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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 495 409 345
Rank change year-on-year -86 -64 -167
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 343 290 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.87% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 215 210 337
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £44,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,625 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,575 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,695 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% -5.51% -12.41%

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 27,040 15,539 23,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 31.29% 31.99%
Number of salaries quoted 18,428 10,414 14,551
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,264 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.76% +0.80%
75th Percentile £84,128 £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 5 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 5 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 -80 301 £65,000 +8.33% 267
UK excluding London -98 204 £60,000 +5.83% 184
London -50 119 £78,125 +18.82% 118
Work from Home -61 102 £69,607 +25.54% 101
North of England -38 66 £54,000 +13.68% 57
South East -31 52 £60,000 +1.69% 50
Midlands -54 32 £60,000 -15.79% 28
North West -27 29 £47,500 +17.28% 35
South West -71 25 £55,000 - 15
North East -47 23 £89,250 +32.22% 4
West Midlands -37 22 £60,000 -11.11% 18
Yorkshire -48 14 £66,053 +39.06% 18
Scotland +11 13 £77,500 +34.78% 14
East Midlands -42 10 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Wales -62 9 £50,871 +33.54% 8
East of England -45 5 £60,000 +11.11% 11
Northern Ireland -82 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 42 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (8.16%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.46%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (6.12%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 264 (76.97%) Azure
2 238 (69.39%) PaaS
3 122 (35.57%) SaaS
4 89 (25.95%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (23.03%) Entra ID
6 69 (20.12%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (19.83%) AWS
8 48 (13.99%) Serverless
9 46 (13.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 45 (13.12%) Azure AKS
11 43 (12.54%) GitHub
12 36 (10.50%) Azure Key Vault
12 36 (10.50%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (10.20%) Azure Functions
14 20 (5.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 19 (5.54%) Azure Storage
16 17 (4.96%) GCP
17 15 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (4.37%) Microsoft Copilot
18 13 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 91 (26.53%) DNS
2 70 (20.41%) Firewall
3 61 (17.78%) VPN
4 45 (13.12%) DHCP
5 23 (6.71%) WAN
6 19 (5.54%) VLAN
7 18 (5.25%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (4.66%) Network Security
9 15 (4.37%) SAN
10 14 (4.08%) SD-WAN
11 12 (3.50%) LAN
12 10 (2.92%) TCP/IP
13 9 (2.62%) BIG-IP
13 9 (2.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (2.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (2.04%) SNMP
15 6 (1.75%) SSL
16 3 (0.87%) Wireless
17 1 (0.29%) DSL
17 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.96%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.46%) Redis
6 4 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.17%) Power BI
7 3 (0.87%) Big Data
7 3 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.58%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.16%) Git
2 21 (6.12%) JIRA
3 14 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.21%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.58%) Ant
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.58%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.58%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (27.41%) Social Skills
2 81 (23.62%) Finance
3 41 (11.95%) Law
4 35 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.58%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (6.41%) Banking
8 20 (5.83%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.50%) Legal
9 12 (3.50%) Retail
10 11 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Marketing
12 6 (1.75%) Games
12 6 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.46%) Aviation
14 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.87%) Police
16 2 (0.58%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (23.03%) Architect
2 77 (22.45%) Azure Engineer
3 72 (20.99%) Senior
4 71 (20.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 61 (17.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (7.87%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.29%) Azure Architect
8 24 (7.00%) Analyst
9 23 (6.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 21 (6.12%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 20 (5.83%) Infrastructure Architect
12 17 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
13 16 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
13 16 (4.66%) Lead
13 16 (4.66%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 15 (4.37%) Consultant
14 15 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.08%) Senior Architect
15 14 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (35.86%) Terraform
2 20 (5.83%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.66%) Middleware
4 9 (2.62%) YAML
5 6 (1.75%) SAML
6 4 (1.17%) .NET
6 4 (1.17%) Node.js
7 3 (0.87%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.58%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.58%) REST
8 2 (0.58%) Web Services
9 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) JSON
9 1 (0.29%) Kafka
9 1 (0.29%) Playwright
9 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 33 (9.62%) Public Cloud
3 32 (9.33%) Data Centre
4 31 (9.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 25 (7.29%) Security Posture
6 21 (6.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 19 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (4.96%) Onboarding
9 15 (4.37%) Management Information System
10 13 (3.79%) Cyber Threat
10 13 (3.79%) Driving Licence
11 12 (3.50%) Podcast
12 9 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (2.04%) Product Ownership
14 7 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.75%) Enterprise Storage
16 5 (1.46%) AS400
16 5 (1.46%) iSeries
16 5 (1.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 94 (27.41%) Windows
2 50 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 47 (13.70%) Linux
4 20 (5.83%) VMS
5 6 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.17%) Solaris
7 4 (1.17%) Unix
8 3 (0.87%) CentOS
9 2 (0.58%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (39.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 127 (37.03%) DevOps
3 107 (31.20%) Disaster Recovery
4 97 (28.28%) CI/CD
5 91 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 80 (23.32%) Agile
7 77 (22.45%) Cloud Security
8 75 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (18.95%) Analytics
11 61 (17.78%) High Availability
11 61 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
12 57 (16.62%) Migration
13 56 (16.33%) AI
14 50 (14.58%) Roadmaps
15 49 (14.29%) ITIL
16 47 (13.70%) Containerisation
17 45 (13.12%) Mentoring
18 43 (12.54%) Computer Science
19 39 (11.37%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 108 (31.49%) PowerShell
2 56 (16.33%) Bicep
3 43 (12.54%) Python
4 37 (10.79%) SQL
5 29 (8.45%) Bash
6 12 (3.50%) Kusto Query Language
7 9 (2.62%) ActionScript
8 7 (2.04%) Java
9 4 (1.17%) Go
10 3 (0.87%) C#
11 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.58%) JavaScript
11 2 (0.58%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.29%) Swift
12 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 89 (25.95%) Azure Certification
2 49 (14.29%) Degree
3 34 (9.91%) Security Cleared
4 30 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.58%) SC Cleared
6 22 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.62%) CISSP
9 7 (2.04%) CCNP
10 6 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.75%) CCSP
11 5 (1.46%) DBS Check
12 4 (1.17%) CISM
13 3 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.87%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.87%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.58%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.41%) SLA
3 20 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 20 (5.83%) NIST
4 11 (3.21%) ISO 14000
5 10 (2.92%) GDPR
6 9 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 7 (2.04%) NCSC
8 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.87%) GRC
10 2 (0.58%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.58%) QA
11 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.29%) PMO
11 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (27.70%) Active Directory
2 68 (19.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (7.58%) Docker
4 22 (6.41%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (5.83%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (5.25%) Hyper-V
6 18 (5.25%) vSphere
7 3 (0.87%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.58%) Firmware
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (16.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (15.45%) Kubernetes
3 44 (12.83%) Ansible
4 15 (4.37%) SCCM
5 10 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.04%) Progress Chef
6 7 (2.04%) SCOM
7 5 (1.46%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.46%) Puppet
8 4 (1.17%) Grafana
8 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 3 (0.87%) Data Guard
9 3 (0.87%) Nessus
9 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.87%) vRealize
10 2 (0.58%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.58%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.58%) Packer
10 2 (0.58%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.58%) WSUS
Vendors
1 176 (51.31%) Microsoft
2 73 (21.28%) VMware
3 29 (8.45%) Cisco
4 15 (4.37%) Google
5 14 (4.08%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.79%) Tenable
7 12 (3.50%) Oracle
7 12 (3.50%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (3.21%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.92%) Meraki
10 9 (2.62%) Adobe
10 9 (2.62%) F5
11 7 (2.04%) Apple
11 7 (2.04%) Citrix
11 7 (2.04%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.75%) Veeam
13 5 (1.46%) Aderant
13 5 (1.46%) iManage
13 5 (1.46%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.46%) YouTube