IaaS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 117 131
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing IaaS 6 16 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.29% 0.66% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 2.29% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 21
10th Percentile £445 £425 £413
25th Percentile £478 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £605 £620
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -2.42% +12.73%
75th Percentile £859 £656 £700
90th Percentile £900 £675 £750
England median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate £31.39 £69.38 £82.75
% change year-on-year -54.76% -16.16% +50.45%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 675 699 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.22% 28.86% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 441 729
10th Percentile £220 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
England median daily rate £500 £535 £534
% change year-on-year -6.45% +0.09% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 49
10th Percentile - £22.00 £13.25
25th Percentile - £31.50 £14.93
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +112.12% -40.00%
75th Percentile £35.51 - £78.00
90th Percentile £66.90 - £78.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the South West

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IaaS

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Gloucestershire +3 3 £900 +50.00% 7
Wiltshire 0 2 £445 -28.80% 1
Bristol -10 1 £575 +27.78% 4
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) PaaS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Stack
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) NGFW
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Chief Technology Officer
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (16.67%) IoT
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) ArchiMate
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) MODAF
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) CCSP
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CISM
4 1 (16.67%) CISSP
4 1 (16.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) TOWER Software