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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 207 203 163
Rank change year-on-year -4 -40 +86
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 18 45 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.23% 0.66% 1.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% 2.09% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 8 35 41
10th Percentile £49,777 £51,020 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,188 £53,300 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £90,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +5.98%

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 2,847 2,158 1,827
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.46% 31.70% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 1,255 1,654
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,641 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,318 £78,750 £78,450
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 24 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 24 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 +19 17 £75,000 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -10 1 £60,000 -40.00% 4
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 (5.56%) IIS
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) PaaS
2 17 (94.44%) Azure
3 10 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (44.44%) Entra ID
5 7 (38.89%) SaaS
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (33.33%) Power Platform
7 5 (27.78%) AWS
7 5 (27.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 5 (27.78%) GCP
7 5 (27.78%) GitHub
7 5 (27.78%) Serverless
8 4 (22.22%) Azure Functions
8 4 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
9 3 (16.67%) Datadog
10 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 3 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (5.56%) DHCP
3 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Architect
2 6 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Junior
4 3 (16.67%) Junior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Junior IT Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Junior IT Support
4 3 (16.67%) Junior Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (38.89%) Project Delivery
3 6 (33.33%) API Management
3 6 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 6 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 6 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 6 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 6 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
3 6 (33.33%) TOGAF
3 6 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Roadmaps
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (22.22%) Architecture Roadmap
5 4 (22.22%) Case Management
5 4 (22.22%) CRM
5 4 (22.22%) Information Security
5 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Google
3 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) OpenAI