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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 107 103
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 +11
Contract jobs citing IaaS 6 7 44
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.17% 0.37% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.61% 1.25% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 38
10th Percentile £496 £476 £500
25th Percentile £525 £531 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £725 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +11.54% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £850 £675
90th Percentile £700 £900 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +3.45%

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 980 561 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.67% 29.51% 26.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 612 396 563
10th Percentile £320 £223 £250
25th Percentile £413 £355 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £604
90th Percentile £704 £675 £675
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 39 46
10th Percentile £14.18 £18.13 £13.30
25th Percentile £17.38 £18.51 £30.75
Median hourly rate £51.33 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +172.03% -73.04% +36.59%
75th Percentile £58.75 £29.13 -
90th Percentile £71.88 £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -13 4 £575 - 2
Wiltshire -10 1 £750 +59.57%
Somerset - 1 £475 -
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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Database Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) API Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Application Security
2 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) VMware