IaaS Job Trends in the South West

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 63 144
Rank change year-on-year -102 +81 +66
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 19 162 76
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.38% 3.74% 1.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 11.69% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 61
10th Percentile £32,700 £49,975 £47,000
25th Percentile £40,875 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £69,746 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% -0.36% +34.83%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% -3.45% +7.41%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,169 1,386 1,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.33% 31.96% 41.42%
Number of salaries quoted 776 768 1,466
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £84,056
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 South West

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the South West

IaaS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the South West

IaaS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Devon +4 6 £39,750 -47.00% 22
Bristol -13 6 £66,250 -5.01% 19
Gloucestershire -45 3 £55,891 -30.14% 24
Cornwall - 3 - -
Wiltshire +4 1 - - 10
IaaS
England

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 5 (26.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (78.95%) Azure
2 14 (73.68%) PaaS
3 12 (63.16%) SaaS
4 10 (52.63%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (31.58%) Entra ID
6 5 (26.32%) AWS
7 4 (21.05%) Azure Stack
7 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (10.53%) Rubrik
8 2 (10.53%) Serverless
9 1 (5.26%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
2 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 2 (10.53%) VLAN
2 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.26%) Network Security
3 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Legal
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (26.32%) Support Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Azure Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support
3 2 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Information Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
4 2 (10.53%) BYOD
5 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
1 6 (31.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (15.79%) AI
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (15.79%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Microservices
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Preventative Maintenance
5 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) CISSP
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (21.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
3 4 (21.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 2 (10.53%) SCCM
4 1 (5.26%) Nessus
4 1 (5.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Fortinet
3 3 (15.79%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 2 (10.53%) Sophos
4 2 (10.53%) Veeam
5 1 (5.26%) Clearswift
5 1 (5.26%) Tenable