IaaS Job Trends in England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 248 272
Rank change year-on-year -169 +24 -20
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 234 476 743
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.36% 1.21% 1.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 3.19% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 168 273 627
10th Percentile £37,850 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £57,129
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +1.71%
75th Percentile £77,424 £87,500 £90,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,246 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.49% +3.21% +1.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21,212 14,904 27,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.87% 37.85% 37.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11,617 10,123 23,323
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in England

IaaS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in England

IaaS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the England region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
London -11 88 £65,000 -10.34% 21
North of England -7 50 £52,500 -10.64% 21
South East -71 35 £67,500 -10.00% 38
Midlands -35 32 £51,792 -26.01% 16
North West +10 31 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands -20 24 £68,500 -8.67% 8
North East -10 10 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East of England -14 10 £51,500 +3.00% 16
Yorkshire -40 9 £70,932 +9.13% 7
South West -126 9 £62,500 -7.41% 16
East Midlands -37 8 £39,250 -1.88% 7
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 21 (8.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.71%) IIS
4 1 (0.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.71%) PlantUML
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (1.28%) SAP FS
2 2 (0.85%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.85%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 205 (87.61%) PaaS
2 183 (78.21%) Azure
3 109 (46.58%) SaaS
4 69 (29.49%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (23.50%) Entra ID
6 47 (20.09%) AWS
7 39 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (13.68%) GCP
9 22 (9.40%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (8.97%) Power Platform
11 19 (8.12%) Serverless
12 17 (7.26%) Azure AKS
12 17 (7.26%) Datadog
13 16 (6.84%) GitHub
14 11 (4.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (4.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.42%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 64 (27.35%) Firewall
2 51 (21.79%) VPN
3 45 (19.23%) DNS
4 30 (12.82%) VLAN
5 28 (11.97%) DHCP
6 19 (8.12%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (7.69%) SAN
8 12 (5.13%) TCP/IP
9 9 (3.85%) VoIP
9 9 (3.85%) WAN
10 7 (2.99%) LAN
10 7 (2.99%) SD-WAN
11 6 (2.56%) PuTTY
11 6 (2.56%) SSH
12 5 (2.14%) DMZ
12 5 (2.14%) Reverse Proxy
12 5 (2.14%) STUN
13 4 (1.71%) NAS
13 4 (1.71%) Network Security
14 3 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.56%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.14%) Power BI
4 4 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.85%) Big Data
6 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.85%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (5.56%) Chocolatey
2 12 (5.13%) JIRA
3 7 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 6 (2.56%) Git
5 5 (2.14%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 79 (33.76%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.50%) Finance
3 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.26%) Legal
5 18 (7.69%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Law
6 11 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.85%) Billing
8 8 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.28%) Dutch Language
11 3 (1.28%) French Language
11 3 (1.28%) Games
12 2 (0.85%) Advertising
12 2 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (26.50%) Architect
1 62 (26.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 56 (23.93%) Azure Engineer
3 46 (19.66%) Senior
4 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (9.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.40%) Support Engineer
7 20 (8.55%) IT Engineer
8 19 (8.12%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (8.12%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.98%) Analyst
9 14 (5.98%) Security Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
11 12 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Azure Architect
11 12 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) GCP Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.99%) ARM Templates
2 6 (2.56%) Middleware
3 5 (2.14%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (1.71%) .NET
4 4 (1.71%) RESTful
4 4 (1.71%) YAML
5 2 (0.85%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.85%) CSS
5 2 (0.85%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.85%) HTML
5 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.85%) pytest
5 2 (0.85%) React
5 2 (0.85%) Web Services
6 1 (0.43%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.43%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.43%) Kafka
6 1 (0.43%) LDAP
6 1 (0.43%) Node.js
6 1 (0.43%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 34 (14.53%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (5.56%) Security Posture
5 12 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.70%) Hedge funds
7 10 (4.27%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.14%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.28%) IoT
12 3 (1.28%) PKI
13 2 (0.85%) Clustering
13 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.85%) Genomics
13 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 65 (27.78%) Windows
2 39 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 27 (11.54%) Linux
4 12 (5.13%) Unix
5 10 (4.27%) VMS
6 5 (2.14%) Debian
7 4 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.85%) Android
8 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (33.33%) DevOps
2 73 (31.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 52 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 43 (18.38%) AI
5 43 (18.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 42 (17.95%) Agile
7 39 (16.67%) ITIL
8 33 (14.10%) Information Security
9 32 (13.68%) Computer Science
10 30 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 30 (12.82%) Project Delivery
11 29 (12.39%) Enterprise Architecture
12 28 (11.97%) Cybersecurity
12 28 (11.97%) Identity Access Management
13 27 (11.54%) Microservices
13 27 (11.54%) Roadmaps
14 26 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 25 (10.68%) Analytics
15 25 (10.68%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 34 (14.53%) Python
3 27 (11.54%) SQL
4 25 (10.68%) Bash
5 24 (10.26%) Bicep
6 6 (2.56%) DCL
6 6 (2.56%) Tcl
7 3 (1.28%) C#
7 3 (1.28%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.43%) Java
9 1 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.43%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (18.80%) Degree
2 40 (17.09%) Azure Certification
3 30 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (9.83%) Security Cleared
5 19 (8.12%) SC Cleared
6 15 (6.41%) CISSP
7 14 (5.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (4.70%) CCSK
9 6 (2.56%) AWS Certification
10 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.14%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.71%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.28%) CCNA
12 3 (1.28%) CISA
12 3 (1.28%) CRISC
13 1 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 1 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.26%) SLA
2 12 (5.13%) QA
3 11 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.27%) NIST
5 8 (3.42%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
8 3 (1.28%) GDPR
8 3 (1.28%) IFRS
8 3 (1.28%) IFRS 17
8 3 (1.28%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.43%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 32 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (11.54%) Docker
4 18 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 16 (6.84%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.70%) vSphere
7 8 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.28%) vCloud
8 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 74 (31.62%) Terraform
2 33 (14.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (13.68%) Kubernetes
4 19 (8.12%) SCCM
5 16 (6.84%) Ansible
6 8 (3.42%) SCOM
6 8 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.56%) Autotask
7 6 (2.56%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.71%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (1.28%) VxRail
10 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.85%) Puppet
11 1 (0.43%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.43%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.43%) Grafana
11 1 (0.43%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 124 (52.99%) Microsoft
2 43 (18.38%) VMware
3 26 (11.11%) Google
4 14 (5.98%) AppDynamics
4 14 (5.98%) Tenable
5 13 (5.56%) Dynatrace
6 12 (5.13%) Cisco
7 9 (3.85%) Palo Alto
8 8 (3.42%) BiZZdesign
8 8 (3.42%) Fortinet
8 8 (3.42%) Oracle
9 7 (2.99%) SolarWinds
10 6 (2.56%) CrowdStrike
10 6 (2.56%) Databricks
10 6 (2.56%) SAP
10 6 (2.56%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.14%) Citrix
11 5 (2.14%) Veeam
12 4 (1.71%) Meraki
13 3 (1.28%) Guidewire