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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 392 383
Rank change year-on-year -30 -9 -184
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 364 314 682
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.64% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.98% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 246 224 569
10th Percentile £37,082 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,140 £46,250 £50,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £105,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -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 27,041 15,883 33,486
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.37% 32.32% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 17,570 11,064 25,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -43 315 £60,750 -6.54% 116
UK excluding London -47 217 £60,000 +1.69% 114
London -22 120 £78,125 +11.61% 38
Work from Home -37 96 £68,500 +14.17% 72
South East -19 61 £60,000 -16.08% 45
North of England -18 54 £45,000 -18.18% 17
Midlands -49 36 £58,750 -12.96% 12
South West -49 30 £52,500 +10.53% 15
North West +4 27 £41,000 -34.40% 7
East Midlands -24 21 £57,500 +39.39% 6
North East -42 17 £45,000 -27.13% 3
Scotland +25 15 £46,000 -16.36% 9
West Midlands -47 15 £61,500 -12.14% 6
East of England -21 14 £60,000 +32.60% 11
Yorkshire -44 10 £46,042 -3.07% 7
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -57 4 £65,000 +70.63% 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 29 (7.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.49%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.10%) Primavera
3 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 275 (75.55%) Azure
2 272 (74.73%) PaaS
3 127 (34.89%) SaaS
4 81 (22.25%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (18.13%) Entra ID
6 58 (15.93%) Azure AKS
6 58 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (15.38%) AWS
8 55 (15.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 44 (12.09%) Serverless
10 40 (10.99%) Azure Key Vault
11 37 (10.16%) GitHub
12 28 (7.69%) Azure Storage
13 26 (7.14%) Azure Functions
13 26 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (4.95%) Datadog
15 14 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.85%) Power Platform
16 13 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 78 (21.43%) DNS
2 63 (17.31%) Firewall
3 62 (17.03%) VPN
4 38 (10.44%) DHCP
5 33 (9.07%) VLAN
6 24 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.77%) SAN
8 20 (5.49%) TCP/IP
9 17 (4.67%) WAN
10 9 (2.47%) LAN
11 8 (2.20%) SD-WAN
11 8 (2.20%) VoIP
12 6 (1.65%) ATM
12 6 (1.65%) Multicast
12 6 (1.65%) Network Security
12 6 (1.65%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.65%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.37%) DMZ
13 5 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.37%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.37%) Power BI
5 5 (1.37%) Redis
6 4 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.55%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.32%) Git
2 16 (4.40%) Chocolatey
3 12 (3.30%) JIRA
4 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.55%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) GitLab
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 101 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.53%) Finance
3 49 (13.46%) Law
4 34 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.04%) Banking
7 14 (3.85%) Legal
8 12 (3.30%) Marketing
8 12 (3.30%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.47%) Retail
11 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.65%) Automotive
12 6 (1.65%) Games
12 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.65%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.37%) Aviation
14 4 (1.10%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 84 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
2 82 (22.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (19.23%) Senior
4 69 (18.96%) Architect
5 61 (16.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (8.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 29 (7.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.42%) Analyst
9 23 (6.32%) Azure Architect
10 22 (6.04%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (5.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 19 (5.22%) IT Engineer
13 18 (4.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (4.40%) Consultant
14 16 (4.40%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (4.40%) Infrastructure Architect
14 16 (4.40%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
15 15 (4.12%) IT Technician
16 14 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.49%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.02%) YAML
3 5 (1.37%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.37%) Node.js
4 4 (1.10%) .NET
5 3 (0.82%) Middleware
5 3 (0.82%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.82%) Web Services
6 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.55%) Kafka
6 2 (0.55%) Playwright
6 2 (0.55%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) LDAP
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 26 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 26 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 20 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.22%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 19 (5.22%) Public Cloud
5 17 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 16 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (4.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 12 (3.30%) Podcast
9 11 (3.02%) Replication
10 10 (2.75%) Driving Licence
10 10 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.37%) PKI
13 4 (1.10%) AS400
13 4 (1.10%) iSeries
13 4 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 102 (28.02%) Windows
2 52 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 45 (12.36%) Linux
4 15 (4.12%) VMS
5 9 (2.47%) Unix
6 8 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.37%) Debian
7 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (36.26%) Infrastructure as Code
2 121 (33.24%) DevOps
3 89 (24.45%) CI/CD
4 75 (20.60%) Agile
5 73 (20.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (18.68%) Root Cause Analysis
8 66 (18.13%) Cloud Security
9 65 (17.86%) Disaster Recovery
10 64 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (16.21%) High Availability
12 56 (15.38%) Containerisation
13 53 (14.56%) Analytics
14 50 (13.74%) Roadmaps
15 46 (12.64%) AI
16 43 (11.81%) Migration
17 40 (10.99%) Computer Science
18 38 (10.44%) Mentoring
19 36 (9.89%) ITIL
19 36 (9.89%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 102 (28.02%) PowerShell
2 57 (15.66%) Bicep
3 47 (12.91%) Python
4 42 (11.54%) SQL
5 32 (8.79%) Bash
6 12 (3.30%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.92%) Java
8 4 (1.10%) C#
8 4 (1.10%) Go
9 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.55%) Ruby
9 2 (0.55%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 86 (23.63%) Azure Certification
2 44 (12.09%) Degree
3 34 (9.34%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 28 (7.69%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.57%) CCNP
7 13 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.57%) CISSP
8 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.65%) MCSE
8 6 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.10%) CCSK
10 4 (1.10%) CISA
10 4 (1.10%) CRISC
10 4 (1.10%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.82%) CISM
11 3 (0.82%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.04%) NIST
3 20 (5.49%) SLA
4 13 (3.57%) GDPR
5 11 (3.02%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (2.75%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.20%) ISO 14000
8 6 (1.65%) QA
9 5 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 97 (26.65%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.52%) Docker
4 27 (7.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (5.49%) vSphere
6 17 (4.67%) Hyper-V
7 13 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.02%) KVM
9 2 (0.55%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.55%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (32.14%) Terraform
2 64 (17.58%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (9.89%) Ansible
5 18 (4.95%) SCCM
6 13 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.65%) Puppet
8 4 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.82%) Autotask
9 3 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.82%) Packer
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.55%) Argo
10 2 (0.55%) CASB
10 2 (0.55%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.55%) Grafana
10 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.55%) VxRail
10 2 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 169 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 80 (21.98%) VMware
3 26 (7.14%) Cisco
4 18 (4.95%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.40%) AppDynamics
5 16 (4.40%) Tenable
6 13 (3.57%) Veeam
7 12 (3.30%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (3.02%) Google
8 11 (3.02%) Meraki
9 7 (1.92%) Apple
9 7 (1.92%) Oracle
10 6 (1.65%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.65%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.37%) SAP
11 5 (1.37%) Zerto
12 4 (1.10%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.10%) iManage
12 4 (1.10%) Sage
13 3 (0.82%) Fortinet