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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 204 275
Rank change year-on-year -143 +71 -79
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 805 1,956 2,301
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 1.87% 1.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.29% 4.34% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 689 989 1,619
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,500 £54,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £88,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £59,763 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.05% +8.66% -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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 27 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
England -119 691 £70,000 - 149
UK excluding London -180 432 £62,783 +5.05% 92
Work from Home -158 323 £70,000 +7.69% 68
London -55 289 £85,000 +6.25% 68
North of England -91 124 £61,391 -1.77% 23
South East -70 98 £62,500 +8.70% 24
South West -40 84 £70,000 +17.60% 16
North West -70 75 £62,783 -3.41% 8
Midlands -46 65 £69,235 +8.60% 11
West Midlands +5 57 £69,235 +4.11% 6
Scotland -128 50 £62,500 +5.00% 13
Yorkshire -7 30 £56,250 -6.25% 11
North East -3 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -40 6 £51,250 -12.77% 6
East Midlands -54 5 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Northern Ireland -16 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Wales -26 2 £72,500 +20.83%

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 48 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 47 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (0.99%) IIS
4 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 6 (0.75%) CMS
4 6 (0.75%) OpenStack
4 6 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 6 (0.75%) Umbraco
4 6 (0.75%) WordPress
5 5 (0.62%) Confluence
6 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.50%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) Apache
9 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.62%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.12%) 1Password
5 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) HFM
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 634 (78.76%) Azure
2 631 (78.39%) PaaS
3 384 (47.70%) SaaS
4 244 (30.31%) AWS
5 212 (26.34%) Microsoft 365
6 129 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
7 100 (12.42%) Entra ID
8 84 (10.43%) GCP
9 58 (7.20%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.84%) Cloud Computing
11 45 (5.59%) Serverless
12 34 (4.22%) GitHub
13 33 (4.10%) Azure AKS
14 23 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 22 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (2.61%) Azure Stack
16 21 (2.61%) Nutanix
17 16 (1.99%) OneDrive
18 15 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 144 (17.89%) Firewall
2 117 (14.53%) DNS
3 97 (12.05%) VPN
4 91 (11.30%) WAN
5 62 (7.70%) DHCP
5 62 (7.70%) LAN
6 49 (6.09%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (5.71%) SD-WAN
8 40 (4.97%) SAN
9 29 (3.60%) Network Security
10 26 (3.23%) Wireless
11 22 (2.73%) VLAN
12 20 (2.48%) TCP/IP
13 18 (2.24%) NGFW
14 17 (2.11%) BGP
14 17 (2.11%) Internet
15 14 (1.74%) MPLS
16 12 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (1.49%) DMZ
16 12 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (5.22%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.60%) Data Lake
6 24 (2.98%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.74%) Power BI
8 13 (1.61%) Big Data
9 12 (1.49%) MySQL
10 10 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.12%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (0.87%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.87%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.62%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.62%) Metadata
13 5 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (4.97%) Git
2 26 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.74%) GitLab
4 13 (1.61%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 8 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.75%) JIRA
8 3 (0.37%) Gradle
8 3 (0.37%) Maven
9 2 (0.25%) Gatling
9 2 (0.25%) JUnit
9 2 (0.25%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.25%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.12%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.12%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 178 (22.11%) Social Skills
2 162 (20.12%) Finance
3 100 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (4.97%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.23%) Banking
7 19 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.99%) Law
9 15 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.74%) Marketing
11 13 (1.61%) Legal
12 11 (1.37%) Retail
13 10 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.75%) Games
14 6 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.75%) Police
15 5 (0.62%) Advertising
15 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 226 (28.07%) Architect
2 150 (18.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (17.27%) Senior
4 89 (11.06%) Solutions Architect
5 79 (9.81%) Cloud Architect
6 75 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
7 74 (9.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 64 (7.95%) Lead
9 55 (6.83%) Consultant
10 52 (6.46%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 51 (6.34%) Azure Architect
12 39 (4.84%) Citrix Architect
13 36 (4.47%) Infrastructure Architect
14 33 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (3.98%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
16 31 (3.85%) Support Engineer
17 26 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
18 25 (3.11%) Analyst
19 23 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support
19 23 (2.86%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (7.33%) ARM Templates
2 47 (5.84%) .NET
3 39 (4.84%) JSON
4 37 (4.60%) Middleware
5 31 (3.85%) Web Services
6 26 (3.23%) YAML
7 20 (2.48%) OpenID
8 17 (2.11%) RESTful
8 17 (2.11%) XML
9 14 (1.74%) Azure Blueprints
10 13 (1.61%) SAML
11 12 (1.49%) Node.js
12 11 (1.37%) REST
13 9 (1.12%) LDAP
13 9 (1.12%) React
14 8 (0.99%) SOAP
15 7 (0.87%) gRPC
16 6 (0.75%) CSS
16 6 (0.75%) CSS3
16 6 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 152 (18.88%) Public Cloud
2 80 (9.94%) Data Centre
3 78 (9.69%) Cloud Native
4 74 (9.19%) Management Information System
5 36 (4.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.48%) Driving Licence
7 26 (3.23%) Replication
8 25 (3.11%) Private Cloud
9 21 (2.61%) Enterprise Cloud
9 21 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.61%) Mainframe
10 20 (2.48%) Blockchain
11 19 (2.36%) IoT
12 18 (2.24%) Mobile App
13 17 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.74%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.24%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 215 (26.71%) Windows
2 107 (13.29%) Windows Server
3 104 (12.92%) Linux
4 63 (7.83%) Unix
5 26 (3.23%) Windows 10
6 20 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.61%) VMS
9 8 (0.99%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.87%) Solaris
10 7 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.62%) Android
13 4 (0.50%) DC/OS
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (36.27%) DevOps
2 196 (24.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 168 (20.87%) Agile
4 164 (20.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 162 (20.12%) ITIL
6 135 (16.77%) CI/CD
7 122 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (14.66%) Cybersecurity
9 113 (14.04%) Mentoring
10 112 (13.91%) Roadmaps
11 96 (11.93%) Microservices
12 78 (9.69%) Information Security
13 75 (9.32%) Cloud Security
14 73 (9.07%) Migration
15 72 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
16 70 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
17 69 (8.57%) TOGAF
18 67 (8.32%) Change Management
19 65 (8.07%) Technical Leadership
20 62 (7.70%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 158 (19.63%) PowerShell
2 87 (10.81%) SQL
3 79 (9.81%) Python
4 51 (6.34%) Bash
4 51 (6.34%) Bicep
5 42 (5.22%) C#
6 32 (3.98%) Java
7 20 (2.48%) Go
8 17 (2.11%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.99%) Perl
10 15 (1.86%) Ruby
11 4 (0.50%) Scala
12 3 (0.37%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.37%) PHP
13 2 (0.25%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (14.91%) Degree
2 105 (13.04%) Azure Certification
3 74 (9.19%) Security Cleared
4 41 (5.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 41 (5.09%) SC Cleared
5 34 (4.22%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (3.85%) AWS Certification
6 31 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (3.60%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (3.23%) CISSP
9 23 (2.86%) DV Cleared
9 23 (2.86%) Master's Degree
10 20 (2.48%) CCNA
11 19 (2.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (1.99%) Network+ Certification
13 14 (1.74%) CISM
14 13 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
15 12 (1.49%) A+ Certification
16 11 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (1.24%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.10%) NIST
3 31 (3.85%) GDPR
4 24 (2.98%) Cyber Essentials
4 24 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.36%) NCSC
6 16 (1.99%) SLA
7 15 (1.86%) PCI DSS
8 14 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.61%) COBIT
10 11 (1.37%) QA
11 10 (1.24%) HIPAA
12 9 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 9 (1.12%) PMO
13 8 (0.99%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.75%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.37%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
17 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 174 (21.61%) Active Directory
2 105 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.70%) Docker
4 53 (6.58%) Virtual Machines
5 41 (5.09%) Hyper-V
6 26 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (2.98%) vSphere
8 20 (2.48%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.74%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.62%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.37%) Firmware
11 3 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.12%) RACF
12 1 (0.12%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 202 (25.09%) Terraform
2 107 (13.29%) Kubernetes
3 72 (8.94%) Ansible
4 71 (8.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 35 (4.35%) Puppet
6 23 (2.86%) SCCM
7 18 (2.24%) FortiGate
8 15 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (0.99%) Istio
10 8 (0.99%) Nessus
10 8 (0.99%) SCOM
10 8 (0.99%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.87%) SCDPM
12 6 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.75%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.75%) WSUS
13 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 346 (42.98%) Microsoft
2 137 (17.02%) VMware
3 81 (10.06%) Cisco
4 46 (5.71%) Citrix
5 33 (4.10%) Splunk
6 32 (3.98%) Oracle
6 32 (3.98%) Veeam
7 25 (3.11%) Google
7 25 (3.11%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.98%) Dynatrace
9 22 (2.73%) Meraki
10 21 (2.61%) Palo Alto
11 18 (2.24%) SolarWinds
12 16 (1.99%) NetApp
12 16 (1.99%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.86%) SAP
14 14 (1.74%) Dell
15 12 (1.49%) Sparx
16 11 (1.37%) BMC
16 11 (1.37%) HP