IaaS Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 405 139 298
Rank change year-on-year -266 +159 -74
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 329 1,196 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 2.48% 1.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 6.58% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 279 463 643
10th Percentile £43,500 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,200 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £74,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -12.16% +5.71% +3.70%

All Cloud 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 19,313 18,168 31,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.59% 37.74% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,490 12,560 19,951
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,239 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,443 £71,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%

IaaS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IaaS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for IaaS in the UK excluding London

IaaS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing IaaS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
South East -84 78 £61,250 +2.08% 13
North of England -199 72 £60,000 -14.29% 10
Midlands -59 69 £60,000 +4.35% 8
South West -73 66 £70,000 +8.11% 3
West Midlands +11 62 £65,000 +18.18% 6
North West -165 46 £62,783 -16.29% 3
Scotland -136 38 £56,250 -13.29% 9
Yorkshire -62 18 £57,500 -8.00% 4
North East -9 8 £62,783 +0.45% 3
East of England -24 7 £50,000 - 5
East Midlands -81 6 £45,000 -25.00% 2
IaaS
UK

IaaS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (7.60%) Microsoft Exchange
1 25 (7.60%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.74%) IIS
3 7 (2.13%) Apache
3 7 (2.13%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.91%) Confluence
4 3 (0.91%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.91%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) 1Password
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 247 (75.08%) Azure
2 239 (72.64%) PaaS
3 128 (38.91%) SaaS
4 105 (31.91%) AWS
5 78 (23.71%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (10.03%) Entra ID
8 28 (8.51%) GitHub
9 25 (7.60%) GCP
10 20 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (5.78%) Serverless
12 18 (5.47%) Power Platform
13 17 (5.17%) Nutanix
14 14 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (3.65%) OneDrive
16 10 (3.04%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (3.04%) Azure Stack
16 10 (3.04%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
18 8 (2.43%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 79 (24.01%) DNS
2 73 (22.19%) Firewall
3 50 (15.20%) WAN
4 44 (13.37%) VPN
5 40 (12.16%) DHCP
6 32 (9.73%) SD-WAN
7 25 (7.60%) SAN
8 22 (6.69%) LAN
9 16 (4.86%) TCP/IP
10 13 (3.95%) Wireless
11 8 (2.43%) Network Security
11 8 (2.43%) SSL
11 8 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (2.13%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (2.13%) HTTP
13 6 (1.82%) iSCSI
14 5 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 5 (1.52%) VLAN
15 4 (1.22%) IPsec
15 4 (1.22%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.25%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 11 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.74%) MySQL
5 8 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (2.13%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.13%) NoSQL
7 6 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.52%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.52%) Power BI
8 5 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.22%) Big Data
10 3 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.61%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.61%) Redis
12 1 (0.30%) Event Store
12 1 (0.30%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.30%) GIS
12 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 24 (7.29%) Git
2 15 (4.56%) SonarQube
3 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (1.22%) JIRA
5 3 (0.91%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.30%) GitLab
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 86 (26.14%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.25%) Finance
4 28 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 15 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.43%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Legal
10 4 (1.22%) Aviation
10 4 (1.22%) Avionics
10 4 (1.22%) Games
11 3 (0.91%) Advertising
11 3 (0.91%) Retail
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing
13 1 (0.30%) Dutch Language
13 1 (0.30%) German Language
13 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.30%) Military
13 1 (0.30%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 73 (22.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (17.33%) Architect
3 50 (15.20%) Senior
4 36 (10.94%) Cloud Engineer
5 31 (9.42%) Consultant
6 29 (8.81%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (8.51%) Cloud Architect
8 27 (8.21%) Support Engineer
9 24 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (6.69%) 3rd Line Support
11 21 (6.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 20 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 18 (5.47%) AWS Architect
14 17 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support
14 17 (5.17%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 16 (4.86%) AWS Consultant
15 16 (4.86%) Cloud Consultant
16 14 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 12 (3.65%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
17 12 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (8.21%) ARM Templates
2 16 (4.86%) JSON
3 15 (4.56%) Azure Blueprints
4 13 (3.95%) .NET
5 10 (3.04%) Middleware
5 10 (3.04%) RESTful
5 10 (3.04%) Web Services
5 10 (3.04%) YAML
6 7 (2.13%) gRPC
7 6 (1.82%) XML
8 4 (1.22%) Node.js
9 3 (0.91%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.91%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.91%) CSS
9 3 (0.91%) CSS3
9 3 (0.91%) Entity Framework
9 3 (0.91%) HTML5
9 3 (0.91%) React
9 3 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 47 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 34 (10.33%) Data Centre
4 30 (9.12%) Management Information System
5 26 (7.90%) Replication
6 16 (4.86%) Enterprise Cloud
7 15 (4.56%) Clustering
7 15 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (4.56%) Onboarding
8 12 (3.65%) IoT
9 11 (3.34%) Driving Licence
10 8 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (2.13%) Algorithms
11 7 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.82%) Life Science
13 4 (1.22%) Cyberattack
13 4 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 4 (1.22%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 118 (35.87%) Windows
2 70 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 67 (20.36%) Linux
4 26 (7.90%) Unix
5 11 (3.34%) Windows 10
6 9 (2.74%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.43%) Solaris
8 7 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 6 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.61%) Android
11 2 (0.61%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.61%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.30%) VMS
12 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (41.64%) DevOps
2 97 (29.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 66 (20.06%) ITIL
4 59 (17.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (17.02%) Mentoring
5 56 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (16.72%) Cybersecurity
7 49 (14.89%) CI/CD
8 48 (14.59%) Containerisation
9 45 (13.68%) Disaster Recovery
10 39 (11.85%) Network Virtualisation
11 37 (11.25%) Cloud Security
12 36 (10.94%) Agile
12 36 (10.94%) Information Security
12 36 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
13 33 (10.03%) Project Management
14 32 (9.73%) Project Delivery
14 32 (9.73%) Test Automation
15 28 (8.51%) Roadmaps
16 27 (8.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 81 (24.62%) PowerShell
2 54 (16.41%) Python
3 32 (9.73%) SQL
4 27 (8.21%) Bash
5 24 (7.29%) Bicep
6 15 (4.56%) Perl
7 12 (3.65%) C#
8 6 (1.82%) Ruby
9 4 (1.22%) C++
9 4 (1.22%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.91%) Go
10 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.61%) Java
11 2 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (15.81%) Degree
2 43 (13.07%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.64%) Azure Certification
4 26 (7.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (6.99%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (6.99%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (4.86%) CCNA
7 14 (4.26%) Master's Degree
8 11 (3.34%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (2.43%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (2.13%) CISSP
11 7 (2.13%) DBS Check
12 6 (1.82%) MCP
13 5 (1.52%) SC Cleared
14 4 (1.22%) CISM
15 3 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.38%) GDPR
2 18 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (4.86%) NCSC
4 13 (3.95%) SLA
5 12 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (3.34%) Data Quality
6 11 (3.34%) NIST
7 10 (3.04%) HIPAA
8 8 (2.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.52%) QA
10 4 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.91%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.61%) FedRAMP
12 2 (0.61%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.30%) COBIT
13 1 (0.30%) GRC
13 1 (0.30%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 1 (0.30%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (22.19%) Active Directory
2 47 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.33%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (8.21%) Docker
5 25 (7.60%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (3.65%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.13%) Terminal Services
7 7 (2.13%) vSphere
8 4 (1.22%) Lustre
8 4 (1.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.61%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.30%) Firmware
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (30.70%) Terraform
2 58 (17.63%) Ansible
3 55 (16.72%) Kubernetes
4 35 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (5.78%) Puppet
5 19 (5.78%) SCCM
6 16 (4.86%) FortiGate
7 10 (3.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (3.04%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (2.43%) SCOM
9 7 (2.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (1.82%) SCDPM
11 4 (1.22%) IBM BigFix
12 3 (0.91%) CA Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.91%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.61%) EMC NetWorker
13 2 (0.61%) Norton AntiVirus
14 1 (0.30%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.30%) NetCrunch
14 1 (0.30%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 133 (40.43%) Microsoft
2 70 (21.28%) VMware
3 34 (10.33%) Cisco
4 13 (3.95%) Dell
4 13 (3.95%) NetApp
4 13 (3.95%) Veeam
5 11 (3.34%) BMC
5 11 (3.34%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.43%) Aruba
7 7 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.82%) Dell Compellent
8 6 (1.82%) HP
9 5 (1.52%) F5
9 5 (1.52%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.52%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.22%) Barracuda Networks
10 4 (1.22%) Google
10 4 (1.22%) Meraki
10 4 (1.22%) Splunk
10 4 (1.22%) Varonis