IaaS Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.14% - 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.13% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £650
75th Percentile £545 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £700 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.79%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 39 36 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 22.29% 32.14% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 25 26
10th Percentile £236 £270 £200
25th Percentile £330 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -16.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £543 £500 £584
90th Percentile £766 £618 £650
Hampshire median daily rate £510 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.90% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.29 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.75 - -
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £31.00 £18.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +67.57% -33.93% +33.33%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in Southampton

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing IaaS

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (50.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Service Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) PagerDuty