IaaS Jobs in the South East

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 316 200
Rank change year-on-year +57 -116 +46
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 53 84 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.55% 0.48% 1.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.53% 1.59% 4.26%
Number of salaries quoted 44 75 116
10th Percentile £33,125 £39,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,938 £45,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% +8.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

All Cloud 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 2,098 5,269 5,213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 21.77% 30.04% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 4,062 3,592
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -12.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the South East.

Salary trend for IaaS in the South East

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
Hampshire +75 33 £85,000 +36.00% 32
Thames Valley +71 14 £48,750 -11.36% 70
Berkshire +40 9 £32,500 -63.89% 40
Buckinghamshire +31 4 £73,750 +9.26% 20
Surrey +26 3 £57,500 -8.00% 18
Middlesex - 2 - -
West Sussex +36 1 £65,000 +10.79% 9
Oxfordshire +33 1 - - 10
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.89%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) PaaS
2 19 (35.85%) SaaS
3 11 (20.75%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (16.98%) AWS
5 8 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (11.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (11.32%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
7 5 (9.43%) Power Platform
8 4 (7.55%) Azure AI
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (7.55%) Power Automate
9 3 (5.66%) GCP
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.77%) GitHub
10 2 (3.77%) H2O.ai
10 2 (3.77%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (45.28%) VSAN
2 10 (18.87%) Firewall
3 6 (11.32%) VPN
4 5 (9.43%) SAN
5 4 (7.55%) DNS
5 4 (7.55%) SD-WAN
5 4 (7.55%) WAN
6 1 (1.89%) Internet
6 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
1 6 (11.32%) MySQL
2 5 (9.43%) Power BI
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.77%) Big Data
3 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.77%) Bigtable
3 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.77%) HBase
3 2 (3.77%) Impala
3 2 (3.77%) Metadata
3 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.66%) Retail
3 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Finance
3 2 (3.77%) Law
4 1 (1.89%) Aviation
4 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) VMware Specialist
2 7 (13.21%) Architect
3 6 (11.32%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Support
5 4 (7.55%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Azure Security Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Cybersecurity Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Lead
6 3 (5.66%) Security Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.77%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) SAML
2 3 (5.66%) LDAP
3 2 (3.77%) .NET
3 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (3.77%) React
4 1 (1.89%) JSON
4 1 (1.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) PKI
2 4 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.55%) NHS
2 4 (7.55%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.77%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) VMS
4 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps
2 11 (20.75%) Agile
2 11 (20.75%) Project Management
3 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
4 9 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (15.09%) Analytics
5 8 (15.09%) Cloud Security
5 8 (15.09%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (15.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.32%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (11.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (11.32%) ITIL
6 6 (11.32%) Log Analytics
6 6 (11.32%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (11.32%) Roadmaps
6 6 (11.32%) Service Management
7 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.43%) Customer Service
7 5 (9.43%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 34 (64.15%) PowerShell
2 30 (56.60%) Python
3 6 (11.32%) SQL
4 4 (7.55%) Bicep
5 2 (3.77%) Bash
5 2 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (56.60%) Security Cleared
2 27 (50.94%) DV Cleared
3 13 (24.53%) Azure Certification
4 7 (13.21%) Degree
5 6 (11.32%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (11.32%) CISSP
6 5 (9.43%) CCNA
6 5 (9.43%) CCNP
6 5 (9.43%) DBS Check
6 5 (9.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.77%) CEH
8 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.77%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (1.89%) CISA
9 1 (1.89%) CISM
9 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) GDPR
1 5 (9.43%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) HIPAA
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.89%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (47.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (45.28%) VMware NSX
2 24 (45.28%) vSphere
3 6 (11.32%) Active Directory
3 6 (11.32%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (9.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (9.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.66%) Docker
6 2 (3.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (16.98%) Single Sign-On
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.77%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.89%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.89%) Grafana
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (58.49%) VMware
2 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.32%) Veeam
4 5 (9.43%) Databricks
5 4 (7.55%) Meraki
6 2 (3.77%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.77%) Dataiku
6 2 (3.77%) Google
6 2 (3.77%) MapR
7 1 (1.89%) Oracle