IaaS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 207 215
Rank change year-on-year -50 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing IaaS 148 244 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.08% 1.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.71% 3.29% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 179 278
10th Percentile £412 £425 £405
25th Percentile £472 £478 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £650
90th Percentile £688 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 3
10th Percentile - £61.80 £62.15
25th Percentile £25.50 £71.19 £65.38
Median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +3.31% +71.59%
75th Percentile £26.50 - £84.24
90th Percentile - £79.20 £86.63
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +4.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North of England +3 46 £513 -6.82% 28
South West -5 41 £650 +0.58% 7
South East -15 34 £500 -13.79% 23
North West +23 31 £500 -2.44% 17
Scotland +36 15 £650 +38.45% 11
Midlands +5 13 £525 -23.64% 19
Yorkshire -10 13 £525 -4.55% 9
West Midlands +7 10 £463 -32.73% 15
East Midlands +6 3 £588 +14.63% 4
North East +7 2 £575 -4.17% 2
Wales +21 1 £425 +6.25% 2
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (6.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 106 (71.62%) PaaS
2 92 (62.16%) SaaS
3 65 (43.92%) Azure
4 36 (24.32%) Cloud Computing
5 25 (16.89%) AWS
6 14 (9.46%) Entra ID
7 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.43%) Google Workspace
8 7 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Logic Apps
9 6 (4.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (3.38%) Azure API Management
11 4 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (2.70%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 4 (2.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (2.70%) Azure AKS
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (2.70%) Serverless
12 3 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.03%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (21.62%) LAN
1 32 (21.62%) WAN
2 17 (11.49%) DNS
3 14 (9.46%) VPN
4 9 (6.08%) Firewall
5 7 (4.73%) Network Security
6 4 (2.70%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (2.03%) DHCP
8 2 (1.35%) BGP
8 2 (1.35%) OSPF
8 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.68%) AMQP
9 1 (0.68%) Internet
9 1 (0.68%) IPsec
9 1 (0.68%) MPLS
9 1 (0.68%) NaaS
9 1 (0.68%) SAN
9 1 (0.68%) SSL
9 1 (0.68%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (3.38%) Relational Database
2 4 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 4 (2.70%) MySQL
2 4 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.35%) Big Data
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.68%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.68%) Power BI
5 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Git
2 8 (5.41%) JIRA
3 7 (4.73%) GitLab
4 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.03%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.35%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) Subversion
6 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.35%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.68%) Hudson
7 1 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (29.73%) Public Sector
2 28 (18.92%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.43%) Legal
4 10 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Finance
6 6 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Back Office
7 4 (2.70%) Banking
7 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.35%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Portuguese Language
10 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (42.57%) Architect
2 27 (18.24%) Network Architect
3 15 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (7.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.08%) Senior
7 8 (5.41%) Azure Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Cloud Architect
7 8 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Analyst
9 6 (4.05%) AWS Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Infrastructure Architect
9 6 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.38%) Consultant
10 5 (3.38%) Lead
11 4 (2.70%) Azure Consultant
11 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (2.70%) Security Architect
11 4 (2.70%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.03%) Cybersecurity Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) Web Services
2 9 (6.08%) .NET
3 8 (5.41%) Middleware
4 5 (3.38%) JSON
4 5 (3.38%) REST
4 5 (3.38%) SOAP
5 4 (2.70%) J2EE
6 3 (2.03%) YAML
7 2 (1.35%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.68%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.68%) Kafka
8 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.68%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 35 (23.65%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.76%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (6.76%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.05%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.38%) Client/Server
4 5 (3.38%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.03%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.03%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.35%) Clustering
6 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.35%) Replication
6 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.68%) IoT
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (13.51%) Windows
2 14 (9.46%) Linux
3 12 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.73%) Unix
5 6 (4.05%) VMS
6 5 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (24.32%) Agile
2 33 (22.30%) Open Source
3 28 (18.92%) Business Strategy
3 28 (18.92%) Zero Trust
4 27 (18.24%) Network Management
5 23 (15.54%) DevOps
5 23 (15.54%) Migration
6 22 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (14.19%) CI/CD
8 18 (12.16%) Roadmaps
9 16 (10.81%) Project Delivery
10 15 (10.14%) Cloud Security
11 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (9.46%) Scrum
12 13 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (8.11%) API Management
13 12 (8.11%) Containerisation
13 12 (8.11%) Information Security
13 12 (8.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 19 (12.84%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.49%) Python
3 10 (6.76%) Java
4 7 (4.73%) SQL
5 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.38%) Bash
6 5 (3.38%) C#
7 3 (2.03%) PHP
7 3 (2.03%) Ruby
8 2 (1.35%) Bicep
8 2 (1.35%) C++
8 2 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.35%) Perl
8 2 (1.35%) VBA
8 2 (1.35%) VBScript
9 1 (0.68%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) Julia
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 50 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 31 (20.95%) DV Cleared
3 19 (12.84%) Degree
4 15 (10.14%) Azure Certification
4 15 (10.14%) SC Cleared
5 10 (6.76%) PMI Certification
5 10 (6.76%) PMP
6 9 (6.08%) APMP
7 5 (3.38%) CISSP
8 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.03%) CISM
9 3 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.03%) VCAP
9 3 (2.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.35%) ISEB
10 2 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.35%) MCSE
11 1 (0.68%) CCNA
11 1 (0.68%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.03%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.35%) NIST
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 10 (6.76%) vSphere
4 9 (6.08%) Docker
4 9 (6.08%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (4.73%) Hyper-V
6 6 (4.05%) VMware NSX
7 5 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.68%) Firmware
9 1 (0.68%) KVM
9 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 18 (12.16%) Terraform
2 16 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.43%) vRealize
4 8 (5.41%) Ansible
5 5 (3.38%) Packer
5 5 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 4 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.35%) SCCM
8 1 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.68%) Grafana
8 1 (0.68%) Nagios
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) QRadar
8 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (31.76%) Microsoft
2 24 (16.22%) VMware
3 20 (13.51%) Oracle
4 14 (9.46%) Google
5 10 (6.76%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.70%) Arqiva
6 4 (2.70%) SolarWinds
6 4 (2.70%) Veritas
7 3 (2.03%) Cisco
7 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.35%) Meraki
8 2 (1.35%) Splunk
9 1 (0.68%) Confluent
9 1 (0.68%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.68%) Remedy
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Skytap
9 1 (0.68%) Sophos
9 1 (0.68%) Zscaler