IaaS Job Trends

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 264 267
Rank change year-on-year -170 +3 -16
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 271 560 804
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 1.18% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 3.18% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 190 302 683
10th Percentile £38,000 £48,825 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £77,424 £84,688 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £62,783
% change year-on-year -13.18% +14.67% +5.47%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,925 17,597 29,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.12% 37.18% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12,335 10,796 23,910
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,875 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,404
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

IaaS job vacancy trend in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 24 February 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 16 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 24 February 2026. 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 -162 231 £65,000 -9.71% 91
UK excluding London -164 146 £62,500 -13.18% 77
Work from Home -12 90 £68,500 -2.14% 42
London -32 85 £65,000 -11.52% 32
North of England +2 49 £61,250 -3.92% 13
South East -68 32 £70,000 -6.67% 30
North West +19 31 £62,500 +19.05% 10
Midlands -29 27 £58,750 -18.97% 14
West Midlands -7 24 £60,000 -20.00% 8
South West -127 16 £57,195 -15.27% 10
East of England -8 12 £58,750 +17.50% 7
North East -1 10 £45,000 -30.77% 1
Scotland -21 8 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Yorkshire -34 8 £65,466 +0.72% 2
Channel Islands - 4 £75,000 -
East Midlands -31 3 £45,000 +12.50% 6

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 34 (12.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.85%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.48%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 231 (85.24%) PaaS
2 213 (78.60%) Azure
3 125 (46.13%) SaaS
4 81 (29.89%) Microsoft 365
5 63 (23.25%) Entra ID
6 52 (19.19%) AWS
7 42 (15.50%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (11.07%) GCP
9 25 (9.23%) Azure Monitor
10 23 (8.49%) Serverless
11 22 (8.12%) Power Platform
12 20 (7.38%) GitHub
13 16 (5.90%) Datadog
14 15 (5.54%) Azure AKS
15 11 (4.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (2.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 8 (2.95%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
17 7 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 76 (28.04%) Firewall
2 56 (20.66%) VPN
3 51 (18.82%) DNS
4 37 (13.65%) DHCP
5 31 (11.44%) VLAN
6 20 (7.38%) TCP/IP
7 17 (6.27%) SAN
7 17 (6.27%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (4.06%) WAN
9 9 (3.32%) VoIP
10 8 (2.95%) LAN
11 7 (2.58%) Network Security
11 7 (2.58%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.21%) PuTTY
12 6 (2.21%) SSH
13 5 (1.85%) DMZ
13 5 (1.85%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.85%) SSL
13 5 (1.85%) STUN
14 4 (1.48%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.85%) Power BI
4 4 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.74%) Big Data
6 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.74%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (4.43%) Chocolatey
2 11 (4.06%) JIRA
3 7 (2.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.21%) Git
5 5 (1.85%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.74%) GitLab
6 2 (0.74%) Selenium
General
1 102 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 68 (25.09%) Finance
3 39 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.12%) Legal
5 20 (7.38%) Law
6 17 (6.27%) Banking
6 17 (6.27%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (4.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.32%) Billing
10 7 (2.58%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.85%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.85%) Dutch Language
11 5 (1.85%) French Language
11 5 (1.85%) Games
11 5 (1.85%) Marketing
12 4 (1.48%) Automotive
12 4 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.11%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 75 (27.68%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (25.46%) Architect
3 60 (22.14%) Azure Engineer
4 50 (18.45%) Senior
5 48 (17.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (11.07%) Support Engineer
7 26 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (8.86%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 22 (8.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (7.01%) IT Engineer
11 18 (6.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.54%) Lead
13 14 (5.17%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (5.17%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.80%) Automation Engineer
14 13 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (4.43%) Analyst
15 12 (4.43%) Azure Architect
16 11 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
16 11 (4.06%) Cloud Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.58%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.85%) .NET
2 5 (1.85%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (1.85%) Middleware
2 5 (1.85%) RESTful
3 3 (1.11%) CSS
3 3 (1.11%) HTML
3 3 (1.11%) Node.js
3 3 (1.11%) YAML
4 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.74%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.74%) Playwright
4 2 (0.74%) pytest
4 2 (0.74%) React
4 2 (0.74%) Web Services
5 1 (0.37%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.37%) Kafka
5 1 (0.37%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (16.24%) Cloud Native
2 43 (15.87%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (8.12%) Management Information System
4 17 (6.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.54%) Security Posture
6 13 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (4.06%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.69%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.69%) PKI
9 9 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
11 7 (2.58%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.85%) Replication
13 4 (1.48%) IoT
14 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 75 (27.68%) Windows
2 48 (17.71%) Windows Server
3 39 (14.39%) Linux
4 14 (5.17%) Unix
4 14 (5.17%) VMS
5 5 (1.85%) Debian
6 4 (1.48%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.11%) Android
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.84%) DevOps
2 87 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (21.77%) CI/CD
5 55 (20.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 47 (17.34%) AI
7 42 (15.50%) Agile
7 42 (15.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 42 (15.50%) ITIL
8 39 (14.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (12.92%) Cloud Security
9 35 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
9 35 (12.92%) Microservices
10 33 (12.18%) Computer Science
10 33 (12.18%) Information Security
11 32 (11.81%) Migration
11 32 (11.81%) Project Delivery
12 31 (11.44%) Enterprise Architecture
13 29 (10.70%) Roadmaps
14 28 (10.33%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (22.88%) PowerShell
2 40 (14.76%) Python
3 30 (11.07%) Bicep
3 30 (11.07%) SQL
4 26 (9.59%) Bash
5 6 (2.21%) DCL
5 6 (2.21%) Tcl
6 4 (1.48%) C#
7 3 (1.11%) Java
7 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.74%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.37%) PHP
9 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (17.71%) Degree
2 45 (16.61%) Azure Certification
3 38 (14.02%) Security Cleared
4 30 (11.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (10.33%) SC Cleared
6 27 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (5.54%) CISSP
8 11 (4.06%) CCSK
9 9 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (2.95%) AWS Certification
11 7 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.21%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.85%) CCNA
13 5 (1.85%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.48%) CCNP
14 4 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 3 (1.11%) MCSE
16 2 (0.74%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.90%) SLA
2 12 (4.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.06%) NIST
4 10 (3.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 10 (3.69%) QA
5 6 (2.21%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.85%) IFRS
6 5 (1.85%) IFRS 17
6 5 (1.85%) Solvency II
7 3 (1.11%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.11%) GDPR
7 3 (1.11%) NCSC
8 2 (0.74%) GRC
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 72 (26.57%) Active Directory
2 46 (16.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (14.02%) Docker
4 25 (9.23%) Hyper-V
5 20 (7.38%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.06%) vSphere
7 8 (2.95%) vCloud
7 8 (2.95%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (2.58%) KVM
9 3 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 82 (30.26%) Terraform
2 47 (17.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (14.02%) Kubernetes
4 21 (7.75%) Ansible
5 19 (7.01%) SCCM
6 11 (4.06%) Puppet
7 8 (2.95%) SCOM
8 7 (2.58%) Autotask
9 6 (2.21%) vCenter Server
10 5 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (1.48%) SolarWinds Orion
12 3 (1.11%) CASB
12 3 (1.11%) VxRail
13 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
13 2 (0.74%) Packer
14 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
14 1 (0.37%) Argo
14 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.37%) Grafana
Vendors
1 144 (53.14%) Microsoft
2 58 (21.40%) VMware
3 25 (9.23%) Google
4 13 (4.80%) AppDynamics
4 13 (4.80%) Tenable
5 12 (4.43%) Cisco
5 12 (4.43%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.43%) Palo Alto
6 11 (4.06%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (4.06%) Fortinet
7 9 (3.32%) CrowdStrike
7 9 (3.32%) Oracle
7 9 (3.32%) Veeam
8 8 (2.95%) Meraki
8 8 (2.95%) SAP
8 8 (2.95%) SolarWinds
9 7 (2.58%) Apple
10 6 (2.21%) Databricks
11 5 (1.85%) Citrix
11 5 (1.85%) Duck Creek