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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 432 404 376
Rank change year-on-year -28 -28 -163
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 358 302 717
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.97% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 250 214 593
10th Percentile £37,416 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,140 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,738 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 26,225 15,326 35,065
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.19% 32.90% 33.23%
Number of salaries quoted 17,133 10,658 26,895
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,625 £30,262
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,685
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.58% -7.85%

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 1 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 1 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 -26 310 £60,000 -8.75% 87
UK excluding London -56 212 £60,000 - 55
London -10 118 £76,563 +7.46% 40
Work from Home -16 98 £68,500 +14.17% 33
South East -21 64 £60,000 -20.79% 19
North of England -32 46 £45,000 -22.08% 11
Midlands -57 37 £57,500 -14.81% 11
South West -42 30 £52,500 +10.53% 6
North West +4 23 £34,500 -48.89% 4
East Midlands -24 22 £51,250 +24.24% 6
East of England -12 15 £60,000 +32.60% 2
West Midlands -50 15 £61,500 -12.14% 5
Scotland +24 13 £43,400 -21.09% 5
North East -40 13 £45,000 -26.23% 3
Yorkshire -46 10 £46,042 -3.07% 4
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -52 4 £65,000 +70.63% 3

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 29 (8.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.84%) IIS
Applications
1 19 (5.31%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.40%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.12%) Primavera
3 3 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 277 (77.37%) Azure
2 271 (75.70%) PaaS
3 122 (34.08%) SaaS
4 84 (23.46%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (18.99%) Entra ID
6 60 (16.76%) Azure AKS
6 60 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (15.08%) AWS
8 52 (14.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 44 (12.29%) Serverless
10 40 (11.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 38 (10.61%) GitHub
12 30 (8.38%) Azure Storage
13 28 (7.82%) Azure Monitor
14 26 (7.26%) Azure Functions
15 19 (5.31%) Datadog
16 14 (3.91%) GCP
16 14 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (3.91%) Power Platform
17 12 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 76 (21.23%) DNS
2 65 (18.16%) Firewall
3 61 (17.04%) VPN
4 39 (10.89%) DHCP
5 35 (9.78%) VLAN
6 24 (6.70%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (6.15%) SAN
8 18 (5.03%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.63%) WAN
10 8 (2.23%) LAN
10 8 (2.23%) VoIP
11 7 (1.96%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.68%) ATM
12 6 (1.68%) Multicast
12 6 (1.68%) Network Security
12 6 (1.68%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.68%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.40%) DMZ
13 5 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.40%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (16.20%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.40%) Power BI
5 5 (1.40%) Redis
6 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.56%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.28%) Big Data
9 1 (0.28%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.42%) Git
2 17 (4.75%) Chocolatey
3 11 (3.07%) JIRA
4 7 (1.96%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.84%) Selenium
7 1 (0.28%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 100 (27.93%) Social Skills
2 84 (23.46%) Finance
3 49 (13.69%) Law
4 37 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.42%) Banking
7 13 (3.63%) Legal
8 11 (3.07%) Public Sector
9 9 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.23%) Marketing
10 8 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.96%) Retail
12 6 (1.68%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.68%) Automotive
12 6 (1.68%) Billing
12 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.68%) Spanish Language
13 5 (1.40%) Aviation
14 4 (1.12%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 89 (24.86%) Azure Engineer
2 87 (24.30%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (19.55%) Senior
4 69 (19.27%) Architect
5 64 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 30 (8.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 26 (7.26%) Analyst
9 22 (6.15%) Azure Architect
10 21 (5.87%) IT Engineer
11 20 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (5.31%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (5.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 18 (5.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (4.75%) Consultant
15 16 (4.47%) Enterprise Architect
16 15 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
16 15 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
16 15 (4.19%) Infrastructure Architect
16 15 (4.19%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.31%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.07%) YAML
3 6 (1.68%) Node.js
4 5 (1.40%) FreeSWITCH
5 4 (1.12%) .NET
6 3 (0.84%) Kafka
6 3 (0.84%) Middleware
6 3 (0.84%) Playwright
6 3 (0.84%) SAP Basis
6 3 (0.84%) Web Services
7 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.56%) REST
7 2 (0.56%) RESTful
8 1 (0.28%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.28%) ADO
8 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
8 1 (0.28%) JSON
8 1 (0.28%) LDAP
8 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (16.20%) Cloud Native
2 25 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 25 (6.98%) Security Posture
3 20 (5.59%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (5.31%) Management Information System
4 19 (5.31%) Public Cloud
5 14 (3.91%) Enterprise Cloud
5 14 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 13 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
7 12 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 12 (3.35%) Podcast
8 11 (3.07%) Replication
9 8 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.68%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.68%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.40%) PKI
13 3 (0.84%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.84%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 101 (28.21%) Windows
2 53 (14.80%) Windows Server
3 46 (12.85%) Linux
4 18 (5.03%) VMS
5 12 (3.35%) Unix
6 8 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.40%) Debian
8 4 (1.12%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.56%) Solaris
9 2 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.28%) AIX
10 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (38.27%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (34.64%) DevOps
3 92 (25.70%) CI/CD
4 76 (21.23%) Agile
4 76 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
5 75 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 69 (19.27%) Cloud Security
7 65 (18.16%) Root Cause Analysis
8 59 (16.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 57 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (15.64%) Containerisation
11 54 (15.08%) High Availability
12 48 (13.41%) Roadmaps
13 46 (12.85%) Analytics
14 43 (12.01%) AI
14 43 (12.01%) Migration
15 42 (11.73%) Computer Science
16 40 (11.17%) ITIL
17 36 (10.06%) Load Balancing
17 36 (10.06%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 104 (29.05%) PowerShell
2 56 (15.64%) Bicep
3 51 (14.25%) Python
4 44 (12.29%) SQL
5 34 (9.50%) Bash
6 12 (3.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 8 (2.23%) Java
8 4 (1.12%) C#
8 4 (1.12%) Go
9 3 (0.84%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (0.84%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.56%) DCL
10 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.56%) Ruby
10 2 (0.56%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 87 (24.30%) Azure Certification
2 43 (12.01%) Degree
3 38 (10.61%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.66%) SC Cleared
5 30 (8.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.19%) CISSP
8 13 (3.63%) CCNP
8 13 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.68%) CCSK
9 6 (1.68%) MCSE
9 6 (1.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.12%) CISA
11 4 (1.12%) CRISC
12 3 (0.84%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (5.87%) NIST
3 18 (5.03%) SLA
4 13 (3.63%) GDPR
5 11 (3.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.51%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.68%) QA
8 5 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.12%) ISO 14000
10 2 (0.56%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.28%) NCSC
11 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (26.82%) Active Directory
2 71 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (8.66%) Docker
4 28 (7.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 22 (6.15%) vSphere
6 13 (3.63%) Hyper-V
6 13 (3.63%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.07%) KVM
8 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.56%) Firmware
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 121 (33.80%) Terraform
2 63 (17.60%) Kubernetes
3 48 (13.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (10.06%) Ansible
5 19 (5.31%) SCCM
6 14 (3.91%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.68%) Puppet
8 5 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.12%) Packer
9 4 (1.12%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.84%) Autotask
11 2 (0.56%) Argo
11 2 (0.56%) CASB
11 2 (0.56%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.56%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.56%) Grafana
11 2 (0.56%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.56%) VxRail
11 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 170 (47.49%) Microsoft
2 78 (21.79%) VMware
3 25 (6.98%) Cisco
4 19 (5.31%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.75%) AppDynamics
5 17 (4.75%) Tenable
6 15 (4.19%) Google
7 13 (3.63%) Veeam
8 12 (3.35%) ScienceLogic
9 11 (3.07%) Meraki
10 7 (1.96%) Oracle
11 6 (1.68%) Apple
11 6 (1.68%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.68%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.40%) SAP
12 5 (1.40%) Zerto
13 4 (1.12%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.12%) Sage
14 3 (0.84%) iManage