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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 112 115
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing IaaS 19 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.14% 0.83% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.14% 2.94% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 28
10th Percentile £406 £435 £405
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £558
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +7.62% +5.19%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £647
90th Percentile £600 £780 £700
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £69.38 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £69.38 -
% change year-on-year -52.76% - -

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 606 714 869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.51% 28.11% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 487 619
10th Percentile £263 £339 £319
25th Percentile £400 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -8.91% +7.84%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £638
90th Percentile £650 £655 £715
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.77% -5.30% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 20
10th Percentile - £18.50 £16.78
25th Percentile £14.75 £20.75 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.19 £42.50 £23.15
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% +83.59% +10.24%
75th Percentile £36.14 £59.95 £32.98
90th Percentile £47.14 £61.60 £65.97
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £27.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -31.56% +1.85% +35.00%

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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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +26 19 £425 -29.17% 5
IaaS
South East

IaaS
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 (10.53%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) PaaS
2 17 (89.47%) Azure
3 13 (68.42%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (52.63%) Azure AKS
5 8 (42.11%) Azure Storage
6 7 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (36.84%) SaaS
7 3 (15.79%) AWS
7 3 (15.79%) Azure API Management
7 3 (15.79%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (15.79%) Entra ID
7 3 (15.79%) GCP
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (10.53%) GitHub
8 2 (10.53%) OCI
8 2 (10.53%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (47.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Site Engineer
3 6 (31.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Oracle Security Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) React Developer
6 1 (5.26%) SaaS Architect
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) ADO
2 3 (15.79%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) OpenID
2 3 (15.79%) SAML
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) HTML
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) MACH
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) DevOps
2 10 (52.63%) CI/CD
3 7 (36.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (31.58%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) API Management
6 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.79%) Design Patterns
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) RBAC
6 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
7 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.53%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (10.53%) Data Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.53%) Digital Strategy
7 2 (10.53%) Information Security
7 2 (10.53%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (10.53%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) Bicep
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Bash
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) Puppet
4 1 (5.26%) Grafana
4 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Qualys
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow