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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 410 380
Rank change year-on-year -43 -30 -195
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 367 301 557
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.60% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.89% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 243 222 437
10th Percentile £38,100 £37,500 £47,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.77% -10.96%
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 27,829 15,967 26,752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.25% 32.07% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 18,416 11,057 19,133
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -37 319 £60,000 -4.00% 194
UK excluding London -65 222 £57,500 +4.55% 129
London -29 124 £80,000 +14.29% 97
Work from Home -53 86 £70,000 +19.15% 69
North of England -37 60 £46,250 -15.91% 35
South East -22 57 £60,000 -4.76% 45
Midlands -24 41 £60,000 +30.43% 13
North West -7 30 £41,000 -27.11% 17
South West -49 27 £42,500 -10.53% 7
East Midlands -15 23 £57,500 +29.94% 3
North East -39 21 £89,250 +42.80% 6
West Midlands -30 18 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Scotland +22 15 £53,400 -2.91% 13
East of England -35 10 £60,000 +39.53% 10
Yorkshire -42 9 £45,000 -5.26% 14
Wales -54 9 £50,871 +33.54% 4
Channel Islands - 3 £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 35 (9.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.63%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (5.99%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.09%) Primavera
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 277 (75.48%) Azure
2 268 (73.02%) PaaS
3 132 (35.97%) SaaS
4 92 (25.07%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (18.80%) Entra ID
6 63 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (15.80%) AWS
8 54 (14.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 53 (14.44%) Azure AKS
10 43 (11.72%) Azure Key Vault
10 43 (11.72%) Serverless
11 33 (8.99%) GitHub
12 28 (7.63%) Azure Functions
12 28 (7.63%) Azure Storage
13 21 (5.72%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (4.90%) Datadog
15 13 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (3.54%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
17 11 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 88 (23.98%) DNS
2 61 (16.62%) Firewall
3 59 (16.08%) VPN
4 47 (12.81%) DHCP
5 26 (7.08%) VLAN
6 25 (6.81%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (5.99%) SAN
8 18 (4.90%) WAN
9 16 (4.36%) TCP/IP
10 9 (2.45%) LAN
10 9 (2.45%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.63%) Network Security
12 5 (1.36%) SNMP
13 4 (1.09%) ATM
13 4 (1.09%) Multicast
13 4 (1.09%) SSL
13 4 (1.09%) tcpdump
13 4 (1.09%) Wireshark
14 3 (0.82%) VoIP
15 2 (0.54%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.90%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.63%) Power BI
5 5 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.36%) Redis
6 4 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.82%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.08%) Git
2 16 (4.36%) Chocolatey
3 12 (3.27%) JIRA
4 5 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) Ant
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
5 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 99 (26.98%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.80%) Finance
3 54 (14.71%) Law
4 34 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.27%) Banking
7 17 (4.63%) Legal
8 16 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 12 (3.27%) Retail
11 11 (3.00%) Marketing
11 11 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.63%) Games
13 5 (1.36%) Aviation
13 5 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.09%) Automotive
14 4 (1.09%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.09%) Legal Technology
14 4 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 83 (22.62%) Azure Engineer
2 76 (20.71%) Architect
3 67 (18.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 64 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 59 (16.08%) Senior
6 32 (8.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 30 (8.17%) Analyst
8 24 (6.54%) Azure Architect
9 22 (5.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 22 (5.99%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (5.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.18%) Infrastructure Architect
12 18 (4.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (4.63%) IT Engineer
14 16 (4.36%) Cloud Architect
14 16 (4.36%) DevOps Engineer
14 16 (4.36%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (4.36%) Lead
15 14 (3.81%) Account Manager
15 14 (3.81%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.90%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.27%) YAML
3 6 (1.63%) .NET
3 6 (1.63%) Middleware
4 4 (1.09%) Node.js
5 3 (0.82%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.82%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.82%) SAML
5 3 (0.82%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (0.54%) FreeSWITCH
6 2 (0.54%) Kafka
6 2 (0.54%) REST
6 2 (0.54%) Web Services
7 1 (0.27%) ADO
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (16.89%) Cloud Native
2 29 (7.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (6.81%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.99%) Security Posture
5 21 (5.72%) Data Centre
6 20 (5.45%) Onboarding
7 18 (4.90%) Cyber Threat
7 18 (4.90%) Enterprise Cloud
8 17 (4.63%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (3.54%) Driving Licence
9 13 (3.54%) Management Information System
10 12 (3.27%) Podcast
11 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.45%) Replication
12 7 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.36%) AS400
13 5 (1.36%) iSeries
13 5 (1.36%) Product Ownership
14 4 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 104 (28.34%) Windows
2 50 (13.62%) Windows Server
3 44 (11.99%) Linux
4 14 (3.81%) VMS
5 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.36%) Unix
6 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.09%) Solaris
7 4 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.54%) Debian
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (34.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 123 (33.51%) DevOps
3 87 (23.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 85 (23.16%) CI/CD
5 78 (21.25%) Agile
5 78 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 74 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 74 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 68 (18.53%) High Availability
8 64 (17.44%) Root Cause Analysis
9 58 (15.80%) Cloud Security
10 56 (15.26%) Roadmaps
11 53 (14.44%) Analytics
11 53 (14.44%) Containerisation
12 52 (14.17%) Migration
13 42 (11.44%) AI
14 41 (11.17%) ITIL
15 40 (10.90%) Computer Science
15 40 (10.90%) Mentoring
16 37 (10.08%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 109 (29.70%) PowerShell
2 53 (14.44%) Bicep
3 38 (10.35%) Python
4 34 (9.26%) SQL
5 29 (7.90%) Bash
6 12 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.63%) Java
8 5 (1.36%) C#
9 4 (1.09%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 94 (25.61%) Azure Certification
2 45 (12.26%) Degree
3 31 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (7.90%) Security Cleared
5 24 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 18 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.27%) CCNP
9 9 (2.45%) CISSP
10 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.09%) CISA
11 4 (1.09%) CRISC
11 4 (1.09%) MCSE
11 4 (1.09%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.82%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.54%) CISM
13 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.54%) SLA
3 17 (4.63%) NIST
4 16 (4.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.00%) ISO 14000
6 10 (2.72%) GDPR
7 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.91%) QA
8 5 (1.36%) NCSC
9 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.27%) PMO
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 104 (28.34%) Active Directory
2 73 (19.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (7.36%) Docker
3 27 (7.36%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (4.90%) Hyper-V
5 15 (4.09%) vSphere
6 14 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.91%) KVM
8 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.54%) Firmware
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (31.61%) Terraform
2 62 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 59 (16.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (11.17%) Ansible
5 19 (5.18%) SCCM
6 13 (3.54%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.63%) Puppet
8 5 (1.36%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.82%) Autotask
10 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 3 (0.82%) SCOM
11 2 (0.54%) Argo
11 2 (0.54%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.54%) Grafana
11 2 (0.54%) MaaS360
11 2 (0.54%) Packer
11 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 180 (49.05%) Microsoft
2 78 (21.25%) VMware
3 24 (6.54%) Cisco
4 18 (4.90%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.63%) Tenable
6 16 (4.36%) AppDynamics
7 12 (3.27%) ScienceLogic
8 10 (2.72%) Meraki
8 10 (2.72%) Veeam
9 9 (2.45%) Apple
9 9 (2.45%) Oracle
10 8 (2.18%) Google
10 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.63%) iManage
11 6 (1.63%) SAP
12 5 (1.36%) Aderant
12 5 (1.36%) SolarWinds
13 4 (1.09%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.09%) Red Hat
13 4 (1.09%) Sage