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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 483 410 375
Rank change year-on-year -73 -35 -188
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 349 279 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.80% 2.07%
Number of salaries quoted 227 199 339
10th Percentile £44,927 £37,170 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -6.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,750 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -11.11%

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 27,488 15,514 24,422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 24.13% 31.57% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 18,567 10,441 15,780
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,965 £39,750 £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 £100,000 £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 15 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 15 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 -78 308 £65,000 +6.12% 280
UK excluding London -73 207 £60,000 +4.35% 182
London -22 121 £78,125 +11.61% 134
Work from Home -56 95 £69,607 +21.05% 97
North of England -45 59 £60,000 +2.13% 44
South East -21 55 £60,000 +1.69% 68
Midlands -54 34 £60,000 -5.88% 29
South West -72 29 £52,500 +10.53% 8
North West -18 23 £47,500 -17.39% 23
North East -44 23 £89,250 +37.31% 3
West Midlands -45 19 £60,000 - 21
East Midlands -27 15 £60,000 -20.00% 8
Yorkshire -52 13 £62,500 +31.58% 19
Scotland +11 11 £77,500 +34.78% 15
Wales -71 9 £50,871 +33.54% 8
East of England -35 8 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Northern Ireland -78 2 - - 3

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 36 (10.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (8.31%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.72%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (6.02%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Exchequer
1 1 (0.29%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 267 (76.50%) Azure
2 252 (72.21%) PaaS
3 135 (38.68%) SaaS
4 92 (26.36%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (20.63%) AWS
6 68 (19.48%) Entra ID
7 61 (17.48%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (14.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 48 (13.75%) Azure AKS
10 46 (13.18%) Serverless
11 39 (11.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 33 (9.46%) Azure Monitor
13 32 (9.17%) Azure Functions
14 31 (8.88%) GitHub
15 22 (6.30%) Azure Storage
16 19 (5.44%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (4.87%) Datadog
17 17 (4.87%) GCP
18 15 (4.30%) Microsoft Copilot
19 14 (4.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 87 (24.93%) DNS
2 62 (17.77%) Firewall
3 59 (16.91%) VPN
4 48 (13.75%) DHCP
5 23 (6.59%) VLAN
5 23 (6.59%) WAN
5 23 (6.59%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (5.73%) SAN
7 14 (4.01%) SD-WAN
8 12 (3.44%) LAN
9 9 (2.58%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.01%) Network Security
11 6 (1.72%) SNMP
12 4 (1.15%) SSL
13 3 (0.86%) Wireless
14 1 (0.29%) DSL
14 1 (0.29%) Internet
14 1 (0.29%) NAS
14 1 (0.29%) PSTN
14 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (11.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.72%) Power BI
5 5 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.43%) Redis
6 4 (1.15%) Electronic Patient Records
6 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.86%) Big Data
7 3 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.86%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.57%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.57%) Power Query
8 2 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.29%) Metadata
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (7.74%) Git
2 15 (4.30%) Chocolatey
3 12 (3.44%) JIRA
4 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.57%) Ant
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Ivy
5 2 (0.57%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (0.57%) Maven
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) Selenium
6 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (26.65%) Social Skills
2 77 (22.06%) Finance
3 47 (13.47%) Law
4 34 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.30%) Banking
7 19 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.01%) Retail
9 12 (3.44%) Legal
10 10 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.58%) Marketing
12 6 (1.72%) Games
13 5 (1.43%) Aviation
13 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.15%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.57%) Advertising
15 2 (0.57%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 84 (24.07%) Architect
2 78 (22.35%) Azure Engineer
3 65 (18.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 65 (18.62%) Senior
4 60 (17.19%) Cloud Engineer
5 27 (7.74%) Analyst
6 25 (7.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 25 (7.16%) Azure Architect
7 24 (6.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 23 (6.59%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (6.30%) Infrastructure Architect
10 18 (5.16%) Lead
11 17 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 17 (4.87%) Enterprise Architect
12 15 (4.30%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (4.01%) Consultant
13 14 (4.01%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 14 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (3.72%) Account Manager
14 13 (3.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (32.38%) Terraform
2 18 (5.16%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.30%) Middleware
4 9 (2.58%) YAML
5 6 (1.72%) .NET
6 4 (1.15%) Node.js
6 4 (1.15%) SAML
7 3 (0.86%) .NET Core
7 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.86%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.57%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.57%) Kafka
8 2 (0.57%) REST
8 2 (0.57%) Web Services
9 1 (0.29%) ADO
9 1 (0.29%) Entity Framework
9 1 (0.29%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 30 (8.60%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (7.45%) Public Cloud
4 23 (6.59%) Data Centre
5 22 (6.30%) Security Posture
6 20 (5.73%) Enterprise Cloud
7 19 (5.44%) Onboarding
8 17 (4.87%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (4.30%) Management Information System
10 12 (3.44%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.44%) Podcast
11 9 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (2.01%) Product Ownership
13 7 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.72%) Replication
15 5 (1.43%) AS400
15 5 (1.43%) iSeries
16 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 94 (26.93%) Windows
2 46 (13.18%) Windows Server
3 44 (12.61%) Linux
4 19 (5.44%) VMS
5 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.15%) Solaris
7 4 (1.15%) Unix
8 3 (0.86%) CentOS
8 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) AIX
9 1 (0.29%) Android
9 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (36.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 119 (34.10%) DevOps
3 103 (29.51%) Disaster Recovery
4 82 (23.50%) CI/CD
5 79 (22.64%) Agile
5 79 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 71 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (19.48%) Cloud Security
9 64 (18.34%) Analytics
10 63 (18.05%) High Availability
11 62 (17.77%) Root Cause Analysis
12 56 (16.05%) Migration
13 55 (15.76%) AI
13 55 (15.76%) Roadmaps
14 51 (14.61%) ITIL
15 48 (13.75%) Containerisation
16 46 (13.18%) Mentoring
17 43 (12.32%) Computer Science
18 36 (10.32%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 105 (30.09%) PowerShell
2 51 (14.61%) Bicep
3 36 (10.32%) SQL
4 31 (8.88%) Python
5 28 (8.02%) Bash
6 12 (3.44%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (2.01%) Java
8 5 (1.43%) C#
9 4 (1.15%) Go
10 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.57%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) Swift
11 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (25.79%) Azure Certification
2 48 (13.75%) Degree
3 34 (9.74%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.45%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.01%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.87%) CCNP
9 9 (2.58%) CISSP
10 4 (1.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.15%) CCSP
10 4 (1.15%) CISM
10 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.86%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.57%) CISA
12 2 (0.57%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (6.88%) SLA
3 20 (5.73%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (5.16%) NIST
5 11 (3.15%) GDPR
5 11 (3.15%) ISO 14000
6 7 (2.01%) NCSC
6 7 (2.01%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.86%) QA
8 2 (0.57%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.57%) GRC
8 2 (0.57%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.57%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.57%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.29%) PMO
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 96 (27.51%) Active Directory
2 72 (20.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (6.59%) Docker
3 23 (6.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (5.16%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (5.16%) vSphere
5 17 (4.87%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.57%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.57%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (16.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (14.61%) Kubernetes
3 41 (11.75%) Ansible
4 19 (5.44%) SCCM
5 9 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (1.72%) FortiGate
6 6 (1.72%) SCOM
7 5 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.86%) Data Guard
8 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.86%) Nessus
8 3 (0.86%) Puppet
8 3 (0.86%) vRealize
9 2 (0.57%) Argo
9 2 (0.57%) Grafana
9 2 (0.57%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.57%) VxRail
9 2 (0.57%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 176 (50.43%) Microsoft
2 77 (22.06%) VMware
3 27 (7.74%) Cisco
4 17 (4.87%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.87%) Tenable
5 15 (4.30%) AppDynamics
5 15 (4.30%) Google
6 12 (3.44%) Oracle
6 12 (3.44%) ScienceLogic
7 10 (2.87%) Meraki
8 9 (2.58%) Adobe
9 7 (2.01%) Apple
9 7 (2.01%) Veeam
10 6 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.72%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.43%) Citrix
11 5 (1.43%) iManage
12 4 (1.15%) Broadcom
12 4 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.15%) SAP