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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 406 363
Rank change year-on-year -33 -43 -133
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 332 271 735
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.86% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 242 183 622
10th Percentile £34,873 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,500 £109,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

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 27,266 14,584 34,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.28% 33.63% 34.69%
Number of salaries quoted 15,707 10,034 26,917
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,100
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -29 287 £60,000 -14.29% 68
UK excluding London -31 197 £57,500 -11.54% 52
London -15 110 £70,000 -1.75% 31
Work from Home -4 78 £70,000 +19.15% 29
South East -9 63 £60,000 -29.41% 22
Midlands -42 42 £53,250 -5.33% 7
North of England -40 40 £45,000 -28.00% 4
North West +12 23 £28,000 -58.52% 1
East Midlands -17 23 £45,000 +12.50% 3
West Midlands -44 19 £56,500 -19.29% 4
East of England -10 16 £60,000 +39.53% 5
South West -47 16 £42,500 -29.17% 7
Scotland +12 13 £43,400 -21.09% 10
Yorkshire -51 9 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North East - 8 £45,000 -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -37 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 19 (5.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (3.61%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.20%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 259 (78.01%) Azure
2 249 (75.00%) PaaS
3 123 (37.05%) SaaS
4 88 (26.51%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (20.48%) Entra ID
6 58 (17.47%) Azure AKS
7 48 (14.46%) AWS
8 45 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
9 41 (12.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 30 (9.04%) Azure Storage
11 29 (8.73%) Azure Key Vault
12 28 (8.43%) Serverless
13 22 (6.63%) Datadog
14 21 (6.33%) GitHub
15 17 (5.12%) GCP
15 17 (5.12%) Power Platform
16 16 (4.82%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (3.01%) Azure Functions
17 10 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (23.80%) DNS
2 72 (21.69%) Firewall
3 48 (14.46%) VPN
4 43 (12.95%) DHCP
5 38 (11.45%) VLAN
6 26 (7.83%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (7.53%) SAN
8 17 (5.12%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.61%) WAN
10 8 (2.41%) VoIP
11 7 (2.11%) LAN
11 7 (2.11%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.81%) ATM
12 6 (1.81%) Multicast
12 6 (1.81%) Network Security
12 6 (1.81%) PuTTY
12 6 (1.81%) SSH
12 6 (1.81%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.81%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.51%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.51%) Power BI
4 5 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.90%) Redis
6 3 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.60%) Big Data
7 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
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 20 (6.02%) Chocolatey
2 10 (3.01%) JIRA
3 8 (2.41%) Git
4 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.60%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 85 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.40%) Finance
3 42 (12.65%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.84%) Law
5 26 (7.83%) Banking
6 15 (4.52%) Legal
7 12 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.71%) Billing
8 9 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.71%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.81%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.81%) Automotive
9 6 (1.81%) Marketing
9 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.81%) Retail
9 6 (1.81%) Spanish Language
10 5 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.20%) Advertising
12 3 (0.90%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 95 (28.61%) Azure Engineer
2 94 (28.31%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (19.88%) Senior
5 63 (18.98%) Architect
6 33 (9.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 32 (9.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 25 (7.53%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (7.23%) IT Engineer
10 23 (6.93%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (6.93%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) Analyst
12 17 (5.12%) Consultant
12 17 (5.12%) Support Engineer
13 16 (4.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.52%) IT Technician
15 14 (4.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
15 14 (4.22%) Cloud Architect
16 13 (3.92%) IT Support
16 13 (3.92%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.92%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.71%) YAML
3 5 (1.51%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.51%) Node.js
4 3 (0.90%) .NET
4 3 (0.90%) Kafka
4 3 (0.90%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.60%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.60%) Middleware
5 2 (0.60%) Playwright
5 2 (0.60%) RESTful
6 1 (0.30%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.30%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.30%) JSON
6 1 (0.30%) LDAP
6 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) Web Services
6 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (13.55%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.63%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.33%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (5.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (4.52%) Security Posture
7 11 (3.31%) Replication
8 9 (2.71%) Hedge funds
9 7 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.81%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.20%) PKI
13 2 (0.60%) BYOD
13 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 90 (27.11%) Windows
2 51 (15.36%) Windows Server
3 42 (12.65%) Linux
4 14 (4.22%) Unix
5 10 (3.01%) VMS
6 8 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.51%) Debian
8 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.60%) Solaris
9 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (33.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 98 (29.52%) DevOps
3 77 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (22.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (20.48%) CI/CD
6 66 (19.88%) Agile
7 54 (16.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 52 (15.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 50 (15.06%) Cloud Security
10 48 (14.46%) Containerisation
10 48 (14.46%) High Availability
11 46 (13.86%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (13.25%) Migration
13 40 (12.05%) ITIL
14 35 (10.54%) Computer Science
15 34 (10.24%) Load Balancing
16 33 (9.94%) Roadmaps
17 32 (9.64%) Identity Access Management
17 32 (9.64%) Information Security
18 31 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 83 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 45 (13.55%) Python
3 36 (10.84%) SQL
4 35 (10.54%) Bicep
5 21 (6.33%) Bash
6 6 (1.81%) DCL
6 6 (1.81%) Tcl
7 5 (1.51%) Java
8 4 (1.20%) C#
9 3 (0.90%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (22.29%) Azure Certification
2 43 (12.95%) Degree
3 33 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (7.83%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.42%) CISSP
7 17 (5.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.31%) CCNP
8 11 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (2.71%) CCSK
10 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.81%) MCSE
10 6 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.20%) CISA
12 4 (1.20%) CRISC
13 3 (0.90%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.02%) SLA
3 17 (5.12%) NIST
4 13 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.92%) GDPR
5 8 (2.41%) QA
6 7 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 81 (24.40%) Active Directory
2 50 (15.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.93%) Docker
4 16 (4.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (3.61%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.31%) KVM
7 11 (3.31%) vSphere
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.60%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.60%) Firmware
9 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 96 (28.92%) Terraform
2 57 (17.17%) Kubernetes
3 50 (15.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (8.13%) Ansible
5 22 (6.63%) SCCM
6 14 (4.22%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.81%) Puppet
8 5 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.20%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.90%) Autotask
10 3 (0.90%) CASB
10 3 (0.90%) Packer
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
12 1 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 154 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 62 (18.67%) VMware
3 22 (6.63%) Dynatrace
4 20 (6.02%) AppDynamics
4 20 (6.02%) Tenable
5 17 (5.12%) Cisco
6 15 (4.52%) Google
7 13 (3.92%) Veeam
8 10 (3.01%) Meraki
9 7 (2.11%) Apple
10 6 (1.81%) Oracle
10 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.81%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.51%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.51%) SAP
11 5 (1.51%) Zerto
12 4 (1.20%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.20%) Sage
13 3 (0.90%) iManage
13 3 (0.90%) Yealink