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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 402 372
Rank change year-on-year -30 -30 -153
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 343 291 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.65% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.94% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 248 199 601
10th Percentile £36,066 £37,500 £42,279
25th Percentile £45,500 £46,875 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +1.47% -2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,288 £99,250 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%

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 25,343 15,000 35,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.44% 32.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16,408 10,346 27,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,252 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -9.75%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.94% -7.27%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -42 298 £60,000 -14.29% 78
UK excluding London -51 202 £60,000 -4.00% 60
London -5 116 £72,500 - 40
Work from Home -13 89 £70,000 +19.15% 30
South East -18 63 £60,000 -29.41% 35
North of England -19 40 £45,000 -26.83% 11
Midlands -35 40 £53,250 -19.62% 7
South West -45 24 £48,750 -1.02% 4
East Midlands -24 23 £45,000 +9.09% 2
North West +10 21 £28,000 -58.52% 6
West Midlands -30 17 £56,500 -19.29% 5
East of England -15 15 £60,000 +39.53% 3
Scotland +16 13 £43,400 -21.09% 3
Yorkshire -47 10 £46,042 -12.30% 3
North East - 9 £45,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -50 4 £65,000 +70.63%

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 26 (7.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.17%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (4.66%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.46%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.17%) Primavera
3 3 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 268 (78.13%) Azure
2 260 (75.80%) PaaS
3 123 (35.86%) SaaS
4 87 (25.36%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (20.41%) Entra ID
6 63 (18.37%) Azure AKS
7 54 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (14.29%) AWS
9 48 (13.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 37 (10.79%) Serverless
11 35 (10.20%) Azure Key Vault
12 31 (9.04%) GitHub
13 30 (8.75%) Azure Storage
14 25 (7.29%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (5.83%) Azure Functions
15 20 (5.83%) Datadog
16 15 (4.37%) GCP
17 14 (4.08%) Power Platform
18 12 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
19 11 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (22.74%) DNS
2 71 (20.70%) Firewall
3 56 (16.33%) VPN
4 41 (11.95%) DHCP
5 36 (10.50%) VLAN
6 25 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (6.71%) SAN
8 18 (5.25%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.79%) WAN
10 8 (2.33%) LAN
10 8 (2.33%) VoIP
11 7 (2.04%) Network Security
11 7 (2.04%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.75%) ATM
12 6 (1.75%) Multicast
12 6 (1.75%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.75%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.46%) DMZ
13 5 (1.46%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.46%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (17.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.46%) Power BI
5 5 (1.46%) Redis
5 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.17%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.58%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.29%) Big Data
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (5.25%) Chocolatey
2 15 (4.37%) Git
3 11 (3.21%) JIRA
4 7 (2.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.87%) Selenium
6 2 (0.58%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 90 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.32%) Finance
3 44 (12.83%) Law
4 39 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.00%) Banking
6 21 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (3.79%) Legal
8 9 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.33%) Billing
9 8 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.04%) Marketing
10 7 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.04%) Retail
11 6 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.75%) Automotive
11 6 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.75%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.46%) Aviation
13 4 (1.17%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 92 (26.82%) Azure Engineer
2 89 (25.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 68 (19.83%) Senior
4 66 (19.24%) Architect
4 66 (19.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 32 (9.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 31 (9.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.00%) Analyst
8 23 (6.71%) IT Engineer
9 21 (6.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.83%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
11 18 (5.25%) Azure Architect
12 17 (4.96%) Consultant
13 16 (4.66%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 15 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (4.37%) Enterprise Architect
14 15 (4.37%) IT Technician
15 14 (4.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.66%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.21%) YAML
3 6 (1.75%) Node.js
4 5 (1.46%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.87%) .NET
5 3 (0.87%) Kafka
5 3 (0.87%) Middleware
5 3 (0.87%) Playwright
5 3 (0.87%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.58%) RESTful
7 1 (0.29%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.29%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.29%) JSON
7 1 (0.29%) LDAP
7 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.29%) REST
7 1 (0.29%) Web Services
7 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.87%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 21 (6.12%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (6.12%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.83%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (3.50%) Onboarding
7 11 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
7 11 (3.21%) Replication
8 8 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.04%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.04%) Podcast
10 5 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.17%) PKI
12 2 (0.58%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.58%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 98 (28.57%) Windows
2 53 (15.45%) Windows Server
3 47 (13.70%) Linux
4 14 (4.08%) VMS
5 13 (3.79%) Unix
6 8 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.46%) Debian
8 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.58%) Solaris
10 2 (0.58%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.29%) AIX
11 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (36.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 111 (32.36%) DevOps
3 81 (23.62%) CI/CD
4 77 (22.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 73 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
6 70 (20.41%) Agile
7 62 (18.08%) Cloud Security
8 57 (16.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 57 (16.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 53 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (15.16%) Containerisation
11 49 (14.29%) High Availability
12 43 (12.54%) Migration
13 42 (12.24%) Roadmaps
14 41 (11.95%) ITIL
15 38 (11.08%) Computer Science
16 37 (10.79%) AI
16 37 (10.79%) Analytics
17 36 (10.50%) Load Balancing
18 33 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 93 (27.11%) PowerShell
2 46 (13.41%) Bicep
3 45 (13.12%) Python
4 40 (11.66%) SQL
5 28 (8.16%) Bash
6 7 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.75%) Java
8 4 (1.17%) C#
9 3 (0.87%) DCL
9 3 (0.87%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (0.87%) Tcl
9 3 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 82 (23.91%) Azure Certification
2 43 (12.54%) Degree
3 37 (10.79%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.04%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 23 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.66%) CISSP
8 12 (3.50%) CCNP
8 12 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.04%) CCSK
10 6 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.75%) MCSE
10 6 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.17%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.17%) CISA
12 4 (1.17%) CRISC
13 3 (0.87%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (5.54%) NIST
2 19 (5.54%) SLA
3 13 (3.79%) GDPR
4 12 (3.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.04%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.75%) QA
7 2 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 92 (26.82%) Active Directory
2 64 (18.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.87%) Docker
4 24 (7.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (5.25%) vSphere
6 14 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (3.50%) Hyper-V
8 11 (3.21%) KVM
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.58%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.58%) Firmware
10 2 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 111 (32.36%) Terraform
2 61 (17.78%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (9.62%) Ansible
5 20 (5.83%) SCCM
6 14 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.75%) Puppet
8 5 (1.46%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.17%) Packer
9 4 (1.17%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.87%) Autotask
10 3 (0.87%) CASB
11 2 (0.58%) Argo
11 2 (0.58%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.58%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.58%) Grafana
11 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.58%) VxRail
11 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 163 (47.52%) Microsoft
2 73 (21.28%) VMware
3 22 (6.41%) Cisco
4 20 (5.83%) Dynatrace
5 18 (5.25%) AppDynamics
5 18 (5.25%) Tenable
6 15 (4.37%) Google
7 13 (3.79%) Veeam
8 11 (3.21%) Meraki
9 7 (2.04%) Apple
9 7 (2.04%) ScienceLogic
10 6 (1.75%) Oracle
10 6 (1.75%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.75%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.46%) SAP
11 5 (1.46%) Zerto
12 4 (1.17%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.17%) Sage
13 3 (0.87%) iManage