Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IaaS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IaaS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 185 299
Rank change year-on-year -184 +114 -94
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 739 1,935 2,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 1.99% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.06% 4.60% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 627 893 1,542
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £89,375 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £108,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
UK

IaaS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK

IaaS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024. 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 -166 630 £70,000 - 156
UK excluding London -231 397 £62,500 +4.17% 102
Work from Home -189 299 £67,500 -3.57% 99
London -69 258 £83,750 +4.69% 64
North of England -118 114 £56,250 -16.67% 30
South East -110 85 £62,500 +8.70% 26
South West -83 78 £67,500 +12.50% 10
North West -110 71 £62,783 -10.31% 15
Midlands -50 66 £69,235 +15.39% 20
West Midlands +6 60 £69,235 +5.14% 17
Scotland -128 45 £60,000 +0.40% 10
Yorkshire -29 24 £56,250 -8.16% 11
North East -4 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -49 7 £50,000 -13.04% 4
East Midlands -61 4 £45,000 -21.74% 3
Northern Ireland -31 1 £65,000 +44.44% 2
Wales -47 1 £72,500 +56.89% 2

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (6.09%) SharePoint
2 41 (5.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.62%) IIS
4 6 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.81%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.81%) CMS
4 6 (0.81%) Confluence
4 6 (0.81%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.81%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.81%) WordPress
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) 1Password
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.14%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) HFM
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 589 (79.70%) Azure
2 583 (78.89%) PaaS
3 350 (47.36%) SaaS
4 234 (31.66%) AWS
5 193 (26.12%) Microsoft 365
6 123 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
7 98 (13.26%) Entra ID
8 78 (10.55%) GCP
9 57 (7.71%) Power Platform
10 52 (7.04%) Cloud Computing
11 40 (5.41%) Serverless
12 35 (4.74%) Azure AKS
13 32 (4.33%) GitHub
14 22 (2.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 21 (2.84%) Azure Stack
15 21 (2.84%) Nutanix
16 20 (2.71%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (2.44%) OneDrive
18 16 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 141 (19.08%) Firewall
2 117 (15.83%) DNS
3 93 (12.58%) WAN
4 87 (11.77%) VPN
5 58 (7.85%) DHCP
5 58 (7.85%) LAN
6 50 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (6.63%) SD-WAN
8 36 (4.87%) SAN
9 26 (3.52%) Wireless
10 22 (2.98%) BGP
11 21 (2.84%) Network Security
12 19 (2.57%) TCP/IP
13 17 (2.30%) Internet
14 16 (2.17%) VLAN
15 14 (1.89%) MPLS
15 14 (1.89%) Unified Communications
16 13 (1.76%) DMZ
16 13 (1.76%) OSPF
17 12 (1.62%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (11.77%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (4.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 30 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.57%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.89%) Power BI
7 13 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.62%) Big Data
8 12 (1.62%) MySQL
8 12 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.08%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.95%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.68%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 4 (0.54%) GIS
13 4 (0.54%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (5.82%) Git
2 25 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 15 (2.03%) SonarQube
4 12 (1.62%) GitLab
5 7 (0.95%) JIRA
6 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 6 (0.81%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.41%) Gradle
7 3 (0.41%) Maven
7 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.14%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.14%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.14%) Gatling
8 1 (0.14%) JUnit
8 1 (0.14%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.14%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.14%) Vagrant
General
1 177 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 129 (17.46%) Finance
3 99 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (7.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 43 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.57%) Telecoms
7 13 (1.76%) Law
7 13 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.62%) Banking
9 11 (1.49%) Marketing
10 10 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.35%) Legal
11 9 (1.22%) Retail
12 8 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (0.95%) Police
14 6 (0.81%) Games
14 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.54%) Advertising
15 4 (0.54%) Avionics
15 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (26.12%) Architect
2 143 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 136 (18.40%) Senior
4 81 (10.96%) Solutions Architect
5 75 (10.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 73 (9.88%) Cloud Architect
7 66 (8.93%) Azure Engineer
8 61 (8.25%) Lead
9 49 (6.63%) Consultant
10 43 (5.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 37 (5.01%) Azure Architect
12 35 (4.74%) Support Engineer
13 31 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.52%) Analyst
14 26 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.38%) Infrastructure Architect
15 25 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support
16 23 (3.11%) Citrix Architect
16 23 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 22 (2.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (7.58%) ARM Templates
2 46 (6.22%) .NET
3 33 (4.47%) Middleware
4 31 (4.19%) JSON
5 22 (2.98%) Web Services
6 21 (2.84%) YAML
7 16 (2.17%) Azure Blueprints
8 15 (2.03%) RESTful
9 13 (1.76%) XML
10 12 (1.62%) Node.js
11 10 (1.35%) REST
12 9 (1.22%) LDAP
12 9 (1.22%) SAML
13 7 (0.95%) gRPC
13 7 (0.95%) HTML
13 7 (0.95%) OpenID
13 7 (0.95%) React
13 7 (0.95%) SOAP
14 6 (0.81%) CSS3
14 6 (0.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 131 (17.73%) Public Cloud
2 83 (11.23%) Cloud Native
3 81 (10.96%) Data Centre
4 69 (9.34%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 26 (3.52%) Driving Licence
6 26 (3.52%) Replication
7 22 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.84%) Enterprise Cloud
9 18 (2.44%) IoT
10 17 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (2.17%) Mobile App
11 16 (2.17%) Private Cloud
12 14 (1.89%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
14 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.35%) Clustering
14 10 (1.35%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.22%) Cyberattack
15 9 (1.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 203 (27.47%) Windows
2 102 (13.80%) Linux
3 101 (13.67%) Windows Server
4 54 (7.31%) Unix
5 21 (2.84%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (1.76%) VMS
8 11 (1.49%) Ubuntu
9 10 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (1.22%) Apple iOS
10 9 (1.22%) Solaris
11 7 (0.95%) Android
12 6 (0.81%) Windows 7
12 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.54%) DC/OS
14 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (36.81%) DevOps
2 185 (25.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 146 (19.76%) ITIL
4 145 (19.62%) Agile
5 142 (19.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 119 (16.10%) CI/CD
7 115 (15.56%) Mentoring
8 113 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 102 (13.80%) Cybersecurity
10 95 (12.86%) Roadmaps
11 81 (10.96%) Microservices
12 75 (10.15%) Cloud Security
13 69 (9.34%) Disaster Recovery
13 69 (9.34%) Information Security
14 66 (8.93%) TOGAF
15 64 (8.66%) Migration
15 64 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (8.39%) Change Management
17 56 (7.58%) Network Virtualisation
18 55 (7.44%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 140 (18.94%) PowerShell
2 82 (11.10%) SQL
3 72 (9.74%) Python
4 49 (6.63%) Bicep
5 47 (6.36%) Bash
6 39 (5.28%) C#
7 28 (3.79%) Java
8 16 (2.17%) Go
8 16 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 15 (2.03%) Perl
9 15 (2.03%) Ruby
10 3 (0.41%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (0.41%) Scala
11 2 (0.27%) PHP
11 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.14%) C++
12 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 117 (15.83%) Degree
2 96 (12.99%) Azure Certification
3 72 (9.74%) Security Cleared
4 41 (5.55%) SC Cleared
5 39 (5.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 35 (4.74%) AWS Certification
7 33 (4.47%) Cisco Certification
8 29 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
9 24 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (3.11%) Master's Degree
11 22 (2.98%) CISSP
12 21 (2.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.71%) DV Cleared
14 19 (2.57%) CCNA
15 16 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.62%) A+ Certification
18 11 (1.49%) DBS Check
19 10 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
19 10 (1.35%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (3.79%) GDPR
3 26 (3.52%) NIST
4 23 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (2.98%) NCSC
6 21 (2.84%) Data Quality
7 17 (2.30%) SLA
8 14 (1.89%) Accessibility
9 10 (1.35%) HIPAA
9 10 (1.35%) QA
10 9 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 9 (1.22%) PMO
11 8 (1.08%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.95%) COBIT
12 7 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.81%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.81%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 163 (22.06%) Active Directory
2 87 (11.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (7.44%) Docker
4 48 (6.50%) Virtual Machines
5 36 (4.87%) Hyper-V
6 20 (2.71%) vSphere
7 17 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.89%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.68%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.41%) Firmware
12 2 (0.27%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.14%) KVM
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 188 (25.44%) Terraform
2 103 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 69 (9.34%) Ansible
4 60 (8.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (4.06%) Puppet
6 22 (2.98%) FortiGate
7 19 (2.57%) SCCM
8 13 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (1.49%) Istio
10 10 (1.35%) SCOM
11 9 (1.22%) Nessus
12 8 (1.08%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 6 (0.81%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.81%) NetCrunch
14 6 (0.81%) SCDPM
14 6 (0.81%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.68%) Packer
Vendors
1 328 (44.38%) Microsoft
2 114 (15.43%) VMware
3 80 (10.83%) Cisco
4 33 (4.47%) Oracle
4 33 (4.47%) Splunk
5 31 (4.19%) Citrix
6 27 (3.65%) Google
6 27 (3.65%) Veeam
7 25 (3.38%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.84%) Palo Alto
9 20 (2.71%) Meraki
10 19 (2.57%) Dynatrace
11 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
12 17 (2.30%) SolarWinds
13 16 (2.17%) NetApp
14 15 (2.03%) Dell
14 15 (2.03%) SAP
15 12 (1.62%) BMC
15 12 (1.62%) Sparx
16 11 (1.49%) CA