IaaS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 212 195 188
Rank change year-on-year -17 -7 -26
Contract jobs citing IaaS 137 321 655
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.93% 1.30% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.54% 3.29% 3.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 233 491
10th Percentile £413 £432 £413
25th Percentile £463 £506 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -1.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.50 £87.50 £73.15
Median hourly rate £26.00 £95.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -72.63% +27.53% +21.13%
75th Percentile £26.50 £102.50 £75.84
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
% change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +24.28%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

IaaS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IaaS trend for jobs with a WFH option

IaaS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing IaaS over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 8 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.38%) Confluence
3 3 (2.19%) Cloud Foundry
3 3 (2.19%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.46%) CMS
5 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft Office
1 13 (9.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (70.07%) PaaS
2 84 (61.31%) Azure
3 70 (51.09%) SaaS
4 41 (29.93%) AWS
5 19 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (13.87%) Entra ID
6 16 (11.68%) GCP
7 14 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (9.49%) GitHub
8 13 (9.49%) Google Workspace
9 11 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (7.30%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (4.38%) Nutanix
11 6 (4.38%) Rubrik
11 6 (4.38%) Serverless
12 5 (3.65%) Mimecast
12 5 (3.65%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.06%) Firewall
2 18 (13.14%) DNS
3 13 (9.49%) DHCP
4 12 (8.76%) TCP/IP
5 10 (7.30%) VPN
6 7 (5.11%) Kerberos
7 6 (4.38%) NAS
7 6 (4.38%) SAN
7 6 (4.38%) VLAN
8 5 (3.65%) LAN
9 4 (2.92%) Network Security
10 3 (2.19%) WAN
11 2 (1.46%) BGP
11 2 (1.46%) OSPF
12 1 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.73%) NaaS
12 1 (0.73%) Unified Communications
12 1 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.19%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.46%) Redis
3 2 (1.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.73%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.73%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (9.49%) Git
2 12 (8.76%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.76%) JIRA
2 12 (8.76%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.11%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.46%) Artifactory
4 2 (1.46%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.46%) GitLab
4 2 (1.46%) Maven
4 2 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.46%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.73%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.73%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.73%) Selenium
5 1 (0.73%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.73%) Subversion
5 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.73%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Legal
4 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.38%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.92%) Marketing
8 3 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.46%) Electronics
9 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Law
9 2 (1.46%) Retail
10 1 (0.73%) Back Office
10 1 (0.73%) Front Office
10 1 (0.73%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 35 (25.55%) Architect
2 15 (10.95%) Consultant
3 13 (9.49%) Senior
4 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (6.57%) Developer
6 8 (5.84%) Cloud Architect
6 8 (5.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Consultant
8 6 (4.38%) AWS Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Architect
8 6 (4.38%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Integration Architect
9 5 (3.65%) Lead
10 4 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Python Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.49%) .NET
1 13 (9.49%) ARM Templates
2 10 (7.30%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (6.57%) REST
4 8 (5.84%) Middleware
5 7 (5.11%) LDAP
5 7 (5.11%) OAuth
5 7 (5.11%) SAML
6 6 (4.38%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.38%) Microsoft Graph
6 6 (4.38%) OpenID
7 5 (3.65%) JSON
8 4 (2.92%) .NET Core
8 4 (2.92%) YAML
9 3 (2.19%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.19%) SOAP
9 3 (2.19%) Web Services
10 2 (1.46%) Kafka
10 2 (1.46%) SailPoint
10 2 (1.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.68%) Management Information System
2 15 (10.95%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (9.49%) Virtual Team
4 11 (8.03%) Data Centre
5 10 (7.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (5.11%) CMDB
6 7 (5.11%) Replication
7 6 (4.38%) Clustering
8 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
9 4 (2.92%) Distributed Applications
9 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.92%) Public Cloud
10 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
10 3 (2.19%) Tandem
11 2 (1.46%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
11 2 (1.46%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.17%) Linux
2 28 (20.44%) Windows
3 14 (10.22%) Windows Server
4 12 (8.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (5.84%) Unix
6 7 (5.11%) Solaris
7 6 (4.38%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (2.19%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.46%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.73%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.73%) VMS
10 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (30.66%) DevOps
2 33 (24.09%) Agile
3 23 (16.79%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (16.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (13.14%) ITIL
4 18 (13.14%) Migration
5 16 (11.68%) CI/CD
5 16 (11.68%) Containerisation
5 16 (11.68%) Deployment Automation
5 16 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (10.95%) DevSecOps
6 15 (10.95%) Test Automation
7 14 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
7 14 (10.22%) Mentoring
7 14 (10.22%) Software Engineering
8 13 (9.49%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (8.76%) Microservices
9 12 (8.76%) Service Management
10 11 (8.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.41%) Python
2 16 (11.68%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.22%) Bash
4 7 (5.11%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.38%) SQL
6 5 (3.65%) C#
6 5 (3.65%) Perl
7 3 (2.19%) Java
8 2 (1.46%) Go
8 2 (1.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.73%) C++
9 1 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.73%) PHP
9 1 (0.73%) Ruby
9 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.73%) VBA
9 1 (0.73%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (13.14%) Degree
1 18 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.22%) PMI Certification
3 14 (10.22%) PMP
4 13 (9.49%) APMP
5 12 (8.76%) Azure Certification
6 10 (7.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (5.11%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.19%) CISSP
9 3 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.46%) CISM
11 1 (0.73%) CISA
11 1 (0.73%) CRISC
11 1 (0.73%) GIAC
11 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.30%) NCSC
2 7 (5.11%) GDPR
3 6 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.19%) QA
5 2 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.46%) NIST
6 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (18.98%) Docker
2 22 (16.06%) Active Directory
3 17 (12.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (5.11%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.46%) Firmware
7 2 (1.46%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.46%) vSphere
8 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 41 (29.93%) Terraform
2 31 (22.63%) Kubernetes
3 27 (19.71%) Ansible
4 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (4.38%) EMC NetWorker
5 6 (4.38%) Netcool
5 6 (4.38%) Tivoli
5 6 (4.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 4 (2.92%) Grafana
7 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.46%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.46%) WSUS
8 1 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.73%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.73%) Nessus
8 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.73%) QRadar
Vendors
1 53 (38.69%) Microsoft
2 25 (18.25%) Oracle
3 18 (13.14%) VMware
4 16 (11.68%) Salesforce
5 14 (10.22%) Google
6 9 (6.57%) Red Hat
7 7 (5.11%) Cisco
7 7 (5.11%) CyberArk
7 7 (5.11%) HP
7 7 (5.11%) IBM
7 7 (5.11%) ServiceNow
8 6 (4.38%) Dell
8 6 (4.38%) EMC
8 6 (4.38%) Isilon
8 6 (4.38%) MuleSoft
8 6 (4.38%) Qualys
8 6 (4.38%) Serena
8 6 (4.38%) Splunk
9 5 (3.65%) Citrix
10 3 (2.19%) SAP