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 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 260 280
Rank change year-on-year -152 +20 -34
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 281 533 815
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.17% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 3.15% 2.71%
Number of salaries quoted 201 289 693
10th Percentile £38,000 £48,389 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.84% +3.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £87,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £88,600 £94,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.52% +16.00% +5.00%

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 23,116 16,906 30,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.73% 37.09% 38.15%
Number of salaries quoted 12,458 10,740 24,527
10th Percentile £29,186 £33,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,264 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.02% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,539
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 3 March 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 3 March 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 -164 239 £63,000 -13.10% 141
UK excluding London -153 154 £61,250 -15.52% 122
Work from Home -19 91 £69,250 -1.07% 45
London -15 87 £65,000 -12.66% 36
North of England -8 50 £60,000 +2.13% 25
South East -74 34 £68,750 -8.33% 41
North West +24 32 £60,000 +14.29% 14
Midlands -34 32 £58,750 -18.97% 22
West Midlands +5 26 £64,250 -14.33% 7
East of England -6 13 £60,000 +20.00% 16
South West -130 13 £60,500 -10.37% 13
North East -8 10 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Scotland -15 9 £61,250 +11.36% 3
Yorkshire -39 8 £65,466 +0.72% 9
East Midlands -32 6 £45,000 +12.50% 14
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 34 (12.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.78%) IIS
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.42%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.78%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.71%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.36%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 236 (83.99%) PaaS
2 220 (78.29%) Azure
3 126 (44.84%) SaaS
4 83 (29.54%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (23.13%) Entra ID
6 51 (18.15%) AWS
7 45 (16.01%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (10.68%) GCP
9 25 (8.90%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (8.54%) Power Platform
10 24 (8.54%) Serverless
11 21 (7.47%) GitHub
12 18 (6.41%) Azure AKS
13 16 (5.69%) Datadog
14 11 (3.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (2.49%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 75 (26.69%) Firewall
2 57 (20.28%) VPN
3 54 (19.22%) DNS
4 37 (13.17%) DHCP
5 31 (11.03%) VLAN
6 21 (7.47%) TCP/IP
7 18 (6.41%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (6.05%) SAN
9 11 (3.91%) WAN
10 9 (3.20%) LAN
10 9 (3.20%) VoIP
11 7 (2.49%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.14%) Network Security
12 6 (2.14%) PuTTY
12 6 (2.14%) SSH
13 5 (1.78%) DMZ
13 5 (1.78%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.78%) STUN
13 5 (1.78%) tcpdump
13 5 (1.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.78%) Power BI
4 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.71%) Big Data
6 2 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.71%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Chocolatey
1 12 (4.27%) JIRA
2 7 (2.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.14%) Git
4 5 (1.78%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 101 (35.94%) Social Skills
2 70 (24.91%) Finance
3 39 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.54%) Legal
5 23 (8.19%) Law
6 16 (5.69%) Banking
7 15 (5.34%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.20%) Billing
11 6 (2.14%) Aerospace
11 6 (2.14%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.78%) Automotive
12 5 (1.78%) Dutch Language
12 5 (1.78%) French Language
12 5 (1.78%) Games
12 5 (1.78%) Marketing
13 4 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 79 (28.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 71 (25.27%) Architect
3 62 (22.06%) Azure Engineer
4 53 (18.86%) Senior
5 48 (17.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (10.68%) Support Engineer
7 28 (9.96%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (9.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 23 (8.19%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (7.12%) IT Engineer
11 19 (6.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.34%) Lead
13 14 (4.98%) Analyst
13 14 (4.98%) Security Engineer
13 14 (4.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
15 12 (4.27%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (4.27%) Azure Architect
15 12 (4.27%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.49%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.14%) Middleware
3 5 (1.78%) .NET
3 5 (1.78%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.42%) RESTful
4 4 (1.42%) YAML
5 3 (1.07%) CSS
5 3 (1.07%) HTML
5 3 (1.07%) Node.js
6 2 (0.71%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.71%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.71%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.71%) Playwright
6 2 (0.71%) pytest
6 2 (0.71%) React
6 2 (0.71%) Web Services
7 1 (0.36%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.37%) Cloud Native
2 44 (15.66%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (7.83%) Management Information System
4 18 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.34%) Security Posture
6 13 (4.63%) Cyber Threat
7 11 (3.91%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.56%) Data Centre
8 10 (3.56%) PKI
9 9 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (2.85%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 6 (2.14%) Replication
12 5 (1.78%) Enterprise Storage
13 4 (1.42%) IoT
14 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
14 2 (0.71%) Genomics
14 2 (0.71%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (27.40%) Windows
2 48 (17.08%) Windows Server
3 40 (14.23%) Linux
4 14 (4.98%) Unix
4 14 (4.98%) VMS
5 5 (1.78%) Debian
5 5 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.07%) Android
8 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (32.38%) DevOps
2 88 (31.32%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (22.06%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (21.35%) CI/CD
5 55 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 47 (16.73%) Agile
6 47 (16.73%) AI
7 43 (15.30%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (15.30%) ITIL
8 42 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 38 (13.52%) Cloud Security
10 35 (12.46%) Cybersecurity
11 34 (12.10%) Information Security
11 34 (12.10%) Microservices
12 33 (11.74%) Computer Science
12 33 (11.74%) Project Delivery
13 32 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
14 30 (10.68%) Containerisation
14 30 (10.68%) Migration
14 30 (10.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.49%) PowerShell
2 41 (14.59%) Python
3 30 (10.68%) Bicep
3 30 (10.68%) SQL
4 25 (8.90%) Bash
5 6 (2.14%) DCL
5 6 (2.14%) Tcl
6 4 (1.42%) C#
7 3 (1.07%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (1.07%) Java
7 3 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.71%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.36%) PHP
9 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (17.08%) Azure Certification
1 48 (17.08%) Degree
2 39 (13.88%) Security Cleared
3 30 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 29 (10.32%) SC Cleared
5 28 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.34%) CISSP
7 11 (3.91%) CCSK
8 10 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (2.85%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.14%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.78%) CCNA
12 5 (1.78%) CCNP
12 5 (1.78%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.42%) MCSE
13 4 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.71%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.69%) SLA
2 12 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (3.91%) NIST
3 11 (3.91%) QA
4 10 (3.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (2.14%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.78%) IFRS
6 5 (1.78%) IFRS 17
6 5 (1.78%) Solvency II
7 3 (1.07%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.07%) GDPR
7 3 (1.07%) NCSC
8 2 (0.71%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 74 (26.33%) Active Directory
2 48 (17.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (13.88%) Docker
4 25 (8.90%) Hyper-V
5 19 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.91%) vSphere
7 9 (3.20%) KVM
8 8 (2.85%) vCloud
8 8 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.07%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 83 (29.54%) Terraform
2 46 (16.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (15.30%) Kubernetes
4 23 (8.19%) Ansible
5 19 (6.76%) SCCM
6 12 (4.27%) Puppet
7 8 (2.85%) SCOM
7 8 (2.85%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (2.49%) Autotask
9 6 (2.14%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (1.07%) CASB
11 3 (1.07%) VxRail
12 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.71%) Packer
13 1 (0.36%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.36%) Grafana
13 1 (0.36%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 146 (51.96%) Microsoft
2 60 (21.35%) VMware
3 26 (9.25%) Google
4 13 (4.63%) AppDynamics
4 13 (4.63%) Tenable
5 12 (4.27%) Cisco
5 12 (4.27%) Dynatrace
6 11 (3.91%) Palo Alto
7 10 (3.56%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (3.56%) Fortinet
7 10 (3.56%) Veeam
8 9 (3.20%) Oracle
9 8 (2.85%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (2.85%) Meraki
9 8 (2.85%) SAP
9 8 (2.85%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.49%) Apple
11 6 (2.14%) Databricks
12 5 (1.78%) Citrix
12 5 (1.78%) Duck Creek