IaaS Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 151 148
Rank change year-on-year +19 -3 -20
Contract jobs citing IaaS 68 75 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.23% 1.29% 1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.92% 4.40% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 60 89
10th Percentile £356 £462 £432
25th Percentile £403 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -3.75% +24.35%
75th Percentile £619 £706 £675
90th Percentile £779 £821 £800
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.29% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +26.89%

All Cloud Skills
South East

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,382 1,706 2,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.01% 29.27% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,250 1,797
10th Percentile £250 £252 £204
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £601
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 53 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £24.00 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% +14.01% -4.32%
75th Percentile £59.50 £67.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +22 46 £465 -25.60% 7
Berkshire +11 43 £450 -33.33% 4
Hampshire -9 17 £350 -30.00% 9
West Sussex +5 3 £500 -39.39%
Oxfordshire +4 2 £465 -24.08% 1
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £750 +56.07% 2
Surrey +8 1 - - 3
Sussex - 1 £500 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (1.47%) Confluence
1 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.47%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (73.53%) PaaS
2 48 (70.59%) SaaS
3 19 (27.94%) Azure
4 7 (10.29%) AWS
5 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.94%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.94%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.47%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.47%) GitHub
8 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 39 (57.35%) 5G
1 39 (57.35%) Broadband
2 8 (11.76%) DNS
3 7 (10.29%) VPN
4 6 (8.82%) Firewall
5 3 (4.41%) DHCP
6 2 (2.94%) LAN
6 2 (2.94%) Network Security
6 2 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (2.94%) WAN
6 2 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.47%) MPLS
7 1 (1.47%) PBX
7 1 (1.47%) SAN
7 1 (1.47%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.35%) MySQL
2 5 (7.35%) RDBMS
2 5 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.94%) Big Data
4 1 (1.47%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Git
2 6 (8.82%) GitLab
3 3 (4.41%) JIRA
4 2 (2.94%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 39 (57.35%) Law
1 39 (57.35%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.94%) Legal
5 1 (1.47%) Finance
5 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (57.35%) Penetration Tester
1 39 (57.35%) Security Penetration Tester
1 39 (57.35%) Security Specialist
1 39 (57.35%) Security Tester
1 39 (57.35%) Tester
1 39 (57.35%) Testing Specialist
2 5 (7.35%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Architect
3 4 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Architect
4 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) Lead
4 3 (4.41%) Senior
4 3 (4.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (2.94%) CloudOps Engineer
5 2 (2.94%) Consultant
5 2 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (60.29%) Web Services
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
3 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (57.35%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.41%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.41%) Smart Meter
5 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) IoT
6 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.47%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.76%) Windows
2 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 7 (10.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.82%) VMS
4 5 (7.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) Cybersecurity
2 40 (58.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (57.35%) Application Security
3 39 (57.35%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 39 (57.35%) OWASP
3 39 (57.35%) Penetration Testing
3 39 (57.35%) Security Testing
4 12 (17.65%) Agile
5 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.24%) Cloud Security
7 7 (10.29%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.29%) DevOps
7 7 (10.29%) Scrum
8 6 (8.82%) Build Automation
8 6 (8.82%) Containerisation
8 6 (8.82%) Migration
8 6 (8.82%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.82%) Runbook
9 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) Python
2 8 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.35%) Bash
4 2 (2.94%) C#
4 2 (2.94%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) PHP
4 2 (2.94%) Ruby
4 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 47 (69.12%) Security Cleared
2 39 (57.35%) CREST Certified
2 39 (57.35%) GIAC
2 39 (57.35%) GPEN
2 39 (57.35%) OSCP
2 39 (57.35%) SANS
3 7 (10.29%) Degree
4 5 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.94%) VCAP
7 2 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (57.35%) GDPR
1 39 (57.35%) NCSC
1 39 (57.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (10.29%) vSphere
4 6 (8.82%) Docker
5 5 (7.35%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (4.41%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.41%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (16.18%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.76%) vRealize
3 6 (8.82%) Ansible
3 6 (8.82%) Packer
4 5 (7.35%) Terraform
5 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.41%) vCenter Server
5 3 (4.41%) WSUS
6 2 (2.94%) SCCM
6 2 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.94%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 39 (57.35%) Virgin Media
2 16 (23.53%) VMware
3 9 (13.24%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.82%) Oracle
5 5 (7.35%) Arqiva
5 5 (7.35%) Veritas
6 2 (2.94%) Cisco
6 2 (2.94%) Google
6 2 (2.94%) Meraki
7 1 (1.47%) Dell
7 1 (1.47%) ESRI
7 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds