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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 444 395 376
Rank change year-on-year -49 -19 -185
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 372 310 593
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.95% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 248 223 489
10th Percentile £36,164 £37,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £46,213 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -3.85% -10.65%
75th Percentile £78,984 £80,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £106,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -7.69%

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 27,598 15,937 28,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.16% 32.32% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 18,038 11,098 21,231
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,319 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -30 319 £60,750 -4.71% 89
UK excluding London -47 226 £60,000 +4.35% 64
London -22 122 £79,063 +12.95% 51
Work from Home -51 92 £70,000 +16.67% 34
North of England -19 61 £45,000 -18.18% 9
South East -6 60 £60,000 -14.29% 37
Midlands -50 36 £57,500 -13.21% 4
North West +16 30 £41,000 -32.23% 3
South West -43 29 £53,750 +13.16% 2
East Midlands -21 21 £57,500 +29.94%
North East -28 21 £45,000 -28.00% 2
Scotland +24 16 £61,750 +12.27% 3
West Midlands -32 15 £59,000 -14.18% 4
East of England -18 13 £60,000 +39.53% 5
Yorkshire -52 10 £46,042 -3.07% 4
Wales -60 8 £42,936 +12.71% 3
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -

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 32 (8.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.38%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.34%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.08%) Primavera
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 280 (75.27%) Azure
2 269 (72.31%) PaaS
3 131 (35.22%) SaaS
4 90 (24.19%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (19.09%) Entra ID
6 58 (15.59%) AWS
6 58 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (15.05%) Azure AKS
8 55 (14.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 45 (12.10%) Serverless
10 41 (11.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 34 (9.14%) GitHub
12 28 (7.53%) Azure Storage
13 27 (7.26%) Azure Functions
14 24 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (4.84%) Datadog
16 15 (4.03%) Power Platform
17 13 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 81 (21.77%) DNS
2 63 (16.94%) Firewall
3 60 (16.13%) VPN
4 41 (11.02%) DHCP
5 29 (7.80%) VLAN
6 24 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (5.65%) SAN
8 20 (5.38%) TCP/IP
9 17 (4.57%) WAN
10 9 (2.42%) LAN
11 8 (2.15%) SD-WAN
12 6 (1.61%) ATM
12 6 (1.61%) Multicast
12 6 (1.61%) Network Security
12 6 (1.61%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.61%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.34%) VoIP
14 4 (1.08%) DMZ
14 4 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
14 4 (1.08%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.71%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.88%) Power BI
5 6 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (1.34%) Redis
7 4 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.81%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.54%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.27%) Big Data
10 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.27%) Metadata
10 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.27%) Power Query
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.18%) Git
2 16 (4.30%) Chocolatey
3 13 (3.49%) JIRA
4 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Ant
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Ivy
6 1 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.27%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 107 (28.76%) Social Skills
2 81 (21.77%) Finance
3 53 (14.25%) Law
4 35 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.18%) Banking
7 17 (4.57%) Legal
8 13 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.23%) Marketing
9 12 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.96%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.96%) Retail
11 6 (1.61%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.61%) Automotive
11 6 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.61%) Games
11 6 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.61%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.34%) Aviation
13 4 (1.08%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 83 (22.31%) Azure Engineer
2 75 (20.16%) Cloud Engineer
3 73 (19.62%) Architect
4 64 (17.20%) Senior
5 63 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 32 (8.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 28 (7.53%) Analyst
8 26 (6.99%) Solutions Architect
9 24 (6.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 22 (5.91%) Azure Architect
11 21 (5.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 16 (4.30%) Enterprise Architect
12 16 (4.30%) Infrastructure Architect
13 15 (4.03%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (4.03%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) IT Engineer
13 15 (4.03%) IT Technician
14 14 (3.76%) Account Manager
14 14 (3.76%) Lead
15 13 (3.49%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.38%) ARM Templates
2 11 (2.96%) YAML
3 4 (1.08%) .NET
3 4 (1.08%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.08%) Middleware
3 4 (1.08%) Node.js
4 3 (0.81%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.54%) Kafka
5 2 (0.54%) REST
5 2 (0.54%) SAML
5 2 (0.54%) Web Services
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.27%) ADO
6 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.27%) JSON
6 1 (0.27%) Playwright
6 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 24 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 23 (6.18%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 20 (5.38%) Public Cloud
6 19 (5.11%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (5.11%) Management Information System
7 18 (4.84%) Cyber Threat
8 15 (4.03%) Enterprise Cloud
9 13 (3.49%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.23%) Podcast
11 11 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.96%) Replication
12 7 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.34%) AS400
14 5 (1.34%) iSeries
15 4 (1.08%) NHS
15 4 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (27.15%) Windows
2 50 (13.44%) Windows Server
3 44 (11.83%) Linux
4 16 (4.30%) VMS
5 8 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.88%) Unix
6 7 (1.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.08%) Debian
7 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.81%) Solaris
9 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.27%) AIX
10 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (34.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 119 (31.99%) DevOps
3 84 (22.58%) CI/CD
4 79 (21.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 76 (20.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 75 (20.16%) Agile
7 74 (19.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
9 67 (18.01%) Root Cause Analysis
10 66 (17.74%) High Availability
11 63 (16.94%) Cloud Security
12 54 (14.52%) Analytics
12 54 (14.52%) Roadmaps
13 52 (13.98%) Containerisation
14 47 (12.63%) AI
14 47 (12.63%) Migration
15 41 (11.02%) Computer Science
16 40 (10.75%) Mentoring
17 37 (9.95%) ITIL
18 35 (9.41%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 107 (28.76%) PowerShell
2 55 (14.78%) Bicep
3 44 (11.83%) Python
4 39 (10.48%) SQL
5 30 (8.06%) Bash
6 12 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.61%) Java
8 4 (1.08%) C#
8 4 (1.08%) Go
9 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (24.19%) Azure Certification
2 46 (12.37%) Degree
3 33 (8.87%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 26 (6.99%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.76%) CCNP
7 14 (3.76%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.23%) CISSP
9 7 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.61%) MCSE
10 6 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.08%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.08%) CISA
12 4 (1.08%) CRISC
13 3 (0.81%) CCSK
13 3 (0.81%) CISM
13 3 (0.81%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (9.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.91%) SLA
3 20 (5.38%) NIST
4 15 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.96%) GDPR
5 11 (2.96%) ISO 14000
6 9 (2.42%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.34%) QA
8 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.81%) NCSC
9 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 101 (27.15%) Active Directory
2 75 (20.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (7.53%) Docker
3 28 (7.53%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (4.57%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.57%) vSphere
5 16 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (2.96%) KVM
7 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.54%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (30.11%) Terraform
2 62 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 57 (15.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 37 (9.95%) Ansible
5 16 (4.30%) SCCM
6 13 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.88%) Puppet
8 4 (1.08%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.81%) Autotask
10 2 (0.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
10 2 (0.54%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.54%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.54%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 177 (47.58%) Microsoft
2 79 (21.24%) VMware
3 24 (6.45%) Cisco
4 18 (4.84%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.30%) AppDynamics
5 16 (4.30%) Tenable
6 12 (3.23%) Apple
6 12 (3.23%) Meraki
6 12 (3.23%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (3.23%) Veeam
7 10 (2.69%) Google
8 7 (1.88%) Oracle
8 7 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.61%) SAP
9 6 (1.61%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.34%) iManage
10 5 (1.34%) Zerto
11 4 (1.08%) Aderant
11 4 (1.08%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.08%) Sage