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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 397 362
Rank change year-on-year -92 -35 -183
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 341 285 515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.29% 0.58% 0.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.24% 1.85% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 208 203 327
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,034 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,375 £44,000 £50,078
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% -10.34%
75th Percentile £85,313 £76,875 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,850 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -14.29%

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 27,393 15,389 23,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.28% 31.35% 31.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,619 10,342 14,723
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -97 298 £65,000 +8.33% 212
UK excluding London -99 201 £60,000 +9.09% 137
London -42 119 £78,125 +13.22% 84
Work from Home -64 96 £69,607 +25.54% 71
North of England -57 63 £55,750 +17.37% 50
South East -33 51 £60,000 +1.69% 33
Midlands -57 31 £60,000 -15.79% 26
South West -75 27 £55,000 +15.79% 8
North West -20 26 £47,500 +17.28% 29
North East -51 23 £89,250 +37.31% 4
West Midlands -49 19 £60,000 -11.11% 16
Yorkshire -40 14 £66,053 +39.06% 18
Scotland +21 13 £77,500 +34.78% 5
East Midlands -42 12 £60,000 -20.00% 10
Wales -70 9 £50,871 +33.54% 6
East of England -41 5 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Northern Ireland -86 2 - - 3

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 39 (11.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (8.50%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.76%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (6.16%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 261 (76.54%) Azure
2 239 (70.09%) PaaS
3 122 (35.78%) SaaS
4 88 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
5 76 (22.29%) Entra ID
6 69 (20.23%) AWS
7 67 (19.65%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (13.78%) Serverless
9 46 (13.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 45 (13.20%) Azure AKS
11 41 (12.02%) GitHub
12 36 (10.56%) Azure Monitor
13 35 (10.26%) Azure Key Vault
14 34 (9.97%) Azure Functions
15 20 (5.87%) Microsoft Purview
16 19 (5.57%) Azure Storage
17 17 (4.99%) GCP
18 16 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
19 15 (4.40%) Microsoft Copilot
20 13 (3.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 88 (25.81%) DNS
2 67 (19.65%) Firewall
3 58 (17.01%) VPN
4 44 (12.90%) DHCP
5 22 (6.45%) WAN
6 19 (5.57%) VLAN
7 18 (5.28%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (4.40%) Network Security
8 15 (4.40%) SAN
9 13 (3.81%) SD-WAN
10 12 (3.52%) LAN
11 10 (2.93%) TCP/IP
12 7 (2.05%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 7 (2.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (1.76%) SNMP
14 5 (1.47%) SSL
15 3 (0.88%) Wireless
16 1 (0.29%) DSL
16 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.99%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.47%) Redis
6 4 (1.17%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.17%) Power BI
7 3 (0.88%) Big Data
7 3 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.59%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.59%) Power Query
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (8.21%) Git
2 19 (5.57%) JIRA
3 12 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.23%) Chocolatey
5 2 (0.59%) Ant
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.59%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 79 (23.17%) Finance
3 42 (12.32%) Law
4 35 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 29 (8.50%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
7 21 (6.16%) Banking
8 20 (5.87%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.11%) Retail
10 11 (3.23%) Legal
10 11 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.64%) Marketing
12 6 (1.76%) Games
12 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.47%) Aviation
14 4 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.17%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.88%) Police
16 2 (0.59%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 80 (23.46%) Architect
2 72 (21.11%) Azure Engineer
3 70 (20.53%) Senior
4 69 (20.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 58 (17.01%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (7.33%) Azure Architect
7 24 (7.04%) Analyst
7 24 (7.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 23 (6.74%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 21 (6.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 20 (5.87%) Infrastructure Architect
11 17 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.99%) Lead
12 16 (4.69%) Cloud Architect
13 15 (4.40%) Consultant
13 15 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.11%) Senior Architect
14 14 (4.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (34.90%) Terraform
2 18 (5.28%) ARM Templates
3 16 (4.69%) Middleware
4 9 (2.64%) YAML
5 5 (1.47%) SAML
6 4 (1.17%) .NET
6 4 (1.17%) Node.js
7 3 (0.88%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.59%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.59%) REST
8 2 (0.59%) Web Services
9 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) JSON
9 1 (0.29%) Kafka
9 1 (0.29%) Playwright
9 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 31 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 30 (8.80%) Data Centre
3 30 (8.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 25 (7.33%) Security Posture
5 21 (6.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 17 (4.99%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (4.99%) Onboarding
7 16 (4.69%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.81%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (3.81%) Driving Licence
9 12 (3.52%) Podcast
10 9 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (2.05%) Product Ownership
12 7 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.47%) AS400
13 5 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (1.47%) iSeries
13 5 (1.47%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 92 (26.98%) Windows
2 47 (13.78%) Windows Server
3 45 (13.20%) Linux
4 20 (5.87%) VMS
5 6 (1.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.17%) Solaris
7 4 (1.17%) Unix
8 3 (0.88%) CentOS
9 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.29%) AIX
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (39.30%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (36.36%) DevOps
3 103 (30.21%) Disaster Recovery
4 93 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 88 (25.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 79 (23.17%) Agile
7 75 (21.99%) Cloud Security
8 71 (20.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 71 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
9 64 (18.77%) Analytics
10 60 (17.60%) High Availability
11 59 (17.30%) Root Cause Analysis
12 57 (16.72%) Migration
13 55 (16.13%) AI
14 51 (14.96%) Roadmaps
15 48 (14.08%) ITIL
16 45 (13.20%) Containerisation
16 45 (13.20%) Mentoring
17 42 (12.32%) Computer Science
18 38 (11.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (31.09%) PowerShell
2 55 (16.13%) Bicep
3 39 (11.44%) Python
4 38 (11.14%) SQL
5 29 (8.50%) Bash
6 12 (3.52%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (2.05%) ActionScript
7 7 (2.05%) Java
8 4 (1.17%) Go
9 3 (0.88%) C#
10 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.59%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.59%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) Swift
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 88 (25.81%) Azure Certification
2 48 (14.08%) Degree
3 35 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (7.92%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.64%) CISSP
9 7 (2.05%) CCNP
10 6 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.76%) CCSP
11 4 (1.17%) CISM
11 4 (1.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.88%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.88%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.59%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (6.45%) SLA
3 20 (5.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (5.28%) NIST
5 11 (3.23%) GDPR
5 11 (3.23%) ISO 14000
6 7 (2.05%) NCSC
6 7 (2.05%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.88%) GRC
9 2 (0.59%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.59%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.59%) QA
9 2 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (26.98%) Active Directory
2 67 (19.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.04%) Docker
4 20 (5.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (5.87%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.28%) vSphere
6 16 (4.69%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.59%) Firmware
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (16.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 50 (14.66%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.61%) Ansible
4 15 (4.40%) SCCM
5 9 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.76%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.76%) SCOM
7 4 (1.17%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.17%) Grafana
7 4 (1.17%) Puppet
8 3 (0.88%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.88%) Nessus
8 3 (0.88%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.88%) vRealize
9 2 (0.59%) Argo
9 2 (0.59%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.59%) Packer
9 2 (0.59%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 175 (51.32%) Microsoft
2 72 (21.11%) VMware
3 28 (8.21%) Cisco
4 15 (4.40%) Google
5 14 (4.11%) Dynatrace
6 13 (3.81%) Tenable
7 12 (3.52%) Oracle
7 12 (3.52%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (3.23%) AppDynamics
9 10 (2.93%) Meraki
10 9 (2.64%) Adobe
11 7 (2.05%) Apple
11 7 (2.05%) F5
12 6 (1.76%) Citrix
12 6 (1.76%) SolarWinds
12 6 (1.76%) Veeam
13 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
13 5 (1.47%) YouTube
14 4 (1.17%) Aderant
14 4 (1.17%) iManage