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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 491 397 363
Rank change year-on-year -94 -34 -184
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 336 284 522
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.57% 0.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.26% 1.83% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 213 206 337
10th Percentile £45,100 £37,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,250 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 26,716 15,535 23,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.69% 31.28% 32.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18,334 10,393 14,373
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,354 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.51% +1.60%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -88 294 £65,000 +8.33% 262
UK excluding London -77 200 £60,000 +4.35% 183
London -43 116 £78,125 +18.82% 115
Work from Home -55 103 £69,607 +22.12% 102
North of England -50 67 £53,250 +12.11% 53
South East -34 49 £62,500 +5.93% 52
Midlands -41 32 £60,000 -20.00% 26
North West -15 30 £47,500 +17.28% 30
North East -45 23 £89,250 +32.22% 4
South West -70 23 £55,000 - 17
West Midlands -39 22 £60,000 -22.58% 16
Yorkshire -40 14 £66,053 +39.06% 19
Scotland +9 13 £77,500 +34.78% 13
East Midlands -32 10 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Wales -71 9 £50,871 +33.54% 10
East of England -42 5 £60,000 +11.11% 11
Northern Ireland -79 2 - - 4

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 44 (13.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.95%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 262 (77.98%) Azure
2 231 (68.75%) PaaS
3 120 (35.71%) SaaS
4 89 (26.49%) Microsoft 365
5 80 (23.81%) Entra ID
6 70 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (20.24%) AWS
8 47 (13.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 47 (13.99%) Serverless
9 46 (13.69%) Azure AKS
10 43 (12.80%) GitHub
11 37 (11.01%) Azure Key Vault
11 37 (11.01%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (10.71%) Azure Functions
13 20 (5.95%) Azure Storage
13 20 (5.95%) Microsoft Purview
14 15 (4.46%) GCP
14 15 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (3.87%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 92 (27.38%) DNS
2 70 (20.83%) Firewall
3 61 (18.15%) VPN
4 45 (13.39%) DHCP
5 21 (6.25%) WAN
6 18 (5.36%) VLAN
7 17 (5.06%) Network Security
7 17 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (4.46%) SAN
9 13 (3.87%) SD-WAN
10 11 (3.27%) LAN
11 10 (2.98%) TCP/IP
12 9 (2.68%) BIG-IP
12 9 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (2.38%) SNMP
14 7 (2.08%) SSL
15 3 (0.89%) Wireless
16 1 (0.30%) DSL
16 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (7.44%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.49%) Redis
6 4 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.19%) Power BI
7 3 (0.89%) Big Data
7 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.89%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.60%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.60%) Power Query
9 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.30%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.30%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.30%) Metadata
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.33%) Git
2 20 (5.95%) JIRA
3 13 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.27%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.60%) Ant
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.60%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.60%) Maven
6 1 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.51%) Finance
3 41 (12.20%) Law
4 34 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 30 (8.93%) Public Sector
6 27 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.55%) Banking
8 19 (5.65%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.57%) Legal
9 12 (3.57%) Retail
10 10 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.68%) Marketing
12 6 (1.79%) Games
12 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Aviation
14 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 4 (1.19%) Police
15 2 (0.60%) Advertising
15 2 (0.60%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (23.21%) Architect
2 76 (22.62%) Azure Engineer
3 69 (20.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 69 (20.54%) Senior
4 60 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (8.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (7.44%) Azure Architect
7 24 (7.14%) Analyst
8 23 (6.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 22 (6.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 20 (5.95%) Infrastructure Architect
11 17 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (4.46%) Lead
13 15 (4.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.17%) Consultant
14 14 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 14 (4.17%) Senior Architect
14 14 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (36.01%) Terraform
2 19 (5.65%) ARM Templates
3 17 (5.06%) Middleware
4 8 (2.38%) YAML
5 7 (2.08%) SAML
6 4 (1.19%) .NET
6 4 (1.19%) Node.js
7 3 (0.89%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.60%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.60%) REST
8 2 (0.60%) Web Services
9 1 (0.30%) ADO
9 1 (0.30%) JSON
9 1 (0.30%) Kafka
9 1 (0.30%) Playwright
9 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.56%) Cloud Native
2 34 (10.12%) Data Centre
3 32 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 31 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 26 (7.74%) Security Posture
6 21 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
7 20 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (5.06%) Management Information System
9 16 (4.76%) Onboarding
10 14 (4.17%) Driving Licence
11 13 (3.87%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (3.57%) Podcast
13 9 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
15 7 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
16 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
16 6 (1.79%) Replication
17 5 (1.49%) iSeries
17 5 (1.49%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (27.68%) Windows
2 50 (14.88%) Windows Server
3 46 (13.69%) Linux
4 20 (5.95%) VMS
5 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 7 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.19%) Solaris
6 4 (1.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.89%) CentOS
8 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.30%) AIX
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (39.58%) Infrastructure as Code
2 125 (37.20%) DevOps
3 107 (31.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 95 (28.27%) CI/CD
5 88 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 78 (23.21%) Agile
7 77 (22.92%) Cloud Security
8 73 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
9 71 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (19.05%) Analytics
11 61 (18.15%) High Availability
12 60 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
13 59 (17.56%) Migration
14 57 (16.96%) AI
15 50 (14.88%) Roadmaps
16 49 (14.58%) ITIL
17 47 (13.99%) Containerisation
18 44 (13.10%) Mentoring
19 40 (11.90%) Computer Science
19 40 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 107 (31.85%) PowerShell
2 56 (16.67%) Bicep
3 41 (12.20%) Python
4 38 (11.31%) SQL
5 28 (8.33%) Bash
6 12 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.68%) ActionScript
8 7 (2.08%) Java
9 4 (1.19%) Go
10 3 (0.89%) C#
11 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.60%) Ruby
12 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.30%) Swift
12 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (26.79%) Azure Certification
2 46 (13.69%) Degree
3 35 (10.42%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (8.04%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.87%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.68%) CISSP
9 7 (2.08%) CCNP
10 6 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.79%) CCSP
10 6 (1.79%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.19%) CISM
11 4 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.89%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.89%) ICAEW
13 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.60%) CCSK
13 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (6.85%) SLA
3 19 (5.65%) NIST
4 18 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (3.27%) ISO 14000
6 9 (2.68%) GDPR
7 8 (2.38%) PCI DSS
8 7 (2.08%) NCSC
9 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.89%) GRC
10 2 (0.60%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.60%) QA
11 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.30%) PMO
11 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (28.27%) Active Directory
2 69 (20.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (7.74%) Docker
4 22 (6.55%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.95%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (5.36%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.36%) vSphere
7 4 (1.19%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (17.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (15.48%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.80%) Ansible
4 15 (4.46%) SCCM
5 11 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.08%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.08%) SCOM
7 6 (1.79%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.49%) Grafana
8 5 (1.49%) Puppet
9 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 3 (0.89%) Autotask
10 3 (0.89%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.89%) Nessus
10 3 (0.89%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.89%) vRealize
11 2 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.60%) MaaS360
11 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
11 2 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 175 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 74 (22.02%) VMware
3 29 (8.63%) Cisco
4 14 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 13 (3.87%) Google
5 13 (3.87%) Tenable
6 12 (3.57%) Oracle
6 12 (3.57%) ScienceLogic
7 11 (3.27%) AppDynamics
8 10 (2.98%) Meraki
9 9 (2.68%) Adobe
9 9 (2.68%) F5
10 8 (2.38%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.08%) Apple
11 7 (2.08%) Citrix
12 5 (1.49%) Aderant
12 5 (1.49%) iManage
12 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.49%) Veeam
12 5 (1.49%) Zscaler