Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 14 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 428 389 155
Rank change year-on-year -39 -234 +157
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 314 683 1,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.66% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.99% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 223 569 910
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,156 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +3.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,250 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% -4.00% +13.64%

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 16,554 34,372 35,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.62% 33.25% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,078 25,439 26,175
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £102,410 £97,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.94% -7.27% +4.76%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 14 July 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 14 July 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 -53 289 £65,000 - 186
UK excluding London +20 200 £59,000 -1.67% 126
Work from Home -46 116 £60,000 -4.43% 122
London -20 102 £70,000 -15.15% 81
South East +38 57 £71,500 +19.17% 36
Midlands +70 56 £67,500 +3.85% 20
North of England -9 40 £55,000 -0.77% 35
West Midlands +26 35 £70,000 +7.69% 12
Yorkshire +49 23 £47,500 -17.39% 12
East Midlands +59 21 £41,250 -8.33% 8
South West +42 15 £47,500 -32.14% 14
East of England +37 15 £45,250 -9.50% 11
North West -27 15 £62,500 +4.17% 17
Wales - 8 £38,094 - 4
Scotland +62 7 £55,000 -2.22% 6
Northern Ireland - 4 £43,092 - 3
North East +27 2 £61,750 +39.47% 6

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (7.01%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.59%) IIS
4 4 (1.27%) Apache
5 3 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.64%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Maya
2 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.32%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.96%) Shopify
2 2 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 237 (75.48%) Azure
2 231 (73.57%) PaaS
3 167 (53.18%) SaaS
4 91 (28.98%) AWS
5 78 (24.84%) Microsoft 365
6 57 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (17.20%) Entra ID
8 39 (12.42%) GCP
9 31 (9.87%) Power Platform
10 27 (8.60%) Azure Monitor
10 27 (8.60%) Power Automate
11 26 (8.28%) Serverless
12 25 (7.96%) Azure Key Vault
13 24 (7.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 19 (6.05%) GitHub
15 18 (5.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (5.10%) Azure AI
17 12 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (3.18%) Azure Functions
18 10 (3.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (22.61%) Firewall
2 50 (15.92%) DNS
3 42 (13.38%) VPN
3 42 (13.38%) WAN
4 34 (10.83%) SD-WAN
5 25 (7.96%) Network Security
6 24 (7.64%) DHCP
7 23 (7.32%) TCP/IP
8 16 (5.10%) LAN
9 14 (4.46%) VSAN
10 10 (3.18%) SAN
11 9 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (2.55%) VLAN
13 6 (1.91%) Unified Communications
14 4 (1.27%) Ethernet
14 4 (1.27%) Internet
14 4 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
14 4 (1.27%) Wireless
15 3 (0.96%) MPLS
16 2 (0.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 28 (8.92%) Power BI
3 22 (7.01%) MySQL
4 18 (5.73%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.18%) Star Schema
8 7 (2.23%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.91%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.59%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.27%) Big Data
11 4 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.64%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.64%) Bigtable
13 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.64%) HBase
13 2 (0.64%) Impala
13 2 (0.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (7.01%) Git
2 10 (3.18%) Jenkins
2 10 (3.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (1.91%) JIRA
4 5 (1.59%) GitLab
5 4 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 3 (0.96%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.64%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.32%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 93 (29.62%) Social Skills
2 68 (21.66%) Finance
3 34 (10.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.46%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.18%) Legal
7 9 (2.87%) Law
8 8 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.55%) Welsh Language
9 7 (2.23%) Advertising
9 7 (2.23%) Banking
10 6 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Retail
12 4 (1.27%) Games
12 4 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.27%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.96%) Dutch Language
13 3 (0.96%) Local Government
13 3 (0.96%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 83 (26.43%) Architect
2 38 (12.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 38 (12.10%) Senior
3 37 (11.78%) Azure Engineer
3 37 (11.78%) Cloud Engineer
4 34 (10.83%) Cloud Architect
5 29 (9.24%) Lead
6 22 (7.01%) IT Engineer
6 22 (7.01%) Solutions Architect
7 19 (6.05%) Security Architect
8 18 (5.73%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.41%) Infrastructure Support
10 15 (4.78%) Security Engineer
11 14 (4.46%) Developer
11 14 (4.46%) VMware Specialist
12 13 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (4.14%) Server Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Infrastructure Architect
13 12 (3.82%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.05%) .NET
2 12 (3.82%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.82%) Middleware
3 11 (3.50%) SAML
4 8 (2.55%) REST
5 7 (2.23%) SOAP
6 6 (1.91%) 802.1X
6 6 (1.91%) YAML
7 5 (1.59%) React
7 5 (1.59%) RESTful
8 4 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
8 4 (1.27%) OAuth
9 3 (0.96%) LDAP
9 3 (0.96%) Node.js
10 2 (0.64%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (0.64%) JSON
10 2 (0.64%) LAMP
10 2 (0.64%) LAPP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.83%) Public Cloud
2 29 (9.24%) Management Information System
3 28 (8.92%) Data Centre
4 24 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.10%) NHS
6 13 (4.14%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.18%) PKI
8 9 (2.87%) Clustering
8 9 (2.87%) IoT
9 8 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 8 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
11 6 (1.91%) Replication
11 6 (1.91%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.59%) BYOD
12 5 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.59%) Driving Licence
12 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 96 (30.57%) Windows
2 72 (22.93%) Windows Server
3 31 (9.87%) Linux
4 11 (3.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (2.55%) VMS
5 8 (2.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (1.59%) Unix
6 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.27%) AIX
8 3 (0.96%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.32%) Android
10 1 (0.32%) Debian
10 1 (0.32%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (34.71%) DevOps
2 74 (23.57%) Agile
3 71 (22.61%) CI/CD
4 70 (22.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 63 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (18.15%) ITIL
7 55 (17.52%) Cybersecurity
7 55 (17.52%) Project Management
7 55 (17.52%) Roadmaps
8 54 (17.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 49 (15.61%) Cloud Security
10 47 (14.97%) Migration
11 41 (13.06%) Analytics
11 41 (13.06%) TOGAF
12 40 (12.74%) Risk Management
13 36 (11.46%) Service Management
14 32 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (9.24%) Configuration Management
15 29 (9.24%) Waterfall
16 26 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 107 (34.08%) PowerShell
2 56 (17.83%) Python
3 50 (15.92%) SQL
4 30 (9.55%) Bash
5 22 (7.01%) Bicep
6 16 (5.10%) C#
7 9 (2.87%) Java
8 6 (1.91%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.96%) Ruby
10 2 (0.64%) Go
10 2 (0.64%) Perl
10 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 76 (24.20%) Azure Certification
2 51 (16.24%) Security Cleared
3 25 (7.96%) DBS Check
3 25 (7.96%) DV Cleared
4 24 (7.64%) Degree
4 24 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 24 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.73%) AWS Certification
6 16 (5.10%) CISSP
7 15 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.50%) CISA
9 10 (3.18%) CCNA
9 10 (3.18%) CCNP
9 10 (3.18%) MCSA
9 10 (3.18%) SANS
10 9 (2.87%) CISM
10 9 (2.87%) MCSE
11 8 (2.55%) CRISC
12 7 (2.23%) FFIEC
12 7 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 27 (8.60%) NIST
3 21 (6.69%) GDPR
4 14 (4.46%) SLA
5 13 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (4.14%) Data Quality
6 9 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 9 (2.87%) NIST 800
7 7 (2.23%) NCSC
8 4 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.96%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.96%) PMO
10 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.64%) QA
11 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 73 (23.25%) Active Directory
2 49 (15.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (10.51%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (8.92%) Hyper-V
5 20 (6.37%) Docker
6 17 (5.41%) vSphere
7 14 (4.46%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.46%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.64%) HDFS
9 2 (0.64%) KVM
9 2 (0.64%) Terminal Server
9 2 (0.64%) Xen
10 1 (0.32%) Kamailio
10 1 (0.32%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 58 (18.47%) Terraform
2 28 (8.92%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (7.01%) Ansible
5 21 (6.69%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.91%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.91%) Puppet
6 6 (1.91%) SCCM
7 4 (1.27%) CASB
8 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.64%) CFEngine
9 2 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.64%) Grafana
9 2 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (0.64%) Host Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.32%) Consul
10 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.32%) Salt
Vendors
1 143 (45.54%) Microsoft
2 69 (21.97%) VMware
3 23 (7.32%) Cisco
3 23 (7.32%) Databricks
4 19 (6.05%) Meraki
5 13 (4.14%) Google
6 12 (3.82%) Oracle
7 11 (3.50%) Veeam
8 7 (2.23%) Aruba
9 6 (1.91%) EMC
9 6 (1.91%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.59%) HP
11 4 (1.27%) Forcepoint
11 4 (1.27%) Qualys
11 4 (1.27%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.27%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.96%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.96%) Dell
12 3 (0.96%) Rapid7
12 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow