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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 198 279
Rank change year-on-year -155 +81 -84
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 789 1,922 2,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 1.90% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.23% 4.43% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 669 939 1,564
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,819 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -122 673 £70,000 - 140
UK excluding London -198 423 £62,783 +4.64% 87
Work from Home -165 312 £69,500 +2.96% 78
London -60 281 £85,000 +6.25% 57
North of England -90 123 £60,000 -7.69% 15
South East -104 91 £62,500 +8.70% 23
South West -63 83 £70,000 +17.60% 14
North West -78 76 £62,783 -3.41% 6
Midlands -55 64 £69,235 +13.04% 20
West Midlands +3 57 £69,235 +2.57% 12
Scotland -129 50 £62,500 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -5 28 £56,250 -6.25% 7
North East -3 19 £45,000 -28.00% 2
East of England -32 7 £50,000 -14.89% 7
East Midlands -55 5 £45,000 -21.74% 8
Northern Ireland -23 3 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Wales -38 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 44 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 41 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.14%) IIS
4 6 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.76%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.76%) CMS
4 6 (0.76%) Confluence
4 6 (0.76%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.76%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.76%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.76%) WordPress
5 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.38%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.89%) 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 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) HFM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 625 (79.21%) PaaS
2 622 (78.83%) Azure
3 380 (48.16%) SaaS
4 249 (31.56%) AWS
5 202 (25.60%) Microsoft 365
6 131 (16.60%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (12.93%) Entra ID
8 88 (11.15%) GCP
9 58 (7.35%) Power Platform
10 50 (6.34%) Cloud Computing
11 44 (5.58%) Serverless
12 36 (4.56%) Azure AKS
13 33 (4.18%) GitHub
14 23 (2.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 21 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
16 20 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (2.53%) Azure Stack
17 19 (2.41%) Nutanix
18 16 (2.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 16 (2.03%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 139 (17.62%) Firewall
2 112 (14.20%) DNS
3 93 (11.79%) WAN
4 91 (11.53%) VPN
5 61 (7.73%) LAN
6 58 (7.35%) DHCP
7 49 (6.21%) Wi-Fi
8 48 (6.08%) SD-WAN
9 38 (4.82%) SAN
10 27 (3.42%) Network Security
11 26 (3.30%) Wireless
12 18 (2.28%) BGP
12 18 (2.28%) TCP/IP
12 18 (2.28%) VLAN
13 17 (2.15%) Internet
14 16 (2.03%) NGFW
15 14 (1.77%) MPLS
16 12 (1.52%) DMZ
16 12 (1.52%) OSPF
17 11 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.53%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.84%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 38 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.68%) Data Lake
6 21 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.77%) Power BI
8 13 (1.65%) Big Data
8 13 (1.65%) MySQL
9 11 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.01%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.89%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.76%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.63%) Metadata
14 4 (0.51%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.51%) GIS
15 3 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 41 (5.20%) Git
2 27 (3.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (1.65%) GitLab
3 13 (1.65%) SonarQube
4 8 (1.01%) TeamCity
5 7 (0.89%) JIRA
5 7 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.38%) Gradle
6 3 (0.38%) Maven
7 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.13%) JUnit
8 1 (0.13%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
General
1 179 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 151 (19.14%) Finance
3 98 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.17%) Banking
7 19 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.90%) Law
8 15 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.52%) Legal
9 12 (1.52%) Marketing
10 11 (1.39%) Retail
11 10 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.89%) Police
13 6 (0.76%) Games
13 6 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.51%) Advertising
15 4 (0.51%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 219 (27.76%) Architect
2 144 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 135 (17.11%) Senior
4 87 (11.03%) Solutions Architect
5 77 (9.76%) Cloud Architect
6 74 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
8 65 (8.24%) Lead
9 52 (6.59%) Consultant
10 46 (5.83%) Azure Architect
11 45 (5.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (4.18%) Citrix Architect
12 33 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 33 (4.18%) Support Engineer
13 31 (3.93%) Infrastructure Architect
14 28 (3.55%) Analyst
14 28 (3.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
15 26 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
16 24 (3.04%) Infrastructure Support
17 23 (2.92%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.35%) ARM Templates
2 48 (6.08%) .NET
3 39 (4.94%) JSON
4 37 (4.69%) Middleware
5 30 (3.80%) Web Services
6 24 (3.04%) YAML
7 20 (2.53%) OpenID
8 17 (2.15%) XML
9 16 (2.03%) RESTful
10 14 (1.77%) Azure Blueprints
11 13 (1.65%) SAML
12 12 (1.52%) Node.js
13 10 (1.27%) REST
14 9 (1.14%) LDAP
15 8 (1.01%) React
15 8 (1.01%) SOAP
16 7 (0.89%) gRPC
16 7 (0.89%) HTML
17 6 (0.76%) CSS
17 6 (0.76%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 145 (18.38%) Public Cloud
2 80 (10.14%) Cloud Native
2 80 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 74 (9.38%) Management Information System
4 36 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (3.30%) Driving Licence
6 25 (3.17%) Replication
7 23 (2.92%) Private Cloud
8 21 (2.66%) Enterprise Cloud
8 21 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.66%) Mainframe
9 20 (2.53%) Blockchain
10 18 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (2.15%) Mobile App
12 16 (2.03%) IoT
13 14 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
13 14 (1.77%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.27%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.14%) Clustering
15 9 (1.14%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 205 (25.98%) Windows
2 104 (13.18%) Linux
3 102 (12.93%) Windows Server
4 63 (7.98%) Unix
5 23 (2.92%) Windows 10
6 19 (2.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (1.77%) VMS
9 9 (1.14%) Ubuntu
10 8 (1.01%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.89%) Solaris
12 6 (0.76%) Android
12 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.51%) DC/OS
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (36.63%) DevOps
2 188 (23.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 166 (21.04%) Agile
4 159 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 156 (19.77%) ITIL
6 131 (16.60%) CI/CD
7 118 (14.96%) Cybersecurity
8 117 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
9 115 (14.58%) Mentoring
10 111 (14.07%) Roadmaps
11 95 (12.04%) Microservices
12 75 (9.51%) Cloud Security
12 75 (9.51%) Information Security
13 72 (9.13%) Migration
14 70 (8.87%) Disaster Recovery
15 69 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
16 68 (8.62%) TOGAF
17 64 (8.11%) Change Management
18 62 (7.86%) Technical Leadership
19 58 (7.35%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 150 (19.01%) PowerShell
2 87 (11.03%) SQL
3 73 (9.25%) Python
4 51 (6.46%) Bicep
5 46 (5.83%) Bash
6 42 (5.32%) C#
7 31 (3.93%) Java
8 18 (2.28%) Go
9 16 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.90%) Ruby
11 13 (1.65%) Perl
12 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.38%) PHP
12 3 (0.38%) Scala
13 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.25%) VBScript
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 119 (15.08%) Degree
2 101 (12.80%) Azure Certification
3 73 (9.25%) Security Cleared
4 42 (5.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (5.20%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
7 32 (4.06%) AWS Certification
8 29 (3.68%) TOGAF Certification
9 28 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (3.04%) CISSP
11 23 (2.92%) Master's Degree
12 22 (2.79%) DV Cleared
13 20 (2.53%) CCNA
14 19 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.03%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.52%) A+ Certification
17 12 (1.52%) CISM
18 10 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (1.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.18%) NIST
3 30 (3.80%) GDPR
4 23 (2.92%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (2.66%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.41%) NCSC
7 18 (2.28%) SLA
8 15 (1.90%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.77%) Accessibility
10 13 (1.65%) COBIT
11 11 (1.39%) QA
12 10 (1.27%) HIPAA
12 10 (1.27%) PMO
13 9 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (1.01%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.76%) ISO 9001
15 6 (0.76%) Web Application Security Consortium
16 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.13%) GRC
17 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 169 (21.42%) Active Directory
2 94 (11.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.86%) Docker
4 49 (6.21%) Virtual Machines
5 37 (4.69%) Hyper-V
6 24 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
7 22 (2.79%) vSphere
8 18 (2.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.77%) 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
1 198 (25.10%) Terraform
2 110 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 72 (9.13%) Ansible
4 64 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 34 (4.31%) Puppet
6 21 (2.66%) SCCM
7 20 (2.53%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (1.27%) Istio
11 8 (1.01%) Nessus
11 8 (1.01%) SCOM
11 8 (1.01%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 7 (0.89%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.89%) SCDPM
13 6 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.76%) NetCrunch
13 6 (0.76%) WSUS
14 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 343 (43.47%) Microsoft
2 123 (15.59%) VMware
3 75 (9.51%) Cisco
4 41 (5.20%) Citrix
5 33 (4.18%) Splunk
6 31 (3.93%) Oracle
7 30 (3.80%) Veeam
8 27 (3.42%) Google
9 25 (3.17%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.66%) Dynatrace
11 20 (2.53%) Palo Alto
12 18 (2.28%) Meraki
12 18 (2.28%) SolarWinds
13 16 (2.03%) NetApp
13 16 (2.03%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.90%) SAP
15 14 (1.77%) Dell
16 12 (1.52%) BMC
16 12 (1.52%) Sparx
17 11 (1.39%) Aruba