IaaS Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) UK
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	284	267	438
Rank change year-on-year	-17	+171
Contract jobs citing IaaS	368	472	212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.80%	0.88%	0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category	5.86%	8.96%	6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted	260	351	140
Median daily rate	£500	£500	£475
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£390	£327
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£620	£625	£628
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£470	£475
% change year-on-year	+1.06%	-1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted	7	1	7
Median hourly rate	£50.00	£47.25	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+5.82%	+35.00%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£50.00	-	-

IaaS is in the cloud computing skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract Cloud Computing Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	6280	5268	3401
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.58%	9.80%	6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted	4273	3701	2214
Median daily rate	£475	£463	£413
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.70%	+12.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£313	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£400
% change year-on-year	-	+12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted	104	78	70
Median hourly rate	£26.08	£19.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+37.26%	-45.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£13.87
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£16.14	£27.50
% change year-on-year	+79.64%	-41.30%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing IaaS as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Cloud Services category.

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing IaaS over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing IaaS over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-20	353	£500	-	85
London	-8	166	£537	-2.36%	29
South East	+10	63	£468	+2.18%	21
South West	+11	33	£400	-20.00%	4
East of England	+1	29	£544	+31.81%	4
City of London	+3	23	£518	-8.00%	5
West Midlands	+14	21	£550	+20.54%	9
Hampshire	+6	21	£445	-8.71%	2
Essex	-	18	£544	-
North West	-5	16	£488	+12.06%	7
East Midlands	-1	15	£425	-29.16%	6
Surrey	-6	14	£475	-	2
Scotland	+54	13	£463	+2.77%	3
Berkshire	+22	13	£450	-	10
Devon	-	13	£400	-
Plymouth	-	12	£400	-
Birmingham	+21	11	£550	-2.22%	1
Somerset	+3	10	£375	-62.50%	1
Yorkshire	-3	10	£475	-2.56%	4
Buckinghamshire	-	10	£550	-	3
Edinburgh	+23	9	£475	+5.55%
Manchester	+9	9	£513	+7.89%	4
West Yorkshire	+3	7	£475	-	3
Reading	+10	6	£525	+16.66%	4
Fareham	+3	6	£525	-
Leeds	+1	6	£475	+2.70%	3
Basingstoke	-3	5	£350	-
Bedfordshire	-4	5	£550	-
Milton Keynes	-	5	£458	-	3
Kingston Upon Thames	-	5	£850	-

IaaS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing IaaS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for IaaS.

1	475 (64.89%)	PaaS
2	352 (48.09%)	Microsoft Azure
3	258 (35.25%)	Microsoft
4	251 (34.29%)	DevOps
5	244 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
6	240 (32.79%)	Amazon AWS
7	214 (29.23%)	Windows
8	206 (28.14%)	Linux
9	193 (26.37%)	SaaS
10	146 (19.95%)	Opscode Chef
11	133 (18.17%)	Java
12	121 (16.53%)	Migration
12	121 (16.53%)	VMware
13	118 (16.12%)	Finance
14	117 (15.98%)	Continuous Integration

15	116 (15.85%)	Puppet
16	106 (14.48%)	Git (software)
17	105 (14.34%)	Security Cleared
17	105 (14.34%)	Active Directory
18	103 (14.07%)	SQL Server
18	103 (14.07%)	Configuration Management
19	102 (13.93%)	SQL
20	101 (13.80%)	Python
20	101 (13.80%)	PowerShell
21	93 (12.70%)	Data Centre
22	92 (12.57%)	Ansible
23	89 (12.16%)	SC Cleared
24	86 (11.75%)	Web Services
24	86 (11.75%)	Firewall
25	85 (11.61%)	Scrum

IaaS
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	68 (9.29%)	SharePoint
2	61 (8.33%)	OpenStack
3	54 (7.38%)	IIS
4	32 (4.37%)	Skype for Business
5	29 (3.96%)	Cloud Foundry
6	28 (3.83%)	BizTalk Server
7	19 (2.60%)	Tomcat
8	18 (2.46%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	15 (2.05%)	Exchange Server 2013
9	15 (2.05%)	MS Exchange
10	13 (1.78%)	Apache
10	13 (1.78%)	WebLogic
11	11 (1.50%)	Confluence
11	11 (1.50%)	WebSphere
12	10 (1.37%)	Hubot
12	10 (1.37%)	JBoss
12	10 (1.37%)	nginx
12	10 (1.37%)	SharePoint Server
13	9 (1.23%)	Exchange Server 2010
13	9 (1.23%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	21 (2.87%)	Microsoft Office
2	4 (0.55%)	Microsoft Excel
3	2 (0.27%)	MS Visio
3	2 (0.27%)	Spreadsheet
4	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft Project

Business Applications
1	44 (6.01%)	Dynamics CRM
2	21 (2.87%)	Dynamics AX
3	7 (0.96%)	Oracle iRecruitment
4	5 (0.68%)	Oracle Retail
4	5 (0.68%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.55%)	Dynamics NAV
5	4 (0.55%)	Oracle ERP
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle EBS
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Payables
7	1 (0.14%)	Magento
7	1 (0.14%)	NetSuite
7	1 (0.14%)	Odoo
7	1 (0.14%)	Oracle Financials
7	1 (0.14%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	475 (64.89%)	PaaS
2	352 (48.09%)	Microsoft Azure
3	240 (32.79%)	Amazon AWS
4	193 (26.37%)	SaaS
5	82 (11.20%)	Office 365
6	45 (6.15%)	Azure Active Directory
7	31 (4.23%)	OpenShift
8	26 (3.55%)	Cloud Computing
9	21 (2.87%)	AWS CloudFormation
9	21 (2.87%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	17 (2.32%)	GitHub
11	14 (1.91%)	Dynamics 365
12	10 (1.37%)	Heroku
13	9 (1.23%)	Amazon EC2
13	9 (1.23%)	IBM Cloud
14	7 (0.96%)	Amazon S3
14	7 (0.96%)	Bluemix
14	7 (0.96%)	Oracle CX
14	7 (0.96%)	Oracle Service Cloud
15	6 (0.82%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	86 (11.75%)	Firewall
2	73 (9.97%)	DNS
3	50 (6.83%)	Network Security
4	45 (6.15%)	WAN
5	39 (5.33%)	LAN
5	39 (5.33%)	TCP/IP
6	34 (4.64%)	HTTP
6	34 (4.64%)	VPN
7	28 (3.83%)	SSL
8	27 (3.69%)	Internet
9	24 (3.28%)	IPsec
10	21 (2.87%)	Skype
11	18 (2.46%)	SAN
12	15 (2.05%)	DHCP
13	13 (1.78%)	DMZ
13	13 (1.78%)	HTTPS
14	11 (1.50%)	Cisco Nexus
14	11 (1.50%)	Extranet
14	11 (1.50%)	LDAP
15	9 (1.23%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	103 (14.07%)	SQL Server
2	34 (4.64%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	29 (3.96%)	SQL Server 2008
4	28 (3.83%)	Big Data
4	28 (3.83%)	Relational Database
5	23 (3.14%)	SQL Server 2012
6	21 (2.87%)	Azure SQL Database
7	18 (2.46%)	Hadoop
8	13 (1.78%)	SQL Server 2016
9	12 (1.64%)	NoSQL
10	11 (1.50%)	Power BI
11	10 (1.37%)	Data Warehouse
12	9 (1.23%)	Amazon RDS
12	9 (1.23%)	Oracle Database
12	9 (1.23%)	PostgreSQL
12	9 (1.23%)	SQL Server 2014
13	8 (1.09%)	Data Lake
13	8 (1.09%)	MySQL
14	7 (0.96%)	Oracle ODI
14	7 (0.96%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	106 (14.48%)	Git (software)
2	80 (10.93%)	Jenkins
3	40 (5.46%)	Maven
4	36 (4.92%)	Team Foundation Server
5	35 (4.78%)	JIRA
6	23 (3.14%)	Visual Studio Team System
7	16 (2.19%)	Ant
8	15 (2.05%)	Selenium
9	13 (1.78%)	Gradle
10	12 (1.64%)	Bitbucket
10	12 (1.64%)	GitLab
10	12 (1.64%)	Grunt
11	11 (1.50%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	11 (1.50%)	Visual Studio
12	9 (1.23%)	Vagrant
13	8 (1.09%)	Subversion
13	8 (1.09%)	Travis CI
13	8 (1.09%)	webpack
14	5 (0.68%)	MSTest
14	5 (0.68%)	TeamCity

General
1	118 (16.12%)	Finance
2	24 (3.28%)	Banking
2	24 (3.28%)	Retail
3	23 (3.14%)	Billing
4	20 (2.73%)	Advertising
5	14 (1.91%)	Telecoms
6	13 (1.78%)	Law
6	13 (1.78%)	Legal
6	13 (1.78%)	Marketing
7	10 (1.37%)	Local Government
8	8 (1.09%)	Investment Banking
8	8 (1.09%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (0.82%)	Publishing
10	5 (0.68%)	Electronics
11	4 (0.55%)	Financial Institution
12	3 (0.41%)	Aerospace
12	3 (0.41%)	Military
13	2 (0.27%)	French Language
13	2 (0.27%)	Front Office
13	2 (0.27%)	Music Industry

Job Titles
1	192 (26.23%)	Architect
2	82 (11.20%)	Developer
3	77 (10.52%)	DevOps Engineer
4	75 (10.25%)	Consultant
5	69 (9.43%)	Cloud Architect
6	60 (8.20%)	Cloud Engineer
7	55 (7.51%)	Azure Engineer
8	51 (6.97%)	Azure Architect
9	44 (6.01%)	Technical Architect
10	42 (5.74%)	Infrastructure Architect
11	36 (4.92%)	Azure Consultant
12	34 (4.64%)	Solutions Architect
13	32 (4.37%)	Security Engineer
14	30 (4.10%)	AWS Engineer
15	28 (3.83%)	Project Manager
16	24 (3.28%)	Infrastructure Engineer
17	23 (3.14%)	AWS DevOps
18	22 (3.01%)	AWS Architect
19	20 (2.73%)	Dynamics AX Developer
19	20 (2.73%)	Microsoft Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	86 (11.75%)	Web Services
2	68 (9.29%)	.NET
3	41 (5.60%)	SOAP
4	40 (5.46%)	Middleware
5	36 (4.92%)	Spring
6	35 (4.78%)	JSON
7	34 (4.64%)	Node.js
8	33 (4.51%)	WCF
9	31 (4.23%)	REST
10	30 (4.10%)	XML
11	29 (3.96%)	HTML
12	24 (3.28%)	CSS
12	24 (3.28%)	RESTful
13	21 (2.87%)	J2EE
14	20 (2.73%)	AngularJS
15	19 (2.60%)	Java EE
16	16 (2.19%)	Spring Boot
17	15 (2.05%)	HTML5
18	13 (1.78%)	.NET Framework
19	12 (1.64%)	jQuery

Miscellaneous
1	93 (12.70%)	Data Centre
2	49 (6.69%)	Analytical Skills
3	32 (4.37%)	Hybrid Cloud
4	27 (3.69%)	Private Cloud
4	27 (3.69%)	Public Cloud
5	22 (3.01%)	PKI
6	16 (2.19%)	Virtual Team
7	15 (2.05%)	Management Information System
7	15 (2.05%)	Replication
8	13 (1.78%)	CMDB
9	12 (1.64%)	Cloud Native
9	12 (1.64%)	Clustering
10	11 (1.50%)	User Experience
11	10 (1.37%)	Mobile App
12	9 (1.23%)	Data Protection Act
13	8 (1.09%)	Computer Science
14	6 (0.82%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
14	6 (0.82%)	Enterprise Software
14	6 (0.82%)	Enterprise Storage
14	6 (0.82%)	Video Conferencing

Operating Systems
1	214 (29.23%)	Windows
2	206 (28.14%)	Linux
3	65 (8.88%)	Windows Server
4	41 (5.60%)	Unix
5	30 (4.10%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	25 (3.42%)	Windows 10
6	25 (3.42%)	Windows Server 2012
7	19 (2.60%)	Windows Server 2008
8	14 (1.91%)	VMS
9	13 (1.78%)	CentOS
10	12 (1.64%)	Ubuntu
11	11 (1.50%)	CoreOS
12	9 (1.23%)	Fedora
12	9 (1.23%)	Solaris
13	6 (0.82%)	Windows 7
14	5 (0.68%)	AIX
15	4 (0.55%)	HPUX
16	3 (0.41%)	Windows Server 2003
17	2 (0.27%)	Android
17	2 (0.27%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	251 (34.29%)	DevOps
2	244 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
3	121 (16.53%)	Migration
4	117 (15.98%)	Continuous Integration
5	103 (14.07%)	Configuration Management
6	85 (11.61%)	Scrum
7	84 (11.48%)	ITIL
8	64 (8.74%)	TDD
9	61 (8.33%)	Continuous Delivery
10	60 (8.20%)	Open Source
10	60 (8.20%)	SOA
11	53 (7.24%)	Business Intelligence
11	53 (7.24%)	Project Management
12	51 (6.97%)	Service Management
13	47 (6.42%)	CRM
14	43 (5.87%)	ERP
14	43 (5.87%)	TOGAF
15	41 (5.60%)	E-Commerce
15	41 (5.60%)	Enterprise Architecture
16	38 (5.19%)	Test Automation

Programming Languages
1	133 (18.17%)	Java
2	102 (13.93%)	SQL
3	101 (13.80%)	PowerShell
3	101 (13.80%)	Python
4	61 (8.33%)	Ruby
5	51 (6.97%)	JavaScript
6	50 (6.83%)	C#
7	40 (5.46%)	Bash Shell
8	29 (3.96%)	Perl
9	25 (3.42%)	PHP
10	23 (3.14%)	Go
11	13 (1.78%)	C-shell
11	13 (1.78%)	Korn
12	12 (1.64%)	T-SQL
13	11 (1.50%)	C
14	10 (1.37%)	CoffeeScript
15	9 (1.23%)	C++
15	9 (1.23%)	TypeScript
16	8 (1.09%)	ES6
17	6 (0.82%)	F#

Qualifications
1	105 (14.34%)	Security Cleared
2	89 (12.16%)	SC Cleared
3	31 (4.23%)	Microsoft Certification
4	26 (3.55%)	CISSP
5	20 (2.73%)	Degree
5	20 (2.73%)	MCSE
6	15 (2.05%)	CEH
7	14 (1.91%)	GIAC
7	14 (1.91%)	SANS
8	13 (1.78%)	Cisco Certification
8	13 (1.78%)	CREST Certified
9	11 (1.50%)	DV Cleared
10	8 (1.09%)	ITIL Certification
10	8 (1.09%)	MCSA
10	8 (1.09%)	PMP
11	7 (0.96%)	AWS Certification
12	6 (0.82%)	CISM
12	6 (0.82%)	PMI Certification
12	6 (0.82%)	PRINCE2 Certification
13	5 (0.68%)	CCNA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (2.73%)	ISO/IEC 27001
1	20 (2.73%)	QA
2	8 (1.09%)	COBIT
2	8 (1.09%)	GDPR
3	6 (0.82%)	ISO/IEC 15288
3	6 (0.82%)	PMO
3	6 (0.82%)	SLA
4	5 (0.68%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	3 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 19770
5	3 (0.41%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.27%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
6	2 (0.27%)	JSP 440
6	2 (0.27%)	RMADS
7	1 (0.14%)	Data Quality
7	1 (0.14%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	1 (0.14%)	ISO 9000
7	1 (0.14%)	PA-DSS
7	1 (0.14%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.14%)	SAS 70
7	1 (0.14%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	105 (14.34%)	Active Directory
2	77 (10.52%)	Docker
3	49 (6.69%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	38 (5.19%)	Hyper-V
5	36 (4.92%)	Virtual Machines
6	11 (1.50%)	VMware ESXi
7	9 (1.23%)	vCloud
8	7 (0.96%)	HDFS
8	7 (0.96%)	XenDesktop
8	7 (0.96%)	XenServer
9	5 (0.68%)	NFS
9	5 (0.68%)	vSphere
10	4 (0.55%)	Microsoft App-V
10	4 (0.55%)	Virtual Servers
10	4 (0.55%)	XenApp
11	3 (0.41%)	Forefront TMG
11	3 (0.41%)	ISA Server
11	3 (0.41%)	KVM
11	3 (0.41%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
12	2 (0.27%)	UAG

Systems Management
1	146 (19.95%)	Opscode Chef
2	116 (15.85%)	Puppet
3	92 (12.57%)	Ansible
4	41 (5.60%)	SCOM
5	36 (4.92%)	SCCM
6	34 (4.64%)	Kubernetes
7	19 (2.60%)	Terraform
8	15 (2.05%)	Microsoft Intune
9	13 (1.78%)	Nagios
10	12 (1.64%)	SCOrch
11	11 (1.50%)	vRealize
12	10 (1.37%)	Consul
12	10 (1.37%)	Salt
13	9 (1.23%)	SCVMM
14	7 (0.96%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14	7 (0.96%)	Packer
14	7 (0.96%)	ZABBIX
15	6 (0.82%)	AirWatch
16	5 (0.68%)	Failover Clustering
16	5 (0.68%)	Prometheus

Vendors
1	258 (35.25%)	Microsoft
2	121 (16.53%)	VMware
3	71 (9.70%)	Oracle
4	37 (5.05%)	Red Hat
5	36 (4.92%)	Cisco
6	32 (4.37%)	Citrix
7	27 (3.69%)	Google
8	20 (2.73%)	CA
9	19 (2.60%)	ServiceNow
10	18 (2.46%)	CheckPoint
11	14 (1.91%)	Salesforce.com
11	14 (1.91%)	SaltStack
12	12 (1.64%)	EMC
12	12 (1.64%)	Splunk
13	11 (1.50%)	Apigee
13	11 (1.50%)	HP
13	11 (1.50%)	IBM
13	11 (1.50%)	New Relic
13	11 (1.50%)	SAP
14	10 (1.37%)	AppDynamics