Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 200 274
Rank change year-on-year -151 +74 -77
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 799 1,953 2,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.88% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 4.40% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 679 962 1,608
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,625 £88,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +9.09% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -119 683 £70,000 - 143
UK excluding London -190 429 £62,783 +4.64% 94
Work from Home -152 319 £68,500 +3.01% 74
London -53 285 £85,000 +6.25% 59
North of England -100 123 £60,000 -5.70% 21
South East -97 95 £62,500 +8.70% 23
South West -64 84 £70,000 +17.60% 14
North West -76 76 £62,783 -3.41% 8
Midlands -37 65 £69,235 +8.60% 19
West Midlands 0 57 £69,235 +3.18% 12
Scotland -131 51 £60,000 +0.80% 12
Yorkshire -19 28 £56,250 -6.25% 9
North East -3 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -37 6 £51,250 -12.77% 6
East Midlands -45 5 £45,000 -21.74% 7
Northern Ireland -19 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Wales -35 2 £72,500 +20.83%

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 47 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 43 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.00%) IIS
4 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.75%) CMS
4 6 (0.75%) Confluence
4 6 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.75%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.75%) WordPress
5 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) 1Password
4 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
4 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) HFM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 632 (79.10%) Azure
2 630 (78.85%) PaaS
3 384 (48.06%) SaaS
4 246 (30.79%) AWS
5 204 (25.53%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (16.27%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (12.52%) Entra ID
8 84 (10.51%) GCP
9 60 (7.51%) Power Platform
10 49 (6.13%) Cloud Computing
11 45 (5.63%) Serverless
12 34 (4.26%) Azure AKS
12 34 (4.26%) GitHub
13 22 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 22 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
13 22 (2.75%) Nutanix
14 21 (2.63%) Azure Stack
15 20 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 142 (17.77%) Firewall
2 114 (14.27%) DNS
3 93 (11.64%) VPN
3 93 (11.64%) WAN
4 61 (7.63%) LAN
5 58 (7.26%) DHCP
6 49 (6.13%) SD-WAN
6 49 (6.13%) Wi-Fi
7 38 (4.76%) SAN
8 27 (3.38%) Network Security
9 26 (3.25%) Wireless
10 19 (2.38%) BGP
11 18 (2.25%) TCP/IP
11 18 (2.25%) VLAN
12 17 (2.13%) Internet
12 17 (2.13%) NGFW
13 14 (1.75%) MPLS
14 12 (1.50%) DMZ
14 12 (1.50%) OSPF
15 11 (1.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.76%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 21 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.88%) Power BI
8 13 (1.63%) Big Data
9 12 (1.50%) MySQL
10 11 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.75%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.63%) Metadata
14 4 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.50%) GIS
15 3 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 41 (5.13%) Git
2 28 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.75%) GitLab
4 12 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.13%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 7 (0.88%) JIRA
8 3 (0.38%) Gradle
8 3 (0.38%) Maven
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 177 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 157 (19.65%) Finance
3 99 (12.39%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.25%) Banking
7 19 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.00%) Law
9 15 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.75%) Marketing
11 13 (1.63%) Legal
12 11 (1.38%) Retail
13 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.75%) Games
15 6 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.75%) Police
16 5 (0.63%) Advertising
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 222 (27.78%) Architect
2 149 (18.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 140 (17.52%) Senior
4 88 (11.01%) Solutions Architect
5 79 (9.89%) Cloud Architect
6 75 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 74 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
8 65 (8.14%) Lead
9 53 (6.63%) Consultant
10 50 (6.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 49 (6.13%) Azure Architect
12 36 (4.51%) Citrix Architect
13 34 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
14 33 (4.13%) Infrastructure Architect
15 32 (4.01%) Support Engineer
16 30 (3.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
17 27 (3.38%) Analyst
18 26 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
19 24 (3.00%) Infrastructure Support
20 23 (2.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.13%) ARM Templates
2 48 (6.01%) .NET
3 38 (4.76%) JSON
4 37 (4.63%) Middleware
5 31 (3.88%) Web Services
6 25 (3.13%) YAML
7 20 (2.50%) OpenID
8 17 (2.13%) RESTful
8 17 (2.13%) XML
9 13 (1.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 13 (1.63%) SAML
10 11 (1.38%) Node.js
11 10 (1.25%) REST
12 9 (1.13%) LDAP
12 9 (1.13%) React
13 8 (1.00%) SOAP
14 7 (0.88%) gRPC
15 6 (0.75%) CSS3
15 6 (0.75%) Lucene
15 6 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 148 (18.52%) Public Cloud
2 81 (10.14%) Cloud Native
3 80 (10.01%) Data Centre
4 74 (9.26%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.25%) Driving Licence
7 25 (3.13%) Replication
8 24 (3.00%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 21 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.63%) Mainframe
10 20 (2.50%) Blockchain
11 19 (2.38%) IoT
12 18 (2.25%) Mobile App
12 18 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.75%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.25%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.13%) Clustering
15 9 (1.13%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 210 (26.28%) Windows
2 104 (13.02%) Linux
2 104 (13.02%) Windows Server
3 63 (7.88%) Unix
4 23 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 19 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (1.63%) VMS
8 8 (1.00%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.88%) Solaris
10 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.63%) Android
12 4 (0.50%) DC/OS
13 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (36.80%) DevOps
2 194 (24.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 166 (20.78%) Agile
4 163 (20.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 159 (19.90%) ITIL
6 133 (16.65%) CI/CD
7 120 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (14.89%) Cybersecurity
9 115 (14.39%) Mentoring
10 111 (13.89%) Roadmaps
11 94 (11.76%) Microservices
12 77 (9.64%) Information Security
13 76 (9.51%) Cloud Security
14 73 (9.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 73 (9.14%) Migration
15 70 (8.76%) Artificial Intelligence
16 69 (8.64%) TOGAF
17 65 (8.14%) Change Management
17 65 (8.14%) Technical Leadership
18 62 (7.76%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 156 (19.52%) PowerShell
2 83 (10.39%) SQL
3 77 (9.64%) Python
4 50 (6.26%) Bicep
5 49 (6.13%) Bash
6 43 (5.38%) C#
7 30 (3.75%) Java
8 19 (2.38%) Go
9 16 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.00%) Perl
10 15 (1.88%) Ruby
11 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.38%) PHP
11 3 (0.38%) Scala
12 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.25%) VBScript
13 1 (0.13%) Groovy
13 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 118 (14.77%) Degree
2 103 (12.89%) Azure Certification
3 74 (9.26%) Security Cleared
4 42 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 29 (3.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 28 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (3.13%) CISSP
11 23 (2.88%) DV Cleared
11 23 (2.88%) Master's Degree
12 20 (2.50%) CCNA
13 19 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
15 13 (1.63%) CISM
15 13 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (1.50%) A+ Certification
17 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (4.26%) NIST
3 31 (3.88%) GDPR
4 24 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 23 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (2.38%) NCSC
7 15 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.88%) SLA
8 14 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.63%) COBIT
10 11 (1.38%) QA
11 10 (1.25%) HIPAA
11 10 (1.25%) PMO
12 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.00%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.75%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.63%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.13%) GRC
17 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 171 (21.40%) Active Directory
2 101 (12.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (7.88%) Docker
4 54 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
5 39 (4.88%) Hyper-V
6 25 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (2.88%) vSphere
8 19 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.75%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.63%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.38%) Firmware
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.13%) KVM
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) RACF
12 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 202 (25.28%) Terraform
2 110 (13.77%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.14%) Ansible
4 67 (8.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (4.38%) Puppet
6 21 (2.63%) SCCM
7 20 (2.50%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 9 (1.13%) Istio
11 8 (1.00%) Nessus
11 8 (1.00%) SCOM
11 8 (1.00%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.88%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.88%) SCDPM
13 6 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.75%) NetCrunch
13 6 (0.75%) WSUS
14 5 (0.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 344 (43.05%) Microsoft
2 130 (16.27%) VMware
3 78 (9.76%) Cisco
4 43 (5.38%) Citrix
5 33 (4.13%) Splunk
6 32 (4.01%) Oracle
7 30 (3.75%) Veeam
8 26 (3.25%) Google
9 25 (3.13%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.63%) Dynatrace
10 21 (2.63%) Palo Alto
11 20 (2.50%) Meraki
12 18 (2.25%) SolarWinds
13 16 (2.00%) NetApp
14 15 (1.88%) SAP
14 15 (1.88%) ServiceNow
15 14 (1.75%) Dell
16 12 (1.50%) Sparx
17 11 (1.38%) BMC
17 11 (1.38%) HP