IaaS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 90 164
Rank change year-on-year -52 +74 -12
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 16 15 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.40% 1.05% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 2.70% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 13 9 9
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £31,750 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -11.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £61,250 £43,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £89,500 -
England median annual salary £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,217 556 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 30.63% 38.85% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 604 484 1,128
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

IaaS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the East Midlands

IaaS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 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
Leicestershire - 10 £33,500 - 2
Nottinghamshire -4 4 £60,000 -27.27% 2
Northamptonshire -13 2 - - 1
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Exchequer
1 4 (25.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) Azure
2 9 (56.25%) PaaS
3 7 (43.75%) Entra ID
4 4 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 4 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Storage
5 3 (18.75%) SaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (6.25%) GCP
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DNS
1 3 (18.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (18.75%) Law
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Applications Support
1 7 (43.75%) Applications Support Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Support Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Lead
6 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Senior
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
1 9 (56.25%) Windows Server
2 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (25.00%) Presales
1 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Change Control
2 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
2 3 (18.75%) High Availability
2 3 (18.75%) Load Balancing
2 3 (18.75%) Security Patching
2 3 (18.75%) Service Management
3 2 (12.50%) Business Development
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Sage
3 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
4 2 (12.50%) VMware