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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 420 419 369
Rank change year-on-year -1 -50 -140
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 331 273 728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.62% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.21% 1.85% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 242 184 614
10th Percentile £34,873 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% -0.71% -
75th Percentile £73,438 £87,500 £89,375
90th Percentile £91,250 £101,000 £109,250
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 27,273 14,764 35,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.24% 33.64% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 15,708 10,157 26,958
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -11 286 £60,000 -14.29% 68
UK excluding London -16 195 £57,500 -11.54% 48
London -3 111 £71,250 - 30
Work from Home +7 78 £70,000 +24.44% 29
South East -6 63 £60,000 -29.41% 21
North of England -18 40 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Midlands -43 40 £50,000 -23.08% 7
North West +5 23 £28,000 -58.52% 1
East Midlands -34 22 £45,000 +12.50% 3
West Midlands -40 18 £56,500 -19.29% 4
East of England -14 16 £60,000 +39.53% 5
South West -48 16 £42,500 -23.42% 7
Scotland +6 13 £43,400 -21.09% 6
Yorkshire -57 9 £45,000 -28.00% 3
North East - 8 £45,000 -
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Wales -41 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 (5.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.51%) IIS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (3.63%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.51%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.21%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 258 (77.95%) Azure
2 247 (74.62%) PaaS
3 123 (37.16%) SaaS
4 88 (26.59%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (20.24%) Entra ID
6 57 (17.22%) Azure AKS
7 48 (14.50%) AWS
8 43 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
9 40 (12.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 30 (9.06%) Azure Storage
11 28 (8.46%) Azure Key Vault
12 27 (8.16%) Serverless
13 22 (6.65%) Datadog
14 21 (6.34%) GitHub
15 16 (4.83%) GCP
15 16 (4.83%) Power Platform
16 15 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (3.02%) Azure Functions
17 10 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
18 9 (2.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 79 (23.87%) DNS
2 71 (21.45%) Firewall
3 48 (14.50%) VPN
4 43 (12.99%) DHCP
5 38 (11.48%) VLAN
6 26 (7.85%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (7.55%) SAN
8 17 (5.14%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.63%) WAN
10 8 (2.42%) 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%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (18.43%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.72%) 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 (1.21%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.91%) Redis
6 3 (0.91%) 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 (6.04%) Chocolatey
2 10 (3.02%) JIRA
3 8 (2.42%) 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 83 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 81 (24.47%) Finance
3 42 (12.69%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.18%) Law
5 26 (7.85%) Banking
6 14 (4.23%) Legal
7 12 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.72%) Billing
8 9 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.72%) 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 (1.21%) Advertising
12 3 (0.91%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 95 (28.70%) Azure Engineer
2 93 (28.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 67 (20.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (19.94%) Senior
5 62 (18.73%) Architect
6 32 (9.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 32 (9.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 24 (7.25%) IT Engineer
7 24 (7.25%) Solutions Architect
8 23 (6.95%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.44%) Analyst
10 17 (5.14%) Consultant
10 17 (5.14%) Support Engineer
11 16 (4.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.53%) IT Technician
13 14 (4.23%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
14 13 (3.93%) IT Support
14 13 (3.93%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.93%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.72%) YAML
3 5 (1.51%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.51%) Node.js
4 3 (0.91%) .NET
4 3 (0.91%) Kafka
4 3 (0.91%) 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 43 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 22 (6.65%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.34%) Cyber Threat
4 19 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.83%) Security Posture
6 15 (4.53%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (3.32%) Replication
8 9 (2.72%) 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 (1.21%) 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 89 (26.89%) Windows
2 51 (15.41%) Windows Server
3 42 (12.69%) Linux
4 14 (4.23%) Unix
5 10 (3.02%) VMS
6 8 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.51%) Debian
8 4 (1.21%) 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
1 110 (33.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 96 (29.00%) DevOps
3 77 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
4 76 (22.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 68 (20.54%) CI/CD
6 65 (19.64%) Agile
7 54 (16.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 52 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 49 (14.80%) Cloud Security
10 48 (14.50%) Containerisation
10 48 (14.50%) High Availability
11 46 (13.90%) Root Cause Analysis
12 44 (13.29%) Migration
13 40 (12.08%) ITIL
14 35 (10.57%) Computer Science
15 34 (10.27%) Load Balancing
16 32 (9.67%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (9.67%) Roadmaps
17 31 (9.37%) Identity Access Management
17 31 (9.37%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 82 (24.77%) PowerShell
2 45 (13.60%) Python
3 35 (10.57%) Bicep
3 35 (10.57%) SQL
4 21 (6.34%) Bash
5 6 (1.81%) DCL
5 6 (1.81%) Tcl
6 5 (1.51%) Java
7 4 (1.21%) C#
8 3 (0.91%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (22.36%) Azure Certification
2 43 (12.99%) Degree
3 33 (9.97%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (7.85%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.44%) CISSP
6 18 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.32%) CCNP
7 11 (3.32%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.72%) CCSK
9 6 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.81%) MCSE
9 6 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.51%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.21%) CISA
11 4 (1.21%) CRISC
12 3 (0.91%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (6.04%) SLA
3 17 (5.14%) NIST
4 13 (3.93%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (3.93%) GDPR
5 7 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (2.11%) QA
6 6 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.60%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
7 2 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 80 (24.17%) Active Directory
2 50 (15.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.95%) Docker
4 16 (4.83%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (3.93%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (3.63%) Hyper-V
7 11 (3.32%) KVM
7 11 (3.32%) vSphere
8 3 (0.91%) 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 95 (28.70%) Terraform
2 57 (17.22%) Kubernetes
3 50 (15.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (7.85%) Ansible
5 22 (6.65%) SCCM
6 14 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.81%) Puppet
8 5 (1.51%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.21%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.91%) Autotask
10 3 (0.91%) CASB
10 3 (0.91%) 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
1 153 (46.22%) Microsoft
2 62 (18.73%) VMware
3 22 (6.65%) Dynatrace
4 20 (6.04%) AppDynamics
4 20 (6.04%) Tenable
5 17 (5.14%) Cisco
6 15 (4.53%) Google
7 13 (3.93%) Veeam
8 10 (3.02%) 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 (1.21%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.21%) Sage
13 3 (0.91%) iManage
13 3 (0.91%) Yealink