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

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 199 270
Rank change year-on-year -146 +71 -74
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 800 1,963 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.89% 1.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.26% 4.39% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 683 978 1,608
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £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 £89,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,783 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.64% +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 35,393 44,713 75,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.94% 43.02% 48.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,783 29,290 41,937
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 £96,250 £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 30 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 30 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 -117 686 £70,000 - 155
UK excluding London -191 432 £62,783 +4.64% 93
Work from Home -160 318 £67,500 +3.85% 73
London -48 284 £83,750 +4.69% 71
North of England -104 125 £60,000 -7.34% 22
South East -89 97 £62,500 +8.70% 25
South West -53 84 £70,000 +17.60% 15
North West -74 76 £62,783 -3.41% 8
Midlands -59 65 £69,235 +6.51% 13
West Midlands +1 57 £69,235 +3.80% 7
Scotland -122 50 £62,500 +5.00% 13
Yorkshire -14 30 £56,250 -6.25% 10
North East -6 19 £45,000 -28.00% 4
East of England -40 6 £51,250 -12.77% 6
East Midlands -60 5 £45,000 -21.74% 6
Northern Ireland -21 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
Wales -33 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 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 47 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.00%) 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 (0.63%) Confluence
6 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.50%) NServiceBus
7 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.13%) Apache
9 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.63%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) 1Password
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
5 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
5 1 (0.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (1.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 5 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) HFM
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 631 (78.88%) Azure
2 626 (78.25%) PaaS
3 380 (47.50%) SaaS
4 246 (30.75%) AWS
5 208 (26.00%) Microsoft 365
6 130 (16.25%) Azure DevOps
7 102 (12.75%) Entra ID
8 84 (10.50%) GCP
9 58 (7.25%) Power Platform
10 47 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
11 45 (5.63%) Serverless
12 34 (4.25%) Azure AKS
12 34 (4.25%) GitHub
13 22 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 22 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
14 21 (2.63%) Azure Stack
14 21 (2.63%) Nutanix
15 20 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
16 16 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 143 (17.88%) Firewall
2 117 (14.63%) DNS
3 95 (11.88%) VPN
4 90 (11.25%) WAN
5 62 (7.75%) DHCP
6 61 (7.63%) LAN
7 49 (6.13%) Wi-Fi
8 46 (5.75%) SD-WAN
9 40 (5.00%) SAN
10 27 (3.38%) Network Security
11 26 (3.25%) Wireless
12 22 (2.75%) VLAN
13 20 (2.50%) TCP/IP
14 17 (2.13%) BGP
14 17 (2.13%) Internet
14 17 (2.13%) NGFW
15 14 (1.75%) MPLS
16 12 (1.50%) DMZ
16 12 (1.50%) SSL
17 11 (1.38%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 54 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (5.25%) NoSQL
4 37 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 29 (3.63%) Data Lake
6 21 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.75%) Power BI
8 13 (1.63%) Big Data
9 12 (1.50%) MySQL
10 10 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.75%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.63%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.63%) Metadata
14 4 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.50%) GIS
15 3 (0.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 39 (4.88%) Git
2 26 (3.25%) Jenkins
3 14 (1.75%) GitLab
4 12 (1.50%) SonarQube
5 9 (1.13%) TeamCity
6 8 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (0.75%) JIRA
8 3 (0.38%) Gradle
8 3 (0.38%) Maven
9 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.13%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.13%) Gatling
10 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 178 (22.25%) Social Skills
2 160 (20.00%) Finance
3 100 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 40 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.13%) Banking
7 19 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 16 (2.00%) Law
9 15 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.75%) Marketing
11 13 (1.63%) Legal
12 11 (1.38%) Retail
13 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.75%) Games
15 6 (0.75%) Police
16 5 (0.63%) Advertising
16 5 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 223 (27.88%) Architect
2 150 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 139 (17.38%) Senior
4 87 (10.88%) Solutions Architect
5 78 (9.75%) Cloud Architect
6 74 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
6 74 (9.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (8.00%) Lead
8 56 (7.00%) Consultant
9 52 (6.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 50 (6.25%) Azure Architect
11 37 (4.63%) Citrix Architect
12 35 (4.38%) Infrastructure Architect
13 33 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.88%) Support Engineer
15 30 (3.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
16 26 (3.25%) Analyst
16 26 (3.25%) Platform Engineer
17 23 (2.88%) Infrastructure Support
17 23 (2.88%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.13%) ARM Templates
2 47 (5.88%) .NET
3 38 (4.75%) JSON
4 37 (4.63%) Middleware
5 31 (3.88%) Web Services
6 25 (3.13%) YAML
7 20 (2.50%) OpenID
8 17 (2.13%) RESTful
8 17 (2.13%) XML
9 13 (1.63%) Azure Blueprints
9 13 (1.63%) SAML
10 12 (1.50%) Node.js
11 10 (1.25%) REST
12 9 (1.13%) LDAP
12 9 (1.13%) React
13 8 (1.00%) SOAP
14 7 (0.88%) gRPC
15 6 (0.75%) CSS
15 6 (0.75%) CSS3
15 6 (0.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 151 (18.88%) Public Cloud
2 81 (10.13%) Cloud Native
3 80 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 74 (9.25%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 28 (3.50%) Driving Licence
7 26 (3.25%) Replication
8 24 (3.00%) Private Cloud
9 22 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
10 21 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (2.63%) Mainframe
11 20 (2.50%) Blockchain
12 19 (2.38%) IoT
13 18 (2.25%) Mobile App
13 18 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
14 14 (1.75%) Product Ownership
15 10 (1.25%) Onboarding
16 9 (1.13%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 215 (26.88%) Windows
2 107 (13.38%) Windows Server
3 105 (13.13%) Linux
4 63 (7.88%) Unix
5 25 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 20 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (1.63%) VMS
9 8 (1.00%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.88%) Solaris
10 7 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
11 6 (0.75%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.63%) Android
13 4 (0.50%) DC/OS
13 4 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 294 (36.75%) DevOps
2 197 (24.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 166 (20.75%) Agile
4 164 (20.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 163 (20.38%) ITIL
6 133 (16.63%) CI/CD
7 122 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
8 118 (14.75%) Cybersecurity
9 113 (14.13%) Mentoring
10 111 (13.88%) Roadmaps
11 95 (11.88%) Microservices
12 77 (9.63%) Information Security
13 74 (9.25%) Cloud Security
14 72 (9.00%) Migration
15 71 (8.88%) Disaster Recovery
16 70 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
17 69 (8.63%) TOGAF
18 66 (8.25%) Change Management
19 65 (8.13%) Technical Leadership
20 62 (7.75%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 156 (19.50%) PowerShell
2 83 (10.38%) SQL
3 78 (9.75%) Python
4 50 (6.25%) Bicep
5 49 (6.13%) Bash
6 42 (5.25%) C#
7 31 (3.88%) Java
8 19 (2.38%) Go
9 16 (2.00%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.00%) Perl
10 15 (1.88%) Ruby
11 3 (0.38%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.38%) PHP
11 3 (0.38%) Scala
12 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (14.75%) Degree
2 105 (13.13%) Azure Certification
3 75 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 42 (5.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (5.13%) SC Cleared
6 34 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (3.88%) AWS Certification
8 30 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (3.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 25 (3.13%) CISSP
11 24 (3.00%) DV Cleared
12 23 (2.88%) Master's Degree
13 20 (2.50%) CCNA
14 19 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
16 13 (1.63%) CISM
16 13 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.50%) A+ Certification
18 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
19 10 (1.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 33 (4.13%) NIST
3 30 (3.75%) GDPR
4 24 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 23 (2.88%) Cyber Essentials
6 19 (2.38%) NCSC
7 15 (1.88%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.88%) SLA
8 14 (1.75%) Accessibility
9 13 (1.63%) COBIT
10 11 (1.38%) QA
11 10 (1.25%) HIPAA
11 10 (1.25%) PMO
12 9 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (1.00%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.75%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.63%) ISO 9001
16 3 (0.38%) SOC 2
17 1 (0.13%) GRC
17 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 175 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 104 (13.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (7.75%) Docker
4 54 (6.75%) Virtual Machines
5 41 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 25 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
7 23 (2.88%) vSphere
8 19 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.75%) VMware NSX
10 5 (0.63%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.38%) Firmware
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.13%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.13%) KVM
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.13%) RACF
12 1 (0.13%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.13%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 203 (25.38%) Terraform
2 109 (13.63%) Kubernetes
3 73 (9.13%) Ansible
4 70 (8.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 36 (4.50%) Puppet
6 23 (2.88%) SCCM
7 18 (2.25%) FortiGate
8 14 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 8 (1.00%) Nessus
10 8 (1.00%) SCOM
10 8 (1.00%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.88%) Istio
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 7 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.88%) SCDPM
12 6 (0.75%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
12 6 (0.75%) NetCrunch
12 6 (0.75%) WSUS
13 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 344 (43.00%) Microsoft
2 135 (16.88%) VMware
3 80 (10.00%) Cisco
4 44 (5.50%) Citrix
5 33 (4.13%) Splunk
6 32 (4.00%) Oracle
6 32 (4.00%) Veeam
7 26 (3.25%) Google
8 25 (3.13%) Salesforce
9 23 (2.88%) Dynatrace
10 22 (2.75%) Meraki
11 21 (2.63%) Palo Alto
12 18 (2.25%) SolarWinds
13 16 (2.00%) NetApp
14 15 (1.88%) SAP
14 15 (1.88%) ServiceNow
15 14 (1.75%) Dell
16 12 (1.50%) Sparx
17 11 (1.38%) BMC
17 11 (1.38%) HP