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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 104 106
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing IaaS 14 9 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.46% 0.53% 1.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.69% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 39
10th Percentile - £548 £500
25th Percentile £450 £613 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% - -
75th Percentile £603 £738 £675
90th Percentile £789 £790 £700
England median daily rate £609 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +5.91% -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 765 531 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.37% 31.16% 25.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 402 637
10th Percentile £258 £250 £210
25th Percentile £403 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 16 27
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.27 £18.51 £14.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.81 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.45% +84.91% -74.78%
75th Percentile £58.75 £37.50 £15.74
90th Percentile £59.13 £68.75 £21.26
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.13% +29.46% -18.32%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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
Wiltshire -18 7 £450 -29.41% 2
Somerset - 4 £575 - 1
Bristol -25 2 £550 -9.09% 1
Gloucestershire -6 1 - - 1
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 1 (7.14%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (21.43%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) DHCP
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
5 1 (7.14%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Linux
3 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (35.71%) Service Management
6 4 (28.57%) Change Management
6 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 4 (28.57%) Digital Strategy
6 4 (28.57%) GitOps
6 4 (28.57%) Security Hardening
6 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (21.43%) Cost Management
7 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (21.43%) Operational Stability
7 3 (21.43%) Runbook
7 3 (21.43%) SOAR
7 3 (21.43%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) C
4 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Ansible
3 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 4 (28.57%) Nessus
4 4 (28.57%) Packer
5 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft