IaaS Job Trends in the Midlands

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 217 173
Rank change year-on-year +5 -44 +77
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 19 50 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.27% 0.63% 1.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.76% 2.18% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 10 38 42
10th Percentile £57,375 £52,160 £47,525
25th Percentile £63,125 £53,725 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £79,000 £94,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,496 2,298 1,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 35.02% 29.13% 39.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,378 1,695
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,425 £30,550
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £39,827
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

IaaS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the Midlands

IaaS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 December 2025. 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
West Midlands +7 16 £75,000 +25.00% 16
East Midlands +12 3 £75,000 +25.00% 16
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) PaaS
2 16 (84.21%) Azure
3 10 (52.63%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (36.84%) Entra ID
4 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (31.58%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (31.58%) GitHub
5 6 (31.58%) SaaS
5 6 (31.58%) Serverless
6 5 (26.32%) AWS
6 5 (26.32%) Azure Functions
6 5 (26.32%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (26.32%) GCP
6 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (15.79%) Datadog
9 2 (10.53%) Azure AKS
10 1 (5.26%) AWS Control Tower
10 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
2 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (21.05%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) Ethernet
3 2 (10.53%) LAN
3 2 (10.53%) Network Security
3 2 (10.53%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (10.53%) WAN
4 1 (5.26%) DHCP
4 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Finance
3 3 (15.79%) Legal
4 2 (10.53%) Retail
5 1 (5.26%) Law
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support
4 3 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior IT Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Junior IT Support
4 3 (15.79%) Junior Support Engineer
4 3 (15.79%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.26%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) AIX
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) DevOps
2 7 (36.84%) Cloud Security
3 6 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Project Delivery
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) API Management
4 5 (26.32%) Architectural Design
4 5 (26.32%) Data Privacy
4 5 (26.32%) Enterprise Architecture
4 5 (26.32%) Integration Patterns
4 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 5 (26.32%) TOGAF
4 5 (26.32%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.79%) Architecture Roadmap
6 3 (15.79%) Case Management
6 3 (15.79%) Document Management
6 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) SLA
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Google
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) OpenAI