IaaS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 195 191
Rank change year-on-year -5 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing IaaS 107 153 336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.08% 1.00% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.73% 2.78% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 83 240
10th Percentile £406 £413 £432
25th Percentile £481 £456 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +6.19% -1.74%
75th Percentile £751 £663 £688
90th Percentile £838 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £25.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.73% -26.17%
75th Percentile - £26.50 £80.00
90th Percentile - - £93.50
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -66.67% +3.31%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,924 5,505 10,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.79% 36.16% 39.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 3,965 7,414
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 88 129
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £16.60 £21.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -51.85% +87.83%
75th Percentile £71.25 £45.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £65.31 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

IaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IaaS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IaaS.

IaaS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing IaaS over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

IaaS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IaaS.

IaaS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) nginx
4 2 (1.87%) SAS
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 81 (75.70%) PaaS
2 77 (71.96%) Azure
3 68 (63.55%) SaaS
4 46 (42.99%) AWS
5 29 (27.10%) GCP
6 25 (23.36%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (18.69%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (15.89%) Entra ID
9 15 (14.02%) Serverless
10 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (6.54%) Amazon S3
11 7 (6.54%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.74%) Azure AKS
13 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 29 (27.10%) Firewall
2 24 (22.43%) DHCP
2 24 (22.43%) DNS
3 20 (18.69%) TCP/IP
4 19 (17.76%) BGP
4 19 (17.76%) HTTP
4 19 (17.76%) HTTPS
4 19 (17.76%) OSPF
5 9 (8.41%) Network Security
6 6 (5.61%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (4.67%) SAN
8 4 (3.74%) Kerberos
8 4 (3.74%) SSL
9 3 (2.80%) IPsec
9 3 (2.80%) VSAN
9 3 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (1.87%) NGFW
11 1 (0.93%) NAS
11 1 (0.93%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) MongoDB
3 6 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.93%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Git
1 9 (8.41%) GitLab
1 9 (8.41%) JIRA
2 5 (4.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.80%) Maven
3 3 (2.80%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.87%) Postman
4 2 (1.87%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (1.87%) Selenium
4 2 (1.87%) Subversion
4 2 (1.87%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.93%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.93%) Mockito
5 1 (0.93%) MSI
5 1 (0.93%) Toad
5 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 20 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.82%) Finance
3 9 (8.41%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Law
7 1 (0.93%) Local Government
7 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (48.60%) Architect
2 24 (22.43%) Cloud Architect
2 24 (22.43%) Technical Architect
3 18 (16.82%) Cloud Native Architect
4 14 (13.08%) Senior
5 11 (10.28%) AWS Architect
5 11 (10.28%) Security Architect
6 10 (9.35%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Azure Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Network Security Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Security Technical Architect
8 8 (7.48%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 6 (5.61%) Senior Architect
11 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Consultant
12 4 (3.74%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.67%) SAML
2 4 (3.74%) OAuth
2 4 (3.74%) OpenID
2 4 (3.74%) REST
2 4 (3.74%) Spring
2 4 (3.74%) Spring Boot
3 3 (2.80%) .NET
3 3 (2.80%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.80%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (2.80%) Node.js
3 3 (2.80%) OAuth2
3 3 (2.80%) Web Services
3 3 (2.80%) XACML
4 2 (1.87%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Camel
5 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.93%) JWT
5 1 (0.93%) Pandas
5 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.67%) PKI
4 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.74%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.80%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.80%) NHS
5 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.80%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.87%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.87%) Clustering
6 2 (1.87%) CMDB
6 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.76%) Windows
2 12 (11.21%) Windows Server
3 10 (9.35%) Linux
4 4 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.80%) Solaris
6 2 (1.87%) Debian
7 1 (0.93%) AIX
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (37.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 35 (32.71%) DevOps
3 23 (21.50%) Migration
4 21 (19.63%) Agile
5 20 (18.69%) Test Automation
6 19 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 18 (16.82%) Sprint Planning
8 16 (14.95%) Cloud Security
9 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (13.08%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.15%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (12.15%) Microservices
12 12 (11.21%) Containerisation
13 11 (10.28%) ITIL
14 10 (9.35%) Enterprise Architecture
15 9 (8.41%) High Availability
16 8 (7.48%) Business Continuity
16 8 (7.48%) Continuous Integration
16 8 (7.48%) Identity Access Management
17 7 (6.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.63%) Bicep
2 15 (14.02%) SQL
3 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
4 12 (11.21%) Python
5 8 (7.48%) Bash
6 7 (6.54%) Java
7 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.80%) C#
9 2 (1.87%) C++
9 2 (1.87%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.87%) VBA
9 2 (1.87%) VBScript
10 1 (0.93%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.93%) Go
10 1 (0.93%) PHP
10 1 (0.93%) R
10 1 (0.93%) Ruby
10 1 (0.93%) Scala
10 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Azure Certification
2 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.54%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.54%) Degree
6 3 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.80%) MCSE
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.87%) CREST Certified
7 2 (1.87%) ISEB
7 2 (1.87%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.87%) OSCE
7 2 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (1.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.93%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.54%) SLA
2 6 (5.61%) GDPR
3 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.87%) NCSC
5 2 (1.87%) NIST
5 2 (1.87%) PMO
5 2 (1.87%) QA
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (17.76%) Active Directory
2 12 (11.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.28%) Docker
4 9 (8.41%) vSphere
5 5 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.80%) DFS Replication
6 3 (2.80%) RACF
6 3 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.80%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.93%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 35 (32.71%) Terraform
2 11 (10.28%) Ansible
2 11 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.74%) Grafana
3 4 (3.74%) Packer
3 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.87%) SCCM
6 1 (0.93%) Consul
6 1 (0.93%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.93%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Netcool
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Flashback
6 1 (0.93%) SCOM
6 1 (0.93%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 41 (38.32%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.63%) Cisco
2 21 (19.63%) Palo Alto
3 19 (17.76%) CheckPoint
3 19 (17.76%) Fortinet
4 18 (16.82%) VMware
5 6 (5.61%) Oracle
6 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.87%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.87%) Databricks
7 2 (1.87%) Dell
7 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.87%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) Okta
7 2 (1.87%) Splunk
8 1 (0.93%) EMC
8 1 (0.93%) Sybase
8 1 (0.93%) Veritas