IaaS Contracts in the West Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 88 102
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +71
Contract jobs citing IaaS 11 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.66% 1.03% 0.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.13% 3.97% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 15
10th Percentile £325 £375 £600
25th Percentile £513 £471 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £659 £569 £688
Median % change year-on-year +15.92% -17.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £825 £648 £734
90th Percentile £900 £685 £750
England median daily rate £575 £612 £591
% change year-on-year -6.05% +3.51% +2.83%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 517 479 810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.01% 25.92% 37.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 360 592
10th Percentile £270 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £617 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £17.36 £14.19 £15.74
25th Percentile £24.37 £14.69 £16.55
Median hourly rate £33.88 £19.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +76.00% +2.67% +5.63%
75th Percentile £46.62 £31.39 £22.94
90th Percentile £59.20 £44.47 £24.94
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +11.78% -31.82% +53.49%

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 2 August 2025.

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 2 August 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
Birmingham +4 4 £609 +21.80% 3
Herefordshire +8 3 £900 +36.36%
Shropshire - 3 £325 -
Worcestershire - 3 £900 -
Warwickshire -6 1 £700 +75.00% 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP GRC
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) PaaS
2 7 (63.64%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) SaaS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (27.27%) AWS KMS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
5 3 (27.27%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (18.18%) Azure Stack
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) GCP
7 1 (9.09%) GitHub
7 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DHCP
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Administrator
3 2 (18.18%) Chief Technology Officer
3 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Basis
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Linux
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Key Management
3 3 (27.27%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Workflow
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) DevSecOps
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Project Management
5 1 (9.09%) SAP Security
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
1 3 (27.27%) Dynatrace
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Atlassian
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) Ariba
3 1 (9.09%) Concur
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) SAP