IaaS Contracts in the South West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 111 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing IaaS 41 49 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.24% 1.45% 1.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.95% 4.45% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 21
10th Percentile £530 - £456
25th Percentile £619 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £646 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.58% +29.25% +1.52%
75th Percentile £675 £719 £550
90th Percentile - £798 £620
England median daily rate £600 £575 £563
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - £71.05 £72.50
25th Percentile - £74.71 £75.12
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £81.86
Median % change year-on-year - -4.72% +36.43%
75th Percentile - - £86.23
90th Percentile - £79.60 £87.42
England median hourly rate £26.00 £78.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -66.67% +4.00% +25.00%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 828 1,102 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.10% 32.53% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 875 860
10th Percentile £213 £288 £255
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £621
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 21
10th Percentile £13.52 £14.61 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% +148.14% -55.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
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 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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
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 12 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
Wiltshire +5 28 £650 -3.70% 2
Bristol +4 6 £563 +7.14% 2
Devon -1 5 £600 -
Gloucestershire -13 2 £600 - 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 39 (95.12%) PaaS
2 33 (80.49%) SaaS
3 28 (68.29%) Cloud Computing
4 10 (24.39%) Azure
5 3 (7.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 3 (7.32%) Azure Pipelines
5 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.44%) AWS
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (65.85%) LAN
1 27 (65.85%) WAN
2 3 (7.32%) DNS
2 3 (7.32%) VPN
3 1 (2.44%) AMQP
3 1 (2.44%) Firewall
3 1 (2.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.44%) InfluxDB
1 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (73.17%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.88%) Banking
2 2 (4.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.44%) Finance
3 1 (2.44%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (80.49%) Architect
2 27 (65.85%) Network Architect
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Consultant
3 3 (7.32%) Consultant
3 3 (7.32%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (2.44%) Banking Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (2.44%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (2.44%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) Middleware
2 1 (2.44%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (65.85%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (68.29%) Open Source
2 27 (65.85%) Business Strategy
2 27 (65.85%) Network Management
2 27 (65.85%) Zero Trust
3 4 (9.76%) Agile
3 4 (9.76%) CI/CD
3 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
4 3 (7.32%) DevOps
4 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Security
5 2 (4.88%) Cost Management
5 2 (4.88%) Data Architecture
5 2 (4.88%) Data Design
5 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (4.88%) Information Security
5 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) IT Strategy
5 2 (4.88%) Migration
5 2 (4.88%) Roadmaps
5 2 (4.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.88%) Python
1 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.44%) Bash
2 1 (2.44%) Go
2 1 (2.44%) Java
2 1 (2.44%) Julia
2 1 (2.44%) Perl
2 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (73.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (68.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (7.32%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.44%) Docker
3 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.44%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.44%) Grafana
3 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Microsoft