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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 415 365
Rank change year-on-year -13 -50 -142
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 333 272 727
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.85% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 244 181 612
10th Percentile £35,271 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £74,063 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% - +4.17%

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 26,501 14,679 35,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.60% 33.61% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15,679 10,057 26,957
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,400
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 4 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 4 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 -23 287 £60,000 -14.29% 97
UK excluding London -34 198 £57,500 -8.00% 69
London -7 109 £72,500 - 56
Work from Home -4 81 £70,000 +27.27% 40
South East -9 64 £60,000 -29.41% 35
North of England -28 40 £45,000 -28.00% 7
Midlands -52 40 £50,000 -11.11% 7
North West +13 23 £28,000 -58.52% 3
East Midlands -23 22 £45,000 +12.50% 3
South West -44 18 £42,500 -23.42% 10
West Midlands -48 18 £56,500 -19.29% 4
East of England -21 16 £60,000 +39.53% 4
Scotland +15 13 £43,400 -21.09% 8
Yorkshire -48 9 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North East - 8 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -41 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 20 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 13 (3.90%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 260 (78.08%) Azure
2 249 (74.77%) PaaS
3 123 (36.94%) SaaS
4 87 (26.13%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (20.42%) Entra ID
6 59 (17.72%) Azure AKS
7 47 (14.11%) AWS
7 47 (14.11%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (12.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 30 (9.01%) Azure Key Vault
9 30 (9.01%) Azure Storage
10 29 (8.71%) Serverless
11 25 (7.51%) GitHub
12 21 (6.31%) Datadog
13 18 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (4.80%) Power Platform
15 15 (4.50%) GCP
16 13 (3.90%) Azure Functions
17 11 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (23.42%) DNS
2 70 (21.02%) Firewall
3 49 (14.71%) VPN
4 42 (12.61%) DHCP
5 37 (11.11%) VLAN
6 25 (7.51%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (7.21%) SAN
8 17 (5.11%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.60%) WAN
10 8 (2.40%) VoIP
11 7 (2.10%) LAN
11 7 (2.10%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.80%) ATM
12 6 (1.80%) Multicast
12 6 (1.80%) Network Security
12 6 (1.80%) PuTTY
12 6 (1.80%) SSH
12 6 (1.80%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.80%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.50%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.50%) Power BI
3 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 3 (0.90%) Redis
5 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.71%) Chocolatey
2 10 (3.00%) Git
2 10 (3.00%) JIRA
3 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.90%) Selenium
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 85 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.32%) Finance
3 41 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.71%) Law
5 25 (7.51%) Banking
6 14 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.20%) Legal
7 9 (2.70%) Billing
7 9 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
8 6 (1.80%) Automotive
8 6 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.80%) Marketing
8 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.80%) Retail
8 6 (1.80%) Spanish Language
9 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.20%) Advertising
11 3 (0.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 93 (27.93%) Azure Engineer
2 92 (27.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (20.12%) Senior
4 66 (19.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 63 (18.92%) Architect
6 32 (9.61%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 32 (9.61%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.21%) IT Engineer
8 23 (6.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.91%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (6.61%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.01%) Analyst
11 17 (5.11%) Consultant
11 17 (5.11%) Support Engineer
12 16 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.50%) IT Technician
14 14 (4.20%) Azure Architect
14 14 (4.20%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (3.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.20%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.70%) YAML
3 6 (1.80%) Node.js
4 5 (1.50%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.90%) .NET
5 3 (0.90%) Kafka
5 3 (0.90%) Playwright
5 3 (0.90%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.60%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.60%) Middleware
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) REST
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.81%) Cloud Native
2 21 (6.31%) Cyber Threat
2 21 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 20 (6.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 16 (4.80%) Security Posture
5 15 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (3.30%) Replication
7 9 (2.70%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.40%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (2.40%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.40%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.80%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
13 2 (0.60%) BYOD
13 2 (0.60%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 90 (27.03%) Windows
2 50 (15.02%) Windows Server
3 44 (13.21%) Linux
4 14 (4.20%) Unix
5 12 (3.60%) VMS
6 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.50%) Debian
8 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.60%) Solaris
9 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 101 (30.33%) DevOps
3 76 (22.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 76 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (21.92%) CI/CD
5 67 (20.12%) Agile
6 54 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 52 (15.62%) Cloud Security
8 51 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (15.02%) Containerisation
10 48 (14.41%) High Availability
10 48 (14.41%) Root Cause Analysis
11 42 (12.61%) Migration
12 39 (11.71%) ITIL
13 34 (10.21%) Computer Science
13 34 (10.21%) Load Balancing
13 34 (10.21%) Roadmaps
14 31 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
14 31 (9.31%) Identity Access Management
15 30 (9.01%) AI
Programming Languages
1 85 (25.53%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.21%) Python
3 39 (11.71%) Bicep
4 36 (10.81%) SQL
5 22 (6.61%) Bash
6 6 (1.80%) DCL
6 6 (1.80%) Java
6 6 (1.80%) Tcl
7 4 (1.20%) C#
8 3 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 76 (22.82%) Azure Certification
2 41 (12.31%) Degree
3 35 (10.51%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.41%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (5.11%) CISSP
8 11 (3.30%) CCNP
8 11 (3.30%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.40%) CCSK
10 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.80%) MCSE
10 6 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.20%) CISA
12 4 (1.20%) CRISC
13 3 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (5.71%) SLA
3 17 (5.11%) NIST
4 13 (3.90%) GDPR
5 12 (3.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.10%) QA
7 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (24.92%) Active Directory
2 53 (15.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.51%) Docker
4 18 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (3.90%) vSphere
6 11 (3.30%) Hyper-V
6 11 (3.30%) KVM
7 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
8 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 100 (30.03%) Terraform
2 58 (17.42%) Kubernetes
3 48 (14.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (8.71%) Ansible
5 21 (6.31%) SCCM
6 14 (4.20%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.80%) Puppet
8 5 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.20%) Packer
9 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.90%) Autotask
10 3 (0.90%) CASB
11 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.60%) Grafana
11 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.60%) VxRail
11 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
12 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 154 (46.25%) Microsoft
2 64 (19.22%) VMware
3 21 (6.31%) Dynatrace
4 19 (5.71%) AppDynamics
4 19 (5.71%) Tenable
5 18 (5.41%) Cisco
6 14 (4.20%) Google
7 13 (3.90%) Veeam
8 10 (3.00%) Meraki
9 7 (2.10%) Apple
10 6 (1.80%) Oracle
10 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.80%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.50%) SAP
11 5 (1.50%) Zerto
12 4 (1.20%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.20%) Sage
13 3 (0.90%) iManage
13 3 (0.90%) Yealink