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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 191 215 174
Rank change year-on-year +24 -41 +69
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 24 50 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.43% 0.56% 1.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.50% 2.13% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 13 35 46
10th Percentile £44,050 £51,020 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £86,000 £88,000 £80,000
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 1,601 2,342 1,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 28.65% 26.41% 39.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,314 1,379 1,717
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,625 £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 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,280 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -3.10%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +26 17 £77,500 +29.17% 11
East Midlands +25 7 £75,000 +25.00% 3
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 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) PaaS
2 19 (79.17%) Azure
3 14 (58.33%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (45.83%) Azure Key Vault
5 9 (37.50%) SaaS
6 8 (33.33%) AWS
6 8 (33.33%) GitHub
7 7 (29.17%) Azure Functions
7 7 (29.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (29.17%) Entra ID
7 7 (29.17%) Serverless
8 6 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (20.83%) Power Automate
9 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
10 4 (16.67%) Azure AI
10 4 (16.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (12.50%) GCP
12 2 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
1 8 (33.33%) VPN
1 8 (33.33%) WAN
2 7 (29.17%) DNS
3 4 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (16.67%) LAN
3 4 (16.67%) Network Security
3 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 4 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (4.17%) DHCP
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 4 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (4.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 3 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.17%) Law
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.17%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior
4 2 (8.33%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Junior IT Support
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.33%) REST
1 2 (8.33%) SOAP
1 2 (8.33%) YAML
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.17%) OAuth
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) NHS
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) AIX
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) Cloud Security
4 7 (29.17%) Agile
4 7 (29.17%) Roadmaps
5 6 (25.00%) Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) ITIL
6 5 (20.83%) Cost Management
6 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.83%) FinOps
6 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) AI
7 4 (16.67%) B2B
7 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 4 (16.67%) Project Management
7 4 (16.67%) Service Management
7 4 (16.67%) TOGAF
7 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 4 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) Bicep
4 1 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Azure Certification
2 4 (16.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Databricks
3 4 (16.67%) Meraki
4 3 (12.50%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (4.17%) OpenAI
6 1 (4.17%) VMware