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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 421 257 269
Rank change year-on-year -164 +12 -20
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 256 581 807
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.17% 1.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 3.16% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 177 303 680
10th Percentile £38,000 £49,775 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.84% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £84,375 £91,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,000 £71,991 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.49% +15.19% +8.70%

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 22,372 18,391 28,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.27% 37.07% 38.52%
Number of salaries quoted 12,113 10,949 23,813
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £41,875
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 15 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 15 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 -140 218 £65,000 -10.03% 95
UK excluding London -170 136 £63,000 -12.49% 82
Work from Home -32 86 £69,250 -1.07% 42
London -48 80 £65,000 -13.33% 27
North of England +13 46 £64,000 -1.54% 14
South East -56 30 £70,000 -6.67% 28
North West +21 29 £62,750 +25.50% 9
Midlands -21 23 £57,500 -20.69% 17
West Midlands -3 20 £58,750 -21.67% 13
South West -118 16 £57,195 -15.27% 15
East of England +3 13 £58,750 +17.50% 4
North East +2 9 £70,000 +7.69% 2
Yorkshire -26 8 £65,466 +0.72% 3
Scotland -21 7 £65,000 +18.18% 3
East Midlands -16 3 £45,000 +12.50% 4
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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (7.81%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.39%) Apache
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.78%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) SAP FS
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.39%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.39%) Exchequer
Cloud Services
1 220 (85.94%) PaaS
2 199 (77.73%) Azure
3 123 (48.05%) SaaS
4 73 (28.52%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (23.05%) Entra ID
6 52 (20.31%) AWS
7 39 (15.23%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (11.33%) GCP
9 25 (9.77%) Azure Monitor
10 22 (8.59%) Serverless
11 20 (7.81%) Power Platform
12 18 (7.03%) GitHub
13 16 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.47%) Datadog
15 10 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (3.52%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 7 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
18 7 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
19 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 72 (28.13%) Firewall
2 53 (20.70%) VPN
3 48 (18.75%) DNS
4 34 (13.28%) DHCP
5 27 (10.55%) VLAN
6 18 (7.03%) TCP/IP
7 15 (5.86%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (5.47%) SAN
9 11 (4.30%) WAN
10 8 (3.13%) LAN
10 8 (3.13%) Network Security
11 7 (2.73%) SD-WAN
11 7 (2.73%) VoIP
12 6 (2.34%) PuTTY
12 6 (2.34%) SSH
13 5 (1.95%) SSL
14 3 (1.17%) ATM
14 3 (1.17%) DMZ
14 3 (1.17%) STUN
14 3 (1.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.73%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.95%) Power BI
5 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.78%) Big Data
7 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.78%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (4.30%) JIRA
2 10 (3.91%) Chocolatey
3 6 (2.34%) Git
4 5 (1.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 97 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 61 (23.83%) Finance
3 38 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.20%) Law
5 19 (7.42%) Legal
6 17 (6.64%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.86%) Banking
8 11 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.91%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (3.52%) Billing
11 8 (3.13%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.73%) Dutch Language
12 7 (2.73%) French Language
12 7 (2.73%) Games
13 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.56%) Marketing
13 4 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.17%) Automotive
14 3 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (27.34%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (26.95%) Architect
3 54 (21.09%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (17.97%) Senior
5 41 (16.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (11.33%) Support Engineer
7 23 (8.98%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (8.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 19 (7.42%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (7.03%) Lead
11 17 (6.64%) IT Engineer
12 16 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
13 13 (5.08%) Azure Architect
13 13 (5.08%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 13 (5.08%) Security Engineer
14 12 (4.69%) Analyst
14 12 (4.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
15 10 (3.91%) IT Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.73%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.34%) RESTful
3 5 (1.95%) .NET
4 4 (1.56%) Middleware
5 3 (1.17%) CSS
5 3 (1.17%) FreeSWITCH
5 3 (1.17%) HTML
5 3 (1.17%) Node.js
6 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.78%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.78%) Playwright
6 2 (0.78%) pytest
6 2 (0.78%) React
6 2 (0.78%) Web Services
6 2 (0.78%) YAML
7 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.39%) LDAP
7 1 (0.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.80%) Enterprise Software
2 41 (16.02%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.20%) Management Information System
4 15 (5.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (5.47%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.30%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (4.30%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.91%) Hedge funds
8 9 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.52%) PKI
9 8 (3.13%) Onboarding
10 7 (2.73%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.56%) IoT
11 4 (1.56%) Replication
12 2 (0.78%) Clustering
12 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.78%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 67 (26.17%) Windows
2 44 (17.19%) Windows Server
3 36 (14.06%) Linux
4 14 (5.47%) VMS
5 13 (5.08%) Unix
6 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.17%) Android
7 3 (1.17%) Debian
7 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (34.77%) DevOps
2 85 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 59 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (22.27%) CI/CD
5 48 (18.75%) AI
5 48 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (16.41%) ITIL
7 39 (15.23%) Agile
7 39 (15.23%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (14.84%) Cybersecurity
8 38 (14.84%) Microservices
9 33 (12.89%) Project Delivery
10 32 (12.50%) Computer Science
11 31 (12.11%) Cloud Security
11 31 (12.11%) Migration
12 29 (11.33%) Containerisation
12 29 (11.33%) Enterprise Architecture
12 29 (11.33%) Information Security
13 28 (10.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 58 (22.66%) PowerShell
2 37 (14.45%) Python
3 29 (11.33%) Bicep
3 29 (11.33%) SQL
4 24 (9.38%) Bash
5 6 (2.34%) DCL
5 6 (2.34%) Tcl
6 4 (1.56%) C#
7 3 (1.17%) Java
7 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.78%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.39%) PHP
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (18.75%) Degree
2 42 (16.41%) Azure Certification
3 38 (14.84%) Security Cleared
4 29 (11.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (10.94%) SC Cleared
6 26 (10.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (5.08%) CISSP
8 10 (3.91%) CCSK
9 8 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.34%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.95%) CCNA
13 4 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (1.17%) CCNP
14 3 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.78%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.47%) SLA
2 12 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (4.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (4.30%) NIST
4 10 (3.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (3.13%) QA
6 7 (2.73%) IFRS
6 7 (2.73%) IFRS 17
6 7 (2.73%) Solvency II
7 6 (2.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.17%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.17%) GDPR
8 3 (1.17%) NCSC
9 2 (0.78%) GRC
10 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 65 (25.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (14.45%) Docker
4 24 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 21 (8.20%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.30%) vSphere
7 8 (3.13%) vCloud
8 5 (1.95%) KVM
8 5 (1.95%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 78 (30.47%) Terraform
2 41 (16.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 18 (7.03%) Ansible
5 17 (6.64%) SCCM
6 10 (3.91%) Puppet
7 8 (3.13%) SCOM
8 6 (2.34%) Autotask
8 6 (2.34%) vCenter Server
9 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (1.56%) SolarWinds Orion
11 3 (1.17%) CASB
11 3 (1.17%) VxRail
12 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.78%) Packer
13 1 (0.39%) AirWatch
13 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.39%) Nessus
13 1 (0.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (52.34%) Microsoft
2 53 (20.70%) VMware
3 24 (9.38%) Google
4 13 (5.08%) Palo Alto
5 12 (4.69%) Fortinet
6 11 (4.30%) AppDynamics
6 11 (4.30%) BiZZdesign
6 11 (4.30%) Tenable
7 10 (3.91%) Cisco
7 10 (3.91%) CrowdStrike
7 10 (3.91%) Dynatrace
8 9 (3.52%) Oracle
8 9 (3.52%) SAP
9 8 (3.13%) Meraki
9 8 (3.13%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.73%) Apple
10 7 (2.73%) Duck Creek
10 7 (2.73%) Guidewire
10 7 (2.73%) Veeam
11 6 (2.34%) Databricks