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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 411 369
Rank change year-on-year -18 -42 -145
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 334 282 733
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.89% 2.05%
Number of salaries quoted 245 190 605
10th Percentile £35,469 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,000 £69,235
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -0.34% -1.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,325 £98,375 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.20% - +2.04%

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 24,958 14,897 35,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.54% 33.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,098 10,253 27,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £30,463
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +3.96% -8.18%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -32 290 £60,000 -14.29% 73
UK excluding London -50 198 £58,000 -7.20% 53
London +9 112 £72,500 - 42
Work from Home -15 83 £70,000 +24.44% 24
South East -3 62 £60,000 -29.41% 28
North of England -27 41 £45,000 -28.00% 8
Midlands -34 40 £53,250 -19.62% 5
East Midlands -19 23 £45,000 +12.50% 3
North West +15 22 £28,000 -58.52% 5
South West -47 20 £42,500 -23.42% 10
West Midlands -40 17 £56,500 -19.29% 2
East of England -12 15 £60,000 +39.53% 3
Scotland +21 13 £43,400 -21.09% 1
Yorkshire -44 10 £46,042 -19.93% 2
North East - 9 £45,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -49 4 £65,000 +70.63%

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 22 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.20%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (4.49%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.20%) Primavera
3 3 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 261 (78.14%) Azure
2 251 (75.15%) PaaS
3 120 (35.93%) SaaS
4 86 (25.75%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (20.06%) Entra ID
6 62 (18.56%) Azure AKS
7 50 (14.97%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (13.47%) AWS
8 45 (13.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 32 (9.58%) Azure Key Vault
9 32 (9.58%) Serverless
10 30 (8.98%) Azure Storage
11 28 (8.38%) GitHub
12 22 (6.59%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (6.29%) Datadog
14 16 (4.79%) Azure Functions
15 14 (4.19%) GCP
15 14 (4.19%) Power Platform
16 12 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (2.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 79 (23.65%) DNS
2 71 (21.26%) Firewall
3 53 (15.87%) VPN
4 42 (12.57%) DHCP
5 37 (11.08%) VLAN
6 26 (7.78%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (7.19%) SAN
8 18 (5.39%) TCP/IP
9 13 (3.89%) WAN
10 8 (2.40%) LAN
10 8 (2.40%) VoIP
11 7 (2.10%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.80%) ATM
12 6 (1.80%) Multicast
12 6 (1.80%) Network Security
12 6 (1.80%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.80%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.50%) DMZ
13 5 (1.50%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.50%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.96%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.50%) Power BI
4 5 (1.50%) Redis
4 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.30%) Big Data
8 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.30%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.69%) Chocolatey
2 12 (3.59%) Git
3 11 (3.29%) JIRA
4 7 (2.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.90%) Selenium
6 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 85 (25.45%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.65%) Finance
3 40 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (11.98%) Law
4 25 (7.49%) Banking
5 17 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (3.89%) Legal
7 9 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.40%) Billing
8 8 (2.40%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.80%) Automotive
10 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.80%) Retail
10 6 (1.80%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.50%) Aviation
11 5 (1.50%) Marketing
11 5 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 93 (27.84%) Azure Engineer
2 88 (26.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (20.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (19.16%) Architect
4 64 (19.16%) Senior
5 32 (9.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 31 (9.28%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.19%) IT Engineer
8 22 (6.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.29%) Analyst
9 21 (6.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 21 (6.29%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (5.09%) Consultant
11 16 (4.79%) Azure Architect
12 15 (4.49%) IT Technician
12 15 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.49%) Support Engineer
13 14 (4.19%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.19%) Enterprise Architect
14 13 (3.89%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.19%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.29%) YAML
3 6 (1.80%) Node.js
4 5 (1.50%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.90%) .NET
5 3 (0.90%) Kafka
5 3 (0.90%) Middleware
5 3 (0.90%) Playwright
5 3 (0.90%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.60%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.60%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.30%) JSON
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) REST
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.37%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 22 (6.59%) Cyber Threat
4 20 (5.99%) Management Information System
5 18 (5.39%) Security Posture
6 13 (3.89%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.29%) Public Cloud
7 11 (3.29%) Replication
8 10 (2.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 9 (2.69%) Onboarding
10 8 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (2.10%) Data Centre
11 7 (2.10%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.50%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.20%) PKI
13 4 (1.20%) Podcast
14 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
15 2 (0.60%) Cyberattack
15 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
15 2 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 94 (28.14%) Windows
2 52 (15.57%) Windows Server
3 47 (14.07%) Linux
4 13 (3.89%) Unix
5 12 (3.59%) VMS
6 8 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.50%) Debian
8 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.60%) Solaris
10 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) AIX
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (35.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 105 (31.44%) DevOps
3 78 (23.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 76 (22.75%) CI/CD
5 73 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
6 67 (20.06%) Agile
7 56 (16.77%) Cloud Security
7 56 (16.77%) Disaster Recovery
8 53 (15.87%) Root Cause Analysis
9 52 (15.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (14.97%) Containerisation
11 49 (14.67%) High Availability
12 43 (12.87%) Migration
13 42 (12.57%) ITIL
14 38 (11.38%) Roadmaps
15 36 (10.78%) Load Balancing
16 35 (10.48%) Computer Science
17 32 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
18 31 (9.28%) Analytics
19 30 (8.98%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (26.35%) PowerShell
2 44 (13.17%) Python
3 41 (12.28%) Bicep
4 38 (11.38%) SQL
5 25 (7.49%) Bash
6 6 (1.80%) Java
7 4 (1.20%) C#
7 4 (1.20%) DCL
7 4 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (1.20%) Tcl
8 3 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
8 3 (0.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 79 (23.65%) Azure Certification
2 41 (12.28%) Degree
3 36 (10.78%) Security Cleared
4 30 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 23 (6.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.79%) CISSP
8 12 (3.59%) CCNP
8 12 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.10%) CCSK
10 6 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.80%) MCSE
10 6 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.50%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.20%) CISA
12 4 (1.20%) CRISC
13 3 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (5.99%) SLA
3 17 (5.09%) NIST
4 13 (3.89%) GDPR
5 12 (3.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.80%) QA
7 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 87 (26.05%) Active Directory
2 59 (17.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.49%) Docker
4 21 (6.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (4.49%) vSphere
6 13 (3.89%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (3.59%) Hyper-V
8 11 (3.29%) KVM
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
10 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 105 (31.44%) Terraform
2 60 (17.96%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (9.58%) Ansible
5 21 (6.29%) SCCM
6 14 (4.19%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.80%) Puppet
8 5 (1.50%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.20%) Packer
9 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.90%) Autotask
10 3 (0.90%) CASB
11 2 (0.60%) Argo
11 2 (0.60%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.60%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.60%) Grafana
11 2 (0.60%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.60%) VxRail
11 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 156 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 69 (20.66%) VMware
3 21 (6.29%) Dynatrace
4 20 (5.99%) Cisco
5 19 (5.69%) AppDynamics
5 19 (5.69%) Tenable
6 14 (4.19%) Google
7 13 (3.89%) Veeam
8 10 (2.99%) Meraki
9 7 (2.10%) Apple
10 6 (1.80%) Oracle
10 6 (1.80%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.80%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.50%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.50%) SAP
11 5 (1.50%) Zerto
12 4 (1.20%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.20%) Sage
12 4 (1.20%) ScienceLogic
13 3 (0.90%) Logitech