IaaS Job Trends

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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 273 191
Rank change year-on-year -131 -82 +84
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 269 654 903
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.03% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 2.99% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 199 351 712
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £54,150 £57,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £72,150
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -9.91% +6.89%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,650 £92,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +1.67% -8.40% +10.04%

All Cloud 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 17,974 21,901 21,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.72% 34.54% 42.68%
Number of salaries quoted 11,290 13,338 17,877
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,382 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.34% +1.41% -2.95%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% -3.00%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -103 243 £62,500 -3.85% 74
UK excluding London -85 154 £61,000 +1.67% 64
Work from Home -19 95 £64,500 -0.77% 27
London -21 86 £65,000 -7.14% 23
North of England +62 62 £61,000 +6.09% 12
North West +51 31 £57,500 +15.00% 8
South East -46 25 £63,000 -16.00% 27
South West -96 23 £55,000 -18.52% 11
Midlands +22 22 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Yorkshire +13 20 £47,500 -26.92% 4
West Midlands +20 18 £75,000 +25.00% 2
East of England +8 14 £53,000 +6.00% 4
North East +24 11 £70,000 +7.69%
East Midlands +17 4 £75,000 +25.00% 4
Scotland +8 4 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Northern Ireland -2 2 £53,546 +1.99%
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 39 (14.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.60%) IIS
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (0.37%) Maya
1 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.35%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.74%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 216 (80.30%) PaaS
2 200 (74.35%) Azure
3 142 (52.79%) SaaS
4 85 (31.60%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (24.91%) AWS
6 55 (20.45%) Entra ID
7 35 (13.01%) Serverless
8 32 (11.90%) GCP
9 29 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (8.18%) Azure Monitor
11 19 (7.06%) Power Platform
12 15 (5.58%) GitHub
12 15 (5.58%) OCI
13 14 (5.20%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (3.35%) Azure Functions
15 8 (2.97%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.60%) Azure Stack
17 6 (2.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (2.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (25.65%) Firewall
2 48 (17.84%) DNS
2 48 (17.84%) VPN
3 37 (13.75%) DHCP
4 28 (10.41%) TCP/IP
5 20 (7.43%) VLAN
5 20 (7.43%) WAN
6 16 (5.95%) Network Security
7 14 (5.20%) SD-WAN
8 13 (4.83%) LAN
9 10 (3.72%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (2.97%) SAN
11 7 (2.60%) Unified Communications
11 7 (2.60%) VoIP
12 5 (1.86%) DMZ
12 5 (1.86%) SSL
12 5 (1.86%) STUN
13 4 (1.49%) PuTTY
13 4 (1.49%) SSH
14 3 (1.12%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.72%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.23%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.23%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.49%) Power BI
5 2 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.37%) Big Data
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (2.97%) Jenkins
1 8 (2.97%) JIRA
2 5 (1.86%) GitLab
3 4 (1.49%) Git
4 2 (0.74%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.74%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 104 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 54 (20.07%) Finance
3 30 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.29%) Law
5 20 (7.43%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (7.06%) Legal
7 13 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.72%) Dutch Language
8 10 (3.72%) French Language
8 10 (3.72%) Games
9 9 (3.35%) Banking
9 9 (3.35%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.86%) Billing
12 4 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.12%) Advertising
13 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.12%) Retail
14 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.74%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 90 (33.46%) Architect
2 44 (16.36%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (14.13%) Support Engineer
4 36 (13.38%) Senior
5 32 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (11.15%) Lead
7 29 (10.78%) Azure Engineer
8 25 (9.29%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (7.06%) Infrastructure Support
11 18 (6.69%) 3rd Line Support
11 18 (6.69%) IT Architect
12 17 (6.32%) Lead Architect
13 15 (5.58%) Azure Architect
14 13 (4.83%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 13 (4.83%) IT Engineer
15 12 (4.46%) Analyst
15 12 (4.46%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (3.72%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.86%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.86%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (1.86%) RESTful
2 4 (1.49%) .NET
2 4 (1.49%) Middleware
3 3 (1.12%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.12%) CSS
3 3 (1.12%) HTML
4 2 (0.74%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.74%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.74%) pytest
4 2 (0.74%) React
4 2 (0.74%) REST
4 2 (0.74%) SOAP
5 1 (0.37%) Kafka
5 1 (0.37%) Node.js
5 1 (0.37%) Web Services
5 1 (0.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.24%) Enterprise Software
2 36 (13.38%) Cloud Native
3 23 (8.55%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.69%) Data Centre
4 18 (6.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.35%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.60%) PKI
9 6 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.86%) BYOD
10 5 (1.86%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.49%) Clustering
11 4 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.49%) IoT
12 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 90 (33.46%) Windows
2 63 (23.42%) Windows Server
3 39 (14.50%) Linux
4 13 (4.83%) VMS
5 5 (1.86%) Debian
5 5 (1.86%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.12%) AIX
6 3 (1.12%) Android
6 3 (1.12%) Unix
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.62%) DevOps
2 66 (24.54%) Infrastructure as Code
3 53 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (16.73%) Agile
5 43 (15.99%) Continuous Improvement
5 43 (15.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 43 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (14.50%) Microservices
7 37 (13.75%) Migration
7 37 (13.75%) Project Delivery
8 36 (13.38%) CI/CD
8 36 (13.38%) ITIL
9 35 (13.01%) AI
9 35 (13.01%) Analytics
10 33 (12.27%) Roadmaps
11 28 (10.41%) Cloud Security
12 27 (10.04%) Disaster Recovery
13 24 (8.92%) Containerisation
13 24 (8.92%) Mentoring
14 23 (8.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (27.14%) PowerShell
2 30 (11.15%) SQL
3 28 (10.41%) Python
4 26 (9.67%) Bash
5 22 (8.18%) Bicep
6 5 (1.86%) C#
7 4 (1.49%) DCL
7 4 (1.49%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.49%) Tcl
8 3 (1.12%) Java
9 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.37%) PHP
10 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 42 (15.61%) Azure Certification
3 32 (11.90%) SC Cleared
4 31 (11.52%) Degree
5 27 (10.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (5.20%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.72%) CISSP
7 10 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.60%) CCNA
11 6 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.23%) CISA
11 6 (2.23%) CRISC
11 6 (2.23%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.86%) CISM
12 5 (1.86%) SANS
13 4 (1.49%) ISSAP
13 4 (1.49%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.09%) GDPR
3 11 (4.09%) NIST
4 9 (3.35%) IFRS
4 9 (3.35%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.35%) Solvency II
5 8 (2.97%) QA
6 7 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.60%) SLA
7 5 (1.86%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.86%) NIST 800
8 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.12%) NCSC
9 3 (1.12%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.74%) GRC
10 2 (0.74%) PMO
System Software
1 77 (28.62%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.99%) Hyper-V
3 40 (14.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (10.78%) Docker
5 25 (9.29%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.97%) vCloud
7 5 (1.86%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.12%) vSphere
9 2 (0.74%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.37%) KVM
10 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (22.30%) Terraform
2 39 (14.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (11.15%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.58%) Ansible
5 8 (2.97%) Puppet
5 8 (2.97%) SCCM
5 8 (2.97%) SCOM
6 6 (2.23%) Autotask
7 4 (1.49%) CASB
8 3 (1.12%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.37%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 1 (0.37%) Nessus
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.37%) WSUS
Vendors
1 140 (52.04%) Microsoft
2 51 (18.96%) VMware
3 15 (5.58%) Google
4 14 (5.20%) Palo Alto
5 13 (4.83%) Cisco
5 13 (4.83%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.72%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (3.72%) SAP
7 9 (3.35%) BiZZdesign
7 9 (3.35%) Duck Creek
7 9 (3.35%) Guidewire
7 9 (3.35%) Oracle
7 9 (3.35%) Veeam
8 6 (2.23%) Aruba
8 6 (2.23%) HP
8 6 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.86%) Citrix
9 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.49%) Forcepoint
10 4 (1.49%) Qualys