Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 301 226
Rank change year-on-year -24 -75 +35
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 440 888 1,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.96% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 2.58% 3.93%
Number of salaries quoted 245 723 1,020
10th Percentile £46,250 £43,150 £42,950
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,000 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +1.71% +1.96%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £96,500 £110,000 £106,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £73,750 £62,783 £59,526
% change year-on-year +17.47% +5.47% +8.23%

All Cloud 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 15,174 34,360 47,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.02% 37.00% 42.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,016 26,383 30,822
10th Percentile £32,125 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

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 3 April 2025. 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 -5 423 £71,991 +2.84% 249
UK excluding London +73 319 £73,750 +17.47% 105
South West +140 140 £67,500 -5.99% 9
Work from Home -42 102 £70,000 +3.70% 125
London -95 99 £70,000 -15.15% 160
South East +76 80 £77,500 +24.00% 40
Midlands +53 50 £70,000 +7.69% 16
West Midlands +25 36 £72,500 +4.72% 10
North of England -19 30 £65,000 +3.77% 24
North West -30 16 £67,500 +3.85% 16
East of England +69 14 £47,500 -7.32% 3
East Midlands +52 14 £40,000 -33.33% 6
Yorkshire +51 11 £63,750 +13.33% 4
Scotland +71 8 £52,500 -4.55% 9
Northern Ireland +32 3 - - 2
North East +28 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
Wales +35 1 £49,104 -32.27% 2

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 39 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (6.14%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.59%) Tomcat
4 6 (1.36%) IIS
5 5 (1.14%) NetWeaver
5 5 (1.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.45%) Apache
7 2 (0.45%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.45%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
1 5 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 341 (77.50%) PaaS
2 338 (76.82%) Azure
3 173 (39.32%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (37.95%) SaaS
5 134 (30.45%) Serverless
6 131 (29.77%) Power Platform
7 127 (28.86%) Power Automate
8 126 (28.64%) PowerApps
9 124 (28.18%) Azure Logic Apps
10 122 (27.73%) Azure Functions
11 84 (19.09%) AWS
12 79 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
13 53 (12.05%) Entra ID
14 36 (8.18%) GCP
15 19 (4.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 19 (4.32%) GitHub
16 12 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 10 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (2.27%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 55 (12.50%) Firewall
2 38 (8.64%) DNS
3 32 (7.27%) VSAN
4 31 (7.05%) VPN
5 24 (5.45%) WAN
6 23 (5.23%) DHCP
7 17 (3.86%) Network Security
7 17 (3.86%) SAN
8 15 (3.41%) LAN
9 13 (2.95%) SD-WAN
10 11 (2.50%) VLAN
10 11 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
11 8 (1.82%) FTP
11 8 (1.82%) IPv4
11 8 (1.82%) PBX
11 8 (1.82%) SMTP
11 8 (1.82%) Structured Cabling
11 8 (1.82%) TCP/IP
12 7 (1.59%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (35.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (1.82%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.59%) BigQuery
5 6 (1.36%) MySQL
5 6 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.36%) Power BI
6 5 (1.14%) Big Data
6 5 (1.14%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (1.14%) Oracle ODI
6 5 (1.14%) SAP BW
6 5 (1.14%) SAP Data Services
6 5 (1.14%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.91%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (2.95%) SonarQube
2 12 (2.73%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.14%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (0.91%) GitLab
4 4 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.68%) JIRA
6 2 (0.45%) Git
6 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.23%) Travis CI
General
1 136 (30.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 100 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 52 (11.82%) Finance
4 27 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.86%) Legal
7 13 (2.95%) Banking
8 11 (2.50%) Law
9 8 (1.82%) Retail
10 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.36%) Police
10 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.14%) General Ledger
11 5 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.14%) Marketing
12 4 (0.91%) Advertising
12 4 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Games
14 2 (0.45%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 101 (22.95%) Lead
2 97 (22.05%) Senior
3 89 (20.23%) Analyst
4 49 (11.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 46 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 45 (10.23%) Architect
7 44 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
8 43 (9.77%) Applications Support
8 43 (9.77%) VMware Specialist
9 42 (9.55%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.23%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 21 (4.77%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (3.86%) Security Engineer
14 16 (3.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 15 (3.41%) Consultant
15 15 (3.41%) IT Engineer
16 10 (2.27%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
16 10 (2.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 13 (2.95%) .NET
2 13 (2.95%) Azure Blueprints
3 9 (2.05%) Middleware
3 9 (2.05%) React
4 8 (1.82%) RESTful
5 6 (1.36%) Web Services
6 5 (1.14%) Kafka
6 5 (1.14%) SAML
7 4 (0.91%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.68%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.68%) OAuth
9 2 (0.45%) 802.1X
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (0.45%) gRPC
9 2 (0.45%) JSON
9 2 (0.45%) LDAP
9 2 (0.45%) ODBC
9 2 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 124 (28.18%) Data Structures
2 37 (8.41%) Public Cloud
3 36 (8.18%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 22 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 21 (4.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (4.32%) Onboarding
7 16 (3.64%) Private Cloud
8 7 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 6 (1.36%) Replication
9 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.14%) PKI
10 5 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.91%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 4 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.68%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.68%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.68%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 75 (17.05%) Windows
2 55 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 26 (5.91%) Linux
4 16 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.82%) Android
6 8 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (1.59%) Unix
8 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (1.14%) AIX
9 5 (1.14%) VMS
10 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.23%) Solaris
11 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (53.18%) DevOps
2 173 (39.32%) Agile
3 75 (17.05%) CI/CD
4 64 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
6 55 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (9.55%) Cloud Security
7 42 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (9.32%) ITIL
9 37 (8.41%) Containerisation
10 36 (8.18%) Mentoring
10 36 (8.18%) Project Management
11 35 (7.95%) Migration
12 34 (7.73%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (6.82%) Risk Management
14 29 (6.59%) High Availability
14 29 (6.59%) Platform Engineering
14 29 (6.59%) Software Engineering
15 25 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 23 (5.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 153 (34.77%) SQL
2 117 (26.59%) PowerShell
3 89 (20.23%) Python
4 25 (5.68%) Bash
5 12 (2.73%) Java
6 10 (2.27%) C#
7 7 (1.59%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.36%) C
9 5 (1.14%) Bicep
9 5 (1.14%) Ruby
10 2 (0.45%) Go
10 2 (0.45%) Perl
10 2 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.23%) C++
11 1 (0.23%) PHP
11 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 151 (34.32%) Azure Certification
2 81 (18.41%) Security Cleared
3 46 (10.45%) Degree
3 46 (10.45%) DV Cleared
4 23 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (5.00%) SC Cleared
6 16 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (2.95%) AWS Certification
7 13 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (2.73%) CCNA
9 10 (2.27%) CISSP
10 9 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.36%) CCNP
12 6 (1.36%) CEH
13 5 (1.14%) ISSAP
14 4 (0.91%) MCSE
15 3 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 2 (0.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (4.55%) NIST
2 18 (4.09%) GDPR
3 17 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.41%) NCSC
5 8 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.59%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.91%) QA
7 4 (0.91%) SLA
8 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.68%) PMO
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 93 (21.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 68 (15.45%) Active Directory
3 47 (10.68%) vSphere
4 44 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 41 (9.32%) Docker
6 18 (4.09%) Hyper-V
7 17 (3.86%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.05%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.68%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.68%) Firmware
11 2 (0.45%) HDFS
12 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.23%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (13.18%) Terraform
2 44 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 24 (5.45%) Ansible
5 15 (3.41%) vRealize
5 15 (3.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 11 (2.50%) SCCM
7 9 (2.05%) WSUS
8 6 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.91%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.91%) SCOM
10 4 (0.91%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.91%) VxRail
11 3 (0.68%) Grafana
12 2 (0.45%) CASB
12 2 (0.45%) Hadoop YARN
12 2 (0.45%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.45%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 260 (59.09%) Microsoft
2 110 (25.00%) VMware
3 42 (9.55%) Cisco
4 18 (4.09%) Citrix
5 17 (3.86%) Google
6 15 (3.41%) Oracle
7 13 (2.95%) SolarWinds
8 10 (2.27%) CheckPoint
8 10 (2.27%) Veeam
9 8 (1.82%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.59%) Dell
11 6 (1.36%) Databricks
11 6 (1.36%) SAP
12 5 (1.14%) IBM
12 5 (1.14%) iManage
13 4 (0.91%) F5
13 4 (0.91%) Meraki
13 4 (0.91%) NetMotion Wireless
13 4 (0.91%) Rapid7
13 4 (0.91%) Zscaler