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

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 393 192
Rank change year-on-year -15 -201 +59
Permanent jobs citing IaaS 180 425 1,077
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.60% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 1.81% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 131 383 443
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,238 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,783 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% +4.64% +9.09%
75th Percentile £86,875 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £100,064 £88,500
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 8,924 23,460 22,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.83% 33.11% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,058 17,389 13,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £70,000 £67,500 £71,250
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 15 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 15 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 +67 61 £85,000 +36.00% 78
Midlands +53 51 £66,250 -4.31% 33
West Midlands +30 32 £70,000 +0.55% 22
North of England -35 31 £62,500 +4.17% 44
East Midlands +53 19 £40,000 -11.11% 10
South West +48 15 £60,000 -14.29% 21
North West -62 15 £67,500 +7.51% 21
Yorkshire +51 14 £62,500 +11.11% 17
Wales +46 8 £38,094 -47.46% 4
East of England +43 8 £45,250 -9.50% 17
Scotland +70 6 £55,000 -12.00% 14
Northern Ireland +44 3 - - 13
North East +25 2 £65,000 +44.44% 6
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 16 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.78%) IIS
4 3 (1.67%) NetWeaver
4 3 (1.67%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.11%) Apache
5 2 (1.11%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 121 (67.22%) Azure
2 117 (65.00%) PaaS
3 86 (47.78%) SaaS
4 47 (26.11%) AWS
4 47 (26.11%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (17.78%) Entra ID
6 30 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (13.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 25 (13.89%) Power Platform
8 23 (12.78%) Power Automate
9 18 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 18 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
10 16 (8.89%) GitHub
11 15 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (7.78%) Azure AI
12 14 (7.78%) GCP
13 11 (6.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (5.56%) Serverless
15 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (17.78%) Firewall
2 30 (16.67%) VSAN
3 28 (15.56%) DNS
4 26 (14.44%) VPN
5 22 (12.22%) WAN
6 20 (11.11%) SD-WAN
7 10 (5.56%) Network Security
8 7 (3.89%) LAN
9 5 (2.78%) SAN
10 4 (2.22%) DHCP
10 4 (2.22%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.67%) MPLS
11 3 (1.67%) Unified Communications
11 3 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (1.11%) Internet
12 2 (1.11%) Wireless
13 1 (0.56%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.56%) SNMP
13 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.11%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.33%) Power BI
3 18 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.00%) MySQL
4 9 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.00%) Star Schema
5 5 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.22%) Big Data
7 3 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.67%) SAP BW
7 3 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.67%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.11%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.11%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.11%) GIS
8 2 (1.11%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.11%) HBase
8 2 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (8.89%) Git
2 9 (5.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 7 (3.89%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.67%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.11%) GitLab
6 2 (1.11%) JIRA
6 2 (1.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (21.11%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.89%) Finance
3 17 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.44%) Welsh Language
6 5 (2.78%) Retail
7 4 (2.22%) Advertising
7 4 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Banking
8 3 (1.67%) General Ledger
8 3 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.67%) Legal
8 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.11%) Law
9 2 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Aviation
10 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (17.78%) VMware Specialist
2 31 (17.22%) Architect
3 25 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 24 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (11.11%) Senior
6 16 (8.89%) Cloud Architect
6 16 (8.89%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (6.11%) Developer
8 10 (5.56%) IT Engineer
8 10 (5.56%) Lead
9 9 (5.00%) Business Developer
9 9 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (5.00%) ETL Developer
9 9 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
9 9 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 9 (5.00%) SQL BI Developer
9 9 (5.00%) SQL Developer
10 8 (4.44%) Server Engineer
11 7 (3.89%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.11%) ARM Templates
2 8 (4.44%) Middleware
3 7 (3.89%) Azure Blueprints
3 7 (3.89%) SAML
4 6 (3.33%) .NET
5 4 (2.22%) Web Services
5 4 (2.22%) YAML
6 3 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.67%) LDAP
6 3 (1.67%) OAuth
6 3 (1.67%) React
6 3 (1.67%) REST
6 3 (1.67%) SOAP
7 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (0.56%) JSON
8 1 (0.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 18 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.78%) NHS
4 13 (7.22%) Public Cloud
5 11 (6.11%) Cloud Native
6 9 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (4.44%) IoT
7 8 (4.44%) Onboarding
8 7 (3.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 7 (3.89%) PKI
9 5 (2.78%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.22%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
12 2 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (1.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.56%) Windows
2 28 (15.56%) Windows Server
3 13 (7.22%) Linux
4 6 (3.33%) Unix
5 5 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.22%) VMS
6 4 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (1.67%) AIX
8 2 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.56%) Solaris
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.89%) DevOps
2 55 (30.56%) CI/CD
3 42 (23.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (20.56%) ITIL
5 36 (20.00%) Project Management
6 33 (18.33%) Agile
7 32 (17.78%) Analytics
7 32 (17.78%) Migration
7 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (16.67%) Service Management
9 27 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 23 (12.78%) Roadmaps
12 22 (12.22%) Cloud Security
12 22 (12.22%) TOGAF
13 19 (10.56%) Network Virtualisation
13 19 (10.56%) RBAC
14 17 (9.44%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (8.89%) Configuration Management
15 16 (8.89%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 77 (42.78%) PowerShell
2 52 (28.89%) Python
3 37 (20.56%) SQL
4 19 (10.56%) Bicep
5 14 (7.78%) Bash
6 8 (4.44%) Java
7 3 (1.67%) C
7 3 (1.67%) C#
7 3 (1.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.11%) Ruby
8 2 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 45 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 35 (19.44%) DV Cleared
4 23 (12.78%) DBS Check
5 14 (7.78%) Degree
5 14 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.00%) MCSE
8 8 (4.44%) MCSA
9 7 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 6 (3.33%) CISSP
11 5 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 4 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (2.22%) CCNA
12 4 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.67%) CCNP
13 3 (1.67%) ISSAP
14 2 (1.11%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.22%) SLA
2 12 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.11%) NIST
4 10 (5.56%) NCSC
5 9 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (3.89%) GDPR
7 4 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.67%) HIPAA
9 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (1.11%) QA
10 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.56%) PMO
10 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (25.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 35 (19.44%) vSphere
3 33 (18.33%) VMware NSX
4 19 (10.56%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (8.89%) Docker
6 8 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.56%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 35 (19.44%) Terraform
2 18 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 17 (9.44%) Ansible
3 17 (9.44%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.22%) vRealize
5 4 (2.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 3 (1.67%) SCCM
6 3 (1.67%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (1.11%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.11%) Grafana
7 2 (1.11%) Hadoop YARN
7 2 (1.11%) Host Intrusion Detection System
7 2 (1.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (34.44%) Microsoft
1 62 (34.44%) VMware
2 20 (11.11%) Databricks
3 15 (8.33%) Meraki
4 9 (5.00%) Oracle
5 5 (2.78%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.78%) Veeam
6 4 (2.22%) Cisco
6 4 (2.22%) IBM
7 3 (1.67%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.67%) SAP
7 3 (1.67%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.11%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.11%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.11%) MapR
8 2 (1.11%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.11%) Varonis