62.50%) Observability
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Microservices
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 1 (6.25%) Planning and Forecasting
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) PHP
1 10 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Grafana
1 10 (62.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Oracle
2 10 (62.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) F5
3 3 (18.75%) HP
3 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft