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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 138 159
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 -20
Contract jobs citing IaaS 32 75 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.58% 1.30% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 4.36% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 60 83
10th Percentile £356 £462 £438
25th Percentile £413 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £590 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -1.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £600 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £821 £800
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +25.83%

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 1,338 1,722 2,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 24.13% 29.81% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 1,249 1,788
10th Percentile £250 £252 £200
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 £613
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 51 56 62
10th Percentile £16.25 £16.03 £12.81
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +9.62% -2.21%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £32.88
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £61.46
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -31.90% +44.89% -2.09%

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

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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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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 -3 18 £488 -25.00% 8
Berkshire -20 14 £475 -30.28% 4
Hampshire -16 10 £350 -30.00% 8
West Sussex +7 3 £500 -39.39%
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £631 +31.36% 3
Oxfordshire +7 2 £465 -24.08% 1
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 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 21 (65.63%) Azure
2 15 (46.88%) PaaS
3 13 (40.63%) SaaS
4 7 (21.88%) AWS
5 6 (18.75%) Entra ID
6 5 (15.63%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (12.50%) Azure API Management
8 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Event Grid
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
9 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (6.25%) Google Workspace
10 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (3.13%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) DNS
1 8 (25.00%) VPN
2 6 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (9.38%) DHCP
3 3 (9.38%) Network Security
4 2 (6.25%) LAN
4 2 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (6.25%) WAN
4 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (3.13%) MPLS
5 1 (3.13%) PBX
5 1 (3.13%) SAN
5 1 (3.13%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
1 5 (15.63%) MySQL
1 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
1 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.25%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 3 (9.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Architect
1 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Azure Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Lead
2 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) CloudOps Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) .NET
1 3 (9.38%) Web Services
2 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (15.63%) Public Cloud
2 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.38%) Smart Meter
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.00%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.75%) VMS
4 5 (15.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 10 (31.25%) Cloud Security
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (25.00%) DevOps
3 8 (25.00%) Migration
4 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
4 7 (21.88%) Scrum
5 6 (18.75%) API Management
5 6 (18.75%) Build Automation
5 6 (18.75%) Containerisation
5 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (18.75%) DevSecOps
5 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Microservices
5 6 (18.75%) Network Architecture
5 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 6 (18.75%) Runbook
5 6 (18.75%) Security Architecture
6 5 (15.63%) High Availability
6 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 3 (9.38%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) PHP
4 3 (9.38%) Ruby
5 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.88%) Degree
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
5 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (6.25%) VCAP
6 2 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (3.13%) CCNA
7 1 (3.13%) CCSP
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (3.13%) CISSP
7 1 (3.13%) ISSEP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 7 (21.88%) vSphere
4 6 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 3 (9.38%) VMware NSX
7 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 8 (25.00%) vRealize
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
3 6 (18.75%) Packer
4 5 (15.63%) Terraform
5 4 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (9.38%) vCenter Server
6 3 (9.38%) WSUS
7 2 (6.25%) SCCM
7 2 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (3.13%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (3.13%) QRadar
8 1 (3.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) VMware
2 10 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) Arqiva
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Veritas
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco
4 2 (6.25%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Meraki
5 1 (3.13%) Dell
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Splunk