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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 275 176
Rank change year-on-year -123 -99 +114
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 265 645 995
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.96% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 2.94% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 198 341 749
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.90% +4.56%
75th Percentile £78,438 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £92,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -8.40% +12.93%

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 17,783 21,945 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.78% 32.77% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,246 13,161 18,911
10th Percentile £28,697 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -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 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 16 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 18 November 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 -111 241 £61,000 -6.15% 146
UK excluding London -103 151 £59,000 -1.67% 94
Work from Home -23 94 £62,500 - 82
London -39 89 £65,000 -7.24% 66
North of England +67 57 £60,000 +4.35% 18
North West +48 28 £52,500 +5.00% 15
South East -40 26 £61,000 -18.67% 24
South West -86 23 £51,250 -22.34% 19
Midlands +16 21 £77,500 +29.17% 13
Yorkshire +18 18 £47,500 -24.00% 3
West Midlands +21 16 £77,500 +29.17% 10
East of England +3 16 £53,000 +6.00% 6
North East +15 11 £70,000 -
East Midlands +26 5 £75,000 +25.00% 3
Scotland -14 5 £65,000 +18.18% 12
Northern Ireland +2 2 £53,546 +1.99%

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 40 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (8.30%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.26%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.38%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (0.38%) Maya
1 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.02%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.51%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.75%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.75%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 207 (78.11%) PaaS
2 201 (75.85%) Azure
3 141 (53.21%) SaaS
4 82 (30.94%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (25.28%) AWS
6 54 (20.38%) Entra ID
7 31 (11.70%) GCP
7 31 (11.70%) Serverless
8 30 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
10 17 (6.42%) GitHub
11 15 (5.66%) Power Platform
12 14 (5.28%) OCI
13 13 (4.91%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (4.15%) Azure Functions
15 9 (3.40%) Azure Key Vault
15 9 (3.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.64%) Azure Stack
16 7 (2.64%) Google Workspace
16 7 (2.64%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.04%) Firewall
2 48 (18.11%) VPN
3 46 (17.36%) DNS
4 36 (13.58%) DHCP
5 27 (10.19%) TCP/IP
6 23 (8.68%) WAN
7 19 (7.17%) VLAN
8 17 (6.42%) Network Security
9 15 (5.66%) SD-WAN
10 14 (5.28%) LAN
11 9 (3.40%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (3.02%) SAN
13 7 (2.64%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.64%) VoIP
14 5 (1.89%) DMZ
14 5 (1.89%) SSL
14 5 (1.89%) STUN
15 4 (1.51%) Ethernet
15 4 (1.51%) PuTTY
15 4 (1.51%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.02%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.51%) Power BI
6 3 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.38%) Metadata
8 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (3.40%) JIRA
2 7 (2.64%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.89%) GitLab
4 4 (1.51%) Git
5 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 99 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.11%) Finance
3 28 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.68%) Law
5 19 (7.17%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.91%) Legal
8 9 (3.40%) Dutch Language
8 9 (3.40%) French Language
8 9 (3.40%) Games
8 9 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 8 (3.02%) Banking
10 5 (1.89%) Billing
10 5 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.13%) Advertising
11 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.13%) Public Speaking
11 3 (1.13%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (30.94%) Architect
2 42 (15.85%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (14.34%) Support Engineer
4 33 (12.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (10.57%) Lead
6 27 (10.19%) Azure Engineer
6 27 (10.19%) Cloud Architect
6 27 (10.19%) Senior
7 20 (7.55%) Infrastructure Support
8 18 (6.79%) 3rd Line Support
9 17 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (6.04%) Lead Architect
11 15 (5.66%) IT Architect
12 14 (5.28%) Azure Architect
13 13 (4.91%) Analyst
13 13 (4.91%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 13 (4.91%) IT Engineer
14 12 (4.53%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (4.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (4.15%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.26%) RESTful
2 5 (1.89%) .NET
2 5 (1.89%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.89%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.51%) ARM Templates
3 4 (1.51%) REST
3 4 (1.51%) SOAP
4 2 (0.75%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.75%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.75%) pytest
4 2 (0.75%) React
4 2 (0.75%) SAML
4 2 (0.75%) Web Services
4 2 (0.75%) YAML
5 1 (0.38%) .NET Core
5 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) MvvmCross
5 1 (0.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.21%) Enterprise Software
2 28 (10.57%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.06%) Public Cloud
4 20 (7.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (7.17%) Data Centre
6 13 (4.91%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (3.40%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.02%) PKI
9 7 (2.64%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.89%) BYOD
11 5 (1.89%) Clustering
11 5 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.89%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.51%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.51%) IoT
13 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 90 (33.96%) Windows
2 68 (25.66%) Windows Server
3 40 (15.09%) Linux
4 13 (4.91%) VMS
5 7 (2.64%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.89%) Debian
7 4 (1.51%) AIX
8 3 (1.13%) Android
8 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.75%) Unix
9 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (29.43%) DevOps
2 65 (24.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (19.62%) Cybersecurity
4 45 (16.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 44 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
6 41 (15.47%) Agile
7 40 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (14.72%) CI/CD
9 34 (12.83%) ITIL
10 33 (12.45%) Migration
11 32 (12.08%) Roadmaps
12 31 (11.70%) Cloud Security
12 31 (11.70%) Microservices
13 30 (11.32%) AI
13 30 (11.32%) Analytics
14 27 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
15 26 (9.81%) Project Delivery
16 24 (9.06%) Containerisation
17 23 (8.68%) Project Management
18 19 (7.17%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 75 (28.30%) PowerShell
2 29 (10.94%) Python
2 29 (10.94%) SQL
3 26 (9.81%) Bash
4 21 (7.92%) Bicep
5 6 (2.26%) C#
6 4 (1.51%) DCL
6 4 (1.51%) Tcl
7 3 (1.13%) Java
8 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.75%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 46 (17.36%) Azure Certification
2 44 (16.60%) Security Cleared
3 33 (12.45%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (9.81%) Degree
6 13 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 13 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (3.77%) CCNA
7 10 (3.77%) CISSP
7 10 (3.77%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.26%) CISA
9 6 (2.26%) CRISC
9 6 (2.26%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.89%) CISM
10 5 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.89%) SANS
11 4 (1.51%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (6.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 13 (4.91%) NIST
4 12 (4.53%) GDPR
5 8 (3.02%) IFRS
5 8 (3.02%) IFRS 17
5 8 (3.02%) Solvency II
6 6 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.26%) SLA
7 5 (1.89%) ISO 9001
7 5 (1.89%) NIST 800
7 5 (1.89%) QA
8 4 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (1.13%) NCSC
9 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 3 (1.13%) PMO
10 2 (0.75%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.75%) GRC
System Software
1 77 (29.06%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.60%) Hyper-V
3 41 (15.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (10.94%) Docker
5 26 (9.81%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (2.64%) vCloud
7 5 (1.89%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.13%) vSphere
9 2 (0.75%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.38%) KVM
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (23.02%) Terraform
2 36 (13.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (10.94%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.53%) Ansible
5 8 (3.02%) Puppet
5 8 (3.02%) SCCM
5 8 (3.02%) SCOM
6 6 (2.26%) Autotask
7 5 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.51%) CASB
9 3 (1.13%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.38%) Argo
11 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.38%) Grafana
11 1 (0.38%) Nessus
11 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.38%) VxRail
Vendors
1 140 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 52 (19.62%) VMware
3 16 (6.04%) Google
4 15 (5.66%) Cisco
5 14 (5.28%) Palo Alto
6 13 (4.91%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.77%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (3.77%) Veeam
8 8 (3.02%) BiZZdesign
8 8 (3.02%) Duck Creek
8 8 (3.02%) Guidewire
8 8 (3.02%) Oracle
8 8 (3.02%) SAP
8 8 (3.02%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.64%) Aruba
9 7 (2.64%) Salesforce
10 6 (2.26%) HP
10 6 (2.26%) Okta
11 5 (1.89%) Databricks
11 5 (1.89%) SolarWinds