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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 255 202
Rank change year-on-year -167 -53 +63
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 242 623 853
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.11% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 3.08% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 176 327 672
10th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £45,750 £55,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -6.90% +7.41%
75th Percentile £77,424 £78,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,200 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £66,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +11.37%

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 20,683 20,198 21,417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.50% 36.13% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,338 12,040 17,635
10th Percentile £28,750 £34,750 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.74% -7.31%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 26 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 26 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 -146 216 £61,500 -12.14% 211
UK excluding London -141 132 £60,000 -11.11% 194
London -39 80 £65,000 -7.14% 45
Work from Home -28 78 £63,000 -3.08% 101
North of England +47 55 £62,500 +16.28% 34
North West +38 31 £55,000 +10.00% 17
South East -63 21 £59,000 -21.33% 66
South West -97 20 £57,195 -20.55% 27
Midlands -1 18 £60,000 - 29
West Midlands +13 16 £67,500 +12.50% 16
Yorkshire -8 13 £60,000 -7.69% 16
East of England +3 12 £53,000 +6.00% 25
North East +22 11 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Scotland -12 4 £65,000 +18.18% 10
East Midlands -11 2 £52,500 -47.50% 12
Northern Ireland -11 1 £64,000 +21.90% 2
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 35 (14.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.72%) IIS
4 1 (0.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Maya
Business Applications
1 9 (3.72%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.83%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 203 (83.88%) PaaS
2 182 (75.21%) Azure
3 131 (54.13%) SaaS
4 75 (30.99%) Microsoft 365
5 57 (23.55%) AWS
6 52 (21.49%) Entra ID
7 30 (12.40%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (12.40%) Serverless
8 25 (10.33%) GCP
9 20 (8.26%) Azure Monitor
9 20 (8.26%) Power Platform
10 13 (5.37%) GitHub
11 12 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (3.72%) Datadog
13 8 (3.31%) Azure AKS
14 7 (2.89%) Azure Stack
14 7 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 6 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (2.48%) Azure Functions
15 6 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 63 (26.03%) Firewall
2 49 (20.25%) VPN
3 44 (18.18%) DNS
4 33 (13.64%) DHCP
5 21 (8.68%) VLAN
6 20 (8.26%) TCP/IP
7 13 (5.37%) WAN
8 11 (4.55%) Network Security
9 10 (4.13%) SAN
9 10 (4.13%) SD-WAN
9 10 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (3.31%) LAN
10 8 (3.31%) PuTTY
10 8 (3.31%) SSH
11 7 (2.89%) VoIP
12 6 (2.48%) Unified Communications
13 5 (2.07%) DMZ
13 5 (2.07%) SSL
13 5 (2.07%) STUN
14 3 (1.24%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.68%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.89%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.48%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.24%) Power BI
6 2 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.41%) Big Data
7 1 (0.41%) Metadata
7 1 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (3.31%) JIRA
2 7 (2.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.07%) Chocolatey
4 4 (1.65%) Git
4 4 (1.65%) GitLab
5 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
General
1 97 (40.08%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.90%) Finance
3 29 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.92%) Law
5 20 (8.26%) Legal
6 14 (5.79%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (5.79%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.13%) Banking
7 10 (4.13%) Dutch Language
7 10 (4.13%) French Language
7 10 (4.13%) Games
8 8 (3.31%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.89%) Billing
10 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Automotive
13 1 (0.41%) Marketing
13 1 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (30.99%) Architect
2 50 (20.66%) Cloud Engineer
3 38 (15.70%) Senior
4 37 (15.29%) Support Engineer
5 34 (14.05%) Azure Engineer
6 31 (12.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (9.09%) Lead
7 22 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 17 (7.02%) Azure Architect
9 16 (6.61%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (6.20%) 3rd Line Support
10 15 (6.20%) Analyst
10 15 (6.20%) IT Architect
11 13 (5.37%) Cloud Architect
11 13 (5.37%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (4.96%) IT Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) Lead Architect
12 12 (4.96%) Technical Support
13 11 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 11 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.07%) .NET
1 5 (2.07%) ARM Templates
1 5 (2.07%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.65%) Middleware
2 4 (1.65%) RESTful
3 3 (1.24%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.24%) CSS
3 3 (1.24%) HTML
4 2 (0.83%) .NET Core
4 2 (0.83%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.83%) FastAPI
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.83%) pytest
4 2 (0.83%) React
5 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.41%) Kafka
5 1 (0.41%) Node.js
5 1 (0.41%) OAuth
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
2 37 (15.29%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (6.20%) Data Centre
5 13 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 10 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (3.31%) Cyber Threat
8 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.89%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.89%) PKI
10 6 (2.48%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.07%) Driving Licence
11 5 (2.07%) Hedge funds
12 4 (1.65%) IoT
13 3 (1.24%) BYOD
13 3 (1.24%) Clustering
13 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
14 2 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (31.82%) Windows
2 50 (20.66%) Windows Server
3 38 (15.70%) Linux
4 14 (5.79%) VMS
5 6 (2.48%) Unix
6 5 (2.07%) Debian
6 5 (2.07%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.24%) Android
7 3 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.23%) DevOps
2 61 (25.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 48 (19.83%) Cybersecurity
4 44 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (16.94%) Microservices
6 40 (16.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 39 (16.12%) CI/CD
8 38 (15.70%) AI
8 38 (15.70%) Project Delivery
9 36 (14.88%) Agile
9 36 (14.88%) ITIL
10 34 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (13.64%) Migration
12 30 (12.40%) Analytics
12 30 (12.40%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (11.16%) Roadmaps
14 25 (10.33%) Enterprise Architecture
15 24 (9.92%) Cloud Security
15 24 (9.92%) Containerisation
15 24 (9.92%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.79%) PowerShell
2 30 (12.40%) SQL
3 26 (10.74%) Python
4 24 (9.92%) Bicep
5 23 (9.50%) Bash
6 8 (3.31%) DCL
6 8 (3.31%) Tcl
7 5 (2.07%) C#
8 4 (1.65%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.83%) Java
9 2 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.29%) Degree
2 34 (14.05%) Azure Certification
3 31 (12.81%) Security Cleared
4 24 (9.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (9.50%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.13%) CISSP
8 9 (3.72%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.48%) CCNA
10 6 (2.48%) DBS Check
11 5 (2.07%) CCSK
12 4 (1.65%) CISA
12 4 (1.65%) CRISC
13 3 (1.24%) CISM
13 3 (1.24%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.24%) FFIEC
13 3 (1.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (7.44%) Cyber Essentials
3 10 (4.13%) SLA
4 9 (3.72%) GDPR
4 9 (3.72%) IFRS
4 9 (3.72%) IFRS 17
4 9 (3.72%) QA
4 9 (3.72%) Solvency II
5 8 (3.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.31%) NIST
6 5 (2.07%) ISO 9001
7 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.24%) NCSC
7 3 (1.24%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.83%) GRC
9 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 67 (27.69%) Active Directory
2 36 (14.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 31 (12.81%) Docker
5 18 (7.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (3.31%) vCloud
7 5 (2.07%) Kamailio
8 4 (1.65%) vSphere
9 3 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.83%) Terminal Server
10 2 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.41%) KVM
11 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (24.38%) Terraform
2 37 (15.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 30 (12.40%) Kubernetes
4 12 (4.96%) Ansible
5 11 (4.55%) SCCM
6 8 (3.31%) Puppet
6 8 (3.31%) SCOM
7 6 (2.48%) Autotask
8 3 (1.24%) CASB
8 3 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.41%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.41%) Argo
10 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.41%) Grafana
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.41%) Nessus
10 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 126 (52.07%) Microsoft
2 47 (19.42%) VMware
3 18 (7.44%) Google
4 14 (5.79%) Palo Alto
5 13 (5.37%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
7 10 (4.13%) Cisco
7 10 (4.13%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (4.13%) SAP
8 9 (3.72%) Duck Creek
8 9 (3.72%) Guidewire
8 9 (3.72%) Oracle
9 7 (2.89%) Tenable
9 7 (2.89%) Veeam
10 6 (2.48%) AppDynamics
10 6 (2.48%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.07%) Citrix
11 5 (2.07%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.07%) Salesforce
12 4 (1.65%) Okta