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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 382 348
Rank change year-on-year -46 -34 -113
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 321 303 792
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.70% 0.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.98% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 231 210 672
10th Percentile £34,674 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £102,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year -17.86% +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 27,337 15,307 34,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.16% 35.18% 35.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,807 10,859 26,762
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -24 281 £61,500 -12.14% 94
UK excluding London -57 187 £57,500 -17.86% 79
London -5 107 £73,750 +1.72% 40
Work from Home -22 72 £70,000 +7.69% 44
South East -31 50 £60,000 -29.41% 41
North of England -51 44 £45,000 -28.00% 11
Midlands -49 42 £57,500 -2.79% 10
North West -9 26 £34,000 -49.63% 3
East Midlands -22 21 £45,000 +12.50% 5
West Midlands -48 21 £68,500 -2.14% 5
South West -48 17 £42,500 -33.33% 6
East of England +1 16 £60,000 +32.60% 8
Scotland -6 11 £43,400 -21.09% 4
Yorkshire -55 11 £47,085 -24.66% 8
North East -41 7 £45,000 -30.77%
Channel Islands - 6 £75,000 -
Wales -36 3 - - 1

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 (5.30%) SharePoint
2 16 (4.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.87%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (2.80%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.25%) Primavera
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.31%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 248 (77.26%) PaaS
2 238 (74.14%) Azure
3 122 (38.01%) SaaS
4 83 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
5 59 (18.38%) Entra ID
6 48 (14.95%) Azure AKS
7 46 (14.33%) AWS
8 40 (12.46%) Azure DevOps
9 37 (11.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 28 (8.72%) Serverless
11 26 (8.10%) Azure Storage
12 24 (7.48%) Azure Key Vault
13 22 (6.85%) Power Platform
14 21 (6.54%) Datadog
15 19 (5.92%) GCP
16 16 (4.98%) GitHub
17 15 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (3.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 9 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
20 7 (2.18%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 70 (21.81%) DNS
2 69 (21.50%) Firewall
3 47 (14.64%) VPN
4 38 (11.84%) DHCP
4 38 (11.84%) VLAN
5 26 (8.10%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (7.17%) SAN
7 18 (5.61%) TCP/IP
8 9 (2.80%) WAN
9 8 (2.49%) LAN
10 7 (2.18%) VoIP
11 6 (1.87%) ATM
11 6 (1.87%) Multicast
11 6 (1.87%) Network Security
11 6 (1.87%) PuTTY
11 6 (1.87%) SSH
11 6 (1.87%) tcpdump
11 6 (1.87%) Wireshark
12 5 (1.56%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.56%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.63%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.49%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (1.87%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.56%) Power BI
5 5 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.25%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.62%) Big Data
8 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.62%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (6.23%) Chocolatey
2 12 (3.74%) JIRA
3 9 (2.80%) Git
4 7 (2.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.62%) Selenium
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
General
1 87 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 75 (23.36%) Finance
3 42 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.28%) Law
5 25 (7.79%) Banking
6 20 (6.23%) Legal
7 12 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.80%) Billing
10 8 (2.49%) Public Sector
11 6 (1.87%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.87%) Automotive
11 6 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.87%) Spanish Language
12 5 (1.56%) Marketing
12 5 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.56%) Retail
13 4 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.93%) Advertising
15 2 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 87 (27.10%) Azure Engineer
2 85 (26.48%) Cloud Engineer
3 69 (21.50%) Senior
4 64 (19.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 63 (19.63%) Architect
6 30 (9.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 28 (8.72%) Solutions Architect
8 26 (8.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 24 (7.48%) IT Engineer
10 23 (7.17%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 22 (6.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (5.30%) Analyst
12 17 (5.30%) Consultant
12 17 (5.30%) Support Engineer
13 15 (4.67%) IT Technician
13 15 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.05%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.05%) IT Support
14 13 (4.05%) Security Engineer
15 12 (3.74%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.80%) ARM Templates
2 6 (1.87%) .NET
2 6 (1.87%) Middleware
2 6 (1.87%) YAML
3 5 (1.56%) FreeSWITCH
3 5 (1.56%) Node.js
4 3 (0.93%) .NET Core
4 3 (0.93%) CSS
4 3 (0.93%) HTML
4 3 (0.93%) Kafka
4 3 (0.93%) SAP Basis
5 2 (0.62%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.62%) Playwright
5 2 (0.62%) RESTful
6 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.31%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.31%) LDAP
6 1 (0.31%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.31%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (12.46%) Cloud Native
2 24 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
3 21 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (4.98%) Security Posture
5 12 (3.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (3.43%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.80%) Replication
8 7 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.25%) PKI
12 3 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
12 3 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.62%) BYOD
13 2 (0.62%) Cyberattack
13 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.62%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 86 (26.79%) Windows
2 45 (14.02%) Windows Server
3 39 (12.15%) Linux
4 16 (4.98%) Unix
5 10 (3.12%) VMS
6 8 (2.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.56%) Debian
9 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.62%) Solaris
10 2 (0.62%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.31%) AIX
11 1 (0.31%) Android
11 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (29.28%) Infrastructure as Code
2 88 (27.41%) DevOps
3 79 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
4 72 (22.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 64 (19.94%) Agile
6 57 (17.76%) CI/CD
7 47 (14.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (14.02%) Containerisation
8 45 (14.02%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (12.46%) Cloud Security
9 40 (12.46%) Computer Science
9 40 (12.46%) ITIL
10 39 (12.15%) High Availability
11 37 (11.53%) Migration
11 37 (11.53%) Root Cause Analysis
12 34 (10.59%) Enterprise Architecture
12 34 (10.59%) Information Security
13 33 (10.28%) AI
14 32 (9.97%) Cybersecurity
15 31 (9.66%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (20.87%) PowerShell
2 42 (13.08%) Python
3 35 (10.90%) SQL
4 31 (9.66%) Bicep
5 18 (5.61%) Bash
6 7 (2.18%) C#
7 6 (1.87%) DCL
7 6 (1.87%) Tcl
8 5 (1.56%) Java
9 3 (0.93%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (0.93%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (20.25%) Azure Certification
2 49 (15.26%) Degree
3 32 (9.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 31 (9.66%) Security Cleared
5 24 (7.48%) SC Cleared
6 18 (5.61%) CISSP
7 13 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (3.43%) CCSK
9 10 (3.12%) CCNP
9 10 (3.12%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.87%) MCSE
10 6 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.56%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (1.25%) CISA
12 4 (1.25%) CRISC
13 3 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.23%) SLA
2 18 (5.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 11 (3.43%) NIST
4 10 (3.12%) GDPR
4 10 (3.12%) QA
5 7 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 69 (21.50%) Active Directory
2 44 (13.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (7.48%) Docker
4 15 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 13 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (3.43%) KVM
8 8 (2.49%) vSphere
9 3 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.31%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 82 (25.55%) Terraform
2 52 (16.20%) Kubernetes
3 46 (14.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 27 (8.41%) Ansible
5 22 (6.85%) SCCM
6 12 (3.74%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.87%) Puppet
8 5 (1.56%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.25%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (0.93%) Autotask
10 3 (0.93%) CASB
10 3 (0.93%) Packer
11 2 (0.62%) Data Guard
11 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.62%) Grafana
11 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.62%) VxRail
12 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 1 (0.31%) QRadar
Vendors
1 142 (44.24%) Microsoft
2 55 (17.13%) VMware
3 22 (6.85%) Dynatrace
4 20 (6.23%) AppDynamics
4 20 (6.23%) Tenable
5 17 (5.30%) Google
6 11 (3.43%) Cisco
7 10 (3.12%) Veeam
8 8 (2.49%) Oracle
9 7 (2.18%) Apple
9 7 (2.18%) Meraki
9 7 (2.18%) SAP
10 5 (1.56%) Databricks
10 5 (1.56%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.56%) Zerto
11 4 (1.25%) BiZZdesign
11 4 (1.25%) Sage
11 4 (1.25%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.25%) SolarWinds
12 3 (0.93%) iManage