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 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 414 422 181
Rank change year-on-year +8 -241 +78
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 165 393 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.53% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.92% 1.64% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 115 351 450
10th Percentile £37,302 £42,238 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 8,591 24,005 22,607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 21.82% 32.19% 38.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5,701 17,654 13,410
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,500 £70,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
UK 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 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 30 May 2025.

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 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
South East +57 53 £85,000 +36.00% 222
Midlands +68 49 £56,250 -18.75% 171
West Midlands +27 30 £70,000 +1.11% 92
North of England -34 25 £62,500 +11.11% 192
East Midlands +61 19 £40,000 -11.11% 68
Yorkshire +51 14 £62,500 +8.70% 80
East of England +51 11 £43,000 -14.00% 132
North West -50 11 £67,500 +7.51% 89
South West +39 10 £60,000 -7.69% 97
Scotland +81 8 £55,000 -8.33% 39
Wales +54 8 £38,094 -47.46% 24
Northern Ireland +46 4 - - 15
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 14 (8.48%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (1.21%) Apache
4 2 (1.21%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 120 (72.73%) Azure
2 109 (66.06%) PaaS
3 74 (44.85%) SaaS
4 46 (27.88%) AWS
5 44 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (18.79%) Entra ID
7 30 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (14.55%) Power Platform
9 23 (13.94%) Power Automate
10 22 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 19 (11.52%) Azure Key Vault
11 19 (11.52%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (9.09%) GCP
12 15 (9.09%) GitHub
13 14 (8.48%) Azure AI
14 9 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (5.45%) PowerApps
14 9 (5.45%) Serverless
15 8 (4.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.00%) Firewall
2 28 (16.97%) VPN
3 27 (16.36%) DNS
4 24 (14.55%) VSAN
5 22 (13.33%) WAN
6 20 (12.12%) SD-WAN
7 9 (5.45%) Network Security
8 7 (4.24%) LAN
8 7 (4.24%) SAN
9 5 (3.03%) DHCP
10 3 (1.82%) MPLS
10 3 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.82%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.21%) Internet
11 2 (1.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (15.76%) SQL Server
2 24 (14.55%) Power BI
3 18 (10.91%) MySQL
4 16 (9.70%) Data Lake
5 10 (6.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.45%) Star Schema
7 4 (2.42%) Big Data
8 3 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.21%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.21%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.21%) Bigtable
9 2 (1.21%) GIS
9 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.21%) HBase
9 2 (1.21%) Impala
9 2 (1.21%) Metadata
9 2 (1.21%) Tableau
10 1 (0.61%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 16 (9.70%) Git
2 9 (5.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (3.64%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.42%) JIRA
5 2 (1.21%) GitLab
5 2 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.21%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.61%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.33%) Finance
3 20 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.85%) Welsh Language
6 4 (2.42%) Advertising
6 4 (2.42%) Legal
6 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (1.21%) Law
9 1 (0.61%) Aviation
9 1 (0.61%) Banking
9 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 26 (15.76%) Architect
2 24 (14.55%) Azure Engineer
2 24 (14.55%) VMware Specialist
3 23 (13.94%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (12.12%) Senior
5 15 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
6 13 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.67%) Developer
7 11 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Lead
9 9 (5.45%) Business Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (5.45%) ETL Developer
9 9 (5.45%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.45%) SQL BI Developer
9 9 (5.45%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.85%) Auditor
10 8 (4.85%) Senior Auditor
10 8 (4.85%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.06%) ARM Templates
1 10 (6.06%) Middleware
2 8 (4.85%) SAML
3 6 (3.64%) .NET
3 6 (3.64%) Azure Blueprints
4 5 (3.03%) YAML
5 4 (2.42%) REST
5 4 (2.42%) SOAP
6 3 (1.82%) LDAP
6 3 (1.82%) OAuth
7 2 (1.21%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.21%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.21%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.21%) React
8 1 (0.61%) JSON
8 1 (0.61%) Pandas
8 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 15 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 14 (8.48%) NHS
4 12 (7.27%) Public Cloud
5 9 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.85%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.85%) IoT
6 8 (4.85%) PKI
7 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (4.24%) Onboarding
8 5 (3.03%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.21%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.21%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 41 (24.85%) Windows
2 31 (18.79%) Windows Server
3 12 (7.27%) Linux
4 4 (2.42%) Unix
4 4 (2.42%) VMS
4 4 (2.42%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.21%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.61%) AIX
7 1 (0.61%) Solaris
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (40.61%) DevOps
2 46 (27.88%) CI/CD
3 37 (22.42%) ITIL
4 36 (21.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (21.82%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (21.82%) Project Management
5 29 (17.58%) Analytics
5 29 (17.58%) Migration
5 29 (17.58%) Service Management
6 28 (16.97%) Cybersecurity
7 27 (16.36%) Agile
8 24 (14.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (13.33%) Cloud Security
9 22 (13.33%) TOGAF
10 21 (12.73%) Roadmaps
11 19 (11.52%) Network Virtualisation
12 17 (10.30%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (10.30%) Customer Service
12 17 (10.30%) Log Analytics
12 17 (10.30%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.03%) PowerShell
2 42 (25.45%) Python
3 36 (21.82%) SQL
4 19 (11.52%) Bicep
5 12 (7.27%) Bash
6 5 (3.03%) Java
7 3 (1.82%) C#
8 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.21%) Ruby
8 2 (1.21%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.21%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.61%) C
9 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (29.09%) Azure Certification
2 40 (24.24%) Security Cleared
3 27 (16.36%) DV Cleared
4 23 (13.94%) DBS Check
5 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (6.67%) Degree
7 8 (4.85%) MCSA
7 8 (4.85%) MCSE
8 7 (4.24%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (3.64%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (3.64%) CCNA
9 6 (3.64%) CISSP
9 6 (3.64%) SC Cleared
10 5 (3.03%) CCNP
10 5 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.82%) ISSAP
13 2 (1.21%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.48%) SLA
2 12 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.45%) NIST
4 8 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.85%) NCSC
5 7 (4.24%) GDPR
6 3 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.82%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.61%) QA
8 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (21.82%) Active Directory
2 34 (20.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.36%) vSphere
4 24 (14.55%) VMware NSX
5 17 (10.30%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (7.88%) Docker
7 9 (5.45%) Hyper-V
8 8 (4.85%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.21%) HDFS
10 1 (0.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 36 (21.82%) Terraform
2 19 (11.52%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (9.70%) Ansible
4 14 (8.48%) Kubernetes
5 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (3.03%) SCCM
7 2 (1.21%) Grafana
7 2 (1.21%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (1.21%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.21%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.21%) Puppet
8 1 (0.61%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.61%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (0.61%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (38.18%) Microsoft
2 50 (30.30%) VMware
3 19 (11.52%) Databricks
4 15 (9.09%) Meraki
5 7 (4.24%) Google
5 7 (4.24%) Veeam
6 5 (3.03%) Oracle
7 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.42%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.82%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.82%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (1.82%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.21%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.21%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.21%) Dataiku
9 2 (1.21%) MapR
9 2 (1.21%) Okta
9 2 (1.21%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.21%) Tenable
9 2 (1.21%) Varonis