IaaS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 181 161
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 +16
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 28 13 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.34% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.77% 1.23% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 24 11 15
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £50,781 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £61,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +22.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62,500 £74,375 £90,625
90th Percentile £79,125 £78,750 £93,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £58,750
% change year-on-year -1.64% +3.83% -12.96%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,580 1,061 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.82% 27.43% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,165 470 785
10th Percentile £32,600 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,125 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -2.91% -10.43%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -1.20%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

IaaS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

IaaS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the Thames Valley

IaaS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Buckinghamshire +13 17 £60,000 -22.58% 3
Berkshire +22 10 £52,500 +61.54% 4
Oxfordshire -30 1 £42,500 - 2
IaaS
South East

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (32.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 9 (32.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (82.14%) Azure
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (35.71%) Azure AKS
3 10 (35.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 10 (35.71%) Azure Key Vault
3 10 (35.71%) Azure Storage
3 10 (35.71%) Entra ID
4 8 (28.57%) PaaS
5 4 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (71.43%) DNS
2 10 (35.71%) DHCP
2 10 (35.71%) Firewall
3 4 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (3.57%) LAN
4 1 (3.57%) VLAN
4 1 (3.57%) VPN
4 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (46.43%) Law
2 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.86%) Retail
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Finance
6 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing
6 1 (3.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Architect
4 5 (17.86%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Security Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Content Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Product Owner
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Social Media Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
1 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) High Availability
2 17 (60.71%) Agile
3 11 (39.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 10 (35.71%) Business Continuity
4 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 10 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (35.71%) Load Balancing
4 10 (35.71%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 9 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (32.14%) Identity Access Management
5 9 (32.14%) Migration
5 9 (32.14%) Performance Optimisation
5 9 (32.14%) Zero Trust
6 6 (21.43%) BCP
6 6 (21.43%) Business Continuity Planning
7 5 (17.86%) Data Protection
8 4 (14.29%) Change Management
8 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 4 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (53.57%) Azure Certification
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) ICAEW
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) MCSE
5 1 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.29%) NCSC
3 3 (10.71%) NIST
4 1 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.57%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft