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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.41% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £500 - -
25th Percentile £548 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -19.23% - -

All Cloud Computing 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 125 46 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 44.01% 37.10% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 37 26
10th Percentile £263 £394 £200
25th Percentile £350 £450 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +23.53% -26.02%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £525
90th Percentile £600 £743 £581
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.71%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +116.98% +82.76% -74.78%

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
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 24 March 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
Bath - 1 £475 - 1
IaaS
South West

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) PaaS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Cost Management
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Stability
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 3 (75.00%) SIEM
2 3 (75.00%) SOAR
2 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bicep
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware