IaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 108 119
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +11
Contract jobs citing IaaS 22 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.46% 1.38% 1.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 4.90% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 25
10th Percentile - £362 £481
25th Percentile £413 £400 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £465 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% -25.60% +25.06%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £700
90th Percentile £630 £785 £784
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £578
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.42% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.29%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +10 13 £550 +22.22% 13
Buckinghamshire +24 9 £629 -16.13% 2
IaaS
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (95.45%) PaaS
2 14 (63.64%) SaaS
3 13 (59.09%) Azure
4 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) Azure AKS
6 4 (18.18%) Azure Storage
6 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
7 3 (13.64%) Azure API Management
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (13.64%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (9.09%) AWS
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (9.09%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 2 (9.09%) Serverless
9 1 (4.55%) Azure App Service
9 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Technical Architect
2 8 (36.36%) Technical Architect
3 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 4 (18.18%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior VMware Architect
6 2 (9.09%) VMware Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) SAML
2 3 (13.64%) ADO
2 3 (13.64%) OAuth
2 3 (13.64%) OpenID
3 2 (9.09%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.55%) .NET
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Core
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.55%) CSS
4 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) MACH
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (40.91%) PKI
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
4 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 11 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
3 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Delivery
4 9 (40.91%) TOGAF
4 9 (40.91%) Use Case
5 8 (36.36%) Containerisation
5 8 (36.36%) DevSecOps
5 8 (36.36%) ITIL
5 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 8 (36.36%) Zachman Framework
6 6 (27.27%) IT Strategy
6 6 (27.27%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Matrix Organization
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Requirements Management
7 5 (22.73%) Technology Strategy
7 5 (22.73%) Virtual Environments
8 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
3 5 (22.73%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) Bicep
4 3 (13.64%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) MCSE
2 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 8 (36.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (36.36%) NCSC
1 8 (36.36%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) VMware NSX
3 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (45.45%) VMware
2 8 (36.36%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow