IaaS Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 113 115 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -4
Contract jobs citing IaaS 40 48 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.27% 1.38% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.11% 4.06% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 27
10th Percentile £530 - £413
25th Percentile £625 £513 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £621 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +24.25% +3.09%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £563
90th Percentile - £793 £601
England median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £70.87 £72.50
25th Percentile - £71.42 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% +36.43%
75th Percentile - - £86.23
90th Percentile - £80.39 £87.42
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +25.83%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 783 1,182 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.84% 34.05% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 950 852
10th Percentile £210 £311 £250
25th Percentile £375 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £650 £594
90th Percentile £680 £719 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 58 20
10th Percentile £12.58 £16.95 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £52.93 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -63.16% +101.62% -41.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £56.85
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +10 29 £650 -3.70% 1
Bristol +14 5 £500 -4.76% 11
Devon +3 5 £600 - 1
Gloucestershire -16 1 £700 +27.27% 2
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 38 (95.00%) PaaS
2 32 (80.00%) SaaS
3 28 (70.00%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (7.50%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (67.50%) LAN
1 27 (67.50%) WAN
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) GitLab
1 1 (2.50%) GoCD
1 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
1 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (5.00%) Banking
2 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Electronics
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.50%) Marketing
3 1 (2.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (80.00%) Architect
2 27 (67.50%) Network Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Consultant
3 3 (7.50%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Banking Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.50%) Lead
5 1 (2.50%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 27 (67.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Open Source
2 27 (67.50%) Business Strategy
2 27 (67.50%) Network Management
2 27 (67.50%) Zero Trust
3 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (7.50%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 2 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 2 (5.00%) Budget Management
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Security
6 2 (5.00%) Cost Management
6 2 (5.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (5.00%) Data Design
6 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (5.00%) Information Security
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (5.00%) IT Strategy
6 2 (5.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) Bash
2 1 (2.50%) Julia
2 1 (2.50%) Perl
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.50%) Citrix
2 1 (2.50%) SAP
2 1 (2.50%) VMware