IaaS Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.52% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £615 £650
% change year-on-year -6.50% -5.38% +13.04%

All Cloud Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 80 54 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 41.88% 31.95% 35.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 38 44
10th Percentile £175 £213 £168
25th Percentile £225 £413 £221
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £535 £413
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% +29.70% -28.20%
75th Percentile £492 £638 £597
90th Percentile £591 £840 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £60.15 - -
25th Percentile £60.38 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £61.50 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +373.08% -35.00% +28.51%
75th Percentile £63.38 £15.00 -
90th Percentile £64.05 £15.90 -
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% -65.37%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Somerset

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing IaaS

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing IaaS

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware