IaaS Job Trends in Dorset

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 36 93
Rank change year-on-year -17 +57 -12
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 0.30% 0.45% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 1.43% 1.99%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £58,625
25th Percentile - £52,500 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - -16.98% +47.22%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - - -
South West median annual salary £39,750 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -37.65% -8.93% +17.60%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Dorset

IaaS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 187 70 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 27.62% 31.67% 18.93%
Number of salaries quoted 96 65 176
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,313 £32,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,625 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £71,250
South West median annual salary £48,750 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +4.76% -

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

IaaS job vacancy trend in Dorset

IaaS
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing IaaS

IaaS
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
Dorchester - 2 - -
IaaS
South West

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyberattack
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Innovative Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) ISMS
1 2 (100.00%) Key Management
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware