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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 273 187
Rank change year-on-year -128 -86 +92
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 272 663 932
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.99% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 2.93% 4.28%
Number of salaries quoted 203 350 726
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £58,024
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,813
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -8.21% +4.91%
75th Percentile £78,125 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,100 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,650
% change year-on-year - -8.61% +13.19%

All Cloud 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 17,976 22,624 21,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.34% 33.69% 42.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,380 13,746 18,217
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,186 £64,600 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% +3.36% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% -3.00%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -117 247 £61,000 -6.15% 90
UK excluding London -98 155 £60,000 - 81
Work from Home -12 94 £62,500 -3.85% 37
London -26 90 £65,000 -7.14% 27
North of England +72 59 £60,000 +4.35% 15
North West +58 30 £55,000 +10.00% 7
South East -41 25 £63,000 -16.00% 30
South West -89 25 £51,250 -26.52% 14
Midlands +14 22 £75,000 +25.00% 9
West Midlands +33 18 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire +11 18 £47,500 -26.92% 7
East of England +18 16 £43,000 -14.00% 3
North East +25 11 £70,000 +7.69% 1
East Midlands +25 4 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Scotland -6 4 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Northern Ireland +3 2 £53,546 +1.99%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 41 (15.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (8.82%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (0.37%) Maya
1 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.31%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.47%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 215 (79.04%) PaaS
2 205 (75.37%) Azure
3 143 (52.57%) SaaS
4 87 (31.99%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (24.63%) AWS
6 55 (20.22%) Entra ID
7 31 (11.40%) GCP
8 30 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (11.03%) Serverless
9 21 (7.72%) Azure Monitor
10 18 (6.62%) Power Platform
11 16 (5.88%) GitHub
12 15 (5.51%) OCI
13 14 (5.15%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (3.68%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
16 8 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
17 7 (2.57%) Azure Stack
17 7 (2.57%) Google Workspace
18 6 (2.21%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 70 (25.74%) Firewall
2 49 (18.01%) VPN
3 48 (17.65%) DNS
4 37 (13.60%) DHCP
5 28 (10.29%) TCP/IP
6 23 (8.46%) WAN
7 19 (6.99%) VLAN
8 17 (6.25%) Network Security
9 15 (5.51%) LAN
9 15 (5.51%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.31%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (2.57%) Unified Communications
11 7 (2.57%) VoIP
12 6 (2.21%) SAN
13 5 (1.84%) DMZ
13 5 (1.84%) SSL
13 5 (1.84%) STUN
14 4 (1.47%) Ethernet
14 4 (1.47%) PuTTY
14 4 (1.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.72%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.68%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.21%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.84%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.47%) Power BI
6 3 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.37%) Metadata
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (3.68%) JIRA
2 8 (2.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.84%) Git
3 5 (1.84%) GitLab
4 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 106 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.12%) Finance
3 29 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.19%) Law
5 20 (7.35%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.51%) Legal
7 14 (5.15%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.68%) Dutch Language
8 10 (3.68%) French Language
8 10 (3.68%) Games
9 9 (3.31%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.57%) Banking
11 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.84%) Billing
13 4 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.10%) Advertising
14 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (1.10%) Public Speaking
14 3 (1.10%) Retail
15 2 (0.74%) Military
Job Titles
1 86 (31.62%) Architect
2 43 (15.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (13.97%) Support Engineer
4 32 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (11.03%) Lead
5 30 (11.03%) Senior
6 28 (10.29%) Azure Engineer
7 26 (9.56%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (6.99%) Infrastructure Support
8 19 (6.99%) IT Architect
8 19 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (6.62%) 3rd Line Support
10 17 (6.25%) Lead Architect
11 15 (5.51%) Azure Architect
12 14 (5.15%) Analyst
13 13 (4.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 12 (4.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (4.41%) IT Engineer
15 11 (4.04%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (4.04%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) .NET
2 5 (1.84%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.84%) FreeSWITCH
2 5 (1.84%) RESTful
3 4 (1.47%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.10%) CSS
4 3 (1.10%) HTML
4 3 (1.10%) REST
4 3 (1.10%) SOAP
5 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.74%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.74%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.74%) pytest
5 2 (0.74%) React
5 2 (0.74%) Web Services
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.37%) MvvmCross
6 1 (0.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.34%) Enterprise Software
2 33 (12.13%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.82%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.99%) Data Centre
4 19 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (5.15%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (3.31%) Private Cloud
7 7 (2.57%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.57%) PKI
8 6 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.84%) BYOD
9 5 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.84%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.47%) Clustering
10 4 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.47%) IoT
11 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 92 (33.82%) Windows
2 68 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 40 (14.71%) Linux
4 13 (4.78%) VMS
5 7 (2.57%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.84%) Debian
7 4 (1.47%) AIX
7 4 (1.47%) Android
8 3 (1.10%) Unix
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (28.68%) DevOps
2 66 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (19.85%) Cybersecurity
4 43 (15.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 43 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (15.44%) Agile
5 42 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 39 (14.34%) CI/CD
7 37 (13.60%) ITIL
8 35 (12.87%) Microservices
9 34 (12.50%) Migration
10 33 (12.13%) Analytics
11 32 (11.76%) AI
11 32 (11.76%) Project Delivery
12 31 (11.40%) Roadmaps
13 30 (11.03%) Cloud Security
14 27 (9.93%) Disaster Recovery
15 24 (8.82%) Containerisation
15 24 (8.82%) Project Management
16 22 (8.09%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 76 (27.94%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.03%) SQL
3 28 (10.29%) Python
4 26 (9.56%) Bash
5 22 (8.09%) Bicep
6 7 (2.57%) C#
7 4 (1.47%) DCL
7 4 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.47%) Tcl
8 3 (1.10%) Java
9 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 44 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.81%) Azure Certification
3 32 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.03%) Degree
5 28 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (4.78%) AWS Certification
7 12 (4.41%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (4.04%) CISSP
9 10 (3.68%) DV Cleared
10 9 (3.31%) CCNA
11 7 (2.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (2.21%) CISA
12 6 (2.21%) CRISC
12 6 (2.21%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.84%) CISM
13 5 (1.84%) SANS
14 4 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (1.47%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (4.78%) NIST
4 12 (4.41%) GDPR
5 9 (3.31%) IFRS
5 9 (3.31%) IFRS 17
5 9 (3.31%) Solvency II
6 6 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.21%) QA
7 5 (1.84%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.84%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.84%) SLA
8 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.10%) NCSC
9 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.10%) PMO
10 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.74%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (28.31%) Active Directory
2 45 (16.54%) Hyper-V
3 42 (15.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (10.66%) Docker
5 26 (9.56%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.94%) vCloud
7 5 (1.84%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.10%) vSphere
9 2 (0.74%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.37%) KVM
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (22.79%) Terraform
2 38 (13.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (11.40%) Kubernetes
4 14 (5.15%) Ansible
5 8 (2.94%) Puppet
5 8 (2.94%) SCCM
5 8 (2.94%) SCOM
6 6 (2.21%) Autotask
7 5 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.47%) CASB
9 3 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.37%) Argo
10 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.37%) Grafana
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.37%) Nessus
10 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 144 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 52 (19.12%) VMware
3 17 (6.25%) Google
4 15 (5.51%) Cisco
5 14 (5.15%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.78%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.68%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (3.68%) SAP
8 9 (3.31%) BiZZdesign
8 9 (3.31%) Duck Creek
8 9 (3.31%) Guidewire
8 9 (3.31%) Oracle
8 9 (3.31%) Veeam
9 8 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 7 (2.57%) Aruba
11 6 (2.21%) HP
11 6 (2.21%) Okta
11 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.84%) Citrix
12 5 (1.84%) SolarWinds