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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 404 377
Rank change year-on-year -20 -27 -185
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 365 312 632
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.96% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 248 224 526
10th Percentile £36,663 £37,500 £43,125
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,375 £97,500 £104,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 27,181 15,908 30,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.13% 32.35% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,798 11,057 22,992
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -39 317 £60,000 -7.69% 80
UK excluding London -57 220 £60,000 +4.35% 63
London -10 121 £78,125 +11.61% 43
Work from Home -32 95 £68,500 +14.17% 35
South East -22 61 £60,000 -14.29% 36
North of England -15 57 £45,000 -20.00% 8
Midlands -39 36 £58,750 -9.62% 6
South West -51 30 £52,500 +10.53% 1
North West +6 28 £41,000 -33.33% 4
East Midlands -24 21 £57,500 +35.29% 2
North East -35 19 £45,000 -28.00% 2
Scotland +24 15 £46,000 -16.36% 5
West Midlands -32 15 £61,500 -10.55% 4
East of England -9 13 £60,000 +26.32% 4
Yorkshire -52 10 £46,042 -3.07% 2
Wales -60 5 £50,000 +31.25% 3
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 30 (8.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.48%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.10%) Primavera
3 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 276 (75.62%) Azure
2 268 (73.42%) PaaS
3 128 (35.07%) SaaS
4 83 (22.74%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (18.63%) Entra ID
6 58 (15.89%) Azure AKS
6 58 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (15.62%) AWS
8 55 (15.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 44 (12.05%) Serverless
10 40 (10.96%) Azure Key Vault
11 36 (9.86%) GitHub
12 28 (7.67%) Azure Storage
13 26 (7.12%) Azure Functions
13 26 (7.12%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (4.93%) Datadog
15 14 (3.84%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.84%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 12 (3.29%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 78 (21.37%) DNS
2 64 (17.53%) Firewall
3 62 (16.99%) VPN
4 38 (10.41%) DHCP
5 31 (8.49%) VLAN
6 25 (6.85%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.75%) SAN
8 20 (5.48%) TCP/IP
9 17 (4.66%) WAN
10 9 (2.47%) LAN
11 8 (2.19%) SD-WAN
12 7 (1.92%) VoIP
13 6 (1.64%) ATM
13 6 (1.64%) Multicast
13 6 (1.64%) tcpdump
13 6 (1.64%) Wireshark
14 5 (1.37%) DMZ
14 5 (1.37%) Network Security
14 5 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
14 5 (1.37%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.64%) Power BI
5 5 (1.37%) Redis
6 4 (1.10%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.55%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata
9 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.30%) Git
2 16 (4.38%) Chocolatey
3 14 (3.84%) JIRA
4 7 (1.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 105 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 81 (22.19%) Finance
3 50 (13.70%) Law
4 33 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (6.03%) Banking
7 15 (4.11%) Legal
8 12 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.01%) Marketing
9 11 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.74%) Retail
11 7 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.64%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.64%) Automotive
12 6 (1.64%) Games
12 6 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.64%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.37%) Aviation
14 4 (1.10%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (23.29%) Azure Engineer
2 80 (21.92%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (19.18%) Architect
4 68 (18.63%) Senior
5 61 (16.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.49%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 27 (7.40%) Analyst
7 27 (7.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 24 (6.58%) Solutions Architect
9 22 (6.03%) Azure Architect
10 20 (5.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 17 (4.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.66%) IT Engineer
12 16 (4.38%) Enterprise Architect
12 16 (4.38%) Infrastructure Architect
13 15 (4.11%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (4.11%) IT Technician
14 14 (3.84%) Consultant
14 14 (3.84%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.84%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.48%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.01%) YAML
3 5 (1.37%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.10%) .NET
4 4 (1.10%) Middleware
4 4 (1.10%) Node.js
5 3 (0.82%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.82%) Web Services
6 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.55%) Kafka
6 2 (0.55%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) LDAP
7 1 (0.27%) Playwright
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.44%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.40%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (7.12%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.48%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 18 (4.93%) Cyber Threat
6 18 (4.93%) Management Information System
7 17 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (4.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (3.29%) Podcast
10 11 (3.01%) Driving Licence
10 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.01%) Replication
11 7 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.37%) AS400
12 5 (1.37%) iSeries
12 5 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.10%) Hedge funds
13 4 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 101 (27.67%) Windows
2 51 (13.97%) Windows Server
3 44 (12.05%) Linux
4 15 (4.11%) VMS
5 8 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.19%) Unix
6 7 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.37%) Debian
7 5 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.10%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.55%) Solaris
9 2 (0.55%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.79%) Infrastructure as Code
2 119 (32.60%) DevOps
3 86 (23.56%) CI/CD
4 76 (20.82%) Agile
5 73 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 70 (19.18%) Disaster Recovery
6 70 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 67 (18.36%) Root Cause Analysis
8 64 (17.53%) Cloud Security
9 62 (16.99%) High Availability
10 54 (14.79%) Analytics
11 53 (14.52%) Containerisation
12 52 (14.25%) Roadmaps
13 45 (12.33%) AI
13 45 (12.33%) Migration
14 42 (11.51%) Computer Science
15 39 (10.68%) Mentoring
16 35 (9.59%) ITIL
16 35 (9.59%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 102 (27.95%) PowerShell
2 55 (15.07%) Bicep
3 45 (12.33%) Python
4 40 (10.96%) SQL
5 32 (8.77%) Bash
6 12 (3.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.64%) Java
8 4 (1.10%) C#
8 4 (1.10%) Go
9 2 (0.55%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.55%) Ruby
10 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (23.29%) Azure Certification
2 46 (12.60%) Degree
3 30 (8.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (8.22%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.85%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.84%) CCNP
6 14 (3.84%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.56%) CISSP
8 6 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.64%) MCSE
8 6 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 4 (1.10%) CCSK
10 4 (1.10%) CISA
10 4 (1.10%) CRISC
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.82%) CISM
11 3 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.75%) SLA
3 20 (5.48%) NIST
4 13 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.01%) GDPR
6 9 (2.47%) ISO 14000
6 9 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.37%) QA
8 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.55%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.55%) NCSC
9 2 (0.55%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 98 (26.85%) Active Directory
2 74 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.67%) Docker
3 28 (7.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (4.93%) vSphere
5 17 (4.66%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.01%) KVM
8 2 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.55%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (31.23%) Terraform
2 62 (16.99%) Kubernetes
3 52 (14.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (9.59%) Ansible
5 17 (4.66%) SCCM
6 12 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.64%) Puppet
8 3 (0.82%) Autotask
8 3 (0.82%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.82%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.55%) Argo
9 2 (0.55%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.55%) Grafana
9 2 (0.55%) Packer
9 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.55%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 170 (46.58%) Microsoft
2 79 (21.64%) VMware
3 26 (7.12%) Cisco
4 18 (4.93%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.38%) AppDynamics
5 16 (4.38%) Tenable
6 12 (3.29%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (3.29%) Veeam
7 11 (3.01%) Google
7 11 (3.01%) Meraki
8 9 (2.47%) Apple
9 7 (1.92%) Oracle
10 6 (1.64%) SAP
10 6 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.37%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.37%) Zerto
12 4 (1.10%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.10%) iManage
12 4 (1.10%) Sage
13 3 (0.82%) Salesforce