IaaS Job Trends

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 430 280 309
Rank change year-on-year -150 +29 -62
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 288 441 840
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.36% 1.08% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.12% 2.91% 2.52%
Number of salaries quoted 208 246 723
10th Percentile £34,674 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,313 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,996 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.97% +1.42% +1.71%
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,500 £72,500 £62,783
% change year-on-year -19.31% +15.48% +5.47%

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 25,665 15,138 33,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 37.02% 36.99%
Number of salaries quoted 13,582 11,003 26,384
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +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 2 April 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Top 16 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 2 April 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 -172 249 £65,000 -9.71% 71
UK excluding London -171 168 £58,500 -19.31% 59
London -16 89 £82,250 +17.50% 23
Work from Home -22 71 £70,000 - 30
North of England -47 47 £47,085 -27.56% 11
South East -72 43 £60,000 -21.31% 24
Midlands -44 40 £51,792 -26.01% 9
North West -10 29 £52,500 -22.22% 9
West Midlands -29 24 £68,500 -5.52% 4
East Midlands -45 16 £33,500 -16.25% 5
East of England -26 13 £60,000 +26.32% 5
South West -137 11 £42,500 -37.04% 9
Scotland -24 10 £46,000 -12.38% 2
Yorkshire -52 10 £59,008 -7.44% 2
North East -20 8 £45,000 -30.77%
Channel Islands - 6 £75,000 -

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 20 (6.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.39%) IIS
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.39%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Exchequer
2 4 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.39%) Primavera
3 3 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.69%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 233 (80.90%) PaaS
2 211 (73.26%) Azure
3 129 (44.79%) SaaS
4 76 (26.39%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (17.71%) AWS
6 49 (17.01%) Entra ID
7 42 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (9.38%) GCP
9 26 (9.03%) Azure AKS
10 22 (7.64%) Datadog
11 20 (6.94%) GitHub
11 20 (6.94%) Power Platform
11 20 (6.94%) Serverless
12 18 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (5.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (4.86%) Azure Storage
15 12 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
16 11 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 67 (23.26%) Firewall
2 58 (20.14%) DNS
3 43 (14.93%) VPN
4 38 (13.19%) DHCP
5 32 (11.11%) VLAN
6 23 (7.99%) Wi-Fi
7 21 (7.29%) SAN
8 19 (6.60%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.78%) VoIP
10 7 (2.43%) ATM
10 7 (2.43%) Multicast
10 7 (2.43%) tcpdump
10 7 (2.43%) WAN
10 7 (2.43%) Wireshark
11 6 (2.08%) LAN
11 6 (2.08%) PuTTY
11 6 (2.08%) SSH
12 5 (1.74%) DMZ
12 5 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (1.74%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (18.40%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
4 5 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.39%) Power BI
5 4 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.35%) Metadata
8 1 (0.35%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 18 (6.25%) Chocolatey
2 13 (4.51%) JIRA
3 7 (2.43%) Git
3 7 (2.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.39%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.69%) Selenium
6 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 90 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 73 (25.35%) Finance
3 41 (14.24%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.07%) Law
5 24 (8.33%) Banking
6 22 (7.64%) Legal
7 11 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.13%) Billing
8 9 (3.13%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.43%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.43%) Automotive
10 6 (2.08%) Spanish Language
11 5 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.74%) Marketing
12 4 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.04%) Retail
14 2 (0.69%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 77 (26.74%) Cloud Engineer
2 69 (23.96%) Architect
3 66 (22.92%) Azure Engineer
4 54 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 53 (18.40%) Senior
6 27 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (9.03%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 24 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (8.33%) IT Engineer
9 23 (7.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (7.64%) Support Engineer
11 16 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.21%) Analyst
13 14 (4.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 14 (4.86%) IT Support
13 14 (4.86%) IT Technician
13 14 (4.86%) Security Engineer
14 13 (4.51%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
14 13 (4.51%) Lead
15 11 (3.82%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.78%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.08%) .NET
2 6 (2.08%) Middleware
3 5 (1.74%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.39%) YAML
5 3 (1.04%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.04%) CSS
5 3 (1.04%) HTML
5 3 (1.04%) RESTful
6 2 (0.69%) FastAPI
6 2 (0.69%) Kafka
6 2 (0.69%) Node.js
6 2 (0.69%) Playwright
6 2 (0.69%) pytest
6 2 (0.69%) React
7 1 (0.35%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.35%) Entity Framework
7 1 (0.35%) OAuth
7 1 (0.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.54%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.46%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (6.60%) Cyber Threat
4 18 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 15 (5.21%) Security Posture
6 13 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.82%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.78%) PKI
9 7 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.43%) Replication
10 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.39%) IoT
12 3 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.69%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 77 (26.74%) Windows
2 43 (14.93%) Windows Server
3 36 (12.50%) Linux
4 14 (4.86%) Unix
5 11 (3.82%) VMS
6 7 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.74%) Debian
8 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.35%) Android
10 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (30.21%) DevOps
2 75 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 58 (20.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 57 (19.79%) Agile
6 52 (18.06%) CI/CD
7 43 (14.93%) AI
7 43 (14.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (14.24%) ITIL
9 39 (13.54%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (13.19%) Computer Science
11 37 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
12 35 (12.15%) Cloud Security
12 35 (12.15%) Roadmaps
13 34 (11.81%) Containerisation
14 31 (10.76%) Information Security
15 30 (10.42%) Microservices
16 29 (10.07%) Identity Access Management
16 29 (10.07%) Project Delivery
16 29 (10.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 41 (14.24%) Python
3 30 (10.42%) SQL
4 23 (7.99%) Bash
5 21 (7.29%) Bicep
6 6 (2.08%) C#
6 6 (2.08%) DCL
6 6 (2.08%) Tcl
7 3 (1.04%) Google Apps Script
7 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.69%) Java
8 2 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (16.32%) Azure Certification
2 46 (15.97%) Degree
3 31 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 31 (10.76%) Security Cleared
4 22 (7.64%) SC Cleared
5 18 (6.25%) CISSP
6 17 (5.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.82%) CCSK
8 8 (2.78%) CCNP
8 8 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.43%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (1.74%) CISA
11 5 (1.74%) CRISC
11 5 (1.74%) MCSE
12 4 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.29%) SLA
2 11 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (3.82%) QA
3 10 (3.47%) NIST
4 8 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 6 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.39%) GDPR
7 3 (1.04%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS
8 2 (0.69%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.69%) NCSC
8 2 (0.69%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.35%) GRC
9 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 65 (22.57%) Active Directory
2 46 (15.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (12.15%) Docker
4 18 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (4.17%) KVM
7 11 (3.82%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.13%) vSphere
9 5 (1.74%) vCloud
10 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (24.65%) Terraform
2 48 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 42 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 26 (9.03%) Ansible
5 23 (7.99%) SCCM
6 13 (4.51%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (3.82%) Puppet
8 6 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 4 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.39%) SolarWinds Orion
10 3 (1.04%) Autotask
10 3 (1.04%) CASB
11 2 (0.69%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.69%) Packer
11 2 (0.69%) VxRail
12 1 (0.35%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.35%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 1 (0.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 134 (46.53%) Microsoft
2 57 (19.79%) VMware
3 21 (7.29%) Google
4 19 (6.60%) Tenable
5 18 (6.25%) AppDynamics
5 18 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.47%) Cisco
6 10 (3.47%) Veeam
7 9 (3.13%) Oracle
8 8 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
9 7 (2.43%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.08%) Apple
10 6 (2.08%) Databricks
10 6 (2.08%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.08%) Meraki
10 6 (2.08%) SolarWinds
11 5 (1.74%) SAP
11 5 (1.74%) Zerto
12 4 (1.39%) Sage