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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 402 385
Rank change year-on-year -36 -17 -192
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 374 308 574
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.62% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.93% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 249 221 470
10th Percentile £36,330 £37,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -10.34%
75th Percentile £79,688 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £107,500
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 27,825 15,982 27,605
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.96% 32.28% 32.13%
Number of salaries quoted 18,249 11,126 20,233
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £84,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £99,950
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -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 1 August 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 August 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 -34 322 £62,500 -1.96% 90
UK excluding London -54 227 £60,000 +4.35% 61
London -14 124 £80,000 +14.29% 47
Work from Home -39 92 £70,000 +16.67% 41
North of England -26 60 £45,000 -20.00% 15
South East -28 60 £60,000 -13.04% 21
Midlands -43 37 £60,000 +6.67% 5
North West +11 31 £41,000 -32.23% 7
South West -55 29 £53,750 +13.16% 2
East Midlands -25 22 £57,500 +29.94%
North East -35 21 £67,125 +7.40% 2
Scotland +22 16 £61,750 +12.27% 6
West Midlands -44 15 £60,750 -8.30% 5
East of England -21 12 £60,000 +39.53% 6
Yorkshire -46 8 £45,000 -5.26% 6
Wales -61 8 £42,936 +12.71% 5
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 (8.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.34%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.35%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.07%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.07%) Primavera
2 2 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 282 (75.40%) Azure
2 272 (72.73%) PaaS
3 134 (35.83%) SaaS
4 90 (24.06%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (18.72%) Entra ID
6 61 (16.31%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (15.51%) AWS
8 56 (14.97%) Azure AKS
9 55 (14.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 46 (12.30%) Serverless
11 42 (11.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 35 (9.36%) GitHub
13 28 (7.49%) Azure Functions
13 28 (7.49%) Azure Storage
14 24 (6.42%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (4.81%) Datadog
16 13 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (3.48%) Power Platform
17 12 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 12 (3.21%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 81 (21.66%) DNS
2 60 (16.04%) Firewall
2 60 (16.04%) VPN
3 41 (10.96%) DHCP
4 27 (7.22%) VLAN
5 24 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
6 21 (5.61%) SAN
7 19 (5.08%) TCP/IP
8 17 (4.55%) WAN
9 9 (2.41%) LAN
10 8 (2.14%) SD-WAN
11 6 (1.60%) ATM
11 6 (1.60%) Multicast
11 6 (1.60%) Network Security
11 6 (1.60%) tcpdump
11 6 (1.60%) Wireshark
12 4 (1.07%) SNMP
12 4 (1.07%) VoIP
13 3 (0.80%) DMZ
13 3 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.34%) Power BI
5 5 (1.34%) Redis
6 4 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.07%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.07%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.80%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) Big Data
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (6.42%) Git
2 16 (4.28%) Chocolatey
3 13 (3.48%) JIRA
4 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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
1 105 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.39%) Finance
3 54 (14.44%) Law
4 34 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.15%) Banking
7 15 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.01%) Legal
8 12 (3.21%) Marketing
8 12 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.94%) Retail
10 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.60%) Automotive
10 6 (1.60%) Games
10 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.60%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.34%) Aviation
12 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.07%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 85 (22.73%) Azure Engineer
2 76 (20.32%) Architect
3 75 (20.05%) Cloud Engineer
4 64 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 64 (17.11%) Senior
5 32 (8.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 28 (7.49%) Analyst
7 27 (7.22%) Solutions Architect
8 24 (6.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 22 (5.88%) Azure Architect
10 21 (5.61%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 16 (4.28%) Enterprise Architect
11 16 (4.28%) Infrastructure Architect
12 15 (4.01%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (4.01%) IT Engineer
12 15 (4.01%) IT Technician
12 15 (4.01%) Lead
13 14 (3.74%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.74%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.35%) ARM Templates
2 12 (3.21%) YAML
3 5 (1.34%) .NET
3 5 (1.34%) Middleware
4 4 (1.07%) Node.js
5 3 (0.80%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (0.80%) SAP Basis
6 2 (0.53%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.53%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.53%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.53%) Kafka
6 2 (0.53%) REST
6 2 (0.53%) SAML
6 2 (0.53%) Web Services
7 1 (0.27%) ADO
7 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Playwright
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.84%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (6.68%) Security Posture
4 23 (6.15%) Data Centre
5 20 (5.35%) Onboarding
5 20 (5.35%) Public Cloud
6 19 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (4.81%) Cyber Threat
8 16 (4.28%) Management Information System
9 15 (4.01%) Enterprise Cloud
10 13 (3.48%) Driving Licence
11 12 (3.21%) Podcast
12 11 (2.94%) Replication
13 9 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
14 7 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
16 5 (1.34%) AS400
16 5 (1.34%) iSeries
17 4 (1.07%) NHS
17 4 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 100 (26.74%) Windows
2 48 (12.83%) Windows Server
3 44 (11.76%) Linux
4 15 (4.01%) VMS
5 8 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.87%) Unix
7 6 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (1.07%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
9 3 (0.80%) Debian
9 3 (0.80%) Solaris
10 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.27%) AIX
11 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
2 122 (32.62%) DevOps
3 87 (23.26%) CI/CD
4 80 (21.39%) Disaster Recovery
5 77 (20.59%) Agile
5 77 (20.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 76 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 71 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
8 66 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
9 65 (17.38%) High Availability
10 64 (17.11%) Cloud Security
11 55 (14.71%) Analytics
11 55 (14.71%) Roadmaps
12 53 (14.17%) Containerisation
13 47 (12.57%) Migration
14 46 (12.30%) AI
15 41 (10.96%) Computer Science
16 38 (10.16%) Enterprise Architecture
16 38 (10.16%) ITIL
16 38 (10.16%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 107 (28.61%) PowerShell
2 56 (14.97%) Bicep
3 43 (11.50%) Python
4 36 (9.63%) SQL
5 30 (8.02%) Bash
6 12 (3.21%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.60%) Java
8 5 (1.34%) C#
9 4 (1.07%) Go
10 2 (0.53%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (24.33%) Azure Certification
2 47 (12.57%) Degree
3 32 (8.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (8.02%) Security Cleared
5 25 (6.68%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (3.74%) CCNP
9 12 (3.21%) CISSP
10 7 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.60%) MCSE
11 6 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.07%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.07%) CISA
13 4 (1.07%) CRISC
14 3 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.80%) CCSK
14 3 (0.80%) ICAEW
15 2 (0.53%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.88%) SLA
3 19 (5.08%) NIST
4 15 (4.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (2.94%) GDPR
5 11 (2.94%) ISO 14000
6 9 (2.41%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.60%) QA
8 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.80%) NCSC
9 2 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.27%) PMO
10 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (26.74%) Active Directory
2 74 (19.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.75%) Docker
4 28 (7.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 16 (4.28%) vSphere
7 15 (4.01%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (2.94%) KVM
9 2 (0.53%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.53%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (31.02%) Terraform
2 63 (16.84%) Kubernetes
3 57 (15.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 38 (10.16%) Ansible
5 16 (4.28%) SCCM
6 12 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (1.87%) Puppet
8 4 (1.07%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.80%) Autotask
10 2 (0.53%) Argo
10 2 (0.53%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.53%) Grafana
10 2 (0.53%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.53%) Packer
10 2 (0.53%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.53%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.53%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Flashback
11 1 (0.27%) SCOM
11 1 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 177 (47.33%) Microsoft
2 78 (20.86%) VMware
3 23 (6.15%) Cisco
4 18 (4.81%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.28%) AppDynamics
5 16 (4.28%) Tenable
6 12 (3.21%) Apple
6 12 (3.21%) Meraki
6 12 (3.21%) ScienceLogic
6 12 (3.21%) Veeam
7 10 (2.67%) Google
8 7 (1.87%) Oracle
8 7 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.60%) SAP
10 5 (1.34%) iManage
10 5 (1.34%) SolarWinds
10 5 (1.34%) Zerto
11 4 (1.07%) Aderant
11 4 (1.07%) Broadcom
11 4 (1.07%) Sage