IaaS Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 217 142 186
Rank change year-on-year -75 +44 -46
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 76 184 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.79% 2.29% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.30% 5.33% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 70 80 111
10th Percentile £42,139 £41,250 £35,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,625 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.16% +6.04% +8.87%
75th Percentile £85,000 £73,235 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,875 £95,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,300 3,454 4,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 34.27% 42.97% 42.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,616 1,998 2,713
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,031 £40,132
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +4.17%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Manchester -37 42 £67,500 +3.85% 8
Lancashire - 12 £53,528 - 1
Merseyside -39 10 £70,000 +55.56% 1
Cheshire -4 6 £47,500 - 1
Cumbria - 6 £38,000 -
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 52 (68.42%) PaaS
2 46 (60.53%) Azure
3 38 (50.00%) SaaS
4 13 (17.11%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (15.79%) AWS
6 6 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.58%) GCP
8 4 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.26%) Entra ID
8 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.95%) Serverless
10 2 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.63%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.32%) Mimecast
11 1 (1.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) DHCP
1 13 (17.11%) DNS
2 10 (13.16%) WAN
3 9 (11.84%) Firewall
3 9 (11.84%) LAN
3 9 (11.84%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (10.53%) Internet
5 6 (7.89%) SD-WAN
5 6 (7.89%) SSL
5 6 (7.89%) VPN
6 3 (3.95%) BGP
6 3 (3.95%) OSPF
6 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.32%) DMZ
7 1 (1.32%) IPsec
7 1 (1.32%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.32%) Network Security
7 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.32%) VLAN
7 1 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.74%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.58%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 5 (6.58%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Git
General
1 19 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (14.47%) Social Skills
3 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.58%) Banking
6 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
7 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (32.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (25.00%) Architect
3 13 (17.11%) Senior
4 12 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Lead
5 9 (11.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (9.21%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) IT Manager
9 4 (5.26%) Platform Manager
10 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Technician
10 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) OpenID
2 4 (5.26%) ARM Templates
2 4 (5.26%) Node.js
3 2 (2.63%) SAML
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth
4 1 (1.32%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.32%) Web Services
4 1 (1.32%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Public Cloud
2 11 (14.47%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.47%) Management Information System
3 7 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.58%) Blockchain
4 5 (6.58%) Mainframe
5 4 (5.26%) Driving Licence
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (3.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.32%) Replication
7 1 (1.32%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (30.26%) Windows
2 22 (28.95%) Unix
3 6 (7.89%) Linux
4 5 (6.58%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (40.79%) ITIL
2 30 (39.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (35.53%) Change Management
4 24 (31.58%) Roadmaps
5 22 (28.95%) Mentoring
6 19 (25.00%) Coaching
7 17 (22.37%) Architecture Roadmap
7 17 (22.37%) Microservices
8 16 (21.05%) Migration
9 13 (17.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (17.11%) Technical Architecture
10 12 (15.79%) Design Patterns
10 12 (15.79%) DevOps
10 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 12 (15.79%) UML
11 11 (14.47%) BPMN
11 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (13.16%) Dashboard Development
13 8 (10.53%) Agile
14 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.21%) SQL
3 4 (5.26%) Bash
3 4 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (1.32%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (9.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.89%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.26%) A+ Certification
3 4 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CCA
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Degree
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.58%) SLA
3 4 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.26%) NIST
3 4 (5.26%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.32%) GDPR
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) PMO
5 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (5.26%) Docker
4 1 (1.32%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.32%) RACF
4 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (21.05%) Terraform
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (27.63%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.16%) Dynatrace
2 10 (13.16%) Splunk
3 7 (9.21%) BMC
4 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 4 (5.26%) Veeam
5 2 (2.63%) VMware
6 1 (1.32%) Aderant
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Qualys