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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 419 364
Rank change year-on-year -69 -55 -180
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 343 282 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.57% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.81% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 214 201 336
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,170 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,675 £44,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £85,938 £77,500 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -13.36%

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 27,603 15,559 24,449
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.55% 31.50% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 18,768 10,536 15,264
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -82 301 £65,000 +8.33% 237
UK excluding London -100 202 £60,000 +9.09% 153
London -27 120 £78,125 +13.22% 110
Work from Home -65 96 £69,607 +26.56% 74
North of England -54 61 £57,500 +21.05% 49
South East -34 52 £60,000 +1.69% 50
Midlands -48 31 £60,000 -11.11% 24
South West -69 28 £53,750 +13.16% 8
North West -24 25 £47,500 +17.28% 28
North East -53 23 £89,250 +37.31% 4
West Midlands -50 19 £60,000 -5.88% 13
Yorkshire -43 13 £66,053 +39.06% 18
Scotland +17 12 £77,500 +34.78% 5
East Midlands -32 12 £60,000 -20.00% 11
Wales -68 9 £50,871 +33.54% 6
East of England -29 7 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Northern Ireland -90 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 38 (11.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (8.45%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.75%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (6.12%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (76.97%) Azure
2 245 (71.43%) PaaS
3 126 (36.73%) SaaS
4 89 (25.95%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (21.87%) Entra ID
6 70 (20.41%) AWS
7 66 (19.24%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (13.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 48 (13.99%) Serverless
9 47 (13.70%) Azure AKS
10 37 (10.79%) Azure Key Vault
10 37 (10.79%) GitHub
11 36 (10.50%) Azure Monitor
12 34 (9.91%) Azure Functions
13 21 (6.12%) Azure Storage
14 20 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (4.96%) GCP
16 16 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (4.08%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 88 (25.66%) DNS
2 64 (18.66%) Firewall
3 58 (16.91%) VPN
4 46 (13.41%) DHCP
5 23 (6.71%) WAN
6 20 (5.83%) VLAN
6 20 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (4.96%) SAN
8 14 (4.08%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.50%) LAN
9 12 (3.50%) Network Security
10 9 (2.62%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.75%) SNMP
12 4 (1.17%) BIG-IP
12 4 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (1.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 4 (1.17%) SSL
13 3 (0.87%) Wireless
14 1 (0.29%) DSL
14 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.75%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.46%) Redis
6 4 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.17%) Power BI
7 3 (0.87%) Big Data
7 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.58%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.16%) Git
2 16 (4.66%) JIRA
3 12 (3.50%) Chocolatey
4 9 (2.62%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.58%) Ant
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.58%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (27.11%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.03%) Finance
3 44 (12.83%) Law
4 34 (9.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 21 (6.12%) Banking
7 20 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.08%) Retail
9 11 (3.21%) Legal
9 11 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.62%) Marketing
11 6 (1.75%) Games
12 5 (1.46%) Aviation
12 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.87%) Police
15 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.58%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 81 (23.62%) Architect
2 75 (21.87%) Azure Engineer
3 69 (20.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 69 (20.12%) Senior
4 60 (17.49%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (7.29%) Analyst
5 25 (7.29%) Azure Architect
5 25 (7.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (7.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 22 (6.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 20 (5.83%) Infrastructure Architect
9 18 (5.25%) Lead
10 17 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.08%) Consultant
13 14 (4.08%) Enterprise Architect
13 14 (4.08%) Senior Architect
13 14 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (34.69%) Terraform
2 18 (5.25%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.66%) Middleware
4 9 (2.62%) YAML
5 5 (1.46%) SAML
6 4 (1.17%) .NET
6 4 (1.17%) Node.js
7 3 (0.87%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.58%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.58%) REST
8 2 (0.58%) Web Services
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) JSON
9 1 (0.29%) Kafka
9 1 (0.29%) Playwright
9 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.62%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 29 (8.45%) Public Cloud
4 27 (7.87%) Data Centre
5 25 (7.29%) Security Posture
6 21 (6.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 17 (4.96%) Onboarding
8 15 (4.37%) Management Information System
9 14 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
9 14 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (3.50%) Podcast
11 11 (3.21%) Driving Licence
12 9 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (2.04%) Product Ownership
14 7 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
15 5 (1.46%) AS400
15 5 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.46%) iSeries
15 5 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 92 (26.82%) Windows
2 47 (13.70%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.12%) Linux
4 20 (5.83%) VMS
5 6 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.17%) Solaris
7 4 (1.17%) Unix
8 3 (0.87%) CentOS
9 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (36.15%) DevOps
3 104 (30.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 90 (26.24%) CI/CD
5 86 (25.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 79 (23.03%) Agile
7 75 (21.87%) Cloud Security
8 71 (20.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
10 64 (18.66%) Analytics
11 62 (18.08%) High Availability
12 60 (17.49%) Root Cause Analysis
13 57 (16.62%) Migration
14 54 (15.74%) AI
15 53 (15.45%) Roadmaps
16 50 (14.58%) ITIL
17 47 (13.70%) Containerisation
18 46 (13.41%) Mentoring
19 42 (12.24%) Computer Science
20 38 (11.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (31.20%) PowerShell
2 55 (16.03%) Bicep
3 38 (11.08%) SQL
4 36 (10.50%) Python
5 29 (8.45%) Bash
6 12 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (2.04%) Java
8 4 (1.17%) ActionScript
8 4 (1.17%) Go
9 3 (0.87%) C#
10 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.58%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) Swift
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (26.24%) Azure Certification
2 47 (13.70%) Degree
3 35 (10.20%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (7.87%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.92%) CISSP
9 8 (2.33%) CCNP
10 6 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.75%) CCSP
11 4 (1.17%) CISM
12 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.87%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.58%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.41%) SLA
3 21 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (5.25%) NIST
5 11 (3.21%) GDPR
5 11 (3.21%) ISO 14000
6 7 (2.04%) NCSC
6 7 (2.04%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.87%) GRC
9 2 (0.58%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.58%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.58%) QA
9 2 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (27.41%) Active Directory
2 69 (20.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.00%) Docker
4 20 (5.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (5.83%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 18 (5.25%) vSphere
6 2 (0.58%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.58%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (16.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (15.16%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.83%) Ansible
4 16 (4.66%) SCCM
5 9 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.75%) SCOM
7 4 (1.17%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.17%) Grafana
7 4 (1.17%) Puppet
8 3 (0.87%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.87%) Nessus
8 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.87%) vRealize
9 2 (0.58%) Argo
9 2 (0.58%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.58%) Packer
9 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 174 (50.73%) Microsoft
2 74 (21.57%) VMware
3 28 (8.16%) Cisco
4 15 (4.37%) Dynatrace
4 15 (4.37%) Google
5 14 (4.08%) Tenable
6 12 (3.50%) AppDynamics
6 12 (3.50%) Oracle
6 12 (3.50%) ScienceLogic
7 10 (2.92%) Meraki
8 9 (2.62%) Adobe
9 8 (2.33%) Veeam
10 7 (2.04%) Apple
11 6 (1.75%) Citrix
11 6 (1.75%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.46%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.46%) YouTube
13 4 (1.17%) Aderant
13 4 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.17%) Thales