IaaS Contracts in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 132 125
Rank change year-on-year +23 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing IaaS 32 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.20% 0.91% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.73% 2.44% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 22 41
10th Percentile £300 £433 £400
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +1.20%
75th Percentile £623 £655 £650
90th Percentile £760 £675 £738
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 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% +25.83%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 857 1,148 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.13% 37.39% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 850 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £313 £230
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £651 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 33 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.81 £14.63
25th Percentile - £16.62 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £35.00 £24.03
Median % change year-on-year -54.11% +45.67% +32.31%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.40 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Manchester +20 25 £500 - 7
Merseyside +16 3 £438 -18.60%
Lancashire +4 1 £540 -20.00%
Cheshire +2 1 - - 1
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (71.88%) SaaS
2 22 (68.75%) PaaS
3 10 (31.25%) Azure
4 8 (25.00%) AWS
5 6 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (12.50%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) BGP
2 2 (6.25%) OSPF
2 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) NaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) GitLab
2 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
2 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Legal
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Automotive
7 1 (3.13%) Electronics
7 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (15.63%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
5 2 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (6.25%) IT Support
6 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Asset Management Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Asset Management Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Technologist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) CMDB
3 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.13%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
2 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 3 (9.38%) Unix
2 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Agile
2 7 (21.88%) Information Security
3 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 5 (15.63%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) ITIL
4 5 (15.63%) TOGAF
5 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 4 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.38%) Architectural Design
6 3 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (9.38%) Decision-Making
6 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (9.38%) IT Strategy
6 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (9.38%) Prototyping
6 3 (9.38%) Test Scripting
6 3 (9.38%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) APMP
2 4 (12.50%) CISSP
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 4 (12.50%) PMP
3 3 (9.38%) CISM
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.25%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) Oracle
3 4 (12.50%) Google
3 4 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (9.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.13%) Remedy
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Sophos
5 1 (3.13%) VMware