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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 275 310
Rank change year-on-year -160 +35 -69
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 290 443 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 1.08% 0.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.11% 2.93% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 208 246 718
10th Percentile £33,872 £45,603 £42,850
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,725 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - -
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £96,250 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £72,246 £62,783
% change year-on-year -20.41% +15.07% +5.47%

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 26,131 15,127 33,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.99% 36.91% 36.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,767 11,085 26,441
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,650 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 6 April 2026.

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 6 April 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 -156 252 £64,000 -11.10% 71
UK excluding London -158 173 £57,500 -20.41% 59
London -7 87 £83,625 +19.46% 23
Work from Home -35 69 £70,000 - 30
North of England -42 49 £47,085 -27.56% 11
South East -69 44 £60,000 -22.58% 24
Midlands -43 40 £51,792 -26.01% 9
North West -11 31 £52,500 -22.22% 9
West Midlands -24 24 £68,500 -2.14% 4
East Midlands -44 16 £33,500 -16.25% 5
East of England -31 13 £60,000 +26.32% 5
South West -141 13 £39,750 -37.65% 9
Scotland -23 10 £46,000 -12.38% 2
Yorkshire -53 10 £59,008 -7.44% 2
North East -22 8 £45,000 -30.77%
Channel Islands - 6 £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 19 (6.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.38%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.72%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.38%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.38%) Primavera
3 3 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 235 (81.03%) PaaS
2 212 (73.10%) Azure
3 129 (44.48%) SaaS
4 77 (26.55%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (17.59%) Entra ID
6 50 (17.24%) AWS
7 42 (14.48%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (8.97%) Azure AKS
9 25 (8.62%) GCP
10 22 (7.59%) Datadog
11 20 (6.90%) Power Platform
11 20 (6.90%) Serverless
12 19 (6.55%) GitHub
13 18 (6.21%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (5.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 14 (4.83%) Azure Storage
16 12 (4.14%) Azure Key Vault
17 11 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 8 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
19 7 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 68 (23.45%) Firewall
2 59 (20.34%) DNS
3 45 (15.52%) VPN
4 39 (13.45%) DHCP
5 34 (11.72%) VLAN
6 24 (8.28%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (7.24%) SAN
8 20 (6.90%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.10%) WAN
10 8 (2.76%) VoIP
11 7 (2.41%) ATM
11 7 (2.41%) LAN
11 7 (2.41%) Multicast
11 7 (2.41%) tcpdump
11 7 (2.41%) Wireshark
12 6 (2.07%) PuTTY
12 6 (2.07%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.07%) SSH
13 5 (1.72%) DMZ
13 5 (1.72%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.07%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.38%) Power BI
5 4 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.34%) Metadata
8 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.21%) Chocolatey
2 13 (4.48%) JIRA
3 7 (2.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.07%) Git
5 4 (1.38%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.34%) GitLab
General
1 89 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 73 (25.17%) Finance
3 41 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (9.66%) Law
5 24 (8.28%) Banking
6 22 (7.59%) Legal
7 12 (4.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (3.10%) Billing
9 9 (3.10%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.41%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.41%) Automotive
11 6 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.07%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.72%) Marketing
13 4 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.03%) Retail
15 2 (0.69%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 75 (25.86%) Cloud Engineer
2 68 (23.45%) Architect
3 66 (22.76%) Azure Engineer
4 56 (19.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 54 (18.62%) Senior
6 27 (9.31%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (8.97%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 24 (8.28%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (8.28%) IT Engineer
9 23 (7.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (7.59%) Support Engineer
11 17 (5.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.52%) Analyst
13 15 (5.17%) IT Support
13 15 (5.17%) IT Technician
14 14 (4.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 14 (4.83%) Security Engineer
15 13 (4.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (4.48%) Lead
16 12 (4.14%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.76%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.07%) .NET
2 6 (2.07%) Middleware
3 5 (1.72%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.38%) YAML
5 3 (1.03%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.03%) CSS
5 3 (1.03%) HTML
5 3 (1.03%) RESTful
6 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.69%) Kafka
6 2 (0.69%) Node.js
6 2 (0.69%) Playwright
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.34%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth
7 1 (0.34%) pytest
7 1 (0.34%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.76%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.69%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (6.55%) Cyber Threat
3 19 (6.55%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.17%) Security Posture
5 13 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.79%) Hedge funds
7 8 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.41%) PKI
8 7 (2.41%) Replication
9 6 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.38%) IoT
11 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (0.69%) AI Agents
12 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.69%) BYOD
12 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 78 (26.90%) Windows
2 44 (15.17%) Windows Server
3 35 (12.07%) Linux
4 14 (4.83%) Unix
5 11 (3.79%) VMS
6 7 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.72%) Debian
7 5 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.34%) Android
10 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (28.97%) DevOps
2 74 (25.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (21.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 58 (20.00%) Agile
6 51 (17.59%) CI/CD
7 41 (14.14%) AI
7 41 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (14.14%) ITIL
8 39 (13.45%) Computer Science
8 39 (13.45%) Disaster Recovery
9 37 (12.76%) Enterprise Architecture
10 36 (12.41%) Cloud Security
11 34 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 33 (11.38%) Containerisation
13 32 (11.03%) Information Security
14 30 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
16 28 (9.66%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 58 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 40 (13.79%) Python
3 31 (10.69%) SQL
4 23 (7.93%) Bash
5 22 (7.59%) Bicep
6 6 (2.07%) C#
6 6 (2.07%) DCL
6 6 (2.07%) Tcl
7 3 (1.03%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.69%) Java
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (16.21%) Azure Certification
2 46 (15.86%) Degree
3 31 (10.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (10.69%) Security Cleared
4 22 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.21%) CISSP
6 17 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.79%) CCSK
8 8 (2.76%) CCNP
8 8 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.07%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.07%) MCSE
10 6 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.72%) CISA
11 5 (1.72%) CRISC
11 5 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.24%) SLA
2 14 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.79%) QA
4 10 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.45%) NIST
5 7 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (2.07%) GDPR
6 6 (2.07%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.69%) NCSC
9 1 (0.34%) GRC
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS
9 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 67 (23.10%) Active Directory
2 45 (15.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (11.38%) Docker
4 18 (6.21%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (4.14%) KVM
6 12 (4.14%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (3.10%) vSphere
8 4 (1.38%) vCloud
9 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (24.14%) Terraform
2 46 (15.86%) Kubernetes
3 44 (15.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (8.97%) Ansible
5 23 (7.93%) SCCM
6 13 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (3.45%) Puppet
8 6 (2.07%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.38%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (1.03%) Autotask
10 3 (1.03%) CASB
11 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.69%) Packer
11 2 (0.69%) VxRail
12 1 (0.34%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.34%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 137 (47.24%) Microsoft
2 56 (19.31%) VMware
3 20 (6.90%) Google
4 19 (6.55%) Tenable
5 18 (6.21%) AppDynamics
5 18 (6.21%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.79%) Veeam
7 10 (3.45%) Cisco
8 9 (3.10%) Oracle
9 7 (2.41%) BiZZdesign
9 7 (2.41%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.07%) Apple
10 6 (2.07%) Databricks
10 6 (2.07%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.07%) Meraki
10 6 (2.07%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.72%) Zerto
12 4 (1.38%) Sage
12 4 (1.38%) SAP