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 29 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 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	278	283	440
Rank change year-on-year	+5	+157
Contract jobs citing IaaS	393	462	208
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.83%	0.86%	0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category	6.08%	8.72%	6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted	273	351	133
Median daily rate	£500	£500	£480
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£342	£375	£311
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£655	£650	£660
UK excluding London median daily rate	£475	£465	£475
% change year-on-year	+2.15%	-2.10%
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%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£45.50	£46.13	£32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£48.38	£37.50
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	6464	5297	3450
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	13.72%	9.86%	6.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	7538	6592	3429
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	£306	£258
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£625	£581
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£393
% change year-on-year	-	+14.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted	145	89	91
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£19.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.57%	-45.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.25	£11.73	£11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£65.00	£41.35	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£29.00	£17.00	£24.00
% change year-on-year	+70.58%	-29.16%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IaaS as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

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 29 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 29 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 9 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 29 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	-9	379	£500	-	100
UK excluding London	+24	219	£475	+2.15%	58
London	-14	173	£545	-	44
South East	+13	75	£460	-1.07%	25
Midlands	+4	39	£490	-6.66%	8
South West	+5	32	£400	-31.91%	4
East of England	+4	32	£519	+25.75%	4
North of England	-4	28	£475	-	14
Scotland	+44	13	£463	+2.77%	3

IaaS
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 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	472 (63.96%)	PaaS
2	355 (48.10%)	Microsoft Azure
3	256 (34.69%)	Microsoft
4	253 (34.28%)	DevOps
5	246 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
6	244 (33.06%)	Amazon AWS
7	212 (28.73%)	Linux
8	209 (28.32%)	Windows
9	195 (26.42%)	SaaS
10	144 (19.51%)	Opscode Chef
11	135 (18.29%)	Java
12	129 (17.48%)	VMware
13	121 (16.40%)	Continuous Integration
14	120 (16.26%)	Migration
15	118 (15.99%)	Puppet

16	113 (15.31%)	Git (software)
16	113 (15.31%)	Finance
17	107 (14.50%)	Active Directory
18	106 (14.36%)	SQL
19	105 (14.23%)	Security Cleared
20	104 (14.09%)	Configuration Management
21	103 (13.96%)	PowerShell
22	102 (13.82%)	Python
23	99 (13.41%)	Ansible
24	98 (13.28%)	SQL Server
25	94 (12.74%)	Data Centre
26	89 (12.06%)	SC Cleared
27	88 (11.92%)	Firewall
28	87 (11.79%)	Web Services
28	87 (11.79%)	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	70 (9.49%)	OpenStack
2	64 (8.67%)	SharePoint
3	49 (6.64%)	IIS
4	33 (4.47%)	Cloud Foundry
4	33 (4.47%)	Skype for Business
5	24 (3.25%)	BizTalk Server
6	18 (2.44%)	Tomcat
7	16 (2.17%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	15 (2.03%)	Exchange Server 2013
8	15 (2.03%)	MS Exchange
9	13 (1.76%)	WebLogic
10	12 (1.63%)	Apache
11	11 (1.49%)	Confluence
11	11 (1.49%)	WebSphere
12	10 (1.36%)	Hubot
12	10 (1.36%)	JBoss
12	10 (1.36%)	nginx
12	10 (1.36%)	SharePoint Server
13	9 (1.22%)	Exchange Server 2010
13	9 (1.22%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	20 (2.71%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (0.41%)	Microsoft Excel
3	2 (0.27%)	MS Visio
4	1 (0.14%)	Microsoft Project
4	1 (0.14%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	38 (5.15%)	Dynamics CRM
2	17 (2.30%)	Dynamics AX
3	7 (0.95%)	Oracle iRecruitment
4	5 (0.68%)	SAP Oil and Gas
5	4 (0.54%)	Dynamics NAV
5	4 (0.54%)	Oracle ERP
5	4 (0.54%)	Oracle Retail
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle EBS
6	2 (0.27%)	Oracle Payables
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	472 (63.96%)	PaaS
2	355 (48.10%)	Microsoft Azure
3	244 (33.06%)	Amazon AWS
4	195 (26.42%)	SaaS
5	83 (11.25%)	Office 365
6	46 (6.23%)	Azure Active Directory
7	32 (4.34%)	Cloud Computing
7	32 (4.34%)	OpenShift
8	21 (2.85%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	21 (2.85%)	Google Cloud Platform
9	18 (2.44%)	GitHub
10	14 (1.90%)	Dynamics 365
11	12 (1.63%)	IBM Cloud
12	11 (1.49%)	Heroku
13	10 (1.36%)	Amazon EC2
13	10 (1.36%)	Bluemix
14	7 (0.95%)	Amazon S3
14	7 (0.95%)	Oracle CX
14	7 (0.95%)	Oracle Service Cloud
15	6 (0.81%)	Azure Data Factory

Communications & Networking
1	88 (11.92%)	Firewall
2	67 (9.08%)	DNS
3	53 (7.18%)	Network Security
4	45 (6.10%)	WAN
5	41 (5.56%)	LAN
5	41 (5.56%)	TCP/IP
6	35 (4.74%)	HTTP
7	34 (4.61%)	VPN
8	29 (3.93%)	SSL
9	27 (3.66%)	Internet
10	24 (3.25%)	IPsec
11	22 (2.98%)	Skype
12	18 (2.44%)	SAN
13	14 (1.90%)	DHCP
14	13 (1.76%)	DMZ
14	13 (1.76%)	HTTPS
15	12 (1.63%)	LDAP
16	11 (1.49%)	Cisco Nexus
16	11 (1.49%)	Extranet
17	9 (1.22%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	98 (13.28%)	SQL Server
2	32 (4.34%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	30 (4.07%)	Big Data
4	29 (3.93%)	SQL Server 2008
5	24 (3.25%)	Relational Database
6	21 (2.85%)	SQL Server 2012
7	20 (2.71%)	Azure SQL Database
8	18 (2.44%)	Hadoop
9	16 (2.17%)	SQL Server 2016
10	12 (1.63%)	NoSQL
10	12 (1.63%)	Power BI
11	11 (1.49%)	SQL Server 2014
12	10 (1.36%)	Data Warehouse
12	10 (1.36%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
13	9 (1.22%)	Amazon RDS
13	9 (1.22%)	Data Lake
13	9 (1.22%)	Oracle Database
13	9 (1.22%)	PostgreSQL
14	8 (1.08%)	MySQL
15	7 (0.95%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	113 (15.31%)	Git (software)
2	84 (11.38%)	Jenkins
3	40 (5.42%)	Maven
4	36 (4.88%)	Team Foundation Server
5	31 (4.20%)	JIRA
6	23 (3.12%)	Visual Studio Team System
7	22 (2.98%)	Selenium
8	16 (2.17%)	Ant
9	15 (2.03%)	Visual Studio
10	14 (1.90%)	GitLab
10	14 (1.90%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	13 (1.76%)	Bitbucket
11	13 (1.76%)	Gradle
12	12 (1.63%)	Grunt
12	12 (1.63%)	webpack
13	10 (1.36%)	Vagrant
14	9 (1.22%)	Moq
14	9 (1.22%)	MSTest
15	8 (1.08%)	SonarQube
15	8 (1.08%)	SpecFlow

General
1	113 (15.31%)	Finance
2	28 (3.79%)	Banking
3	24 (3.25%)	Billing
4	23 (3.12%)	Retail
5	19 (2.57%)	Advertising
6	14 (1.90%)	Marketing
6	14 (1.90%)	Telecoms
7	13 (1.76%)	Law
7	13 (1.76%)	Legal
8	10 (1.36%)	Local Government
9	8 (1.08%)	Investment Banking
9	8 (1.08%)	Manufacturing
10	6 (0.81%)	Publishing
11	5 (0.68%)	Electronics
12	4 (0.54%)	Aerospace
12	4 (0.54%)	Financial Institution
13	3 (0.41%)	Military
14	2 (0.27%)	French Language
14	2 (0.27%)	Front Office
14	2 (0.27%)	Music Industry

Job Titles
1	192 (26.02%)	Architect
2	79 (10.70%)	Developer
3	78 (10.57%)	Consultant
3	78 (10.57%)	DevOps Engineer
4	73 (9.89%)	Cloud Architect
5	59 (7.99%)	Cloud Engineer
6	55 (7.45%)	Azure Engineer
7	51 (6.91%)	Azure Architect
8	43 (5.83%)	Technical Architect
9	40 (5.42%)	Infrastructure Architect
10	39 (5.28%)	Azure Consultant
11	35 (4.74%)	Solutions Architect
12	32 (4.34%)	Security Engineer
13	31 (4.20%)	AWS Engineer
14	27 (3.66%)	Project Manager
15	25 (3.39%)	Infrastructure Engineer
16	24 (3.25%)	AWS DevOps
17	21 (2.85%)	AWS Architect
17	21 (2.85%)	Azure DevOps
18	20 (2.71%)	Cloud Consultant

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	87 (11.79%)	Web Services
2	71 (9.62%)	.NET
3	40 (5.42%)	SOAP
4	38 (5.15%)	JSON
4	38 (5.15%)	Middleware
5	37 (5.01%)	REST
6	35 (4.74%)	Spring
7	34 (4.61%)	Node.js
7	34 (4.61%)	XML
8	32 (4.34%)	WCF
9	29 (3.93%)	HTML
10	24 (3.25%)	CSS
11	22 (2.98%)	RESTful
12	20 (2.71%)	AngularJS
13	19 (2.57%)	J2EE
13	19 (2.57%)	Java EE
14	17 (2.30%)	.NET Framework
14	17 (2.30%)	Spring Boot
15	16 (2.17%)	ASP.NET
16	15 (2.03%)	HTML5

Miscellaneous
1	94 (12.74%)	Data Centre
2	49 (6.64%)	Analytical Skills
3	37 (5.01%)	Hybrid Cloud
4	31 (4.20%)	Public Cloud
5	28 (3.79%)	Private Cloud
6	22 (2.98%)	PKI
7	15 (2.03%)	Management Information System
7	15 (2.03%)	Virtual Team
8	13 (1.76%)	Replication
9	12 (1.63%)	Cloud Native
9	12 (1.63%)	CMDB
10	11 (1.49%)	Clustering
10	11 (1.49%)	User Experience
11	10 (1.36%)	Mobile App
12	9 (1.22%)	Data Protection Act
13	8 (1.08%)	Computer Science
14	7 (0.95%)	Linux Command Line
15	6 (0.81%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
15	6 (0.81%)	Enterprise Software
15	6 (0.81%)	Greenfield Project

Operating Systems
1	212 (28.73%)	Linux
2	209 (28.32%)	Windows
3	69 (9.35%)	Windows Server
4	42 (5.69%)	Unix
5	30 (4.07%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	25 (3.39%)	Windows 10
6	25 (3.39%)	Windows Server 2012
7	20 (2.71%)	Windows Server 2008
8	14 (1.90%)	VMS
9	13 (1.76%)	CentOS
10	12 (1.63%)	Ubuntu
11	11 (1.49%)	CoreOS
12	10 (1.36%)	Solaris
13	9 (1.22%)	Fedora
14	7 (0.95%)	AIX
15	6 (0.81%)	Windows 7
16	4 (0.54%)	HPUX
17	3 (0.41%)	Windows Server 2003
18	2 (0.27%)	Android
18	2 (0.27%)	Apple iOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	253 (34.28%)	DevOps
2	246 (33.33%)	Agile Software Development
3	121 (16.40%)	Continuous Integration
4	120 (16.26%)	Migration
5	104 (14.09%)	Configuration Management
6	87 (11.79%)	Scrum
7	82 (11.11%)	ITIL
8	68 (9.21%)	TDD
9	66 (8.94%)	Continuous Delivery
10	61 (8.27%)	Open Source
11	59 (7.99%)	SOA
12	53 (7.18%)	Project Management
13	52 (7.05%)	Service Management
14	50 (6.78%)	Business Intelligence
15	43 (5.83%)	Test Automation
15	43 (5.83%)	TOGAF
16	41 (5.56%)	CRM
16	41 (5.56%)	Enterprise Architecture
17	38 (5.15%)	E-Commerce
17	38 (5.15%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	135 (18.29%)	Java
2	106 (14.36%)	SQL
3	103 (13.96%)	PowerShell
4	102 (13.82%)	Python
5	61 (8.27%)	Ruby
6	55 (7.45%)	JavaScript
7	50 (6.78%)	C#
8	39 (5.28%)	Bash Shell
9	30 (4.07%)	Perl
10	25 (3.39%)	PHP
11	23 (3.12%)	Go
12	13 (1.76%)	C-shell
12	13 (1.76%)	Korn
12	13 (1.76%)	T-SQL
12	13 (1.76%)	TypeScript
13	12 (1.63%)	ES6
14	10 (1.36%)	C
14	10 (1.36%)	CoffeeScript
14	10 (1.36%)	F#
15	9 (1.22%)	C++

Qualifications
1	105 (14.23%)	Security Cleared
2	89 (12.06%)	SC Cleared
3	30 (4.07%)	Microsoft Certification
4	25 (3.39%)	CISSP
5	19 (2.57%)	Degree
5	19 (2.57%)	MCSE
6	15 (2.03%)	CEH
7	14 (1.90%)	GIAC
7	14 (1.90%)	SANS
8	13 (1.76%)	CREST Certified
9	12 (1.63%)	Cisco Certification
10	11 (1.49%)	DV Cleared
11	8 (1.08%)	ITIL Certification
11	8 (1.08%)	MCSA
11	8 (1.08%)	PMP
12	7 (0.95%)	AWS Certification
13	6 (0.81%)	PMI Certification
14	5 (0.68%)	CCNA
14	5 (0.68%)	MCSD
14	5 (0.68%)	PRINCE2 Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	20 (2.71%)	QA
2	19 (2.57%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	8 (1.08%)	COBIT
3	8 (1.08%)	GDPR
3	8 (1.08%)	SLA
4	6 (0.81%)	ISO/IEC 15288
4	6 (0.81%)	PMO
5	5 (0.68%)	ISO/IEC 20000
6	3 (0.41%)	ISO/IEC 19770
7	2 (0.27%)	HMG Security Policy Framework
7	2 (0.27%)	JSP 440
7	2 (0.27%)	PCI DSS
7	2 (0.27%)	RMADS
8	1 (0.14%)	Data Quality
8	1 (0.14%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	1 (0.14%)	ISO 9000
8	1 (0.14%)	PA-DSS
8	1 (0.14%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	1 (0.14%)	SAS 70
8	1 (0.14%)	SSAE 16

System Software
1	107 (14.50%)	Active Directory
2	81 (10.98%)	Docker
3	54 (7.32%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	39 (5.28%)	Hyper-V
5	34 (4.61%)	Virtual Machines
6	12 (1.63%)	VMware ESXi
7	11 (1.49%)	vCloud
8	7 (0.95%)	HDFS
8	7 (0.95%)	XenDesktop
8	7 (0.95%)	XenServer
9	6 (0.81%)	vSphere
10	5 (0.68%)	NFS
11	4 (0.54%)	Microsoft App-V
11	4 (0.54%)	Virtual Servers
11	4 (0.54%)	XenApp
12	3 (0.41%)	Forefront TMG
12	3 (0.41%)	ISA Server
12	3 (0.41%)	KVM
12	3 (0.41%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
13	2 (0.27%)	BitLocker

Systems Management
1	144 (19.51%)	Opscode Chef
2	118 (15.99%)	Puppet
3	99 (13.41%)	Ansible
4	38 (5.15%)	SCOM
5	35 (4.74%)	Kubernetes
5	35 (4.74%)	SCCM
6	21 (2.85%)	Terraform
7	15 (2.03%)	Microsoft Intune
8	13 (1.76%)	Nagios
9	11 (1.49%)	vRealize
10	10 (1.36%)	Consul
10	10 (1.36%)	Salt
11	9 (1.22%)	SCOrch
12	7 (0.95%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12	7 (0.95%)	Packer
12	7 (0.95%)	SCVMM
12	7 (0.95%)	ZABBIX
13	5 (0.68%)	AirWatch
13	5 (0.68%)	Prometheus
13	5 (0.68%)	SCSM

Vendors
1	256 (34.69%)	Microsoft
2	129 (17.48%)	VMware
3	66 (8.94%)	Oracle
4	38 (5.15%)	Red Hat
5	37 (5.01%)	Cisco
6	31 (4.20%)	Citrix
7	27 (3.66%)	Google
8	22 (2.98%)	ServiceNow
9	18 (2.44%)	CA
10	17 (2.30%)	CheckPoint
11	16 (2.17%)	Splunk
12	15 (2.03%)	Salesforce.com
12	15 (2.03%)	SaltStack
13	14 (1.90%)	New Relic
14	13 (1.76%)	AppDynamics
14	13 (1.76%)	EMC
15	12 (1.63%)	Apigee
15	12 (1.63%)	IBM
16	11 (1.49%)	HP
16	11 (1.49%)	MuleSoft