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 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 394 200
Rank change year-on-year +32 -194 +49
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 188 435 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.62% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 1.85% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 149 393 487
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,238 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,783 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +5.47% +8.23%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,064 £90,000
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 8,578 23,465 24,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.64% 33.48% 38.72%
Number of salaries quoted 6,331 17,432 14,307
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,221 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.21% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +75 62 £85,000 +36.00% 49
Midlands +58 50 £59,150 -14.57% 25
West Midlands +46 35 £70,000 +1.11% 17
North of England -17 31 £63,750 +1.54% 29
South West +53 20 £63,750 -8.93% 11
North West -28 16 £67,500 +3.85% 17
East Midlands +67 15 £40,000 -11.11% 7
Yorkshire +54 12 £62,500 +11.11% 8
Scotland +93 9 £52,500 -16.00% 24
East of England +66 9 £47,500 -7.32% 6
Wales +51 9 £38,094 -47.46% 9
Northern Ireland +37 3 - - 7
North East +36 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
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 20 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 12 (6.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (3.19%) Tomcat
4 5 (2.66%) IIS
4 5 (2.66%) NetWeaver
5 2 (1.06%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 121 (64.36%) Azure
2 120 (63.83%) PaaS
3 87 (46.28%) SaaS
4 40 (21.28%) AWS
5 36 (19.15%) Microsoft 365
6 33 (17.55%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (11.70%) Entra ID
8 16 (8.51%) GCP
8 16 (8.51%) GitHub
9 13 (6.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 13 (6.91%) Serverless
10 12 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.85%) Power Platform
12 9 (4.79%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.79%) Power Automate
12 9 (4.79%) PowerApps
13 8 (4.26%) OneDrive
14 6 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (2.66%) Azure Key Vault
15 5 (2.66%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.02%) VSAN
2 22 (11.70%) Firewall
3 19 (10.11%) DNS
4 11 (5.85%) VPN
5 10 (5.32%) Network Security
5 10 (5.32%) WAN
6 8 (4.26%) SD-WAN
7 7 (3.72%) LAN
8 6 (3.19%) DHCP
9 4 (2.13%) SAN
9 4 (2.13%) TCP/IP
10 3 (1.60%) MPLS
10 3 (1.60%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (1.60%) SNMP
10 3 (1.60%) Unified Communications
10 3 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (1.06%) Internet
12 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.96%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.32%) Power BI
3 9 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (4.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (4.79%) Star Schema
4 7 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (2.66%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (2.66%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.66%) SAP BW
5 5 (2.66%) SAP Data Services
5 5 (2.66%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.13%) Big Data
6 4 (2.13%) MySQL
7 2 (1.06%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.06%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.06%) Bigtable
7 2 (1.06%) HBase
7 2 (1.06%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (4.79%) SonarQube
1 9 (4.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 5 (2.66%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 46 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 28 (14.89%) Finance
3 16 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Welsh Language
6 6 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.66%) Banking
7 5 (2.66%) General Ledger
7 5 (2.66%) Legal
7 5 (2.66%) Retail
8 4 (2.13%) Advertising
8 4 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Police
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Aviation
11 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.68%) VMware Specialist
2 29 (15.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (12.77%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (12.77%) Senior
4 23 (12.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (11.17%) Architect
6 16 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Developer
7 11 (5.85%) IT Engineer
7 11 (5.85%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.79%) Business Developer
9 9 (4.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (4.79%) ETL Developer
9 9 (4.79%) Lead
9 9 (4.79%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (4.79%) SQL BI Developer
9 9 (4.79%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.38%) ARM Templates
2 9 (4.79%) Azure Blueprints
3 8 (4.26%) Middleware
4 7 (3.72%) SAML
5 6 (3.19%) .NET
5 6 (3.19%) Web Services
6 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.60%) LDAP
6 3 (1.60%) OAuth
6 3 (1.60%) React
7 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.06%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.06%) YAML
8 1 (0.53%) JSON
8 1 (0.53%) ODBC
8 1 (0.53%) Pandas
8 1 (0.53%) REST
8 1 (0.53%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.96%) Management Information System
2 16 (8.51%) Public Cloud
3 12 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (5.32%) Data Centre
5 10 (5.32%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.26%) IoT
7 6 (3.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.66%) PKI
8 5 (2.66%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.60%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 3 (1.60%) Replication
9 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.06%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.74%) Windows
2 30 (15.96%) Windows Server
3 15 (7.98%) Linux
4 7 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (3.72%) Unix
5 6 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (2.66%) AIX
7 4 (2.13%) VMS
7 4 (2.13%) Windows 10
8 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.53%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (31.91%) DevOps
2 40 (21.28%) CI/CD
3 34 (18.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (17.02%) Cybersecurity
5 31 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (15.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 28 (14.89%) Cloud Security
8 25 (13.30%) ITIL
9 24 (12.77%) Disaster Recovery
9 24 (12.77%) Project Management
10 21 (11.17%) Migration
11 20 (10.64%) Agile
12 19 (10.11%) Analytics
13 18 (9.57%) Containerisation
13 18 (9.57%) Service Delivery
14 17 (9.04%) Risk Management
15 16 (8.51%) Mentoring
15 16 (8.51%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (8.51%) Service Management
16 15 (7.98%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 71 (37.77%) PowerShell
2 58 (30.85%) Python
3 25 (13.30%) SQL
4 15 (7.98%) Bash
5 10 (5.32%) Java
6 5 (2.66%) Bicep
6 5 (2.66%) C
7 3 (1.60%) C#
7 3 (1.60%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.06%) Ruby
8 2 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 40 (21.28%) DV Cleared
3 26 (13.83%) Azure Certification
4 15 (7.98%) Degree
4 15 (7.98%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (5.85%) SC Cleared
6 9 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.79%) DBS Check
6 9 (4.79%) MCSE
7 8 (4.26%) MCSA
8 7 (3.72%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.72%) CISSP
9 5 (2.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (2.13%) ISSAP
11 3 (1.60%) CEH
11 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (1.06%) CCNA
12 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.91%) NIST
2 12 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.38%) NCSC
3 11 (5.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (5.85%) SLA
4 8 (4.26%) GDPR
5 4 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (2.13%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.60%) PMO
7 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) QA
System Software
1 56 (29.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (21.81%) Active Directory
3 40 (21.28%) vSphere
4 38 (20.21%) VMware NSX
5 17 (9.04%) Docker
6 8 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (3.19%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.13%) Hyper-V
9 3 (1.60%) DFS Replication
10 2 (1.06%) HDFS
11 1 (0.53%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 37 (19.68%) Terraform
2 18 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.04%) Ansible
4 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (4.79%) vRealize
5 9 (4.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 5 (2.66%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 4 (2.13%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.06%) Grafana
8 2 (1.06%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (1.06%) Host Intrusion Detection System
8 2 (1.06%) SCCM
8 2 (1.06%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.53%) VxRail
9 1 (0.53%) WSUS
Vendors
1 72 (38.30%) Microsoft
2 70 (37.23%) VMware
3 10 (5.32%) Oracle
4 7 (3.72%) SolarWinds
5 6 (3.19%) Databricks
5 6 (3.19%) Google
5 6 (3.19%) IBM
5 6 (3.19%) SAP
6 5 (2.66%) Cisco
7 4 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.60%) Aderant
8 3 (1.60%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.60%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (1.60%) Rapid7
8 3 (1.60%) Veeam
9 2 (1.06%) Citrix
9 2 (1.06%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.06%) MapR
9 2 (1.06%) Varonis