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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 402 380
Rank change year-on-year -61 -22 -203
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 359 284 544
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.78% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 241 206 407
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,170 £47,000
25th Percentile £49,377 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,373 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -5.77% -10.34%
75th Percentile £79,688 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% -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 27,688 15,968 26,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.41% 31.95% 31.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18,509 10,948 18,460
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,847 £39,750 £43,750
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 £100,000 £100,000
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 26 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 26 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 -44 317 £65,000 +4.00% 48
UK excluding London -49 221 £60,000 +6.67% 37
London -39 117 £78,125 +11.61% 18
Work from Home -29 94 £69,607 +16.01% 22
North of England -30 63 £52,500 -13.22% 11
South East -21 56 £60,000 - 7
Midlands -34 41 £60,000 +30.43% 8
South West -59 28 £42,500 -10.53% 4
North West +2 26 £47,500 -17.39% 7
East Midlands -12 23 £57,500 -4.96% 4
North East -46 22 £89,250 +37.31%
West Midlands -36 18 £60,750 +35.00% 4
Yorkshire -44 15 £62,500 +31.58% 4
Scotland +14 13 £65,450 +19.00% 4
East of England -27 10 £60,000 +25.00% 2
Wales -58 9 £50,871 +33.54% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £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 34 (9.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (8.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (6.13%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.11%) Primavera
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 272 (75.77%) Azure
2 259 (72.14%) PaaS
3 137 (38.16%) SaaS
4 90 (25.07%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (19.22%) AWS
6 67 (18.66%) Entra ID
7 61 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (15.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 54 (15.04%) Azure AKS
10 44 (12.26%) Azure Key Vault
10 44 (12.26%) Serverless
11 32 (8.91%) GitHub
12 31 (8.64%) Azure Functions
12 31 (8.64%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (7.80%) Azure Storage
14 18 (5.01%) Datadog
14 18 (5.01%) GCP
15 17 (4.74%) Microsoft Purview
16 15 (4.18%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (25.35%) DNS
2 59 (16.43%) Firewall
3 57 (15.88%) VPN
4 47 (13.09%) DHCP
5 24 (6.69%) VLAN
5 24 (6.69%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (6.13%) WAN
7 21 (5.85%) SAN
8 13 (3.62%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.34%) LAN
9 12 (3.34%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.95%) Network Security
11 5 (1.39%) SNMP
12 4 (1.11%) SSL
13 2 (0.56%) ATM
13 2 (0.56%) Multicast
13 2 (0.56%) tcpdump
13 2 (0.56%) Wireless
13 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
14 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (13.09%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.67%) Power BI
5 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.39%) Redis
6 4 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.84%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.56%) Power Query
8 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) Metadata
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (7.24%) Git
2 16 (4.46%) Chocolatey
3 11 (3.06%) JIRA
4 5 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Ant
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.56%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 92 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 74 (20.61%) Finance
3 52 (14.48%) Law
4 34 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.41%) Public Sector
7 22 (6.13%) Banking
8 19 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.62%) Retail
10 12 (3.34%) Legal
11 10 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.51%) Marketing
13 6 (1.67%) Games
14 5 (1.39%) Aviation
14 5 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.11%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.56%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.56%) Police
16 2 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 82 (22.84%) Architect
2 81 (22.56%) Azure Engineer
3 64 (17.83%) Senior
4 62 (17.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 60 (16.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 30 (8.36%) Analyst
8 25 (6.96%) Azure Architect
9 22 (6.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 21 (5.85%) Infrastructure Architect
11 20 (5.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (5.01%) Enterprise Architect
13 17 (4.74%) Lead
14 16 (4.46%) Cloud Architect
14 16 (4.46%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 16 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (4.18%) IT Engineer
16 14 (3.90%) Senior Architect
17 13 (3.62%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (31.48%) Terraform
2 19 (5.29%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.18%) Middleware
4 10 (2.79%) YAML
5 6 (1.67%) .NET
6 4 (1.11%) Node.js
7 3 (0.84%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.84%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.84%) SAML
7 3 (0.84%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.56%) Kafka
8 2 (0.56%) REST
8 2 (0.56%) Web Services
9 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.28%) JSON
9 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.16%) Cloud Native
2 29 (8.08%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.69%) Public Cloud
4 22 (6.13%) Data Centre
5 21 (5.85%) Security Posture
6 20 (5.57%) Enterprise Cloud
6 20 (5.57%) Onboarding
7 18 (5.01%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (3.62%) Driving Licence
9 12 (3.34%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.34%) Podcast
10 10 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.95%) Replication
13 7 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.67%) Product Ownership
15 5 (1.39%) AS400
15 5 (1.39%) iSeries
16 4 (1.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 97 (27.02%) Windows
2 46 (12.81%) Windows Server
3 41 (11.42%) Linux
4 15 (4.18%) VMS
5 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.11%) Solaris
6 4 (1.11%) Unix
6 4 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.28%) AIX
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (35.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (33.98%) DevOps
3 101 (28.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 83 (23.12%) Agile
5 82 (22.84%) CI/CD
6 74 (20.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 72 (20.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.94%) High Availability
9 66 (18.38%) Root Cause Analysis
10 63 (17.55%) Analytics
11 62 (17.27%) Cloud Security
12 55 (15.32%) Migration
13 54 (15.04%) Roadmaps
14 53 (14.76%) Containerisation
15 49 (13.65%) AI
16 47 (13.09%) Mentoring
17 44 (12.26%) ITIL
18 43 (11.98%) Computer Science
19 36 (10.03%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 106 (29.53%) PowerShell
2 51 (14.21%) Bicep
3 35 (9.75%) SQL
4 33 (9.19%) Python
5 27 (7.52%) Bash
6 12 (3.34%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.67%) Java
8 5 (1.39%) C#
9 4 (1.11%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (25.63%) Azure Certification
2 46 (12.81%) Degree
3 30 (8.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (8.08%) Security Cleared
5 23 (6.41%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.79%) CCNP
9 7 (1.95%) CISSP
10 4 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.84%) CISA
11 3 (0.84%) CRISC
11 3 (0.84%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.56%) CISM
12 2 (0.56%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.56%) MCSE
12 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.69%) SLA
3 17 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (4.74%) NIST
4 11 (3.06%) ISO 14000
5 10 (2.79%) GDPR
6 7 (1.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.39%) NCSC
8 4 (1.11%) QA
9 3 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.28%) GRC
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.28%) PMO
11 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (28.13%) Active Directory
2 72 (20.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (6.96%) Docker
4 24 (6.69%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (4.74%) Hyper-V
6 16 (4.46%) vSphere
7 15 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.84%) KVM
9 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.56%) Firmware
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (16.43%) Kubernetes
2 54 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (10.86%) Ansible
4 19 (5.29%) SCCM
5 12 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.39%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.11%) Puppet
7 4 (1.11%) SCOM
8 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 2 (0.56%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
9 2 (0.56%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.56%) Packer
9 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.56%) WSUS
10 1 (0.28%) Nessus
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 178 (49.58%) Microsoft
2 77 (21.45%) VMware
3 25 (6.96%) Cisco
4 18 (5.01%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.74%) Tenable
6 16 (4.46%) AppDynamics
7 15 (4.18%) Google
8 12 (3.34%) ScienceLogic
9 9 (2.51%) Adobe
9 9 (2.51%) Meraki
9 9 (2.51%) Oracle
10 8 (2.23%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.95%) Apple
11 7 (1.95%) Veeam
12 5 (1.39%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.11%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.11%) iManage
13 4 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.11%) Sage
13 4 (1.11%) SAP