IaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 110 145
Rank change year-on-year +11 +35 -55
Contract jobs citing IaaS 10 31 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.29% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.16% 3.35% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 23
10th Percentile - £588 £375
25th Percentile £375 £625 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £688 £588
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% +17.02% +6.82%
75th Percentile £638 £731 £656
90th Percentile £765 - £750
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £26.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +26.89%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 463 924 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.99% 38.31% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 647 905
10th Percentile £213 £313 £228
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +3.06% +15.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.64 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £16.23 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.73% +1.26% +12.90%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.13 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.99 £30.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.05% +42.86% -2.33%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the West Midlands

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Birmingham -1 6 £394 -42.73% 3
Coventry +10 1 £750 - 1
Warwickshire +3 1 £375 -46.43% 2
Staffordshire - 1 £625 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) PaaS
2 8 (80.00%) SaaS
3 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 3 (30.00%) Google Workspace
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) AWS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (10.00%) GitHub
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Hudson
1 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (30.00%) Legal
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (30.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) B2C
3 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bicep
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) PMI Certification
2 4 (40.00%) PMP
3 3 (30.00%) APMP
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) LogicMonitor