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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 407 265 188
Rank change year-on-year -142 -77 +86
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 262 653 908
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.46% 1.05% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 3.02% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 194 354 717
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £57,948
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,025 £92,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £65,900
% change year-on-year -2.40% -5.16% +10.71%

All Cloud 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 19,352 21,649 21,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.31% 34.85% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 13,206 18,135
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.80% -2.73%

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 -121 237 £62,500 -3.85% 291
UK excluding London -106 149 £61,000 -2.40% 266
Work from Home -22 93 £65,000 - 67
London -23 84 £65,000 -7.14% 51
North of England +52 62 £61,000 +6.09% 59
North West +48 31 £57,500 +15.00% 25
South East -46 25 £63,000 -16.00% 73
South West -92 23 £55,000 -18.52% 34
Yorkshire +3 20 £47,500 -26.92% 30
Midlands +5 19 £75,000 +25.00% 52
West Midlands +7 16 £75,000 +25.00% 28
East of England +7 13 £53,000 +6.00% 36
North East +17 11 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Scotland -13 4 £65,000 +18.18% 7
East Midlands +12 3 £75,000 +25.00% 21
Northern Ireland -4 1 £64,000 +21.90% 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

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 39 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (8.78%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.38%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.38%) Autodesk Inventor
1 1 (0.38%) Maya
1 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.44%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.76%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 212 (80.92%) PaaS
2 197 (75.19%) Azure
3 138 (52.67%) SaaS
4 84 (32.06%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (25.19%) AWS
6 54 (20.61%) Entra ID
7 35 (13.36%) Serverless
8 33 (12.60%) GCP
9 29 (11.07%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (8.02%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (6.87%) Power Platform
12 15 (5.73%) GitHub
12 15 (5.73%) OCI
13 14 (5.34%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (3.44%) Azure Functions
15 8 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
15 8 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.67%) Azure Stack
17 6 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 67 (25.57%) Firewall
2 48 (18.32%) DNS
3 47 (17.94%) VPN
4 37 (14.12%) DHCP
5 28 (10.69%) TCP/IP
6 20 (7.63%) VLAN
7 19 (7.25%) WAN
8 15 (5.73%) Network Security
9 14 (5.34%) SD-WAN
10 12 (4.58%) LAN
11 10 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (3.05%) SAN
13 7 (2.67%) Unified Communications
13 7 (2.67%) VoIP
14 5 (1.91%) DMZ
14 5 (1.91%) SSL
14 5 (1.91%) STUN
15 4 (1.53%) PuTTY
15 4 (1.53%) SSH
16 3 (1.15%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.91%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.15%) Power BI
7 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.38%) Big Data
8 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (3.05%) Jenkins
1 8 (3.05%) JIRA
2 5 (1.91%) GitLab
3 4 (1.53%) Git
4 2 (0.76%) Chocolatey
4 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
General
1 103 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 51 (19.47%) Finance
3 30 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (9.54%) Law
5 20 (7.63%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (7.25%) Legal
7 13 (4.96%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.82%) Dutch Language
8 10 (3.82%) French Language
8 10 (3.82%) Games
9 9 (3.44%) Banking
9 9 (3.44%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.91%) Billing
12 4 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.15%) Advertising
13 3 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.76%) Public Speaking
14 2 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (32.82%) Architect
2 44 (16.79%) Cloud Engineer
3 37 (14.12%) Support Engineer
4 36 (13.74%) Senior
5 32 (12.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (11.45%) Lead
7 29 (11.07%) Azure Engineer
8 23 (8.78%) Cloud Architect
9 21 (8.02%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (7.25%) Infrastructure Support
11 18 (6.87%) 3rd Line Support
12 17 (6.49%) Lead Architect
13 16 (6.11%) Azure Architect
13 16 (6.11%) IT Architect
14 13 (4.96%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 13 (4.96%) IT Engineer
15 12 (4.58%) Analyst
15 12 (4.58%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (3.82%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.91%) 802.1X
1 5 (1.91%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (1.91%) RESTful
2 4 (1.53%) .NET
2 4 (1.53%) Middleware
3 3 (1.15%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.15%) CSS
3 3 (1.15%) HTML
4 2 (0.76%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.76%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.76%) pytest
4 2 (0.76%) React
4 2 (0.76%) REST
4 2 (0.76%) SOAP
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) Node.js
5 1 (0.38%) Web Services
5 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.03%) Enterprise Software
2 36 (13.74%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.02%) Public Cloud
4 18 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (6.49%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.44%) Private Cloud
9 8 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.67%) PKI
11 5 (1.91%) BYOD
11 5 (1.91%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.53%) Clustering
12 4 (1.53%) Cyber Defence
12 4 (1.53%) IoT
12 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 88 (33.59%) Windows
2 62 (23.66%) Windows Server
3 37 (14.12%) Linux
4 13 (4.96%) VMS
5 5 (1.91%) Debian
5 5 (1.91%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.53%) Unix
7 3 (1.15%) Android
8 2 (0.76%) AIX
8 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (29.01%) DevOps
2 65 (24.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (19.85%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (16.79%) Agile
5 43 (16.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 43 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (16.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (15.27%) Microservices
8 37 (14.12%) Migration
8 37 (14.12%) Project Delivery
9 36 (13.74%) AI
9 36 (13.74%) CI/CD
10 35 (13.36%) ITIL
11 33 (12.60%) Analytics
12 31 (11.83%) Roadmaps
13 27 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.54%) Cloud Security
15 24 (9.16%) Mentoring
16 23 (8.78%) Containerisation
17 22 (8.40%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (27.10%) PowerShell
2 29 (11.07%) SQL
3 27 (10.31%) Python
4 26 (9.92%) Bash
5 22 (8.40%) Bicep
6 5 (1.91%) C#
7 4 (1.53%) DCL
7 4 (1.53%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.53%) Tcl
8 3 (1.15%) Java
9 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.76%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 41 (15.65%) Azure Certification
3 32 (12.21%) Degree
3 32 (12.21%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.96%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.82%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.44%) CISSP
9 8 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.67%) CCNA
11 6 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (2.29%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.91%) CISA
12 5 (1.91%) CRISC
13 4 (1.53%) CISM
13 4 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (1.53%) ISSEP
13 4 (1.53%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (7.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.20%) GDPR
4 9 (3.44%) IFRS
4 9 (3.44%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.44%) NIST
4 9 (3.44%) Solvency II
5 8 (3.05%) QA
6 7 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (2.67%) SLA
7 5 (1.91%) ISO 9001
8 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (1.53%) NIST 800
9 3 (1.15%) NCSC
9 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.76%) GRC
10 2 (0.76%) PMO
11 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 76 (29.01%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.03%) Hyper-V
3 40 (15.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (11.07%) Docker
5 25 (9.54%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.05%) vCloud
7 5 (1.91%) Kamailio
8 3 (1.15%) vSphere
9 2 (0.76%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.38%) KVM
10 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (22.52%) Terraform
2 38 (14.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (11.07%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.73%) Ansible
5 8 (3.05%) Puppet
5 8 (3.05%) SCCM
5 8 (3.05%) SCOM
6 6 (2.29%) Autotask
7 4 (1.53%) CASB
8 3 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.38%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.38%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.38%) Grafana
9 1 (0.38%) Nessus
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.38%) VxRail
9 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 136 (51.91%) Microsoft
2 50 (19.08%) VMware
3 16 (6.11%) Google
4 14 (5.34%) Palo Alto
5 13 (4.96%) Cisco
5 13 (4.96%) Fortinet
6 10 (3.82%) BiZZdesign
6 10 (3.82%) CrowdStrike
6 10 (3.82%) SAP
7 9 (3.44%) Duck Creek
7 9 (3.44%) Guidewire
7 9 (3.44%) Oracle
7 9 (3.44%) Veeam
8 6 (2.29%) Aruba
8 6 (2.29%) HP
8 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.91%) Citrix
9 5 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.53%) Forcepoint
10 4 (1.53%) Qualys