IaaS Job Trends

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 426 257 271
Rank change year-on-year -169 +14 -20
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 261 575 803
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.17% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 3.14% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 182 300 677
10th Percentile £38,000 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +1.71%
75th Percentile £77,424 £84,063 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,625 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +15.19% +7.76%

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 22,608 18,303 28,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.30% 37.21% 38.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12,219 10,901 23,698
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 16 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 February 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 -155 221 £65,000 -9.71% 129
UK excluding London -165 140 £62,500 -13.18% 120
Work from Home -24 88 £69,250 -1.07% 40
London -37 80 £65,000 -12.66% 33
North of England -4 46 £62,750 -1.57% 18
South East -49 31 £70,000 -6.67% 42
North West +18 29 £62,750 +25.50% 10
Midlands -14 25 £58,750 -18.97% 22
West Midlands -3 22 £60,000 -20.00% 11
South West -114 16 £57,195 -15.27% 20
East of England 0 13 £58,750 +17.50% 12
North East 0 9 £56,250 -13.46% 2
Scotland -14 8 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Yorkshire -29 8 £65,466 +0.72% 6
East Midlands -21 3 £45,000 +12.50% 10
Channel Islands - 3 £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 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (7.66%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.77%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 6 (2.30%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 224 (85.82%) PaaS
2 205 (78.54%) Azure
3 123 (47.13%) SaaS
4 75 (28.74%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (22.99%) Entra ID
6 52 (19.92%) AWS
7 41 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (11.11%) GCP
9 25 (9.58%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (8.43%) Serverless
11 21 (8.05%) Power Platform
12 19 (7.28%) GitHub
13 16 (6.13%) Azure AKS
14 15 (5.75%) Datadog
15 10 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (3.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 7 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
18 7 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
19 6 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 73 (27.97%) Firewall
2 54 (20.69%) VPN
3 49 (18.77%) DNS
4 35 (13.41%) DHCP
5 29 (11.11%) VLAN
6 19 (7.28%) TCP/IP
7 16 (6.13%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (5.75%) SAN
9 11 (4.21%) WAN
10 8 (3.07%) LAN
10 8 (3.07%) VoIP
11 7 (2.68%) Network Security
11 7 (2.68%) SD-WAN
12 6 (2.30%) PuTTY
12 6 (2.30%) SSH
13 5 (1.92%) SSL
14 4 (1.53%) ATM
14 4 (1.53%) DMZ
14 4 (1.53%) STUN
14 4 (1.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (2.30%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.92%) Power BI
4 4 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.77%) Big Data
6 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.77%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Chocolatey
1 11 (4.21%) JIRA
2 6 (2.30%) Git
2 6 (2.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.77%) GitLab
4 2 (0.77%) Selenium
General
1 100 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.37%) Finance
3 39 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.66%) Law
4 20 (7.66%) Legal
5 17 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.75%) Banking
7 11 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.45%) Billing
9 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.30%) Dutch Language
10 6 (2.30%) French Language
10 6 (2.30%) Games
11 5 (1.92%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.53%) Automotive
12 4 (1.53%) Marketing
12 4 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.15%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 72 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (26.44%) Architect
3 56 (21.46%) Azure Engineer
4 47 (18.01%) Senior
5 43 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (11.49%) Support Engineer
7 25 (9.58%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (8.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 20 (7.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (6.90%) IT Engineer
11 17 (6.51%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (6.51%) Lead
12 13 (4.98%) Azure Architect
12 13 (4.98%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.98%) Security Engineer
13 12 (4.60%) Analyst
13 12 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
13 12 (4.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.83%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 10 (3.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.68%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.92%) .NET
2 5 (1.92%) RESTful
3 4 (1.53%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (1.53%) Middleware
4 3 (1.15%) CSS
4 3 (1.15%) HTML
4 3 (1.15%) Node.js
5 2 (0.77%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.77%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.77%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.77%) Playwright
5 2 (0.77%) pytest
5 2 (0.77%) React
5 2 (0.77%) Web Services
5 2 (0.77%) YAML
6 1 (0.38%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.38%) Kafka
6 1 (0.38%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.48%) Cloud Native
1 43 (16.48%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 15 (5.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.36%) Security Posture
5 12 (4.60%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.83%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.83%) Hedge funds
7 9 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.45%) PKI
8 8 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (3.07%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.53%) IoT
10 4 (1.53%) Replication
11 2 (0.77%) Clustering
11 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.77%) Genomics
11 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (27.20%) Windows
2 45 (17.24%) Windows Server
3 38 (14.56%) Linux
4 14 (5.36%) VMS
5 13 (4.98%) Unix
6 4 (1.53%) Debian
6 4 (1.53%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.15%) Android
8 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.10%) DevOps
2 85 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 61 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 50 (19.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 48 (18.39%) AI
7 42 (16.09%) ITIL
8 41 (15.71%) Agile
9 40 (15.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (14.18%) Cybersecurity
11 37 (14.18%) Microservices
12 34 (13.03%) Project Delivery
13 32 (12.26%) Cloud Security
13 32 (12.26%) Computer Science
14 31 (11.88%) Enterprise Architecture
14 31 (11.88%) Migration
15 30 (11.49%) Information Security
16 29 (11.11%) Containerisation
16 29 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.61%) PowerShell
2 38 (14.56%) Python
3 29 (11.11%) Bicep
3 29 (11.11%) SQL
4 24 (9.20%) Bash
5 6 (2.30%) DCL
5 6 (2.30%) Tcl
6 4 (1.53%) C#
7 3 (1.15%) Java
7 3 (1.15%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.77%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.38%) PHP
9 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (18.01%) Degree
2 43 (16.48%) Azure Certification
3 38 (14.56%) Security Cleared
4 29 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (10.73%) SC Cleared
6 26 (9.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (4.98%) CISSP
8 10 (3.83%) CCSK
9 9 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (3.07%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.30%) DBS Check
13 5 (1.92%) CCNA
14 4 (1.53%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (1.15%) CCNP
15 3 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 2 (0.77%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.77%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.75%) SLA
2 12 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.21%) NIST
4 10 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 9 (3.45%) QA
6 6 (2.30%) IFRS
6 6 (2.30%) IFRS 17
6 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.30%) Solvency II
7 3 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.15%) GDPR
7 3 (1.15%) NCSC
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 68 (26.05%) Active Directory
2 43 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (14.56%) Docker
4 24 (9.20%) Hyper-V
5 21 (8.05%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.21%) vSphere
7 8 (3.07%) vCloud
8 7 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (2.30%) KVM
10 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 79 (30.27%) Terraform
2 43 (16.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (14.18%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.28%) Ansible
5 18 (6.90%) SCCM
6 11 (4.21%) Puppet
7 8 (3.07%) SCOM
8 6 (2.30%) Autotask
8 6 (2.30%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.53%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (1.15%) CASB
11 3 (1.15%) VxRail
12 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.77%) Packer
13 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.38%) Grafana
13 1 (0.38%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 140 (53.64%) Microsoft
2 55 (21.07%) VMware
3 24 (9.20%) Google
4 13 (4.98%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.60%) AppDynamics
5 12 (4.60%) Fortinet
5 12 (4.60%) Tenable
6 11 (4.21%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (4.21%) Cisco
6 11 (4.21%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.83%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (3.45%) Oracle
9 8 (3.07%) Meraki
9 8 (3.07%) SAP
9 8 (3.07%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.68%) Apple
10 7 (2.68%) Veeam
11 6 (2.30%) Databricks
11 6 (2.30%) Duck Creek
11 6 (2.30%) Guidewire