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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 106 131
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 -5
Contract jobs citing IaaS 12 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.49% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 2.49% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 16
10th Percentile - £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £500 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £605 £669
Median % change year-on-year -4.96% -9.53% +11.64%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £725 -
England median daily rate £588 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +2.17% -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +41.82%

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 675 563 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 27.79% 29.25% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 380 660
10th Percentile £227 £225 £213
25th Percentile £409 £420 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £628 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 33
10th Percentile £18.42 £12.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £16.58 £14.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +35.63% -66.94%
75th Percentile £55.61 £29.75 £33.00
90th Percentile £75.32 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -0.07%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -13 7 £450 -28.00% 1
Somerset - 3 £575 - 3
Gloucestershire -6 1 £725 +19.83% 1
Bristol -12 1 - - 5
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 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DHCP
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) Firewall
1 3 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
1 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
5 1 (8.33%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Linux
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) DevOps
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (58.33%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
4 4 (33.33%) GitOps
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
4 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) SIEM
5 3 (25.00%) SOAR
5 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (33.33%) Bicep
3 3 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) C
4 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (8.33%) CCSP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CISM
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) Docker
4 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 7 (58.33%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (33.33%) Nessus
4 4 (33.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) TOWER Software