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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 223 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 -51 +69
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 28 47 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.51% 0.52% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.98% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 16 33 47
10th Percentile £43,500 £50,600 £43,250
25th Percentile £59,063 - £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,563 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,625 £93,250 £86,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -7.69% -7.90% +0.82%

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 1,575 2,371 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.48% 26.27% 38.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,245 1,393 1,762
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £30,050
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.00% -2.45%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +22 18 £77,500 +29.17% 9
East Midlands +21 10 £75,000 +25.00% 1
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 (3.57%) IIS
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (96.43%) PaaS
2 23 (82.14%) Azure
3 18 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (35.71%) GitHub
6 9 (32.14%) SaaS
7 8 (28.57%) AWS
7 8 (28.57%) Azure Functions
7 8 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (28.57%) Serverless
8 6 (21.43%) Entra ID
9 5 (17.86%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (17.86%) Power Automate
9 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
10 4 (14.29%) Azure AI
10 4 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
11 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 2 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (32.14%) WAN
2 8 (28.57%) Firewall
2 8 (28.57%) VPN
3 6 (21.43%) DNS
4 5 (17.86%) LAN
4 5 (17.86%) Network Security
5 4 (14.29%) Ethernet
5 4 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 4 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (7.14%) DHCP
7 1 (3.57%) SAN
7 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
1 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (3.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (10.71%) Retail
2 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.57%) Law
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Architect
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
3 4 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Technical Leader
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Business Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Consultant
6 1 (3.57%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) ETL Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Junior
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) REST
1 4 (14.29%) SOAP
1 4 (14.29%) YAML
2 2 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.57%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) OAuth
3 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) NHS
2 4 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) AIX
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) DevOps
2 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (32.14%) CI/CD
3 9 (32.14%) Cloud Security
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
5 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 6 (21.43%) Analytics
6 6 (21.43%) Cost Management
6 6 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (21.43%) FinOps
6 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (21.43%) ITIL
7 5 (17.86%) CRM
8 4 (14.29%) AI
8 4 (14.29%) B2B
8 4 (14.29%) Data Integration
8 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 4 (14.29%) Service Management
8 4 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 4 (14.29%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 4 (14.29%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Azure Certification
2 4 (14.29%) DBS Check
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (53.57%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Databricks
3 5 (17.86%) Meraki
4 4 (14.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (7.14%) Google
5 2 (7.14%) VMware
6 1 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow