IaaS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 - 50
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing IaaS 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.42% - 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% - 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £563 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £631 £500
% change year-on-year -16.83% +26.25% -9.09%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 245 130 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 34.17% 29.21% 32.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 84 92
10th Percentile £302 £410 £400
25th Percentile £373 £478 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -9.67% +5.68%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £612
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

IaaS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Sheffield - 3 £525 - 1
IaaS
Yorkshire

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Single Sign-On