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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 401 377
Rank change year-on-year -27 -24 -182
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 367 310 661
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.63% 0.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.96% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 251 221 555
10th Percentile £36,663 £37,500 £42,368
25th Percentile £46,104 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -10.34%
75th Percentile £78,125 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £97,500 £103,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% -1.67% -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 27,071 15,856 32,326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.26% 32.34% 33.06%
Number of salaries quoted 17,695 11,039 24,474
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,400 £30,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,482 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -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 18 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 18 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 -52 319 £60,000 -7.69% 65
UK excluding London -58 219 £60,000 +1.69% 57
London +1 123 £78,125 +11.61% 30
Work from Home -24 96 £68,500 +14.17% 25
South East -18 61 £60,000 -15.19% 33
North of England -34 55 £45,000 -23.73% 9
Midlands -50 36 £58,750 -12.96% 5
South West -43 30 £52,500 +10.53% 1
North West +13 27 £41,000 -34.40% 3
East Midlands -14 21 £57,500 +35.29% 2
North East -38 18 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Scotland +21 15 £46,000 -16.36% 3
West Midlands -40 15 £61,500 -12.14% 3
East of England -12 14 £60,000 +32.60% 5
Yorkshire -45 10 £46,042 -3.07% 2
Wales -56 5 £50,000 +31.25% 4
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 30 (8.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.82%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (5.45%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.09%) Primavera
3 2 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 279 (76.02%) Azure
2 273 (74.39%) PaaS
3 129 (35.15%) SaaS
4 84 (22.89%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (18.53%) Entra ID
6 59 (16.08%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (15.80%) AWS
7 58 (15.80%) Azure AKS
8 56 (15.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 44 (11.99%) Serverless
10 40 (10.90%) Azure Key Vault
11 36 (9.81%) GitHub
12 28 (7.63%) Azure Storage
13 26 (7.08%) Azure Functions
13 26 (7.08%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (5.18%) Datadog
15 14 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (3.81%) Power Platform
16 13 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (3.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 81 (22.07%) DNS
2 65 (17.71%) Firewall
3 64 (17.44%) VPN
4 40 (10.90%) DHCP
5 34 (9.26%) VLAN
6 26 (7.08%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (5.99%) SAN
8 21 (5.72%) TCP/IP
9 18 (4.90%) WAN
10 10 (2.72%) LAN
11 8 (2.18%) SD-WAN
11 8 (2.18%) VoIP
12 6 (1.63%) ATM
12 6 (1.63%) Multicast
12 6 (1.63%) Network Security
12 6 (1.63%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.63%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.36%) DMZ
13 5 (1.36%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.36%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (15.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.63%) Power BI
6 5 (1.36%) Redis
7 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
7 4 (1.09%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.54%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (6.27%) Git
2 17 (4.63%) Chocolatey
3 14 (3.81%) JIRA
4 7 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 82 (22.34%) Finance
3 49 (13.35%) Law
4 35 (9.54%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (6.27%) Banking
5 23 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.81%) Legal
7 12 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (3.00%) Marketing
8 11 (3.00%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.72%) Retail
10 8 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.63%) Automotive
11 6 (1.63%) Games
11 6 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.36%) Aviation
13 4 (1.09%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 86 (23.43%) Azure Engineer
2 81 (22.07%) Cloud Engineer
3 70 (19.07%) Architect
4 69 (18.80%) Senior
5 62 (16.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (8.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 28 (7.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 27 (7.36%) Analyst
9 23 (6.27%) Azure Architect
9 23 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (5.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 19 (5.18%) IT Engineer
12 18 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
13 16 (4.36%) Consultant
13 16 (4.36%) Enterprise Architect
13 16 (4.36%) Infrastructure Architect
13 16 (4.36%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (4.09%) IT Technician
15 14 (3.81%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.45%) ARM Templates
2 11 (3.00%) YAML
3 5 (1.36%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.09%) .NET
4 4 (1.09%) Middleware
4 4 (1.09%) Node.js
5 3 (0.82%) SAP Basis
5 3 (0.82%) Web Services
6 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.54%) Kafka
6 2 (0.54%) REST
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.27%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.27%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.27%) JSON
7 1 (0.27%) LDAP
7 1 (0.27%) Playwright
7 1 (0.27%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.27%) RESTful
7 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (16.08%) Cloud Native
2 27 (7.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (7.08%) Security Posture
4 20 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 20 (5.45%) Onboarding
5 19 (5.18%) Cyber Threat
5 19 (5.18%) Public Cloud
6 18 (4.90%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (4.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 12 (3.27%) Podcast
10 11 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (3.00%) Replication
11 10 (2.72%) Driving Licence
12 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (1.36%) AS400
13 5 (1.36%) iSeries
13 5 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (1.09%) NHS
14 4 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 104 (28.34%) Windows
2 52 (14.17%) Windows Server
3 45 (12.26%) Linux
4 16 (4.36%) VMS
5 8 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.18%) Unix
5 8 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.36%) Debian
6 5 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.09%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.54%) Solaris
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
2 120 (32.70%) DevOps
3 87 (23.71%) CI/CD
4 76 (20.71%) Agile
5 74 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 72 (19.62%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (18.80%) Disaster Recovery
7 69 (18.80%) Root Cause Analysis
8 67 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 64 (17.44%) Cloud Security
10 60 (16.35%) High Availability
11 55 (14.99%) Analytics
12 54 (14.71%) Containerisation
13 51 (13.90%) Roadmaps
14 46 (12.53%) AI
15 45 (12.26%) Migration
16 43 (11.72%) Computer Science
17 38 (10.35%) ITIL
17 38 (10.35%) Mentoring
18 36 (9.81%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 103 (28.07%) PowerShell
2 56 (15.26%) Bicep
3 45 (12.26%) Python
4 42 (11.44%) SQL
5 32 (8.72%) Bash
6 12 (3.27%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.63%) Java
8 4 (1.09%) C#
8 4 (1.09%) Go
9 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.54%) Ruby
10 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (23.71%) Azure Certification
2 47 (12.81%) Degree
3 31 (8.45%) Security Cleared
4 30 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.08%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (3.81%) CCNP
7 14 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.54%) CISSP
9 6 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.63%) MCSE
9 6 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.09%) CCSK
11 4 (1.09%) CISA
11 4 (1.09%) CRISC
11 4 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.82%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (5.99%) SLA
3 21 (5.72%) NIST
4 13 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (3.27%) GDPR
6 9 (2.45%) PCI DSS
7 8 (2.18%) ISO 14000
8 6 (1.63%) QA
9 5 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.27%) PMO
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 100 (27.25%) Active Directory
2 76 (20.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (7.90%) Docker
4 28 (7.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (5.45%) vSphere
6 18 (4.90%) Hyper-V
7 14 (3.81%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.00%) KVM
9 2 (0.54%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.54%) Firmware
10 1 (0.27%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 115 (31.34%) Terraform
2 63 (17.17%) Kubernetes
3 51 (13.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 35 (9.54%) Ansible
5 19 (5.18%) SCCM
6 12 (3.27%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.63%) Puppet
8 4 (1.09%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.82%) Autotask
9 3 (0.82%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
10 2 (0.54%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) VxRail
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.27%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 172 (46.87%) Microsoft
2 82 (22.34%) VMware
3 26 (7.08%) Cisco
4 19 (5.18%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.63%) AppDynamics
5 17 (4.63%) Tenable
6 13 (3.54%) Veeam
7 12 (3.27%) ScienceLogic
8 11 (3.00%) Google
8 11 (3.00%) Meraki
9 8 (2.18%) Apple
10 7 (1.91%) Oracle
11 6 (1.63%) SAP
11 6 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.63%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.36%) Zerto
13 4 (1.09%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.09%) iManage
13 4 (1.09%) Sage
14 3 (0.82%) Salesforce