IaaS Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 188 98
Rank change year-on-year +39 -90 +125
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 30 19 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.47% 0.38% 2.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.23% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23 12 91
10th Percentile £35,500 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,938 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -33.33% +42.86%
75th Percentile £72,875 £60,000 £89,375
90th Percentile £79,500 £111,750 £95,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +5.34%

All Cloud Computing 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 2,755 1,548 1,680
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 43.43% 30.72% 37.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 883 1,445
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,813 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £74,210 £71,313 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,253 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the North West

IaaS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

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 13 January 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
Manchester +39 24 £40,500 -57.37% 1
Cumbria - 3 £65,500 -
Cheshire -17 2 £50,000 - 1
Lancashire +12 1 £70,932 +41.86%
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 27 (90.00%) Azure
2 20 (66.67%) PaaS
3 17 (56.67%) SaaS
4 7 (23.33%) Entra ID
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) AWS
8 1 (3.33%) GCP
8 1 (3.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (30.00%) VLAN
1 9 (30.00%) VPN
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) SSL
2 5 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (13.33%) DMZ
3 4 (13.33%) STUN
3 4 (13.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) GitLab
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Architect
2 10 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (20.00%) Azure Architect
5 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Support Technician
6 4 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Applications Support
6 4 (13.33%) Applications Support Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) Support Engineer
7 3 (10.00%) Lead
7 3 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) IT Analyst
8 1 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) FreeSWITCH
2 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (23.33%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
4 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (16.67%) Linux
4 4 (13.33%) Debian
5 1 (3.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (33.33%) Microservices
3 9 (30.00%) ArchiMate
3 9 (30.00%) DevOps
3 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (30.00%) UML
4 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (23.33%) Design Patterns
5 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) BPMN
6 6 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.00%) Digital Innovation
6 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 6 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 5 (16.67%) Information Security
7 5 (16.67%) Information Security Management
7 5 (16.67%) ISMS
7 5 (16.67%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) Bash
2 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
3 1 (3.33%) Java
3 1 (3.33%) PHP
3 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) CCNA
1 5 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (16.67%) DBS Check
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (13.33%) ISO 9001
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Kamailio
3 1 (3.33%) Docker
3 1 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (16.67%) Autotask
3 2 (6.67%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (30.00%) BiZZdesign
3 4 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (10.00%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.33%) VMware