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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 418 377
Rank change year-on-year -52 -41 -192
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 354 279 511
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.79% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 228 200 337
10th Percentile £44,945 £37,170 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.88% -7.31% -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £56,695 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.83% -5.51% -12.41%

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 27,698 15,625 24,603
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.11% 31.65% 31.60%
Number of salaries quoted 18,722 10,573 15,690
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,936 £39,375 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,400 £102,500
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -62 313 £65,000 +6.56% 321
UK excluding London -89 209 £60,000 +5.83% 225
London -26 124 £78,125 +11.61% 133
Work from Home -45 95 £69,607 +21.05% 100
North of England -42 61 £60,000 +4.35% 59
South East -31 55 £60,000 +1.69% 76
Midlands -48 34 £60,000 -5.88% 34
South West -66 29 £52,500 +10.53% 11
North West -22 24 £47,500 -3.06% 33
North East -47 23 £89,250 +37.31% 4
West Midlands -42 19 £60,000 - 22
East Midlands -40 15 £60,000 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -48 14 £62,500 +31.58% 23
Scotland +9 11 £77,500 +34.78% 20
Wales -72 9 £50,871 +33.54% 7
East of England -38 8 £60,000 +9.09% 16
Northern Ireland -75 2 - - 4

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 38 (10.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (8.47%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (5.93%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.28%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 271 (76.55%) Azure
2 256 (72.32%) PaaS
3 138 (38.98%) SaaS
4 94 (26.55%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (20.34%) AWS
6 71 (20.06%) Entra ID
7 62 (17.51%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (13.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 48 (13.56%) Azure AKS
10 47 (13.28%) Serverless
11 39 (11.02%) Azure Key Vault
12 33 (9.32%) Azure Functions
12 33 (9.32%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (9.32%) GitHub
13 22 (6.21%) Azure Storage
14 19 (5.37%) Microsoft Purview
15 18 (5.08%) Datadog
16 17 (4.80%) GCP
17 15 (4.24%) Microsoft Copilot
18 14 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 91 (25.71%) DNS
2 63 (17.80%) Firewall
3 60 (16.95%) VPN
4 50 (14.12%) DHCP
5 24 (6.78%) VLAN
5 24 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (6.50%) WAN
7 21 (5.93%) SAN
8 14 (3.95%) SD-WAN
9 12 (3.39%) LAN
10 9 (2.54%) Network Security
10 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.69%) SNMP
12 4 (1.13%) SSL
13 3 (0.85%) Wireless
14 2 (0.56%) BIG-IP
14 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 2 (0.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 1 (0.28%) NAS
15 1 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.69%) Power BI
5 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.41%) Redis
6 4 (1.13%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.13%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.85%) Big Data
7 3 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.56%) Power Query
8 2 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.28%) Metadata
9 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (7.63%) Git
2 16 (4.52%) Chocolatey
3 14 (3.95%) JIRA
4 7 (1.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.56%) Ant
5 2 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.56%) Maven
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.28%) Selenium
6 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (26.55%) Social Skills
2 80 (22.60%) Finance
3 48 (13.56%) Law
4 35 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (9.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (7.63%) Public Sector
7 24 (6.78%) Banking
8 21 (5.93%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.95%) Retail
10 13 (3.67%) Legal
11 11 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.54%) Marketing
13 6 (1.69%) Games
14 5 (1.41%) Aviation
14 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.13%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.56%) Legal Technology
16 2 (0.56%) Police
16 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 85 (24.01%) Architect
2 79 (22.32%) Azure Engineer
3 68 (19.21%) Senior
4 67 (18.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 60 (16.95%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (7.63%) Analyst
7 25 (7.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 25 (7.06%) Azure Architect
8 24 (6.78%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.78%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 21 (5.93%) Infrastructure Architect
10 18 (5.08%) Lead
11 17 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.80%) Enterprise Architect
12 15 (4.24%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (3.95%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.67%) Senior Architect
14 13 (3.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (32.20%) Terraform
2 18 (5.08%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.24%) Middleware
4 9 (2.54%) YAML
5 6 (1.69%) .NET
6 4 (1.13%) Node.js
6 4 (1.13%) SAML
7 3 (0.85%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.85%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.85%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.56%) Kafka
8 2 (0.56%) REST
8 2 (0.56%) Web Services
9 1 (0.28%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.28%) Playwright
9 1 (0.28%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.91%) Public Cloud
4 25 (7.06%) Data Centre
5 24 (6.78%) Security Posture
6 20 (5.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 19 (5.37%) Onboarding
8 18 (5.08%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (4.24%) Management Information System
10 12 (3.39%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.39%) Podcast
11 11 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
14 7 (1.98%) Product Ownership
14 7 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
15 6 (1.69%) Replication
16 5 (1.41%) AS400
16 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
16 5 (1.41%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 97 (27.40%) Windows
2 48 (13.56%) Windows Server
3 45 (12.71%) Linux
4 19 (5.37%) VMS
5 6 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.13%) Solaris
7 4 (1.13%) Unix
8 3 (0.85%) CentOS
8 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) Android
9 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (35.88%) Infrastructure as Code
2 120 (33.90%) DevOps
3 105 (29.66%) Disaster Recovery
4 84 (23.73%) CI/CD
5 82 (23.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 81 (22.88%) Agile
7 73 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 72 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (19.77%) Cloud Security
10 64 (18.08%) Analytics
11 63 (17.80%) High Availability
12 62 (17.51%) Root Cause Analysis
13 57 (16.10%) Migration
14 56 (15.82%) Roadmaps
15 55 (15.54%) AI
16 52 (14.69%) ITIL
17 48 (13.56%) Containerisation
18 46 (12.99%) Mentoring
19 44 (12.43%) Computer Science
20 38 (10.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 106 (29.94%) PowerShell
2 51 (14.41%) Bicep
3 36 (10.17%) SQL
4 33 (9.32%) Python
5 28 (7.91%) Bash
6 12 (3.39%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.98%) Java
8 5 (1.41%) C#
9 4 (1.13%) Go
10 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.56%) Ruby
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.28%) Swift
11 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 93 (26.27%) Azure Certification
2 50 (14.12%) Degree
3 34 (9.60%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.34%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (3.11%) CISSP
9 10 (2.82%) CCNP
10 6 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (1.69%) CCSP
11 4 (1.13%) CISM
11 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.85%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.56%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (7.34%) SLA
3 20 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (5.08%) NIST
5 11 (3.11%) GDPR
5 11 (3.11%) ISO 14000
6 7 (1.98%) NCSC
6 7 (1.98%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
7 3 (0.85%) QA
8 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 99 (27.97%) Active Directory
2 73 (20.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.50%) Docker
3 23 (6.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (5.08%) Hyper-V
4 18 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.08%) vSphere
5 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.56%) Firmware
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (14.69%) Kubernetes
3 42 (11.86%) Ansible
4 20 (5.65%) SCCM
5 10 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 6 (1.69%) SCOM
7 4 (1.13%) FortiGate
7 4 (1.13%) Puppet
8 3 (0.85%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.85%) Nessus
8 3 (0.85%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) Grafana
9 2 (0.56%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.56%) Packer
9 2 (0.56%) VxRail
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (50.56%) Microsoft
2 78 (22.03%) VMware
3 28 (7.91%) Cisco
4 18 (5.08%) Dynatrace
4 18 (5.08%) Tenable
5 16 (4.52%) AppDynamics
6 15 (4.24%) Google
7 12 (3.39%) Oracle
7 12 (3.39%) ScienceLogic
8 10 (2.82%) Meraki
9 9 (2.54%) Adobe
10 8 (2.26%) Veeam
11 7 (1.98%) Apple
12 6 (1.69%) Citrix
12 6 (1.69%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.69%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.41%) iManage
14 4 (1.13%) Aderant
14 4 (1.13%) Thales
14 4 (1.13%) YouTube