IaaS Job Trends in the North of England

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 200 252 103
Rank change year-on-year +52 -149 +148
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 62 41 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.38% 2.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.22% 6.86%
Number of salaries quoted 53 30 168
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,875 £51,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -20.69% +21.31%
75th Percentile £77,424 £65,000 £84,056
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,025 £94,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -10.34% +3.57%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,771 3,362 3,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.68% 30.90% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,935 2,623
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,820 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £69,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,340 £84,951
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 North of England

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the North of England

IaaS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the North of England

IaaS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +48 31 £57,500 +15.00% 13
Yorkshire +3 20 £47,500 -26.92% 9
North East +17 11 £70,000 +7.69% 2
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 17 (27.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 52 (83.87%) Azure
2 47 (75.81%) PaaS
3 42 (67.74%) SaaS
4 24 (38.71%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.29%) Entra ID
5 7 (11.29%) GitHub
6 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
7 5 (8.06%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 4 (6.45%) AWS
8 4 (6.45%) Serverless
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.61%) GCP
11 1 (1.61%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.42%) TCP/IP
2 12 (19.35%) DHCP
2 12 (19.35%) DNS
2 12 (19.35%) VPN
3 10 (16.13%) VLAN
4 6 (9.68%) Firewall
5 5 (8.06%) DMZ
5 5 (8.06%) SSL
5 5 (8.06%) STUN
5 5 (8.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) GitLab
1 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Documentation Skills
3 11 (17.74%) Finance
4 8 (12.90%) Legal
5 4 (6.45%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (33.87%) Architect
2 14 (22.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (20.97%) 3rd Line Support
4 12 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
5 10 (16.13%) Senior
6 9 (14.52%) Azure Architect
6 9 (14.52%) Infrastructure Support
7 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 5 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Applications Support
8 5 (8.06%) Applications Support Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Lead
8 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Support Technician
9 4 (6.45%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.06%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (4.84%) Middleware
3 1 (1.61%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (12.90%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (8.06%) Driving Licence
3 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (41.94%) Windows
2 24 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 7 (11.29%) Linux
4 5 (8.06%) Debian
5 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.19%) DevOps
2 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (19.35%) Incident Management
3 12 (19.35%) Virtual Environments
4 11 (17.74%) Microservices
4 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
5 8 (12.90%) Agile
5 8 (12.90%) ArchiMate
5 8 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (12.90%) Design Patterns
5 8 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (12.90%) UML
6 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.29%) Enterprise Architecture
6 7 (11.29%) Mentoring
6 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
6 7 (11.29%) Roadmaps
6 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.68%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) PowerShell
2 9 (14.52%) SQL
3 6 (9.68%) Bash
4 4 (6.45%) Python
5 3 (4.84%) Bicep
5 3 (4.84%) Java
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.06%) CCNA
3 5 (8.06%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (8.06%) DBS Check
3 5 (8.06%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (8.06%) ISO 9001
1 5 (8.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.61%) GDPR
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
2 1 (1.61%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 18 (29.03%) Active Directory
2 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (20.97%) Hyper-V
4 5 (8.06%) Docker
4 5 (8.06%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Kubernetes
1 7 (11.29%) Terraform
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.06%) Autotask
4 4 (6.45%) Ansible
5 1 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (22.58%) VMware
3 8 (12.90%) BiZZdesign
4 5 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.84%) Google
6 2 (3.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.61%) OpenAI