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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 393 353
Rank change year-on-year -32 -40 -123
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 329 292 769
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.66% 0.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 1.93% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 236 197 649
10th Percentile £34,674 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £104,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +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 26,728 15,096 34,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.14% 34.15% 35.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15,074 10,617 26,681
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,688 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.44% +7.38% -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 18 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 18 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 -31 285 £60,000 -14.29% 99
UK excluding London -33 194 £57,500 -17.86% 83
London -1 108 £71,250 -1.72% 43
Work from Home +12 74 £70,000 +12.00% 104
South East -23 53 £60,000 -29.41% 44
Midlands -37 44 £58,750 -11.32% 7
North of England -27 43 £45,000 -28.00% 12
North West +18 24 £28,000 -58.52% 5
East Midlands -28 23 £45,000 +12.50% 4
West Midlands -31 21 £68,500 -2.14% 3
South West -57 18 £42,500 -29.17% 8
East of England -9 17 £60,000 +32.60% 6
Scotland +2 12 £43,400 -21.09% 9
Yorkshire -45 11 £47,085 -24.66% 5
North East -30 8 £45,000 -30.77% 2
Channel Islands - 6 £75,000 -
Wales -33 3 - - 1

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 18 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.82%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (3.04%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.52%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.22%) Primavera
3 1 (0.30%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 252 (76.60%) PaaS
2 249 (75.68%) Azure
3 122 (37.08%) SaaS
4 88 (26.75%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (18.54%) Entra ID
6 52 (15.81%) Azure AKS
7 47 (14.29%) AWS
8 41 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
9 39 (11.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 29 (8.81%) Azure Storage
10 29 (8.81%) Serverless
11 27 (8.21%) Azure Key Vault
12 22 (6.69%) Datadog
12 22 (6.69%) Power Platform
13 18 (5.47%) GitHub
14 17 (5.17%) GCP
15 16 (4.86%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (3.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
18 8 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (22.49%) DNS
2 71 (21.58%) Firewall
3 48 (14.59%) VPN
4 39 (11.85%) DHCP
4 39 (11.85%) VLAN
5 27 (8.21%) Wi-Fi
6 24 (7.29%) SAN
7 18 (5.47%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.74%) WAN
9 8 (2.43%) LAN
9 8 (2.43%) VoIP
10 6 (1.82%) ATM
10 6 (1.82%) Multicast
10 6 (1.82%) Network Security
10 6 (1.82%) PuTTY
10 6 (1.82%) SSH
10 6 (1.82%) tcpdump
10 6 (1.82%) Wireshark
11 5 (1.52%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (1.52%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.52%) Power BI
4 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.22%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.61%) Big Data
7 2 (0.61%) 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%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.38%) Chocolatey
2 11 (3.34%) JIRA
3 8 (2.43%) Git
4 7 (2.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.61%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) GitLab
General
1 87 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 80 (24.32%) Finance
3 43 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.33%) Law
5 27 (8.21%) Banking
6 20 (6.08%) Legal
7 12 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.74%) Billing
10 8 (2.43%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.82%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.82%) Automotive
11 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.82%) Marketing
11 6 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.82%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.52%) Retail
13 4 (1.22%) Advertising
13 4 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 90 (27.36%) Azure Engineer
2 88 (26.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 71 (21.58%) Senior
4 67 (20.36%) Architect
5 64 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (9.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 29 (8.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 28 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (7.29%) IT Engineer
10 23 (6.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (6.69%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (5.17%) Analyst
12 17 (5.17%) Consultant
12 17 (5.17%) Support Engineer
13 15 (4.56%) IT Technician
13 15 (4.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.26%) Cloud Architect
15 13 (3.95%) IT Support
15 13 (3.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.04%) ARM Templates
2 7 (2.13%) YAML
3 6 (1.82%) Middleware
4 5 (1.52%) .NET
4 5 (1.52%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (1.52%) Node.js
5 3 (0.91%) Kafka
5 3 (0.91%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.61%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.61%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.61%) CSS
6 2 (0.61%) HTML
6 2 (0.61%) Playwright
6 2 (0.61%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.30%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.30%) LDAP
7 1 (0.30%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.30%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 23 (6.99%) Management Information System
3 22 (6.69%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (5.78%) Enterprise Software
5 15 (4.56%) Security Posture
6 14 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (3.04%) Hedge funds
8 9 (2.74%) Replication
9 7 (2.13%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Cloud
12 4 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 4 (1.22%) PKI
13 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
13 3 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (0.61%) Cyberattack
14 2 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
14 2 (0.61%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 91 (27.66%) Windows
2 48 (14.59%) Windows Server
3 41 (12.46%) Linux
4 15 (4.56%) Unix
5 10 (3.04%) VMS
6 8 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.52%) Debian
9 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.30%) AIX
10 1 (0.30%) Android
10 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.40%) Infrastructure as Code
2 94 (28.57%) DevOps
3 79 (24.01%) Problem-Solving
4 73 (22.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 69 (20.97%) Agile
6 60 (18.24%) CI/CD
7 51 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 46 (13.98%) Containerisation
10 43 (13.07%) Cloud Security
10 43 (13.07%) High Availability
11 42 (12.77%) ITIL
11 42 (12.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 39 (11.85%) Computer Science
12 39 (11.85%) Migration
13 34 (10.33%) Information Security
14 33 (10.03%) AI
14 33 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
15 32 (9.73%) Enterprise Architecture
16 30 (9.12%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 75 (22.80%) PowerShell
2 43 (13.07%) Python
3 36 (10.94%) SQL
4 32 (9.73%) Bicep
5 18 (5.47%) Bash
6 6 (1.82%) C#
6 6 (1.82%) DCL
6 6 (1.82%) Tcl
7 5 (1.52%) Java
8 3 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.61%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (21.28%) Azure Certification
2 48 (14.59%) Degree
3 32 (9.73%) Security Cleared
4 31 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.29%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.47%) CISSP
7 14 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.34%) CCNP
8 11 (3.34%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (3.04%) CCSK
10 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.82%) MCSE
10 6 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.22%) CISA
12 4 (1.22%) CRISC
13 3 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (6.38%) SLA
3 14 (4.26%) NIST
4 12 (3.65%) GDPR
5 11 (3.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (3.04%) QA
7 7 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (1.82%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.61%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.61%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.30%) IFRS
10 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.30%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (22.19%) Active Directory
2 46 (13.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.99%) Docker
4 16 (4.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (4.26%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.34%) KVM
8 8 (2.43%) vSphere
9 3 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.61%) Firmware
10 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.30%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 87 (26.44%) Terraform
2 55 (16.72%) Kubernetes
3 49 (14.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (8.21%) Ansible
5 23 (6.99%) SCCM
6 12 (3.65%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.82%) Puppet
8 5 (1.52%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.22%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.91%) Autotask
10 3 (0.91%) CASB
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
11 2 (0.61%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.61%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.61%) Grafana
11 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.61%) VxRail
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 148 (44.98%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.33%) VMware
3 23 (6.99%) Dynatrace
4 21 (6.38%) AppDynamics
4 21 (6.38%) Tenable
5 15 (4.56%) Google
6 13 (3.95%) Cisco
7 10 (3.04%) Veeam
8 8 (2.43%) Meraki
9 7 (2.13%) Apple
9 7 (2.13%) SAP
10 6 (1.82%) Oracle
10 6 (1.82%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.52%) Zerto
12 4 (1.22%) Sage
12 4 (1.22%) SolarWinds
13 3 (0.91%) BiZZdesign
13 3 (0.91%) iManage
13 3 (0.91%) Logitech