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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 413 370
Rank change year-on-year -57 -43 -183
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 355 286 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.31% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.82% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 226 207 338
10th Percentile £44,909 £37,170 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.88% -12.07%
75th Percentile £85,938 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,700 £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 27,851 15,675 24,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.99% 31.71% 31.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,800 10,624 15,726
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £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 £101,250 £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 19 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 19 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 -83 313 £65,000 +6.56% 274
UK excluding London -101 210 £60,000 +4.35% 187
London -44 124 £78,125 +11.61% 114
Work from Home -65 96 £69,607 +25.54% 70
North of England -57 62 £57,500 - 52
South East -28 55 £60,000 +1.69% 67
Midlands -52 33 £60,000 -11.11% 31
South West -67 29 £52,500 +10.53% 6
North West -15 25 £50,000 +2.04% 28
North East -51 23 £89,250 +37.31% 4
West Midlands -52 18 £60,000 - 18
East Midlands -34 15 £60,000 -20.00% 13
Yorkshire -50 14 £62,500 +31.58% 21
Scotland +14 12 £77,500 +34.78% 11
Wales -72 9 £50,871 +33.54% 6
East of England -33 8 £60,000 +9.09% 12
Northern Ireland -73 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 (10.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.69%) IIS
Applications
1 21 (5.92%) 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
1 272 (76.62%) Azure
2 254 (71.55%) PaaS
3 136 (38.31%) SaaS
4 94 (26.48%) Microsoft 365
5 75 (21.13%) Entra ID
6 72 (20.28%) AWS
7 65 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (14.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 49 (13.80%) Azure AKS
10 47 (13.24%) Serverless
11 39 (10.99%) Azure Key Vault
12 36 (10.14%) GitHub
13 34 (9.58%) Azure Monitor
14 33 (9.30%) Azure Functions
15 22 (6.20%) Azure Storage
16 20 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
17 17 (4.79%) Datadog
17 17 (4.79%) GCP
18 15 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (4.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 92 (25.92%) DNS
2 65 (18.31%) Firewall
3 60 (16.90%) VPN
4 49 (13.80%) DHCP
5 23 (6.48%) VLAN
5 23 (6.48%) WAN
5 23 (6.48%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (5.63%) SAN
7 14 (3.94%) SD-WAN
8 12 (3.38%) LAN
9 10 (2.82%) Network Security
10 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
11 6 (1.69%) SNMP
12 4 (1.13%) SSL
13 3 (0.85%) BIG-IP
13 3 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 3 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 3 (0.85%) Wireless
14 1 (0.28%) DSL
14 1 (0.28%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.42%) SQL Server
2 17 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 10 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (1.41%) Power BI
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%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.56%) Power Query
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
9 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (7.61%) Git
2 15 (4.23%) Chocolatey
2 15 (4.23%) JIRA
3 8 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.56%) Ant
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Ivy
4 2 (0.56%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.28%) Selenium
5 1 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 94 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 79 (22.25%) Finance
3 48 (13.52%) Law
4 34 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.48%) Banking
7 21 (5.92%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (3.94%) Retail
9 12 (3.38%) Legal
10 11 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.54%) Marketing
12 6 (1.69%) Games
13 5 (1.41%) Aviation
13 5 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (1.13%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.13%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.56%) Local Government
15 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (23.38%) Architect
2 81 (22.82%) Azure Engineer
3 69 (19.44%) Senior
4 68 (19.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 62 (17.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 27 (7.61%) Analyst
7 25 (7.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 25 (7.04%) Azure Architect
7 25 (7.04%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (6.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 20 (5.63%) Infrastructure Architect
10 18 (5.07%) Lead
11 17 (4.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 16 (4.51%) Enterprise Architect
13 15 (4.23%) Cloud Architect
14 14 (3.94%) Consultant
14 14 (3.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 14 (3.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 13 (3.66%) Account Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (32.68%) Terraform
2 18 (5.07%) ARM Templates
3 15 (4.23%) Middleware
4 9 (2.54%) YAML
5 5 (1.41%) .NET
5 5 (1.41%) SAML
6 4 (1.13%) Node.js
7 3 (0.85%) SAP Basis
8 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.56%) 802.1X
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (0.56%) REST
8 2 (0.56%) Web Services
9 1 (0.28%) ADO
9 1 (0.28%) JSON
9 1 (0.28%) Kafka
9 1 (0.28%) Playwright
9 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (15.49%) Cloud Native
2 31 (8.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 26 (7.32%) Data Centre
5 24 (6.76%) Security Posture
6 21 (5.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 19 (5.35%) Onboarding
8 17 (4.79%) Cyber Threat
9 15 (4.23%) Management Information System
10 12 (3.38%) Driving Licence
10 12 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (3.38%) Podcast
11 9 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
13 7 (1.97%) Product Ownership
13 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.69%) Replication
15 5 (1.41%) AS400
15 5 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
15 5 (1.41%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 98 (27.61%) Windows
2 49 (13.80%) Windows Server
3 45 (12.68%) Linux
4 20 (5.63%) 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
1 130 (36.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 123 (34.65%) DevOps
3 105 (29.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 87 (24.51%) CI/CD
5 84 (23.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 83 (23.38%) Agile
7 74 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
8 73 (20.56%) Cloud Security
9 71 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (18.03%) Analytics
10 64 (18.03%) High Availability
11 62 (17.46%) Root Cause Analysis
12 57 (16.06%) Migration
13 55 (15.49%) Roadmaps
14 54 (15.21%) AI
15 53 (14.93%) ITIL
16 48 (13.52%) Containerisation
17 46 (12.96%) Mentoring
18 44 (12.39%) Computer Science
19 37 (10.42%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 110 (30.99%) PowerShell
2 53 (14.93%) Bicep
3 38 (10.70%) SQL
4 35 (9.86%) Python
5 29 (8.17%) Bash
6 12 (3.38%) Kusto Query Language
7 7 (1.97%) Java
8 4 (1.13%) C#
8 4 (1.13%) Go
9 3 (0.85%) 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 95 (26.76%) Azure Certification
2 50 (14.08%) Degree
3 34 (9.58%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (7.32%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.82%) CCNP
8 10 (2.82%) CISSP
9 6 (1.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (1.69%) CCSP
10 4 (1.13%) CISM
10 4 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.85%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.85%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.85%) ICAEW
12 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.56%) CCSK
12 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 25 (7.04%) SLA
3 20 (5.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (5.07%) NIST
5 11 (3.10%) GDPR
5 11 (3.10%) ISO 14000
6 7 (1.97%) NCSC
6 7 (1.97%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.85%) GRC
8 2 (0.56%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.56%) QA
8 2 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (27.61%) Active Directory
2 72 (20.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (6.76%) Docker
4 23 (6.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 18 (5.07%) Hyper-V
5 18 (5.07%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (5.07%) vSphere
6 2 (0.56%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.56%) Firmware
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (16.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (14.93%) Kubernetes
3 43 (12.11%) Ansible
4 19 (5.35%) 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%) Grafana
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.85%) Nessus
8 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.85%) vRealize
9 2 (0.56%) Argo
9 2 (0.56%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.56%) VxRail
9 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
9 2 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 179 (50.42%) Microsoft
2 77 (21.69%) VMware
3 28 (7.89%) Cisco
4 17 (4.79%) Dynatrace
4 17 (4.79%) Tenable
5 15 (4.23%) AppDynamics
5 15 (4.23%) Google
6 12 (3.38%) Oracle
6 12 (3.38%) ScienceLogic
7 10 (2.82%) Meraki
8 9 (2.54%) Adobe
9 8 (2.25%) Veeam
10 7 (1.97%) Apple
11 6 (1.69%) Citrix
11 6 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.69%) SolarWinds
12 5 (1.41%) iManage
13 4 (1.13%) Aderant
13 4 (1.13%) Thales
13 4 (1.13%) YouTube