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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 411 294
Rank change year-on-year -80 -117 -119
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 337 277 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.56% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.79% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 211 201 330
10th Percentile £45,500 £37,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -8.52%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 26,638 15,454 22,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.51% 31.50% 32.09%
Number of salaries quoted 18,339 10,402 13,888
10th Percentile £31,470 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,497 £37,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 13 October 2026.

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 13 October 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 -97 296 £65,000 +8.33% 210
UK excluding London -106 203 £60,000 +4.35% 146
London -33 115 £78,125 +20.19% 89
Work from Home -57 106 £69,607 +21.05% 92
North of England -46 70 £52,788 +11.13% 39
South East -26 50 £62,500 +5.93% 36
North West -24 33 £47,500 +17.28% 21
Midlands -51 31 £60,000 -20.00% 25
North East -55 23 £89,250 +32.22% 5
West Midlands -38 21 £60,000 -22.58% 15
South West -75 21 £55,000 - 12
Yorkshire -39 14 £66,053 +39.06% 13
Scotland +14 13 £77,500 +34.78% 14
East Midlands -33 10 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Wales -65 9 £50,871 +33.54% 8
East of England -45 7 £60,000 +11.11% 10
Northern Ireland -76 2 - - 5

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 46 (13.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (8.01%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.19%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.93%) PlantUML
2 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 262 (77.74%) Azure
2 226 (67.06%) PaaS
3 120 (35.61%) SaaS
4 91 (27.00%) Microsoft 365
5 81 (24.04%) Entra ID
6 70 (20.77%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (19.88%) AWS
8 46 (13.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 46 (13.65%) GitHub
9 44 (13.06%) Azure AKS
9 44 (13.06%) Serverless
10 37 (10.98%) Azure Key Vault
10 37 (10.98%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (10.39%) Azure Functions
12 20 (5.93%) Azure Storage
12 20 (5.93%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (4.45%) GCP
13 15 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (4.45%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (3.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 93 (27.60%) DNS
2 70 (20.77%) Firewall
3 61 (18.10%) VPN
4 46 (13.65%) DHCP
5 20 (5.93%) WAN
6 18 (5.34%) VLAN
7 17 (5.04%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (4.75%) Network Security
9 15 (4.45%) SAN
10 13 (3.86%) SD-WAN
11 12 (3.56%) TCP/IP
12 10 (2.97%) LAN
13 9 (2.67%) BIG-IP
13 9 (2.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (2.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (2.67%) SNMP
13 9 (2.67%) SSL
14 3 (0.89%) Wireless
15 2 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
15 2 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 21 (6.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.48%) Redis
5 4 (1.19%) Big Data
5 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (1.19%) Power BI
6 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.59%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.59%) Power Query
8 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.30%) Metadata
8 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (8.01%) Git
2 20 (5.93%) JIRA
3 13 (3.86%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.26%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.59%) Ant
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.59%) Maven
5 2 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
General
1 96 (28.49%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.74%) Finance
3 42 (12.46%) Law
4 36 (10.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 31 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 30 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.53%) Banking
8 19 (5.64%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.56%) Legal
10 11 (3.26%) Retail
11 10 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.67%) Marketing
13 6 (1.78%) Games
13 6 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.48%) Aviation
15 4 (1.19%) Health Technology
15 4 (1.19%) Police
16 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.59%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 77 (22.85%) Architect
2 74 (21.96%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (21.36%) Senior
4 68 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 59 (17.51%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (8.01%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.42%) Azure Architect
8 24 (7.12%) Analyst
9 23 (6.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 23 (6.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 20 (5.93%) Infrastructure Architect
11 18 (5.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.75%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.45%) Lead
14 14 (4.15%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.15%) Consultant
14 14 (4.15%) Senior Architect
14 14 (4.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 13 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (35.31%) Terraform
2 19 (5.64%) ARM Templates
3 17 (5.04%) Middleware
4 8 (2.37%) .NET
4 8 (2.37%) SAML
4 8 (2.37%) YAML
5 3 (0.89%) Node.js
5 3 (0.89%) RESTful
5 3 (0.89%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.59%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.59%) ADO
6 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.59%) REST
6 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) Kafka
7 1 (0.30%) Playwright
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.91%) Cloud Native
2 35 (10.39%) Data Centre
3 34 (10.09%) Public Cloud
4 31 (9.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 27 (8.01%) Security Posture
6 24 (7.12%) Enterprise Software
7 21 (6.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 17 (5.04%) Management Information System
9 16 (4.75%) Driving Licence
9 16 (4.75%) Onboarding
10 13 (3.86%) Cyber Threat
11 12 (3.56%) Podcast
12 9 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
14 6 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
14 6 (1.78%) Private Cloud
14 6 (1.78%) Replication
14 6 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.48%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 94 (27.89%) Windows
2 53 (15.73%) Windows Server
3 46 (13.65%) Linux
4 20 (5.93%) VMS
5 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.19%) CentOS
6 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.89%) Solaris
7 3 (0.89%) Unix
8 2 (0.59%) Android
8 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.59%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.87%) Infrastructure as Code
2 127 (37.69%) DevOps
3 107 (31.75%) Disaster Recovery
4 98 (29.08%) CI/CD
5 88 (26.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (23.74%) Agile
7 76 (22.55%) Cloud Security
8 74 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (21.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (18.99%) Analytics
11 62 (18.40%) AI
11 62 (18.40%) Root Cause Analysis
12 61 (18.10%) High Availability
13 57 (16.91%) Migration
14 51 (15.13%) Roadmaps
15 49 (14.54%) ITIL
16 45 (13.35%) Containerisation
17 43 (12.76%) Mentoring
18 40 (11.87%) Computer Science
18 40 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (32.05%) PowerShell
2 56 (16.62%) Bicep
3 40 (11.87%) Python
4 38 (11.28%) SQL
5 27 (8.01%) Bash
6 12 (3.56%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.67%) ActionScript
8 7 (2.08%) C#
8 7 (2.08%) Java
9 4 (1.19%) Go
10 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.59%) Kotlin
10 2 (0.59%) Ruby
10 2 (0.59%) Swift
11 1 (0.30%) Perl
11 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (27.00%) Azure Certification
2 47 (13.95%) Degree
3 39 (11.57%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (8.61%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.97%) CISSP
8 7 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 7 (2.08%) CCNP
8 7 (2.08%) CCSP
8 7 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.48%) CISM
10 4 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.89%) CCSK
11 3 (0.89%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (7.12%) SLA
3 20 (5.93%) NIST
4 17 (5.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.26%) ISO 14000
6 8 (2.37%) GDPR
6 8 (2.37%) NCSC
6 8 (2.37%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.89%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.89%) GRC
7 3 (0.89%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.59%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 96 (28.49%) Active Directory
2 71 (21.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.42%) Docker
4 22 (6.53%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.93%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (5.64%) Hyper-V
6 19 (5.64%) vSphere
7 5 (1.48%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.59%) Firmware
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (18.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (15.43%) Kubernetes
3 45 (13.35%) Ansible
4 15 (4.45%) SCCM
5 12 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (2.37%) SCOM
7 7 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.08%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.48%) Autotask
8 5 (1.48%) Grafana
8 5 (1.48%) Puppet
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 4 (1.19%) Nessus
9 4 (1.19%) vRealize
10 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.59%) Argo
11 2 (0.59%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.59%) MaaS360
11 2 (0.59%) VxRail
11 2 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 176 (52.23%) Microsoft
2 76 (22.55%) VMware
3 29 (8.61%) Cisco
4 13 (3.86%) Dynatrace
4 13 (3.86%) Google
4 13 (3.86%) Tenable
5 12 (3.56%) ScienceLogic
6 11 (3.26%) AppDynamics
6 11 (3.26%) Oracle
7 10 (2.97%) Meraki
8 9 (2.67%) Adobe
8 9 (2.67%) F5
8 9 (2.67%) SolarWinds
9 8 (2.37%) Citrix
10 7 (2.08%) Apple
11 6 (1.78%) Datto
11 6 (1.78%) Zscaler
12 5 (1.48%) Aderant
12 5 (1.48%) Thales
12 5 (1.48%) YouTube