IaaS Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 114 141
Rank change year-on-year -7 +27 -37
Contract jobs citing IaaS 18 32 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.69% 1.12% 0.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.46% 3.73% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 25
10th Percentile £371 £446 £316
25th Percentile £409 £495 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% +34.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £538
90th Percentile £781 £789 £800
South East median daily rate £500 £547 £600
% change year-on-year -8.51% -8.92% +33.33%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 732 857 1,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.91% 30.04% 30.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 622 863
10th Percentile £281 £300 £186
25th Percentile £413 £419 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 15
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.25 £14.51
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.25 £25.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +101.00% +19.05% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.72 £56.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £75.24
South East median hourly rate £24.43 £23.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year +4.85% +10.95% -2.44%

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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 27 May 2024.

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 27 May 2024. 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 -13 14 £475 -29.63% 2
Buckinghamshire +22 2 £631 +31.36% 7
Oxfordshire +8 2 £465 -24.08% 3
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 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) PaaS
2 13 (72.22%) Azure
3 12 (66.67%) SaaS
4 5 (27.78%) AWS
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (22.22%) Azure API Management
5 4 (22.22%) Entra ID
6 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (16.67%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (11.11%) Azure Stack
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) VPN
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Azure Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Integration Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Author
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) IT Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Scrum Master
5 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Author
5 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) J2EE
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) IoT
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security
1 7 (38.89%) DevOps
1 7 (38.89%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) API Management
2 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 6 (33.33%) Microservices
2 6 (33.33%) Network Architecture
3 5 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Security Architecture
4 4 (22.22%) Affinity Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Cryptography
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Key Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 3 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (16.67%) Information Security
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) C#
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) PHP
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 5 (27.78%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (16.67%) Docker
4 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) SCCM
3 2 (11.11%) vCenter Server
3 2 (11.11%) WSUS
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle