IaaS Job Trends in the East of England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 147 191
Rank change year-on-year +2 +44 -33
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 13 29 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.28% 0.87% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.05% 2.79% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile £39,225 £47,000 £49,250
25th Percentile £42,000 - £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64,688 £62,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,246 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.03% +3.21% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,233 1,039 1,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.26% 31.08% 31.67%
Number of salaries quoted 583 578 1,264
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the East of England

IaaS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the East of England

IaaS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 14 February 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
Cambridgeshire +10 6 £33,500 -
Hertfordshire -10 4 £49,000 -18.33% 3
Essex -3 2 £62,500 +31.58%
Suffolk 0 1 £65,000 +36.84% 1
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Azure
2 12 (92.31%) PaaS
3 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
4 7 (53.85%) SaaS
5 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (15.38%) AWS
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
7 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) DHCP
1 8 (61.54%) DNS
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 4 (30.77%) VLAN
2 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 1 (7.69%) IPv4
3 1 (7.69%) IPv6
3 1 (7.69%) LAN
3 1 (7.69%) MPLS
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
3 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Legal
4 1 (7.69%) Police
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Consultant
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SaaS Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) VMS
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) AI
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (38.46%) ITIL
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Capacity Management
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (30.77%) Proactive Maintenance
3 4 (30.77%) Project Delivery
3 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (30.77%) Runbook
3 4 (30.77%) Server Building
4 3 (23.08%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Bicep
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Azure Certification
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) MCSA
5 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (30.77%) vSphere
4 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds Orion
1 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.69%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (38.46%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Apple
4 1 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Okta
4 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam