IaaS Contract Job Trends in Wales

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 48 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing IaaS 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.23% 0.44% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 1.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 £713 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £725 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.10% - -
75th Percentile £419 £738 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £569 £607 £575
% change year-on-year -6.34% +5.57% -

All Cloud Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 128 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 29.77% 28.07% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 92 118
10th Percentile £190 £181 £154
25th Percentile £293 £369 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £394
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +26.98% -21.25%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £688 £636 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 8
10th Percentile £15.72 £20.58 £13.11
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.01 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +45.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £21.50 £31.82 £24.31
90th Percentile £28.57 £35.10 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.15
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.86% +45.61%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Wales

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IaaS

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IaaS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 6 November 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 Wales +1 1 £413 -43.10% 8
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware