IaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 218 220 222
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing IaaS 118 187 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.90% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.89% 3.44% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 103 198
10th Percentile £413 £382 £445
25th Percentile £473 £450 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +11.82% -
75th Percentile £623 £675 £688
90th Percentile £650 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 6
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - £25.50 £70.73
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £77.35
Median % change year-on-year - -66.39% -9.00%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £78.00
90th Percentile - - £79.99
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +4.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK excluding London 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
South East +35 46 £575 +15.00% 62
North of England +1 30 £522 +1.85% 30
Scotland +16 29 £525 -12.50% 11
North West +2 20 £500 -3.85% 17
Midlands +18 9 £556 +39.06% 17
North East +7 9 £600 +4.35% 2
West Midlands +12 8 £538 +36.51% 10
Yorkshire +4 7 £650 +33.33% 11
South West +7 5 £560 -13.85% 16
Wales +4 4 £688 +61.76% 4
East of England - 3 £751 - 3
East Midlands +8 1 £575 -2.13% 5
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (24.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.24%) Confluence
4 2 (1.69%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (64.41%) PaaS
2 69 (58.47%) Azure
3 43 (36.44%) SaaS
4 28 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (20.34%) Entra ID
6 16 (13.56%) AWS
7 15 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (9.32%) GCP
9 8 (6.78%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.93%) Azure AKS
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (3.39%) Azure Storage
11 4 (3.39%) Serverless
12 3 (2.54%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Event Grid
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.54%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (25.42%) Firewall
2 22 (18.64%) DNS
3 18 (15.25%) DHCP
4 15 (12.71%) Network Security
5 11 (9.32%) Intrusion Detection
6 8 (6.78%) SMTP
6 8 (6.78%) VPN
6 8 (6.78%) VSAN
7 6 (5.08%) SAN
8 3 (2.54%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (2.54%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.69%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (1.69%) SSL
10 1 (0.85%) FTP
10 1 (0.85%) HTTP
10 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (6.78%) Big Data
3 8 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.69%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Parquet
5 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (13.56%) JIRA
2 11 (9.32%) Git
3 8 (6.78%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.54%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.54%) Postman
5 3 (2.54%) Selenium
5 3 (2.54%) Subversion
5 3 (2.54%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.54%) WebDriver
6 1 (0.85%) MLflow
6 1 (0.85%) Mockito
6 1 (0.85%) Toad
General
1 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 16 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (12.71%) Finance
5 10 (8.47%) Telecoms
6 7 (5.93%) Banking
7 5 (4.24%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.39%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.54%) Local Government
9 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Automotive
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.88%) Architect
2 23 (19.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 23 (19.49%) Senior
3 20 (16.95%) Azure Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) 3rd Line Support
5 11 (9.32%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Senior Architect
5 11 (9.32%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Support
6 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (8.47%) VMware Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.63%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 9 (7.63%) Scrum Master
8 8 (6.78%) Senior Technical Architect
8 8 (6.78%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) SAML
2 4 (3.39%) .NET
2 4 (3.39%) ADO
2 4 (3.39%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.39%) OAuth
2 4 (3.39%) OpenID
3 3 (2.54%) YAML
4 2 (1.69%) REST
4 2 (1.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.85%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.85%) Azure Blueprints
5 1 (0.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.85%) JWT
5 1 (0.85%) MACH
5 1 (0.85%) Pandas
5 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
5 1 (0.85%) React
5 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.10%) PKI
2 15 (12.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.17%) Data Centre
4 10 (8.47%) Clustering
5 9 (7.63%) Virtual Team
6 8 (6.78%) Product Ownership
7 6 (5.08%) Cloud Native
8 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (3.39%) Management Information System
9 4 (3.39%) Replication
9 4 (3.39%) Security Posture
10 3 (2.54%) Client/Server
10 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (1.69%) NHS
11 2 (1.69%) PMI
12 1 (0.85%) CMDB
12 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
12 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.20%) Windows
2 24 (20.34%) Linux
3 23 (19.49%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.24%) Unix
5 3 (2.54%) AIX
5 3 (2.54%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.69%) Solaris
7 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (33.90%) DevOps
2 35 (29.66%) Agile
3 30 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (24.58%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 21 (17.80%) ITIL
6 21 (17.80%) Migration
7 20 (16.95%) High Availability
8 18 (15.25%) Roadmaps
9 16 (13.56%) Continuous Integration
9 16 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (12.71%) Information Security
11 14 (11.86%) Business Continuity
12 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.02%) Kanban
12 13 (11.02%) Project Delivery
12 13 (11.02%) Scrum
13 12 (10.17%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (27.97%) PowerShell
2 22 (18.64%) SQL
3 16 (13.56%) Python
4 8 (6.78%) Java
5 6 (5.08%) C#
5 6 (5.08%) Perl
6 5 (4.24%) Erlang
6 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.24%) Prolog
7 4 (3.39%) Bicep
7 4 (3.39%) Groovy
8 3 (2.54%) Bash
8 3 (2.54%) C++
8 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.54%) VBA
8 3 (2.54%) VBScript
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.85%) R
9 1 (0.85%) Scala
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 20 (16.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (13.56%) SC Cleared
4 15 (12.71%) DV Cleared
5 14 (11.86%) Azure Certification
6 13 (11.02%) Degree
7 10 (8.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 9 (7.63%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (6.78%) MCSE
10 5 (4.24%) CCNA
11 4 (3.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (3.39%) CISM
11 4 (3.39%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (3.39%) CRISC
12 3 (2.54%) ISEB
12 3 (2.54%) ISTQB
12 3 (2.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (1.69%) OSCE
13 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
13 2 (1.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.32%) NCSC
2 8 (6.78%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (6.78%) NIST
3 7 (5.93%) SLA
4 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.54%) PMO
5 3 (2.54%) QA
6 2 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.69%) GDPR
6 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 44 (37.29%) Active Directory
2 40 (33.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (18.64%) vSphere
4 11 (9.32%) Docker
5 10 (8.47%) VMware NSX
6 9 (7.63%) Hyper-V
7 8 (6.78%) BitLocker
7 8 (6.78%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (6.78%) Terminal Services
7 8 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (5.93%) Virtual Servers
9 6 (5.08%) DFS Replication
10 3 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.69%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 19 (16.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (12.71%) Kubernetes
3 10 (8.47%) Ansible
3 10 (8.47%) Puppet
3 10 (8.47%) Terraform
4 8 (6.78%) Nagios
4 8 (6.78%) vCenter Server
4 8 (6.78%) vMotion
5 5 (4.24%) SCCM
6 2 (1.69%) Data Guard
6 2 (1.69%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle Flashback
6 2 (1.69%) vRealize
6 2 (1.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.85%) Nessus
7 1 (0.85%) Packer
7 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 53 (44.92%) Microsoft
2 47 (39.83%) VMware
3 13 (11.02%) Cisco
4 11 (9.32%) Palo Alto
5 8 (6.78%) Citrix
5 8 (6.78%) Google
5 8 (6.78%) HP
5 8 (6.78%) Symantec
6 5 (4.24%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.39%) Oracle
8 3 (2.54%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.54%) Meraki
8 3 (2.54%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.54%) Veeam
9 2 (1.69%) Databricks
9 2 (1.69%) Dell
9 2 (1.69%) IBM
9 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.69%) SAP
10 1 (0.85%) TOWER Software