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 27 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 201 227
Rank change year-on-year -31 +26 -55
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 38 40 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.26% 0.69% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 2.25% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 26 29 47
10th Percentile £31,750 £40,300 £52,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £46,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% -23.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £81,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £85,250 £107,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -13.33%

All Cloud Computing 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 3,309 1,779 2,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 22.37% 30.53% 27.25%
Number of salaries quoted 2,240 1,413 2,143
10th Percentile £30,500 £26,500 £28,300
25th Percentile £40,500 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £72,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -7.69%

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 27 August 2026.

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 27 August 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
East Midlands -14 21 £60,000 -0.83% 7
West Midlands -41 17 £60,000 +33.33% 7
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 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Exchequer
1 3 (7.89%) Primavera
2 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (89.47%) Azure
2 26 (68.42%) PaaS
3 12 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (31.58%) SaaS
4 10 (26.32%) Azure AKS
5 9 (23.68%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (21.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (21.05%) Azure Storage
7 7 (18.42%) AWS
7 7 (18.42%) Entra ID
8 6 (15.79%) GitHub
8 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (10.53%) OCI
10 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (5.26%) GCP
11 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (5.26%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.05%) DNS
2 4 (10.53%) WAN
3 3 (7.89%) LAN
3 3 (7.89%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.26%) VPN
5 1 (2.63%) Firewall
5 1 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (2.63%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.26%) Power BI
2 2 (5.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) Ant
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Ivy
2 2 (5.26%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.26%) Maven
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Law
3 7 (18.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Finance
6 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Azure Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Applications Support
4 5 (13.16%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Technical Manager
7 2 (5.26%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Leader
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) .NET
2 2 (5.26%) .NET Core
2 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
2 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 2 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (5.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Storage
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Tandem
4 1 (2.63%) Clustering
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.95%) Windows
2 8 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.79%) Linux
4 3 (7.89%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Agile
2 12 (31.58%) DevOps
3 11 (28.95%) Containerisation
4 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) Load Balancing
4 10 (26.32%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (21.05%) High Availability
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (18.42%) Service Management
8 6 (15.79%) ITSM
9 5 (13.16%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) Roadmaps
10 4 (10.53%) AI
10 4 (10.53%) Coaching
10 4 (10.53%) Decision-Making
10 4 (10.53%) DevSecOps
11 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) Bash
3 2 (5.26%) C#
3 2 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Azure Certification
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (2.63%) IISP
4 1 (2.63%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) QA
1 2 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.16%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (36.84%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.16%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (7.89%) Ansible
4 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.26%) Puppet
5 1 (2.63%) Argo
5 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.89%) Sage
4 2 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (5.26%) IFS
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Veracode
4 2 (5.26%) Workday
4 2 (5.26%) YouTube
5 1 (2.63%) Freshdesk
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.63%) VMware