IaaS Job Trends in the South East

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 231 306
Rank change year-on-year -7 +75 -74
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 63 55 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.43% 0.70% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 2.70% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 79
10th Percentile - £33,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% +36.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,750 - £71,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £69,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -13.67% +2.96% -4.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,515 2,035 5,340
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 23.85% 26.06% 28.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 1,244 4,135
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the South East

IaaS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Thames Valley +9 21 £60,000 +20.00% 7
West Sussex +1 20 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Buckinghamshire +3 17 £60,000 -18.64% 3
East Sussex - 14 £45,000 - 1
Hampshire -71 4 £47,500 -44.12% 3
Berkshire +9 2 £48,750 +50.00% 4
Oxfordshire -8 2 £55,000 -
Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Surrey -26 1 £75,000 +33.93% 2
Kent - 1 £85,000 - 2
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 55 (87.30%) Azure
2 50 (79.37%) PaaS
3 28 (44.44%) Azure AKS
4 18 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (28.57%) Entra ID
5 16 (25.40%) SaaS
6 12 (19.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (17.46%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (17.46%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (17.46%) Azure Storage
8 8 (12.70%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (9.52%) Azure Functions
9 6 (9.52%) Serverless
10 4 (6.35%) AWS
10 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 15 (23.81%) DNS
2 12 (19.05%) Firewall
3 5 (7.94%) VPN
4 4 (6.35%) PuTTY
4 4 (6.35%) SSH
5 3 (4.76%) DHCP
6 1 (1.59%) LAN
6 1 (1.59%) MPLS
6 1 (1.59%) SSL
6 1 (1.59%) VLAN
6 1 (1.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.40%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.76%) Redis
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 15 (23.81%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Law
3 10 (15.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.70%) Billing
5 3 (4.76%) Aviation
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (39.68%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (38.10%) Cloud Engineer
3 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (22.22%) IT Engineer
4 14 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (20.63%) Architect
6 11 (17.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 9 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
8 6 (9.52%) Azure Architect
8 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Enterprise Architect
9 5 (7.94%) CloudOps Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Operations Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Senior
10 4 (6.35%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Linux Support
10 4 (6.35%) Linux Support Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Senior Operations Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Technical Engineer
10 4 (6.35%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.87%) ARM Templates
2 3 (4.76%) YAML
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.59%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.94%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.35%) VMS
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (41.27%) DevOps
2 26 (41.27%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (34.92%) CI/CD
4 19 (30.16%) Root Cause Analysis
5 17 (26.98%) Agile
5 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 16 (25.40%) Containerisation
7 15 (23.81%) Cloud Security
8 14 (22.22%) High Availability
8 14 (22.22%) Load Balancing
9 13 (20.63%) Enterprise Architecture
10 12 (19.05%) Identity Access Management
10 12 (19.05%) Microservices
11 10 (15.87%) Analytics
12 9 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
12 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (14.29%) IT Strategy
12 9 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) PowerShell
2 11 (17.46%) Bicep
3 8 (12.70%) Python
4 7 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (6.35%) DCL
5 4 (6.35%) Tcl
6 3 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (20.63%) Azure Certification
2 9 (14.29%) Degree
3 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.76%) ICAEW
5 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.59%) MCSE
6 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.70%) NIST
2 6 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.35%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.59%) GDPR
5 1 (1.59%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.94%) Docker
3 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (36.51%) Terraform
2 19 (30.16%) Kubernetes
3 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.59%) CASB
Vendors
1 36 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco
2 1 (1.59%) VMware
2 1 (1.59%) Zscaler