IaaS Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring IaaS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 59 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 0
Contract jobs citing IaaS 9 7 9
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.80% 1.25% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.21% 3.00% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £650 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £788 - £538
90th Percentile - - £581
Yorkshire median daily rate £619 £650 £488
% change year-on-year -4.81% +33.33% -11.36%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 408 233 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 36.27% 41.76% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 156 199
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £400 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £598
90th Percentile £625 £628 £670
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 4
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £31.54 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.16% +316.00% -72.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £101.14 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
% change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing IaaS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing IaaS

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. 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
Leeds -14 9 £775 +19.23% 4
IaaS
Yorkshire

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 8 (88.89%) AWS
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) PaaS
1 8 (88.89%) SaaS
2 7 (77.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) IPsec
1 5 (55.56%) Kerberos
1 5 (55.56%) SSL
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Architect
2 7 (77.78%) Senior
3 6 (66.67%) Senior Architect
3 6 (66.67%) Senior Technical Architect
3 6 (66.67%) Technical Architect
4 3 (33.33%) Digital Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Digital Technical Architect
5 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
5 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Digital Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Digital Technical Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Manager
5 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth
2 5 (55.56%) OAuth2
2 5 (55.56%) OpenID
2 5 (55.56%) SAML
2 5 (55.56%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
1 8 (88.89%) ArchiMate
1 8 (88.89%) Architectural Patterns
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) Collaborative Working
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) Microservices
1 8 (88.89%) UML
2 7 (77.78%) Security Architecture
3 6 (66.67%) BPEL
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 6 (66.67%) SOA
3 6 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Decision-Making
4 5 (55.56%) Design Patterns
4 5 (55.56%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) RACF
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft