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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 115
Rank change year-on-year -21 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 8 5 41
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.23% 0.28% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.88% 0.90% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 35
10th Percentile £502 £464 £530
25th Percentile £525 £500 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +23.08% +0.58%
75th Percentile £600 £900 £675
90th Percentile £680 - -
England median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +4.35%

All Cloud Computing 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 914 556 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.10% 31.39% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 399 602
10th Percentile £300 £224 £213
25th Percentile £410 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.09% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £686 £675
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 36 47
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% -72.04% +27.54%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.71 £70.00
90th Percentile - £53.13 -
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +55.97% +17.79% -36.10%

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 14 June 2026.

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 14 June 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
Bristol - 4 £575 - 2
Somerset - 2 £525 - 1
Gloucestershire -6 1 - -
Wiltshire -8 1 £750 +59.57%
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) PaaS
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Liquibase
3 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Database Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Specialist
1 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) API Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Application Security
3 2 (25.00%) Change Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) VMware