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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 373 332
Rank change year-on-year -69 -41 -99
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 317 287 801
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.68% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.14% 1.91% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 226 210 681
10th Percentile £34,674 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -18.57% +11.50% +4.64%

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 27,818 14,999 34,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.79% 35.28% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14,496 10,964 26,776
10th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,738 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -35 276 £62,500 -10.71% 102
UK excluding London -66 187 £57,000 -18.57% 76
London +1 102 £70,000 - 47
Work from Home -10 71 £70,000 +9.80% 53
South East -36 48 £60,000 -29.41% 37
North of England -42 48 £45,000 -28.00% 9
Midlands -41 41 £56,500 -4.48% 13
North West -5 28 £40,000 -40.74% 3
West Midlands -31 22 £68,500 -2.14% 5
East Midlands -34 19 £44,736 +11.84% 8
South West -55 17 £39,750 -41.11% 8
East of England -12 15 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Yorkshire -59 12 £47,085 -24.66% 6
Scotland -16 11 £46,000 -16.36% 3
North East -28 8 £45,000 -30.77%
Channel Islands - 6 £75,000 -
Wales -34 3 - - 2

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 17 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 16 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.89%) IIS
4 1 (0.32%) Apache
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (2.52%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.58%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.26%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.26%) Primavera
3 1 (0.32%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 249 (78.55%) PaaS
2 230 (72.56%) Azure
3 126 (39.75%) SaaS
4 80 (25.24%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (18.30%) Entra ID
6 46 (14.51%) AWS
7 42 (13.25%) Azure AKS
8 40 (12.62%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (10.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 26 (8.20%) Serverless
11 22 (6.94%) Azure Storage
11 22 (6.94%) Datadog
12 21 (6.62%) Power Platform
13 20 (6.31%) Azure Key Vault
14 19 (5.99%) GCP
15 17 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
15 17 (5.36%) GitHub
16 11 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 9 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
18 7 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 70 (22.08%) Firewall
2 66 (20.82%) DNS
3 48 (15.14%) VPN
4 39 (12.30%) DHCP
5 38 (11.99%) VLAN
6 26 (8.20%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (7.26%) SAN
8 19 (5.99%) TCP/IP
9 10 (3.15%) WAN
10 9 (2.84%) LAN
11 7 (2.21%) VoIP
12 6 (1.89%) ATM
12 6 (1.89%) Multicast
12 6 (1.89%) PuTTY
12 6 (1.89%) SSH
12 6 (1.89%) tcpdump
12 6 (1.89%) Wireshark
13 5 (1.58%) Network Security
13 5 (1.58%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (1.58%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (19.56%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.52%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (1.89%) Data Lake
3 6 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.58%) Power BI
4 5 (1.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.26%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.63%) Big Data
7 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.63%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.32%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.32%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.31%) Chocolatey
2 11 (3.47%) JIRA
3 9 (2.84%) Git
4 7 (2.21%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.63%) Selenium
7 1 (0.32%) GitLab
General
1 86 (27.13%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.29%) Finance
3 42 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.41%) Law
5 26 (8.20%) Banking
6 20 (6.31%) Legal
7 12 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.84%) Billing
9 9 (2.84%) Public Sector
10 6 (1.89%) Aerospace
10 6 (1.89%) Automotive
10 6 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.89%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.58%) Marketing
11 5 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.58%) Retail
12 4 (1.26%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.95%) Advertising
13 3 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (25.87%) Cloud Engineer
2 79 (24.92%) Azure Engineer
3 67 (21.14%) Senior
4 66 (20.82%) Architect
5 65 (20.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (9.15%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 29 (9.15%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (7.89%) IT Engineer
8 24 (7.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (7.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (6.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 18 (5.68%) Support Engineer
12 16 (5.05%) Analyst
13 15 (4.73%) Consultant
13 15 (4.73%) IT Technician
13 15 (4.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (4.42%) IT Support
14 14 (4.42%) Security Engineer
15 13 (4.10%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
16 12 (3.79%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.52%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.89%) .NET
2 6 (1.89%) Middleware
2 6 (1.89%) YAML
3 5 (1.58%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.58%) Node.js
4 3 (0.95%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.95%) CSS
4 3 (0.95%) HTML
4 3 (0.95%) RESTful
4 3 (0.95%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.63%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.63%) Kafka
5 2 (0.63%) Playwright
6 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.32%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.32%) LDAP
6 1 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 25 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (7.57%) Management Information System
4 21 (6.62%) Cyber Threat
5 15 (4.73%) Security Posture
6 12 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.47%) Hedge funds
8 10 (3.15%) Replication
9 6 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.58%) Data Centre
10 5 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.26%) IoT
11 4 (1.26%) PKI
12 3 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.63%) BYOD
13 2 (0.63%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 83 (26.18%) Windows
2 44 (13.88%) Windows Server
3 37 (11.67%) Linux
4 16 (5.05%) Unix
5 10 (3.15%) VMS
6 8 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.58%) Debian
9 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.63%) Solaris
10 2 (0.63%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.32%) AIX
11 1 (0.32%) Android
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (28.08%) Infrastructure as Code
2 86 (27.13%) DevOps
3 78 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 62 (19.56%) Agile
6 54 (17.03%) CI/CD
7 43 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (13.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (12.93%) Containerisation
9 40 (12.62%) Computer Science
9 40 (12.62%) ITIL
10 39 (12.30%) Cloud Security
11 35 (11.04%) Enterprise Architecture
12 34 (10.73%) Migration
13 33 (10.41%) AI
13 33 (10.41%) High Availability
13 33 (10.41%) Information Security
13 33 (10.41%) Root Cause Analysis
14 31 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
14 31 (9.78%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (18.61%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.25%) Python
3 35 (11.04%) SQL
4 29 (9.15%) Bicep
5 20 (6.31%) Bash
6 7 (2.21%) C#
7 6 (1.89%) DCL
7 6 (1.89%) Tcl
8 5 (1.58%) Java
9 3 (0.95%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (18.30%) Azure Certification
2 48 (15.14%) Degree
3 34 (10.73%) Security Cleared
4 32 (10.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (7.57%) SC Cleared
6 17 (5.36%) CISSP
7 12 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.47%) CCSK
9 10 (3.15%) CCNP
9 10 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.89%) MCSE
10 6 (1.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.58%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.26%) CISA
12 4 (1.26%) CRISC
13 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.62%) SLA
2 17 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (3.15%) NIST
4 10 (3.15%) QA
5 9 (2.84%) GDPR
6 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 6 (1.89%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.63%) NCSC
8 2 (0.63%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.32%) GRC
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS
9 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (21.77%) Active Directory
2 44 (13.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (7.89%) Docker
4 15 (4.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (4.10%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (3.47%) KVM
7 8 (2.52%) vSphere
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.32%) Firmware
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.32%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 78 (24.61%) Terraform
2 49 (15.46%) Kubernetes
3 46 (14.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (8.52%) Ansible
5 23 (7.26%) SCCM
6 12 (3.79%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.89%) Puppet
8 5 (1.58%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.26%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.95%) Autotask
10 3 (0.95%) CASB
10 3 (0.95%) Packer
11 2 (0.63%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.63%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.63%) VxRail
12 1 (0.32%) Grafana
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.32%) Oracle Flashback
12 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 141 (44.48%) Microsoft
2 55 (17.35%) VMware
3 22 (6.94%) Dynatrace
4 21 (6.62%) Tenable
5 20 (6.31%) AppDynamics
6 18 (5.68%) Google
7 12 (3.79%) Oracle
8 10 (3.15%) Veeam
9 9 (2.84%) Cisco
10 7 (2.21%) Apple
10 7 (2.21%) SAP
11 6 (1.89%) Meraki
11 6 (1.89%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.58%) BiZZdesign
12 5 (1.58%) Databricks
12 5 (1.58%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.58%) Zerto
13 4 (1.26%) Sage
13 4 (1.26%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.95%) iManage