IaaS Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring IaaS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited IaaS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 213 138
Rank change year-on-year -28 -75 +55
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 16 76 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.21% 0.78% 2.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 2.28% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 14 70 79
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,813 £42,238 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,783 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.51% -3.41% +8.33%
75th Percentile £81,563 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £88,875 £95,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,247 3,334 3,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 16.46% 34.30% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 914 2,636 1,955
10th Percentile £31,575 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,982 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +4.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the North West.

Salary trend for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the North West

IaaS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester +39 10 £78,750 +16.67% 16
Cheshire +38 3 £55,000 +15.79% 1
Merseyside +33 3 £42,500 -39.29% 1
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) SaaS
3 10 (62.50%) PaaS
4 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
6 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Mimecast
7 2 (12.50%) AWS
7 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) GCP
7 2 (12.50%) GitHub
7 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
8 1 (6.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) DHCP
2 3 (18.75%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (18.75%) SD-WAN
2 3 (18.75%) SNMP
2 3 (18.75%) VSAN
2 3 (18.75%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle ODI
General
1 3 (18.75%) Legal
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) SAML
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.25%) CSOC
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (31.25%) Migration
1 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
2 4 (25.00%) DevOps
2 4 (25.00%) Information Security
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) High Availability
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 3 (18.75%) Statistics
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 2 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 2 (12.50%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Bash
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
1 3 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (18.75%) NIST
1 3 (18.75%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
1 3 (18.75%) DFS Replication
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
1 3 (18.75%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 3 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Aderant
2 3 (18.75%) Rapid7
2 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint
4 1 (6.25%) Sophos