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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 110 130
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing IaaS 12 10 20
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.44% 0.53% 0.64%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.65% 1.72% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile - £493 £413
25th Percentile £450 £524 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £669 £700
90th Percentile £699 £743 -
England median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
England median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -52.73%

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 726 580 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 26.80% 30.92% 27.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 402 641
10th Percentile £227 £226 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +4.37% -8.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
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 46 11 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £31.52 £17.67 £14.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £26.50 £15.89
Median % change year-on-year +116.98% +66.77% -72.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £28.99 £33.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £78.00
England median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

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 12 February 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 12 February 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 -12 7 £450 -28.00%
Somerset - 3 £575 -
Bristol -13 1 - - 5
Gloucestershire - 1 - - 4
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%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DHCP
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Maven
2 1 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
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%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior
5 1 (8.33%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior 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%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) 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
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (41.67%) Service Management
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Change Management
5 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) GitOps
5 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 4 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
6 3 (25.00%) Cost Management
6 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (25.00%) Operational Stability
6 3 (25.00%) Runbook
6 3 (25.00%) SOAR
6 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Bicep
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) C
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) DV Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Terraform
2 8 (66.67%) Ansible
3 6 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 4 (33.33%) Nessus
4 4 (33.33%) Packer
5 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) TOWER Software