IaaS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IaaS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 219 329
Rank change year-on-year -178 +110 -46
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 150 364 446
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 1.29% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 3.80% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 114 192 398
10th Percentile £34,674 £46,250 £42,238
25th Percentile £42,500 £54,575 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £73,750 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +17.47% +5.47%
75th Percentile £71,125 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 - £100,064
UK median annual salary £62,500 £72,246 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.49% +3.21% +1.71%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,850 9,567 20,297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.33% 33.98% 34.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,771 6,261 16,413
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £66,650
90th Percentile £86,253 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IaaS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

IaaS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IaaS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing IaaS

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IaaS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
North of England -7 50 £52,500 -10.64% 21
South East -71 35 £67,500 -10.00% 38
Midlands -35 32 £51,792 -26.01% 16
North West +10 31 £52,500 - 12
West Midlands -20 24 £68,500 -8.67% 8
North East -10 10 £45,000 -30.77% 2
East of England -14 10 £51,500 +3.00% 16
Scotland -17 10 £46,000 -16.36% 3
Yorkshire -40 9 £70,932 +9.13% 7
South West -126 9 £62,500 -7.41% 16
East Midlands -37 8 £39,250 -1.88% 7
Channel Islands - 6 £75,000 -
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.67%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Exchequer
1 2 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 114 (76.00%) Azure
2 112 (74.67%) PaaS
3 59 (39.33%) SaaS
4 41 (27.33%) Entra ID
5 36 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (17.33%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (13.33%) AWS
8 19 (12.67%) Power Platform
9 17 (11.33%) Azure AKS
10 15 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (5.33%) GCP
11 8 (5.33%) GitHub
12 7 (4.67%) Serverless
13 6 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 5 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.33%) Nutanix
15 4 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
15 4 (2.67%) Azure Stack
15 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 3 (2.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 38 (25.33%) Firewall
2 21 (14.00%) VPN
3 19 (12.67%) DNS
3 19 (12.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (8.67%) VLAN
5 10 (6.67%) DHCP
6 7 (4.67%) ATM
6 7 (4.67%) Multicast
6 7 (4.67%) tcpdump
6 7 (4.67%) Wireshark
7 6 (4.00%) PuTTY
7 6 (4.00%) SSH
7 6 (4.00%) VoIP
8 5 (3.33%) DMZ
8 5 (3.33%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (3.33%) STUN
9 3 (2.00%) SSL
10 2 (1.33%) MPLS
10 2 (1.33%) SAN
10 2 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.00%) Power BI
3 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (1.33%) Star Schema
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 6 (4.00%) JIRA
3 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 55 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Finance
3 20 (13.33%) Legal
4 11 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (6.00%) Billing
7 8 (5.33%) Law
8 7 (4.67%) Aerospace
8 7 (4.67%) Automotive
9 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.00%) Spanish Language
10 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.33%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Police
12 1 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (26.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 35 (23.33%) Architect
3 27 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 22 (14.67%) Senior
5 20 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 14 (9.33%) Support Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (8.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) Analyst
9 11 (7.33%) IT Engineer
9 11 (7.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (6.67%) Azure Architect
11 9 (6.00%) IT Technician
12 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Deployment Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (4.67%) IT Support
13 7 (4.67%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.33%) ARM Templates
1 5 (3.33%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (3.33%) Middleware
2 3 (2.00%) .NET
3 2 (1.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.67%) CSS
4 1 (0.67%) HTML
4 1 (0.67%) Node.js
4 1 (0.67%) OAuth
4 1 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 21 (14.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.33%) Replication
7 3 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.33%) IoT
8 2 (1.33%) PKI
8 2 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.67%) Clustering
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (26.67%) Windows
2 30 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 25 (16.67%) Linux
4 10 (6.67%) VMS
5 7 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (3.33%) Debian
7 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.33%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.67%) Unix
9 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (28.00%) DevOps
2 35 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (21.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (16.00%) CI/CD
7 23 (15.33%) Project Delivery
8 22 (14.67%) Agile
9 21 (14.00%) Enterprise Architecture
9 21 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (12.00%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.33%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (11.33%) Identity Access Management
11 17 (11.33%) Service Delivery
12 16 (10.67%) Mentoring
13 15 (10.00%) API Management
13 15 (10.00%) Cloud Security
13 15 (10.00%) Cost Management
13 15 (10.00%) Information Security
13 15 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.33%) Python
3 19 (12.67%) SQL
4 10 (6.67%) Bash
4 10 (6.67%) Bicep
5 6 (4.00%) DCL
5 6 (4.00%) Tcl
6 1 (0.67%) C#
6 1 (0.67%) Java
6 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.67%) PHP
6 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Azure Certification
2 12 (8.00%) Degree
2 12 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (3.33%) CCNP
7 5 (3.33%) MCSE
8 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.67%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.67%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (2.00%) CCNA
9 3 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 1 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.33%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) NIST
3 6 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 4 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.00%) SLA
6 2 (1.33%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.33%) GDPR
7 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 37 (24.67%) Active Directory
2 26 (17.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (12.00%) Docker
4 12 (8.00%) KVM
5 10 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (4.67%) Hyper-V
6 7 (4.67%) vSphere
7 3 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (18.67%) Terraform
2 23 (15.33%) Kubernetes
3 14 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (8.67%) Ansible
5 7 (4.67%) Puppet
6 6 (4.00%) Autotask
6 6 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.33%) vCenter Server
8 4 (2.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (2.67%) SolarWinds Orion
9 3 (2.00%) SCCM
10 2 (1.33%) CASB
10 2 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.67%) AirWatch
11 1 (0.67%) Argo
11 1 (0.67%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.67%) Grafana
11 1 (0.67%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 78 (52.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.33%) VMware
3 8 (5.33%) Cisco
3 8 (5.33%) Google
4 7 (4.67%) Veeam
5 6 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
5 6 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (3.33%) Zerto
7 3 (2.00%) Oracle
8 2 (1.33%) Commvault
8 2 (1.33%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.33%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.33%) Sage
9 1 (0.67%) Apple
9 1 (0.67%) Citrix
9 1 (0.67%) Juniper
9 1 (0.67%) Mitel
9 1 (0.67%) Sophos
9 1 (0.67%) Veritas