IaaS Contracts in the Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 128 133 172
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 -58
Contract jobs citing IaaS 13 25 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.44% 0.78% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.27% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 25
10th Percentile - £495 £363
25th Percentile £375 £553 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £688 £613
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +12.24% +28.95%
75th Percentile £606 £731 £700
90th Percentile £753 £736 £825
England median daily rate £600 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +4.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 725 1,103 1,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.59% 34.27% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 783 1,208
10th Percentile £198 £213 £198
25th Percentile £319 £363 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £595 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 29
10th Percentile - £14.01 £13.13
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.23 £22.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% +16.88% +30.51%
75th Percentile £26.50 £26.48 £23.75
90th Percentile £32.00 £46.00 £26.08
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +7 10 £463 -32.73% 15
East Midlands +6 3 £588 +14.63% 5
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) PaaS
2 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 8 (61.54%) SaaS
3 5 (38.46%) Google Workspace
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) Internet
3 1 (7.69%) IPsec
3 1 (7.69%) Kerberos
3 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Hudson
2 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 5 (38.46%) Legal
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Azure Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 2 (15.38%) YAML
3 1 (7.69%) SailPoint
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
1 5 (38.46%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) VMS
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Customer Requirements
2 4 (30.77%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
2 4 (30.77%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Management
4 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
4 2 (15.38%) Dependency Management
4 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) API Management
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Contract Negotiation
5 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
1 6 (46.15%) PMI Certification
1 6 (46.15%) PMP
2 5 (38.46%) APMP
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) Google
2 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler