IaaS Contracts in the South East

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 165 147
Rank change year-on-year +56 -18 +6
Contract jobs citing IaaS 44 32 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.47% 0.58% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.89% 2.42% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 59
10th Percentile £413 £356 £461
25th Percentile £500 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £700
90th Percentile £638 £775 £799
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +3.31%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 899 1,322 1,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.94% 23.96% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 910 1,238
10th Percentile £272 £250 £252
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £629
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 51 56
10th Percentile - £16.25 £15.51
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.22 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +20.61% +1.49% +7.52%
75th Percentile £47.15 £54.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £61.60 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £33.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% -36.84% +54.65%

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 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South East

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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 12 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
Thames Valley +40 17 £501 +2.67% 20
Berkshire +29 14 £488 +2.63% 12
Hampshire +28 10 £575 +64.29% 9
Kent - 9 £569 - 4
East Sussex - 7 £525 - 1
Buckinghamshire +16 3 £501 -20.71% 2
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 13 (29.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.27%) Confluence
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (77.27%) PaaS
2 30 (68.18%) Azure
3 11 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (22.73%) AWS
4 10 (22.73%) Entra ID
4 10 (22.73%) GCP
5 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 8 (18.18%) SaaS
6 7 (15.91%) Azure AKS
7 5 (11.36%) Azure Storage
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.82%) Azure API Management
9 3 (6.82%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Event Grid
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (4.55%) GitHub
10 2 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (36.36%) Firewall
2 14 (31.82%) DHCP
2 14 (31.82%) DNS
3 8 (18.18%) SMTP
3 8 (18.18%) VPN
4 6 (13.64%) SAN
5 3 (6.82%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (4.55%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (4.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 8 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (18.18%) Big Data
2 8 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Git
1 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (31.82%) Azure Engineer
3 12 (27.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 11 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 11 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 11 (25.00%) Support Engineer
5 10 (22.73%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 10 (22.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support
5 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 8 (18.18%) Architect
7 7 (15.91%) Lead
8 6 (13.64%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Site Engineer
9 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 3 (6.82%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) ADO
1 4 (9.09%) SAML
2 3 (6.82%) OAuth
2 3 (6.82%) OpenID
3 2 (4.55%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.55%) YAML
4 1 (2.27%) .NET
4 1 (2.27%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.27%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (2.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.27%) HTML
4 1 (2.27%) JSON
4 1 (2.27%) MACH
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) REST
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 11 (25.00%) PKI
2 8 (18.18%) Clustering
3 5 (11.36%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.55%) Replication
5 1 (2.27%) NHS
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.91%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.82%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) DevOps
2 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (31.82%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (18.18%) ITIL
7 8 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 8 (18.18%) Software Deployment
8 7 (15.91%) Migration
9 6 (13.64%) Security Patching
10 5 (11.36%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (9.09%) Roadmaps
11 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 3 (6.82%) API Management
12 3 (6.82%) Design Patterns
12 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Automation
12 3 (6.82%) RBAC
12 3 (6.82%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 22 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (20.45%) Python
2 9 (20.45%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) Bicep
4 3 (6.82%) C#
4 3 (6.82%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 11 (25.00%) Degree
2 11 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.55%) CCNA
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.55%) MCSE
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.55%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) SLA
2 4 (9.09%) NCSC
3 2 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 19 (43.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (18.18%) BitLocker
3 8 (18.18%) Docker
3 8 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 8 (18.18%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (18.18%) Terminal Services
3 8 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (18.18%) vSphere
4 6 (13.64%) DFS Replication
5 4 (9.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (6.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 10 (22.73%) Puppet
3 8 (18.18%) Ansible
3 8 (18.18%) Nagios
3 8 (18.18%) Terraform
3 8 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 8 (18.18%) vMotion
4 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.55%) SCCM
5 2 (4.55%) vRealize
5 2 (4.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 23 (52.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (45.45%) VMware
3 8 (18.18%) Citrix
3 8 (18.18%) Google
3 8 (18.18%) HP
3 8 (18.18%) Symantec
4 4 (9.09%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.27%) IBM
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) ServiceNow