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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 417 367
Rank change year-on-year -37 -50 -188
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 371 295 543
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.59% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.85% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 249 217 420
10th Percentile £40,740 £37,368 £47,375
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £50,419
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -6.15% -10.34%
75th Percentile £79,688 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -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 27,850 15,969 26,239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 25.92% 31.96% 31.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18,492 11,011 18,724
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,083
25th Percentile £44,222 £40,000 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
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 18 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 18 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 -38 326 £62,500 - 58
UK excluding London -51 227 £60,000 +9.09% 56
London -20 123 £79,063 +12.95% 25
Work from Home -42 93 £69,607 +16.01% 25
North of England -19 64 £50,321 -14.71% 15
South East -16 57 £60,000 -1.64% 23
Midlands -33 42 £60,000 +31.87% 7
North West +12 29 £41,000 -28.70% 6
South West -53 28 £42,500 -10.53% 1
East Midlands -17 23 £57,500 +25.00% 2
North East -44 22 £89,250 +37.31% 3
West Midlands -30 19 £60,000 +33.33% 5
Scotland +8 14 £53,400 -2.91% 6
Yorkshire -40 13 £51,000 +7.37% 6
East of England -33 10 £60,000 +39.53% 3
Wales -61 9 £50,871 +33.54% 2
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 36 (9.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (7.55%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.62%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (5.93%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.08%) Exchequer
1 4 (1.08%) Primavera
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 279 (75.20%) Azure
2 269 (72.51%) PaaS
3 139 (37.47%) SaaS
4 94 (25.34%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (19.14%) Entra ID
6 66 (17.79%) AWS
7 63 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (14.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 54 (14.56%) Azure AKS
10 44 (11.86%) Azure Key Vault
10 44 (11.86%) Serverless
11 33 (8.89%) GitHub
12 30 (8.09%) Azure Functions
13 28 (7.55%) Azure Monitor
13 28 (7.55%) Azure Storage
14 18 (4.85%) Datadog
15 16 (4.31%) GCP
16 14 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
16 14 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 91 (24.53%) DNS
2 61 (16.44%) Firewall
3 59 (15.90%) VPN
4 48 (12.94%) DHCP
5 25 (6.74%) VLAN
5 25 (6.74%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (5.93%) SAN
7 21 (5.66%) WAN
8 14 (3.77%) TCP/IP
9 12 (3.23%) LAN
9 12 (3.23%) SD-WAN
10 7 (1.89%) Network Security
11 5 (1.35%) SNMP
12 4 (1.08%) SSL
13 3 (0.81%) ATM
13 3 (0.81%) Multicast
13 3 (0.81%) tcpdump
13 3 (0.81%) Wireshark
14 2 (0.54%) NAS
14 2 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.62%) Power BI
5 5 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.35%) Redis
6 4 (1.08%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.54%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.54%) Power Query
8 2 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.27%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.27%) Metadata
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.01%) Git
2 16 (4.31%) Chocolatey
3 12 (3.23%) JIRA
4 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.54%) Ant
5 2 (0.54%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.54%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.54%) Maven
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Selenium
6 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 98 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 80 (21.56%) Finance
3 53 (14.29%) Law
4 34 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.20%) Banking
7 19 (5.12%) Public Sector
8 18 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.04%) Legal
10 13 (3.50%) Retail
11 10 (2.70%) Marketing
11 10 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.62%) Games
13 5 (1.35%) Aviation
13 5 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Health Technology
15 3 (0.81%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.81%) Automotive
15 3 (0.81%) Legal Technology
15 3 (0.81%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 84 (22.64%) Azure Engineer
2 81 (21.83%) Architect
3 66 (17.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 65 (17.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 65 (17.52%) Senior
5 32 (8.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 30 (8.09%) Analyst
7 24 (6.47%) Azure Architect
8 22 (5.93%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 20 (5.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 20 (5.39%) Infrastructure Architect
10 19 (5.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.12%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (4.58%) Enterprise Architect
11 17 (4.58%) Lead
12 16 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
12 16 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.31%) IT Engineer
13 13 (3.50%) Account Manager
13 13 (3.50%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.12%) ARM Templates
2 13 (3.50%) Middleware
3 11 (2.96%) YAML
4 6 (1.62%) .NET
5 4 (1.08%) Node.js
6 3 (0.81%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.81%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.81%) SAML
6 3 (0.81%) SAP Basis
7 2 (0.54%) 802.1X
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (0.54%) Kafka
7 2 (0.54%) REST
7 2 (0.54%) Web Services
8 1 (0.27%) ADO
8 1 (0.27%) FreeSWITCH
8 1 (0.27%) JSON
8 1 (0.27%) Playwright
8 1 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 25 (6.74%) Public Cloud
4 22 (5.93%) Data Centre
4 22 (5.93%) Security Posture
5 20 (5.39%) Onboarding
6 19 (5.12%) Enterprise Cloud
7 18 (4.85%) Cyber Threat
8 13 (3.50%) Driving Licence
8 13 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.50%) Management Information System
9 12 (3.23%) Podcast
10 9 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (2.43%) Replication
11 8 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.62%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.35%) AS400
14 5 (1.35%) iSeries
15 4 (1.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 101 (27.22%) Windows
2 49 (13.21%) Windows Server
3 43 (11.59%) Linux
4 15 (4.04%) VMS
5 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.35%) Unix
6 5 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.08%) Solaris
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) AIX
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.27%) CentOS
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 124 (33.42%) DevOps
3 98 (26.42%) Disaster Recovery
4 84 (22.64%) CI/CD
5 83 (22.37%) Agile
6 79 (21.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 75 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
9 69 (18.60%) High Availability
10 66 (17.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 63 (16.98%) Cloud Security
12 60 (16.17%) Analytics
13 56 (15.09%) Roadmaps
14 55 (14.82%) Migration
15 53 (14.29%) Containerisation
16 48 (12.94%) AI
17 45 (12.13%) Mentoring
18 44 (11.86%) ITIL
19 43 (11.59%) Computer Science
20 36 (9.70%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 110 (29.65%) PowerShell
2 53 (14.29%) Bicep
3 37 (9.97%) Python
4 36 (9.70%) SQL
5 29 (7.82%) Bash
6 12 (3.23%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (1.62%) Java
8 5 (1.35%) C#
9 4 (1.08%) Go
10 2 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.54%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.54%) Ruby
11 1 (0.27%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (25.07%) Azure Certification
2 47 (12.67%) Degree
3 32 (8.63%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (8.09%) Security Cleared
5 24 (6.47%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.23%) CCNP
9 9 (2.43%) CISSP
10 5 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.08%) CISA
11 4 (1.08%) CRISC
11 4 (1.08%) MCSE
12 3 (0.81%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.81%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 2 (0.54%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.47%) SLA
3 17 (4.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (4.58%) NIST
4 11 (2.96%) ISO 14000
5 10 (2.70%) GDPR
6 7 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.62%) QA
8 5 (1.35%) NCSC
9 3 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.54%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.54%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.27%) PMO
11 1 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 105 (28.30%) Active Directory
2 75 (20.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (7.01%) Docker
4 25 (6.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (4.85%) Hyper-V
6 16 (4.31%) vSphere
7 15 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (1.62%) 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
1 116 (31.27%) Terraform
2 61 (16.44%) Kubernetes
3 57 (15.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 41 (11.05%) Ansible
5 19 (5.12%) SCCM
6 13 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.35%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.35%) Puppet
8 4 (1.08%) Progress Chef
8 4 (1.08%) SCOM
9 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.54%) Argo
10 2 (0.54%) Autotask
10 2 (0.54%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.54%) Grafana
10 2 (0.54%) MaaS360
10 2 (0.54%) Packer
10 2 (0.54%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.54%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.54%) WSUS
Vendors
1 182 (49.06%) Microsoft
2 80 (21.56%) VMware
3 25 (6.74%) Cisco
4 18 (4.85%) Dynatrace
5 17 (4.58%) Tenable
6 16 (4.31%) AppDynamics
7 14 (3.77%) Google
8 12 (3.23%) ScienceLogic
9 10 (2.70%) Veeam
10 9 (2.43%) Meraki
10 9 (2.43%) Oracle
11 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
12 7 (1.89%) Apple
13 6 (1.62%) Adobe
14 5 (1.35%) iManage
14 5 (1.35%) SAP
14 5 (1.35%) SolarWinds
15 4 (1.08%) Aderant
15 4 (1.08%) Broadcom
15 4 (1.08%) Red Hat