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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 456 409 372
Rank change year-on-year -47 -37 -185
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 373 309 570
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.93% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 248 223 457
10th Percentile £36,663 £37,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £46,467 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £106,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 27,899 15,975 26,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.66% 32.22% 32.23%
Number of salaries quoted 18,410 11,083 19,465
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,445 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.03% -5.71% -2.73%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -53 321 £60,750 -2.80% 113
UK excluding London -60 227 £60,000 +9.09% 80
London -33 123 £79,063 +12.95% 55
Work from Home -62 91 £68,000 +15.74% 49
North of England -24 60 £45,000 -16.28% 26
South East -30 58 £60,000 -7.69% 32
Midlands -45 40 £60,000 +26.32% 7
North West +10 31 £44,250 -25.00% 11
South West -46 29 £53,750 +13.16% 1
East Midlands -13 22 £57,500 +29.94%
North East -35 21 £67,125 +7.40% 4
West Midlands -39 18 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Scotland +33 15 £61,750 +12.27% 5
East of England -29 11 £60,000 +39.53% 4
Wales -52 9 £50,871 +33.54% 3
Yorkshire -41 8 £45,000 -5.26% 11
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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 35 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.34%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (5.63%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.07%) Primavera
2 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 284 (76.14%) Azure
2 267 (71.58%) PaaS
3 133 (35.66%) SaaS
4 96 (25.74%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (19.03%) Entra ID
6 61 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (15.82%) AWS
8 55 (14.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 54 (14.48%) Azure AKS
10 47 (12.60%) Serverless
11 42 (11.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 33 (8.85%) GitHub
13 29 (7.77%) Azure Functions
14 28 (7.51%) Azure Storage
15 22 (5.90%) Azure Monitor
16 19 (5.09%) Datadog
17 14 (3.75%) Power Platform
18 13 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
19 12 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
20 11 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 86 (23.06%) DNS
2 60 (16.09%) Firewall
2 60 (16.09%) VPN
3 45 (12.06%) DHCP
4 27 (7.24%) VLAN
5 25 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (5.90%) SAN
7 18 (4.83%) WAN
8 17 (4.56%) TCP/IP
9 9 (2.41%) LAN
9 9 (2.41%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.61%) Network Security
11 5 (1.34%) ATM
11 5 (1.34%) Multicast
11 5 (1.34%) SNMP
11 5 (1.34%) tcpdump
11 5 (1.34%) Wireshark
12 4 (1.07%) SSL
12 4 (1.07%) VoIP
13 3 (0.80%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.67%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.61%) Power BI
5 5 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.34%) Redis
6 4 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (6.70%) Git
2 17 (4.56%) Chocolatey
3 12 (3.22%) JIRA
4 5 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.54%) Ant
6 2 (0.54%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (0.54%) Maven
7 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.27%) Selenium
7 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.45%) Finance
3 54 (14.48%) Law
4 34 (9.12%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (6.43%) Banking
7 16 (4.29%) Legal
8 15 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.22%) Marketing
9 12 (3.22%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.22%) Retail
10 11 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.61%) Games
11 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.34%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.34%) Automotive
12 5 (1.34%) Aviation
12 5 (1.34%) Spanish Language
13 4 (1.07%) Health Technology
13 4 (1.07%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 83 (22.25%) Azure Engineer
2 77 (20.64%) Architect
3 71 (19.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 68 (18.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 61 (16.35%) Senior
6 32 (8.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 29 (7.77%) Analyst
8 26 (6.97%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (5.90%) Azure Architect
9 22 (5.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 22 (5.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.56%) Infrastructure Architect
11 16 (4.29%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (4.29%) Enterprise Architect
12 15 (4.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.02%) IT Engineer
12 15 (4.02%) Lead
13 14 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
13 14 (3.75%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.09%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.22%) YAML
3 5 (1.34%) .NET
3 5 (1.34%) Middleware
4 4 (1.07%) Node.js
5 3 (0.80%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.80%) SAML
5 3 (0.80%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.54%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.54%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.54%) Kafka
6 2 (0.54%) REST
6 2 (0.54%) Web Services
7 1 (0.27%) ADO
7 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) Playwright
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.43%) Security Posture
4 23 (6.17%) Data Centre
5 22 (5.90%) Public Cloud
6 20 (5.36%) Onboarding
7 19 (5.09%) Cyber Threat
7 19 (5.09%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (4.29%) Enterprise Cloud
8 16 (4.29%) Management Information System
9 13 (3.49%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.22%) Podcast
11 11 (2.95%) Replication
12 9 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.34%) AS400
14 5 (1.34%) iSeries
15 4 (1.07%) NHS
15 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (27.61%) Windows
2 50 (13.40%) Windows Server
3 45 (12.06%) Linux
4 14 (3.75%) VMS
5 7 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.61%) Unix
7 5 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.07%) Solaris
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.80%) Debian
10 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (33.51%) Infrastructure as Code
2 121 (32.44%) DevOps
3 86 (23.06%) Disaster Recovery
4 84 (22.52%) CI/CD
5 82 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 77 (20.64%) Agile
6 77 (20.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 73 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.23%) High Availability
9 64 (17.16%) Root Cause Analysis
10 62 (16.62%) Cloud Security
11 56 (15.01%) Roadmaps
12 53 (14.21%) Analytics
13 52 (13.94%) Containerisation
14 51 (13.67%) Migration
15 44 (11.80%) AI
16 39 (10.46%) Computer Science
16 39 (10.46%) Mentoring
17 38 (10.19%) ITIL
18 37 (9.92%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 108 (28.95%) PowerShell
2 54 (14.48%) Bicep
3 40 (10.72%) Python
4 34 (9.12%) SQL
5 29 (7.77%) Bash
6 12 (3.22%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.61%) Java
8 5 (1.34%) C#
9 4 (1.07%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (25.20%) Azure Certification
2 45 (12.06%) Degree
3 33 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (8.31%) Security Cleared
5 26 (6.97%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.02%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.75%) CCNP
9 11 (2.95%) CISSP
10 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.61%) MCSE
11 6 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.07%) CISA
13 4 (1.07%) CRISC
14 3 (0.80%) ICAEW
15 2 (0.54%) CCSK
15 2 (0.54%) CISM
15 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.43%) SLA
3 18 (4.83%) NIST
4 17 (4.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.95%) GDPR
5 11 (2.95%) ISO 14000
6 8 (2.14%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.61%) QA
8 4 (1.07%) NCSC
9 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.27%) PMO
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (27.88%) Active Directory
2 75 (20.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.51%) Docker
3 28 (7.51%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (4.83%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.02%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (4.02%) vSphere
6 10 (2.68%) KVM
7 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.54%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (30.56%) Terraform
2 63 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 61 (16.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (10.46%) Ansible
5 18 (4.83%) SCCM
6 13 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.88%) Puppet
8 5 (1.34%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.80%) Autotask
9 3 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
10 2 (0.54%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.54%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) SCOM
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 181 (48.53%) Microsoft
2 79 (21.18%) VMware
3 24 (6.43%) Cisco
4 19 (5.09%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.56%) AppDynamics
5 17 (4.56%) Tenable
6 12 (3.22%) Apple
6 12 (3.22%) Meraki
6 12 (3.22%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (3.22%) Veeam
7 9 (2.41%) Google
8 8 (2.14%) Oracle
8 8 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.61%) iManage
9 6 (1.61%) SAP
10 5 (1.34%) Aderant
10 5 (1.34%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.34%) Zerto
11 4 (1.07%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.07%) Sage