IaaS Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing IaaS 5 40 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.28% 1.22% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.92% 4.81% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 34 32
10th Percentile £464 £579 -
25th Percentile £500 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £588
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £900 £675 £709
90th Percentile - - £795
England median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £71.05
25th Percentile - - £74.71
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £79.60
England median hourly rate £32.77 £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +26.04% -66.67% +4.00%

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 541 832 1,097
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 30.70% 25.37% 31.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 593 860
10th Percentile £223 £220 £313
25th Percentile £355 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.77% -6.36% +7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £669
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 49 63
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.63 £13.52
25th Percentile £18.51 £14.25 £21.21
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +33.33% +153.01%
75th Percentile £32.69 - £75.50
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South West.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the South West

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 30 June 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 +25 3 £900 +50.00% 17
Wiltshire +9 2 £470 -27.69% 3
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Internet
1 1 (20.00%) NGFW
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (20.00%) GitOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (20.00%) Nessus
2 1 (20.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco