The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term IaaS in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IaaS over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Rank 680 747 828
Rank change year-on-year
+67 +81
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 179 149 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.166% 0.123% 0.035%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.496% 0.373% 0.101%
Number of salaries quoted 140 110 36
Average salary £57,000 £60,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +17.64%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36074 39962 42780
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.47% 33.04% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 29600 33687 35794
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%

IaaS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

IaaS Jobs Demand Trend

IaaS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK.

IaaS Salary Trend

IaaS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IaaS over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

IaaS Salary Histogram

IaaS
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +58 167 £57,500 -2.12%
London +14 76 £70,000 +21.73%
South East +16 29 £55,000 +41.93%
East Midlands - 23 £40,000 -
Northamptonshire - 20 £41,250 -
Northampton - 17 £42,500 -
West Midlands -15 12 £37,500 -64.28%
East of England +12 11 £57,500 +4.54%
City of London +8 10 £67,500 +8.00%
Hampshire +3 7 £37,500 -
Suffolk - 7 £57,500 -
Surrey +13 6 £56,500 +32.94%
Middlesex +7 6 £55,000 -21.42%
Oxford - 5 - -
Oxfordshire - 5 - -
Staines +23 4 £56,500 -
South West +6 4 £34,390 -14.02%
Birmingham -29 4 £45,000 -57.14%
Caerphilly - 4 £56,500 -
Wiltshire - 4 £34,390 -
South Wales - 4 £56,500 -
Wales - 4 £56,500 -
Farnborough - 4 £40,000 -
Berkshire +10 3 £35,000 -2.77%
Essex - 3 £57,500 -
Basingstoke - 2 £37,500 -
Gatwick - 2 £51,250 -
Solihull - 2 £37,500 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £37,500 -
Windsor - 2 - -

IaaS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IaaS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IaaS.

1 221 (60.05%) SaaS
2 208 (56.52%) PaaS
3 147 (39.95%) Linux
4 140 (38.04%) VMware
5 135 (36.68%) Cisco
6 126 (34.24%) Windows
7 119 (32.34%) VMware Infrastructure
8 76 (20.65%) Microsoft
9 71 (19.29%) Firewall
10 63 (17.12%) Citrix
11 61 (16.58%) Cloud Computing
12 60 (16.30%) vSphere
13 59 (16.03%) WAN
14 56 (15.22%) UNIX
15 53 (14.40%) LAN
15 53 (14.40%) Open Source
16 52 (14.13%) Apache
16 52 (14.13%) MySQL
17 46 (12.50%) Project Management
18 45 (12.23%) Finance
18 45 (12.23%) Agile Software Development
19 43 (11.68%) SAN
20 42 (11.41%) SQL Server
20 42 (11.41%) ITIL
21 41 (11.14%) Hyper-V
22 39 (10.60%) NetApp
22 39 (10.60%) Juniper
23 38 (10.33%) CRM
24 36 (9.783%) Disaster Recovery
25 33 (8.967%) Migration

IaaS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing IaaS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited IaaS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 32 (8.696%) Web Services
2 18 (4.891%) .NET
3 17 (4.620%) HTML
3 17 (4.620%) jQuery
4 14 (3.804%) CSS
4 14 (3.804%) ASP.NET
5 13 (3.533%) Ruby on Rails
6 10 (2.717%) WebSphere
7 9 (2.446%) XML
8 8 (2.174%) Hibernate
8 8 (2.174%) Spring
9 7 (1.902%) Ajax
9 7 (1.902%) Django
9 7 (1.902%) J2EE
9 7 (1.902%) JDBC
9 7 (1.902%) Middleware
10 6 (1.630%) JMX
10 6 (1.630%) Ehcache
11 5 (1.359%) YUI
11 5 (1.359%) JSR 168
Application Platforms
1 52 (14.13%) Apache
2 31 (8.424%) Tomcat
3 21 (5.707%) MS Exchange
4 18 (4.891%) IIS
5 17 (4.620%) Windows Azure
6 15 (4.076%) Amazon AWS
6 15 (4.076%) nginx
7 12 (3.261%) Apache Solr
8 11 (2.989%) Alfresco
9 10 (2.717%) WebSphere MQ
9 10 (2.717%) WebSphere Application Server
9 10 (2.717%) Exchange Server 2010
9 10 (2.717%) OpenStack
10 8 (2.174%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.902%) Liferay
11 7 (1.902%) CMS
12 6 (1.630%) ActiveMQ
13 5 (1.359%) TeamSite
14 4 (1.087%) SharePoint
15 3 (0.815%) Lync
Applications
1 32 (8.696%) MS Excel
2 24 (6.522%) Google Apps
3 9 (2.446%) MS Office
4 7 (1.902%) Office 365
5 3 (0.815%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.272%) MS Project
6 1 (0.272%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (2.174%) BASE24
2 1 (0.272%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.272%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (19.29%) Firewall
2 59 (16.03%) WAN
3 53 (14.40%) LAN
4 43 (11.68%) SAN
5 32 (8.696%) TCP/IP
6 29 (7.880%) DNS
7 27 (7.337%) VPN
8 20 (5.435%) Unified Communications
9 19 (5.163%) Internet
10 18 (4.891%) MPLS
10 18 (4.891%) NetScaler
11 17 (4.620%) LDAP
12 13 (3.533%) PBX
12 13 (3.533%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (3.533%) IP Telephony
13 9 (2.446%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (2.174%) VoIP
15 7 (1.902%) NAS
16 6 (1.630%) HTTP
16 6 (1.630%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.13%) MySQL
2 42 (11.41%) SQL Server
3 21 (5.707%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.989%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.717%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (2.174%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.902%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.630%) Redis
9 2 (0.543%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.543%) GIS
9 2 (0.543%) Jackrabbit
9 2 (0.543%) Hazelcast
9 2 (0.543%) OrientDB
10 1 (0.272%) Amazon DynamoDB
10 1 (0.272%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.272%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (0.272%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.272%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.272%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.272%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 31 (8.424%) Git (software)
2 15 (4.076%) Jenkins
3 13 (3.533%) Subversion
4 11 (2.989%) TeamCity
5 9 (2.446%) Redmine
6 8 (2.174%) Maven
7 6 (1.630%) JIRA
7 6 (1.630%) GitHub
7 6 (1.630%) Cobertura
8 5 (1.359%) JUnit
9 3 (0.815%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.543%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.543%) Hudson
10 2 (0.543%) FishEye
10 2 (0.543%) FogBugz
11 1 (0.272%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.272%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.272%) MSI
11 1 (0.272%) Selenium
General
1 45 (12.23%) Finance
2 19 (5.163%) Marketing
3 14 (3.804%) Banking
4 10 (2.717%) Telecoms
5 9 (2.446%) Retail
6 8 (2.174%) Electronics
6 8 (2.174%) Local Government
7 6 (1.630%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.359%) Advertising
9 3 (0.815%) Music
10 2 (0.543%) Music Industry
10 2 (0.543%) Back Office
10 2 (0.543%) Legal
11 1 (0.272%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.272%) Billing
11 1 (0.272%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (48.10%) Architect
2 60 (16.30%) Infrastructure Architect
3 40 (10.87%) Consultant
4 31 (8.424%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (7.065%) Technical Architect
5 26 (7.065%) Technical Manager
6 25 (6.793%) Account Manager
6 25 (6.793%) CRM Architect
7 18 (4.891%) Systems Integrator
7 18 (4.891%) Developer
8 17 (4.620%) Designer
8 17 (4.620%) Infrastructure Designer
9 16 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.076%) Systems Administrator
10 15 (4.076%) Administrator
10 15 (4.076%) Services Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.076%) Service Manager
11 13 (3.533%) Systems Engineer
11 13 (3.533%) Technical Services Manager
11 13 (3.533%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 221 (60.05%) SaaS
2 208 (56.52%) PaaS
3 61 (16.58%) Cloud Computing
4 53 (14.40%) Open Source
5 27 (7.337%) Enterprise Storage
6 26 (7.065%) Management Information System
7 13 (3.533%) Video Conferencing
8 11 (2.989%) Digital Media
9 10 (2.717%) Web 2.0
9 10 (2.717%) Clustering
10 8 (2.174%) Replication
10 8 (2.174%) Computer Science
11 6 (1.630%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.630%) Social Media
11 6 (1.630%) iPad
12 5 (1.359%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.359%) W3C
13 4 (1.087%) Economics
13 4 (1.087%) Blog
14 2 (0.543%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 147 (39.95%) Linux
2 126 (34.24%) Windows
3 56 (15.22%) UNIX
4 27 (7.337%) Windows Server 2008
5 16 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (3.804%) Debian
7 12 (3.261%) HPUX
8 11 (2.989%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (2.717%) Solaris
10 8 (2.174%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.359%) VMS
12 4 (1.087%) CentOS
12 4 (1.087%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.543%) Android
14 1 (0.272%) Gentoo
14 1 (0.272%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.272%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.272%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (12.50%) Project Management
2 45 (12.23%) Agile Software Development
3 42 (11.41%) ITIL
4 38 (10.33%) CRM
5 36 (9.783%) Disaster Recovery
6 33 (8.967%) Migration
6 33 (8.967%) Capacity Planning
7 31 (8.424%) Scrum
8 29 (7.880%) Service Delivery
9 28 (7.609%) Business Development
10 26 (7.065%) Business Continuity
11 24 (6.522%) Document Management
12 22 (5.978%) High Availability
13 21 (5.707%) Strategic Planning
13 21 (5.707%) PRINCE2
14 20 (5.435%) TOGAF
15 18 (4.891%) Service Management
16 17 (4.620%) B2B
16 17 (4.620%) Enterprise Architecture
17 16 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (8.152%) Java
2 27 (7.337%) SQL
3 26 (7.065%) PowerShell
4 19 (5.163%) Python
5 18 (4.891%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.891%) Perl
6 16 (4.348%) Ruby
7 12 (3.261%) PHP
8 7 (1.902%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.087%) Bash shell
9 4 (1.087%) C
10 3 (0.815%) C#
11 2 (0.543%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.543%) Groovy
12 1 (0.272%) Scala
12 1 (0.272%) C++
Qualifications
1 31 (8.424%) Degree
2 30 (8.152%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.163%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (3.804%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (3.261%) CCNP
6 10 (2.717%) CCNA
6 10 (2.717%) Citrix Certification
7 6 (1.630%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.630%) PMP
7 6 (1.630%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.359%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.359%) VTSP
8 5 (1.359%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.087%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.815%) MCSE
11 2 (0.543%) MCSA
11 2 (0.543%) MCP
11 2 (0.543%) CCDP
11 2 (0.543%) CCA
11 2 (0.543%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.359%) SLA
2 4 (1.087%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.815%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.272%) QA
4 1 (0.272%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 119 (32.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 60 (16.30%) vSphere
3 41 (11.14%) Hyper-V
4 25 (6.793%) Active Directory
5 23 (6.250%) XenServer
6 21 (5.707%) vCloud
7 17 (4.620%) Varnish
8 16 (4.348%) XenApp
9 11 (2.989%) Samba
10 9 (2.446%) XenDesktop
11 5 (1.359%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.087%) QEMU
13 2 (0.543%) Forefront TMG
13 2 (0.543%) IAG
13 2 (0.543%) UAG
13 2 (0.543%) ISA Server
13 2 (0.543%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.272%) VMware ESX
14 1 (0.272%) VMware ESXi
14 1 (0.272%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 31 (8.424%) Puppet
2 18 (4.891%) Nagios
3 14 (3.804%) ZABBIX
4 13 (3.533%) Cisco IPCC
4 13 (3.533%) NetBackup
5 11 (2.989%) HP Operations Orchestration
6 6 (1.630%) Ganglia
7 4 (1.087%) SCCM
8 2 (0.543%) OpenNMS
8 2 (0.543%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.272%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.272%) SCOM
9 1 (0.272%) Opalis
9 1 (0.272%) AppManager
Vendors
1 140 (38.04%) VMware
2 135 (36.68%) Cisco
3 76 (20.65%) Microsoft
4 63 (17.12%) Citrix
5 39 (10.60%) Juniper
5 39 (10.60%) NetApp
6 33 (8.967%) EMC
6 33 (8.967%) Oracle
7 32 (8.696%) Salesforce.com
8 27 (7.337%) HP
9 24 (6.522%) Google
10 21 (5.707%) IBM
11 14 (3.804%) JBoss
12 13 (3.533%) Dell
12 13 (3.533%) hybris
12 13 (3.533%) 3PAR
13 12 (3.261%) PlateSpin
14 11 (2.989%) Nimsoft
15 9 (2.446%) Syncsort
15 9 (2.446%) CommVault
Staines, Middlesex
Location: Staines... up to 10% Bonus) + Benefits. Key Skills: Cloud, Infrastructure, Architect, Designer, VMWare. Our client, an IT managed services provider, is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Architect...
Computer Recruiter Ltd
Salary: To £56.5K + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Caerphilly, Mid Glamorgan
Key Skills: Cloud, Infrastructure, Architect, Designer, VMWare... As a Cloud Infrastructure Architect you must have: Excellent experience of Storage and Backup technologies; Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure technologies;...
Computer Recruiter Ltd
Salary: To £56.5K (incl. up to 10% Bonus) + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Swindon, South West
Experience in ITIL, PRINCE2 and ISO 9001/27001/20000 based work environments... VMware Certified Professional and/or Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Design Specialist highly beneficial. vCloud / vShield...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Swindon, South West
Experience in ITIL, PRINCE2 and ISO 9001/27001/20000 based work environments... VMware Certified Professional and/or Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Design Specialist highly beneficial. vCloud / vShield...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Swindon, South West
Experience in ITIL, PRINCE2 and ISO 9001/27001/20000 based work environments... VMware Certified Professional and/or Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Design Specialist highly beneficial. vCloud / vShield...
Computer Futures
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Solutions Architect - Cloud, Hosting, Networks, VOIP... Educated to degree level or Business relevant qualification... - Strong agent for change; not just commenting but leading and contributing - Good analytical skills;...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Operating systems including Linux and Windows... Experience in Open Source technologies, including Linux, MySQL, Apache and Tomcat. Cloud platform experience including SaaS and IaaS... Cisco) Additional Website Text.
Travis Perkins Trading Company Limited
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
This company are heavily involved in Virtualisation, Data Centre & Cloud Technology, so previous experience in this industry, as well as relationships with the likes of VMWare, Citrix, Hyper-...
Computer Futures
Salary: £60000 - £120000 per annum + Car Allowance
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
You will be responsible for Operational and Technical Management of my clients Service Delivery Providers and leadership of the UK-based Vendor relations and server support teams as...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Developer, Development, Programmer, Programming, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, Agile, PHP, Linux, Apache, MVC Development, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Ajax, MySQL, Training... # MySQL 5+ # Linux including Apache... ~VBS, Powershell,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £50,000 to £50,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
To apply the chosen Operations Service Delivery Director must have experience in the following: Operation Service Delivery Management Managing Datacenter Operations, Outsourced Partners, Vendors and Customers Strategic planning...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £80000 - £100000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Developer, Development, Programmer, Programming, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, Agile, PHP, Linux, Apache, MVC Development, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Ajax, MySQL, Training... # MySQL 5+ # Linux including Apache... ~VBS, Powershell,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £50,000 to £50,000 per annum Negotiable + Bonus (Circa £5,000) +
Posted: 16 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Linux, Systems Administrator, Systems Administration, Redhat, Ubuntu, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, CentOS, RHEL, Python, Perl, Apache, Nagios, Solarwinds, PHP, Linux, Graduate... ~ Nagios, Solarwinds, SCCM, NetIQ AppManager, Opalis,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Farnborough, Hampshire
Developer, Development, Programmer, Programming, Ruby on Rails, RoR, Ruby, Agile, PHP, Linux, Apache, MVC Development, HTML, Javascript, CSS, Ajax, MySQL, Training... # MySQL 5+ # Linux including Apache... ~VBS, Powershell,...
Peopleworks
Salary: From £50,000 to £50,000 per annum Negotiable + Bonus (Circa £5,000) +
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The role will have a heavy bias towards new business development, so all applicants should be comfortable with this... With strong partnerships with the like of Google and...
ISL
Salary: £60000.00 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bracknell, Reading, Berkshire, South East, Thames...
The role will be focussed on the delivery of Document Management, Content management and SaaS based applications across the UK... Managing the installation and configuration of enterprise software...
Satigo
Salary: £35000 per annum + Car allowance + Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
UK
It utilises the following technologies on a day to day basis: ==> Linux such as RHEL, Windows Server, ==> SQL Server, MySQL, NoSQL, ==> VMware, ==> Openstack, Openshift, ==> Intel ESG, Cisco and...
Atos
Posted: 23 April 2013
England
Role Responsibility: To take overall management and leadership responsibility for the successful delivery of multiple projects of varying sizes, in a professional, timely, and profitable manner Organise the...
Satigo
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Car Allowance, Bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
England
Role Responsibility: To take overall management and leadership responsibility for the successful delivery of multiple projects of varying sizes, in a professional, timely, and profitable manner Organise the...
Satigo
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Car Allowance, Bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Cisco devices including Routers (who knows how they connect to the MPLS network or internet based VPN) Multisite (50+) architectures ideally internationally and not just UK based. Experience...
Sanderson
Salary: £75000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Experience working with Unified Communications technology like Lync or Cisco Jabber Any exposure to the following will be advantageous: * Broadcast technologies (MPEG encoding, Contribution and Distribution networking) * Managed...
Sanderson
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + 25% Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013